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Ouch!
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May 13, 2007 - 03:16pm PT
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Posting One's picture can be a risky business.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 13, 2007 - 04:41pm PT
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man, I was keeping out of this thread, then I show up...
...ok, I like bluegrass, but mostly as live music, I don't have many recorded tracks in any format.
I also think Jerry Garcia was a pretty amazing musician, and I do have a lot of his music recorded from various recording gigs he had (not always the Grateful Dead).
How Ouch! got his body has gotta be some kinda story, definitely showing his "feminine side" before crossing the bridge.
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dirtbag
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Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2007 - 08:39pm PT
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Huh. All these years I thought listening to bluegrass was some kind of endurance test.
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nita
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chico ca
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May 14, 2007 - 02:48am PT
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I remember you talking about Kenny Hall, Nope, never got a chance to see them. ;-(
I just saw, Rhonda Vincent at the *Sierra Nevada Big Room*,she was Excellent! It's a Great place to see live music.
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RRK
Trad climber
Talladega, Al
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May 14, 2007 - 10:06am PT
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Reddirt wrote:
"it might be easier to get into BG if you actually play, even if just pecking out notes here & there. But then again, one of favorite instruments ever is dobro... and I have yet to get my hands on one. "
Buy the newer style with the baffled design and built with tonewood rather than the traditional soundwell and plywood construction. The difference is sound is unbelievable. The Scheerhorn (don't even think about it unless you've got tons of money and lots of time to wait); RQ Jones, etc style has been copied by many of the overseas builders and some of them have a good sound at a reasonable price. I play a Dobro now, but it was built in the new style to keep up with the change in design, and it sounds like a million buck. As a result I've sold off everything else and that's the only one that I play. The first time you pull a sweet note out of one of those things you're hooked (I just hooked a guy Thursday night - put it in his lap, gave him the bar and five minutes later he was wide-eyed. "That's right kid, the first hit's free..."). Plus you can always get work playing a dob - they're so versatile. I've played Pink Floyd with a stage full of Goths - also blues, rock, country and, obviously bluegrass (can't keep up with Dirt on that homemade Irish-styled stuff though).
I can't really add anything to what's been said about the music except that it's tremendously difficult to play proficiently even though the structure of the music is very simple. Instrumental virtuosity is prized above all other things, and many times you're just playing nonsense songs to cover the gap between instrumental fireworks. That being said, there's also the beautiful harmonies, the often bluesy phrasings, the Irish influuence - this music covers such a wide range of styles and sub-genres that it's safe to say there's something in it for anybody if they'll just keep looking or at least remain open to it. No wonder the hippies like it - maybe they're not total goofballs after all.
RRK
PS - again I'll make a pitch for Jay Buckey's instructional material. He teaches just about any bluegrass instrument that you might want to play and the lessons are keyed to each other so that the guitarist, mando, dob, fiddle players all learn the same tunes and can carry on a musical conversation almost immediately. They're reasonably priced and for sale through his website. Good stuff to get you started
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