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jack64 - Posted - 09/11/2008: 01:23:36
Thank you for your appreciation.
Martin is a long time friend, and his warm music accompanied the first days after the birth of my son Davide, 6 years ago.
Even if he doesn't play anymore in a stable band contest, I'm still amazed of how creative and solid is his picking.
I whish he lived closer to me! My picking would improve greatly :-)
Ciao!
Jack ''64
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lrbsammyswannabe - Posted - 09/13/2008: 04:23:50
Bob Lundy from Danny Paisley and Southern Grass
Fishrrman - Posted - 09/13/2008: 19:26:10
Randy wrote:
[[ I almost posted this picture under another thread on Banjo Construction re: "Boston vs. the Bluegrass Wonder?" Then I thought the better of it would be to post it here. I took this picture of a pretty talented anonymous busker in Boston ]]
I believe that fellow's name is Eric Royer. He's even got a CD or two out.
Most homestyle pickers these days get a multitrack recording setup and record their instruments one-at-a-time.
Eric takes the opposite approach: he plays them ALL at once!
- John
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/22/2008: 20:33:48
I just got my copy in the mail today, so I guess it is safe to show the actual cover photo of Kristin Scott Benson's new CD "Second Season"
I believe she told Sonny where this photo was taken...
deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
Rounder 0044 - Posted - 09/23/2008: 04:08:51
Sir, you have done it again............to perfection!
If her second CD is half as good as her first, it will still be killer!
Thanks,
Mark
canecreek.net
Siempre - Posted - 09/24/2008: 05:57:26
I think this may be Kristin's third cd. "Straight Paths" (PRC 6502) and also her earlier self-titled "Kristin Scott" (KS-001). Both excellent!
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/24/2008: 13:32:52
Yep, correct.
*EDIT addition
Silvio Ferretti playing after hours at IBMA, Oct. 1, 2008
Canon EOS D Mark II N, 70-200 2.8 @ 3200 iso
Photoshop CS2 or CS3 for all photos
deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/09/2008 19:12:52
vincentbanjogh - Posted - 09/24/2008: 16:34:05
Beautiful image Dean. That subtle highlight on her back really makes that shot work.
Well done.
keithkline.com
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/02/2008: 22:29:15
2008 IBMA banjo player of the year- Kristin Scott Benson Ryman Auditorium, Oct. 2, 2008
Canon EOS D Mark II N, 70-200 2.8 @ 1250 iso
deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/09/2008 19:11:27
Rounder 0044 - Posted - 10/03/2008: 04:06:34
Whoo Hoo Glad Kristen won! I'm looking forward to some more pics from the IBMA Dean!
Mark
canecreek.net
silvioferretti - Posted - 10/09/2008: 12:19:47
Dean, thanks for the beautiful photo, you're such an incredible photographer that you can even make my crooked arthrosic little finger look cool... And thanks for the picks of course, man you know your stuff 
"A mint, Mr. Creosote?..."
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
robbif - Posted - 10/09/2008: 17:37:26
Dean,
Beautiful!!!
Fred
Edited by - robbif on 10/10/2008 06:04:18
corcoran - Posted - 10/10/2008: 07:07:50
quote:
Originally posted by DHoffmeyer
I just got my copy in the mail today, so I guess it is safe to show the actual cover photo of Kristin Scott Benson's new CD "Second Season"
I believe she told Sonny where this photo was taken...
Has Kristin's new album been released yet? It does not show up on County Sales's website.
And let me add my congratulations on Kristin's winning the IBMA award. She is a great player and an outstanding teacher -- the two do not always go together!
Michael
michael.corcoran@usask.ca
silvioferretti - Posted - 10/10/2008: 14:47:09
Dean, I hope you don't mind if I use your pic for my avatar: it's so cool... Thank you!
