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Playing Since: 1960
Experience Level: Purty Good
mike gregory has made 818 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
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Occupation: banjo maker
Gender: Male
Age: 68
My Instruments:
Handmade (from FRAMUS parts),
Slingerland Maybelle,
5-string CookieTin on a Stick.
SQUARED EEL
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Any local band. (Same songs as national acts, better ticket prices) John Hartford, Stephen Wade. Original Kingston Trio. George Grove. Tony Trischka. And the as-yet undiscovered saxophone star Jessica Apalsch.
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Created 12/14/2005
Last Visit 5/24/2013
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Play count: 61
Size: 487kb, uploaded 8/6/2012 7:13:24 AM
Genre: Folk
I thought I uploaded this properly, but I can't FIND it, so I'm doing it again!
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2 people like this
Play count: 208
Size: 1,223kb, uploaded 8/6/2011 9:14:02 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
This is the baby Eel, a smaller version of the Squared Eel banjo.
Scrap lumber body and neck, 2-liter soft drink bottle sliced and flattened for the head. La Bella #17 nylon banjo strngs.
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Play count: 1737
Size: 1,558kb, uploaded 5/17/2007 3:48:18 PM
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Played on a 12-inch open back, made from hollow-core door veneer. Remo permatension head (No brackets!)
The style is sort of Scruggs rolls, bare fingers, with the occasional down stroke whenever I felt like it.
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Play count: 110
Size: 866kb, uploaded 1/5/2012 9:14:25 PM
Genre: Folk
Good old "Cripple Creek". Since the frets are just deep scratches in the Fomica (TM) fingerboard, I was trying for as many slides as I could squeeze in.
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Play count: 102
Size: 923kb, uploaded 5/12/2011 2:42:28 PM
Genre: Folk
This is the old beater banjo that I put a new head and tuners on. After I get the sound here, I'll post a link to the pictures.
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5 people like this
Play count: 501
Size: 1,004kb, uploaded 1/9/2009 1:10:25 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Seeger neck, by me. HELIX body, Nerdgoggles bridge by Xnavyguy
An old whaling song
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18 people like this
Play count: 768
Size: 3,042kb, uploaded 11/29/2007 10:16:40 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Wrote this when I was really frustrated by all the stuff going on at once. Job dissatisfaction, financial woes, and my son being psychologically abused by his stepfather.
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Play count: 286
Size: 1,235kb, uploaded 10/25/2011 8:03:51 AM
Genre: Folk
This Old man, he got mellow, played a test track, on his cello.
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16 people like this
Play count: 914
Size: 2,636kb, uploaded 12/5/2008 8:59:51 PM
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Actually an anti-driving drunk song.
As I passed from one room to another, the radio was playing the tune that I used for the chorus. I had no idea what the lyrics were, but the tune caught me, and I was singing along to it, making up my own words. About two hours later, the whole song had been cobbled together.
If you like, I can e-mail you the chords and lyrics.
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7 people like this
Play count: 1858
Size: 589kb, uploaded 8/2/2007 11:55:18 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Ken asked if anybody knew the lyrics to FMB, so I made some up.
Don't like 'em? Make up your own! That's how Woody Guthrie made his money.
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6 people like this
Play count: 190
Size: 1,251kb, uploaded 8/11/2011 8:18:56 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Salad bowl body, plastic head cut from a giant container of UTZ Cheese balls. WIper blade steel strips glued on for frets.D'Addario light guage strings. Not bad for $30 in parts, and less than 8 hours labor.
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Play count: 160
Size: 847kb, uploaded 12/2/2009 9:08:36 PM
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JUst a little bitof the sound on my Nameless Aluminum one-piece cast banjo pot, with the 5th string running the full length of the neck.
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Play count: 83
Size: 1,293kb, uploaded 12/3/2009 5:29:27 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Sliding the capo from ZERO fret to 12th fret, with a simple in-and-out roll, to show how the full-length 5th string stays in relative tune to whatever key the other 4 are capoed to.
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by mike gregory, written by Pure Prarie League
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3 people like this
Play count: 155
Size: 1,228kb, uploaded 12/29/2011 5:13:42 PM
Genre: Country
Testing the Railroad Lady banjo, so it seemed a good idea to do a song that included a train in it.
My arrangement of their song, no lyrics. Hope that's not an infringement.
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5 people like this
Play count: 252
Size: 846kb, uploaded 11/15/2010 8:40:51 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
It's shown here:
http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/191704
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by mike gregory, written by Uncle Dave
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Play count: 66
Size: 696kb, uploaded 2/26/2013 1:36:01 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
This is the $25 Harmony guitar I butchered down into a 5-string.
Here's the thread:
http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/256272
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Play count: 468
Size: 363kb, uploaded 9/26/2010 4:39:10 PM
Genre: Folk
Actually, Cripple Creek, but PLAYED on a banjo that I cobbled together between 8 AM and 7PM, with a few breaks, in one single day.
