DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/18/2006:  23:37:07

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i miss hee haw

Jason Skinner - Posted - 09/19/2006:  11:07:05

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Wow what a looker! Actually Roni is pretty good looking now, especially for her age. I saw here at a show recently and she said she had here eye and her teeth fixed. She put on a great show and talked about the Hee-Haw days. She isn't the greatest banjo player in the world but it was one of the most entertaining shows I have ever seen.



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

For The Reno Workshop go here: banjohollow.ic24.net

nowhereradio.com/artist...&alid=1454

musicaccord.net/userpage/renoman22/

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Edited by - Jason Skinner on 09/19/2006 11:09:32

silvioferretti - Posted - 09/19/2006:  15:58:12

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Yep, I served breakfast (actually just coffee) to Roni last year at IBMA's Fan Feast, and she sure looks better than she did way back when. Dean, your pics are so f....ing awesome!

Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

oldbanjoman - Posted - 09/20/2006:  21:07:15

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A much younger John McEuen (circa 1979 maybe?)



1927 Gibson Florentine with custom 5-string neck

Dean L.
* '82 Stelling Whitestar
* '81 Stelling Bellflower
* Home-built, short-scale travel banjo

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/20/2006:  21:10:46

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Every time i see him, i hear, "Pick your banjer solid John!"

Dean

wjtank - Posted - 09/20/2006:  21:13:36

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Pick your banjer solid John...you been pickin' one for about 15 years, ain't ya?

Bill T.

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/20/2006:  21:19:51

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Earl never did do that...

oldbanjoman - Posted - 09/20/2006:  21:51:56

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Uncle Dave... if you're in there... Soldier's Joy, take one.

Dean L.
* '82 Stelling Whitestar
* '81 Stelling Bellflower
* Home-built, short-scale travel banjo

silvioferretti - Posted - 09/21/2006:  04:42:14

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How about "Jimmy Driftwood wrote this song... Hallo there!"

Silvio Ferretti scorpionmusic.com

bobdenver1961 - Posted - 09/23/2006:  22:18:13

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Pete Wernick "Dr. Banjo"

Pete Wernick at Cletusfest in Denver.

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Edited by - bobdenver1961 on 09/23/2006 22:19:59

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/23/2006:  22:23:46

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gotta love Dr. Banjo!

Here's a frame grab from home video- two of my favorite bho member pickers over here one afternooon swapping licks and banjos- "borderbull" and "35tb11".


Dean

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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 01/07/2007 10:37:59

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 09/25/2006:  19:09:14

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Amelia, Virginia picker Clyde Bailey. This guy has been a local favorite for years.

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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/29/2006 22:03:48

3 Finger - Posted - 10/07/2006:  15:24:19

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Earl Scruggs during 2006 IBMA's.

Gordon

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/07/2006:  16:54:00

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Very nice Gordon- thanks!
Ok, these guys don't play banjo, but here's what I shoot when there's not a festival in town.
deanhoffmeyer.com/bho/dhvatech.jpg
Dean

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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 10/24/2006 00:23:22

R985wasp - Posted - 10/07/2006:  16:57:42

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Dude! You are just too good with a camera!




Randy

"Now.......what on earth do you want Son?...."

1926 Gibson TB-5
1981 Gold Star GF100-FE
1981 Gold Star GF85
2004 Huber VRB-3 Wreath
2005 Huber Custom Jim Mills Model
1984 Martin HD-28
2003 Martin D-28CW

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myspace.com/r985wasp
myspace.com/officialjimmymartin

JoeZ - Posted - 10/08/2006:  10:46:02

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Good thing that's not a banjo he's holding!

EggerRidgeBoy - Posted - 10/08/2006:  12:20:32

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Doug McKelway, a reporter/anchorman with Channel 7, the local ABC affiliate, playing at the Adams Morgan Festival in DC last month.

banjo1930 - Posted - 10/08/2006:  13:37:31

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I would love to see some alan shelton or bill emerson photos here if anyone has some.

