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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
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 Posted - 12/24/2002 : 10:55:22 PM
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I got a banjo ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa ha! Yessss!
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"Hey man...you smell..."
"Oh yeah?"
"yeah...like dinner..." |
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GuitarGuy305
Alien Abductee
USA
2007 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2002 : 10:57:54 PM
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Congrats man.
What kind?
Merry Christmas
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 12/25/2002 : 12:03:09 AM
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| An off-shoot of Washburn, Oscar Schimit. I've heard lots of good things about them, and a few little trite bad things, but for the most part, all good reviews. I guess it was rated the #1 starter banjo....I like it. If any of ya want to see pictures of it, It's friggin beautiful. Just e-mail me. I'll send you one of me holding it in a jacked-up sport coat, too! |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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"yeah...like dinner..." |
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GuitarGuy305
Alien Abductee
USA
2007 Posts |
Posted - 12/25/2002 : 12:08:12 AM
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I have also heard good things about that company. Hope it's all you want in a starter banjo.
Feel free to email me a couple pics if you like.
Merry Christmas
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 12/25/2002 : 08:06:13 AM
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Very cool Jay.....congratulations!!!!!
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"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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victorwootenfan
Alien Abductee
USA
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 01:25:03 AM
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| You lucky, lucky bastard. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 07:20:38 AM
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| Awesome Jay. Dont forget to let us know when you start playing "Sojourn of Arjuna." |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 12:57:26 PM
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| Well, just today accually! No, joking I am. I love it, I've hardly put it down. I also got some Kelly Joe Phelps videos, one is a fingerpicking video where he teaches some of his songs, and the other is more of an instructional video on lapslide...I'm already getting better. And I got Fishing SImulator 2, and a bunch of breathmints. Damn, my family knows me. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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"yeah...like dinner..." |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 5:06:21 PM
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Awesome! Sounds like things are going well with the banjo....god I love the sound of those!
My tabla still hasn't arrived, , but when it does my instructor is all ready for me to start taking lessons. I just hope I learn well and don't humiliate myself! |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 6:42:17 PM
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| Be sure to tell us when teh tabla comes! KJP's guitar videos are so cool. Anyone interested in fingerpicking blues stuff should check it out. He's a great teacher. Now, If I had a banjo video...damn...Bela, can you come over for a few days? |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 6:50:06 PM
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| Oh, I'll ahve a few pics in a day or two...I still gotta get them on my computor. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2002 : 03:44:46 AM
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Originally posted by Jay
Now, If I had a banjo video...damn...Bela, can you come over for a few days?
I think that if he actually came over to your house, you would throw your banjo away because you'd just get blown away at his skill. Damn that man can fingerpick. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 12/28/2002 : 10:48:18 AM
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He's amazing, especially watching him play on the Flecktones DVD.  |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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Dickey500
Chatterbox
USA
144 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2002 : 12:09:33 AM
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| I've contemplated a foray into the world of the banjo, but a healthy fear of my uncoordinated fingers has kept that purchase at bay. Can anyone tell me about the switch from guitar to banjo? |
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain |
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victorwootenfan
Alien Abductee
USA
2128 Posts |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2002 : 5:12:48 PM
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It really isn't that bad. I still play guitar 2-3 hours daily and I'm doing fine on the banjo. It's not that much different. The fifth string is a G note, and the rest of the string are tuned like the top four strings of a guitar in open G tuning, that is, DGBD. So the tuning is GDGBD. The high fifth string lets you drop some cool thumb notes in while still keeping the melody going on the rest of the strings. Plus, since you have that extra D note, you can barre the top four three strings and have a nice little chord to mess around with. It's lots of fun, but if you play guitar now, practice fingerpicking. It's all I do, and once you get that down pretty well banjo comes fairly easy. And, if you do decide to get a banjo, play guitar as well. They compliment eachother nicely and laering new things on both helps the other. So learning some banjo rolls will open up some new territory on guitar, and vice versa.
Open tunings on guitar also help with banjo. Play in open G and open D so you can get a feel for a banjo.
This is optional. Try fingerpicks. There aren't too many bajo pickers that don't use them, and they do help, but to me it's like typing with mittens on. I don't like to have metal and plastic between the strings and my fingers, not to mention having my thumb a quarter inch from the strings just so I can use a thumbpick. The fingerpicks DO help project the instrument, but they are a matter of personal taste. Lot's of banjo pickers will tell you that the sound of the instrument depends on using fingerpicks, but if you have nice strong fingers, it's not a problem. One reason why I can fingerpick pretty good is becasue I have really long, thin fingers. It helps you to get your fingers between the strings and get more of an attack on them. If you look at Tim, he as these tiny little hands. Since he does, he can really project the sound of the intstrumnt louder and with more attack. If you have really fat, stumpy fingers, then maybe try using fingerpicks. But, alas, it is all a matter of personal choice.
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"Hey man...you smell..."
