Yeah, cool! I got to noodle on Frank's mando once, too. That is one beat up instrument. I can't recall how it got so torn up, but he told the story - I've just forgotten it.
Several years ago (ten maybe?), Frank taught a three or four day workshop out here in the SF area. All day long, four or more hours a day, I forget. I met David Long there (and heard Mike's name from him there for the first time.) I instantly liked Frank (well, David, too). His goofy ways are very appealing, and he is, as you would expect, full of great stories of all kinds. And I thought he was a terrific teacher, with all kinds of great ideas. Patient and listened well. On the evening of the last day, our host had set up a recording session with Frank. He'd already gotten the other tracks down and was dubbing Frank into the mix. The host was worked with Frank before, and his approach was to get Frank to lay down one sorta OK track that he'd tell Frank was a keeper. Then he'd tell Frank, oh, let's just do a couple more takes for the hell of it. And Frank would free himself up and play his magic. A little bit of successful applied psychology. Fun to be there. Backin' talkwards, Topher On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Jason Kindall <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool story. > Jason > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 09:57, Glenn Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, I'm a brand newbie on the list, joining just a couple of days >> ago, and I'm sure glad I did ... thanks, Mr. Bug, for putting this together >> ... >> First, I do own the Jack Tottle book, and would be happy to make >> "Catnip" available to whoever wants it ... I suspect posting a scan of it in >> the Files section is not the way to go--don't want to make copyright >> trouble--so please advise me if there's a better way to handle this, but I >> will be glad to snail-mail a copy to anyone who wants to contact me offlist >> ... >> My own Wank Frakefield story: several years ago I saw him gig here in >> the Boston area, accompanied by Skip Gorman ... having never seen him >> before, the goofiness kind of took me by surprise, but the show was great >> ... at intermission he was standing by the CD table, still holding his axe >> ... having never seen a vintage Lloyd Loar up close (much less one allegedly >> cooked in an oven), I was eyeballing it with interest when he suddenly >> thrust it into my hands and told me to play it ... shocked and amazed, I >> stammered that oh no, I couldn't presume, but he insisted that I take it ... >> so with slightly shaking hands I noodled on it a little and gave it back to >> him as fast as I could, my nervousness shared in equal parts between holding >> an actual Loar in my hands, and playing mandolin in front of Frank Wakefield >> ... >> --Scotty (excited about seeing Andy Stat here in town next week with >> Trischka, Matt Glaser, et al.) >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
