Re: Mississippi Palisades - SOTM - Jan 2011

Well, as an intimidated one, as we are all probably, I just think this TOTM is fantastic. I love the fact that so far we are off the regular paths, and therefore have to use our musical brains a bit. And that I learn something from literally every post. Waiting to go to the office tomorrow so I can

Re: Blaming my tools

s something, just keep playing and > having fun doing it. > > > > Steve > > > > *From:* taterbugmando@googlegroups.com [mailto: > taterbugmando@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Robin Gravina > *Sent:* Friday, January 21, 2011 7:05 AM > *To:* taterbugmando@googlegroup

Re: New Mandola

ah, so that Mandola was a Collings On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Don wrote: > Nelson, congrats! I just bought a Collings MT2 mandola off of ebay > that was used but basically brand new. I'm impressed with it. I did > the Miss Palisades video with it. > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nelso

Re: Blaming my tools

> Hi Robin: > > Could it be your strings? > > Since string quality degrades slowly, we often don't notice it until it > gets > > really bad (kinda' like the frog that never jumps out of a pot slowly > heated > > to a boil [?]). > > On more than one occa

Blaming my tools

Hi to all, on the old communications channel I'm getting tone paranoia: it strikes me from seeing a lot of everyone's great videos how poor my tone is: I hear most people with great ringing sound, clear note separation and that kind of floating sound you get from the combination of those things. T

Re: TaterbugMandoGroup

Then drag and drop a file you have uploaded to yourself into the new shared folder On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Robin Gravina wrote: > If you go to the group and then share it with yourself, it seems to work > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Robin Gravina wrote: >

Re: TaterbugMandoGroup

If you go to the group and then share it with yourself, it seems to work On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Robin Gravina wrote: > Yes you can! > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:59 PM, wrote: > >> I've shared >> TaterbugMandoGroup

Mississippi Palisades - Chirps Smith.mp3

I've shared a document with you: Mississippi Palisades - Chirps Smith.mp3 https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_MMNWSH2PO1OWI5OWIyNWYtZWU3Yy00MTIwLWI4NzctZDk2YzU5OTAwYjA5&hl=en It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this document, just click the link above. -- You

Re: TaterbugMandoGroup

Yes you can! On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:59 PM, wrote: > I've shared > TaterbugMandoGroup > Message from dassp...@gmail.com: > > This is a test to see if I can share a google doc folder with the

Re: New Tune/January '11

Well I started looking at it this evening, so it had better be ;-). It's a really stately tune the way he does it. I didn't know the Pallisades were some cliffs, or mountains, but that explains it. I managed to tab out the tune and (as always) am amazed by the depth that a good performance and all

Re: New Tune/January '11

Aint heard it, but I figure if someone has the passion to say that they'd like a certain tune done, then that should be it. If there are people fighting to get their choice toon out there, then it has to be healthy! And on another point. I prefer the gmail way for the list: I can't connect that mu

Re: country blues

For me its still such a finger twister > >> that I can't relax and get into the music of it. In the rambling > >> spirit, I've managed to get this far in the holiday season without > >> getting totally sick of Christmas music (probably because I haven't > &

Re: country blues

Was playing the Grub the other day, and found myself playing Dusty Miller, then today while fixing my daughter's crappy keyboard, played it in E flat, starting on C and it turned into garfields BB. anyone else? or have I been listening to too much Capt Beefheart these days? And in Spain, Enrique Mo

Re: country blues

hahaha! Worse if they are done with tremble-oh On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:48 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: > Just do what you can do. No judgements from out here in Taterbug land. > Val invented a new phrase the other day by accident(slip of the > tongue) that I think applies to all of us. Her phras

country blues

Someone posted the idea of working on a muddy waters tune, but seems to have regretted it. I think we all agreed to do or at least offer two tunes per month, and as I have some days off coming up, selfishly I would love to do a country blues tune, but which? Tommy, lonnie, robert, willie johnston?

