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acutab - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:02:38
Greetings all.
We have finally convinced Crowe to come on down and shoot a DVD with AcuTab, and I am completing the outline now. I have a pretty clear idea what should be included, but thought I would throw it out to everyone here as well.
What songs/tunes would you like to see him cover?
How about concepts, questions, etc?
Maybe I can ask it this way: if Crowe was going to make a video for you, what would you ask him to include?
We are very excited about this project, and can't wait to get started.
Thanks for any input anyone may wish to offer.
If you would like to be notified when the DVD is available, go here: http://www.acutab.com/sidebar/comin...ng_soon.html
John
John Lawless - AcuTab Publications: Books and DVDs of interest to serious students of bluegrass music; private banjo lessons in Roanoke, VA (http://www.acutab.com/artists/lawless/lessons.html)
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Earls 5 - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:08:53
You dont know my mind,has always been one of my favs. ,John- maybe a timeline type thing would be best with J.Ds long list of great picin tunes too.
Keep your friends close,and God even closer...
mralph - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:25:36
You Don't Know my Mind, Bear Tracks, Blackjack, Train 45, maybe Cheyenne. I wish I could think of more right now. That's great that you got him to do a video. I can't wait to see it. Great work as always John!
carteru93 - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:39:36
Cover his setup!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pick till yer fingers bleed!!
Uh oh they let me out too soon.....
gbkyser - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:50:09
Great project. How about a bits-and-pieces section where he shows some backup licks, tags, and some of those bluesy fills?
GUY
banjotef - Posted - 02/25/2008: 18:55:09
Hey John:
East Virginia Blues is my favorite. Also, would like some instruction on his right hand picking attack angle and technique. Great idea for a DVD!! Thanks for putting this together!
bluegrassboy - Posted - 02/25/2008: 19:16:30
i have a live recording of him playing"faded love" that would be great, also, when wendy miller was with him, they done a mandolin number called "blue dreamer", classic crowe break!
shclandler - Posted - 02/25/2008: 19:23:24
His setup and right hand technique would be great. How he constructs a solo a la the the Ron Stewart video would be helpful too.
RayD - Posted - 02/25/2008: 19:33:53
His approach to backup - how he chooses phrasing, transition licks between chords, turn arounds, how he comes up with intros, to name a few.
Cheers,
RayD
dale v - Posted - 02/25/2008: 19:50:43
also info on his different flatheads,closeup pics
mralph - Posted - 02/25/2008: 20:15:08
I forgot, definitely backup! I'd love to see that.
Alex Z - Posted - 02/25/2008: 20:23:35
Oh man -- JD Crowe.
John, that's outstanding.
I'm with RayD -- back-up. Not just showing licks, but as RayD says, his approach, what he's thinking about, what he's trying to do in various musical situations. With a singer, with a mandolin, with a fiddle, during verses and fill-ins. This is what you can't get from just tabbing the notes and showing the fingerings.
Alex Z
corcoran - Posted - 02/25/2008: 20:53:14
quote:
Originally posted by acutab
Greetings all.
We have finally convinced Crowe to come on down and shoot a DVD with AcuTab, and I am completing the outline now. I have a pretty clear idea what should be included, but thought I would throw it out to everyone here as well.
What songs/tunes would you like to see him cover?
How about concepts, questions, etc?
Maybe I can ask it this way: if Crowe was going to make a video for you, what would you ask him to include?
We are very excited about this project, and can't wait to get started.
Thanks for any input anyone may wish to offer.
If you would like to be notified when the DVD is available, go here: http://www.acutab.com/sidebar/comin...ng_soon.html
John
John Lawless - AcuTab Publications: Books and DVDs of interest to serious students of bluegrass music; private banjo lessons in Roanoke, VA (http://www.acutab.com/artists/lawless/lessons.html)
http://www.acutab.com * http://www.5-and-dime.com * http://www.thebluegrassblog.com
The Bluegrass Music Has Got To Be Played!
For advanced players, the concentration should be on backup and his unique arrangements on slower tunes such as "Faded Love." It would be wonderful to watch him play the slower stuff and hear his philosophy on these tunes. Michael michael.corcoran@usask.ca
Arthur Hatfield - Posted - 02/25/2008: 22:32:11
John I would like for you to get him to do two if at all possible and one just strictly backup I think a backup of Crowe would out sell one of lead playing on instrumentals of course I am going to buy whatever he does but would buy the backup as a first choice if there was one. I have Sonnys's and I have one more request for you to get Bill Emerson to do one for Accutab if you can get that worked out with him while he is still playing. Let us know as soon as it is out I want to be one of the first in line for one.
