Re: New Tune/January '11
I'd definitely be interested in hearing this. From: jojo joe.nobil...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 8:24:54 AM Subject: Re: New Tune/January '11 I've not posted a vid yet but I'll raise my hand for the Mississippi Palisades tune by Chirps Smith, one of Illinois' finest old-time musicians. Joe On Dec 27, 1:47 pm, Brian Ray dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what the rules are for choosing SOTM... but if'n y'all want a great tune to learn, I'll suggest Mississippi Palisades by Chirps Smith. I'm very likely the only one in the group that knows it and that should definitely change 'cause it's a great one. I have Chirps doing it (banjo/fiddle) and it's also on the new Rhys Jones record (fiddle/piano/banjo). I could make the audio available should folks decide they'd like to do it. It'd have to be an exercise in ear training 'cause no tab exists... Brian On Dec 27, 2010, at 1:16 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: Boy, this page has gone dead silent since the Facebutt page got started. Crickets...So, what're we gonna do about the January tune? I suggest we go to another key and get outa A. Who's gonna pick the tune? Shall we go alphabetically? Youngest? Oldest? Best looking(no wait, I already did one BFG)? What say you folks? Taterbug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: New Tune/January '11
And here is a slow version if anyone would like to hear it: http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2008/04/11/some-tunes-from-chirps-smith/ From: jojo joe.nobil...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 8:24:54 AM Subject: Re: New Tune/January '11 I've not posted a vid yet but I'll raise my hand for the Mississippi Palisades tune by Chirps Smith, one of Illinois' finest old-time musicians. Joe On Dec 27, 1:47 pm, Brian Ray dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what the rules are for choosing SOTM... but if'n y'all want a great tune to learn, I'll suggest Mississippi Palisades by Chirps Smith. I'm very likely the only one in the group that knows it and that should definitely change 'cause it's a great one. I have Chirps doing it (banjo/fiddle) and it's also on the new Rhys Jones record (fiddle/piano/banjo). I could make the audio available should folks decide they'd like to do it. It'd have to be an exercise in ear training 'cause no tab exists... Brian On Dec 27, 2010, at 1:16 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: Boy, this page has gone dead silent since the Facebutt page got started. Crickets...So, what're we gonna do about the January tune? I suggest we go to another key and get outa A. Who's gonna pick the tune? Shall we go alphabetically? Youngest? Oldest? Best looking(no wait, I already did one BFG)? What say you folks? Taterbug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Song of the Month-December 2010
Excellent, Val! I do love the sounds of those oval holes. You did a great job on it. From: Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 1:18:56 PM Subject: Re: Song of the Month-December 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEB-vzpSPT0 There it is ... the link to the really only so-so video of my grub springs effort. It was an interesting exercise, mostly in getting over my fear of all the technology involved and then to get a take where I wasn't swearing or dropping my pick or something and that was short enough to be reasonable. Anyway, guys, you've all inspired me past the technology hurdle. Also in examining tunes with such a thoroughness. Thanks so much. Sorry that I couldn't get a shot with my head included. I wasn't being coy; the clips with my head in there also involved the swearing and pick-dropping. Now if I could figure out how to edit these videos, that would be excellent. best val On Dec 4, 1:58 pm, mgromkey mgrom...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, I get it. The new posts are at the end so you have to page thru till you get to the newest. I don't see an option you can set to put the new posts at the top. If anybody has the Rosetta Stone to that one, kindly clue me in. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Song of the Month-December 2010
I'm hoping to have a version Tuesday when our band practices. We have been working on it independently and so far, so good. From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 5:31:03 AM Subject: Re: Song of the Month-December 2010 Here's my effort. Fighting against rushing as always, but the nose looks good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pyV1cWk3f8 Cheers Robin On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:48 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Sounding good, folks. TBug On Dec 5, 1:47 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Nice work! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Fred Keller fkel...@scicable.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:26:46 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Song of the Month-December 2010 On 12/5/10 1:15 PM, mgromkey wrote: I'm still a little lost here, folks. It looks as if Fred Keller posted a link or a video but I don't see it any place. Jonas, your's sounds good to me. Can you play these tunes too fast? (g) (Though I confess, I usually like slowing things down from take-no-prisoners Bill Monroe tempo.) Don: The first link should take you straight to the YouTube post. I don't know why it won't embed. You're right: Makes no sense. Will send you an email about collaborating. -- MR Funny. Must've forgotten to post the link. Sorry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_SmXzwKqAA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Song of the Month-December 2010
Here's my run at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOlD-Nv2fQ I guess mine falls more on the crooked side since that's what I had heard until that point, but I think that there's comfort in knowing there's one that sticks closer to the path. Curious to see what my buddy Josh has on it for fiddle when we get together later this week. From: kathy nichols kathymnich...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 6:31:57 PM Subject: Re: Song of the Month-December 2010 Thank you for bring this up. I wondered if I was the only one confused by the difference between the mp3, the youtube, and the tab. I went to a jam this weekend and asked an old time fiddler there if he knew Hatcher's version of Grub Springs. He promptly played the straight version of the tune found on most of the other youtube videos. He has played around Michigan for many years, just never heard the crooked version but thought the one he played was Hatcher's version. I find working on one measure at a time is helping some. Still confused about which fingers to use on the slides, especially in the 7th measure. Interesting spelling for the blogger's first name Daevid.kinda crooked. Kathy On 12/6/10, mgromkey mgrom...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this'll help the effort, but as Don pointed out to me in a sidebar discussion, the Hatcher version, and the reference video of the two women playing fiddle, plays the B part one and a half times. In the middle of the second time through, Hatcher has kind of a brain bubble, drags out an A chord, and inexplicably kicks back to bar 1. Truly kinky. Tater's gentlemanly transcript has a straight repeat on the B part, which is a lot more civilized. There is, however, something appealing about the more insane version. Below is a link to an interesting Exhibition Of Weird Fiddle Tunes found when I Googled Hatcher as an alternative to actually doing work at the end of the day. It's filled with amusing observations about old- time fiddlers who seem to have taken composition lessons from aliens. http://www.myspace.com/davidbragger/blog/175439660 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Song of the Month-December 2010
I#39;d like one too. We gave it a run last night with somewhat mixed results. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Georgia Home by Norman Blake
I learn best with a multi-fold example. Maybe tab, plus a video or mp3. If one won't work the other usually will, at least for me. I don't think we should confine it to bluegrass. I think adapting Mike's style to all formats is the way to go (mostly since I play OT but insist on playing melody along with the fiddle and not just strum chords). That being said, I'm pretty much agreeable to anything not involving Kanye West or Lady Gaga. From: mandoho...@comcast.net mandoho...@comcast.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 8:20:28 PM Subject: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake Seems that I learn easier from standard notation, but better by ear. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle - Original Message - From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:46:03 PM Subject: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake Also, what are the needs of the group? Should it be tab, standard notation, just audio...what works best for everybody? T. Pratie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake
Ditto on this one. I think it would be a fine idea. From: nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 6:46:50 PM Subject: Re: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake Excellent idea! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:48:49 -0600 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com ReplyTo: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake Good one Don! I think we need to do a song of the month type deal over here in Taterland. Maybe if we include Tater hisself it would kick off pretty good. Call a tune, have someone do a recording on Youtube and at the end of the month everyone else puts up their version. Just a thought. M On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, guys. Nelson, I haven't heard Shelvin' Rock so I'm looking forward to your video. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:10 PM, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Don, I'll have to watch the video at home. The Army doesn't like for us to spend time on YouTube when we are working. What's their problem, anyway? :) Yes, I am behind in my goal. I have been working on some old time tunes, and will get one out pretty soon. Shelvin' Rock it is fast becoming a favorite and will probably be the one. Nelson On Tue 11/23/10 3:51 PM , Michael Romkey mgrom...@gmail.com sent: Nice job! Nice tune! Nice mando! Nice to the third power! On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Trey Young wrote: Great job Don! - FROM: Don TO: taterbugmando SENT: Mon, November 22, 2010 9:00:47 PM SUBJECT: Georgia Home by Norman Blake Hey Nelson, Time for a video from you, isn't it? Here's one from me. Georgia Home is from the Original Underground Music From The Mysterious South album, released on CD as Natasha's Waltz. Played on my Campanella Dué. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCsPCd3Q2c [4] -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com [5] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en [8]. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en [11]. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. Links: -- [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCsPCd3Q2c [5] http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com [8] http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en [11] http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Totally agree. Every time I catch Cumberland Highlanders I feel like they're dancing on the man's grave. mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: And Campbell Mercer hasn't made a mockery of Monroe? Maybe he oughta read up on how he's handled things in his *own* backyard. I really think that anybody who's looking to this movie to be anything other than entertainment is just asking to be disappointed. I haven't seen anything in print that's included the words 'historical' or 'documentary'. While the movie will probably bring in people who were not aware of Monroe's music, it doesn't appear that Bill's artistry is the focal point of the film. Like it or not, infidelities sell tickets more readily to the masses than hill country music does. There's just no point in us all chasing our tails over this. It's going to be what it's going to be and nothing will change that. Tbug On Sep 17, 11:32 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote
Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe
Lol. That was the same thing I said. Don't you mean Kentucky? Mandolin lessons in Kentucky. Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Yea, I'm sure after a couple of lessons in NEW YORK, he will have no trouble playing rawhideyea right. What I want to know is who's going to teach him to sing like Bill? Good luck with that! --- On Fri, 9/17/10, johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com wrote: From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com Subject: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe To: m...@yahoogroups.com, deepgr...@yahoogroups.com, taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:32 AM Saw a link on mandolincafe.com to another article about the Bill Monroe movie that's in the works... John http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149878570 Producer hopes to shoot part of film in Rosine and Owensboro Sept. 16--Bessie Lee Mauldin was 17 when she met Bill Monroe in the fall of 1938. He had just turned 27, was already a singing star with his brother, Charlie, in the Monroe Brothers -- and was married. But three years later, Monroe, by then a member of the Grand Ole Opry, moved Mauldin to Nashville and made her his road girlfriend, Richard D. Smith wrote in Can't You Hear Me Callin', his 2000 biography of the father of bluegrass music. Over the next four decades, Monroe and Mauldin had a turbulent romance that inspired several major bluegrass songs -- apparently including Blue Moon of Kentucky, Smith wrote. Now, a Hollywood company is gearing up to film a movie based on Smith's book. And the producer, Trevor Jolly, hopes to shoot part of it in Owensboro and Monroe's hometown of Rosine, he said in an e-mail. I've read the script, said Owensboro businessman Terry Woodward, who is vice chairman of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. It's a love story about Bill and Bessie Lee. And that worries Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation, which owns Monroe's childhood home and farm in Ohio County. My concern is that the film not make a mockery of Bill, Mercer, a keeper of the Monroe flame, said Tuesday. It's based on a book by Richard D. Smith. It was a book that needed to be written, but it was written by the wrong guy. Mercer would prefer a movie that focused on Monroe's music, not his infidelities. But Mauldin is considered to have been Monroe's muse. Their child, which she gave up for adoption, according to the book, inspired the song, My Little Georgia Rose. And Mauldin, a bass player with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys off and on for two decades, played on 99 of Monroe's recordings. Reminded that the soundtrack for Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 movie about gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, contained a lot of bluegrass music and brought a lot of new fans to the genre, Mercer said, This time I'm afraid Bill is going to be Clyde. Funny stories out there Still, he says, there are some awful funny stories about Bill and Bessie Lee out there, including one about Mauldin wrestling another of Monroe's girlfriends to the ground in North Carolina. Maggie Gyllenhaal, 32, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in last year's Crazy Heart, recently told ScreenCrave.com that she will portray Mauldin in the movie. Her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, 39, is cast as Monroe. I talked to Peter on the phone the other day, Woodward said. He was in New York taking mandolin lessons. He plays guitar, but he needs to be able to play mandolin for the movie. Woodward said: He's very enthusiastic about the movie. He said his father was a big bluegrass fan. The ScreenCrave story said Joseph Henry T-Bone Burnett, who produced the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which sold 8 million copies, and collaborated on Crazy Heart will do the music for Blue Moon. Callie Khouri, who grew up in Paducah and wrote Thelma Louise, wrote the script. She and T-Bone are married, Woodward said. Jolly, whose credits include being sound supervisor on American Beauty and The Whole Ten Yards as well as on episodes of Lost, The Shield and Alias, is producing. Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards, Cherish, Dream With The Fishes) will direct. Taylor has visited Owensboro four times and Jolly, three times so far, Woodward said. One day when they were here, we walked down to the Famous Bistro for lunch, he said. They said they liked some of the buildings downtown and might want to film some here. I just listened. Yes, hoping to shoot scenes at Rosine and Owensboro, Jolly said in an e-mail Tuesday. Too early for specifics though. Woodward says the movie should be filmed in Kentucky. Monroe was born -- and is buried -- in Kentucky. His band and the genre
Hey all--let's hear it about camp
Just thought I would check in with the group and say...howdy. How was camp? It's a Monday, and I am down here in the salt mines, so by all means share and share about Monroe camp. The pictures I saw on Facebook made me slappy. My wife and I are still doing some daily woodshedding with fiddle tunes and have really been enjoying it. We're on to around forty now and have steadily worked on getting them up to about 120bps, practicing them in a rotating schedule. We try to add a couple a week from a list the rest of our group has compiled. Still, I have made a huge effort to focus on quality and not just the quantity...although I guess that might be in the ear of the beerholder. Anyway, here's the latest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--fig6Euj24Don't know why that copied link came out so large, but I will leave it that way for emphasis. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!
