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Location: Central Massachusetts | Banjo used in brain surgery
so many ways you could go with this one.. :eek: ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | not many of them good |
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Location: Jet City | So the choice was...
A. Cut open my cranium and diddle with my brain some
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B. Stop playing banjo
Ummmm DUH! This is a no brainer (pardon the pun) |
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Location: Jet City | I'm sorry, I guess I'm just a bit closed minded... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "...I'll be strummin in the OR when I die (when I die)..." |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Interesting. The docs check his banjo playing skill, disconnect a few wires in his brain, recheck skill, disconnect a few more, then recheck, and repeat the procedure until he can't play the banjo at all, then sew him up. Or, maybe it is the other way around. Say, for those of us who haven't improved much in the past 20 years on guitar, suppose we could go in and have the surgeon play with a few wires until we play like the pros? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Should have just tasered him whenever he tried to play banjo. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | When my friend Jay had a stroke, at first he couldn't even talk. His daughter suggested to the nurses on his floor that he should try playing guitar, so one of them brought one in. He messed around with it a little at first, but by the end of the first day, he was PLAYING. I believe that is why he had a full recovery. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
When my friend Jay had a stroke, at first he couldn't even talk. His daughter suggested to the nurses on his floor that he should try playing guitar, so one of them brought one in. He messed around with it a little at first, but by the end of the first day, he was PLAYING. I believe that is why he had a full recovery. Very cool! Had it been a banjo, I fear the results would have been in reverse. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | He DOES play banjo too, but out of consideration for the other patients, they did not allow one on that floor. (Had it been the psych ward however...) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I agree with Prof BB...
I need them to rewire my brain so I can play Dreamboat Annie and Classical Gas. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by dvd:
so many ways you could go with this one.. Oh so true... We're soooo 'bad'! ;)
Normally I would have a banjo 'ball' with this one. :D But since my bride had to have an emergency cancerous brain surgery 18 months ago and has miraculously recovered, I must say that I can truly appreciate the vid and it's implications and results; truly amazing! 
It's a good thing they didn't have him tune a Pacemaker...  |
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Location: closely held secret | It would have been a better video if the camera had been behind him... |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Originally posted by dvd:
so many ways you could go with this one.. Oh so true... We're soooo 'bad'! ;)
Normally I would have a banjo 'ball' with this one. :D But since my bride had to have an emergency cancerous brain surgery 18 months ago and has miraculously recovered, I must say that I can truly appreciate the vid and it's implications and results; truly amazing!
It's a good thing they didn't have him tune a Pacemaker... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
It would have been a better video if the camera had been behind him... ... without the audio! :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | See them little gap-toothed brain cells dancing around in bib-overalls? :D |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
little gap-toothed brain cells Ya talkin' 'bout mine?  |
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Location: Upstate NY | Pretty impressive that they can do this. I think it'd creep me out to be awake while they're digging around inside my head.
It seems so right, somehow, that this was in Nashville. |
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Location: Georgia | I think the title is misquoted. It actually read-BRAIN SURGERY REQUIRED AFTER BANJO USE. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | There's a long established tradition of doing medical experiments on criminals . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...with BANJOS?!? Now THAT'S capital punishment! |
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