Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
Andy called last night about 11p New Yawk time and said that he had it on an old tape, that he heard it on a radio show years back. I forget one of the host's names, but it seems he said that Bill Vernon was the other deejay. Andy said that the show was very good and played very tasty stuff. I was pretty tired by the time I heard from him and my cell connection was breaking up a bit at inopportune moments, so I didn't retain it all. Apparently our beloved Mr. Statman is deeep closet in his resourcing. Hat's off... Humbled in Tennessee On Mar 30, 1:18 pm, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: let us know mr andy's reply... love the tune! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
This video is great and I've been using it a frequent reference whilst working on this tune. Andy Statman is pretty amazing. Sometimes his vocalization are a little unsettling, but I'm generally uneasy so I can accommodate it. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:37:10 AM Subject: Re: Andy Statman strikes again... Andy called last night about 11p New Yawk time and said that he had it on an old tape, that he heard it on a radio show years back. I forget one of the host's names, but it seems he said that Bill Vernon was the other deejay. Andy said that the show was very good and played very tasty stuff. I was pretty tired by the time I heard from him and my cell connection was breaking up a bit at inopportune moments, so I didn't retain it all. Apparently our beloved Mr. Statman is deeep closet in his resourcing. Hat's off... Humbled in Tennessee On Mar 30, 1:18 pm, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: let us know mr andy's reply... love the tune! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
I'm trying to figure out the bebop break he does 1:05 into the tune. Anybody have a clue what in the world is going on? I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it. At first I thought its main characteristic was a rhythm change -- going from a walking 4-beat tempo to almost a syncopated polka 2-beat feel. Or does it have something to do with modal playing, a la John Coltrane? I've heard him do this sort of thing on other YouTube vids. It's not the way Monroe would have done it but I like it. Anybody have any ideas? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
On Mar 31, 9:48 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: This video is great and I've been using it a frequent reference whilst working on this tune. Andy Statman is pretty amazing. Sometimes his vocalization are a little unsettling, but I'm generally uneasy so I can accommodate it. So that humming sound is Andy doing some kind of vocalization while he plays? You can hear it on some of the tunes on East Flatbush Blues. It's driven me crazy trying to figure out what that sound was! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
If that's all I have to do to play like that, I'll start humming while I play. g On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:53 AM, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: On Mar 31, 9:48 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: This video is great and I've been using it a frequent reference whilst working on this tune. Andy Statman is pretty amazing. Sometimes his vocalization are a little unsettling, but I'm generally uneasy so I can accommodate it. So that humming sound is Andy doing some kind of vocalization while he plays? You can hear it on some of the tunes on East Flatbush Blues. It's driven me crazy trying to figure out what that sound was! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
Vocalizing? I thought that was somebody grinding coffee for espresso. So nobody's got an idea about Andy's solo? Don't make me figure this out myself. It's a Tater challenge and I needs some help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
If any of you have ever seen Andy in person he does hum and I'm not sure he really knows what he is doing, in the heat of it. He obviously knows what he is doing but it seems to come out so randomly in most of his playing. Rough outline. check! Spontanious picking.. double check! I watched him a sam grisman jam last year... Looked like Sam was going to shit himself when Andy said let's jam. He ofcourse held his own but there were no gimmees. So trying to figure Mr. Statmen, I'll leave to ya'll and I'll return to enjoying listening to it... Adam On Mar 31, 8:01 pm, Mike Romkey mrom...@mac.com wrote: Vocalizing? I thought that was somebody grinding coffee for espresso. So nobody's got an idea about Andy's solo? Don't make me figure this out myself. It's a Tater challenge and I needs some help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
Jeff, Nah, I didn't figure out Andy's solo. I wrote down a few variations off the original fiddle version. That's where I'm living. It's on the files section if you care. Taterbug On Mar 31, 2:59 pm, Alexander, Jeffrey jeffrey.alexan...@louisvilleky.gov wrote: Hey Big Tater, are you still passing around the lines you wrote down from Andy Statman's Fiddlers Blues? If so, I would to get in on that action. Jeff -Original Message- From: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com [mailto:taterbugma...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mistertaterbug Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:33 To: Taterbugmando Subject: Andy Statman strikes again... Here's a link to a tune that I've been passing around lately. I first heard Ralph Blizzard tear through this about 15 years ago and I thought then that if Monroe had heard this he'd have played it. The tune comes from Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, not to be confused with Arthur Guitar Boogie Smith, the writer of Dueling Banjos. Our good samaritan Val Mindel sent me a copy of Mr. Smith's track and I was tickled pink to get it. Finally, I can learn this little gem. So, I wrote out a few lines of it and sent it around. Ironically, there is a Monroe tune by the same name, but an entirely different tune in a different key with a different feel and having no resemblance to Smith's tune. I sent out a track of Jimmy Campbell playing a twin fiddle version of Monroe's tune accompanied by tab for Smith's tune. Duh... The ingenius and confused recipient who shall remain unnamed (...writes vampire books...) sent me an email saying that he couldn't make 'hide nor hair' out of it until he found this video by the illustrious Andy Statman. Now all is better, he says. Here's the link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Mv8lsG-fA I must say, my brain is spattered all over the room. Where in the world would Andy pick this tune up? In the depths of my ignorance I do not understand. To me, this tune is not even well-known in current oldtime circles, save possibly by the more mature participants. Even then, it would seem to me that a person would have to be interested in Arthur Smith and digging into his tunes to even find this one. Am I just so far out of touch that I don't get it? I am going to have to call Andy and find out for myself. Stunned in Tennessee --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Andy Statman strikes again...
Here's a link to a tune that I've been passing around lately. I first heard Ralph Blizzard tear through this about 15 years ago and I thought then that if Monroe had heard this he'd have played it. The tune comes from Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, not to be confused with Arthur Guitar Boogie Smith, the writer of Dueling Banjos. Our good samaritan Val Mindel sent me a copy of Mr. Smith's track and I was tickled pink to get it. Finally, I can learn this little gem. So, I wrote out a few lines of it and sent it around. Ironically, there is a Monroe tune by the same name, but an entirely different tune in a different key with a different feel and having no resemblance to Smith's tune. I sent out a track of Jimmy Campbell playing a twin fiddle version of Monroe's tune accompanied by tab for Smith's tune. Duh... The ingenius and confused recipient who shall remain unnamed (...writes vampire books...) sent me an email saying that he couldn't make 'hide nor hair' out of it until he found this video by the illustrious Andy Statman. Now all is better, he says. Here's the link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Mv8lsG-fA I must say, my brain is spattered all over the room. Where in the world would Andy pick this tune up? In the depths of my ignorance I do not understand. To me, this tune is not even well-known in current oldtime circles, save possibly by the more mature participants. Even then, it would seem to me that a person would have to be interested in Arthur Smith and digging into his tunes to even find this one. Am I just so far out of touch that I don't get it? I am going to have to call Andy and find out for myself. Stunned in Tennessee --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Andy Statman strikes again...
let us know mr andy's reply... love the tune! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
