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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 30, 2018 - 10:21am PT
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These photos are of a mural in a closed cafe in the old Coolidge hotel in White River Jct VT. I talked the front desk man into letting me in today to take a photo. This mural is about 10ft long?. The base player is my dad @ a barn dance just after he returned from the ETO in late 1945 or perhaps 46???
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 30, 2018 - 11:26am PT
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the mural would have been painted in 1946 or so? I have no idea how it was done just that my dad came back from WW11 and worked at the hotel for a bit and played bass for local dances. The painting is amazing inmop. So much going on in the scean. I love the couple laying in the hay on the left and even the drunk single guys left out of the action on the far right...
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 30, 2018 - 11:34am PT
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New mando sounds pretty darn good, Tom, although, you shoulda got somebody who could actually play well to demo it ;)
I know, right? I found the least ocuppied slacker I could, and asked him if he'd give it a whirl.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 30, 2018 - 11:36am PT
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tradman...^^^ THAT is a very cool mural, and so cool that is has such personal significance!
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 30, 2018 - 11:40am PT
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I never had a chance to play music with my dad as an adult. I know he played in jazz bands in NYC as a teenager in the early 1930s before he moved to VT. From this painting of just a fiddle player and Bass I wonder if he was playing some of the same fiddle tunes we play now??
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Mar 30, 2018 - 12:10pm PT
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The guy is a fee-nom!
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aug 11, 2018 - 04:48pm PT
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I still think it'd be a great idea to get some NW folks together to play and climb. Leavenworth? Squamish?
This is me this morning (my wife snapped it when I wasn't looking), having fun, but prefering to be playing with others...
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aug 12, 2018 - 12:40pm PT
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Mine definitey rules me!
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Aug 12, 2018 - 05:29pm PT
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I recently had the pleasure of seeing the Punch Brothers at Atlanta's Tabernacle and two weeks later at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
While both performances were mind blowing, sitting with my wife in Ryman balcony seats compliments of my guitar teacher Chris Eldridge was a special privilege, particularly as it was the first time I'd seen a show in "The Mother Church of Country".
On both occasions Madison Cunningham opened the show with solo performances evocative of the musical signatures of Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin and Leslie Feist and I'd venture she's as exciting an artist as any performing today with flawless guitar chops, compelling songwriting and the voice of an angel.
Chris Thile is leading an elite group of the finest acoustic musicians in new directions with a degree of leadership, virtuosity and creative vision equal to the efforts of Miles Davis, Frank Zappa and Chick Corea's Return to Forever.
The Punch Brothers' most recent effort, All Aboard represents the finest in the Americana genre and will please the palate of any connoisseur of this uniquely American art form.
As a sidebar for those familiar with A Prairie Home Companion, Chris Thile has taken over for Garrison Keeler as MC, renamed the show Live From Here and is doing a damn fine job.
Who Plays Bluegrass?
These people!
Just sayin'
Madison Cunningham, I Close My Eyes
https://youtu.be/VrU2Z2coaJs
Madison Cunningham, Beauty Into Cliches
https://youtu.be/5WInBXDNCFE
Punch Brothers, Rye Whiskey
https://youtu.be/braQeLkJUvE
Punch Brothers, Live 2018
https://youtu.be/FWCH_h8SEuo
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aug 19, 2018 - 09:53am PT
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Those folks are talent on crack, Chief.
I wouldn't put most of these tunes in the category of bluegrass, but the musicians themselves sure know how to play it!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 19, 2018 - 07:26pm PT
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Perry and Tom:
You guys are high on Chris Thile's efforts with The Punch Brothers. And Tom says:
I wouldn't put most of these tunes in the category of bluegrass, but the musicians themselves sure know how to play it!
Have you listened to some of the other stuff he's doing? His "Bach Trios" with Yo MaMa and Edgar Mayer is astounding. It took about three hearings before Mari would believe me that there was no piano in the session, that the "piano" sound was coming from a mandolin.
Or how about "The Goat Rodeo Sessions". Right up there in the Americana canon. Same three guys as in the Bach Trios, plus Stuart Duncan on violin. Terrific music. And doubly interesting for the hurdle they had to overcome to get it done. Their plan was to write everything from scratch. All new music. But they had a problem, because Stuart Duncan can't read music and Yo MaMa is completely incapable of improvising. But somehow they pulled it off.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aug 20, 2018 - 07:41am PT
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Have you listened to some of the other stuff he's doing?
I have, David. Thiele is a fee-nom of the first order. His versatility, virtuosity, and the ease with which his pick flies across the strings shows up in any genre he plays in. I'm with Mari--it's hard to believe sometimes that he's making his mando sound like it does.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 21, 2018 - 05:50am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]i feel like y'all been holdin' out on me, Or I've been missing out ,
both
Billy's_in`da'house [Click to View YouTube Video]over at
FLames, too:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&tn=16000
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I dont go to festivals any more,I should.
This Is From 7/20/18, Greyfox :
Give Me Back My 15 Cents- Bryan Sutton, Billy Strings, Joe Newberry
https://youtu.be/hTXpr2LiUPo
(you, who play, you must watch at 3:27, What is it that Billy sees, his look is classic. . .)
So good!
It east coasts' big show?
huh, I missed a great one! [Click to View YouTube Video]
to edit, last Rooney was'04,
the Rooney Fest used to pop,
On the Farm In Deposit NY?
The Baskervilles were personal friends,
it was Rooney with baloney in yer shoe,
Rooney till ya, puke. All year
Any one know Dave Baskerville?
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Aug 22, 2018 - 03:05pm PT
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Gnome - I take lessons from Molly Tuttle's dad. It has been amazing to see her grow in musicianship. He is a very proud dad.
This is another favorite of mine:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
She's on the Grand Old Opry on the 25th and at Hardly Strictly in October. I haven't had a chance to see Billy Strings live yet.
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Aug 22, 2018 - 03:10pm PT
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I can't get enough of Molly Tuttle. I particularly like this one. So cool that you take lessons from her dad!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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