Any of the well-known players (Skaggs, Thile, Marshall, etc) regular posters? I know Mike does lessons via Skype, just wondering if any big names stop by the cafe from time to time?
Famous members
Any of the well-known players (Skaggs, Thile, Marshall, etc) regular posters? I know Mike does lessons via Skype, just wondering if any big names stop by the cafe from time to time?
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Dawg makes an appearance occasionally as does Adam Steffey.
Sean
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The ones you named: nope!
Adam Steffey posts once in a blue moon, Dawg has posted before; don't know about others.
There's really no incentive on their part to "wrangle" on an internet forum; that's what staffers are for right?
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I suspect there may be a few more players of note chiming in occasionally but perhaps using pseudonyms instead of real names.
I suspect I am not the only famous one using a pseudonym.
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Originally Posted by bart mcneil
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Dude!When you were sworn into the Fraternity of Famous Fretters you were informed of the necessity of discretion. Now this cardinal rule has been broken, there's no telling what fate will befall us. Oh, woeful day! Alas and alack!
Ahem. Let me just amend that by saying that there are indeed a fair mount of fairly well-known personages hereabouts. However, some are famous chiefly in the future sense.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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OldGus, DataNick and JourneyBear....
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My six year old daughter thinks I am famous. Does that count?
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Don Stiernberg and Don Julin.
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Once in a while we'll get a post from David McLaughlin.
Maybe for some folks that doesn't stir up the same level of excitement as the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show...but it does for me!!
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I actually sold a mandolin to David Grisman through the classifieds a few years ago. That was pretty cool and I kept a copy of the check somewhere. He also sent a bunch of CDs that he was kind enough to sign and send along, albeit at pretty much normal cost, I wouldn't expect him to do it for free. "Famous" mandolin player is kind of an oxymoron, though I would have to say that Grisman and Thile represent "as good as it gets" I suppose.
Sean
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That's funny right there now... True, but funny!
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Matt Flinner stops in, usually about Flinnerian topics.
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You see??? You see??? That is why us famous guys have to go incognito!!!!
Because nobody takes us seriously!!!!
Last edited by bart mcneil; Jul-22-2014 at 4:03pm. Reason: speling
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Actually, he chimed in on a thread I was involved in just last week. I was a bit surprised to see his handle, and realized it really was him. Also, glad he didn't "pull rank." Whew!BTW, all of four posts. So far.
Last edited by journeybear; Jul-22-2014 at 5:39pm.
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We are MANDOLIN players .... and makers and collectors and enthusiasts and for the most part we are only famous to us! Some of us have had the distinction of being more well known to more of us than some others (of us) are known to us. The most well known (famous) members of the Mandolin Cafe, with a few exceptions, are probably lucky to be able to make car payments from what ever they do with mandolins. Some names already mentioned above I have seen performing to crowds as small as 30.
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To our great advantage, we also have a bunch of really well known Luthiers posting here regularly. They count as famous too, don't you think?
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What No Kardashians?
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
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I'm a legend in my own mind...!!
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That's because they spent all their money on f5 loars!
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I think it would be cool if all 24 famous players would post in a weeks time!
ntriesch
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Famous people? Heck, I'd love to be assured that i'm not the only girl on here.
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You're certainly not.
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Another female-type humanoid here.
Ahem, I noticed that no female famous mandolinists were mentioned. Rhonda Vincent ever show up?
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