2many5s - Posted - 10/09/2006:  23:44:28

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Here's a banjo picker photo for you. Ms. Casey Henry

Travers - Posted - 10/10/2006:  15:20:17

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quote:

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Originally posted by DHoffmeyer

Amelia, Virginia picker Clyde Bailey. This guy has been a local favorite for years.

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I know him..lol

I just picked with him a few weeks ago with Mitch Harrell up at Chesterfield...Clyde's a good friend,good guy and great picker...

Bob Robert - Posted - 10/11/2006:  02:44:00

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Couldn't get these pictures to work, so I'm deleting them. I'll leave the website link, though, and you can just scroll down on that page and see the banjo one.

Obviously, not a real banjo player. It's from a Photoshop contest, which can be viewed here
worth1000.com/cache/contest/co...t_id=7377



Bob

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot

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Edited by - Bob Robert on 10/11/2006 20:02:13

Bob Robert - Posted - 10/11/2006:  05:39:06

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Whoops - just checked, and now it's red x's. Bummer. I'll try again later, maybe.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot

Travers - Posted - 10/11/2006:  09:12:38

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quote:

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Originally posted by DHoffmeyer

at VFMA? that's where I shot the photo

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Yep...i was the guy with the red hat...lol

thkidd - Posted - 10/11/2006:  10:11:29

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quote:

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Originally posted by Bob Robert

[img]http://www.worth1000.com/entries/184000/184355WDfc_w.jpg
Wow! Who knew?!

Obviously, not a real banjo player. It's from a Photoshop contest, which can be viewed here
worth1000.com/cache/contest/co...t_id=7377


Bob

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot

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Some of those are pretty funny, but practically all of them have the head/face too big for the rest of the body, which makes them look rather freaky.

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

KLandreth - Posted - 10/11/2006:  11:01:46

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Not my pictures...but fun ones found in a box of country music snapshots sold on eBay. They were taken at Mockingbird Hill Park near Anderson Indiana in the fall of 1960 (photo finisher dated Nov 1960). Herb Hooven, Paul (Humphries) Williams, JD Crowe, and Jimmy Martin (bass unknown). I'm not sure when Crowe got 'the banger'...but I'm sure 'flatthead' will be able to tell us if this is it.

As 'borderbull' says...there's alot of music in these photos...

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Edited by - KLandreth on 10/11/2006 13:08:06

Ryan Cavanaugh - Posted - 10/11/2006:  21:23:21

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I like the John McEuen pic. Right on. "Pick the banjer solid John! You've been pickin' for 15 years aint' cha?"

dshields - Posted - 10/14/2006:  10:47:18

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I got this shot at the Hardly Stictly Bluegrass event in San Francisco last weekend. Tom was playing banjo for Hazel Dickens. He told me that he's thinking about recording a CD with his 2-finger style. I told him, "I hope so!"

dshields - Posted - 10/14/2006:  10:49:34

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Here's one of Jim Mills and Kentucky Thunder. I don't remember the mandolin player's name

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/14/2006:  10:52:56

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Looks like Jim's head is tuned to an A flat there!!

dshields - Posted - 10/14/2006:  10:53:41

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Now, here's my SAD story
I took tons of digital pictures of all the banjo players that weekend...and there were a lot of them. But when I got home, my card reader corrupted my flash card. The few pictures that I have left are because I took my card to a data recovery service. This one would have been great, except that this thumbnail is all that was recovered:

dshields - Posted - 10/14/2006:  10:59:09

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quote:

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Originally posted by DHoffmeyer

Looks like Jim's head is tuned to an A flat there!!

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Okay, here's one with the rest of Jim's head

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/14/2006:  11:30:15

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Joey Cox from Pulaski, Virginia playing with Kenny and Amanda Smith at the National Folk Festival in Richmond. Joey is playing the same Huber he used on "Cuppa 'Jo" which is a 2004 Lancaster with a maple neck. Its PUNCHY!