Arthur Hatfield
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Gronk - Posted - 02/25/2008: 23:00:08
"Runaround " is a Doyle Lawson instrumental from the Straight Ahead record and one of my favorites.
Thank you Joel Sweeney.
moses - Posted - 02/25/2008: 23:14:30
I'd like to get his comments on "drive" and how he gets that solid drive in any song. Get him to tell what his philosophy is in playing behind vocals. He;s the best at it. Also, "Old Home Place" would be a good song to include.
fivestringwomanrepeller - Posted - 02/25/2008: 23:38:54
Definitely back up technique examples, advice for improvising back up on the fly.
Thanks.
banjoken - Posted - 02/26/2008: 00:31:51
quote:
Originally posted by acutab
Greetings all.
We have finally convinced Crowe to come on down and shoot a DVD with AcuTab, and I am completing the outline now.
Can't wait for anything that you guys decide to do! Any idea when it might be for sale?
lazyarcher - Posted - 02/26/2008: 00:47:52
Congratulations John--and great that you'll be able to capture another master on video!!
My vote is for backup, backup, backup....
Dave Jack
ukbanjo - Posted - 02/26/2008: 00:48:16
Blackjack
Devil in Disguise lick
Nashville skyline rag
bugle call rag lick
Ocean of Diamonds back up lick
Hold Watcha Got break
General approach to forming a break for a song
Cheers,
Howie (known as "Ukbanjo", but don't tell anydody!)
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Chris Quinn - Posted - 02/26/2008: 01:40:27
Yeah, waste time on set-up.  J.D. played a Gold Star and it sounded fine. Focus on playing. Collectors can talk about banjos that J.D. owned. Make this DVD for players!! Waste not a second of J.D.'s time on strings or tone rings. Second for second......focus on all aspects playing!!!
"J.D. What tone ring should people have in order to sound like you?" Don't insult the man.
Chris Quinn
www.foggyhogtownboys.com
Edited by - Chris Quinn on 02/26/2008 02:24:24
Timron - Posted - 02/26/2008: 02:04:06
Back-up and playing in a band environment as He is the Man at this stuff.
menno - Posted - 02/26/2008: 06:26:15
JD Crowe is a master in slow country tunes back-up. I don't know many instructional material who explains that great slow country tunes on banjo. So I hope there will be some of those tune on the future dvd. But I will buy this dvd anyway.
Menno
hamestring - Posted - 02/26/2008: 07:12:15
I would love to see the backup for Ocean Of Diamonds.
Roger
jack64 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 07:52:38
Backup for slow and 3/4 songs for me, too!
Thank you and ciao from Italy.
Jack '64
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Edited by - jack64 on 02/26/2008 07:53:08
flake - Posted - 02/26/2008: 08:45:43
Backup!
Thanks in advance John 
mike
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Tyler8 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 09:55:04
John,
Put up a pre-order page, you can have my money for this now.
Seriously, you can.
I agree with Chris Quinn. JD is a master of arranging breaks and dreaming up creative and interesting backup -- and then executing them flawlessly on stage. Have him talk about arranging a tune. What he considers while working out backup for a tune. How he prepares himself for a show.
As for songs? Any that have been mentioned would be great. I would add Age to the list so far.
Thanks
Tyler
wkb28791 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 10:07:10
Backup, backup, backup and backup. And anything else JD feels like teaching us!!!
Great Picker! Great project!!
Regards,
wkb28791
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
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HuberTone - Posted - 02/26/2008: 10:15:29
In addition to the others mentioned:
- Old Home Place (Kick-off, verse fills)
- Right Back Whwere I Started Again
And BACKUP, BACKUP, more BACKUP! This is gonna be great, a Crowe instructional DVD! *drools*
Also some info on his banjos over the years (how he acquired them, his set-up, etc).
"My girlfriend told me I'm not much of a lover, so I must be a heck of a fighter!"
bobdenver1961 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 10:28:22
Pull Off's. His have to be some of the best sounding I have heard from anyone.
Bob
"Earl if you are going to pick, pick something that has a tune to it" ...
kdstag - Posted - 02/26/2008: 10:48:55
How about some tunes in keys other than G ? D or F? I'd like to learn the version of "Hey Lonesome" from the BAB. Looking forward to the DVD !!!!! Great work, John.
