Well, that pretty much settles it, I'm getting me an ugly capo and not talking about it on Mandolin Cafe. I haven't been on there in a long time, got kicked off twice for being too funny for my own good. I think I said something about Chris Thile's playing sound like Chinese to me. I thought it was hilarious. Apparently not everyone did.
Clyde Clevenger Just My Opinion, But It's Right Salem, Oregon Old Circle ----- Original Message ----- From: "erik berry" <[email protected]> To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:49:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Thinking more outside of a Jam It's so much nicer talking about capos here than at the Cafe. A nice ordinary question like, "What brand of capo do you think works best for mandolin?" is usually answered "Learn your fretboard, loser." I'm especially sensitive about it because once we hired a professional photographer to shoot about a half-dozen shows to get a nice, deep assorted grab bag of photos and he loved how my capo looked on the mandolin. At the time, even though I only played it on 1 song, he thought it looked so cool that most of the shots of me he submitted had the capo. Posters, our web page, there's Erik's capo. I used to have mandolinists asking me about it all the time. I keep my capo on one of those nifty clip-on trays for your mic stand. I also keep extra pics, strings and an extra beer in the cup holder. Here's a good piece of capo related advice, also related to learning tunes in different keys. The advice is to learn all your barn-burnin' banjo songs (Clinch Mt. Backstep, Sally Goodin', etc) in the key of G, so when you banjoist tears off into one without his capo, you don't sound like a fool when it's time for your break. erik -- 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=.
