stanleytone - Posted - 11/25/2009:  14:20:38

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Originally posted by strang

[quote][i]Originally posted by stanleytone
you can go to any jam or festival and almost all the banjo pickers will sound more like earl than any other.

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Complete with very little singing

thats what puts ralph up a notch over earl imo

Fortancient - Posted - 11/25/2009:  17:41:45

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Originally posted by stanleytone

[quote]Originally posted by Deaf David
[There is probably a whole 'nother thread in the question of why Earl doesn't have someone like Steve Sparkman following him around to carry the banner. Maybe it's because Ralph can draw a crowd with his singing and let someone else do the picking.

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you can go to any jam or festival and almost all the banjo pickers will sound more like earl than any other. i been to festivals where a band was jammin and they were heavy into the stanley sound,and they always draw a crowd,simply because that no one else in the campground has that sound. richard underwod said that ralph playing just stikes a nerve in him.thats what it does to me too. when i hear ralph's break on a tune like "just because", that machine gun sound of his just cant be beat!!
he is the johnny ramone of banjo players!

"Yeah,I play the banjo.You gotta problem with that?"

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Blahaha the Johnny Ramone of banjo!!!!!!!!!! I love that!