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Dec 08
2009
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Worst site ever!Posted by Smokinbanjos in Untagged |
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So this is the Banjo Mafia, To bad it's to good of a site for a loser like me! I like to pick my nose and eat
I can't find my way round here. Can anybody help me get my head out of my
 "Wind" An Acrostic by Tom King
Will I with courage face the closing of the day? In wrapping up my life will I be done? No, I expect to leave unfinished business here Don't grieve for I have fought my war and won.
My wife and I do not have the same set of values where yard work is concerned. I have been called "afraid of manual labor" because of that lawnological difference between us. I know better than to retort. Let her take her shot. She will go inside soon and leave me out here with the fresh cut grass and forever falling leaves. The problem is, I think, one of basic gender values. Men tend to take the longer view; pursue more distant goals than do our women. We are, after all, the hunters in the hunter-gatherer partnership. In the poem, I express a very male idea.
For the first time today I played my banjo with my instructor playing guitar. What a thrill. We played cumberland Gap.A simple song but I really like the happy feel of it.I have never ever done this and it is a great feeling.Any way a first for me and I think I'll celebrate with a adult
If you're not playing a RECORDING KING, you're only dreamin' about
I started playing banjo in the late 1960's or early 1970's after hearing Pete Seeger for the first time. Over the years my musical interests have fluctuated but I always return to acoustic music. I was heavily into banjo from about 2000 until mid-2007; I then got pulled into a more rock-oriented style of music with electric guitar. My banjo was hanging on the wall, collecting dust, when fate intervened. My mother-in-law decided that she wanted to give her three youngest grandsons guitars for Christmas; she asked me to shop around for them. At one store I saw an acoustic guitar that caught my eye; I picked it up, started playing, and fell in love with it. The guitar led me back to a folk-based approach to music. That led me back to banjo. I am now a week away from owning a custom long-neck
what kind of man plays a banjo with an archtop tonering in it. that is just a delibrate sin. all the good banjo pickers play a flat head. just a thought.
After reading The Diva's latest article in the BNL I got to thinking about my own experiences and a young boy finding a life long friend in the 5 string banjo. I remember in the 7th grade in chorus class, a class that I took because it was pretty much a free pass, a friend brought his banjo to school to play for the class. Even at that stage he was a pretty good picker. I remember watching and listening and how I was just overwhelmed with what I was hearing. At that point I decided that I had to learn to do this. It was close to Christmas and my mother ask me one day what I wanted for Christmas. A banjer I said, and she just kinda said ooooookaaaaay!? I remember she told my father What I wanted a he said that it would be a waste of money, just something to pile up in the corner , but mama
The Mafia has RSS feed, and I didn't have a clue as to how it works. So right now I am in a class teaching me all about it. Hmmmm.... I may not understand all of it yet, but am beginning to get the hang of it. So this blog is a test to tell me if I set things up right. There's a lot of info to absorb in this class, and made especially difficult by stumbling across a site on Ostracods, that sounds like a blast. Ok, so I have a fascination for invertebrates, although I don't know of any that would make a good banjo head .... Maybe squid skin? Nah, but we all love the MOP they supply for our inlay. Bye for
I have always wanted to get these thoughts out in writing of some type...for some reason it helps me learn and grow as a person. Part 1: The Begining Greetings, My name is Patrick and I'm a banjo-holic. I started playing roughly 5 years ago. <Hi Patrick!!> lol j/k I recieved a banjo for christmas 2003. My mother asked me if I would like a new instrument for x-mas. (we were pretty poor at the time but she ALWAYS made sure I had anything I needed to make music, i have been playing one thing or another since my first memorys and learned to read SN around the same time I learned to read english) Not having any knowledge about banjos other than that my grandmother liked them and I had hung out with Alvin Breeden a few times (for those who don't know, Alvin paints houses for a living,well used |