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Play count: 242
Size: 398kb, uploaded 9/29/2010 9:54:35 AM
Genre: Folk
Cripple creek, played on the Happy Cobbler banjo, but with a tighter head and a lighter bridge.
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Play count: 426
Size: 3,358kb, uploaded 1/12/2008 5:50:29 PM
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CAUTION: This is not your typical Gospel tune. It suggests that we break a Commandment or two. If you're likely to be offended, skip to some other tune. The ODDEST thing about this is that the chorus came to me in a dream. It's not often that I can write a song in my sleep!
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Play count: 1772
Size: 713kb, uploaded 5/16/2007 11:53:56 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
CRIPPLE Creek, played on the Squared Eel banjo. An outhanger helped me get the (expletive deleted) "Audacity" and "Lame" programs to work. In her honor, I renamed it "Lame Creek." Please see the Squared Eel in my photos.
Better yet, here's a VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97EfvhFgRBY
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Play count: 63
Size: 1,060kb, uploaded 5/20/2011 7:02:02 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
My "Little Gambler" salad bowl banjo.
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Play count: 294
Size: 849kb, uploaded 11/5/2007 10:31:33 AM
Genre: Folk
Played on Dulcimer/Banjo hybrid.
(See PHOTO) http://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/photos2.asp?id=8805&photoID=18978&albumid=0
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Play count: 975
Size: 1,912kb, uploaded 8/6/2007 10:02:39 PM
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Written 1963, when I was far from home and sad. And, even though us kids from the 1950's were taught NOT to cry when sad, I said to myself
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Play count: 45
Size: 699kb, uploaded 1/23/2012 10:19:20 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
Used a drum pad from an electronic drum set as the banjo head. Jacked into a small amp, and played into my computer mic.
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Play count: 141
Size: 1,099kb, uploaded 12/2/2011 6:14:35 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
How it sounds, without the finished top nut, and without the tailpiece finally adjusted. Also, USED strings.
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16 people like this
Play count: 1658
Size: 2,826kb, uploaded 5/18/2007 7:37:11 PM
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Not my usual lighthearted silliness. Herod's army at its worst.
Seeger style on a Stelling Golden Cross.
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by mike gregory, written by Djingodjango
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Play count: 70
Size: 3,331kb, uploaded 6/19/2012 10:26:10 AM
Genre: Popular
I e-mailed him, told him it needed a banjo track. So I capoed up, played into my AUDACITY program while his BHO file was running, and here's the first attempt;
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Play count: 96
Size: 428kb, uploaded 9/13/2011 1:42:36 PM
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http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/215604
Salad bowl body, cut open 2-liter bottle for plastic head.
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Play count: 622
Size: 1,203kb, uploaded 11/20/2007 7:38:21 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
An old Quaker hymn.
Played on the HANSEN2 banjo.
Made from a salad bowl, some maple from a discarded futon, with bicycle spokes for the tension hooks.
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7 people like this
Play count: 1179
Size: 677kb, uploaded 5/20/2007 11:29:26 PM
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Fretless cookie tin, fishline strings. First time through is Seeger style, second time, Scruggs more or LESS!
Not that easy for me, to do BG rolls on a fretless, but, hey, why not give 'er a try? Posted in response to somebody who had apparently never heard a cookie-tin banjo. Culturally deprived? Not on MY watch!
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by mike gregory, written by Gregory B. Gregory
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5 people like this
Play count: 361
Size: 2,275kb, uploaded 10/28/2009 7:03:36 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
My brother Gregory Gregory ( the kid so nice, Mom named him twice) wrote this.
He has given permission to sing it wherever you are, and wherever you go.
Hope the audio is clear, as to the words. If not, email me and I'll send you a copy. No tab, but chords, too, if you need them.
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Play count: 87
Size: 1,451kb, uploaded 9/10/2010 11:35:18 AM
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Just a sample of what a single-string instrument, made from scraps, can sound like.
Timmy turned 2 in 2010, a bit young for all 5 strings at once.
See my Squared Eel photo album for pictures.
[img]http://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/photos/medium/8805-115257592010.jpg[/img]
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Play count: 513
Size: 1,320kb, uploaded 3/22/2013 1:41:38 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
Just trying to see how this banjo sounds. Pictures in my P.E.T.E Plasic head Banjos folder
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5 people like this
Play count: 218
Size: 4,496kb, uploaded 11/11/2009 7:10:54 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
By the Grumpystiltskyn Jug Band.
If you are playing at some sort of Volunteer Appreciation gig, just make sure that you credit me as the author.
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17 people like this
Play count: 888
Size: 3,927kb, uploaded 6/15/2007 8:07:18 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen
In the world of FANTASY, step-fathers live up to their own expectations of how NICE they'll be. This song was written by a stepfather, for other stepfathers.
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