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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Someone tell me; Why are ukeleles and mandolins OK, but banjos are just totally frowned upon with enthusiastic vigour? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's like the boat question, "If you have to ask....."
I guess it goes to the assumed intelect level of the player, usually a single digit. I've heard negative comments about the way the players drool when playing a particularly difficult lick (like tuning) although I have not personally seen this. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Tim, turn away, man. This ain't gonna be pretty. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I love good banjo music.
(but then, that's not gonna surprise anyone)
.... and didn't y'all really want to know this:
Billy Redden (born 1956 in Rabun County, Georgia) is an American actor best known for his role as Lonnie—the "banjo kid"—in the 1972 movie Deliverance.
Redden, then sixteen, earned his role in Deliverance during a casting call at Clayton Elementary School. To add authenticity to the film, the filmmakers found Redden to fit the look of the inbred and mentally retarded banjo boy called for by the book (although Redden is neither inbred nor mentally retarded). The scene depicting Redden playing the instrumental Dueling Banjos opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar is considered one of the most memorable scenes in cinematic history. Redden could not play the banjo or even convincingly fake playing, and thus director John Boorman had another child slip his hand through Redden's sleeve to finger the chord changes. At the end of the dueling banjos scene the script called for Redden to harden his expression towards Drew Ballinger, Cox's character; however, Redden was unable to fake dislike for Cox. To solve the problem they got Ned Beatty (whom Redden truly disliked) to step towards Redden at the close of the shot. As Beatty approached, Redden hardened his expression and looked away exactly as intended.
Redden also appeared in Tim Burton's 2003 film Big Fish. Burton was intent on getting Redden, who hadn't appeared in a film since Deliverance, to play the role of a banjo-playing welcomer in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton eventually found him in Clayton, Georgia, where Redden works as a cook and dishwasher at the Cookie Jar Café.
In 2004, Redden made a guest appearance on Blue Collar TV playing an inbred car repairman named Ray in a "Redneck Dictionary" skit, for the word "raisin bread" (Ray's-Inbred). When he was shown, he was playing a banjo. |
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Location: East Tennessee | First a lengthy discussion on "Nose Hair"
Then "Hemorrhoids"
Now "Banjos"
I just don't know where this forum is going. :confused:
:D :D :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Oh, not to worry, The direction is clear. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Great background, Jeff. Didn't realize you guys kept track of the inbreds so closely but I suppose accurate records pay off on the occasional Friday night. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | You guys got me rolling on the ground now! (laughter that is...) :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "I guess it goes to the assumed intelect level of the player, usually a single digit." (cwk2)
Uno Dissento-- I had a hippie-street-musicain friend who played the Banjo. It looked pretty difficult to me. But he used all his fingers. Don't know how smart he was...
"Why are ukeleles and mandolins OK, but banjos are just totally frowned upon with enthusiastic vigour?" (muzza)
And I've seen ukes get picked-on a bit too. Haven't been around long enough to see any mandolin jokes... Give me some time... |
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Location: closely held secret | What's the difference between a mandolin & a trampoline? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
What's the difference between a mandolin & a trampoline? OK I'll bite. What is the difference? :confused: |
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Location: closely held secret | You take off your shoes before you jump on the trampoline. |
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I thought that worked only on Banjo's. :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was gonna say, a Mando is more fun to jump on.... |
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Location: closely held secret | I know... banjo jokes are just funnier.
A banjo player was driving home from a big banjo gig. He decides to stop in a local bar for a beer.When the bartender delivers the beer he suddenly remembers that he left his banjo in the back seat of the car and even though the car was locked the banjo could be plainly seen through the window.He quickly finishes his beer and leaves.When he gets to his car sure enough the back window is smashed and there are three more banjos in the back seat. |
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(good one, Wabbit) |
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Location: closely held secret | That's the wonderful thing about banjos - there's so many good jokes.
Barb and Betty were walking down the street one day, when Barb spied a frog sitting on the sidewalk. "Help me, help me!" the frog said. "I used to be a banjo player, but an evil witch turned me into a frog. The only way to break the spell is to kiss me. Help me!" So Barb picked up the frog and put him in her pocket. They continued to walk along.
Shortly, the frog popped out of Barb's pocket and repeated, "Please, help me! I was a banjo player, but an evil witch turned me into a frog. Break the spell, kiss me!" Barb, again, picked up the frog, put it back into her pocket and they continued to walk along.
"Why'd you do that?" asked Betty. "Why don't you kiss the frog and break the spell?"
"Frankly," replied Barb, "you can make a lot more money with a talking frog than with a banjo player" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Hey, What's worse than a banjo?
I first heard that three more in the back seat about accordians, maybe they're worse? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...did somebody say "banjo"???
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Bella Fleck and the Flecktones are supposed to be able to change your mind about banjos. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Tim's like Punxsutawney Phil, emerges from his hole every now and then, to show us his shadow... |
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