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Topic Title: In honor of Earl Scruggs Topic Summary: Created On: 03/28/2012 07:08 PM Status: Post and Reply |
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03/28/2012 07:08 PM
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03/29/2012 05:18 AM
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03/29/2012 06:19 AM
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Damn man! He's the most famous (and deservedly so) banjo player in the world.
Bluegrass is the prog rock of country. ------------------------- Learn something. Anything. Please. |
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03/29/2012 06:20 AM
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Side note. I went to Jr. High with Mark Vann late of Leftover Salmon. I had no idea he played until talent show day when he came out and ripped into the Beverly Hillbillies Theme. RIP Mark.
------------------------- Learn something. Anything. Please. |
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03/29/2012 06:28 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...tjkx0&feature=related
The other great instrumental. ------------------------- Learn something. Anything. Please. |
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03/29/2012 07:34 AM
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Bluegrass legend, banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at 88
http://www.orlandosentinel.com...cruggs,0,6797515.story ------------------------- surf forecast |
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03/29/2012 09:12 AM
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God Bless him. Amazing player, and a real gentleman.
------------------------- The future you choose excludes all others. |
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03/29/2012 06:38 PM
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Saw Earl twice. Once with the Foggy Mountain Boys in Miami, and once by himself and his sons at SMU.
1969 was not really in "Miami" proper, it was at the Gulfstream Park (Horse Track) during the "Miami Pop Festival". It was a "trip". The Grateful Dead played at the main stage for what seemed 2 hours. All the "Dead Heads" were up front groovin, as usual. Then, it was time for the next act, The Foggy Mountain Boys. Talk about out-of-place! Anyway, the Heads were making a big fuss, and screaming for the Dead to come back on, and generally booing the Boys, all of them in their black suits, white Stetsons, and black bolo ties. Well, they opened with "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", and then went through a set of their standards. The heads were starting to get into it! The Boys closed the set with their "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", and that WAS IT for the Heads. They screamed their heads of, and the Boys did the "Breakdown" 5 more times before they left the stage. |
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03/30/2012 06:53 AM
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I saw Scruggs and the boys at Union Grove many times. Although it was 100% bluegrass, the crowd was 90% dead heads. Here's an astonishing rendition of Foggy Mountain Breakdown that Scruggs opens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOIqmlI65Y&feature=related God Bless you and your three finger pickin Earl. |
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04/01/2012 10:29 AM
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Bluegrass is the prog rock of country. I first chuckled at that comment, but after digging up some Scruggs and other Bluegrass to listen to, it all made sense. I heard some good stuff on NPR this morning (yes, Todd, it was WFIT) 
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/...-told-by-his-followers There are a few audio links off that page, including what aired this morning: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/m...=149718666&m=149787869 Check the spread of Bluegrass influence on Leon Wilkeson: 
------------------------- That boy's got somethin' wrong with his medulla oblongata. |
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