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  1. Zach Wilson's Avatar
    Whoa! Cool tune, Sir 🤓
  2. AlanN's Avatar
    Nifty, my friend. The D Man would be proud...
  3. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Welcome, Scott. Great playing!
  4. Billy Packard's Avatar
    Very nice picking, great Tune and tone. Cm !
  5. ccravens's Avatar
    Really great tune and playing!!

    Thanks!
  6. JonDoug's Avatar
    Beautiful tune and playing--it really captured me.
  7. Bob Sayers's Avatar
    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
  8. mtucker's Avatar
    lovely.
  9. Don Grieser's Avatar
    Love the tone too!
  10. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Welcome, Isaac. Great playing!
  11. Rosemary Philips's Avatar
    Wow! Beautiful job!
  12. 45ACP-GDLF5's Avatar
    Super shortened version. Sapporo is about 18 mins. long.
  13. AlanN's Avatar
    Beautiful, man!
  14. ccravens's Avatar
    Awesome job!
  15. AMandolin's Avatar
    Thanks. Fantastic! Fan of Circus No .9
  16. John Soper's Avatar
    Nice picking!
  17. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Welcome, Thomas. Nicely played!
  18. Michael Neverisky's Avatar
    Congratulations, David, and thank you for 100 inspiring videos! Very sweet picking here, too
  19. Paul Statman's Avatar
    Good on ya, David! Thanks for all the MMs.
  20. ccravens's Avatar
    Thanks for all your time and work.

    Your mandolin Monday's are really liked and appreciated.

    Kudos to you. And thanks for the tune!
  21. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Nicely done, David. Thanks for your tireless efforts. 100 Mondays in a row is no small feat for sure.
    Updated Nov-27-2017 at 4:15pm by Mandolin Cafe
  22. AlanN's Avatar
    Yeah, bro!
  23. AMandolin's Avatar
    Nice hat
  24. Ivan Kelsall's Avatar
    That was so funny as well as being totally brilliant !!!. My own playing is very similar,but my gaffs aren't intentional,
    Terrific - Ivan
  25. Bernie Daniel's Avatar
    Selling all my mandolins now......
  26. mandolooter's Avatar
    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!
  27. Jerusalem Ridge's Avatar
    So far my favorite mandolin Monday ever!
  28. ccravens's Avatar
    Wow....
  29. AlanN's Avatar
    Well blow me down...
  30. grassrootphilosopher's Avatar
    ... 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.
  31. Paul Statman's Avatar
    GREAT ONE, EVAN, THANKS!
  32. grassrootphilosopher's Avatar
    ...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"!)
  33. grassrootphilosopher's Avatar
    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!
  34. bigskygirl's Avatar
    Love it!
  35. Bill McCall's Avatar
    I just have to laugh watching him play, it’s so amazing. I’ll have to practice another week.
  36. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Is there tab for that?



    Seriously, love it! Welcome, Evan.
  37. Bud Barnwell's Avatar
    Thanks Jake. That's Gittin" r dun
  38. ccravens's Avatar
    Very nice!
  39. HonketyHank's Avatar
    One of my favorite tunes. And a well-done rendition. Wahooooo!
  40. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Beautiful playing, Jake. Welcome!
  41. Rush Burkhardt's Avatar
    Excellent! Thanks!
    Rush
  42. John Soper's Avatar
    Late to this Mandolin Monday, but what a treat!
  43. loess's Avatar
    Sublime, David. I stumbled upon you and Taarka (and ThaMuseMeant) at High Sierra Music Festival way back in 2003. The sounds you conjure up are always a surprise and a delight for the mind to behold. Cheers
  44. Alfons's Avatar
    Thanks David, very nice indeed.
  45. darylcrisp's Avatar
    one of my favorite players, always clean notes, smile on the face, brings a sense of fun and pleasure when listening
  46. ccravens's Avatar
    Oh, so nice.

    Thanks David!
  47. Paul Statman's Avatar
    Beautiful! Thanks, David.
  48. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Welcome, David. Have admired your playing for some time and kudos to a fellow Nugget owner!
  49. ccravens's Avatar
    Another great Mandolin Monday!

    Thanks Adam & David!
  50. AMandolin's Avatar
    Thanks so much.