beedubaya

There is nothing I hate worse than the banjo or bluegrass hillbilly music. Is that your most hated thing too?

uncle phil

you must seriously be a rookie...

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paddyjoe

he could just be a serious rookie.........

Ch'i

surely you jest...

bernadette

Isn't the world full of enough hate already?

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Daniel_

"Squeal piggy, squeal"

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Wilkerson

I love banjo music and bluegrass music. Get me my fiddle Pa we gots some music to be a-playin' and some strings to be a-pluckin'
Check ma profieel if ye don't believe me.

Doesn't like the banjo? What is this...a joke?

vermin

I prefer electric banjo played with a wah-wah pedal. But that's just me.

P.S. How can you hate banjo more than bagpipes? Just wondering.

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Ourcrazymodern?

I love the banjo, in spite of "duelling banjoes", and gave one to my son, the self-taught and not half bad, guitar player. He sounds good on it, too, and has yet to tell a tourist that he has purty lips.

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Fly

DUDE!!!!!

are you fucking crazy???


the banjo is sweet man............

'cept for that damn string half way down the neck of course.

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Charlatan

When I think of the banjo I think of two things:

1) Deliverance

2) Hee Haw (rip Buck)

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grumpyolddude

I simply can't abide intolerance!

Banjos is sweet... ESPECIALLY that extra string about halfway down the neck!

Fly

it is a sweet instrument isn't it grump.......we use it on 2 or 3 tunes of ours and it just adds........something.


but that 5th string always messes me up so..........i let my buddy dial it in and I stick with the bass.

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grumpyolddude

They are sweet in the right hands, dangerous in the wrong ones. I haven't toyed with one in years... the neighbors are grateful!

ngdawg

How could you hate something Steve Martin plays so well?
banjo

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Sharon

Bela Fleck is a genius!

Val_1

As long as it's played well, it's a fun instrument.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Pickin' & a grinnin'

Hee-haw!

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warrrreagl

On New Year's Eve in 1995, I played a featured banjo solo with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra.

Just take a few minutes to let that whole sentence wash over you a bit.....

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Sharon

warrrreagl, we're going to need pictures. And a soundclip. Video would be good actually.

uncle phil

and this would be a canadian banjolier at the westview marina in tahsis, BC:

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Fly

sweet phil..........i lived in Tahsis for a couple months awhile back......never got to see this dude but......he does have a nice instrument.


yeah you freaks can read into that as you may.

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Lak

You hate the banjo? Thats a damn shame! The banjo is glorious fun.
Have you seen Billy Connelly play the banjo? Fantastic!

Happy four-and-a-half-strings, everyone.

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jbw97361

Banjo is perfectly fine. I don't seek it out but if it is playing in some muzak capacity I will live with the strange sounding notes.

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Astrocloud

A picture is worth a thousand words. Need I say more?

uncle phil

/me is going to start "playing" kingston trio songs and, you know what...you guys will LOVE them...right, fly?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ozahs

As already mentioned, but it is worth repeating, Bela Fleck is amazing.

For some reason, I don't even mind the bagpipes as much as most people.

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Ourcrazymodern?

What are strange sounding notes? Sometimes they clang and sometimes they cling. The listening is the trick.

No notes sound strange in space or the near space. Can you hear even the banjo on the moon?

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ring

I love ukeleles..and the sound of the wind whistling
through my screen door..

Pass the banjo please

blahblah454

The banjo is amazing!! It can be used for lots more that just "hillbilly music". One of my best friends owns one. I have a mandolin, I dont really know how to play it yet, but I do play the guitar.

Fly

dude,the mandolin freakin' sings eh?


check our band out,(i think it's "lighter drug")we use mando and banjo for fillers.........love those sounds.

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grumpyolddude

"lighter drug" is just one of your many fine tunes, fly.
I'll have something for your ears soon! (no banjo, tho)

Kaimi

I absolutely cannot stand the banjo.

Tophat665

Lighten up, Francis.

I've been there. Bluegrass used to get my back up. Not really the banjo's fault but it drew my ire, for a while. Then I heard Bela Fleck and thought, it isn't the banjo, it's the Bluegrass. Then I heard the Gourd's cover of Snoop Dogg's Gin N Juice, which isn't strictly speaking bluegrass, but gets pretty close, and the obligatory bluegrass song on each Phish album, and then I heard Hayseed Dixie's bluegrass covers of AC/DC and realized that it's like Yiddish - it just sounds irritating until you realize that there is something fundamentally amusing about it.

Now, emo banjo I would probably still hate, but I can't even imagine what that would sound like (grey grass?)

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Fly

thanks grump........can't wait to hear it.

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uncle phil

youse gots ta love these guys:

http://www.kingstontrio.com/

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.