"It was a wonderful party. BUT, it was not this one" (a friend of mine to a host)
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/13/2008: 08:27:18
This came from the Nashville trip, though it technically may fall outside of this thread - perhaps these guys in Kalamazoo were banjo players too...
**I think some may have seen this before, but it was new for me. The hump on the neck at the right is actually part of his apron or his tie showing behind the neck. His watch is on his left wrist, so I doubt the picture is flopped.
deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/18/2008 08:20:40
carteru93 - Posted - 10/13/2008: 10:34:22
Dean, I'm speechless. That for me is one of the rarest most banjo-meaningful moments I've ever seen in banjo history. Banjos from the golden era of production, being made and inspected. Those guys whether they know it or not will be remembered by the wonderful instruments they made, whether they knew it or not.
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Blaylock Bear Tracks Banjo
There are no stupid questions, just dumb ones.
DaveInCA - Posted - 10/13/2008: 13:52:08
Great pic alright---and all those rims! The guy in the middle LOOKS like he's playing the banjo he's holding. The guy on the right seems to be sighting along a 5-string neck, although it'd be a lefty banjo.
Any idea of the function of the hand-cranked roller press thingie at the end of the workbench?
Dave
silvioferretti - Posted - 10/13/2008: 14:06:26
"The guy on the right seems to be sighting along a 5-string neck, although it'd be a lefty banjo."
It looks like a banjo-uke to me...
"It was a wonderful party. BUT, it was not this one" (a friend of mine to a host)
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
Bigbadbucksnort - Posted - 10/13/2008: 14:37:04
Wow. That nearly brought tears to my eyes.
quote:
Originally posted by DaveInCA
The guy on the right seems to be sighting along a 5-string neck, although it'd be a lefty banjo.
It could be that the photo was reversed somewhere along the way.
Tobias
Cogito Ergo Banjo
carteru93 - Posted - 10/13/2008: 15:00:48
The neck is much too short to be a standard 5 string.
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Blaylock Bear Tracks Banjo
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carteru93 - Posted - 10/13/2008: 16:35:10
Ohhhhhh, haha, that looks SO much like an extremely short scale neck
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There are no stupid questions, just dumb ones.
RayD - Posted - 10/13/2008: 20:57:44
Really love that roller on the end of the table. They must've been able to crank out a lot of 'jos with that thing!
Cheers,
RayD
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/17/2008: 14:24:20
A couple from the Folk Festival last weekend in Richmond
Ron Stewart playing his Yates
Upon closer inspection, Ron looks like he's got old Oval 8 picks on his fingers. Shot from the tailpiece end while he played on stage.
Both Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, 70-200 f 4.0 iso 200
deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/20/2008 08:41:10
Greg Earnest - Posted - 10/17/2008: 14:44:52
Oh good grief, Dean. . . that photo of the old Gibson factory makes me weak in the knees! That's only the second pic I've ever seen showing prewar Gibson banjo production. . . the other one is in Walter Carter's Gibson book and it's a closeup of one guy putting together a tube-and-plate banjo.
What do you know about the background of this photo? I can't tell what kind of banjo the guy in the middle is holding. . . is it a fiddle-shaped peghead? It obviously has an archtop ring. Are those tone rings hanging from the ceiling, and rims stacked up on the floor?
ge
The Prewar Gibson Banjo website
earnestbanjo.com
lethegoodtimesroll - Posted - 10/17/2008: 15:51:01
My gosh you see all those rims just a hanging there.
carteru93 - Posted - 10/17/2008: 18:28:15
quote:
Originally posted by Greg Earnest
Oh good grief, Dean. . . that photo of the old Gibson factory makes me weak in the knees! That's only the second pic I've ever seen showing prewar Gibson banjo production. . . the other one is in Walter Carter's Gibson book and it's a closeup of one guy putting together a tube-and-plate banjo.
