My favorite is....I suffered for my music now it's your turn.
My favorite is....I suffered for my music now it's your turn.
"Hurry up, we're getting a walking ovation here"
--Mike Snider (talking to one of the announcers doing a commercial for WSM on the Opry)
"This is a Kumbaya Free Zone"
Steve Coyle, formerly of The Waybacks responding to a drunks request for this old campfire standard at a show in Vermont.
Ray Wylie Hubbard , " So THAT'S what a smattering sounds like ..."
'09 Passernig A5
'82 Kentucky
'05 Deering Sierra
'81 Gold Star maple archtop
'79 Guild D-35SB
'98 Gibson J-100
Mid 1890's German fiddle
"Well, I don't have much fun playin bluegrass, but I sure do make the money."
Kenny Smith
Bill
"Thank you, music lovers!"
Spike Jones
"Bless your heart, and all your vital organs."
John Duffy
"I'd like to say that this is one of my favorite songs... but I can't say that."
Charlie Waller
John Hamlett
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Sometime in the mid '90s I was at The Landing, the local jazz club where they record the NPR jazz show. Somebody in the audience asked the Jim Cullum, the bandleader, if they did request. His answer:
"Do we do requests? Yes. We're working some from 1985 tonight."
George Wilson
Weber Bighorn Mandolin
ca. 1900 Clifford Mandolinetto
Martin Guitars
Irish fiddler Frankie Gavin came onstage at The Burren in Somerville, Ma and looked out at the audience.
"Are you all right?", he asked. "You look nervous. Don't worry, you're gonna do just fine.".
Steve
"Yeah, I remember my first beer ..."
Melbourne band the Guitars of Love.. Now we'd like to play an instrumental, please sing along.
"We had few request tonight, but were going to sing them anyways"
Harley Allen to his dad Red. "If you were around more when I was growing up I may have gotten braces for me teeth" Red to Harley "If I was around more you wouldnt have had any teeth.
Although not directed to the audience persay it was very funny.
Also Red to the audience.... "The Doctor told me to have a drink each night before I went to bed, Last night I went to bed 17 times"
Can't remember the band now...
"Thank you, thank you! You've made an old man very happy!" (aside to another band member "You are happy aren't you Bob?")
Jethro Burns after the opening song: "We only know two songs, and we always do one of them first. Which one do you want to do now?"
From Stan Rogers' Home in Halifax: "We've played this song and impregnated whole audiences."
"When I heard what Socrates had done on the lyre, I wished indeed even [I had done] that...but certainly I labored hard in letters!" - Cicero, "Cato the Elder on Old Age"
Weber Gallatin Mahogany F
19th Century Ferrari(?) Bowlback
Early 20th Century British Mandoline-Banjo & Deering Goodtime Tenor
1960s Harmony Baritone Ukelele
The Magic Fluke Flea Soprano Ukelele (in 5ths!)
1910 German Stradivarius 1717 copy, unknown maker
1890(?) German Stradivarius 1725 copy, G.A. Pfreztschner, maker
Someone in the audience to Neil Young..."they all sound the same" Neil Young back at him..."They're all the same song..."
My band at a 100 degree + day gig..."we would like to thank our sponsor today, Gold Bond Powder"
Jethro before the opening song: "Can we have the applause now?"
Les Paul to me: "Where are you going?" as I stood up to give him a standing o at the Iridium.
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
My previous band's guitar player to b*&j# player, after kicking into a break on "Will You Be Lovin' Another Man?": "Love another man on that five-string, Steve!"
Lost on the trails of The Deep North
"This is one of your favorite songs, we hope it's one of ours"
2015 Chevy Silverado
2 bottles of Knob Creek bourbon
1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
Bill Yates to James Bailey (before launching into Foggy Mtn. Breakdown):
"Heck, it's on the first page of every banjo book."
We've had a couple of requests, but we are going to play anyhow, and the banjo won't fit!
Mike Marrs
I'm going to do an old favorite, and it goes something like this......(actually I hope it goes exactly like this.....)
"Raise your hands if you've seen me play before... I don't suppose any of you remember what song I do next? No, me neither..."
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