Edited by - kdstag on 02/26/2008 10:51:11
sdhtj - Posted - 02/26/2008: 11:13:06
An entire DVD on backup would be great!
Joe
chickenpickin - Posted - 02/26/2008: 11:44:51
John, If the DVD could be layed out very much in line with the way Bill Evans did all of his Instructional video's, you will have winner of a DVD I think. I like the song to be played in a band context and then break it down as far as breaks and back-up. I really wouldn't care what songs are performed as long as the instuctions show us J.D.'s right and left hand magic.
Tim
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wkb28791 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 12:05:02
Maybe you could work it out to follow your JD Crowe Acutab book that you put out a few years ago.
Regards,
wkb28791
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
Albert Einstein
OutlawSteph - Posted - 02/26/2008: 13:49:42
I wanted to buy the book, but I see it's out of stock. Will this be reprinted? I'm not sure how much I'll get out of a DVD without tab.
ambpicker - Posted - 02/26/2008: 14:26:03
I still have the book, it's in a safe place. I'd like to see him play beartracks. On his black jack album, he played a break on a song about a blind helpless child. It really went with the song, and was one of the finest breaks ever taken on banjo, IMHO.
I've never met, seen, or even heard JD's voice. But I'm a big fan.
bhrb75 - Posted - 02/26/2008: 14:39:56
Some of the slow breaks and the backup licks from the Kentucky Mountain Boys years. Also I would like to know how Crowe sets up his banjos now and how he set them up back in the 70's with the '75 band.
Thanks,
Brandon
"He lives so far back in there
Timron - Posted - 02/26/2008: 14:50:28
The DVD's from John usually have a tab booklet with them.
Bradskey - Posted - 02/26/2008: 15:16:14
quote:
Originally posted by menno
JD Crowe is a master in slow country tunes back-up. I don't know many instructional material who explains that great slow country tunes on banjo.
JD is the master of country banjo, period. Maybe he has something to say about the broader application of the banjo in country or gospel music, etc.
Kerry - Posted - 02/26/2008: 15:43:49
Whatever you include, shoot it from the perspective of the player, looking down at the fret board (like the Jim Mills DVD). That is the absolute best view IMHO. There is no transposing mirrored positions in your brain because you are duplicating it just as you would see it.
silvioferretti - Posted - 02/26/2008: 16:44:19
One thing that I don't thing has ever been covered are those bluesy licks (mostly out of an F position) that he employs in a variety of tunes, from slow stuff to slow-medium songs like Ramblin' Boy all the way to the opposite end of the spectrum like on Train 45. Know what I'm talking about? A 5-3 pull-off on the 1st string then down on the 2nd string, 3rd fret, a choke on the 3rd string, 5th fret etc. Very, very bluesy stuff that I believe he took from electric guitar players and turned into "classic Crowe". Man, I never figured out what he does, let alone HOW!... 
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Greg Earnest - Posted - 02/26/2008: 16:55:56
quote:
Originally posted by ambpicker
In his black jack album, he played a break on a song about a blind helpless child. It really went with the song, and was one of the finest breaks ever taken on banjo, IMHO.
"There'll Be No Blind Ones There". One of my favorites. I agree that some discussion of his setup over the years would be interesting since his recorded tone has changed greatly over the years from Jimmy Martin to the Ketucky Mt. Boys to now, and I don't think it's all attributable to changing recording technology. The Prewar Gibson Banjo website http://www.earnestbanjo.com
lindyguy - Posted - 02/26/2008: 17:15:49
Include "Will you be satisfied" One of my Favs!
Just add water..makes its' own
bluegrassboy - Posted - 02/26/2008: 17:40:50
silvio, i think the lick your refering to is on the live in japan album with keith whitley at the end of "dont give your heart to a rambler" im not 100% sure, but i think he got that from van halen, ive worked on that for years, (still dont have it right) if you run into greg cahill, he can do it!
Kent - Posted - 02/26/2008: 19:02:35
Some of his stuff from the Jimmy Martin instrumental album would be nice. Crowe back-up.
kris_rasnake - Posted - 02/26/2008: 19:37:28
My all time favorite Crowe break is the kick off to "I'll be your stepping stone." That is some of his best stuff in my opinion.
Kris Rasnake
jfb - Posted - 02/26/2008: 21:29:20
I would like to suggest that all of the above be done on his old original flatheads...then most if not all of the 25 thousand members here will buy one...
Eastbanjo - Posted - 02/26/2008: 21:43:08
anything from bluegrass holiday cd.
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