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Location: closely held secret | Tim, if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see a picture of the guy playing it. This is obviously something concocted in a lunatic asylum. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Tim, if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you'll see a picture of the guy playing it. This is obviously something concocted in a lunatic asylum. ....uh, yeah, so?
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Location: closely held secret | Uh... oh, yeah. I forgot. Never mind. I'm sure you would find it a very suitable instrument. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Send your donations to:
Banjaddicts
Home for the Terminally Loud and Incessantly Jangley...
Please help keep these musicians were they belong...
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Nobody ever said an Ovation banjo was illegal. Although technically it very well might quality as a "weapon of mass destruction".
You need a Banjo-Tam. Saw them at NAMM and the only thing more amazing than the instrument itself was the hillbilly freakshow they had running the booth.
http://banjo-tam.com/
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | For a slight up-charge they will install a kazoo on the 5 string tuner |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Nobody ever said an Ovation banjo was illegal. ..I dunno.... every time I mention the Banj-"O", I catch the faint jingling of handcuff keys.... :eek:
..as for the banjo-tam... I may play the banjo, but I'm not yet fully 'round-the-bend! (I still play/prefer my lovely Ovations!) ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
.... every time I mention the Banj-"O", I catch the faint jingling of handcuff keys.... :eek: not handcuffs Tim, straightjacket buckles...
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Location: Yucaipa, California | yikes!....hey, wait just a minute! You allow the likes of Cliff and Moody, p.i. to roam free....and add their "comments"  to public venues...
how come.....? Just because I'm not being persecuted doesn't mean that you're not out to get me! |
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Location: Illinois | Jus' because it's legal, don't make it prudent. It ain't IL-legal to date your 1st cousin, but it really isn't prudent. Ya might begin to like it! :eek: |
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Location: Illinois | I suppose ya'll heard the one about the banjoist that inadvertently left his banjo in an unlocked car over night.... You guessed it, the next morning when he opened the back door there were TWO of them! :D
I know its old and it's corny, but it IS topic appropriate. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Hey leave the banjos alone. They provide good fills. As a famous musician once said "if we fear the banjoes, then the banjoes win." |
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| Banjo player on his way to a gig. Stops at a diner for a coffee. As he's drinking it he suddenly remembers he left his new $2000 banjo on the back seat in full view. He rushes out to the parking lot, but its too late. Someone has smashed his windows in and thrown 3 more banjos on the seat. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I don't get it...a banjo player got a gig? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....no, the guitarist got the gig... tha banjo player just "tagged" along...ahem. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
tim
"I like pigs. Cats look down at us, dogs look up to us, pigs treat us as equals" Winston Churchill
Smart man Winston Churchill that! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | yup.
Here's another gem:
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." Sir Winston Churchill |
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| And another:-
Lady at party: "Sir, you are drunk!"
Churchill: "Madame, you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober!" |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Sir, if you were my husband I should poison your tea!"
"Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it!"
I think Steve Martin did more for Banjo players than anyone else in the last century! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...."Those Aren't PILLOWS!!"..... |
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Location: Illinois | Two things
Originally posted by MWoody:
I think Steve Martin did more for Banjo players than anyone else in the last century! Let us not forget Earl Skruggs, David "Stringbean" Akeman and Little Jimmy Henley!
OH, OH and that guy that played folk music that requested that long neck banjer.... what was his name??
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originally posted by: schroeder
Lady at party: "Sir, you are drunk!"
Churchill: "Madame, you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober!" You sure that wasn't W.C. Fields? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | W.C. Fields, Winston Churchill and all newborn babies that aren't yours - same thing! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | "OH, OH and that guy that played folk music that requested that long neck banjer.... what was his name??"
...you mean Pete Seeger?
...so... back to topic: Why not an Ovation Banjo??????????? A parabolic resonator would be a killer!...It'd peel paint off the walls! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ....and during the opening number of the Ovation Banjo Orchestra...
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | . . . thankfully, only the banjo players themselves were in attendance . . . |
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Location: Cicero, NY | When asked how the search and rescue was going, the response was "Whudyamean...? That there is your perfect sting operation!" |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Jeff, that building sort of looks like a banjo.
Another quote by Churchil: "People tend to use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post, more for support than for illumination." |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Great quote!
...and that is [was] Veteran's Stadium in Philly. Former home of the Eagles and Phillies |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Did T.O. have anything to do with its demise? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...the cause of it all...
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| A bass banjo. I have got to stop drinking. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Funny, Schroed. I came to the exact opposite conclusion. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
"OH, OH and that guy that played folk music that requested that long neck banjer.... what was his name??"
...you mean Pete Seeger?
...so... back to topic: Why not an Ovation Banjo??????????? A parabolic resonator would be a killer!...It'd peel paint off the walls! Yeah, yeah, that's the feller, Pete Seeger!
Well, for starters, They'd need a whole new set of tooling, unless you could build from materials already available on the open market.
:rolleyes: I suppose they could use one of them taco shell dishes... you know the plastic ones with the tight fitting lid to keep the soft shells from drying out?
Then you could would need to remove the flat lid, and stretch some Saran Wrap over it. Then remove the solid backand replace it with a frisbee for that parabolic effect. Add some butt hinges and a turn button soes you can open and close her. All that's left is the neck, headstock and strangs, and you've got yourself a Ovation Banjer!
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Tim Chapman:
...the cause of it all...
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | How many of you out there are waiting for a
"Tim Chapman Signature Model Ovation Banjo"? :rolleyes: What would your banjo wishlist include? |
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Location: Illinois | Well my curiosity got the better of me. I yahoo'ed banjo orchestra and these fellers did come up. The big 'un in the back is indeed a bass banjo. Trade name Heftone Lojo(tm) bass banjo - The invention of my father Lawrence A. efferan. Father of one of these guys.
Visit the site: http://www.msen.com/~brianhef/hbo/Heftone_Banjo_Orchestra.html to listen to this orchestra. Kind of catchy, but as my dad sometimes says, "A little goes a loooong way." |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by TommyK:
"A little goes a loooong way." . . . . See photo on previous page. . . . |
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If THIS is legal, why not an Ovation Banjo???