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    Default Re: To be or not to be (a bluegrass player)

    Quote Originally Posted by journeybear View Post
    But since we're here, and this far off-topic, got a question for you, one of the few Canadians I know. I recently received as a gift a package of Mason St. Bakehouse granola (Super Seed & Fruit variety), and it is about the best commercially-produced granola I've ever tasted. Is this a well-known brand in Canada? Because it should be - it's outstanding.
    Not well enough know for me to have heard of, but then I usually have the traditional bowl of oatmeal (actually, rolled oats) for breakfast. And speaking of cereal, I'd like to know how many bluegrass mandolinists were lured into eating Kelloggs Corn Flakes by Homer and Jethro's commercials ------------------- No, No! I'm just kidding!
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zach Wilson View Post
    You're the Highlander
    I usually know and like the other bass player. Makes it harder to whack off their head. Especially with a bass. And the lightning from the quickening sometimes strikes a banjo player, giving them superpowers. We can't have that....

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    Yes.
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    I did not intend to derail the poll thread with mention of the doghouse, but since we're there here's the one I play. If you turn on its side and sit on a bench you can sort of pluck it like a mandolin for a few seconds:

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    Cheers,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ranald View Post
    I usually have the traditional bowl of oatmeal (actually, rolled oats) for breakfast.
    Medium ground oatmeal (not rolled oats) for me.
    David A. Gordon

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    Quote Originally Posted by CarlM View Post
    I have thought about starting a band called No Part of Nothin' .
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

    The entire staff
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    Default Re: To be or not to be (a bluegrass player)

    Quote Originally Posted by mingusb1 View Post
    I did not intend to derail the poll thread with mention of the doghouse, but since we're there here's the one I play. If you turn on its side and sit on a bench you can sort of pluck it like a mandolin for a few seconds:

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    It was at this point that I decided mandolin might be the instrument for me, lol!
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    *resisting temptation
    Last edited by catmandu2; Jan-10-2022 at 6:33pm.

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    Default Re: To be or not to be (a bluegrass player)

    Quote Originally Posted by mingusb1 View Post
    I did not intend to derail the poll thread with mention of the doghouse, but since we're there here's the one I play. If you turn on its side and sit on a bench you can sort of pluck it like a mandolin for a few seconds:

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    Cheers,
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    Looks like one of the New Standard Clevelands, or maybe a pristine American Standard. Got some burly shoulders on it.

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