Re: Distressed Mandolin and Regular Playing
Originally Posted by
Jeff Mando
I forget who the quote was by, but a musician was on the same bill as Elvis in the 50's and had a brand new guitar. Elvis asked to borrow it for his performance, played it and returned to him all scratched up with 3 strings broken...
When Charlie Derrington was piecing back together the splinters of Monroe's Pokered Loar, Charlie kindly offered Bill his own Pristine Loar to play in the meantime.
Monroe gave it back with a coffee-mug sized chunk of finish ground off of the back from one of his spiky "Bluegrass Boys" belt buckles...
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
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