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raytasch

05-15-2002 19:07:51

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So Bill's post linked us to bluegrass. Just who among us considers him/herself a real bluegrass fan or participant? I don't just mean that you recognize the music, I mean hard core bluegrass. The hard drivin' stuff that has to have a fiddle and a banjo. I own a five string, that is all I am going to say.
ray

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Bill W.

05-16-2002 12:22:17

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Repeat:There are four entities in life which are totally compatible: Barbeque, beer, bluegrass
music, and N tractors. We all know our bbq, our favorite beer, our tractors (of course) and NOW if you click to the link below, your life, your future and your karma will be complete. Try me. Good N-ing.

The final puzzle piece

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05-16-2002 10:26:08

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

We need to plan a humongous Bluegrass/N-Tractor festival somewhere central to the majority of N-owners/pickers.

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on second thought....bg

05-16-2002 10:27:22

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to bg, 05-16-2002 10:26:08

they have one each year at Denton, NC. I guess they still have some form of music there, even though the big bluegrass festival is now in Advance, NC.

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Evil Steve

05-16-2002 09:32:59

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

While I'm more C&W than anything you can't enjoy C&W without apreciating bluegrass (one of the predecessors of C&W as it is today). We play some in my band "One Eyed Jacks".

And for those who wonder, "Evil Steve" is my stage name.

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05-16-2002 10:23:50

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Evil Steve, 05-16-2002 09:32:59

I've often wondered about the term "C&W" and why the two types of music were lumped together. I love Western Swing and cowboy songs. I also love classic country. I've been picking Bluegrass since 1965. I've also played in country bands, jazz bands, gospel groups...still cringe when I listen to FM "country" music: Rock-n-roll with cowboy hats...or sentimental "chick" music. Give me the songs about mama, trains, trucks, prison and being drunk.
I was talking with Ricky Skaggs at Reidsville years ago, just before he quit bluegrass and went "Nashville." He said he was going to bring country back to Nashville. Well it only took him about 20 years. Now that Bill Monroe is dead, he's the Opry's resident heir-apparent.

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Yep, David Allen Coe.... Evil Steve

05-16-2002 10:27:58

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Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to bg, 05-16-2002 10:23:50

"You Never Even Called Me By My name" is one of the songs I do. Got to agree with you about that new C&W crap coming out, although I LIKE looking at the chicks!

Murder on Music Row!

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if that aint country..........

05-16-2002 19:55:50

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Re: Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Yep, David Allen Coe.... Evil Steve, 05-16-2002 10:27:58

yep country isnt near as good as it was

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smokie

05-16-2002 07:54:37

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

i love this bourd yes i slap the bass every chance i get sounds to me we have enough here to put some good musice together. heres a picture 4 or 5 freinds sitin under the shade tree just finished comperen tractors pickin the sweet sounds of bluegrass.

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Hey Smokie! ...Evil Steve

05-16-2002 10:20:02

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to smokie, 05-16-2002 07:54:37

I play an Ibanez "Impressionist" P-bass. What's yer axe?

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smokie

05-17-2002 07:36:12

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Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Hey Smokie! ...Evil Steve, 05-16-2002 10:20:02

i play a martin electrict acustic with nylon or flat wound strings dipendin on the musice.

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you guys should make a recording together

05-16-2002 20:05:18

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Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Hey Smokie! ...Evil Steve, 05-16-2002 10:20:02

i would buy it,
Matt

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Bill (Va)

05-16-2002 06:59:07

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Definitely a Bluegrass fan here. Just retired to Lively, Virginia on the Northern Neck after a 10 year Bluegrass hiatus in the swamps of south Louisiana. Cajun's ok but it sure ain't Bluegrass! Any pickers in the area?

PICK-N-GRIN

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kraig WY

05-16-2002 05:39:54

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Need to check with Les Fortunet on the 'Talers board. He's got a Bluegrass Band. I got one of his CDs. Excellent. Also into Square Dancing. I think he's a caller. Never met him except on these boards but seems like an all around great guy.

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Keith LaCrosse

05-16-2002 04:58:10

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

For those of you East of the Rockies at night you can listen to the 50,000 watt clear channel WSM
at 650 AM. Home of the Grand Ole Opry and "real" country music. They can also be heard on the net at wsmonline.com. I listen to them just about every night.

