Re: A bit of band advice

On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:03:59 -0500, Tomes wrote:

"CharlesTheCurmudgeon" ...
"Tomes"...
"Hachiroku ????" ...
Tomes wrote:
"Hachiroku ????"...
Conscience wrote:
Hachiroku ???? :
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
If you have someone in your band who's a great player, but
psychologically
toxic, do not share other band members' phone numbers with that
individual.
I have nothing more to say about this, except "Pass the ammo."

Great player or not, it's best to pick someone a bit stable in
the first
place.

For example, bass players who live with their mothers are a safe
bet...

How DO you live with only four strings? ;-)

I bought a 5 string two years ago!

The main instrument I play has 46 strings. (Hint - I play it using
wooden
hammers)
My other instrument has only 1 string. (Hint - hitting notes is all
in the
tension applied)
Tomes

Do you also have one of these?

http://www.jugstore.com/jugs.jpg


I do have a couple of those, but it takes a _lot_ of wind capacity to
play them consistently.

Damn. That's a bit different, considering the web stations you hooked
me up with!

(And I *ALMOST* traded my Dan Armstrong
http://www.edroman.com/guitars/misc-images/DAN_armstrongBass.jpg

and a Kustom bass amp for one of these in the 70's:

http://www.spearsinstruments.com/images/dulcimer.jpg )

Bada bing! That's it! The first instrument anyway. How about the
other one with the one string? You are on the right track with the
jugs....

Don't peg me as a sole jugband player tho. While I can do that
[rarely actually] I do just about everything else that comes my way as
well. I have a group of about a dozen guys that get together every
Thursday night and play songs that we can jam to with copious amounts
of soloing. Guitars, electric fretless bass, mandolin, occasional
banjo, occasional dobro, simple 3 piece drum set, some piano and my
hammered dulcimer. We play lots of different stuff and occasionally
play out in subsets of us. Here is a list of what we played last week
for an example: Wagon Wheel
Big Railroad Blues
Mr. Siegal
Stepping Stone
Get Off This
Steam Powered Aeroplane
Tell Me
Better Off Without A Wife
Teen Angst
Bill's Original
Bill's Original Take 2
Danger Man
New Minglewood Blues
A The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Hot Legs
American Girl
Made up song
Love Me Hold Me Tonight
Unknown blues song
I record every week and then as a related hobby sit down and split up
that 3 hour MP3 file into the individual songs, then hand out the CDs
to the folks to listen to over the next week [which is why I happen to
have this list handy to paste in]. Fun stuff.

I also love roaming around Folk Music Festivals all night and playing
with anyone who will have me. This provides me with such a broad
variety of different styles to play with and most of the stuff I have
never heard of before. Fun stuff there too.
Tomes

Ever do any of the old Carter Family stuff, or Jimmie Rodgers?

Anybody ever learned the Carter Scratch? How 'bout playing the auto
harp?

Played along with Carter stuff, but don't know Rodgers. I would love to
get my hands on an autoharp but just have not run into one yet that I
could fool around with.
Tomes

There was one at a music store I used to 'work' at when I was 13 for
years!

There was also this thing with two sets of strings, and 'gates' you would
draw a bow through. I used to play "Darkness, Darkness" on it...

.

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