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

I like the damped string thing you do which I can never seem to get right, on command. And frankly a bit of swearing would just add to the experience I think!! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:50 PM, diptanshu roy wrote: > great start > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to t

Re: New group page

loud and clear On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Linda wrote: > Making a post to check the site. > Testing, testing, one, two three... > > > On Dec 10, 3:36 am, mistertaterbug wrote: > > You're a member, law dog. I have to accept memberships, but there's > > no restrictions really...so far... >

Re: New group page

Fakebook is cool. Frankly I think we are in a golden age of written communication, unknown since the postman came four times a day... Jane Austen again... 2010/12/8, Don : > Damn, I've been avoiding MyFace and SpaceBook. Guess I still will. > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, mistertaterbug > wr

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

I know where you are at (as I believe one may say in the United States). There is a reason the Universe created Disney: it's to give parents 80 minutes of mandolin practice time, and to hell with the dirty washing. Jane Austen had loads of kids, no wii and even fewer Nintendo DS, but did her pages

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

rse. > puhtater > > On Dec 6, 6:40 am, Steve Cantrell wrote: >> I'm hoping to have a version Tuesday when our band practices. We have been >> working on it independently and so far, so good. >> >> >> From: Robin Gravina &g

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

Here's my effort. Fighting against rushing as always, but the nose looks good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pyV1cWk3f8 Cheers Robin On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:48 AM, mistertaterbug wrote: > Sounding good, folks. > TBug > > On Dec 5, 1:47 pm, nelson

Re: My own self-imposed silliness

gt;> Humbug >> >> > >>> On Dec 4, 7:14 am, Linda wrote: >> > >>>> Robin its the theme of our days...just now, dang there is use for >> > >>>> it. >> > >>>> Seems this kind of thing is coming out like a rash all

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

Yes, I really like that idea too. 2010/12/4, Trey Young : > Depending on the tune(s) and how busy I am during that month/two weeks, I > could possibly hang with every two weeks. I like Kathy's idea of picking two > at the beginning of the month and then you can choose which one to learn > first a

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

Maybe two weeks would be good: personally if I have can get the time to work on stuff, which is not guaranteed, I get into it quite quickly, at least to the point where I am then ready to play it for the next weeks and months, at which point they may be better, but possibly not massively better th

Re: My own self-imposed silliness

Well my latest idea for a song, which I haven't succeeded in making work, is one about how greedy bankers, ruthless speculators and craven governments have effectively conspired in stealing a good many people's future and well-being. I wanted to bring it down to the personal, Woodie Guthrie style.

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

How's everyone doing with this? I finally got a chance to first do some beat counting on the train with the ipod and a pencil, and then to try to copy the fiddlers this evening: hellish difficult to get the timing in the b section, even though I've got the bars counted out right I think. It's funn

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

Yes please 2010/11/28, mandoho...@comcast.net : > Please. > > > > Clyde Clevenger > Just My Opinion, But It's Right > Salem, Oregon > Old Circle > > > - Original Message - > From: "mistertaterbug" > To: "Taterbugmando" > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:16:11 PM > Subject: Re: Song of

Re: Song of the Month-December 2010

FInally got to listen to it. Never heard of the tune, never heard of the musicians, but it's great to see and hear those two dig in with such gusto and feel. And there's a funny time bit in there somewhere which I always like, and the A part is kind of menacing, in fact the whole thing is, which al

Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake

As we buggers are all unassuming people, I suggest that DicTater starts it off, and then we use the month for meaningful debate on the next song, while we work on the current one, as well as refining our Groucho Mask technique. In that way we will have our collective right and left brain in harmony

Re: Re: Georgia Home by Norman Blake

Yes I like it: a month is about right. I also have tried the SAW or SOW or whatever and it just gets too much and I end up doing none of them... On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Don wrote: > I like it! I participate some in the SAW (song a week) group at the > Mando Cafe, but it takes me longer

