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Nice! Sorry I waited till Wednesday to listen.

Dang it. we need a permanent link for a kickstarter TAB fund. I'm enjoying bashing my head against this one but I'd love a bit of sheet music to go along. Such a cool use of mandola.

Very nice

Very Nice!

that was great - definitely inspired my morning!

Mighty fine.

Enjoyed that very much.

Welcome, Josh. Great treatment of this tune, works nicely on dola!

Great changes! Thanks for all the tunes in 2017.

Nice version, David. I tend to play it a little faster because that tune can swing! (Great chord progressions.)

Gorgeous, as usual, David. Thanks, and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you and all the 'cafe and its members!
Peace and Love

A beautiful Christmas treat.

This is wonderful as always with David's playing, but his version last year of the Charlie Brown theme "Christmas Time is Here" with Missy Raines is just about my favorite Christmas mandolin piece ever - and it is still on YouTube. Thanks!

Bravo.

You cheered me up. All I got was socks.

Thanks for another great year of music, David. Looking forward to 2018. Did we hear a rumor a mandolin album from you is on the horizon?

Great pickin', Scott.
With the speed you're using on that tune, maybe it should be called "Under the Autobahn"!

Nice tune! If you are reading these comments Scott is the name "Under the Audubon" mean some kind of bird inspiration for the tune? I am a bird song devotee and know the calls and songs of several hundred N. American birds -- I use that information is the spring for survey work. But your tune kind of makes me think of bird vocalizations -- with the abrupt passages always springing up suddenly - like a bird call on a quite morning? Just thought I'd mention that! LOL! Love that old Gibson F-5!

Whoa! Cool tune, Sir 🤓

Nifty, my friend. The D Man would be proud...

Welcome, Scott. Great playing!

Very nice picking, great Tune and tone. Cm !

Really great tune and playing!!

Thanks!

Beautiful tune and playing--it really captured me.

Nice tune. I posted this awhile back, but if you want to hear real Japanese (or Japanese American) music on mandolin, check out this short documentary "Remembering Rafu Mandolin Club": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TY6Eg0HWs8

lovely.

Love the tone too!

Welcome, Isaac. Great playing!

Wow! Beautiful job!

Super shortened version. Sapporo is about 18 mins. long.

Beautiful, man!

Awesome job!

Thanks. Fantastic! Fan of Circus No .9

Nice picking!

Welcome, Thomas. Nicely played!

Congratulations, David, and thank you for 100 inspiring videos! Very sweet picking here, too

Good on ya, David! Thanks for all the MMs.

Thanks for all your time and work.

Your mandolin Monday's are really liked and appreciated.

Kudos to you. And thanks for the tune!

Nicely done, David. Thanks for your tireless efforts. 100 Mondays in a row is no small feat for sure.

Yeah, bro!

Nice hat

That was so funny as well as being totally brilliant !!!. My own playing is very similar,but my gaffs aren't intentional,
Terrific - Ivan

Selling all my mandolins now......

Well I sure as heck can't pick like that but it's refreshing to see someone that good also keeps a pick in his strings while he's playing! That was unbelievably good Evan!

So far my favorite mandolin Monday ever!

Wow....

Well blow me down...

... sorry;

1) check out the strap! Do not ever think of putting a heel button in your mandolin after watching this video.

2) check out the pick grip...(among many other things). Chapeau Evan.

GREAT ONE, EVAN, THANKS!

...forgot to shout out how much I liked the Evan Marshall piece. (I was sold on his playing after having listened to him on "Tone Poets"!)

I have to comment here:

I have watched all/most of the mandolin mondays contributions. I find them an incredible and thoroughly thought over plan/marketing design/teaching approach/publicity idea/ittouchessomanypartsofgettingthemusicoutthere.

First of all: Let me congratulate you of the quest to bring us "Mandolin Mondays".

Then: Let it be a hub (for you... for us) to interact musically (and probably/hopefully professionally for you) with other world class musicians

Also: As it shows the multitude of aproaches to playing the instrument (mandolin in this case), we see that each musician/ each aproach stands for itself individually.

At last: KEEP IT UP! (Maybe, after this run/year of mandolin mondays there is a concept of mandolin mondays as duo recordings; team up unlikely instrument combinations; explore the depth of musical pieces [let bluegrass mandolinists play classical pieces and vice versa, f.ex.]; team up an instructor with a student; come up with a year full of musicians of each genre [folk, rock, jazz, grass etc.]).

Come to Europe sometime...
Cheers!