My daughter reminds me of this point often. nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: As in most of life...I am not as cool/good as I want to believe. It is very helpful. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:13:22 To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Reply-To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HEY!! I know what you mean, Nelson. At first I could have just rolled on the floor, but now I record myself every afternoon, both with a Kodak HD camera and usually either the iPad or a Zoom H2 set up as a USB mic on my laptop. It gives me both a video and audio record. I learned a LOT about the way I was playing by watching and listening to myself...mostly just that I was playing too forcefully and was killing my own technique. I probably still play too forcefully but I have been able to zero in on taking it easy...and have found that my playing is much better, at least to my ear... From: nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 9:54:54 AM Subject: Re: HEY!! I'm working on a few Monroe standards, recording myself and cringing during playback. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Sender: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:24:11 -0700 (PDT) To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com ReplyTo: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: HEY!! Been learnin' tunes and hanging around the house, mostly. Been too damn hot to do much. I also picked up an iPad this week and have been playing around with that thing almost non-stop. Wanted to make it to Monroe Camp this year but have been on-call every weekend for two months and don't see it stopping. I like the money, but sheesh I am heading to Laurel Bloomery, TN for the OT picking there this weekend. A couple of nights in a tent, likely a bottle of Johnny Walker. All is well. This will be the first festival my wife has attended with me as a picker, so looking forward to that as well. I have been experimenting with stainless steel strings. Got some D'Addario and absolutely loved them. Sounded great from the get-go and only took them off when the threat of tetanus was looming. Tried to order some from Elderly but they hosed up the order. They made it right but wound up sending Bush Monels as a replacement. They're pretty jangly when new and it takes some time to wear them in, but they sound great when they hit their stride. I have four sets, so I guess that's plenty of time to get used to them. From: Jonathan Trawick fiddlinarkan...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 9:00:15 AM Subject: Re: HEY!! heard you had a sweet session with an arkansawyer recently. what was y'all workin on? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:56 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Boy now, I'm telling you, this is the most TALKATIVE bunch of folks I've run into in a while! What're ya'll doin? Taterbug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr
Re: Garfield
Agreed on enjoying these videos. It might put me on the..trail?...of the whale. Call me Ishmael. From: Mark Halpin tomas...@yahoo.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 5:52:52 AM Subject: Re: Garfield Thar she blows! this is a nifty little thread and thanks to those who offered up their versions of this tune for perusal, i like being able to view and listen to these different takes on the tune, i have to say to Don that i do like your version, it almost seems more like an Old World Irish/Scottish tune when played like that, again, thanks folks On Aug 1, 2:05 am, Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone who knows this tune tell me if I'm on the trail of the whale or if I've been blown way off course? Took some from slowing down Tater's version on NBB and changed some things so I could play it. Still way slow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COnJ6gjf8wg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Garfield
I've given a lot of thought to this topic lately, Linda, mostly because I have recently gotten into a contra dance band that plays entirely OT standards. The old time in the Piedmont area of SC/NC/GA isn't the same sort of old time that gets adhered to in some places. It has much more African influence, and I just don't think you can get the mountain and bluegrass out of it no matter if it is academically picked apart a million ways. It's just there and you can hear it. It is much looser, and generally even an old time jam is come as you please, just play the melody. Not nearly as uptight as it is just over the border in Asheville, where a chop chord might get you ran out of town on a rail. At first I thought rhythm, that I would play rhythm and try my best to put whatever flourishes in there to make it entertaining. Eventually, the fiddle player told me to jump on the melody with him and away we've gone, and for my money it is dance music with...muscle, maybe. The mandolin adds a great deal to it. I think a good example of this approach is the Foghorn Stringband. Caleb Klauder gets right in there with the fiddle player and they pick the melody together. It takes practice to get that syncopation right, but once you've got it, you're cooking with...old time butter. Just my two cents, but honestly, I don't think the real old timers--the guys who actually played this stuff back in the day--would turn you out unless you couldn't keep time. Guys that made their strings with guts and banjos with gourds would probably not bat an eyelash if you want to play the melody...or not. From: Linda lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 9:50:43 PM Subject: Re: Garfield I always wonder about mandolin in an old-time setting. Its not a fiddle. Seems like the Tater managed a good run through to suit a mandolin - banjo duo. Mighty fast pickin too. How many ideas are there out there ...for mando and guitar or mando and fiddle duo, mando and banjo duo, playing old time, how many possibilities or approaches have folks seen or thought of? In groups here, doing old time tunes, mandolins are mainly wanted for chops, they can really help the rhythm but it can be boring. I keep looking for ideas for mando to play part tune and part chords...have found a few. That is where Mr. Monroe comes in as I think he worked those ideas out pretty good. Looking and listening it seems to me he played double stops now and then, simplifying the melody, but went heavy and perhaps funky with right hand to boost, accent the rhythm side. That seems to be where he did his 'talking'. Solo ...well then one can show off the picking technique, also one can display great technique getting all the notes in with mando and guitar duo, me thinks. I would like to know more about Mrs. Haley's technique. It is a great tune hey? linda On Jul 29, 1:25 am, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy all, I put a copy of this file on my server for anyone that wants to download it. It's a .mp4 so you can open it in QuickTime 7 and slow it down to your heart's content (as long as your heart is contented with QuickTime's slowest setting). Here's the file:http://dasspunk.com/garfields.mp4 And here's an explanation of slowing down video/audio in QuickTime:http://dasspunk.com/2008/slowing-down-those-hot-licks/ Hope this helps! Brian On Jul 28, 4:50 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Don, The danged mandolin player didn't play the dots, but would sure like to figger out a way to do it. Haven't figgered it out since 2000. Big white Mutha Whale it is. Also, there's only two parts being represented here, not the crooked part towards the end. Yet another thing to do. Tatuh On Jul 27, 7:21 pm, Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: My program for grabbing youtubes won't work on this one but I finally figured out there's no C part, duh. I've got the version off of 20 Year Blues slowed down to see what the TaterMasher did to the dots. I started this one a long time ago and gave up. Time to try it again. Great white whale tune, indeed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Garfield
Another white whale tunebut this video sure helps with the left hand visibility. Will never get this one right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96JkIhjknI Would LOVE to hear this pair in person. I hope there's a recording in their future. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Great channel, this one...
One more from that same channel. David Davis has it going on. http://www.youtube.com/user/kdhx#p/f/39/SxDTi19nEQc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Hey!
Down at the beachlittle taters in the sandy land, if you will. That gives me an idea. I think Garfield's is in the files section. Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Hey deep. I found regular notation music by googling it. In the end i found it less stressful to learn it from the music than to tab it out! Let us know what you decide to do with the long notes Best, robin 2010/7/4, Guido Bos gu...@stringwiseacoustics.com: And what a great tune that is !! On 04/07/10 12:56, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: yes tater! can i get a tab for Garfields blackberry blossm anyhow? On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: What's going on? Is anybody talking on this danged thing? P. Tater -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:taterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More GDGD fun
One more sans glasses and I'll stop. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9GI-wK0rE Stopping at Wilson's five and dime and picking up a pair on the way home for my erstwhile companion. Deep, if you want to email me your address I'll put one of those little padded envelopes in the snail mail to you. From: Patrick Hanly patrick_ha...@yahoo.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 4:06:43 PM Subject: Re: More GDGD fun Nice arrangement and well played. What mandolin is that you are playing (I do like the way it sounds very much). (Although I understand that tone has everything to do with the player as well as the instrument. There was a story were Bucky Pizarelli was recording in a studio and, finishing a cut, he came into the control room and the engineer said, gee, Mr. Pizarelli, that archtop of yours certainly sounds great to which Bucky replied, Oh yeah? There it is on that stand in the corner. How does it sound now?) Pat On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Don wrote: Here's The Girl I Left Behind Me in GDGD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdpZqa81Upo -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More GDGD fun
And some good old fashioned GDAE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTewUn_s5I Glasses are forthcoming. From: diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 3:15:01 PM Subject: Re: More GDGD fun hahaha yea just making sure i get hired in a bandnope it only looks like the gibson... the nose is very much there look closely and the glasses they dont ship them this far do they! On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:31 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Yea Deep! What's the guitar? Looks like Gibson inlay. Come on now, give it up...didn't notice the nose and glasses on you either... Bugs On Jun 23, 2:38 am, deep diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1T7Djjymc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: All about Mrs Haley
Brian mentioned his love for the duet and it is something I have really come to enjoy, probably far more than the full band. From my perspective, part of it is that in order for me to pull it off effectively I almost HAVE to keep it simple. Every little mistake is amplified when you don't have a screaming banjo, bass and fiddle to cover up your flubs. Distilling things down to just the melody, removing needless licks or tricks or whatever has improved my playing noticeably (or at least that's what I am telling myself). I wish I had started doing it far sooner. From: Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 8:43:16 AM Subject: Re: All about Mrs Haley Me too! And Doc Roberts playing is beautiful. I love that Honeymoon Stomp, I have been working on it and plan on playing it in Kentucky on my Honeymoon. On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Tud Jones wrote: Don't want to veer to far off topic but I've always dug the mando backup in the Hoyt Ming recordings...http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=77DqfsT_rF8feature=related On Jun 21, 12:10 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I reckon another way of saying that, or a clearer way, is that Monroe's right hand didn't always play the 'rhythm melody' when the left hand was, nor did his left hand always play the melody when his right hand was. Then, there's that abstract thing to consider, and the implied notes, and...Oh what the hell, it's *just* bluegrass mandolin. How could it *possibly* be that difficult or advanced? Bugs On Jun 21, 9:28 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like to me you guys have got it well in hand. My ramblings about Ella and her methods are purely my own way of understanding what she's doing, but I think this all bears out pretty well to the test. To me, Ella is a step ahead of fiddlesticks players, dancers and drummers when they play melody with percussion only(not that drums don't have pitch). It sounds like Monroe took the same idea and played it with tremolo, not just chord strums, and built melody and rhythmic backup too, though I don't think his use of it was always related to the melody specifically, but oftentimes to an alternate rhythmic pattern built into the melody. All this thinking makes my head hurt. TBug On Jun 21, 8:47 am, Mark Halpin tomas...@yahoo.com wrote: I think one of the advantages of say trios or duets is that it demands that the instruments are shifted from their normal sound space and have to find new voices to support each other. The genius of Bluegrass, for instance, is that each instrument has its own sound space and as a result they all support each other, but, the danger with that is that the space can become so defined that it can also serve to limit the possibilities for each instrument. Approaching even bluegrass material as a trio or duo straight away offers you the difficulty of freedom... just how do you fill for the missing instruments on the selection that you have left? I think it was earlier in that same interview that Mr. Tater mentioned encountering the same trouble when working on the album with David Grier, that the bluegrass chop just wouldnt cut the mustard in that situation, so new backup solutions on the mandolin had to be found. For me that right there is the interest, that someone is kinda kicked from their comfort zone and they have to engage their imagination and ear again (thats not to imply that Mr. Tater was not being imaginative before the Grier album ;-) Also i think that the more stripped back nature of a two or three players does not leave much for a musician to hide behind, in my opinion, it demands that you listen to and interact more with the other players, and thats where the natural familiarity of family groups like the Haleys, Stanleys, Louvins, Monroes etc plays an advantage lending a second-nature to the interaction... and we all can marvel in the wonder that sort of initmacy can produce in music. The real wonder for me though is when you have a group of musicians who are unused to each other, or, as i said above, are shunted from their traditional roles and are flying by the seat of their pants, sometimes yes sir, the results can be ragged other times it can produce moments of pure unexpected adrenalin fueled magic . On Jun 21, 2:44 pm, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Sign me up for trios too. Myself, my fiddler Paul and Bob Black sat down one night and played as a trio for about 4 hours straight. With no guitar player to hold us back, them were some lively tunes! Bob has great rhythm sensibilities himself and it was a joy to play off each other. I also find it interesting that--for whatever reason--my love of the duet seems to be shared with a number of folks on this list... it's nice to know I'm not alone! Brian On Jun 18, 8:28 am, Mark Halpin
Re: Interesting Monroe Find
I don't know about the quality on this one. The archive version sampled on the article is much better. This quality seems to improve as the show goes along...but I guess it is what it is for 1955. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, June 21, 2010 10:09:17 AM Subject: Re: Interesting Monroe Find Thanks for that, Steve, I have this recording on a cassette from years ago, but don't rightly know where it is. This might be better quality anywho. Amazing stuff. All played nearly a year before I was born. Feels like I missed a lot... Taterbug On Jun 18, 9:16 pm, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I haven't seen this show on SugarMegs or the like, and thought I would post it here. I have been on a hunt for a 1980 show today that seems like a wild goose chase and in the process ran across this 1955 recording from the New River Ranch. Charlie Monroe joins Monroe for a number of songs in their old duo format and he is in fine form. Some really great picking. You can read a short excerpt on it here:http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/sfc/index.php/2009/12/07/the-monroe-brot... And you can find the recording itself here...http://www.sendspace.com/file/ox3zk0 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys 05-08-1955 New River Ranch Rising Sun, MD SBD Various sets with the BGB, Charlie Monroe, and Bill and Charlie. DISC ONE 01. Cheyenne 02. I Bowed My Head and Cried 03. Shenandoah Valley Breakdown 04. Sugar Coated Love 05. Muleskinner Blues 06. Wait A Little Longer Please, Jesus 07. Walkin in Jerusalem 08. Wheelhouse 09. When Golden Leaves Begin to Fall 10. When Cactus Are in Bloom 11. Footprints in the Snow 12. Rawhide 13. Tall Timber 14. In the Pines 15. Bugle Call Rag 16. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band 17. Uncle Pen 18. Rocky Road Blues 19. Get Up John 20. In the Shadow of the Pines 21. Willow Garden 22. Kentucky bound 23. I Know You'll Understand 24. What Would You Give? 25. Nine Pound Hammer 26. Leave Me Alone Little Darling 27. Down Where the River Bends 28. I've Found the Way 29. Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley 30. Theme 31. Katy Cline 32. Darlin Cory 33. Lonely Little Robin DISC TWO 01. The World is Not My Home 02. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 03. Jack and Mae 04. You Call That Religion 05. Little Red Shoes 06. Lonesome Road Blues 07. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 08. Good Morning to You 09. Band Intros 10. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 11. Dear Old Dixie 12. Crying Holy Unto the Lord 13. Just a Little Talk with Jesus 14. Goodbye Old Pal 15. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 16. Nine Pound Hammer 17. This World is Not My Home 18. I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out 19. Workin on a Building 20. Sally Goodin 21. Watermelon on the Vine 22. Fire on the Mountain 23. Lonesome Road Blues 24. Rose of Old Kentucky 25. Molly and Tenbrooks 26. I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky 27. White House Blues 28. Feast Here Tonight 29. He Will Set Your Fields On Fire 30. Foggy Mountain Top 31. Dance All Night 32. I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home (Decca) 33. Rawhide (Decca 46392) 34. Letter to my Darling (Decca 46392) 35. In the Pines (Decca 28146) 36. Pike COunty Breakdown (Decca 28356) 37. Bringin in the Georgia Mail (Victor) Bill Monroe Archival Project Direct Connect: bluegrasshub.no-ip.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Nose and glasses