Re: Tater on Prairie Home Companion

Ah, that cheered up my afternoon at work! Must admit that although I like his books, I've never been exposed to the GK show before. Apart from the tasty bits from our Grand Taterbugger and his excellent NBB colleagues, I hadn't listened to Pat Donahue for a while... Possibly since I tried to figure

Re: working up breaks

Funny you should mention that. After realising that the excitement of launching into a break was making me speed up and lose timing, I spent yesterday working out and practicing breaks to some of our newer songs: It did seem to be useful to figure out something that sounds good in context using the

action

yeah... gimme some actually, I read this article, which is worth a regular look at: http://www.mandozine.com/resources/CGOW/mikecompton2.php got my spark plug feelers out and found my action was much lower than the 5/64 of an inch (or 2mm if you use a sane system for measuring), and jacked it up

Magic mandolin

I was at a sort of sustainable, ecological trade fair today (hunting down some good organic veggies), and talked to a tabla player who was selling sitars and other instruments, including an Indian mandolin. I mentioned that I had heard of the classical indian mando player through Deep (where are y

Re: Taste

So, hands up who's got any Elton John on the ipod... And who's going to get some now ;-) 2010/10/22, Don : > "Learning to Crawl" is exactly The Pretenders album on my ipod. I'm > now downloading Norman Blake's newest album from Amazon, Rising Fawn > Gathering, with Norman, Nancy, the Boys of the L

Re: Taste

Well I haven't had enough, but that's the way I am. Actually, I've noticed that we Taterbuggers seem to be a very open bunch with wide ranging, eclectic but passionate tastes, and not only musical. I have been on various other groups and this has not been the case: flatpickers seem to talk about To

Taste

Where does it come from? When I was a child I was exposed only to classical music: Wagner mainly due to family connections, but plenty of Mozart and other things, and I listened and thought I appreciated, until one day under the covers I heard the Sex Pistols, the Damned and the Ramones on a radi

Re: Old Virgina Reel

le > is it Audrey or Aubrey on the Powers cut doing the slice of mandolin > rehearsal? That tune is definitely not Old Virginia unless she/he is > living in some other universe. Meanwhile there's snow on Mt Snow so I > guess winter is officially here in Vermont best, val >

Re: MC on Hartford recordings

and the others. > > Thanks for the links, am going for the Blake Monroe one later. > linda > > > > On Oct 15, 6:49 am, Jim Roy wrote: >> What is the name of the Blake /Monroe set.  I can't seem to find it. >> Thanks. >> >> On Oct 14, 11:40 am, Robin Grav

Old Virgina Reel

I'm flicking through the Christeson Fiddle book and did 'Old Virginia reel', but when I looked for it on my ipod, I found Hartford and the Fiddling Powers Family but the tune seems to be completely different... Is it my ears? my reading? or a different tune? Best Robin -- You received this messag

Re: Going out on a limb.

Loud ones? If I saw one of those, I would pick it up in a flash! On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Steve Cantrell wrote: > I may be with this one, but when I saw it I had to have it. Now I just have > to figure out what tunes might suit it... > > > -- > You received this message because you are

Re: MC on Hartford recordings

Thanks to whoever mentioned Blake with Monroe. It was a pain to download as you have to do each track one by one, but now I'm in the kitchen very happily cooking, glass of wine at hand and in no hurry to put dinner on the table. In fact I may do a first course and some pintxos. Great stuff from bot

Re: Whoa Nellie

I'm one of the ones who is trying to get things back onto an even enough keel to webcam again, and that looks like a pretty rich plate. Definitely the dvd and please make some space somewhere, sometime for some Tater branded listening product! 2010/9/24, Robert J. Dragone : > It's interesting that

Re: Movie planned about life of Bill Monroe

I guess anything could happen, but it seems good that T-bone and family seem to be heavily involved. I could easily be wrong, but it seems as if he is someone who respects the music totally, but can also do things with it in the interest of telling a story. And Monroe's music deserves to be expose

