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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Happy birthday Tom!
(Say hi to Liz for us)
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Dec 15, 2017 - 03:01pm PT
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^^^ Thanks, Walleye!
Today was the day I got my mando shipped to me via overnight mail. I had to wait four hours to open the case, as the weather in Iowa is way colder than Seattle.
Here are some pics of the final product, and man...does this thing sound sweet!
It started like this...
And ended up like this...
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Dec 15, 2017 - 05:15pm PT
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Nice Instrument Indeed.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Dec 15, 2017 - 05:37pm PT
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Looks like we have to come over to your place, crank a few laps on the wall, and then listen to you do some picking.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Dec 16, 2017 - 03:07pm PT
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^^^ Yes, solid ebony. German Spruce top, quilted fishbone maple sides, flame maple back.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Dec 28, 2017 - 07:41pm PT
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Anyone STers gonna be at Wintergrass? I'll be there. Let me know, and maybe we can grab a beer and a jam!
Meanwhile...off to a WA State Park for a little teardrop trailer camping with my sweet wife this weekend. Probably just gonna bring the banjo.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Dec 28, 2017 - 07:42pm PT
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^^^ And Ghost (David), sounds good! You may, or may not, want to hear me pick, but the wall is in good shape!
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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^^^ Gonna try to send on mando and banjo!
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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I do, T Hocking! I'm on it on a regular basis. Thanks!
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Tom,
Planning to be at Wintergrass for the 18th time in twenty years.
Celebrating the big 60 this time.
Look forward to seeing you and picking a few.
Current jam buster projects.
John Wilkes Booth (Chaplin-Carpenter, Rice)
Never Meant To Be (Rice)
1901 Canyon Odyessey (Infamous Stringdusters)
PS
The Stringdusters Gravity album is very excellent and unique in that they chose not to replace their former mando player Jesse Cobb and still maintain the "forward leaning" rhythmic "drive" that defines real bluegrass.
Perfect examples of the other instruments taking up the slack to maintain the offbeat chop.
The songwriting is phenomenal.
Canyon Odyseey is about the first guys to navigate the Black Canyon of the Gunnisson by boat to survey for the diversion to irrigate the Uncomphagre Valley.
Black Elk is a rhythmic masterpiece that reminds us of his vision and the cultural genocide of North America's First Nations.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Very cool, Perry! Looking forward to seeing you, and the 60 thing is true for me, as well.
I'll check out the tunes you listed below.
Cheers,
Tom
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Fun jam last night at the A-1 Hop Shop in North Seattle.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Feb 22, 2018 - 05:36am PT
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Looking forward to Wintergrass, which starts today!
Also, my wife and I had a great time touring the Deering Banjo factory in Spring Valley, CA this past Tuesday. Got to see where my banjo was born...
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 30, 2018 - 06:46am PT
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Wintergrass was fantastic this year, for the jamming scene. Got into so many good ones!
I also asked Chris Henry (mando player for Peter Rowan, and considered the "premier Monroe stylist of his generation") to take my new Hinde mando for a few laps, and he graciously obliged.
Dang...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 30, 2018 - 06:58am PT
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For some reason, the usual technique doesn't seem to be working, so I just posted the link which does work.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Mar 30, 2018 - 10:07am PT
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For anyone in the N. Lake Tahoe/Truckee area, you might be interested in joining the fortnightly jam at the Truckee Alibi, 1st and 3rd Mondays each month. It usually starts out with fiddle tunes and straight-ahead bluegrass, and then slowly branches out/devolves into whatever. We landed on a bunch of Talking Heads covers last time.
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