I just recently acquired a set myself. Let the wild rumpus begin. From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 3:04:29 PM Subject: Nose and glasses Madrid DOES have a shop that sells the official tatertube uniform. Now nothing can stop me from uploading my attacks on the mandolin repertoire. I will take possession of the goods on Friday. Late, but arrived in the end. See you all on the small screen. 2010/6/22, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com: wow thanks!!! On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.netwrote: I don't know about the quality on this one. The archive version sampled on the article is much better. This quality seems to improve as the show goes along...but I guess it is what it is for 1955. -- *From:* mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com *To:* Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Mon, June 21, 2010 10:09:17 AM *Subject:* Re: Interesting Monroe Find Thanks for that, Steve, I have this recording on a cassette from years ago, but don't rightly know where it is. This might be better quality anywho. Amazing stuff. All played nearly a year before I was born. Feels like I missed a lot... Taterbug On Jun 18, 9:16 pm, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I haven't seen this show on SugarMegs or the like, and thought I would post it here. I have been on a hunt for a 1980 show today that seems like a wild goose chase and in the process ran across this 1955 recording from the New River Ranch. Charlie Monroe joins Monroe for a number of songs in their old duo format and he is in fine form. Some really great picking. You can read a short excerpt on it here: http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/sfc/index.php/2009/12/07/the-monroe-brot... And you can find the recording itself here... http://www.sendspace.com/file/ox3zk0 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys 05-08-1955 New River Ranch Rising Sun, MD SBD Various sets with the BGB, Charlie Monroe, and Bill and Charlie. DISC ONE 01. Cheyenne 02. I Bowed My Head and Cried 03. Shenandoah Valley Breakdown 04. Sugar Coated Love 05. Muleskinner Blues 06. Wait A Little Longer Please, Jesus 07. Walkin in Jerusalem 08. Wheelhouse 09. When Golden Leaves Begin to Fall 10. When Cactus Are in Bloom 11. Footprints in the Snow 12. Rawhide 13. Tall Timber 14. In the Pines 15. Bugle Call Rag 16. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band 17. Uncle Pen 18. Rocky Road Blues 19. Get Up John 20. In the Shadow of the Pines 21. Willow Garden 22. Kentucky bound 23. I Know You'll Understand 24. What Would You Give? 25. Nine Pound Hammer 26. Leave Me Alone Little Darling 27. Down Where the River Bends 28. I've Found the Way 29. Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley 30. Theme 31. Katy Cline 32. Darlin Cory 33. Lonely Little Robin DISC TWO 01. The World is Not My Home 02. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 03. Jack and Mae 04. You Call That Religion 05. Little Red Shoes 06. Lonesome Road Blues 07. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 08. Good Morning to You 09. Band Intros 10. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 11. Dear Old Dixie 12. Crying Holy Unto the Lord 13. Just a Little Talk with Jesus 14. Goodbye Old Pal 15. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 16. Nine Pound Hammer 17. This World is Not My Home 18. I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out 19. Workin on a Building 20. Sally Goodin 21. Watermelon on the Vine 22. Fire on the Mountain 23. Lonesome Road Blues 24. Rose of Old Kentucky 25. Molly and Tenbrooks 26. I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky 27. White House Blues 28. Feast Here Tonight 29. He Will Set Your Fields On Fire 30. Foggy Mountain Top 31. Dance All Night 32. I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home (Decca) 33. Rawhide (Decca 46392) 34. Letter to my Darling (Decca 46392) 35. In the Pines (Decca 28146) 36. Pike COunty Breakdown (Decca 28356) 37. Bringin in the Georgia Mail (Victor) Bill Monroe Archival Project Direct Connect: bluegrasshub.no-ip.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: All about Mrs Haley
I have listened to a ton of it and have done my best to emulate it when I can get away with it...I would call it a mix of rhythm and melody. To me it fits the duo style perfectly. I am content to do some dry chopping in a full band since that seems to be what the straight-ahead contemporary bluegrass calls for, but in any other context it is much more enjoyable to play around with the rhythm and see what comes of it. I was once in a jam with some local guys who are somewhat...rigid...in their approach to bluegrass. I was sort of noodling with the rhythm and one of the guys said, Just play it straight. Hell, I thought that was what I was doing. From: Mark Halpin tomas...@yahoo.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 9:28:42 AM Subject: All about Mrs Haley Some of my favorite Tater ventures have to be on 'The Speed of the Old Long Bow' and t'other John Hartford old-time-fiddler-tribute albums... i dont dance much but i knows they do make for fine jogging musics. From one of the old Co-mando interviews Mr. Tate tells that John Hartford was looking for something along the lines of what Ela Haley was doing on mandolin. Hers how its put in the interview 'Haley's wife Ela played taterbug (or roundback for you yanks) mandolin on the recordings. She played simple chords with a heavy- handed rhythm and that's what John said he really wanted me to do. I thought it was a very primitive way to play mandolin until I started to notice Ela seemed to be playing the melody line, but with chords. In other words, her right hand played the melody, her left played chords. It's sort of the same thing tap dancers do I guess.' Now, given that those Ed Haley recordings seem to be both rare and pricey i have'nt much of chance to hear what exactly is going on with the original recordings, i'm actually just going through the some mp3 samples at the moment and i'm beginning to hear the sound i associate from the Hartford albums. Now i'm wondering if anyone here, not just Mr Taterbug though it'd be interesting to hear his views, have paid much attention to Ela Haley's playing or have tried to adapt it into their own playing? If so, what attracts you to that style of playing, any observations about it, in particular i'd wonder how do you think it sits with the Monroe style? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Interesting Monroe Find
I haven't seen this show on SugarMegs or the like, and thought I would post it here. I have been on a hunt for a 1980 show today that seems like a wild goose chase and in the process ran across this 1955 recording from the New River Ranch. Charlie Monroe joins Monroe for a number of songs in their old duo format and he is in fine form. Some really great picking. You can read a short excerpt on it here: http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/sfc/index.php/2009/12/07/the-monroe-brothers-live-at-new-river-ranch-1955/ And you can find the recording itself here... http://www.sendspace.com/file/ox3zk0 Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys 05-08-1955 New River Ranch Rising Sun, MD SBD Various sets with the BGB, Charlie Monroe, and Bill and Charlie. DISC ONE 01. Cheyenne 02. I Bowed My Head and Cried 03. Shenandoah Valley Breakdown 04. Sugar Coated Love 05. Muleskinner Blues 06. Wait A Little Longer Please, Jesus 07. Walkin in Jerusalem 08. Wheelhouse 09. When Golden Leaves Begin to Fall 10. When Cactus Are in Bloom 11. Footprints in the Snow 12. Rawhide 13. Tall Timber 14. In the Pines 15. Bugle Call Rag 16. Girl in the Blue Velvet Band 17. Uncle Pen 18. Rocky Road Blues 19. Get Up John 20. In the Shadow of the Pines 21. Willow Garden 22. Kentucky bound 23. I Know You'll Understand 24. What Would You Give? 25. Nine Pound Hammer 26. Leave Me Alone Little Darling 27. Down Where the River Bends 28. I've Found the Way 29. Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley 30. Theme 31. Katy Cline 32. Darlin Cory 33. Lonely Little Robin DISC TWO 01. The World is Not My Home 02. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 03. Jack and Mae 04. You Call That Religion 05. Little Red Shoes 06. Lonesome Road Blues 07. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 08. Good Morning to You 09. Band Intros 10. Bile Dem Cabbage Down 11. Dear Old Dixie 12. Crying Holy Unto the Lord 13. Just a Little Talk with Jesus 14. Goodbye Old Pal 15. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms 16. Nine Pound Hammer 17. This World is Not My Home 18. I Know My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out 19. Workin on a Building 20. Sally Goodin 21. Watermelon on the Vine 22. Fire on the Mountain 23. Lonesome Road Blues 24. Rose of Old Kentucky 25. Molly and Tenbrooks 26. I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky 27. White House Blues 28. Feast Here Tonight 29. He Will Set Your Fields On Fire 30. Foggy Mountain Top 31. Dance All Night 32. I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home (Decca) 33. Rawhide (Decca 46392) 34. Letter to my Darling (Decca 46392) 35. In the Pines (Decca 28146) 36. Pike COunty Breakdown (Decca 28356) 37. Bringin in the Georgia Mail (Victor) Bill Monroe Archival Project Direct Connect: bluegrasshub.no-ip.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
The Armstrong Twins--Mandolin Boogie/Big Mon
Goofing around this afternoon and ran across this one--really great stuff. Floyd and Lloyd Armstrong, doing some standard brother duet stuff. Being twins, I guess it's uber brother duet stuff. Fun to listen to and pay along with and thought I would submit it for the list's consideration. Psstif you were looking around really hard you could find it here. I have no idea whose this is, but there you have it should you be so inclined... http://www.mediafire.com/?z2omydzz5x2 Also, my wife has recently taken up guitar. I don't know if anyone on the list has a significant other that is also a musician, but I would recommend this a 100 times over. She and I have had a fine time playing every afternoon, and it surely beats the hell out of couch or internet surfing. It seemed like it was just a matter of her learning the chords to one song and then her lightbulb came on. Here's she and I working on Big Mon...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFFNUxrVOgE Anway, just killing some time on a Sunday. Have fun, ya'll. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Reelfoot Reel
I ALWAYS get the clams before doing a video. I play fine if I am recording with someone else or out anywhere, but put me in front of that camera and I can't play a lick. 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks fellas...yes I do believe that is a technical mandolin term! I've been on guitar flat picking kick lately so I've been neglecting that Gilchrist...it's been dormant for a few weeks. There was a big discussion about about whether instruments open up' after a time on the Mandolin Cafe. I'm a firm believer that they do and that Gilchrist has changed since I first got it. I also believe they got to sleep even after just a little while. After a three hour gig that thing screams! I was banging on that for about 1/2 hour yesterday before I recorded it. I probably should have waited a little longer but I got a reasonably good take. Anybody else get a case of the clams when trying to record YouTubes ? I tried laying down Red Haired Boy on guitar yesterday morn but after about 20 attempts I gave up and broke out the Gil. p.s. If it told you i was wearing the nose and glasses would you believe me? On Jun 11, 1:34 am, M. Marmot tomas...@yahoo.com wrote: Me like, that first bada-chum-chum-chum (i'm sure thats the technical term) had me grinning, and this early in the morning thats no mean feat. Good on you sir! On Jun 10, 7:10 pm, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on this one on and off for a while. Still needs work but thanks to Tater for helping me get this far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoVGBN6MT44 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Digest for taterbugmando@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics
I've got some Pickens Co. mountain-style...homebrew that I could throw in there. Just don't light a match for at least five minutes. From: Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 6:48:48 AM Subject: Re: Digest for taterbugmando@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics What time of year are we talking Late september? Looks like Meridian is only 8 hours from houston. I'll bring the cured meats to go in the beans and the Belgium style home brew. Adam On Jun 7, 5:26 am, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: I'd do it, and may still contribute to the Nose and Glasses tune site. It just takes some of us a while to work up to it. val On Jun 6, 9:23 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, it's a done deal then. We'll all meet at Clarko State Park south of Meridian and rent about 50 cabins (there's over 200 folks on this list) and have a blow out. Hopefully, there'll be more commitment to this idea than there way to the 'Nose and Glasses' tune site. Seems like I'm the only one that was willing to pay the price. Taterbug On Jun 4, 11:25 am, Jonathan Trawick fiddlinarkan...@gmail.com wrote: i'll brang the beer and x-lax! sounds like a great mississippi late fall idea. get 'r done, tater! jt On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:09 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome to the food network. G I can see there are a bunch of hearty eaters here. We should have a taterbugmando group gathering and bean cookoff. I've have to break out my black bean soup recipe. Smoked ham hocks, anyone? Taterator On Jun 3, 7:16 am, M. Marmot tomas...@yahoo.com wrote: Holy Hannah, Little did we know what was started when the subject of bean stew was brought up :) Oh, Cassoulet is a mighty fine thing indeed in the autumn, especially with some good belgian beer and/or even a nipper of whiskey for after ;-p Another new found autumn favorite is Guinness Stew, oh yum. Now, with all this talk of bean stews why do i feel the need to watch Blazing Saddles again? On Jun 2, 5:28 pm, Adam Paul saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: M Cassoulet. smoked hocks, duck confit, andouille, white beans and vegetables, simmered in stock, scented with garlic, thyme and parsley. I may need a cigarette. That is one of my favorite fall/winter dishes. Come on Fall, to hell with summer... especially in houston, tx Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@goog legroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Fiddlers Grove in NC
Hey all, I spent the past weekend in Fiddler's Grove in NC and it was a fine time. Managed to catch this list's Terry Bullin and really enjoyed it. Terry is a fine picker--you might have seen his YouTube videos. Definitely no slouch in the Monroe Department. I also go a chance to see Tom Mindte, although I didn't realize that was who it was at the time. Someone here on the list recommended his Old Time Duets CD and I picked it up and have really enjoyed it, and didn't realize I was watching him at a jam play some killer Monroe style mandolin on Saturday (probably the moonshine). Anyway, I looked him up and his Patuxent Partners have a number of CDs out. Good traditional stuff--check it out. Have a good week, everyone. Steve I'll put a deposit down on that cabin. Just let me know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: And now, for the finest in canned meat substance cuisine...
I freely admit...to liking spam. I know it is horrible and mysterious, but still...put a couple of pieces of that in a frying pan with some eggs and cheese..that's a winner is what that is. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 8:36:30 AM Subject: Re: And now, for the finest in canned meat substance cuisine... The only thing missing in this is potato chips... TaterChip On May 20, 11:59 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Yup need to go salt free when cooking with potted meat products -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
I laughed...
..and then immediately sit down to try to figure this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIcHxXMYRg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More listening suggestion requests...
Right on, Shaun. I have the audio of all this tunes on my iPod right now. Great stuff. I'd buy a pair. Much appreciate the recommendation... From: sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 5:42:53 PM Subject: Re: More listening suggestion requests... The Twilite Broadcasters. Adam Tanner on a great '27 or '28 F4 and Mark Jackson on rhythm guitar. These guys have the old time sound down! Have you seen the Youtubes of Joe Newberry and Tater? I wish they'd do a recording! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More listening suggestion requests...
No worries, Don. I was actually thinking solely duos, stringband style or not, so the Grigsby stuff is a great idea. I didn't they had done that, and both of those cats can sing. That is truly all good stuff, especially the Ed Haley. Mrs. Haley does some crazy rhythm backing. From: Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 4:14:28 PM Subject: Re: More listening suggestion requests... Oops, I musta missed the stringband part. Nevermind my suggestions--I was just concentrating on duos/trios. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Trawick fiddlinarkan...@gmail.com wrote: let's not forget Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers. Also, the East Texas Serenaders. Any of the old Ed Haley stuff is great. Wish I had me some... Shout Lulu is a local string band. They specialize in Ozark tunes primarily from SW Missouri/NW Arkansas. Good stuff! jt On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Dudley Connell and Don Rigsby did at least one, maybe 2 duet CDs. Mostly just mando and guitar, every now and then a song has bass or fiddle too. Great singing and fine mando picking. Of course, Doc and Dawg, Skaggs Rice, Monroe Watson. If you want to hear some incredible backup on Latmandola (a wild multi scale length octave mandolin), check out Aly Bain and Ale Moller's Fully Rigged CD for some Shetland Islands/Swedish music. Two people shouldn't be able to make that much music. There's Travellers by Baldassari, Reischman and Bullock. Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien did a CD of just the 2 of them in a living room--I forget the name of it. That's all that come to mind at the moment. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Both Molsky and Uncle Norman take up vast space on my iPod. I don't think it gets any better...and Norman is a prime example of the art of playing slow. From: Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:20:45 AM Subject: Re: More listening suggestion requests... Hard to go wrong with anything by Uncle Norman Blake. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Michael Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com wrote: not always a ton of mando but Bruce Molsky's CD's are all awesome if you like solo performances. Compton plays some good mando on Contented Must Be, one of Bruce's CD's as well. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hey all, I hope eveyone is staying safe and relatively dry/oil-free wherever you might happen to be. Just a question I have found myself increasingly interested in duo/trio stringband music. It seems like the more I do it the simpler my own playing becomes out of necessity. You don't have that dirge of fiddle/banjo/bass/guitar to cover the flaws...of which there are unfortunately many. So I have been doing a ton of listening in that vein--Stomp, live recordings of Mike and David, The Foghorn Duo (Kaleb Clauder is an excellent mandolin picker), the Kitchen Tapes, Skip Gorman and Richard Starkey...you get the idea. I am hoping that folks might be able to throw out some similar suggestions for me. I also saw where Mr. Long will be doing a duo tour in July, so maybe someone can post some audio/video? David, I have relied heavily on a bootleg recording of you and KC Groves. You pick some familiar tunes and it is almost a Monroe double-stop seminar. Great picking. Anyway, thanks for any suggestions you folks might have. Amazon is just dying for me to spend some money over there. Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You
Re: More listening suggestion requests...
Shaun, you were definitely reading my mind. I bought all three of your suggestions. Definitely what I was thinking of. From: sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 5:49:37 PM Subject: Re: More listening suggestion requests... Butch and Bob Waller have one called Old Photographs. I think there may be some other band members on a few cuts. Jeremy Stephens and Tom Mindte have a few out. all mando/guitar duets -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
More listening suggestion requests...
Hey all, I hope eveyone is staying safe and relatively dry/oil-free wherever you might happen to be. Just a question I have found myself increasingly interested in duo/trio stringband music. It seems like the more I do it the simpler my own playing becomes out of necessity. You don't have that dirge of fiddle/banjo/bass/guitar to cover the flaws...of which there are unfortunately many. So I have been doing a ton of listening in that vein--Stomp, live recordings of Mike and David, The Foghorn Duo (Kaleb Clauder is an excellent mandolin picker), the Kitchen Tapes, Skip Gorman and Richard Starkey...you get the idea. I am hoping that folks might be able to throw out some similar suggestions for me. I also saw where Mr. Long will be doing a duo tour in July, so maybe someone can post some audio/video? David, I have relied heavily on a bootleg recording of you and KC Groves. You pick some familiar tunes and it is almost a Monroe double-stop seminar. Great picking. Anyway, thanks for any suggestions you folks might have. Amazon is just dying for me to spend some money over there. Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More listening suggestion requests...
