Flying Eagle - Posted - 04/08/2009:  18:23:21

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Originally posted by robbif

As part of my recently "discovered" 1968 Union Grove slides, here's another one of the good guys,
Al Osteen.



See more at frobbi.org/slides/ug1968/index.html

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Great shot of Al when he was a youngster! I've picked that banjo a few times myself. Beautiful inlays on that one...



A whipporwill call is just a reminder,
Pretty girls have hearts made of stone.

Jason Skinner - Posted - 04/08/2009:  20:12:01

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Originally posted by robbif

Eddie Shelton and Allen Shelton
Capital City Sound Studios
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
May 24, 1969



See complete show at frobbi.org/slides/la1969/

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Your pictures are amazing!! Got any of Don Reno?






No matter what level or how bad a picker is, they will have something you can learn from them.

For my Reno Style Instruction DVDs: renopicker.com
The Don Reno Fan Club: groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDonRenoFanClub
For rare Don Reno videos go here: youtube.com/user/renopicker

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Edited by - Jason Skinner on 04/08/2009 20:12:28

robbif - Posted - 04/09/2009:  11:34:55

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Your pictures are amazing!! Got any of Don Reno?

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Thanks! Here you go...

New Paltz, NY, 1974



and a couple from Fincastle/Roanoke 1966 on these pages: frobbi.org/roanoke

Jason Skinner - Posted - 04/09/2009:  13:30:39

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Your pictures are amazing!! Got any of Don Reno?

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Thanks! Here you go...

New Paltz, NY, 1974



and a couple from Fincastle/Roanoke 1966 on these pages: frobbi.org/roanoke

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Holy cow!!! That's awesome! Please tell me you have more!



No matter what level or how bad a picker is, they will have something you can learn from them.

For my Reno Style Instruction DVDs: renopicker.com
The Don Reno Fan Club: groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDonRenoFanClub
For rare Don Reno videos go here: youtube.com/user/renopicker

robbif - Posted - 04/09/2009:  14:05:10

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After a buddy sent me an expensive Nikon scanner a couple weeks ago, I've been searching thru my 20,000
slides. I think I've found them all now...but who knows?!

Just keep an eye out for updates to my Slide Shows page frobbi.org/slideshows.html

DIV - Posted - 04/09/2009:  15:14:47

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Originally posted by Flying Eagle
Al Osteen.
Great shot of Al when he was a youngster! I've picked that banjo a few times myself. Beautiful inlays on that one...

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Looks like an original RB4! WOW. Can you give up some details. I'm a walnut 4 guy!

Dan Varadi

KLandreth - Posted - 04/10/2009:  05:43:31

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Butch Robins - Union Grove 1967

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Edited by - KLandreth on 04/23/2009 08:07:45

robbif - Posted - 04/10/2009:  09:25:04

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I just found out from Travis Tackett that he wrote an article about my photos!

bluegrassjournal.com/2009/04/1...pictures/

DIV - Posted - 04/10/2009:  17:24:13

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Jim--thanks for the info!
Man, you know your stuff like nobody's business. Great history. I could have sworn that looked like chrome hardware and walnut on the resonator sides...
Thanks, buddy!

Dan Varadi

KLandreth - Posted - 04/13/2009:  11:30:08

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Originally posted by flatthead

The Carl Hunt Flathead pot eventually was sold to Ben Eldridge of the Seldom Scene, and subsequently stolen out of the back of his car, and has never surfaced......

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Carl Hunt with his banjo at Union Grove , Easter weekend 1967
....great banjo player who played with Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith and the Crackerjacks.

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Edited by - KLandreth on 04/23/2009 08:03:42

robbif - Posted - 04/21/2009:  12:04:35

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Earl Scruggs, Miami Pop Festival 1968



See the rest at frobbi.org/slides/miami1968

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Edited by - robbif on 04/21/2009 12:20:34

Iderhobanjer23 - Posted - 04/21/2009:  12:17:32

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Boy look at that right hand alignment with Ralph Stanley. Straight on 90 degrees

Luke in Idaho

Matteo - Posted - 04/21/2009:  13:17:43

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That's a neat picture of Earl!!
BTW is that Uncle Josh Graves playing flattop guitar? Never heard of that...
Matt.

lambergrass.com
myspace.com/banjoboymatt

carteru93 - Posted - 04/21/2009:  13:22:45

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Originally posted by robbif

Earl Scruggs, Miami Pop Festival 1968



See the rest at frobbi.org/slides/miami1968

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YES!

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Carter
Blaylock Bear Tracks Banjo the "Growler"
You can''t fix stupid!

cabinwood - Posted - 04/21/2009:  14:31:27

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That's a neat picture of Earl!!
BTW is that Uncle Josh Graves playing flattop guitar? Never heard of that...
Matt.

lambergrass.com
myspace.com/banjoboymatt

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Buck Graves played the guitar when they did "The Ballad of Jed Clampet" while Lester did a dance.