Canon EOS 1D Mark II N, 70-200 f2.8

Dean

Rounder 0044 - Posted - 10/14/2006:  12:32:25

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This thread keeps on going, and going, and......kinda like an energizer bunny! Dean, I thought you said in the first post that this might be a short one. HAHAHA. Let's keep it going, it has become my favorite post, I hope to have a few more to add soon Sorry about your flash card dsheilds, I would be sick too.
Here is a link that John Lawless has on the Bluegrass Blog. It will take you to the Mandolin Cafe, there is a bunch of vintage pictures of many of our Bluegrass Hero's......it is a worth a look. Good stuff.
mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonb...3&t=27992

Mark

canecreek.net

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/15/2006:  22:38:17

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We've had some pictures of him up recently, but I was fortunate enough to meet one of my banjo heros earlier today, at the National Folk Festival in Richmond.
Tom Adams!!


The neck of Tom's old GF-100W Gold Star, I heard, was made by Frank Neat. Here it is.

Though not usually known as a banjo player, here's Jamesie Brewster with his "cheese can" banjo.

Jason Skinner - Posted - 10/15/2006:  23:28:11

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I didn't realize Flava Flav played the banjo!




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

For The Reno Workshop go here: banjohollow.ic24.net
For some of my Reno tunes go here:
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musicaccord.net/userpage/renoman22/
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For my rare Don Reno videos go here:
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DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/15/2006:  23:33:53

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Jamesie is pretty awesome- from St. Croix

5-Picker Tim - Posted - 10/17/2006:  19:57:10

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Dean said...

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We've had some pictures of him up recently, but I was fortunate enough to meet one of my banjo heros earlier today, at the National Folk Festival in Richmond.
Tom Adams!!

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Dean,
I haven't had a chance to see Tom this summer and heard recently he was playing two finger style to get around his dystonia problems. From the photo it "looks" like he's back to three... is that the case? That's great news if it's so.




Tim
Western PA

...got banjo?

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/17/2006:  22:44:50

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No, it's 2 fingers... I got some video - want to see?

Dean

thkidd - Posted - 10/18/2006:  09:32:32

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No one will confuse these with Dean's photos, but they're better than what I usually do:

Dale Perry


Josh McMurray


Steve Dilling


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

thkidd - Posted - 10/18/2006:  09:39:18

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Also, Craig Smith:



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

5-Picker Tim - Posted - 10/18/2006:  20:12:00

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Dean said...

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No, it's 2 fingers... I got some video - want to see?

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Yep!



Tim
Western PA

...got banjo?

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/18/2006:  23:56:39

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Tom Adams is amazing... watch the video!
youtube.com/watch?v=oWzoOJstGJc
Dean

Bigbadbucksnort - Posted - 10/19/2006:  02:15:19

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quote:

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Tom Adams is amazing... watch the video!
youtube.com/watch?v=oWzoOJstGJc
Dean

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Tom Adams and Barry Abernathy: they're not great handicapped players; they're great players.

Great idea for the photos thread, Dean. This is all very cool. (Lost all my photos when my hard drive crashed a few days ago. :( )

Tobias


nowhereradio.com/ergobanjo/singles

2004 Huber Lancaster

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Edited by - Bigbadbucksnort on 10/19/2006 02:17:35

5-Picker Tim - Posted - 10/19/2006:  19:26:34

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Dean said...

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Tom Adams is amazing... watch the video!

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Thanks Dean... "amazing"... hardly says enough about this guy!





Tim
Western PA

...got banjo?

Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/19/2006:  20:00:11

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Doc Watson used to do some similar stuff with two fingers--more index lead and not as bluegrassy; just as amazing.

Bill

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/20/2006:  23:13:15

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Noam Pikelny and his Nechville in Richmond with Chris Thile.


Dean

dtuner5 - Posted - 10/21/2006:  09:42:34

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Buck Trent's morning show in Branson, Missouri. We had a blast!



That's Buck on the left. He's signing my copy of "Sounds of now and beyond" from 1972






Roger
'62 RB 250
'97 ESS
nowhereradio.com/pondboss/singles

kris_rasnake - Posted - 10/21/2006:  19:50:35

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Anybody got any pics of Baucom playing his Stelling??

Kris Rasnake

dshields - Posted - 10/24/2006:  10:44:15

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NashCamp 2006 was amazing!
Here's Sonny O. He commented a couple of times that his playing is starting to come back (after sholder surgery a couple of years ago). This is good news, INDEED!