Make that Caleb Klauder. Just had a synapse misfire there. From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 9:12:49 AM Subject: More listening suggestion requests... Hey all, I hope eveyone is staying safe and relatively dry/oil-free wherever you might happen to be. Just a question I have found myself increasingly interested in duo/trio stringband music. It seems like the more I do it the simpler my own playing becomes out of necessity. You don't have that dirge of fiddle/banjo/bass/guitar to cover the flaws...of which there are unfortunately many. So I have been doing a ton of listening in that vein--Stomp, live recordings of Mike and David, The Foghorn Duo (Kaleb Clauder is an excellent mandolin picker), the Kitchen Tapes, Skip Gorman and Richard Starkey...you get the idea. I am hoping that folks might be able to throw out some similar suggestions for me. I also saw where Mr. Long will be doing a duo tour in July, so maybe someone can post some audio/video? David, I have relied heavily on a bootleg recording of you and KC Groves. You pick some familiar tunes and it is almost a Monroe double-stop seminar. Great picking. Anyway, thanks for any suggestions you folks might have. Amazon is just dying for me to spend some money over there. Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: More listening suggestion requests...
Both Molsky and Uncle Norman take up vast space on my iPod. I don't think it gets any better...and Norman is a prime example of the art of playing slow. From: Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:20:45 AM Subject: Re: More listening suggestion requests... Hard to go wrong with anything by Uncle Norman Blake. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Michael Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com wrote: not always a ton of mando but Bruce Molsky's CD's are all awesome if you like solo performances. Compton plays some good mando on Contented Must Be, one of Bruce's CD's as well. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hey all, I hope eveyone is staying safe and relatively dry/oil-free wherever you might happen to be. Just a question I have found myself increasingly interested in duo/trio stringband music. It seems like the more I do it the simpler my own playing becomes out of necessity. You don't have that dirge of fiddle/banjo/bass/guitar to cover the flaws...of which there are unfortunately many. So I have been doing a ton of listening in that vein--Stomp, live recordings of Mike and David, The Foghorn Duo (Kaleb Clauder is an excellent mandolin picker), the Kitchen Tapes, Skip Gorman and Richard Starkey...you get the idea. I am hoping that folks might be able to throw out some similar suggestions for me. I also saw where Mr. Long will be doing a duo tour in July, so maybe someone can post some audio/video? David, I have relied heavily on a bootleg recording of you and KC Groves. You pick some familiar tunes and it is almost a Monroe double-stop seminar. Great picking. Anyway, thanks for any suggestions you folks might have. Amazon is just dying for me to spend some money over there. Thanks, Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.HillbillyChamberMusic.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Tombstone Junction
Much appreciated, Senor Spud. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, April 11, 2010 9:53:17 PM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction Tombstone Junction is now in the files section. Tarred Tater On Apr 8, 11:45 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: You're sure right about hearing more in it every time you play it, Terry. Seems like every time I listen to it I change my approach slightly. Your video seems right on to me. I have been using it and the Monroe video as a reference point where I can't see your fingertips. Great job. From: Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 11:17:41 AM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction I learned Tombstone (as best as I could) from a live Monroe show somebody recorded and passed around. It was at Tombstone Junction Park in Parkers Lake, KY in 1981. It must have been right after Bill wrote it, because he introduces it to the crowd that day. He plays it faster than other times I've heard it and he plays the B part twice. It's a cool tune and harder to play than it sounds. I'm sure I'm missing more than a few notes. I hear more in it every time I listen to him play it. Terry --- On Thu, 4/8/10, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:49 AM I didn't see it in the files section. I have been working on it for the past couple of days and pretty sure I have it...but everyone seems to do it a little differently. Mr. Reilly and Mr. Bullin both play it right on to Monroe's version with slight variations. I have the video of Monroe playing it at the beginning of the Father of Bluegrass movie and it also seems to be a variation...but it is hard to pin down on the video what he is doing. I think he might have gotten a bit of tremor in his hand then and he moves it a good bit...no offense intended, of course. From: Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 8:30:57 AM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction Didn't tater make a tab of that one? I think I have it on my computer which is kind of broken. I could try to get it off there if no one else has it. Mike Hedding On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:13 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Yessir been working on that one a bit myself... fun tune. I think I am at least at 5 notes missing... Chef-brew-r-me P.S. Got 3 batches of Beer working 5 gal each... Honey Wheat, English Brown ale and Porter! --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options
Re: Tombstone Junction
I didn't see it in the files section. I have been working on it for the past couple of days and pretty sure I have it...but everyone seems to do it a little differently. Mr. Reilly and Mr. Bullin both play it right on to Monroe's version with slight variations. I have the video of Monroe playing it at the beginning of the Father of Bluegrass movie and it also seems to be a variation...but it is hard to pin down on the video what he is doing. I think he might have gotten a bit of tremor in his hand then and he moves it a good bit...no offense intended, of course. From: Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 8:30:57 AM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction Didn't tater make a tab of that one? I think I have it on my computer which is kind of broken. I could try to get it off there if no one else has it. Mike Hedding On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:13 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Yessir been working on that one a bit myself... fun tune. I think I am at least at 5 notes missing... Chef-brew-r-me P.S. Got 3 batches of Beer working 5 gal each... Honey Wheat, English Brown ale and Porter! --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Tombstone Junction
You're sure right about hearing more in it every time you play it, Terry. Seems like every time I listen to it I change my approach slightly. Your video seems right on to me. I have been using it and the Monroe video as a reference point where I can't see your fingertips. Great job. From: Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 11:17:41 AM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction I learned Tombstone (as best as I could) from a live Monroe show somebody recorded and passed around. It was at Tombstone Junction Park in Parkers Lake, KY in 1981. It must have been right after Bill wrote it, because he introduces it to the crowd that day. He plays it faster than other times I've heard it and he plays the B part twice. It's a cool tune and harder to play than it sounds. I'm sure I'm missing more than a few notes. I hear more in it every time I listen to him play it. Terry --- On Thu, 4/8/10, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:49 AM I didn't see it in the files section. I have been working on it for the past couple of days and pretty sure I have it...but everyone seems to do it a little differently. Mr. Reilly and Mr. Bullin both play it right on to Monroe's version with slight variations. I have the video of Monroe playing it at the beginning of the Father of Bluegrass movie and it also seems to be a variation...but it is hard to pin down on the video what he is doing. I think he might have gotten a bit of tremor in his hand then and he moves it a good bit...no offense intended, of course. From: Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, April 8, 2010 8:30:57 AM Subject: Re: Tombstone Junction Didn't tater make a tab of that one? I think I have it on my computer which is kind of broken. I could try to get it off there if no one else has it. Mike Hedding On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:13 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: Yessir been working on that one a bit myself... fun tune. I think I am at least at 5 notes missing... Chef-brew-r-me P.S. Got 3 batches of Beer working 5 gal each... Honey Wheat, English Brown ale and Porter! --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. --You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Grisman/Rowan 1997
Just wanted to pass along this show that's out on SugarMegs in the event anyone might have missed it. It is Rowan and Grisman from 1997, just doing some standards on mandolin and guitar. I have become a big fan of string duets and really like the minimal approach. The quality of the recording is excellent and Grisman seems to have his bluegrass shoes on for this one. The official tag is: DaveGrisman_Peter_Rowan1997-12-20 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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.
Statman on Floyd Cramer
Just liked this one and passing along. Leave it to Andy Statman to pick on some Floyd Cramer. My grandfather was an accomplished pianist and I can remember vividly him playing this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyEYtnDqH78feature=related -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: A tune
Great playing all the way around, Don. Well done. From: Jonas Mattebo jonas.matt...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 3:33:42 AM Subject: Re: A tune Don, Very nice tune and playing! I thought I recognized that clear tone... ;) /Jonas 2010/3/24 Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com Thanks, folks, glad you liked it. And thanks, Tater, for the CD order. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Mike mikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: Primo! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- My CD of original tunes played on mandolin, mandola, and mandocello http://www.hillbillychambermusic.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Crickets.......
I also noticed the tumbleweed, but I assumed it was just for ambiance. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 9:35:52 AM Subject: Crickets... It is very quiet on the discussion front. Nothing left to discuss, apparently. Hello? Is anybody out there? Check, one...two...is this thing on?test...test...calling Rangoon... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Crickets.......
and then overdub the solos later. Sometimes the scratch vocal is a keeper sometimes a line or two needs to be fixed. As far as laying down the nucleus of a tune: after about three takes we turn to mush so it's time to move on to another tune for the time being. If the overall take has a good feel/groove we go with it and fix any clams; if you don't know about ProTools you would be amazed as to what can be fixed. So it's mostly live with the ability to fix any stray clams; add extra parts and get the best vocal takes. We bring enough elixir's to loosen us up a bit, not too much. After 4 or 5 hours we'll go the Italian restaurant around the corner and step away from the whole process. Two six/seven hour recording sessions have yielded us 6 or 7 tunes that are basically complete but still have to be mixed. Some of the tunes have been one take first take. Once in awhile you get lucky :) We space the sessions a couple of weeks apart this way it give us time to listen and absorb (with fresh ears) what we've done and also work on the next tunes. We've been happy with the progress thus far. On Mar 9, 10:36 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. Got practice tonight with my little group Los Cold Hearts - we are writing away and getting some songs ready with a view to recording, but how do you all record? When I did it before, with a rock band, it was a nightmarish process of doing it semi-live, then redoing everything until all track by track untill all my ability to tell whether it was good or not had vanished. Now I wonder if trying to do everything live would be equally nightmarish: doing take after take until you get energy and a version where nobody screws up... What do you all think? Oh, and do you do acoustic music in Dobly? On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I also noticed the tumbleweed, but I assumed it was just for ambiance. -- *From:* mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com *To:* Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Tue, March 9, 2010 9:35:52 AM *Subject:* Crickets... It is very quiet on the discussion front. Nothing left to discuss, apparently. Hello? Is anybody out there? Check, one...two...is this thing on?test...test...calling Rangoon... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comtaterbugmando%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Vintage Johnson Mountain Boys on Youtube
That break at about 1:40 SMOKES. Holy crap. From: Linda lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, January 31, 2010 6:35:07 PM Subject: Re: Vintage Johnson Mountain Boys on Youtube Hot Damthat was a powerful experience. I bet he could sell that look to sell just about anything... This is the BG I like. On Feb 1, 10:09 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: Yea, he kicked ass. That's killer stuff. --- On Sun, 1/31/10, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com Subject: Vintage Johnson Mountain Boys on Youtube To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 3:27 PM I don't recall how I came up on this series, but for you fans of traditional bluegrass and the JMB, there's a tone of great characteristic stuff. Start with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvW5P2JG0Sw Also, after the first verse/chorus, check out the ...do I kick ass or what? facial from David McLaughlin on the mando solo. Just the best. I miss those guys. Buggly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Thought this might be of interest
Ditto on that. I have been iced in over the weekend and have spent it playing until my fingers have fretboard dye ground in and watching these docs one by one. Alan Lomax makes my hair stand up a little but these are all good, especially the one with Tommy Jarrell. Good stuff. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, January 31, 2010 9:35:05 PM Subject: Re: Thought this might be of interest Tud, I forgot about Folkstreams until you brought it up. I've had it saved for some time, but forgot about it. I've had a lot of fun watching the video on there. Thanks! puhtater On Jan 28, 9:46 am, Tud Jones tudjo...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.folkstreams.net/film,210 Lots of other great stuff up there as well if you browse around. Banjo Spirits:http://www.folkstreams.net/film,183has Don Stover doing a beautiful version of Things in Life. Enjoy! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Bluegrass Breakdown, Andy Statman Trio style
Andy's sense of style, his voicing, is contagious. I simply cannot play Fiddler's Blues and make it sound like a fiddle tune anymore. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 9:49:31 AM Subject: Re: Bluegrass Breakdown, Andy Statman Trio style There's some cool stuff in the Andy jazz course.much of it is blues based not full ahead jazz if I remember correctly...there's a few of dimished licks he tabs out that are very useful when playing over the IV chordthey sound good in blues based music. Here's a real good book for us closet jazz heads: http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Theory-Book-Mark-Levine/dp/1883217040 On Jan 25, 8:55 am, Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com wrote: I got that one as well. Has 6 CDs I believe. All good stuff and he explains everything really clearly. Mike Hedding On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:50 PM, diptanshu roy diptanshu@gmail.com wrote: hey DON does that come with a CD? i would love to get one for myself! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: And are you going to continue keeping that to yourself, Don? Hmmm? TBug On Jan 24, 7:00 pm, Don adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Righteous right hand, too. I have his Homespun Jazz mandolin instruction tape/book series and he starts with Monroe and Monroe blues solo and builds his whole jazz instruction around the blues. I never got past that Monroe blues solo--just great stuff. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jason Kindall jlkind...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with Robin. Simply 'wow'. Jason On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:26, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from anything else, of which there is much, what an amazing tone he gets. O -- 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en .- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Starting from scratch....sort of.