Keith

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rbell

05-16-2002 05:50:00

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Keith LaCrosse, 05-16-2002 04:58:10

Sorry Keith, but WSM has not played "country " music for 20 years.
Seems those high falutenet folks in Nashville finally got rid of the hill music they loved to hate.
Long live Hank (and I do not mean Jr., or Hill)

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raytasch

05-16-2002 06:22:32

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Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to rbell, 05-16-2002 05:50:00

Yep, Murder on Music Row says a lot.
ray

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Mike

05-16-2002 06:39:07

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Re: Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-16-2002 06:22:32

Murder on music row says it all. When the CMA won't let George Jones sing 'cause his music is too "country", shame on them, and they shouldn't use the word country in their name. It was good, naw, it was great, that Alan Jackson stopped his song and did the one George had planned on singing. The CMA should change its name to the Megabucks Music Assc.

Mike

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Bob /Ont.

05-16-2002 07:49:57

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Mike, 05-16-2002 06:39:07

Looks good on them that the Oh Brother sound track no one would play on the air cleaned up at the awards.
Later Bob

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Jerry (AL)

05-16-2002 04:48:01

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Need to rent the movie "oh brother, where art thou". Not all blue grass but some OLD songs there. It's a good sound track. I remember my mother singing some of those to me when I was a little boy 50 years ago.

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Dave Smith

05-16-2002 13:51:31

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Jerry (AL), 05-16-2002 04:48:01

I have that Video. The Concert Down From The Moutain is a takeoff of it. Videos kinda dumb but the music is good.
Dave <*)))><

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Jim KY-TN

05-16-2002 03:59:19

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

I've been a fan for over 50 years. Got a lot of LP's from the 50's and 60's (Flatt and Scrugs, etc.) I don't get to listen to them anymore (Turntable went south) If you get a chance pick up Dolly Parton CD "The Grass Is Blue", good listening.

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9N'er; during my melancholy moods and quiet moments I...

05-16-2002 03:56:32

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

When I am feeling melancholy and blue, down but not forgotten, lost and without aim I throw on my favorite album "DEF LEPARD - Hits From The Basement" at a low 8 out of 10 on the volume control with 6 speaker system, surround sound, concert hall and delay time mode.

I usually listen to that for 2 hours and then I am back to normal. Good music and good to listen to while eating stuffed kraut turkey on the barbie.

Blue Grass? only if it is 9 out of 10 on the stereo system and it's shaking the roof and I can hear it down the road. Now, that's hard driving Blue Grass.
9N'er

I tend to

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Rob

05-16-2002 06:16:14

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to 9N'er; during my melancholy moods and quiet moments I..., 05-16-2002 03:56:32

Got a buddy same age as me that can pick a mean banjo, and his 15 year old son joins him on the fiddle. It's good stuff, and entertaining. But I'm more along your lines. A little Rush La Villa Strangiato will always pick me right up. Pyromania, indeed!

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Ed Gooding (VA)

05-16-2002 03:41:17

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Can't play a lick, but love the music. Though it's been a while since my last visit, the Galax Fiddlers Convention used to be a must-do for me every year in Virginia. Great timing on this topic. Yesterday, I was just listening to a bootleg tape of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones that a buddy lent me. Sure makes you drive "funny" when you are tapping your toe on the accelerator of a high-powered sports car..... ..LOL!! Anyone who can listen to blue grass and not move needs to have their pulse checked right away!

LOL..... ...Ed
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P.S. Thanks for the link to Bluegrass.country.org. Listening to it now while I write this.

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Come to think of it...Tyler (MD)

05-16-2002 18:23:38

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Ed Gooding (VA), 05-16-2002 03:41:17

...I believe one of our fellow board members has played with Bela at one time.

LOL,
Tyman

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linhorst99

05-15-2002 23:11:47

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Count me in. I got a five string banjo for Christmas. I'm a lefty playing a right handed instrument, so I doubt I'll ever amount to much, but a play about 1/2 hour daily. I had the pleasure of sitting in with a group of bluegrass musicians last week in a barbershop at Belleville, IL. Could'nt play much, but what a chance to learn! My pick of the week is a band called Trailer Bride from Chapel Hill, NC. Listen to the Whine de Lune CD, it'll grow on you. If I ever see a person driving down the road on an N-series tractor and playing a banjo, I'll know they belong to this site!