Re: A couple new videos

r in that bottle you've been carrying for the > last 5 miles... empty. > > But, its always fun. :) > > M > > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Robin Gravina wrote: > >> Nice - Like the crosstuned Jenny Lynn particularly. What is that mandolin? >> - soun

Re: A couple new videos

Nice - Like the crosstuned Jenny Lynn particularly. What is that mandolin? - sounds great and makes me want to fiddle with that tuning. Fun is more fun if you have to work at it right? I'm playing an outdoor gig on Saturday night - should get home around 2 am, then up at 6.30 for a 30k mountain ru

Re: Bill & Bessie Lee movie announced

Much as I believe our Tater is the man for the job, I'd like to hear that several mandoliners are involved... hear different takes on the way to make a performance reflect the events and emotions of his (love) life. I think it would be fascinating. But I guess so would an interpretation by one pers

Re: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!

yup - been working on transferring the Taterversion from mandola to mandolin, without running out of strings... and also on a high version like the curiously named Old Sausage.. Bangers and mash? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Don wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:25 AM, wrote: > > As in

Re: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!

woah. that woke me up. I was having a nice after lunch nap in the kitchen at work... Musically been obsessively working on Mississippi Waltz variations, finishing another song about heartbreak and loss and listening to 'Memories of John' and Grinderman Which reminds me: I love listening to the Mo

Re: Love Grown Cold

Bond song ? > > > > On Aug 19, 3:03 am, Robin Gravina wrote: > > > > > Just got my copy of 'Memories of John' and am struck by that song. In > fact, > > > have to do it. But who is it by? I seem to have a version by Red Allen > on my > > &g

Love Grown Cold

Just got my copy of 'Memories of John' and am struck by that song. In fact, have to do it. But who is it by? I seem to have a version by Red Allen on my ipod, but I can't find anything out there in googlelandia Best Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: Garfield

Garfield's...gotta get that low G >> droning. I really like the "setting" that is in Jeff Todd Titon's >> book. It seems to have all the parts that Hartford plays on the >> "Speed" album. >> >> On Aug 5, 12:57 pm, Robin Gravina wrote: >&g

Re: Garfield

So do you all play it in regular tuning, or AEAE? 2010/8/5, Steve Cantrell : > Agreed on enjoying these videos. It might put me on the..trail?...of the > whale. > > Call me Ishmael. > > > > > > > From: Mark Halpin > To: Taterbugmando > Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 5

Re: More GDGD fun

makes you more open minded? On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Fred Keller wrote: > Leatherwing Bat. Just arranged this so it's raggedy-assed but what the > heck. It may take a few minutes yet for youtube to get the whole thing > processed so that the vocal syncs with the music. Another tip for

Re: Lyrics and songwriting

Ha, and the songs about existential darkness are relevant for even longer. I admire people who can write about current events with any kind of result: I get bogged down in songs which try to sum up timeless truths or situations in a few words. But why not let's talk about songwriting? Any differen

Re: with glasses, eyebrows and moustache

Great job Robin, and you looked lovely. Spain, World Champions? What > sport? Football, Basketball, Baseball > > or Wrestling? :>) > > > > Clyde Clevenger > > Just My Opinion, But It's Right > > Salem, Oregon > > Old Circle > > > > - Original

with glasses, eyebrows and moustache

And to celebrate (more) Spain being World Champions, here we go with two efforts of Monroe tunes. Mississippi Waltz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAYrYh7eNSY and I'd Like to be over Yonder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsntWjMrBI Good exercise, even if it's just to try and not let the camera

Re: Big Sciota

re many versions running around notated, but it is > an easy tune to pick up by ear for a seasoned musician such as > yourself. Great chords. The Scioto is a river in Ohio. More than you > wanted to know, but I'm procrastinating from work so it is really easy > to get wrapped up in al

Re: Projects Tater should do in his spare time.