It seems like we seem to be focusing on the more musical aspect of things--appropriately so--but there is also a great deal more to life that that, and I think his reference to being a link in those other chains should be noted. Seems like it all grows or withers together. I don't mean to come off sounding like a Hallmark card, but I guess if you feel indifferent to your own personal growth then there is something wrong. It is something I ponder a great deal, so I totally understand where he's coming from. From: Jason Kindall jlkind...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, January 21, 2010 1:44:10 AM Subject: Re: Starting from scratchsort of. Just wanted to creep out of the corner long enough to say that I think it takes real guts and some pretty stellar honesty to open up to your fans and students like this. Kudos to you, Mike. I look forward to seeing where this part of the journey leads you. Jason On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 19:25, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I've decided to go back to the drawing board. It's been looming on the horizon for some time, bugging me, nagging at me in the back of my mind, one of those things that I know needs doing. So here goes... While it's true that I've taken some flack of late from uneducated n'er-do-wells with snappy comments regarding the slop I play and how I'm apparently luckier than Kenny G in my musical success based upon my apparent lack of ability to be an actual musician, this is not the basis for my conclusion that things need to change. There's a lot of things that need changing around here really, and the musical aspect is only one of the pieces of the puzzle. I'm getting fed up with feeling like the weak link in so many chains, not all of them musical. Call it a delayed New Year's Resolution list, if you will. As middle age comes and settles in more firmly I find myself wanting to play better, to understand more, to feel a connection with what I'm doing that's not been there in quite some time. Yes, I've been winging it. But then I suppose I've not fooled everybody judging by the latest flurry of comments and my own personal feelings of musical unrest. I need a feeling of belonging to what I'm doing, I need to feel I'm doing it well, that it's a part of me. So far, no cigar. I sat here today and played Black Joke w/Variations as I do every couple days(or so...there's part of the problem right there; lack of consistency and regularity) and made a greater effort to play the notes cleanly and with character. Egad. You'd think I never saw this exercise before. I used to play at it every day, every morning first thing, out on the porch with the mando and the 'dola to do my ritual, my mando-meditation. But now I'm playing it and paying attention to detail in a different way. I am reworking my right hand some due to feeling some wear and tear over the last 38 years and it's hard, REAL hard. I'm working on making it work smoothly and relaxed, but feeling strong and sure. I'm watching my pick angle. I'm watching how much motion I use to make the strokes, how I cross over strings to get to the next, listening to the sound of the notes, the evenness of the tremolo(or not, in this case), watching my pick angle, etc. Everything I can think of. And I know that the more I work, the more things will turn up that need attention. Truth is, I spend a lot of time working, but not efficiently. I waste 30 minutes here, an hour there not focused on anything. Now I don't mean to say that putting one's brain out of gear now and again is not a good idea, but being on auto-pilot all the time, not filtering what goes in and comes out, is not really a good idea. So, the tune books are out, the paper is out, the iTunes list is open, lyrics are at easy reach. I'm not sure I even know how to accomplish what I want to get done. If I sit and ponder it too hard the task will just seem like too much of a mountain to climb. Maybe in pieces small enough to chew is the way to go, but I feel like now I have to chew all the time to get ahead and see real success, real progress. Real progress will instill passion for success. I find I've got a lot more things I want to get done, and feeling I'm playing at the level I think I should be is high on the list. I have raised my standards for myself. I have quite a collection of material I want to learn and explore. The list grows and I just sit and watch it without whittling any of it away. I know myself well enough to know that this will all nag me in the back of my mind until I do something about it. Here I go... mistertaterbug -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at
Re: Old Timey playing
You've been to some different Old Time jams than I have, Justin. I'd be hard-pressed to show up at an old time jam with my F-style around here, and a buddy who plays a sort of loose, melodic style of clawhammer banjo gets routinely jeered. You either stick straight with the melody or you let the chords ring or you start feeling the ear burn. Good to know there's some who have the right mentality out there From: Justin LeCuyer superfien...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 2:29:45 PM Subject: Re: Old Timey playing Its old time, do whatever you feel like. In my experience old timers are much less likely to make a comment or scowl about the way anyone is playing. When you go to a bluegrass jam and play clawhammer, that's when there is trouble. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:18 PM, root elkhun...@wbcable.net wrote: Going to an old timey festival this weekend. Should mandolin chords be chopped or let them ring out? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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: Thinking more outside of a Jam
Sally Gooden in G is pretty common here in SC, and is generally known as Black Sally. I don't think that's meant to be racially disparaging, so no one should take it that way. I've had a lot of success with playing fiddle tunes I don't know out of the chord position, just as I would taking a break for a standard bluegrass tune that I really don't know all that well. Some people look on that as fiddle tune heresy, but to me it gets the job done and makes you think differently about the sounds--or functions, Dasspunk--that you can get out of the chord position. From: Mike Hoffmann mikehoffma...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 9:39:47 AM Subject: Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam Some fiddlers in New England play a Sally Gooden in G, I also have heard Gene Goforth doing it out of G. I really like the idea of learning an A tune in G in case the banjo player doesn't have a capo. Just another excuse to see how different keys relate/differ from each other. On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:29 AM, 14strings wrote: Erik I like your idea about learning tunes that are traditionally played out of A, in G. Jody Stecher does a real nice version of Sally Goodin out of G; it's on the Mandolin 2000 Mel Bay book.(I think Mel changed the title of that book since it's initial publication) Elliot is my favorite guitar capo; it has a thumb screw on there so you can get just the right amoint of tension to get a clear note but without putting the strings out of tune. The design lets you store it right behind the nut when not capoing; a major advantage in my book. D'Addario's Planet Waves just came out with a $15 capo that works on the same principle. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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= . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@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=.
Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam
A great analogy, man, and one that I can relate to. I've gotten better at recognizing the functions and using them appropriately...but at this point I think I might be overusing the same bits. I think it's going to require more flexibility in my thinking. From: Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 12:30:18 PM Subject: Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam Because I play and am also often employed in the riveting field of computer geekdom, I get asked why there are so many nerds that are also musicians. This actually just happened the other night while hanging out with Mr. David Long and the Asylum Street Spankers (great show David!)... my answer may throw a shard of light on the improv discussion. Musicians often make good programmers because their jobs require similar skills... breaking down large complex things into simple, little pieces. Where a musician would use a note, scale, chord, song, album, a programmer might use a variable, array, function, class, application. I like Mike's use of the word framework to describe Monroe's solos but when I first read it, I thought of how Monroe also used what I would describe as functions. (Programmer note: A function is a block of code that performs a calculation and returns a value. They can also accept arguments/values that allow for their officiant reuse). In Monroe speak, this could equate to what Mike calls Monroe's Standard C Solo. A group of phrases that Monroe used over and over, and in different songs and keys. Perhaps more to the point would be the way Monroe (or most folks) played out of chord shapes. Essentially tools that allow for efficient reuse. Of course one can acquire all the tools in the world and still not be able to build a simple stool. So there's an additional quandary... Brian On Nov 18, 7:53 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone cares to, go to Remember the Cross and That Home Above by the Monroe/Flatt/Scruggs/Wise/Rainwater band. One is clearly B, the other B flat. But, they are both clearly played out of A. There are a number of other noteworthy cuts, The First Whippoorwill for one, that are played out of one key but are clearly not pitched in that key. So, did fucking Bill Monroe (to quote fucking Gaudreau) tune up or capo up? It's not tape drag. As Terry Bullin once said,Well, maybe he did it in the studio but surely he wouldn't have done it out in public. It's just silly. If the situation requires a different voice and the capo provides it, use it. When did it become against the rules to use the tools? I started using a capo now and then due to saving time and aggravation in the studio. Also, open tunings. I'd really love to use more open tunings. Listen to the cut on Dr. Ralph's recording of Lift Him Up. That's tuned open, but there were a few songs where we tuned open only to have TBone say that he'd like to go up a half step. Now, retuning 8 strings on a mandolin every which way and expecting it to settle down in a few minutes is just unreasonable. Slapping on a capo is not, especially when time is money. As for working up solos and improvising... I think that maybe we can go back to the Father one more time and consider this approach. Over the years, if I listen to songs that Monroe did over a number of decades, such as Uncle Pen, On and On, Bluegrass Breakdown, etc, what I hear is a script, a framework over which variations are applied. I'm not talking about the construction of the song so much as I am the construction of his solos in the song. It seems that he worked out a solo that served as the basic pattern to follow, but changed small aspects of it occasionally as his whim dictated. But the basic script was predominantly the same. This may be helpful, maybe not. Just thought I'd throw it out there. I had a short conversation with Russ Barenburg the other day and the subject of improvisation came up. He said that he occasionally has people ask him about improvising, as do I. It's really an individual learning experience and there doesn't seem to be any one way to approach it or teach it. He said that to him it is ridiculous to assume that it is possible to whip out an improvised solo that rivals something that requires one sitting down and working it out and learning it over the course of say, several months. But that seems to be what some people assume they will be able to do with a few rules. I think that it is easy to overlook the fact that the sound our heros have/had did not just appear overnight but took sometimes a lifetime of blood, sweat, and tears to acquire. There is too much impatience in us all. I think that Eric has a valid point, that being each song deserves a look to see what the best approach is. I agree with Eric too (Who is this Eric guy? He seems to know a lot of stuff...) regarding using tunings and capos, if a
Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam
I'm a Baptist, so everyone just let me know if they need any ideas for self-shaming. From: Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 12:21:34 PM Subject: Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam The capo subject seems to rear it's head a couple times a year and I'm curious as to the reason. If there's a need for one on a tune, definitely use one. I don't see that as being any different than using alternate tunings. A tool is a tool. But if folks are using one to avoid learning to play in odd keys or the like, they are doing their playing a disservice. Nobody that can play well would think twice about using a capo for certain things and they would giggle at any crap thrown their way for doing so. This makes me think the capo question pops up because folks are looking for permission to use one so they can avoid playing in Bb, etc. If you struggle in Bb or the like (and everyone does or has), practice until you don't. Shame is an excellent motivator; use it to your advantage. Your playing will thank you. B On Nov 17, 7:55 am, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: guys and gals, I went to a workshop on sunday and the question came up, is it ok to use a capo? I am not one to use one but the instructor said when he laid the track on guitar he didn't remember he was in Bb, so he put a capo on the first fret to use the mando solo he worked up in A originally. Now I have seen this guy play guitar, mandolin and banjo in every key uncapoed so I know he could have done it but he had worked out a solo and wanted to use it... How do you folks work up a solo for professional be it performance or recording(is there a difference) -vs- just an off the cuff jam scene. I am not at the point really of knowing the difference. Adam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Going in the bag this week...
...and that's a wicked kick-off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VIJtrnfC-U --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Kenny Baker Tribute Shows
Awesome job, man. Great picking all the way around. From: Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, November 9, 2009 5:29:58 PM Subject: Re: Kenny Baker Tribute Shows Thanks all for the kind words. I am lucky to have such players that are willing to put up with me. All the boys had such a great time doing these shows, we're thinking of doing more of 'em. We'll see. Thanks again everyone, B On Nov 9, 10:13 am, Joseph canit...@gmail.com wrote: I accidentally hit 'reply to author' here's my question and Brian's response... Hey Brian, You mentioned that all you played for the last few weeks was stuff off the album. What do you think that has done for your playing? I'm guessing that it has made you more of a disciplined player and learner. Great playing by the way, I especially liked your solo on Monroe's Hornpipe. Very sweet! Peace, Joe Joe, Thanks for the kind words. I definitely did notice an improvement in my playing from having to focus in on the record. I also had to prepare physically for it, as two sets of Monroe is challenging for someone who doesn't play professionally. I played the album straight through twice a day for most of the past week. It really was a full ton of fun. B --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Norman's sage advice
I guess what I really mean by sounding like me is that I'm no longer afraid to NOT sound like Mike or Monroe or whomever. That was a big stumbling block for me before, this idea that what I was doing had to sound like X recording or it sucked...it took me a time to gain enough confidence to say that although it didn't sound like Mike picking it, it sounded ok. I think it was Fred who posted something on the Cafe to the effect of just play as best as you can and people will take notice...they don't realize the brass cajones it takes to do it in the first place. That piece of advice sort of stuck with me. Sorry for the paraphrasing. That being said, I steal from Mike LIBERALLY..and pretty much from anyone I hear that plays the style I like. Monroe, David Davis, Tony Williamson...etc. What makes me sound like me is that I can't deliver it like any of these gentleman do--I'll certainly never be mistaken for any of them...but it'll pass. I learned to speak from listening to my Dad talk, but I don't consider myself a Wallace Cantrell speaking stylist. I do my own thing..or try to, anyway. It's not as if by playing a tune that someone else wrote, or in a style that someone has developed, causes them to download into my skull until I'm done...especially when it comes to improvisation. If someone asked any ten of us to improvise on a tune, it would all be differentbut it would certainly have the brushing, rapid right hand and the minimalist fretting hand movements, the hard, bluesy punctuations on the end of the passages...you know what I mean. Anyway, I bit off enough. I'll chew. Also, peanut butter pie kicks ass. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 12:01:29 PM Subject: Re: Norman's sage advice Just a few quick comments and I'll let well enough alone... 1)The common quest seems to be self-expression, to improvise, to contribute to the conversation at hand. Why? That seems to be the number one desire among players across the board regardless of region, genre or level of accomplishment. Why are there so many different ways of approaching improvisation? Why is there not one set way of teaching it? 2)What does one do when ...the shit I do everyday... IS play music? Uncle Doc Watson is quoted as saying that the quickest way to lose your love for it is to do it for your living. 3)How do you know when you are playing like you? What are the earmarks of your style that let you know you are not playing like one of your heros? I will say this about that...I know I don't, nor will I ever sound like Bill Monroe, but I do use aspects of his style(among others) to play. But I absolutely cannot sit down and tell you what my style sounds like. 4)I've got a killer black bean soup recipe and peanut butter pie recipe if anybody wants it. Like everything else I do, I borrowed it from somebody else. G Back to lurk... Taterbug On Nov 6, 9:21 am, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: I gave up trying to sound like anyone else a long time ago. I fully agree that your limitations dictate your style and I've played long enough now that people can recognize my playing in a jam before they see who it is. It's kind of a combination of fiddle style playing with a strong right hand. I wish I could do Monroe-style as good as Spud does it, but until I get off my duff and start taking some webcam lessons, I'm gonna sound just like me and I'm fine with that! As far as mastering a style, I think that's great advice if you're gonna be a professional musician. If you're a hobby picker like me, I doubt I'll ever master any style. But I have a helluva lot of fun dabbling in several of them. Bluegrass, old-time, and Irish/Cape Breton music all get some playing time at my house. Throw in flatpicking guitar in an old-timey Norman Blake style and the octave mandolin, and my hands are full. I do find taht playing multiple instruments has made me a better musician and helps me learn faster. And playing the octave mando.it's like swinging a weighted bat for my regular mando playing. Really makes you get that pinky finger working. So much good music, so little time to learn it all!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Norman's sage advice
I had one of the best comments I'd ever heard on my playing last Saturday. A friend I hadn't seen in a while said, Damn, sounds good. You've come a long way. You even have your own style. I suppose the style he could have been referring to was suck, but I don't think so. I've just gotten comfortable with what I can do, and know where to go. I know I'll never play the mandolin like Mike Compton or Bill Monroe or Chris Thile of whoever the hell--that's just my limitation, but I do a more than passable job at playing like Steve. I also know that I'm constantly learning and being more adventurous with it and try to be more confident in playing like myself, which is easier said than done. I try to kick myself and say, play harder and practice harder, but the minute this stops being fun and feels more like the shit I do every day sitting at this desk then there's something wrong. A banjo buddy asked me if I could pick mandolin on his group's CD today, so I can put a notch on the belt for Steve-style. For the record, that involves one very red eye and NOT sucking. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 1:33:24 PM Subject: Re: Norman's sage advice Lot's of good discussions here. Andy Statman's point about completely learning ONE style I take to heart for I am a professional Jack of all Trades and master in none! :) I'm a member of the lazy club too.. I think the intention of the Norman's Blake comment was not to invite laziness but to take advantage of the natural tendency of our own inherent phrasing. Therefore give the best of what we have unforced,naturally. I don't think Norman was suggesting to leave out chunks of content. Perry --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Your weekend music plans
Now that you mention it, Robin, that's what I've been doing...double pneumonia, that is. I got what I thought was a little head cold a couple of weeks ago and neglected it. I've had some bad experiences with doctors and dislike going unless I just have to...and apparently this time qualified. I sounded like Train 45 by the time I went and they sent me home and to bed for a few days. I've been having some computer problems, so in light of the fact I'd be homebound for a bit I made the missus stop and I bought a new computer, which is a hoss. 8gigs ram, 600gb hard drive, triple-core processor, 24-inch monitor (now I have two). Just excellent. I spent the weekend messing arond with it and Honky Tonk Swing, which I can never get under my fingers just right. I think anyone else listening to it would think it's fine, but I know it's not and that makes all the difference. Steve From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:17:44 PM Subject: Re: Your weekend music plans I found some time to play and sat in my little front yard, singing and playing some blues in G, not caring what the neighbours thought, and trying to groove, whilst my new, rescued dog looked at me adoringly, after our long walk through granite boulders, rock rose and dirt paths. Also was happy that my friend and guitarist appears to be recovering finally after a month of Swine flu and double pneumonia. Maybe we can do our gig on the 22nd, even if we won't be performing our new songs due to lack of practice. Also I wrote a song called 'Orange world' on the aeroplane yesterday, and the words are good at least. Life is always good if you catch it right. Robin On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Bill Burnette bburne...@gmail.com wrote: Not music really, but I rode my bike up to Rosine today and visited the old home place on Jerusalem Ridge. A spiritual experience. Bill in Nashville On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: You better play it right, boy... Bugs On Oct 9, 2:22 pm, Brian Ray dassp...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be practicing for this... Brian On Oct 9, 10:20 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody have any plans for music this weekend? My plan is to do some recording at home this weekend. Been working on a bunch of instrumental tunes recorded on mando family instruments. It's time to get them done. What are you doing this weekend? Baker Plays Monroe-c.jpg 221KViewDownload --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: recording tater cam lessons
Was wondering the same. I am still using the Compton/Grier pair of recordings from a few years ago. Good stuff. From: Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Cc: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 9:27:05 AM Subject: Re: recording tater cam lessons Speaking of recordings did anyone get a recording of any of the Midwest Compton/Grier gigs. I think those could be a lifelong study if anyone managed to record one. Mike Hedding On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) allow you to record iChats via the Video Menu/Record Chat but both parties need to be on Leopard. I believe LaBibbs is still on Tiger... We could fix this of course... B On Oct 8, 1:50 pm, Mike Romkey rom...@qconline.com wrote: Warning: Conference recorder doesn't work with 10.6.1 -- Snow Leopard or Snow Possum or whatever. Found that out the hard way. And the new version of QuickTime allows you to record video chat ... but not with Tater for some reason. If anyone has gotten this to work, please clue me in. Meanwhile, I've been using Screenium, which costs money, to make of video of the live video ... On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:35 PM, 14strings wrote: Looks like you're using PC? If so I can't offer any experience when it comes to recording web chats. If you are using a MAC and Ichat then I use something called conference recorder (I can post a direct link if you want); it was dirt cheap and works like a charm. If you upgrade to QuickTime Pro (also cheap) you can mark little bits of video and repeat, slow down, speed up or even hear some backwards Tater licks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: recording tater cam lessons
I use CamStudio to record the lesson in its entirety and then replay it later. It basically starts a running capture of everything that happens on your desktop. It's not a lean application and is pretty resource-greedy, but it works. From: Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 9, 2009 8:46:02 AM Subject: Re: recording tater cam lessons Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) allow you to record iChats via the Video Menu/Record Chat but both parties need to be on Leopard. I believe LaBibbs is still on Tiger... We could fix this of course... B On Oct 8, 1:50 pm, Mike Romkey rom...@qconline.com wrote: Warning: Conference recorder doesn't work with 10.6.1 -- Snow Leopard or Snow Possum or whatever. Found that out the hard way. And the new version of QuickTime allows you to record video chat ... but not with Tater for some reason. If anyone has gotten this to work, please clue me in. Meanwhile, I've been using Screenium, which costs money, to make of video of the live video ... On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:35 PM, 14strings wrote: Looks like you're using PC? If so I can't offer any experience when it comes to recording web chats. If you are using a MAC and Ichat then I use something called conference recorder (I can post a direct link if you want); it was dirt cheap and works like a charm. If you upgrade to QuickTime Pro (also cheap) you can mark little bits of video and repeat, slow down, speed up or even hear some backwards Tater licks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Taterbug Specials...More info please
Make that one an extra-heavy for me, sir. From: taurodont jgardin...@roadrunner.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:24:49 AM Subject: Re: Taterbug Specials...More info please Extra Heavy. On Oct 7, 12:43 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: No idea, but will say heavy. Best, robin 2009/10/7, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com: Thanks for your orders. Looks like this will leave me to use the old one again... Here's the deal: I have two thicknesses, heavy and Xtra heavy. Seems like Dave Skowron said that the heavy is between 1.15mm/ 1.20mm and the Xtras are 1.25mm/ 1.30mm. A lot of you have specified heavy. Given this information regarding thicknesses, do you want heavy or Xtra heavy? The sooner I have the info, the sooner they'll go out. Thanks! taterbug -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Taterbug Specials are here!