Graves also played all the Scruggs- style guitar breaks on the gospel numbers on shows when Earl was out for health reasons.

cabinwood - Posted - 04/21/2009:  14:32:36

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I see Johnny Johnson's L 50 there, too.

Siempre - Posted - 04/21/2009:  20:25:33

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A return to the present . . . Here's banjo builder-extraordinaire and tone ring guru Steve Huber sitting in with Terry Comer and The Best in Town at Kimbro's in Franklin, TN recently.

Flying Eagle - Posted - 04/21/2009:  22:56:44

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With those shades, this guy looks like Neo from "The Matrix"... or maybe one of the members of Devo before the new wave era.





I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown

KLandreth - Posted - 04/23/2009:  08:11:00

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Bob Isenhour - Galax Fiddlers Convention 1967

Greg Earnest - Posted - 04/23/2009:  09:21:22

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Robbif, these slides are such a treasure! What was the exact date of the Miami Pop Festival? That was in the final days of Flatt and Scruggs for sure. . . note that Gary and Randy are both Foggies!

ge

The Prewar Gibson Banjo website
earnestbanjo.com

Hedge Hog - Posted - 04/23/2009:  09:51:38

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Love those pictures ...... Cool shades, business suite and cigarette, intense look, the pisture tells a story....... Then theres the linked pistures of Earl and Lester lookin' all sharpin their suitesand string ties ..... the pens in Lesters pocket means practical business at hand.... Earl sure stood as straight as a rail,

MJM
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I love the snap of a finger pick comming off a string.

- open the window and let the angels in ............

bhrb75 - Posted - 04/23/2009:  10:41:03

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Those guys back then had a cool factor that we today just don't have.

B.

"He lives so far back in there, they had to roll ''em Martha White biscuits in in a wheelbar."

aletheia - Posted - 04/23/2009:  19:09:35

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Amazing pictures Ken...The capture more than the banjos, the hands, and the artists. Much more... Thanks for posting them!

David

"A man that plays the banjo has got it made. It never interferes with any of his pleasures in life." --Stringbean

robbif - Posted - 04/24/2009:  07:54:02

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Greg,
All I can remember is the Miami Pop Festival was in December 1968.
I was on leave from the army at the time.
I just updated the album title.
Fred

johnboyrox - Posted - 04/25/2009:  10:45:49

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This one's from 1951. My favorite picker ever Louis (Ben) Thompson on the 5-string with his brothers Tommy and John. Ben is my Grandpa. Sadly a short time after this picture he caught some of his fingers in a saw, so I've only heard a few recordings. (I still have the banjo!)

blugrssmom - Posted - 04/25/2009:  21:47:07

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This is a great post, and I've so enjoyed all these pictures. I hope that it keeps on going so we can see more of these fantastic pictures.

Raynae Redman.

A banjo can get you through times with no money, but money can''t get you through times with no banjo. John Hartford

silvioferretti - Posted - 04/26/2009:  02:38:14

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What is it that Steve Huber is playing in this page's photo? It looks like an old Granada, but with a FE neck...

"Just once I would like to hear you scream in pain" "Play some rap music..." Bruce Willis on The Last Boy Scout.

Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

Slingerland - Posted - 04/26/2009:  05:50:18

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JoeZ - Posted - 04/27/2009:  18:58:23

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That picture of Earl Scruggs (above) may be the best one I've ever seen!

"Someday I will play as well as my banjos sound." Joe Z

Timeless1952 - Posted - 04/27/2009:  20:17:23

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December of 1968. Think about it. In a little over 2 months Feb. of 1969 Flatt & Scruggs were no more.
K

davepicks5 - Posted - 04/29/2009:  10:12:40

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Silvio

I believe you asked the question about the banjo Steve Huber is playing in the picture above.....

According to Steve, it is a hybrid of several prewar parts he assembled to create a banjo to test his latest prototype ring. Gold plated Granada parts (armrest hooks and nuts and band) newer plated OPF, the second generation of his newest tone ring pour, and it is setting on top of an original style 7 rim.

As we might guess, it is one great sounding banjo. It was at Banjothon with his first generation proto ring and it was good, this one is better.

Hope this helps

David

connerspur - Posted - 04/29/2009:  11:47:43

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Is that Steve Scruggs playing banjo in one of the pictures?

Brandon, they have a coolness factor of infinity, compared to the rest of us

Great picture of Steve Huber - he has a machine gun right hand. I'd really like to hear him play live again - last time I heard him live, he was with Kenny and Amanda Smith.

David

silvioferretti - Posted - 04/29/2009:  12:43:36

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Thank you David! Steve is a picker and a half, he could make any banjo sound great, but I believe his intensive study and research of prewar Gibsons and his work with Huber banjos have made him gain a couple notches above a lot of players who are "just" great players. I see this above all in his ability to put together a "new old floor sweep" and set the zero of the scale to it in order to test new parts on it. Know what I mean? Hope so...