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Mike

05-15-2002 22:41:27

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Ray,
As far as I see it, music which is now known as blurgrass, is the same country music I've been listening to all my life. I don't listen to the popular "hard rock country" that is played on radio stations nation wide, that's just cityfied country music.

If you get a chance listen to some 40s and 50s recordings of the Grand Ole Opry and the Lousiana Hayride and you'll be listening to today's bluegrass, just the sound quality isn't much, but the tunes are the same. Some of us old hillbillies just never changed.

Mike

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raytasch

05-16-2002 04:51:14

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Mike, 05-15-2002 22:41:27

Yep, Mike, I call today's stuff rocky-bop. I remember listening to Louisianna Hay Ride, Old Dominion Barn Dance, and some "powerful good stuff" as Bill Monroe would say, coming out of the high power 'border stations'.

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05-16-2002 05:29:46

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Re: Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-16-2002 04:51:14

As in XERF, transmitter in Acuna Mexico, Studios in Del Rio TX 150,000 watts.

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Bob /Ont.

05-15-2002 22:34:15

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

YES

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Jim.UT

05-15-2002 21:56:55

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Only instrument I can play is the stereo, but I love the music. Just got a CD by Old and In The Way. Also enjoy other forms of acoustic music. David Grisman, Doc Watson, Vassar Clements, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Mark O'Connor, Leo Kottke, etc etc. Drives my kids nuts.

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TOM

05-15-2002 21:05:20

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Alright Raytasch, great subject. I figured I was the only one so I never brought it up. I have 2 5 String banjos and 1 flattop guitar. Been listing to Bluegrass for 30 years. I usually drive around town in a 1964 Austin Mini Cooper all restored while blastin the Alan Munde CD. Man he is the best of the best. All I carry in the car is Bill Monroe and many other Bluegrass CD's. Man, I knew we had more than N tractors to rave about.

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Kerry

05-15-2002 20:52:50

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

ME! I play with some local guys here in E. TX, mostly guitar but I attempt to play fiddle a little bit. I like the old stuff, but some of the newer stuff like Hot Rize is good too.

We're not much good but we have fun, and we're playing at the Hunt County Fair next month! Mostly we just play at churches and retirement homes, it's good to play for people who can't hear very well...

Kerry
PS I also play an Alvarez, but an Anniversary Edition Artist instead of the Yairi. When I'm rich and famous I'll get a Martin!

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8NTX

05-16-2002 09:28:04

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Kerry, 05-15-2002 20:52:50

Kerry, if you are in East Texas, I assume you will be attending the Ol' Fiddler's Reunion coming up in Athens. My 8N resides just outside of Athens at our weekend place, and we attended last year. Some bluegrass, Texas swing, and other great music will be heard there!
Allison Krauss and Union Station is my favorite Bluegrass band. Seen them in concert twice. Dan Tyminski is in the band, and he is the one who sings "Man of Constant Sorrow" on the Oh Brother album. Just good stuff.

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rasputen

05-15-2002 20:36:23

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Sorry, only halfway. I am a harmonicia (harp) player and play the Blues. Several guitars and vintage tube amps. Currently "retired" from formal band membership but I lease 1 band my PA for a per gig fee, and sit in with 2 bands. Favorite guitar, Yairi 9 string.
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Jim in N.S.

05-15-2002 19:26:07

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

Add me to that list. I play a little guitar and have a five string banjo which I cannot seem to do anything with.Seems like my fingers will not do whats required to play a banjo.Love the music though. There are several good festival's up here in Nova Scotia, and a lot of excellent band's.

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Drmeatman

05-15-2002 19:23:18

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

I didn't know there was any other except gospel blue grass.

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05-15-2002 19:16:06

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

See my reply below. I pick a 1928 Gibson Granada archtop, 1976 HD-28 Martin and some old Czech fiddle. I cut the neck out of my mandolin and have never rebuilt it.

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Dave Smith. Im One

05-15-2002 19:12:47

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Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to raytasch, 05-15-2002 19:07:51

I just bought Down From The Moutain on CD, I have the full set of Time Life Bluegrass CDs. I also enjoy Grahm Tounsend on fiddle. Good Listenen.
Dave <*)))><

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Bob /Ont.

05-15-2002 22:37:36

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Re: Re: OT How many Bluegrass Folks Here in reply to Dave Smith. Im One, 05-15-2002 19:12:47

You must have been to Shelburn. He's a long time Champ there.
Blue&Blue Lite

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