A heavy for me, sir. From: Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:35:38 AM Subject: Re: Taterbug Specials are here! Two heavies please... mine is past the nub and headed for the holes! B On Sep 29, 1:22 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm up for one 2009/9/29, ljt lj...@intas.net.au: I keep losing and finding mine and if I still have mine when the new one arrives, then might make this next one a Christmas gift for someone I know who already admires the one I have...he saw it for what is was straight away! On Sep 29, 11:23 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: I forget who all put in requests for a Taterbug Special so I'm putting a blurb up here on the group to announce that a new batch is on its way. So if I've overlooked you, lemme know if you want one or two or... Taterbug -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: New Skaggs CD
I largely agree on Ricky's mandolin playing, and although I don't think it's all cringe-worthy (the would be MY mandolin playing), I do think it's just blahand sometimes just hokey. It could be anybody playing it. What he does best is marketing. The guy is a pure genius at that. That being said, he's an asshat. I saw him in TN and there was some no-pictures rule (wtf--is he Lindsay Lohan or something?) and some folks were largely ignoring that and you could tell Ricky was peeved over it. The band gave an uninspired performance and had a look on his face like he smelled something. Maybe it was me, I dunno. You'd think with that pack of guys he brings onstage that someone would be able to lay it down, but maybe the boss was in a mood. He was also flat. So there. The new CD sounds Pro Tool'd up to me on a lot of the vocals. It's not bad, but it's not good. It's just blah. There's not a tune on it--maybe with the exception of a fiddle tune--that really got me intrigued or made me want to pick up my instrument and learn that mother on the spot. You'd think that hey, this is solo Skaggs doing some old tunes, this might be Skaggs/Rice worthy...but that's a no. Others may have a different impression, and that's fine with me. Some people drink cow urine. To each his own, I says. As far as this group goes, I have loved having it here. There's been more than a few times I would like to have spoken up on the Cafe about a thing or two but hated to get the boot from the mods over there. That's never been a concern here, and I have profited from our discussions here immensely and got a huge kick from it. I keep my email open at work all day and keep my eye on what's going on. I think we can disagree on anything, and as long as no one loses a tooth or has their lineage questioned then we're all good. From: mandoho...@comcast.net mandoho...@comcast.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:33:59 PM Subject: Re: New Skaggs CD I get to play and sing a number of gospel shows each year. I never preach at these shows nor to I try to convert the flock to my way of thinking (born again atheist) but, if they want to have a discussion I'm always ready, turns out most of them just want to shout slogans at me and have never actually read a book, any book. I sing songs about murder too but have never murdered anyone. I'm not quick to judge, but I have opinions. I've met Mike, met his family, heard his music, (a lot) read an awful lot of what he has written and I judge him to be a good, honest family man with the best handle on the type of music that I like best. I really do want to know his opinions whether I agree or not I know they will be well thought out and his own. I really don't think I'm right all the time, either, or do I. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: New Skaggs CD
The words Ricky Skaggs and Superfreak are now burned into my mind's eye with little hope of removal. Out! Get out! From: Mike Romkey rom...@qconline.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:37:09 AM Subject: Re: New Skaggs CD I might check it out, if someone can confirm there are no Rick James tunes on the record. (g) Rick James: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qXUfp4wtw Ricky Rick James Skaggs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFfbtaMFcW8 On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Nelson wrote: I hope this is o.k. to address in this group. I bought the cd Songs My Dad Loved last week and have been listening to it quite a bit. It is really very good. The personal nature of the effort comes through in a very understated, nice way; there is a simplicity to it that appeals to me. There are very few, instrumental breaks, and the arrangements are limited to one or two instruments on most tracks. It has an old-time flavor without being an old-time disc, you might say. No banjo players were harmed in the making of this message. Maybe next time --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Celine Dion
Celine? Yeah, she's straight high lonesome. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:10:09 AM Subject: Re: Celine Dion What a disaappointment...here I am with coffee in tow all set to read how Celine plays a mean Monroe style... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: New Duff 'Dola
Holy crap, Paul Duff definitely some building chops. That's one fine-looking instrument. You'll have to post some videos once you get this one. From: The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:35:45 PM Subject: Re: New Duff 'Dola Whilst we're showing offI've uploaded a pic of my F5, now 6 months old and working magic. Holstein On Sep 16, 9:30 am, The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au wrote: Another work of art. What a ripper! I wonder when you'll get it?? HK On Sep 16, 8:16 am, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: I thought they were pajamas cause they seemed rather largeG On Sep 16, 5:10 am, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: If that old dola needs a home out west please, no boxers though! On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Dasspunk dassp...@gmail.com wrote: You're gonna need them boxers! On Sep 15, 11:05 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: ...looks like Paul threw in a free pair of boxers too... On Sep 15, 11:00 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Folks, howdy. I just got some pics of a new 17 scale mandola by our Mr. Paul Hello Dahling Duff. He says it's very balanced and alive. Check out the pics on the file page. Can't wait to get my grimey hands on it! Taterboy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Roland White's Soldier's Joy
I wrongly assumed this was that same Clarence White/Roland White video I'd seen once before---but think that was I am a Pilgrim--but I saw this last night and was blown away. Excellent version of this old favorite, and Roland's hand movements are unusual and definitely his own thing. Hope for the rest of us From: johnhga...@aol.com johnhga...@aol.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:38:54 PM Subject: Re: Roland White's Soldier's Joy I agree with you both about Roland. I got to go to a workshop he did in Memphis a few years ago. Roland's an extremely nice guy. He got me up to play one with him during the workshop. I told him I wanted to do Big Mon and I launched in to Pike County. He told me (very nicely) when we quit that that wasn't Big Mon!!! But it worked out - I got to do Big Mon with Roland too... Tater, on the other hand, should be a guard at Gitmo. At Nashcamp a few years ago he drilled Smokey Mountain Schottische into the class until we were all ready to confess!!!. John Gay Memphis -Original Message- From: Will Dennis willard.den...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 4:12 pm Subject: Re: Roland White's Soldier's Joy I'll second that... Roland came to the Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp this weekend past, and it was a real treat to see him play (I haven't seen him in quite a few years.) He sure hasn't lost anything in his playing, and he is so modest about his musical gifts. He took some great breaks during the Instructor's concert on Sat night, and it looked like not only the audience but also the other instructors (Mike, Skip Gorman, Butch Waller, Richie Brown and Jody Stecher) were lovin' it. My wife and I left the camp a bit early on Sun. so we could see the Monroe home place, and the Monroe plot in the Rosine cemetary where Bill, his family and Uncle Pen are buried. While we were getting ready to leave the Monroe home place, who rolls up but Roland. He remembered me from camp and said hi, and then my wife and I left for the Rosine cemetery. He turned up there a few minutes later as well. When we were getting ready to leave there, he asked where we were from, and we told him NJ, and that we were flying out that evening from Nashville. He told us the best way to get from the airport from I-60 (as he lives in Nashville), and we exchanged cell numbers in case we had a problem. As we were nearing the airport, my cell rings, and it's Roland, making sure that we had got down there OK and weren't lost or anything. What a kind gesture! A true gentleman. Will On Sep 11, 10:05 am, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Not only is Roland a great player, he's also one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Foghorn Duo
I recall the full compliment of this outfit, Foghorn Stringband, being mentioned here before, and wanted to point out just how stellar the Foghorn Duo disc is. It's the fiddler and mandolin player from the band, but they swtich from mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle and rotate them around. The tunes featuring mandolin and guitar are just incredible---good double-stop heavy, bluesy stuff, and Caleb Klauder has a knack for the vocals. I haven't been able to find this album as an mp3 download anywhere (absolutely insane), but you can get it at CDbaby and find it streaming online. Go out of your way. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues
I thought that was done during a Monore/Robbins snit, likely just to cover something Monroe disagreed with and bury it in the mix. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:29:34 AM Subject: Re: Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues Masters of Bluegrass is a great album...I'd love to hear it remixed with a bit less reverb...the reverb is a little overdone on that record IMHO I wonder if that delay might be some bleed from another track? I think there may be some overdubs on Monroe's records by that time. On Aug 26, 8:17 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Thanks. Then that explains the few tracks along there that sound like a delay or chorus was used. I just got that set and was listening to Lochwood, I think it was, and remeber thinking that I would have bet against Bill allowing any such trickery on his records. On Wed 08/26/09 12:12 AM , mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com sent: There's several parts, Nelson. Larry Sledge plays some, Jesse McReynolds too. Good ears. Spud On Aug 25, 8:41 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was listening to this (Bear Family's May Last Days On Earth set), and I thought I was hearing two mandolin parts. Has anyone noticed that before? I never have, and it surprised me. Nelson- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues
Monore=Monroe. From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:37:49 PM Subject: Re: Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues I thought that was done during a Monore/Robbins snit, likely just to cover something Monroe disagreed with and bury it in the mix. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:29:34 AM Subject: Re: Monroe's Evening Prayer Blues Masters of Bluegrass is a great album...I'd love to hear it remixed with a bit less reverb...the reverb is a little overdone on that record IMHO I wonder if that delay might be some bleed from another track? I think there may be some overdubs on Monroe's records by that time. On Aug 26, 8:17 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: Thanks. Then that explains the few tracks along there that sound like a delay or chorus was used. I just got that set and was listening to Lochwood, I think it was, and remeber thinking that I would have bet against Bill allowing any such trickery on his records. On Wed 08/26/09 12:12 AM , mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com sent: There's several parts, Nelson. Larry Sledge plays some, Jesse McReynolds too. Good ears. Spud On Aug 25, 8:41 pm, nelsonpeddyco...@knology.net wrote: I was listening to this (Bear Family's May Last Days On Earth set), and I thought I was hearing two mandolin parts. Has anyone noticed that before? I never have, and it surprised me. Nelson- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Dumb question
I'd like to second that, Topher. From: Topher Gayle surfns...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:37:06 AM Subject: Re: Dumb question I agree! Though I'd kinda like a plate of spicy food and a load of beer right now! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Robin Gravinarobin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: probably using hand lotion and letting it absorb is better than having a load of beer, a huge place of spicy food and then sweating over your mandolin... Just a morning thought! On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Topher Gaylesurfns...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, seems like everybody has different body chemistry. I never wipe down my strings, but sometimes after loan my instrument to another player, I'd wish they did. The whole neck and strings and all can just get kinda gunked up. And then there are players who sweat quarts into my guitar strap and get it all saturated I rarely sweat much myself. Well, everybody is different. I guess wipe your strings if you think they need it. Just try it and see. I have a friend who uses hand lotion and when I borrow her pick I can barely hold onto it. So I don't borrow it if I can help it. Topher On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:26 PM, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Dennis Fehling denpamc...@msn.com Hell Be happy you got hair to get oily Dennis I was going to mention that but niceness overcame me. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:03:50 + From: mandoho...@comcast.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Dumb question No matter what you hear, there are dumb questions, but this isn't one of them. I have dry hands, sometimes my knuckles will crack and bleed if I don't put hand lotion on. I carry a rag in my case to wipe of the inside of my hands when I play and haven't noticed any string problems. Normal folks naturally have oil on their hands that can smooge up the strings, I don't have that problem. Now oily hair, I've got that. Go figure. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle - Original Message - From: Linda lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:48:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Dumb question I wonder from time to time about the connection between say hand lotion, or other ungents put on the hands and how that in some cases can effect string sound and string life. Even maybe certain kinds of soap, used to wash hands could have residues that one might want to avoid. At the bluegrass workshop I attended a while back, I noticed the Tater used a cloth to wipe off his hands and he kept it in his case for that purpose. I asked about it and he said it was to deal with 'hand smooge' . So..another question is what exactly is hand smooge...and ..no jokes please!! G Are these really dumb questions or has anyone run across any kind of info about this, or are there some opinions out there in Taterville? dry cracked hands here Linda --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Indian Finger Lube ?
