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wvbanjo - Posted - 11/08/2009: 19:40:00
Oh, yeah! Go-ooo-oo-o-ooo Frank!!!!!!!
kim johnson
chip arnold - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:24:54
Hey Chad, thanks for that. Are you still working with Mr George?
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Take what is given
Give what is taken
Chip Arnold
cashwo_wv - Posted - 11/08/2009: 20:29:46
The apprenticeship "officially" ended in July but I was just up there this past Saturday. What a GREAT experience.
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Chad Ashworth
olpete - Posted - 11/09/2009: 04:33:03
Thanks for postin that Chad.
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"Everybody loves the destination but few want to make the trip"
Solo - Posted - 11/09/2009: 12:30:12
Love it!! I've marked this as a favorite. Thanks for posting Chad.
whyteman - Posted - 11/10/2009: 15:40:18
I know that this sounds corny, but Franklin George changed my life as far as music is concerned. I'd taken a few lessons as a teenager back in the 70s when I bought Frank's first Lp on Kanawa, the one with the two bagpipe cuts. Shortly there after my folk revival records were sent away and I've never looked back.
Every Frank George post always makes me think about Pat Dunford. Frank said Pat had one of the greatest collections of field recordings, but they seemed to have disappeared after Pat's untimely death. Anyone have any clues about these recordings. Could any of you WV boys ask Franklin?
Don.
Haul off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.
fretlessinfortwayne - Posted - 11/14/2009: 06:47:50
I sure enjoyed meeting Mr. George last year at Breakin' Up Winter. I remember him saying at one point: "Everyone plays too fast."
Dean
"Each one's got to have his own style. It's all creamed potatoes, just fixed a little different." -- Benton Flippen
fishinmusician - Posted - 11/14/2009: 09:02:56
Chad, thanks for posting this! This made my day.
This is a tune I've heard many times, but this is one of my senior moments. What's the name of the tune in the first half of the clip?
Dave
Jami108 - Posted - 11/15/2009: 08:51:44
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Originally posted by fretlessinfortwayne
I remember him saying at one point: "Everyone plays too fast."
That's become my new banjo motto. Jami  "When you want genuine music—music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey…ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose—when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!" - Mark Twain
raybob - Posted - 11/15/2009: 09:16:10
Nice, thanks for posting it.
Ray
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." --G. Santayana
whyteman - Posted - 11/16/2009: 18:54:09
FortWayne's comment about "too fast" is interesting. I love the recordings of Franklin and the great John Summers playing together. Most other rercordings of Summers fiddling solo, he plays like a demon! It almost sounds like Franklin tamed him so they could play so well in their duets.
Don.
Haul off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.
Boyd1 - Posted - 11/20/2009: 07:19:55
Hey, thanks so much for this for many reasons.
I feel foolish and out of touch, but I had assumed for a long time that Franklin George had gone to that meeting in the air.
Are there more recordings besides the Cd/Lp on Kanawa?
Man, can he play it the way I like!
cashwo_wv - Posted - 02/10/2010: 07:28:30
I'm glad everyone enjoyed that. Larry Dent posted that up on youtube.
boyd1, Frank has a great cd with David O'Dell playing banjo with him. I'm not sure where you can get it anymore though. It's called Reflections of the Past.
djvarnell - Posted - 02/13/2010: 07:44:56
Hey Chad Thanks for the post. Are you coming down to BUW this year, if so looking forward to seeing you, if not see you at clifftop
whyteman - Posted - 02/13/2010: 10:04:07
Might add that David O'Dell is a wonderful banjo player in his own right. I strongly endorse his solo "Banjo For A Rainy Day" cd and his banjo/fiddle Cd with Dave Bing.
GerryH - Posted - 02/13/2010: 20:00:50
Mighty fine!
GerryH
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