That ever growing stack of CDs in your house, they turn into little furry woodland creatures at night when you sleep. It's true, because when you awake they've bred and multiplied, only with different names, different genres and different musical instruments. More than enough clutter to justify one of the most famous lines from the movie The Graduate: "plastics." So we were happy to read that for the first time in history, sales of digital music downloads finally passed that of hard copy--CD, ...
As we did in last year and in 2009, we pause and recap the memorable highlights in the mandolin world as we saw them. January, 2011 - Classical mandolin and the Grammy Awards met for the first time when Avi Avital was part of the nomination for Avner Dorman's Mandolin Concerto with Avi as soloist with Metropolis Ensemble. Speaking of classical, one of the finest recordings of the year came from the UK's ...
Check out the Thread, for the video and discussion. Originally Posted by Mary Weber Great, Brett! Man, a lot goes on around here and I have to read about it on mandolincafe...
A Custom Yellowstone HT Mandolin, Custom Black Ice Mandolin, and Fern Guitar (legal! remember we can build them with octave, mandocello, or whatever tuning)
On Monday we covered some 2011 new music in advance of Black Friday and today we have some gear recommendations to share. Not necessarily restricted to what's new to 2011, we're happy to recommendation products that are tried and tested and are widely in use. If you've been paying attention and are a certified AAS sufferer (Accessory Acquisition Syndrom) you may have some of these items. Got your own suggestions? We'd like to hear them, and please share a link with us. ...
Black Friday, the big shopping day after Thanksgiving is soon upon us and we thought we'd recap some of the terrific new music that arrived in 2011. HINT: leave this post up on your PC, highlight what you like and exclaim loudly: "wow, would I like this for Christmas!" Then disappear for awhile and hope the item appears under the tree on Christmas instead of that annual package of white tube socks. ...
Hattip from EdG. (thanks- great song!) Here's Eva Holbrook of the band SHEL, on her Weber Bear Tooth mandolin, performing a magnificent cover of the Led Zeppelin classic 'The Battle of Evermore', a song originally released 40 years ago this week.
Weber;985750]Can't wait for the sound clips! Here are some more pics.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Mary
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