I'd like to hear Mike doing something like an old time blues or jug band - one of the sheiks or similar. Perhaps with the Chocolate Drops? Something old time bluesy, but rocking, hokum and with plenty of instruments... On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Alexander, Jeffrey < jeffrey.alexan...@louisvi

Re: Big Sciota

one from me (on page 2 of the thread) where a > hummingbird buzzes me while I'm playing it. Here's the link to the > thread which will also have some links to notation and tabs. > > > http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=429 &g

Big Sciota

Ok, so I am taking my jam seriously and need to work out this song - I figure if I learn one or two each week while I have some time available I will get somewhere quick.: I managed to find the basic tune, or various versions on some sheet music, and to 'Monroe' it a bit, but it would be good to ca

Re: Australia anyone?

Cheers - I'll pass it on to my mates down under Robin On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM, David Long wrote: > Just wanted to drop a quick note to anyone from the list who is down > under > > I'll be leaving today for a 3 week tour starting at the Redlands Festival > in Brisbane and ending in Me

Re: Hey!

yes. Please eat a huge bowl of mussels and a large plate of fries with mayonnaise! And make sure you have an appetite for when you get to Spain: land of earthly pleasures. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Guido Bos wrote: > Hold on Tater, > > Next weekend when you're in Belgium, there will be gre

Jamming

Hi all This will be stone obvious to most of you I guess, but I am discovering the benefits of the jam. In Madrid there are few opportunities for playing with other like minded folks - but now the Americana Music Jam has started and after the second time I am discovering that this is really the wa

Re: Hey!

Hey deep. I found regular notation music by googling it. In the end i found it less stressful to learn it from the music than to tab it out! Let us know what you decide to do with the long notes Best, robin 2010/7/4, Guido Bos : > And what a great tune that is !! > > > On 04/07/10 12:56, "diptansh

just for fun

thought you might all enjoy this I stumbled upon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3uPT79oTg&feature=related Any idea what the guy is doing with his right hand on the Daf (I guess it's the daf)? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. T

Re: Christeson, Old Time Fiddlers' Repository vols. 1 and 2

I have them ordered through Amazon.com (not co.uk) and they seem to have been shipped already. I'm in Spain and I usually have no problems using Amazon.com - would prefer to buy stuff from my local book 'n' paella store, but if it's obscure stuff then there's no other choice On Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Nose and glasses

Madrid DOES have a shop that sells the official tatertube uniform. Now nothing can stop me from uploading my attacks on the mandolin repertoire. I will take possession of the goods on Friday. Late, but arrived in the end. See you all on the small screen. 2010/6/22, diptanshu roy : > wow thanks!!

Re: Interesting Monroe Find

Thanks for posting this. Interesting site, and interesting that it was Rinzlers first exposure. I'm currently embroiled in a serious Cramps session while I cook some baby monkfish, but have downloaded and will give it serious attention in a bit! Just have to quote the Cramps: 'I was caught with one

Re: All about Mrs Haley

Much as I do actually prefer to buy music, I downloaded it. I tried to buy the Rounder ed haley cds, but was frustrated. I found it all in a fiddler compilation on bittorrent and got the wonderful results. Hope this helps 2010/6/18, Mark Halpin : > Twenty bucks! It was sixty on Amazon... and that

Re: The Hospital Blues Waltz

I have the misfortune to commute, and there is a guy who plays classical guitar on the train everyday.. He's practicing, not performing, and I admire his cojones (not literally). People who complain about decent music in public places need a cultural reeducation and have my sympathy. 2010/6/8, To

Re: Waltz

Yes, got it in one! That's why it's in my head - incessant listening to Kenny Baker Thank you Sir! On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:16 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: > Mississippi Waltz? > Intuitater > > On Jun 7, 7:05 am, Robin Gravina wrote: > > Ok, who's feeling

