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Location: Avondale, AZ | Your mama is so fat she has here own moon.
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Well, all y'all will probably revoke my membership, but, I LOVE bluegrass banjo. One of the best musicians in our Monday night group play Scruggs-style, and the other claw-hammer; I wish I could play guitar 1/100 as well as they play banjo. (Sigh.)
We've had other threads where we've ragged on'em, and that's o.k. I still love them anyway. Minorities are mostly all misunderstood...... ;)
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom:
One of the best musicians in our Monday night group play Scruggs-style, and the other claw-hammer; Ask them for their best banjo jokes - they'll have hundreds. :D |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Karen said:
Minorities are mostly all misunderstood......
See! I told you that nobody understands me! Not even my Therapist!
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Location: South of most, North of few | It's the hat Tim....not the banjo. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | A Rabbi and a banjo player are traveling through the country with their friend from India when their car gets stuck in a ditch. Stranded, they walk to the nearest farmhouse and knock on the door. A farmer and his beautiful daughter answer the door. The farmer says he'll be glad to put 'em up for the night and they can go for help in the morning. However, there is only room for two in the house, one of them will have to sleep in the barn.
The Rabbi volunteers and goes off to the barn. A few minutes later, there is a knock at the door, it's the Rabbi, "I cannot sleep with pig, it's sacrilege."
Then the Hindu volunteers to sleep with the pig and goes off to the barn. A few minutes later, there is another knock on the door, "I cannot sleep with cow, sacrilege."
So, now the banjo player takes his banjo and goes off to sleep in the barn. A few minutes later, there is a knock on the door--it's the cow and the pig!!! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Good one TRboy!!! |
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Location: SoCal | Earlier this week I was in South Lake Tahoe at a family reunion. At the campfire each evening, my uncle (who gave me my first guitar, then the family heirloom, a 1914 Martin 0018) brought out a 5 string banjo which had only 4 strings on it (with the 5th string tuner removed). It was tuned like a guitar. Using my regular picking patterns, it sounded good and was a lot of fun. I might look for something like that to mess around with..... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Banjo players might be a little more respect if they didn't have a style of playing called "claw-hammer". |
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Location: SoCal | Jerry Reed called his style of thumb and fingerpicking "Clawin'" and nobody seems to show him a lack of respect...... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jerry Reed is an icon...... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
.....It was tuned like a guitar. Using my regular picking patterns, it sounded good and was a lot of fun. I might look for something like that to mess around with..... Paul, find yourself a 6 string banjotar... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Sure, Mike...you can feed him ideas like that because you're 2,500 miles away but what about those poor souls on the West Coast?
You might want to stay away from the windows for a while... |
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Location: NJ | . . JUST when you thought that those same old Three Chords couldn't POSSibly sound any "worse" . . . |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Moody, The four long strings are tuned D,G,B,D so it's just like guitar except where you'd have the first string open, you now have to play the second fret. That is what makes for different possibilities, and makes it so much fun. Try it that way, I promise you'll not find it that difficult, and you'll probably get hooked on it as badly as I am! (Then your wife and all your friends will hate me, but that's OK.) |
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Location: SoCal | Andrea, I've got an old tenor banjo and just might clean it up and give that a try.
Clifford --- bite me. |
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Location: NJ | it's been my understanding that battery acid makes a DANDY banjo-cleaner . . . |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Shampoo too, Paul. Send pics.
(TR - you mailbox is full.) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Andrea, I've got an old tenor banjo and just might clean it up and give that a try. he apologizes, Allison... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by cliff:
it's been my understanding that battery acid makes a DANDY banjo-cleaner . . . .....Cleaned out my mailbox pretty good too!
Talk at me Weas..... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
. . . my first guitar, then the family heirloom, a 1914 Martin 0018 . . . Just curious, assuming you still have it, why it isn't still the family heirloom? |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by stephent28:
Banjo players might be a little more respect if they didn't have a style of playing called "claw-hammer". Howzabout the style called "ball-slammer"?
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | that's profoundly disturbing. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
that's profoundly disturbing. NO..... THIS is profoundly disturbing! :eek:
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Go to your room.
No dinner. |
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