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 02:25:18 AM
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| Chris Whitley also plays an awesome banjo and my roommate ED has taken up the banjo. I don't know if he is still taking lessons, but he was getting pretty good. CW uses fingerpicks to my recollection. It has been a while since he used one, but he was telling me he was going to try picking it up again because he hadn't in a while. I remember seeing him live rock out on the banjo and I was always quite impressed. Good luck with it Jay, banjo is a pretty kewl instrument, I think. |
Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy         
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 3:49:39 PM
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| Thanks very much buddy! I've been doing a little hick song lately...It's much fun...except now my family is a true hick family. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 4:53:38 PM
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| True hick family, lol. |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 4:54:53 PM
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| Flaming Moe anyone ? ? ? |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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victorwootenfan
Alien Abductee
USA
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2003 : 10:49:45 PM
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| But it was just so much more fun when the picture was there!Flaming Moe's are just not the same without the picture! |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2003 : 02:14:06 AM
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Yeah, its not the same. Though the little devil pics do help a little.  |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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Fluffy
Administrator
USA
10739 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2003 : 04:40:14 AM
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| I was sad to see them go myself. When Kevin hooks me up with my bumpersticker I will take a picture of it and have Jon Soldo post it so it can always be referenced. We shall SEE our friend the Flaming Moe again soon. |
Peace & Keep the Faith
Fluffy
"THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS A CRUEL AND SHALLOW MONEY TRENCH-- A LONG PLASTIC HALLWAY WHERE THIEVES AND PIMPS RUN FREE AND GOOD MEN DIE LIKE DOGS. THERE'S ALSO A NEGATIVE SIDE..." -Hunter S. Thompson |
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{=HTG=}
Alien Abductee
USA
2342 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2003 : 11:07:56 PM
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Ah, that is good news.  |
'HTG, are you a cute girl?'
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Evergreen
Yak Addict
960 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 4:15:01 PM
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Any pictures yet! Jerry Garcia played banjo before he played guitar.
Did I say that already? I've always attributed his excellent(my opinion) guitar playing with mastering the banjo first. |
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Dickey500
Chatterbox
USA
144 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 8:01:02 PM
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I just wanna be able to sit on my porch with overalls, no shirt or shoes, a piece of hay in my mouth, hat tilted over my brow, jug with three X's on it...rockin away in my rocking chair waiting for Burt Reynolds to show up to do a duet with me on my banjo.
Now all I need are overalls, a porch, hay, a rocking chair, moonshine, a banjo and burt reynolds. Can anyone help a brotha out? |
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 8:48:14 PM
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It wasn't Burt Reynolds it was the bad guy it RoboCop (a.k.a Ronny Cox) that played with baby-Ross Perot. Not Burt Reynolds. If it WAS Burt Reynolds, he'd be in the "best" bluegrass band ever, and it would BE the best bluegrass band ever casue Burt's in it. He is the most marvellous person on earth, in his opinion. But, I can come! I sort of look like Ronny Cox! It'll be fun...oh...I'll bring a guitar and we can sit on a ratty old porch and play Dueling Banjos over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
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"Hey man...you smell..."
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victorwootenfan
Alien Abductee
USA
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 9:50:14 PM
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Gotta say this JAY LAY OFF THE WEED!!!!!  |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 9:54:10 PM
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| Trust me, this isn't the stranges thing I've posted tonight......one word...Tires... |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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Dickey500
Chatterbox
USA
144 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 9:58:26 PM
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| hey, that's right...it wasn't burt. Burt had the bow and arrows - not the guitar. You can see how I'd confuse that - ya know, they both have strings. |
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 10:02:39 PM
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| Very true my friend...true this is. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 10:03:02 PM
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Originally posted by Dickey500
hey, that's right...it wasn't burt. Burt had the bow and arrows - not the guitar. You can see how I'd confuse that - ya know, they both have strings.
......you can kill people with both of them...... |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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Dickey500
Chatterbox
USA
144 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 10:05:41 PM
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Very true...but, come to think of it, you can kill someone with just about anything. You ever see "Killer Clowns from Outer Space"? Those bastards used to off their victims with cotton candy guns...
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"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain |
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 10:14:58 PM
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| Hahahaha!!! That sounds like something from MST3K. Or maybe it's the title. Because I'm downloading "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" From the title alone, I'm sure it'll be hilarious. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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Dickey500
Chatterbox
USA
144 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 11:03:36 PM
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| Nah, man, Killer Clowns rocks. Classic 80s crap horror flick. They even released it on DVD. They cocoon their victims up in cotton candy and then use crazy straws to drink their blood. Their spaceship is a giant circus tent...gotta check it out if you're ever really bored and "quality" movies just aren't cutting it. |
"All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." - Mark Twain |
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pcbTIM
Alien Abductee
USA
6501 Posts |
Posted - 01/17/2003 : 11:06:46 PM
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| .....and people wonder why so many have a fear of clowns. |
Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs. |
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PJK
Alien Abductee
USA
4159 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2003 : 12:33:42 AM
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Yeah Jay....I saw the "tire" post....hehehe and yes that one was definitely weirder than the one on this page....so really....
LAY OFF THE WEED!!! |
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Jay
Alien Abductee
Vatican City
2279 Posts |
Posted - 01/18/2003 : 10:09:27 PM
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| Hehe! I think that may be the most coherent thing I've ever posted, though. |
"Hey man...you smell..."
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BANJO!