Waltz

Ok, who's feeling intuitive today? I have a Monroe instrumental in my brain and want to learn it, but in a rapid flick through the ipod I couldn't get it. Apple need to add something that lets you search by whistling the tune you want... It's a slow waltz and starts with a downwards triplet - a bi

Re: Digest for taterbugmando@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics

I'm up for it, but I wonder if they'd let me on the plane with the bulk of an Iberian Pig... That would make some good barbecue, although the purists here would probably have a fit... gma...@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics > > What time of year are we talking Late september? Loo

Re: Lou Martin Newsletter

Ok, that's all too cryptic even for me. Words of one syllable please, and just enough of them to do the job. 2010/6/5, 14strings : > I learned some things this month: > > That the tune "The Train Carryin' Jimmie Rodger's Home" was inspired > by Tater's stories of home. > I also learned that my x-b

Re: Christeson books reprinted

I'm liking simple, not big. A tune with a couple of lines in it is easy to get through if you spend a few minutes working it out, and then the second one takes less time. On the other hand, at the present rate of deterioration of my eyes, the notes are probably as big as cowpats, it's just that the

Re: A-Live Audience?

Not this, but last weekend we had a festival in Cobeña, near Madrid. This coincided with a biker gathering so we had a guaranteed crowd, but unfortunately a typical sequence of events for this type of do: huge stage, 15.000 watts of sound and loads of lighting, but then everything set up at the abs

Re: Confession

So recovery IS actually possible? 2010/5/21, Linda : > Thanks for that, I think when one is an active parent, the brain goes > to scrambled eggs, because rarely in the early days can one finish a > thought without an interruption. So often its difficult to regain the > mental sharpness after when

Re: And now, for the finest in canned meat substance cuisine...

You use organic Spam, right? On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: > SPAM SKILLET CASSEROLE > > Recipe By : > Serving Size : 6Preparation Time :0:00 > Categories: Casseroles Main dish > > Amount Measure Ing

Re: ok guys lets take a look inside

Words fail me! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:18 PM, deep wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC-49GnjdTE&feature=fvw > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. >

Re: Tater Be Good

Likewise watching the video, wondered what was going to happen! As the man says, you can make 'the style' work for anything, which is actually a very comforting thought. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Bud Martin wrote: > As soon as they called that song, I was curious what Mike would do with >

Re: My approach to playing the mandolin was completely wrong!!!

Funny. I had a similar thing last night whilst trying to play a solo that made any sense at all on a song I had written. In the end I went back to playing a shuffle on the chords and it sounded just much better: tone and rhythm are enough to do it On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Linda wrote: >

Re: Memories of John

Good to read a review of this. Amongst other things, to not forget to get it. I somehow had the idea it was on preorder or something... Question: what Ed Haley tunes do you all like to do on the mando? Robin 2010/4/17, 14strings : > I got this album a few weeks ago and am really enjoying it. It re

Re: My approach to playing the mandolin was completely wrong!!!

Nice one! Sounds so simple, but I went through a similar epiphany under tater instruction, after not really getting it for a long time. I would add to never forget that music is about time as much or more as melody. 2010/4/15, mgromkey : > OK, Sir Tater told me to post this here, so here goes.

Re: Anybody Else Experience This?

Yes, I started looking at this recently after all the discussion: really hard to make it have the flow of the fiddle version, and a conundrum about how to approach the long notes... must be good for you On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Fred Keller wrote: > On 4/15/10 9:27 AM, Mark Seale wrote:

Re: Ya'll Sho' Is Quiet Agin...

In the mountains running...and practicing. 2010/4/2, Petimar : > I'm sleeping... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Taterbugmando" group. > To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: EC & Sugarcanes in Europe

See you in MAD 22nd! Fun. 2010/3/31, mistertaterbug : > Howdy folks. > I just got the updated schedule of the EC & Sugarcanes tour overseas > for 2010. Grab a coat and let's go. Here it is... > > EC and the Sugarcanes Summer Tour 2010: > Jun-25 Travel to UK > Jun-26 Liverpool rehearsal > Jun-27

Re: I Hear Crickets...