What do you know about the background of this photo? I can't tell what kind of banjo the guy in the middle is holding. . . is it a fiddle-shaped peghead? It obviously has an archtop ring. Are those tone rings hanging from the ceiling, and rims stacked up on the floor?
ge
The Prewar Gibson Banjo website
earnestbanjo.com
I'm pretty sure the rims are hanging, probably drying and stacked on the floor in what looks like rough blanks. If you look at the things hanging in the back, you can see them from the side, they are too thick to be tone rings.
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There are no stupid questions, just dumb ones.
Bob Robert - Posted - 10/18/2008: 05:40:33
quote:
Originally posted by Bigbadbucksnort
Wow. That nearly brought tears to my eyes.
quote:
Originally posted by DaveInCA
The guy on the right seems to be sighting along a 5-string neck, although it'd be a lefty banjo.
It could be that the photo was reversed somewhere along the way.
Tobias
Cogito Ergo Banjo
But then the guy in the middle would be playing a lefty. Either way, one of those is a left-handed banjo. Which makes the picture all the more interesting.
Cool stuff.
Bob
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
silvioferretti - Posted - 10/18/2008: 18:13:28
About the old pic at the Kalamazoo factory, Dean says: "The hump on the neck at the right is actually part of his apron or his tie showing behind the neck. His watch is on his left wrist, so I doubt the picture is flopped.". My opinion: the hump on the neck is one finger (or two) of the worker's left hand. Also, the head diameter on that banjo is a lot smaller than 11". So again IMO that banjo is a banjo-uke, or a small tenor (provided they made small tenors at Gibson...). What do you say, Dean?
"It was a wonderful party. BUT, it was not this one" (a friend of mine to a host)
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
Bob Robert - Posted - 10/18/2008: 18:16:29
Ahh. I can see clearly now.
Bob
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot
Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/18/2008: 19:55:02
Dean, could you tell us the camera, lens and settings for that last one. The detail held up incredibly well.
Tnx,
Bill
thkidd - Posted - 10/20/2008: 07:09:27
quote:
Originally posted by DHoffmeyer
A couple from the Folk Festival last weekend in Richmond
Upon closer inspection, Ron looks like he's got old Oval 8 picks on his fingers. Shot from the tailpiece end while he played on stage.
Both Canon EOS-1D Mark II N, 70-200 f 4.0 iso 200
What is that, the Tailpiece Cam?
Great shots, as usual.
Darrell
"Measure your wealth not by the things you have but by the things for which you would not take money."
robbif - Posted - 10/20/2008: 08:27:30
Raymond Fairchild, Maggie Valley Opry, November 2007
See my video at frobbi.org/fairchild.html
Edited by - robbif on 06/20/2010 04:18:46
MikeMphoto - Posted - 10/31/2008: 10:58:00
Here's a photo of a banjo player on the west coast that some of you might recognize. Warren Hellman puts together the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco every year. To top it off, he foots the bill and lets everyone in for free. Just a few hundred thousand music lovers.
I was one of the staff photogs this year and met a certain Italian bluegrass group whose banjo player hangs out around here. Hi Silvio.
Here's some links
mikemelnyk.com/hsb08day1/
mikemelnyk.com/hsb08day2/
mikemelnyk.com/hsb08day3/
Mike Melnyk
mikemelnyk.com
silvioferretti - Posted - 10/31/2008: 13:03:44
Hi Mike . It was great getting to meet you (albeit without knowing you were you... ). You're a great photographer, and the HO is blessed to have people like you, Dean, and a precious few others posting awesome pics.
"It was a wonderful party. BUT, it was not this one" (a friend of mine to a host)
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
Edited by - silvioferretti on 10/31/2008 13:05:02
Wayne Holcombe - Posted - 11/01/2008: 05:46:51
The roller at the end of the bench in the Gibson shop is a sheet metal roller.In tin shops they called it a stovepipe roller.The top roller can be opened so the piece can be slippef off.Why is it in the Gibson shop? Well I just don't know.But iI'm sure they had ause for it or it wouldn't be outfront like that.