"Just once I would like to hear you scream in pain" "Play some rap music..." Bruce Willis on The Last Boy Scout.

Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

robbif - Posted - 04/29/2009:  15:28:48

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That picture of Earl Scruggs (above) may be the best one I've ever seen!

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Boy Joe, you sure know how to make a guy feel great!
Fred

davepicks5 - Posted - 04/29/2009:  15:43:45

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Silvio

I believe I understand ....

I do no one thing for sure, when he and the ring is ready, those that know and care.........will know and care.

Now, back to the pictures.........When I see the pixs of Butch, I remember that I was young, once........, many years ago in a far away land, in my mind now.....

David

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 04/29/2009:  17:21:32

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Good picker and all-around great guy Larry Perkins at a Nashville pickin' party.



Bill Emerson playing his Gibson 1988-9 RB-3



Bill Emerson again, congratulating Danielle Sargent for her fine job doubling up with him on "Theme Time" at Ladysmith, VA





deanhoffmeyer.com
nationalfingerpicks.com
banjohangout.org/forum/topic.a..._ID=45886

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DHoffmeyer - Posted - 04/29/2009:  18:37:31

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THIS IS SENT IN BY Andy Muenich of Birchwood, Wisconsin
Dean:
I have a candid snap shot of Roni Stoneman, with me jamming right behind her, at the recent February Spbgma event in Nashville.

photo courtesy of Andy Muenich of Birchwood, Wisconsin

thkidd - Posted - 05/01/2009:  12:05:18

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Originally posted by silvioferretti

What is it that Steve Huber is playing in this page's photo? It looks like an old Granada, but with a FE neck...

"Just once I would like to hear you scream in pain" "Play some rap music..." Bruce Willis on The Last Boy Scout.

Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

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I figured it was probably a Hatfield or a Fitch; maybe a Chief or an RK.

Darrell

"Measure your wealth not by the things you have but by the things for which you would not take money."

Couchie - Posted - 05/01/2009:  14:28:10

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Waaaay too cute!

Don.

O==''=(::}

doncouchie.com

Siempre - Posted - 05/17/2009:  15:25:04

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The Grascals were among the excellent bands at the "City Slickers" festival in Richmond, Virginia on May 9th. Here's one of Kristin - what a player!

SandyR - Posted - 05/18/2009:  01:16:57

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>BTW is that Uncle Josh Graves playing flattop guitar? Never heard of that...
Josh was a great guitarist as well as fine bassist and mandolin player...just an all-around incomparable musician.

Those are good period shots of Carl Hunt, whose picking I'm not familiar with. He's got excellent "banjo hair" of the '60s, in the lineage of Walt Hensley then and now.

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 05/31/2009:  20:50:46

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Jason McKendree of the Josh Wiiliams Band:

mastertone250 - Posted - 06/16/2009:  00:34:42

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J.D IS PLAYING ONE OF HIS NEW GIBSON SIGNURES,Betcha hes got a prewar ring in that thing

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Here are some pictures of JD Crowe at Rockygrass yesterday. Great show!

Noam Pikelny banjo player for Punch Brothers intoducing JD.


JD






Bob

"Earl if you are going to pick, pick something that has a tune to it" ...

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"Surround Yourself With Good Muscians". -J.D Crowe
“Nobody is a legend, we all put our pants on one leg at a time.” - Sonny Osborne

carteru93 - Posted - 06/16/2009:  04:25:16

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J.D IS PLAYING ONE OF HIS NEW GIBSON SIGNURES,Betcha hes got a prewar ring in that thing

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SNIP!

JD

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Betcha he doesn't . Me thinks that prewar tone is allll in his right hand! Long live the claw!

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Carter
Blaylock Bear Tracks Banjo the "Growler"
You can''t fix stupid!

Plunky - Posted - 06/22/2009:  09:47:34

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One of my favorite pickers, Filip Bato from the Slovak Republic. A monster behind that thing.

joshuapen - Posted - 06/22/2009:  11:31:11

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myork1 - Posted - 06/29/2009:  13:33:09

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This thread is FLIPPIN' Awesome!
I spent most of my BIRTHDAY looking through all these pages...sure glad I did.
Bet it keeps going & going...more great pix on the way. I'll come back in 6 months or so and catch up.
:)
Thanks to All,
M

Michael

Have a Great "Banjo Day!"
BanjoDay@gmail.com
Michael York

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 07/23/2009:  18:21:45

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Just starting to go through all the photos I took last month
at the CBA's Father's Day Festival in Grass Valley, CA.


Bobby Lundy, of Dan Paisley and the Southern Grass



Janet Beazley, of Chris Stuart and Backcountry





Robert Dowdy, of the Bluegrass Brothers

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Edited by - EggerRidgeBoy on 07/23/2009 18:29:30

72chevy - Posted - 09/18/2009:  08:28:19

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Bumping this thread up, so any of you festival goers/show attenders have good'uns from this summer?