Couchie - Posted - 08/14/2007:  11:07:03

The first time I saw the Country Gentlemen live, Doyle was playing banjo. He played very well and the group was great.

Thanks for the photo Terry.

Don.

O=='=#

1935tb-11 - Posted - 08/14/2007:  15:33:11

all we need now is georgia girl playin in the backround,
thanks for the pic terry.


terry m
n.c.

4 longs and 1 short=banjer ring !!!

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 08/19/2007:  02:32:27

Here's John Batchelor (RB-3 Killler on bho) playing his RB-75 Crowe model on a brief youtube video. He plays with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper.

youtube.com/watch?v=nKKRifWBoz8

and with the legendary Paul Williams


Dean



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 08/20/2007 11:59:20

not fast enough - Posted - 08/19/2007:  05:16:49

Jens Kruger trying out a Bishline at Guthrie 03 I think. Rob Bishline kneeling. I took the snap shot. My pics don't qualify as photos.

not fast enough - Posted - 08/19/2007:  05:20:37

That's Jens Kruger......can't read it unless you scroll over. Sorry

Less than a month to Winfield

ldgrmnmc - Posted - 08/19/2007:  08:35:32

good shot, NFE

ldgrmnmc - Posted - 08/19/2007:  08:37:21

quote:

---

Originally posted by DHoffmeyer

Here's John Batchelor (RB-3 Killler) playing his RB-75 Crowe model on a brief youtube video. Pictures soon!

youtube.com/watch?v=nKKRifWBoz8

Dean



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

---

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 08/19/2007:  14:46:50

If "High School Musical" was based in Harlan, Kentucky, it might look like Kody Norris, Tom Isaacs & The Watauga Mountain Boys. Kind of a Clinch Mountain cover band. Lots of fun.
Here's Tom and his bowtie archtop.




myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 08/19/2007:  14:48:44

Sammy is the man. This is his Huber 'Sammy Shelor' model banjo.


Video here:
youtube.com/watch?v=-NuQKpYHNpo



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 08/20/2007 13:22:26

RB3Deering - Posted - 08/19/2007:  14:50:29

[font=Arial]This is a great continuing post! Let's keep this up!![/font=Arial]

Wesley Lewis
CPA, CIA, CFSA & CFE

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 08/19/2007:  14:53:55

Newly married Jr. Williams plays his Hatfield banjo with NewFound Road.



Arthur just sent me this picture of another picker playing one of his banjos- Here's Dean Osborne.




myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 08/20/2007 11:13:07

atompkins - Posted - 08/19/2007:  17:28:25

Here are three from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco last October. I took these with my old pocket digital camera. No great photography here, just great pickers.



I'm pretty sure the fellow above is Earl.



Allison Brown. After hearing her play, I no longer feel bad about being a "pinky planter."



Tony Trischka, Bill Evans, and Alan Munde with a triple-banjo spectacular!

Alan

Acoustic Music Camp - Aug. 16-18 / Dallas / acousticmusiccamp.com
Terry Baucom / David Talbot / Gerald Jones

Frisco Bluegrass Festival - Oct. 7 / Frisco Texas - friscobluegrass.com
Rhonda Vincent / Doyle Lawson / Lonesome River Band

not fast enough - Posted - 08/19/2007:  23:46:01

Danny Barnes with his Bishline Cardinal,Winfield 2006.

RB3Deering - Posted - 08/20/2007:  05:32:57

Well, I see that my fonts didn't work the first time.

I love this continuing post! Let's keep it going!! These pics are awesome!!

Wesley Lewis
CPA, CIA, CFSA & CFE

Guy - Posted - 08/20/2007:  11:07:56

Isn't that Casey Driessen behind him?

Guy

You hum it son, I'll play it.
salmagundi.me.uk

Forrest - Posted - 08/20/2007:  11:29:31

Who is John Batchelor playing with now, Dean? Still Michael Cleveland?

"Run, Forrest, Run!"

Bongshang - Posted - 08/20/2007:  11:31:50

atompkins -

That looks pretty good photography to me. Nice pics!



