Adam, Did you ever get "Raspberry Beret" worked out? <G> Tater tater instigator
On Oct 9, 8:43 am, Mando Chef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I got interested in music by my mom first I would guess. She > had a pretty good variety of records growing up and my dad 20 years > her elder brought interests to the relationship from a different > generation. She had an Autoharp which intrigued me but never really > drove me to wanting to play it. > > I played a recorder in the 3rd grade music class and then the > saxaphone as it was the same basic fingering. That lasted only so > long 3 years maybe and I dropped out because there is just only so > much Frere Jacques a person can take. None of my living relatives at > the time played anything besides my grandfather who played Oh Susanna > on the harmonica. Nobody to "jam" with became a downer because IMHO > you get so much better when you play with others. Iterestingly my > Great Grandmothers brother played banjo on a Baltimore harbor dinner > cruise ship in the 20's... Wish I could have seen that! > > 2 years later I wanted a guitar, I worked at mowing lawns and my dad > matched my earnings to get the guitar. 2 years of Frere Jacques > again... no luck. I took the guitar to college and sold it for $50. 10 > years or so went from when I stopped with that guitar went by and I > was now living in Portland, OR, doin' my chef thing and here comes a > waiter carrying a mysterious little case and I asked that question, > that is very tiresome for me to hear now... "What is that.... a > violin?" Nope the waiter whipped out the Mando and kicked it's little > ass. I said I have got to do that someday. > > So I got a little Tacoma in '98 took two lessons from that guy and > began to learn the little demon. I had my little instructional book > and again now nobody to play with.. I had no idea about jam sessions, > Bill Monroe or Bluegrass really for that matter. I know I had heard > bluegrass but only in tastes at Disneyworld or on our Family vacation > Drives from the DC area to Appilachia as a kid. Put it down for 5 > years. > > I was learning more and more as I never lost interest in the new music > just the drive to get better. My wife and I were doing a personal > chef job in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and saw David Grisman was coming to > Alta, Wyoming's Grand Targhee Festival. WOW..... total bewilderment. > I thought Woodstock was the only time there were more than an opening > act and the main band. I saw Sam Bush, Vassar, Dawg, Tony Rice, Pete > Rowan and several others on the last song all together and I knew I > had to pick it back up. So I did in 2003 and started taking lessons > but still had nobody to play with in the Houston area. Had twins and > put the mando down again for a couple years. > > My former instructor retired and has been a jam partner for a couple > years now and has been a great supporter for my need to play. The > internal fire has been lit now for 3 1/2 years and no sign of it going > out... That's why I'm here. > > Uh be Uh be Uh be that's all folks > > Sorry for the length (Ba Dum... Tsss) > Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
