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Topic: What's the beef with banjo players? |
Bobby D. Jones
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2023 9:49 pm |
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I grew up in a family of Bluegrass musicians. Had no bass in band, They would only let me play rhythum guitar from when I was about 10 years old. Shortly after I returned from the U.S. Army, I went to a Steel Guitar. A Steel Guitar made me the black sheep of the family.
I have played with some good Banjo players, And enjoyed playing with them.
If you want to drive me NUTS, Put me with a Banjo player who has bad timed rolls on the strings. "Feet take me from this place as quickly as possible and do not return this way again." |
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Dylan Ritter
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North Carolina, USA
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Brooks Montgomery
From:
Idaho, USA
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Posted 7 Dec 2023 8:39 pm
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A banjo, like a pet monkey, seems like a good idea at first. |
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 8 Dec 2023 7:39 am
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Delusions of banjer…
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John Macy
Rockport, TX
Engineer/Producer/Steel Guitar |
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Craig Stock
From:
Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2023 4:57 pm
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Great song Dylan, Thanks for posting that, were you on steel?
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Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days |
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Dylan Ritter
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 8:19 am
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| Craig Stock wrote: |
| Great song Dylan, Thanks for posting that, were you on steel? |
oh no, but one of the styles that keeps me motivated. lots of contemporary good stuff out there  .
glad you liked this one.
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does it look like it fits on my lap? |
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Thornton Lewis
From:
New York, USA
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Posted 14 Dec 2023 6:32 pm
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Ok, I put in my seat time today, had dinner with the family, did the dishes, kicked back with a glass of wine and read this whole thread.
I missed the post where someone mentioned that,while both instruments mainly involve finger picks and a lot of "roll" like right hand obsessions, the normal goals are completely different. Banjo players (I'm mainly talking bluegrass banjo here,) love speed, steel players not so much. Steel players love sustain, banjo players can't really. Same with bends, hard to squeeze a bend on a banjo. Banjos are acoustic sounding, pedal steels... no. Banjos have probably thousands of years of tradition behind them, steels maybe 130?
Both instruments have never been anything but marginal to popular music ever.
So you have two sets of musicians devoted to instruments with totally different musical tonal choices that share an obsessive right hand technique and wonder why there might be friction?
I started on banjo and will always love it. I wouldn't give up the banjo on For the Turnstiles for pedal steel (yes I'm a frailer.) The sound and purpose in music of the two instruments are just so hugely divergent it's not surprising there are some haters on both sides.
And why does Doug keep posting "Edited"? What is that supposed to mean? |
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Dave Magram
From:
San Jose, California, USA
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Allen Kaatz
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 28 Dec 2023 1:42 pm
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 5 May 2024 9:30 am
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| No beef. It’s a pretty boring day on the forum and I just wanted to be viewer number 1,347,190 of this thread. |
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