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Playing Since: 1971
Experience Level: Purty Good
banjopogo has made 50 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Gender: Male
Age: 60
My Instruments:
Hohner HTB travel banjo
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Bluegrass: Enjoyed Bill Monroe and the BG Boys, the BG Cardinals, and Country Gazette live, and Flatt and Scruggs and Stanley Brothers albums- and of course, I liked Foggy Mountain Breakdown- that helped motivate me to start banjo, cause it sounded so cool.
Oldtimers:
Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Hobart Smith, Clarence Ashley, Wade Ward.
Newtimers:
Paul Brown.
Sundry influences on my banjo playing and singing with banjo:
Burl Ives, Joan Baez, Elizabeth Cotten, John Hurt, Mike Seeger,
Pete Seeger, Chicago Blues, Blind Willie Johnson, Jimmy Reed,
Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Georgia Sea Island Singers.
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Created 8/8/2006
Last Visit 5/18/2013
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Took a few bluegrass lessons in 1971, then a fellow took my Vega Folk banjo
took it and frailed Soldier's Joy onnit, and I fell in love with Old Time banjo.
I played just banjo for a couple years, but I also had fallen in love with fiddle tunes and
fiddle, and above a certain complexity, it seemed to make more sense to play fiddle
tunes on fiddle- which I still do.
I played in two L.A. based string bands in the 70's, in the first, we all knew how to play
banjo, so I never got to play, played fiddle instead. In the second, I was the
only banjo player, so I would play it on a few tunes.
I was both fiddle-less and banjo-less for about 15 years,
then I got a fiddle again 2 years ago , and a banjo again last year.
I am volunteering in nursing homes and am using it for my "gigs",
along with fiddle and guitar.
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