Clyde, Thats it!! I couldn't find the words -Chinese!! Well sometimes. On Nov 18, 11:11 pm, [email protected] wrote: > 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
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