Bongshang

Edited by - Bongshang on 08/20/2007 11:33:27

atompkins - Posted - 08/20/2007:  11:55:49

Thanks a lot Bongshang - the picture of Earl turned out great, I thought. When you get to take pictures of banjo players on stage on a sunny day in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco), it's hard to take a bad picture!

Alan

Acoustic Music Camp - Aug. 16-18 / Dallas / acousticmusiccamp.com
Terry Baucom / David Talbot / Gerald Jones

Frisco Bluegrass Festival - Oct. 7 / Frisco Texas - friscobluegrass.com
Rhonda Vincent / Doyle Lawson / Lonesome River Band

ldgrmnmc - Posted - 08/20/2007:  13:42:32

quote:

---

Originally posted by not fast enough

Danny Barnes with his Bishline Cardinal,Winfield 2006.

---

RB-3 Killler - Posted - 08/20/2007:  18:19:54

quote:

---

Originally posted by Forrest

Who is John Batchelor playing with now, Dean? Still Michael Cleveland?

"Run, Forrest, Run!"

---

Rounder 0044 - Posted - 08/20/2007:  19:03:02

If you haven't had the chance to see and hear John with Michael Cleveland and the Flamekeepers, do yourself a favor and do so! This lineup defines DRIVE!



Mark

canecreek.net

carteru93 - Posted - 08/24/2007:  17:00:02

Bump

Isn't that Earl playing the Earl Scruggs Special banjo up there?

____________________________________________________________________
Go to earlscruggs.fullboards.com/ for Earl Scruggs forum!

"Keep on burnin them strings!"

silvioferretti - Posted - 08/24/2007:  17:32:46

"Isn't that Casey Driessen behind him?"

Sure is, an awesome musician, and a truly nice guy, besides being an outstanding photographer (Dean, waddaya think?). I wish I had the balls to wear those red shoes...


Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

Check out a new Scorpion banjo at elderly.com/new_instruments/it...CORP7.htm

SJL - Posted - 08/24/2007:  18:18:15

Hey Arthur,

Is Dean Osborne playing the Celebrity that you had at your shop when Chris and I were down there?

"If the woman is alive at the end of the song, it ain't Bluegrass"

2007 Hatfield Custom

1976 (?) Aria Pro

Arthur Hatfield - Posted - 08/24/2007:  19:55:48

Steve Dean got the Celebrity that I had at SPBGMA Just a couple of weeks after when we played a gig at the Convention Ctr. in Louisville, Ky. back at the end of Feb. and Dean was there. He bought a Buck Creek from me at the Osborne Bros. Fest for a friend of his.

Arthur Hatfield
HATFIELD BANJO'S
GLASGOW, KY
(270)646-5219

SJL - Posted - 08/24/2007:  21:12:07

Arthur,

Ah, I see. That Celebrity that I saw was a beauty.

"If the woman is alive at the end of the song, it ain't Bluegrass"

2007 Hatfield Custom

1976 (?) Aria Pro

Arthur Hatfield - Posted - 08/24/2007:  21:56:58

Steve I still have that Celebrity it is going to the J D Crowe festival with me the 31st. of this month.

Arthur Hatfield
HATFIELD BANJO'S
GLASGOW, KY
(270)646-5219

Michael Keith - Posted - 08/25/2007:  00:01:13

Aurthur I held some of your work tonight. Real nice. I was playing with Allen Fisher. He said you did some work for him and he enjoyed talking with you.

Edited by - Michael Keith on 08/25/2007 00:02:27

Arthur Hatfield - Posted - 08/25/2007:  08:32:09

Michael I have made a couple of necks for Allen but have cut down several he likes them small about every banjo he gets he gets me to cut the neck down to his size or as close as I can some of them due to truss rod depth will not allow the neck to thin quite as much as others.

Arthur Hatfield
HATFIELD BANJO'S
GLASGOW, KY
(270)646-5219

Michael Keith - Posted - 08/25/2007:  15:10:38

I was playing his 1933 Granada last night. Fantastic sound and the neck was fast.

