Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread secsc2
That one has been running around on the mental soundstrack since I read this yesterday, and unfortunately it's the repeated falsetto backing, "In the ghetto...in the ghetto." -- Original message from Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com: -- And his momma cried...

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread mistertaterbug
Well, Hoffsking, forgive me for being so dense, but I dont' get it. Bugs On Feb 17, 4:22 pm, Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com wrote: Oh sorry, I forget to add the subtitle - race and housing in chicago 1940-1960. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:53 PM, mistertaterbug

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Hoffmann
Tater tater tater tater tate- Your post was about ethnic groups and then there was a sentence about Chicago. I drank a cup of coffee and read a big chunk of a book (Making the second ghetto - race and housing in chicago 1940-1960) that I really should have already finished yesterday before

Re: Anybody Wanting to Buy a Gilchrist F4?

2009-02-18 Thread sgarrity
I want one, it's just the $23k that keep gettin' in the way! If it sounds anything like Tater's F4 or Don's Model 1, it'll make someone a happy picker. I've always thought that Gils were excellent instruments but his oval holes are just amazing!

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread Dasspunk
Personally, I'm a fan of mustard greens... and had many a helping as I carpet bagged down in the land of Tater (old times there are not forgotten, look away...). If you are what you eat... do you play what you hear? That is to say, playing a style well, requires listening to the style. If this

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread Robin Gravina
Well in my Spanish ghetto we have plenty of greens of mustard and collard sort, and there has yet to be a heavy blues and southern funk movement coming out of Castilla. I have to go with Val and say that the emotion does it, and if you change a couple of words so that a song has some relation to

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread Nelson
How appropriate that I am reading this as a pot of greens cooks down on my stove. They might be foreign to some of you, but they are one of the best foods for your body that you can find on earth. Gonna add some Great Northern beans and mashed taters to go along. On Feb 18, 3:10 pm, Robin

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread secsc2
Excellent, Nelson. I like to make a pot of Great Northerns with ham and onion and a plate of buttered cornbread. That kills me just thinking about it. -- Original message from Nelson nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net: -- How appropriate that I am reading this as

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread mistertaterbug
Aha, now I get it. Sorry, but it's hard for me to think about more than one thing at a time like you young college whippersnappers. So, New Jersey was a mecca for banjo enthusiasts in the early days? Cool. Thanks for taking up for banjo players and trying to keep the bubbatooth syndrome in

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread Nelson
If there isn't there should be. On Feb 18, 4:23 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Aha, now I get it. Sorry, but it's hard for me to think about more than one thing at a time like you young college whippersnappers. So, New Jersey was a mecca for banjo enthusiasts in the early

Re: regionalism (long-winded and rambling)

2009-02-18 Thread mistertaterbug
Oh, and I forgot to mention, if one ingests enough collards, you will definitely move... Taters and Greens On Feb 18, 4:23 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Aha, now I get it. Sorry, but it's hard for me to think about more than one thing at a time like you young college