How in the name of God did Indian Finger Lube get through my spam filter? From: qball quinnb...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:26:55 PM Subject: Indian Finger Lube ? An Indian mandolin player Snehasish Mozumder passed through town recently ...boasted the use of a doubleneck type mandolinI couldnt make the show but youtubed him to see what he was about. Stunning to say the least... funny thing i noticed about half way through this video he reaches down and applies something to his fingertips.. Im guessing its bacon grease or some such media .the way he's sliding around is supernatural..I wonder if U Srinivas uses lube as well.. Has anybody hereabouts have a chance to see this guy or know what lube he's using? Snehasish Mozumder Mandolin Indian Style no doubleneck in this video...but first rate shredding... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjXPa2SZ2Yfeature=related --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Help to ID a tune
Holy crap, Robin! That's it. I gave you totally inaccurate info and you nailed it. If there's a gold star system anywhere here, Robin just got it. From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:15:12 AM Subject: Re: Help to ID a tune Could be dock boggs 'country blues'? Not sure- those words represent some popular concepts 2009/8/24, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net: Posted this on the Cafe and here too. Hoping I might get a nibble.. Alright, while I was lying in my tent at Laurel Bloomery over the weekend a couple of guys got into the loft of a nearby barn--to get out of the rain--and they really started to tear it up jamming. They were picking some great tunes, but the downpour was vicious and at about 2am I was done, so I didn't get up. The tune that actually stirred me out of sleep was GREAT, and I just caught the end of it. It was played with a fast, banjo strum--not clawhammer--and the chorus seemed to be something like I like the women and the whiskey and the wine, also mentions of corn liquor repeatedly. Not a lot to go on, but I'm primarily a bluegrass picker so it could be an old-time, late-night jam standard for all I know. Any ideas? -- Enviado desde mi dispositivo móvil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Help to ID a tune
Posted this on the Cafe and here too. Hoping I might get a nibble.. Alright, while I was lying in my tent at Laurel Bloomery over the weekend a couple of guys got into the loft of a nearby barn--to get out of the rain--and they really started to tear it up jamming. They were picking some great tunes, but the downpour was vicious and at about 2am I was done, so I didn't get up. The tune that actually stirred me out of sleep was GREAT, and I just caught the end of it. It was played with a fast, banjo strum--not clawhammer--and the chorus seemed to be something like I like the women and the whiskey and the wine, also mentions of corn liquor repeatedly. Not a lot to go on, but I'm primarily a bluegrass picker so it could be an old-time, late-night jam standard for all I know. 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: What's going on?
Ditto on the Little Country Giants music. Would love to hear it. I've been listening intently to a recording of David and KC Groves and envying those slippery high-to-low slides. Headed to Laurel Bloomery this weekend for an old-time fiddler's convention. Made some recordings of the group I play with regularly this past weekend...and be damned if it didn't sound like someone playing mandolin. Thanks Mike. From: Trey Young email_t...@yahoo.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:42:18 PM Subject: Re: What's going on? Hey David, I think the Little Country Giants are a great band and I would love to hear a track or two. Did you guys record at AJ Adams' Troubador Den Studio? I had noticed on your MySpace page at one point you were listing Rome, GA as home, are you still around there very much? If so, are you available for lessons? I live just down the road in Carrollton and would be interested. Any who, looking forward to hearing the songs. Thanks, Trey From: Bigevemusic bigevemu...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:25:19 PM Subject: Re: What's going on? Well I was in Georgia recently and got a few copies of the new Little Country Giants cd that both Tater and I were guests. It was a fun record to make. I even make my debut on snare drum. It's on iTunes now, but I could post a song or two if anyone is interested. Best to all, Miles Long Sent from my iPhone On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Mike mikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: I'm looking forward to hearing your comments about touring on the popstar level. Elvis is pretty cool. And is it true what they say about the girls in Ypsilanti? Was it difficult to play your style in such a different context? I'm also eagerly anticipating the camp this year. On Aug 17, 2:40 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy Folks! I'm looking out my window here in SF and fixing to do the soundcheck for the first in the series of 15 shows on the second leg of the Costello tour. What's going on? Where's everybody at? Not much life/action on the group. Come on, stir it up! Taterbug --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Cotton Fields
I hate to come begging again, but I'm looking for the Monroe recording of this tune. I've heard CCR and Leadbelly's version and never realized Monroe had recorded it, I guess for Decca in the 60s. I've gone through all the online resources and my even my flea market Monroe compilations and can't find the tune for sell or listen. I'm eager to hear this one, being a fan of the CCR version...well, pretty much anything they did. If anyone is willing to shoot me a copy I won't tell. Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cotton Fields
You're the man, Mike. From: Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 10:14:26 AM Subject: Re: Cotton Fields I've got this one, I could try to dig it up. I believe it's on the 1960's box set from bear family. This song has a great mandolin break. Mike Hedding On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I hate to come begging again, but I'm looking for the Monroe recording of this tune. I've heard CCR and Leadbelly's version and never realized Monroe had recorded it, I guess for Decca in the 60s. I've gone through all the online resources and my even my flea market Monroe compilations and can't find the tune for sell or listen. I'm eager to hear this one, being a fan of the CCR version...well, pretty much anything they did. If anyone is willing to shoot me a copy I won't tell. Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cotton Fields
Thaks to all who sent the file--you're fine folks. Much appreciated. From: 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 12:59:42 PM Subject: Re: Cotton Fields The Bear Family stuff is great; of the four my favorite as a whole is 1950-1958. Ever hear the Sally Jo on there? Rock and Monroe! But Master of Bluegrass is on the eighties one and well the sixties one has Keith, Greene and Rowan...and the first one has Bill and Charlie and Flatt and Scruggs heck they're all good! On Aug 7, 10:53 am, Michael Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely some really good stuff on there, I have all four of them from 1936 through the 70's. I won't comment on the price because I didn't pay for them myself but there's pretty much enough stuff to keep you busy for a lifetime. Probably 500 songs between the 4 of them. Mike On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Speaking of, I have that Bear Family set on the Christmas list this year. Worth the 200, Mike? -- *From:* Mike Hedding michaelhedd...@gmail.com *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com taterbugmando@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2009 10:14:26 AM *Subject:* Re: Cotton Fields I've got this one, I could try to dig it up. I believe it's on the 1960's box set from bear family. This song has a great mandolin break. Mike Hedding On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: I hate to come begging again, but I'm looking for the Monroe recording of this tune. I've heard CCR and Leadbelly's version and never realized Monroe had recorded it, I guess for Decca in the 60s. I've gone through all the online resources and my even my flea market Monroe compilations and can't find the tune for sell or listen. I'm eager to hear this one, being a fan of the CCR version...well, pretty much anything they did. If anyone is willing to shoot me a copy I won't tell. Thanks, Steve- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Mississippi Waltz
Been knocking around on this one today after seeing Mike play it on Youtube. The Monroe/Baker version on the Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe is also excellent. So--any of you taterbuggers covered this one with Mike? I'm looking for any materials that might be had. Much appreciated, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Mississippi Waltz
Thanks a ton, Fred. I've got it about half-assed by ear. It sounds thin in comparison to Mike's and Monroe's, so wondering what I'm missing here (other than talent). It's always the obivious thing From: Fred fkel...@scicable.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 5:45:21 PM Subject: Re: Mississippi Waltz Covered it...sorta. But I learned it by ear and then chatted it over with Ole Mr. Starchy. I don't recall any chart or anything but maybe if I get time today or tomorrow I could whip one up for you. Steve Cantrell wrote: *Been knocking around on this one today after seeing Mike play it on Youtube. The Monroe/Baker version on the Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe is also excellent. So--any of you taterbuggers covered this one with Mike? I'm looking for any materials that might be had. * Much appreciated, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: fiddle tunes on the mando
Hey Robin, I think Mr. Monroe was largely right about keeping that right hand in steady motion--it's really the only way to get around the problem of lack of sustain. I think the best thing I have in my admittedly small bag of tricks is a working slow tremelo. When you can really pull that off--and it's even and rhythmic--it sounds great. I also do pretty much most of what listed, especially in the way of drones and double-stops. Fiddle tunes seem to each have their own particular bounce or rushed passages, etc., that could never be translated into notation with any degree of sense, so listening repeatedly and having these go-to tools handy is the only way to play. If you listen to the Monroe with Flatt and Scruggs recordings Monroe repeatedly goes back to the same moves for more than a few of the songs, so I don't see anything wrong with it. As far as a tune I don't know, I pretty much lean on Third Era Monroe when playing with others, especially if the person calling the tune throws out Chipmunk Hanging in a Watermelon Vine or some other unknown stinker. There's every chance I'll stumble on the melody notes just by accident, and everything after that is pure artful obfuscation--keep my right hand moving, throw in some of his slide moves, that sort of thing. There was a time when doing that sort of thing worried me. I felt like if I wasn't playing the tune note for note then I was doing it wrong, but I've largely adapted a screw it, let's pick attitude that has improved my playing tremendously. For a tune like Honky Tonk Swing I'll still sweat it out, get down close to the bridge and try (as best I can) to get some of that Second Era Monroe in there. What's my point? I don't have the faintest idea, and since I haven't had my coffee yet there's every possibility this makes no sense at all, but there you have it. Steve From: Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 5:31:15 PM Subject: fiddle tunes on the mando Hi all finally got my illegal download of Ed Haley and have been listening to it whilst tending the stove. Also, I've been working on Jenny on the Railroad (no saucy comments please) and wondering about transferring fiddle tunes to the mandolin: I can play the thing, and have been trying to do a 'Poor White Folks' type position for a lot of it, but it doesn't sound right yet. We have the problem of transferring a very sustaining instrument to one that isn't and also of trying to play these tunes solo, at least in my case. What ideas and techniques do you all use? I find it really hard to match clarity with the feel that you need to get by using several strings. So far I can think of: -keeping a note going by tremolo, when the fiddle sustains -making a variation when the fiddle sustains -trying to keep at least a couple of strings going so that there is a drone -trying to keep the drive going by listening really hard to the stressed notes in the original -simplifying, Monroe style by keeping on very few notes at certain times -figuring out a variation an octave higher or lower -doing more rythmic variations of the notes - again like Monroe -putting in a blue note Would love to read some opinions about this - tone? many notes versus rhythm, ways of getting a drone... good night Robin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ashland Breakdown video
It's a fine version, Don, and that Campanella does sound great. I just added this tune to my repertoire this past week and felt like I had really accomplished something...finally picking up Rawhide this week really wasn't the same. I guess some of them just speak to you. From: Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 8:51:11 PM Subject: Re: Ashland Breakdown video Oops, I thought that was going just to Mike. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Don Grieseradobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: I've had the Campanella for sale, but I've turned down several offers. Guess I want to keep it. I'd better delete that ad. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Mikemikebunt...@shaw.ca wrote: That campanella sound fine indeed. On Jul 27, 5:54 pm, Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com wrote: I redid this video and added the first part if anyone wants a look-see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqwPa2gfRA --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Honky Tonk Swing
Hidey-Ho, Anyone out there on the last got a copy of Mike's HTS I could grab--tab, I mean? I've been working on that one this afternoon and could use the hand. Seems like it is mostly played out of a single posistion so I'm ashamed for sucking it up...but it's definitely missing something. Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Speaking of Ed Haley....
That's typcially the only thing I will seek for download--just out of print items. Otherwise I feel guilty for taking money from the players I enjoy. Well, that and live stuff. I make no apologies there. No reason for all that music to just disappear into the ether. Still feel like I should be sneaking for whatever reason... From: ljt lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 9:54:20 AM Subject: Re: Speaking of Ed Haley Seems to me it might be... On Jul 6, 5:29 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: same here in Spain - these sites log your ip address and can pretty much tell where you are these days, unless you connect through a proxy address in the states (people will sell you such things I believe). I don't know what the copyright status would be for Ed Haley - old recordings on an out of print cd... is file sharing ok for that? On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:28 AM, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: This thread brings up the big picture question I have. What mp3 sites sell to Australians? If one uses a google address can they tell ..where you are from? I think the answer is yes..re rego for the groups thing and g. address. I have tried to purchase mp.3s and every time ...get the message ..not available in your country. I don't use my google address for that though. Well, I did once..and there was no joy. I am tempted to begin to just ask for files from others...which goes against what I feel is right..to be sure the artist gets the money ..for what they do. I would appreciate it...then if fellow Aussies would clue me in..what sources do you use to access mp.3 products on the net. Hat in hand here in Tassie. On Jul 6, 1:40 am, Brad Floyd jess_and_b...@hotmail.com wrote: try this one.http://mp3.rhapsody.com/ed-haley you'll have to copy and paste, I don't know how to make a link On Jul 4, 10:14 pm, ljt lj...@intas.net.au wrote: I too tried, they said the tune was not available in my country, nor the usa. On Jul 5, 7:41 am, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, but Europeans not apparently welcome! On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried here? http://www.mp3.com/albums/314170/summary.html?tag=albums;title;recent... On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.netwrote: ...I'm on the hunt for him tonight. Been looking high and low but nowhere to be found on the interwebs. Anyone willing to throw me a bone...or maybe a download, in this case? Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: To stand, or not??
A guy I work with recently got some of those and looks for all the world to have developed the palsy in his neck. I gather it's tough to decide which lens to look through. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 3:05:59 PM Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? Val, Just got trifocalsHELP. Putater On Jul 2, 7:52 pm, Val Mindel vmin...@gmail.com wrote: The sheet flat on the stage for prompting purposes is a good tip for songs that have lyrics that are easy to screw up, but it seems like learning the words is a fairly early and necessary step along the way to getting on top of a song, getting it performance ready. I too have failing-memory issues at times, but going over problem words immediately before a gig seems to work, and I'm much happier not having to try to read something while on stage...particularly since the advent of trifocals, which do really disturbing things to lines of type, especially at critical moments. I do better with my aging memory. On Jul 2, 1:42 pm, Pat Murphree phreem...@comcast.net wrote: Our band chose the name The Foggy Memory Boys so we can get away with things like forgotten lyrics and other screw-ups. It also excuses the use of stands. Murph - Original Message - From: The Holstein Kid st...@senatorgroup.com.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:58:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: To stand, or not?? Thought I might throw this out there. The new group I’m in is having a little trouble remembering lyrics to our tunes at this stage, and we’ve got a performance on Sat night. Because we’re only doing up to six tunes, I suggested we shouldn’t have a music stand in sight. I think it looks more professional not to have a stand and you should know your music. Right or not so? Perhaps if we were doing several sets it might be a different story. I noticed a photo of EC and Co. on his recent tour with music stands on stage. It’s obviously acceptable to do this and I wonder if that was for a full show which is what it looked like. Any opinion or rule of thumb you guys go by? HK --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Obscure Monroe Tunes
You had me rare Monroe FTP site. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 3:16:32 PM Subject: Re: Obscure Monroe Tunes I've got tape/CD recordings of most all of these tunes, but not here at the house. I've got a friend making an FTP site for it all. There's another that's floating around...Let's Get Close Together Blues. Sounds a lot like Tombstone Junction but better, IMO. I have CA Forest Fire but in a couple pieces. There are a number of these tunes in pieces on the Monroe on the Bus recordings that are floating around such as Reelfoot Reel, Nanook of the North, Pilgrim's Knob. There is a tune, Cedars of Lebanon that's a dandy, but I can't find my copy of it. I had at one time, a copy of Scrooge in it's infancy. Pretty interesting what it turned into. Tater On Jul 6, 9:20 am, Terry Bullin tbull...@yahoo.com wrote: The ones with a * were recorded by Bill (some were live shows). Most of them are on the Bear Box sets. Some of them are on the Uncle Pen Album and some on the Master of Bluegrass album. The ones with # were on a Jimmy Campbell album. Bill played part of the tunes and I think Tater played part of them. I think the name of it was Young Opry Fiddler, but I'm not sure. Tater may know how to find the rest of them and the stories behind them. I don't. --- On Mon, 7/6/09, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Obscure Monroe Tunes To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 8:48 AM Terry sweet list Any body know where a person could find Baltimore Breakdown Blue Goose * Blues for Casey #...Jimmy Campbell California forrest Fire Dead waltz *..Bear Box Sets Golden West * Lady of Blueridge *Master of Bluegrass Lochwood *..Master of Bluegrass Milenburg Joy * Bear Box Sets Nanook of the North...James Bryan did it on his fiddle album (no mando) Old Grey Mare Came Tearing out of the Wilderness *Uncle Pen Album Old Lonesome Waltz.Butch Robbins Grounded Centered and Focused Album, Tater played mando. Old Tennessee River #.Jimmy Campbell Pilgrims knob Real foot Reel Stone Coal * Texas Lone Star *...Bear Box Sets Tokyo Moonlight Waltz White Horse Breakdown Wolf Trap Blues Woodstock Hornpipe # ..Jimmy Campbell I guess the next part of the mystery is what's the story behind them! Adam On Jul 5, 4:50 pm, mandoho...@comcast.net wrote: Pete wrote this I thought Baker wrote this, but I just read the liner notes to Bakers Dozen. Says Monroe wrote it. The longest running NW BG festival is Darrington Washington. You look out from the stage to White Horse Mountain. The rumor was Baker wrote the tune on the spot, but I never believed it. then Clyde wrote My Texas roots tell me it doesn't matter if it's true as long as it's a good story. See you in the woods, Pete. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle - 96. White Horse Breakdown (?)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Speaking of Ed Haley....
