Anyone seen this?

http://www.whyoldtime.com/purchasewhyoldtime.htm

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  07:37:48    

NO..

STELLING MAN

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  08:10:27        

Yes.

Dean

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Posted - 10/16/2009 :  08:16:05        

Oh yea, and it's pretty good too. Prominent musicians explaining why they play old-time.

Dean

"Each one's got to have his own style. It's all creamed potatoes, just fixed a little different." -- Benton Flippen

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  09:38:07        

I enjoyed it but I wish they put the names of the contributers on the screen as they talked.

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Posted - 10/16/2009 :  10:14:55            

Why'd they bust the back off a perfectly good fiddle?

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  14:46:19          

To get you to complain, Mike.


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Posted - 10/16/2009 :  15:18:19      

Us banjo pickers have open back banjers...now the fiddlers don't want to be out done...so now they have an open back fiddle...

RatLer

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  15:53:24      

I'll bet they didn't. It's amazing what you can do with a computer.

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  15:59:22      

P.S.
Thanks for the post. Looks like a couple of really cool documentaries. Might have to check them out.

BTW, is there a way to edit a previuos post?

Thanks,
John

Posted - 10/16/2009 :  16:35:21      

Lot's of good music. One of the extra features has a number of well known old time musicians playing a favorite tune.
GerryH

Posted - 10/17/2009 :  04:55:23            

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Originally posted by BRUNO25

P.S.
Thanks for the post. Looks like a couple of really cool documentaries. Might have to check them out.

BTW, is there a way to edit a previuos post?

Thanks,
John

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Edited by - mike gregory on 10/17/2009 04:56:31

Posted - 10/17/2009 :  14:45:02      

Got it. Thanks Mike.

John

Edited by - BRUNO25 on 10/17/2009 14:46:54

Posted - 10/17/2009 :  16:03:55  

Mike is right. Not only did they remove the fiddle back, they didn't do it cleanly—they left parts of it attached as you can see at the top of the lower bout. Shame they didn't know about PhotoShop.

Posted - 10/17/2009 :  19:16:53    

I bought the DVD pre-release.

It is a good video, but I did find the lack of identifying the people speaking annoying. I'm not familiar with many of them by sight only. Also, it would have been a much better video if they had allowed the players to finish the tunes they were playing instead of only providing short clips. There was too much of the same "I grew up with it" and "I was brought into OT by ..." and too little music.

It would have also been nice if they had provided a "play all" ability to the actual music they provided instead of having to select each tune one at a time.

While I think it is a worthwhile effort, I doubt I would buy another one by them.

Brad
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Posted - 10/18/2009 :  06:13:54          

I was very much amused by the number of interviewees who thought they were being clever by responded, "Well, why not?!" to the title question. After about the 17th one it became hilarious!

BM