Wayne
afhusband - Posted - 11/01/2008: 11:30:46
Amazing thread!!
No Need To Fret, I''m Just Pickin!
DHoffmeyer - Posted - 11/06/2008: 10:11:12
This thread will soon get locked because of the size, so I only post when I have a new batch of pictures- and this one deserves a post.
From Silvio Ferretti's collection.
"I'm sending you my photo of a banjo player, taken 1982 at the Nitchie house. He sure was an enthusiastic picker, and I know a lot of us younger ones owe him - and his family - a lot. When I took this pic he had just told me he wanted to do a cover story about me on BNL, I told him he was crazy as I was a terrible banjo player (true, of course). So it took him another 8 or 9 years to finally put me on that cover."
Hub Nitchie
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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 11/15/2009 08:37:53
silvioferretti - Posted - 11/06/2008: 10:19:54
Thanks Dean, I really appreciate that.
"It was a wonderful party. BUT, it was not this one" (a friend of mine to a host)
Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com
Rounder 0044 - Posted - 11/08/2008: 17:48:54
Here's one of one of the best banjo pickers that you probably have never heard of, Al Osteen. He has taught numerous folks the five string around these parts, including Kristin Scott Benson. He is the one that is presently teaching our very on Reid Toth (Banjo Diva)........she makes mention of him quite often in the fine Banjo Newsletter articles that she writes.
Mark
canecreek.net
robbif - Posted - 11/08/2008: 17:55:23
Mark,
Thanks for the great picture of Al! I met him in the late 1960s when I was playing guitar in Bob Isenhour's band at Clemson University. I owe Diva a thanks, and I still have to call Al.
RB100 - Posted - 11/08/2008: 18:15:04
quote:
Originally posted by Rounder 0044
Here's one of one of the best banjo pickers that you probably have never heard of, Al Osteen. ...snip...
Mark
canecreek.net
And let's not forget banjo player for many years for Curtis Blackwell and the Dixie Bluegrass Boys...I saw them a few years ago at a reunion at the GA Mountain Fair...also featured at Sugar Creek Bluegrass Festival (1997) site for North Georgia Bluegrass Pioneers:
bcbrown.net/bluegrass/chronicl...ndex.htmlA fine banjo picker (and teacher) for sure!
Bill
"I''ve been to Georgia on a fast train..." Shaver
North Georgia Bluegrass Chronicles
bcbrown.net/bluegrass/chronicles/
Rounder 0044 - Posted - 11/08/2008: 18:47:12
Your right Bill. He also did a stint with Jim and Jesse, and played on the Grand Old Opry.
Thanks,
Mark
canecreek.net
Rounder 0044 - Posted - 11/16/2008: 16:10:51
Got to keep this thread going! Here is Jason Davis with Grasstowne with his new (old distressed) Yates. Taken at Everett's Music Barn last night. The harsh florescent lighting there makes it a photographic challenge!
Mark
canecreek.net
Terry Baucom - Posted - 11/18/2008: 09:56:09
Cindy Baucom here...to share a picture I took over the weekend at the Burnsville, North Carolina Banjo Clinic of Tom, Graham, Terry and Mike:
Edited by - Terry Baucom on 11/18/2008 10:04:19
ozarkbilly - Posted - 11/18/2008: 11:26:01
Scott Avett of the Avett Brothers @ Revolution Music Room Little Rock AR
Scott Avett in perpetual motion @ Revolution Music Room Little Rock AR
Edited by - ozarkbilly on 11/20/2008 17:42:14
flange5st - Posted - 11/18/2008: 12:03:20
quote:
Originally posted by Rounder 0044
Here's one of one of the best banjo pickers that you probably have never heard of, Al Osteen.
I could'nt agree with you more.....Al is a fine player, a fine historian, and a fine fellow, too.........peace
.........difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas...........
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