...I'm on the hunt for him tonight. Been looking high and low but nowhere to be found on the interwebs. Anyone willing to throw me a bone...or maybe a download, in this case? Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Correction!! Costello/Tater on the Tonight Show!!! 6/23 Tonight
I thought it was a great performance and was thrilled seeing old baldy up there on the Tonight Show stage. Brought a tear to my good eye. Just proof that Mike's just play the style--it works anywhere is still true. Good on Elvis for hiring the right crew. From: Romkey mrom...@mac.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:02:21 PM Subject: Re: Correction!! Costello/Tater on the Tonight Show!!! 6/23 Tonight PS: I'm thinking about going to Owensboro. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Jim Wood and John Hartford--The Bullies Have All Gone to Rest
Hey ya'll. I remembered this disc when the discussion on Fiddlin' Tex and Hartford came up, so I went and dug it out. Good stuff with Jim Wood on fiddle and Hartford doing the banjo backing. Very similar to the other CD and prime listening. Just thought I'd recommend it for the interested. Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
Anyone playing this one or tabbed it out? I've been listening to several versions of the tune this past weekend and for whatever reason just can't nail it down. Sounds to choppy andcrappy. I looked around for some tab to give it a little flavor--maybe see what I'm missing--but no dice. Anyone throw me a bone on this one? Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
ohwell, there's a big duh for me, then. From: lj...@intas.net.au lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:52:27 AM Subject: Re: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom Steve, Check the files section, I think the Tater posted tabs for this tune. linda On May 11, 10:20 pm, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Anyone playing this one or tabbed it out? I've been listening to several versions of the tune this past weekend and for whatever reason just can't nail it down. Sounds to choppy andcrappy. I looked around for some tab to give it a little flavor--maybe see what I'm missing--but no dice. Anyone throw me a bone on this one? Thanks, Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom
Many thanks to all the bone-throwers out there. Now I guess I have to learn it, don't I? :) From: Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:51:44 PM Subject: Re: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom Here's a link to Garfield's Blackberry Blossom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmgNC-llkw M On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:34 PM, occasionalcomic occasionalco...@mac.com wrote: here is a link I found on black berry blossom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdB7SngBb8 jim On May 11, 1:18 pm, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: A few version of this one around, sure. Snake Chapman's version is a lot easier to grasp, but different. No less tasty either. I think Haley's version is the definitive. It's one of the tunes he was famous for. Taterbug On May 11, 10:36 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: Garfield's is a real finger buster all right! There is a nice notated version in Jeff Titon's Kentucky Fiddle Tunes bug book On May 11, 10:36 am, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of tunes not falling under the fingers, how's Chirps and Williams coming? M On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.comwrote: Big Duh, No tab, but notation. Beware the wrath of Garfield's BB. I've whittled on this thing for the past 5-6 years off and on. Still not there. Not even close. It just does not lay well under the fingers, or maybe it's the right hand, or maybe it's a lack of expertise, or maybe it's the phases of the moon... Just...can't...getit. TBoy On May 11, 7:55 am, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: ohwell, there's a big duh for me, then. From: lj...@intas.net.au lj...@intas.net.au To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:52:27 AM Subject: Re: Garfield's Blackberry Blossom Steve, Check the files section, I think the Tater posted tabs for this tune. linda On May 11, 10:20 pm, Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net wrote: Anyone playing this one or tabbed it out? I've been listening to several versions of the tune this past weekend and for whatever reason just can't nail it down. Sounds to choppy andcrappy. I looked around for some tab to give it a little flavor--maybe see what I'm missing--but no dice. Anyone throw me a bone on this one? Thanks, Steve- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Personal YouTube Videos
Laphroaig is excellent, but at heart I'm a Johnny Walker Gold Label man. That's the stuff. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:08:29 AM Subject: Re: Personal YouTube Videos Robin, Would that be high test or ethel? For bourbon it's got to be mid-grade Pappy VanWinkle. I got a bottle of Laphroaig from the FedEx man yesterday. Compliments of Outlier mandolins and Mistah Ben Pearce. Ya'll git a little water glass and come on... Peaty On Apr 22, 3:15 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Now what's wrong with a good sniff of the gas tank of yer truck... On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Blanton's is in yet another financial category. Woodford Reserve is really good, but it's a little sweet for my regular taste. M On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.comwrote: Ah Woodford Reserve, delicious! Blanton's, bulleit and Elijah Craig. . On Apr 22, 10:32 am, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Woodford Reserve is another good bourbon and my current favorite. I'm about to head out on vacation but maybe when I get back I'll crack open the bottle of JW Blue and record the Teetotallers (aka, Temperance) Reel. The mandolin I'm playing is a Kimble A-0. Although it's outfitted like an A4. Waverly tuners, James TP, triple binding. I've had it for a few months and just got it back from a fresh set up by Will. It's a really cool mandolin with its own sound. The Red Diamond A5 that's in a couple of my videos was a trade that I got last summer. I traded it off for a guitar last fall because I already had my ff hole bases covered with my Heiden A5. I'm down to the Heiden and Kimble and that should hold me for a while!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Personal YouTube Videos
Awesome, Trey. Way to stick to it. From: Trey Young email_t...@yahoo.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:12:33 AM Subject: Re: Personal YouTube Videos I had a bottle of Laphroaig last year, didn't care for it much at first, but me not being a quitter I kept on drinking it and about 3/4 of the way through I found a taste for it. From: Steve Cantrell sec...@bellsouth.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:11:02 AM Subject: Re: Personal YouTube Videos Laphroaig is excellent, but at heart I'm a Johnny Walker Gold Label man. That's the stuff. From: mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:08:29 AM Subject: Re: Personal YouTube Videos Robin, Would that be high test or ethel? For bourbon it's got to be mid-grade Pappy VanWinkle. I got a bottle of Laphroaig from the FedEx man yesterday. Compliments of Outlier mandolins and Mistah Ben Pearce. Ya'll git a little water glass and come on... Peaty On Apr 22, 3:15 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Now what's wrong with a good sniff of the gas tank of yer truck... On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: Blanton's is in yet another financial category. Woodford Reserve is really good, but it's a little sweet for my regular taste. M On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Mando Chef saltydogli...@gmail.comwrote: Ah Woodford Reserve, delicious! Blanton's, bulleit and Elijah Craig. . On Apr 22, 10:32 am, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: Woodford Reserve is another good bourbon and my current favorite. I'm about to head out on vacation but maybe when I get back I'll crack open the bottle of JW Blue and record the Teetotallers (aka, Temperance) Reel. The mandolin I'm playing is a Kimble A-0. Although it's outfitted like an A4. Waverly tuners, James TP, triple binding. I've had it for a few months and just got it back from a fresh set up by Will. It's a really cool mandolin with its own sound. The Red Diamond A5 that's in a couple of my videos was a trade that I got last summer. I traded it off for a guitar last fall because I already had my ff hole bases covered with my Heiden A5. I'm down to the Heiden and Kimble and that should hold me for a while!! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bonaparte
A friend has a copy of the Hartford/Texas Shorty and it's worth a listen to be sure. Hartford's banjo work is pretty amazing. From: Don Grieser adobeinthepi...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:28:52 AM Subject: Re: Bonaparte Mark, thanks for that link! On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Mark Seale mark.se...@gmail.com wrote: The Texas Shorty/John Hartford recording called Old Sport is a master class in true old time fiddling. And while it was out of print for many years, Shorty now has it re-issued and you can buy it directly from him and Ruthie. And if you're just into fiddle tunes, you just can't go wrong with any of Shorty's recordings. He's one of the best. http://www.texasshorty.com/Home.html Mark Seale On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:32 PM, avalo...@gmail.com avalo...@gmail.com wrote: Boy, I love this tune. I pick it a lot. Texas Shorty and John Hartford did it on a rather rare recording which is where I learned it. If you can find it, and good luck, it's the best. The album was discontinued pronto pup over some legal issue. John's banjo playing on this is just a masterpiece all by itself. This tune makes a great solo mandolin tune I have found. I just play it in regular tuning key of D and it works quite well. On Apr 1, 2:16 pm, Robin Gravina robin.grav...@gmail.com wrote: Got hooked on A.A. Gray's Bonaparte's retreat - I think Pete Seeger does it similarly, but frankly I'm not really up on fiddle tunes: only what is on the legacy ipod.. I was trying to quietly figure it out in regular tuning and it fits nicely into an F shape in regular tuning, apart from the drones. Then I checked out Mr Google who tells me DDAD... Is this possible? Can one do this on the mandolin without the whole thing rattling or exploding? Out of stubbornness I may have to just work out some way of doing it myself, but would be interesting to hear points of view. All answers please in Sonnet form or simple Iambic Pentameters if that is too challenging. Robin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cold Remedy
Ditto on that, Mike. Same formula for South Carolina. I like to microwave it. When the coma wears off you feel GREAT. From: Mike Romkey mrom...@mac.com To: Taterbugmando taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:36:16 PM Subject: Re: Cold Remedy Grandma Romkey's Cure: Hot water, lemon juice, whisky, honey. Worked for me when I was 4, works for me when I'm 54. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Mike's New CD
That's not funny guys, especially when we all know Mike is doing hard time. From: mandoho...@comcast.net mandoho...@comcast.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:02:19 PM Subject: Mike's New CD I just got Pickin' on Michael in the mail, Mike Compton plays and sings Michael Jackson. I never knew Tater could sing so high. Billy Jean played Compton style, cain't get no better ya'll. Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Redneck Haiku
Throw up funnel cake just made me laugh audibly, Fred. From: Fred fkel...@scicable.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:01:16 PM Subject: Re: Redneck Haiku Your latest reminded me of something... Festival groupie Pick all night under the stars Throw up funnel cake mistertaterbug wrote: George Jones on the road Headed to the liquor store Lawnmower goes slow Bluegrass festival Photo opportunity Bill says, You Back Up Help...I can't stop... Tater --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: F4 Mandolin
My F has generally stayed on its peg since I got my oval. I much prefer the sound of it, and only paid about 1/4 the cost of the F for it. Weird how things like that work out. I suppose I need to hold on to an F-hole mandolin for bluegrass jamming, but I think my next mandolin will be an oval. From: Don Christy mandolin...@gmail.com To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:47:32 PM Subject: Re: F4 Mandolin I have a great 1921 Gibson F-2 and a modern custom small builder F-4 from Pomeroy. Both listed at the Cafe currently if you're interested. Don On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM, malagrass malayt...@bellsouth.net wrote: Cool mandolin at vintage, great advise. Unbelievably I remembered I had an old Gibson A that someone loaned me about 2 years ago. I forgot I had it and once I wiped the inch of dust off the case and tuned it up its really cool. I guess the owner didn't like it, we both forgot I had itanyway it plays well but no side dots and its amazing how much I NEED them. I'm not certain how this compares in sound but I'll start lookin' around and see whats out there. Tater, I like the sound of yours. Most ovals I've heard are like this one, very tubby. I've understand the bussmans are highly talked about as well as the lyon and healy but sadley i've not seen either. It'll take looking at whats out there and get the right one. I'm bad for buying something site unseen and not liking it which turns into a vicious cycle of which there is no cure However, sadly for my wife...the search is on. Again! John On Mar 31, 9:51 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Should've hesitated before hitting the send button... You might also check out some of the Vega cylinder backs as well as Lyon and Healys. If you're interested in something a bit odd by a joy to play, check out Player's Vintage Instruments and look at the Shutt mando. Grisman's got one. You'd be amazed what these things will do. (http://www.vintageinstruments.com/photos/inst30/cremonashuttful.jpg) Tater On Mar 31, 8:46 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Malagrass, get you an oval hole and don't give it a second thought. I've got the F5 and F4 and I'll say that neither will do what the other does. I really favor the oval hole sound for a lot of things. Just be sure to play a lot of them before you buy. Find one that has more than just low end rumble. In my opinion, look for one that is even across the entire range, that has clarity and body to the notes in all registers. Many oval hole Gibsons are heavy on the mud and not meaty in the treble. There's tons of Gibsons around, so take your time if you're looking for one of those. There are good mandolins from the independent makers too; Gilchrist, Brentrup, Bussman, Kimble, and many more. Have fun! Taterbug On Mar 30, 8:24 am, 14strings perrypale...@gmail.com wrote: malagrass: An F hole and an oval is kinda like having a hard top and a convertible; well not really :) but since we're all into mandolins I say why not? If you can afford a second instrument then having an F and an oval is better then having two F's (just like high school) They are completely different animals. The sound of the oval besides having more sustain and bottom end has a different type of projection then a F. An F's tone jumps right out of the box while an oval's tone takes a little longer to bloom but also fills up the space more. Many ovals would have a tough time competing with a bluegrass style banjo. As Shaun says above; for solo palying or small ensembles an oval is the ticket. Playing wise the oval neck is I believe a shorter scale length and meets the body at the 12th fret instead of 15. Though there are some ovals made that join the neck at the typical 15th fret; but I'd consider those more of a hybrid then a true oval. One other thing I've noticed is that an oval sounds much different when you are in the driver's seat then it does when someone else playing it. In other words they are louder in reality then we perceive them to be when we play them. Probably due to that bloom factor. On Mar 28, 1:52 pm, sgarrity shaungarr...@hotmail.com wrote: I've got a Kimble A-0 and it's lots of fun to play. I just begs for old time fiddle tunes. Even does a respectable job on more bluegrassy tunes too. An oval hole mando is at it's best if you're playing solo or with another mandolin or guitar. Any more than that and your jam partners better have a REALLY good understanding of dynamics! But in a small group, it offers a different tonal pallette. Everybody should have at least one!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Taterbugmando group.
Re: Good live stuff
I hear they give out complimentary suspenders with a smiley-face button already on there. From: Fred fkel...@scicable.net To: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:35:44 PM Subject: Re: Good live stuff Got me a season ticket. Get to board early that way. mistertaterbug wrote: Riding the Humilitron really hard here today... T On Mar 30, 11:23 am, mistertaterbug taterbugmu...@gmail.com wrote: Darin Vincent. Of Daley/Vincent. tater --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