Does europe include españa? I am a (temporarily) free man at that time, and up for some fun! 2010/3/28, Dennis Fehling : > > Have a great time Mike. > > > Dennis Fehling > Friends for life dog training > 541-350-2869 > > > www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com > > > When will the madness stop. S

Re: Please tell me about this song, "How Long Blues".

Is this Frank Stokes? Sounds a bit like Furry Lewis also, but I could and probably am completely wrong. It does remind me though that I need to sit and work out some country blues on the mandolin. Lonnie Johnson riffs sound great, but this is superb! On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Oggy wrote

Re: To Band, or Not To Band?

Hell no We are an incompetent duo with fiddler singer, which makes us a trio, but obviously the sound has to come from guitar/mando and no bass, no banjo. It's a terrible job sometimes getting it to sound full and figuring out where the tune needs to be so we can sing it, get bass notes and a groov

Re: grounded, centered, focused

wrote: > Oh I know it. I think I've listened to it a few dozen times already. A > really good record. > > erik > > On Mar 12, 3:01 am, Robin Gravina wrote: > > It's just great: you could build a house on tracks like 'I'd like to be > over > >

Re: F12

Well they haven't got back to me, but i will be a caveated emptor, or whatever it is 2010/3/13, mistertaterbug : > Robin, > I agree with Dr. Brown. If you can find somebody that will strip the > lacquer and regraduate the top/back, you might have something. But you > know that the 'collector' valu

Re: F12

But then again, it never stopped me before On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, mistertaterbug wrote: > Ah, a minor detail certainly. > TBug > > On Mar 12, 9:36 am, Robin Gravina wrote: > > I guess I'll just have to play it then! Apparently it's been sitting, > >

Re: F12

wise. But be prepared for it to sound > like a brick. > Mister Encouragement > > On Mar 12, 3:49 am, Robin Gravina wrote: > > Hey all you taterbuggers > > I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I > > haven't had a look at it, but i

F12

Hey all you taterbuggers I have stumbled across a 1961 Gibson F12 going for around 1500 bucks. I haven't had a look at it, but it's apparently mint. Is this potentially a good deal, assuming that it sounds like a mandolin and not like a brick? Best Robin -- You received this message because you a

Re: grounded, centered, focused

It's just great: you could build a house on tracks like 'I'd like to be over yonder', and the double mandolin on 'My Father's Footsteps' is just perfectly phrased, down to the little chokes. Undeniably a good start to the day On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26

Re: grounded, centered, focused

Well I bought it as promised, an easy way to get the music quick. I'll listen tomorrow with luck. Difficult to spend 7 euros more wisely 2010/3/11, mistertaterbug : > Wait a minute, was Campbell on the recording? Shizzle, I forgot. > Anyway, Bill was playing *a* fiddle...No, not Baker, sounded mor

Re: grounded, centered, focused

stuff where MC is the mando player. > > erik > > On Mar 10, 1:48 pm, Robin Gravina wrote: >> That's great. I'll get it tomorrow. I wonder if they have the other >> monroe-compton one that was mentioned and seems to be available on >> plastic from japan. >&g

Re: grounded, centered, focused

That's great. I'll get it tomorrow. I wonder if they have the other monroe-compton one that was mentioned and seems to be available on plastic from japan. 2010/3/10, erik berry : > I just bought my first-ever download MP3 record (welcome to 2010 > Erik!) and it was Butch Robins' record. It's reall

Re: Crickets.......

Ok. Got practice tonight with my little group Los Cold Hearts - we are writing away and getting some songs ready with a view to recording, but how do you all record? When I did it before, with a rock band, it was a nightmarish process of doing it semi-live, then redoing everything until all track

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