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  00:48:52

A few photos from a very hot day at Gettysburg:


Sammy Shelor:

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 02:10:11

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  01:02:39

Ron Thomason and Tom Boyd of Dry Branch Fire Squad:

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 01:14:17

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  01:27:14

Graham Sharp of the Steep Canyon Rangers:

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  01:40:19

Aaron McDaris of The Grascals:

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 15:35:51

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  01:48:30

Ben Eldridge:

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  02:00:12

Mitchell Davis of Nothin' Fancy:

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 02:00:55

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  02:07:03

Ken Windbeck of Roadside Cafe:

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 02:09:21

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  02:25:45

Did I mention it was really hot?




Someone claimed to have measured the temperature in the asphalt-paved seating
area at 109 degrees, which combined with the extremely high humidity created
a "heat index" of at least 115. I Don't know how accurate those figures are, but
it sure felt that hot. It tested my "sit-in-the-front-row-so-you-can-watch-them-pick"
philosophy, but I stuck it out for seven hours, until the violent thunder/hail/lightning
storm blew through around dinnertime.

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 11:32:45

Bongshang - Posted - 08/26/2007:  03:38:29

Hot yeah, but them pics are real cool, well done and thanks for posting,

JJ

Bongshang

DbBanjo - Posted - 08/26/2007:  10:41:14

Howdy,

Ohh - tell me about it! We were playing at a festival
just south of the "cool" area of Gettysburg, Pa (Mason
Neck State park, Va.). Lol - I went through 6 bottles of
water between our two sets.

DbBanjo (Marc Bolen)

quote:

---

Originally posted by EggerRidgeBoy

Did I mention it was really hot?

---

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  11:07:23

quote:

---

Originally posted by Bongshang

Hot yeah, but them pics are real cool, well done and thanks for posting,

JJ

Bongshang

---

fisher - Posted - 08/26/2007:  11:16:49

[quote]Originally posted by EggerRidgeBoy

Ron Thomason and Tom Boyd of Dry Branch Fire Squad:


I like that sock Ron is wearin,THATS a good idea when its this hot!

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  11:18:14

I believe it - the cold drinks and ice cream vendors were doing a booming business yesterday.
I lost track of how many water bottles I went through.

After the Nothin' Fancy set I chatted briefly with Mike Andes over in the shake-and-howdy tent.
I thought they put on a good show - not noticably different from their usual performances - but
Mike apologized for his lack of energy on stage, saying that he was trying really hard to give it
everything he had, but that he felt like he was playing in slow motion due to the heat. No apology
was necessary of course - I mean, I barely had enough energy to get out of my seat and over to
the tent. I don't know how you pros do it, especially when, like the Steep Canyon Ranger bassist
seen above, you're wearing a suit and tie!

quote:

---

Originally posted by DbBanjo

Howdy,

Ohh - tell me about it! We were playing at a festival
just south of the "cool" area of Gettysburg, Pa (Mason
Neck State park, Va.). Lol - I went through 6 bottles of
water between our two sets.

DbBanjo (Marc Bolen)

quote:

---

Originally posted by EggerRidgeBoy

Did I mention it was really hot?

---

easterntraditionbluegrass.com

---

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 12:16:26

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 08/26/2007:  12:07:45

quote:

---

Originally posted by fisher

[quote]Originally posted by EggerRidgeBoy

Ron Thomason and Tom Boyd of Dry Branch Fire Squad:


I like that sock Ron is wearin,THATS a good idea when its this hot!

---

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 08/26/2007 12:09:25

RB-3 Killler - Posted - 08/26/2007:  17:23:28

God it was hot! Me and Mike Cleveland were drenched when we got off the stage both sets on Friday!

John Mark Batchelor
Micheal Cleveland & Flamekeeper

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 09/03/2007:  16:13:47

A few photos from yesterday at the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival:

John Mark Batchelor (RB-3 Killer), of Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 09/03/2007 16:38:39

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 09/03/2007:  16:26:15

Keith Arneson of the US Navy Bluegrass Band

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 09/03/2007:  16:27:19

Tom Adams with Seneca Rocks




As reported on Tom's website and the Bluegrass Blog, and discussed in this Hangout thread banjohangout.org/forum/topic.a..._ID=92500 , yesterday's show was Tom's
last public performance on the banjo, at least for the forseeable future. He handled it with his
usual grace and quiet humor.

Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 09/03/2007 16:36:58

DaveInCA - Posted - 09/03/2007:  16:50:38

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....he's got both fingerpicks on.

Dave