thkidd - Posted - 10/26/2006:  11:04:50

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Originally posted by dtuner5


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

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Glad you told us which one was Buck. Are you sure that isn't you in the sequined red jacket with the fringe on the sleeves? Good pictures.

Interesting to see that Buck is apparently left-handed but plays right-handed.

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

3 Finger - Posted - 10/29/2006:  21:05:14

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JD with Bryan Sutton at this years IBMA in Nashville. It was quite the show!

Gordon

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Edited by - 3 Finger on 10/29/2006 21:07:17

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 10/31/2006:  20:53:35

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This guy is just starting out...

Bigbadbucksnort - Posted - 10/31/2006:  22:55:25

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Awesome! May the Tone be with you.

Tobias


nowhereradio.com/ergobanjo/singles

2004 Huber Lancaster

intowishin - Posted - 11/01/2006:  16:40:04

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Those are pretty cool pics. I'm inspired now to start snapping at the winter Florida festivals. Thanks.


Todd G.
Naples, FL

ledlow - Posted - 11/01/2006:  16:53:42

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I didn't take this picture, but found it on the internet. It was too interesting not to post. This was taken in Senegal by a banjo playing traveler. I posted the blurb below the photo.



Travel like this is also full of triumphs of encouraging discovery. I had heard that the banjo had originated in Africa and brought over by slaves, so I brought my own backpack banjo to see if I could get in a jam or two. And while I did not find any bluegrass bands on the beach, I did jam one morning with a guitar toting Senegalese, and saw some evangelical Moroccans strumming on the old banjo to a crowd in Marrakech, prior to giving a fire and brimstone sermon on Islam. And yes, even in Africa, the sound of the banjo still makes people smile.

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 11/01/2006:  21:26:07

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Hello everyone. I wanted to mention if you've ever shared a picture that you shot on this thread, send me a bho friends request so I can add you to my list (if you don't mind having me as a bho friend).

I always emphasize that each photo should be posted by the copyright owner of that image, so you can tell us something about WHAT IT WAS LIKE being there.
Thanks all,

Dean

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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 11/24/2006 11:12:13

banjogud - Posted - 11/02/2006:  06:59:56

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Hey Dean! Ya know, this thread really deserves to be it`s own separate topic. It is a real treasure to the Hangout and I really enjoy seeing all these great pickers in action. I hope it never scrolls off the first page into the " land of archived posts". It should really be preserved as an open topic.
Imho.....


ask me about my gourd banjos
banjoman@westelcom.com

see them at: users.westelcom.com/banjoman/G...anjos.htm

Creekcrippler - Posted - 11/02/2006:  12:50:12

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ledlow, I have seen and heard one of those those Moroccan string bands, they play loud and hard driving, and are really skilled. Don´t know what that particular brand of arabic music style is called. OK, sorry for being a little off topic. More cool pictures, please!

Fredrik

2many5s - Posted - 11/03/2006:  12:28:43

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oldbanjoman - Posted - 11/17/2006:  20:45:49

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QUOTE: "I agree that I have all the banjos I will ever need."
- Mary Z Cox; April 1, 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006

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That quote of Mary's is just too damn funny, Bob. I love it!

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

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Edited by - oldbanjoman on 11/18/2006 09:34:23

jdmatthew - Posted - 11/24/2006:  14:43:35

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I totally agree with that statement--I can do whatever I NEED on one. However, there is a large gap between my needs and my wants, and no doubt most of us could say the same.

Jadie Matthew
Lampasas, Texas

Rounder 0044 - Posted - 12/03/2006:  20:54:36

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Dean has already posted a few great shots of Jason Davis, but I thought I would keep this thread going and throw these up as I saw him with the soon to be changing Blueridge last night in Valdese NC. He is as solid a picker as you will find....and only 18. The closeup shows the very loose right hand he has. Looks like there is very little tension in his hand, that might be a secret to his speed, and the fact that the hand is only 18 years old! He also looked to be playing a fairly new RB-4, I thought he was endorsing Huber.




Mark

canecreek.net

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 12/03/2006:  21:06:09

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Thanks Mark,

I know Jason just got a prewar TB-1 - this looks like it. As for his Huber Lancaster, I own that these days!

Dean

Surveyor - Posted - 12/09/2006:  13:38:24

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This is great stuff guys. Thank you.

Brian S. Borum

Wind me up and watch me go....

chief71 - Posted - 12/11/2006:  12:27:44

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I saw him this past May and he was playing a TB-11 conversion that he had just bought from Jim Mills, this looks like that same banjo but I could be wrong.

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Originally posted by DHoffmeyer

Thanks Mark,

I know Jason just got a prewar TB-1 - this looks like it. As for his Huber Lancaster, I own that these days!

Dean

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DHoffmeyer - Posted - 12/11/2006:  15:49:58

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Jason says it was the TB-1. Same style neck as the 11.

lazyarcher - Posted - 12/27/2006:  15:27:08

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I just found some pictures from the Canadian Bluegrass Awards in November. Heres one of me and my daughter and Cia Cherryholmes. My daughter says she likes Cia better than me....go figure.



Dave Jack

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Edited by - lazyarcher on 12/27/2006 15:28:11

LDMINC - Posted - 01/03/2007:  17:11:27

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Originally posted by KLandreth

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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LDMINC - Posted - 01/03/2007:  17:18:07

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Originally posted by KLandreth

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...



I enjoyed your pictures from Mockingbird Hill Park. Our organization purchased the property and the concert hall is still there. We are restoring it and turning it into a retreat center for people with developmental disabilities. I am looking for more historical information and photos. Do you have any higher resilution images of these photos that you can send me at don@ldminc.org.

don

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Don Boden

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/07/2007:  01:26:21

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Some Terry Baucom in Richmond with DL&Q

Holding his 1962 Bowtie on stage. All are Canon EOS 1D Mark II N 70-200mm -1600iso 1/60 @ f2.8


with Doyle


hand position

Dean




myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/07/2007:  01:41:21

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Great pix Dean... I have a coupla questions: is that an image-stabilizing lens? And do you handhold or use some sort of tripod or monopod? Tnx.

Bill

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/07/2007:  01:53:37

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Yes, and the IS was on for the top image. I usually don't use a monopod for anything shorter than 400, and that's because the 400 is so heavy. Plus I'm just not coordinated enough to use one very well.
Now over 30,000 views!



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

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Rounder 0044 - Posted - 01/07/2007:  10:15:32

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Fine images as always Dean. Here is one from last Saturday night in Rudy's Bluegrass in Anderson SC. It was the first time I had seen the Kruger Brothers. Not exactly straight up Bluegrass, but there is a boat load of talent in those three performers! Here is Jens Krüger, with bassest Joel Landsberg.
Camera model: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80)
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO equiv.: 3200
Lens: Canon 70-200 F4 L hand held

Here is one with Ewe. Don't need to leave him out, even if he does pick a guitar!
Exposure time: 0.013 s (1/80)
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO equiv.: 1600
Lens: Sigma 28-70 f/2.8 EX hand held

Mark

canecreek.net

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Edited by - Rounder 0044 on 01/07/2007 10:37:23

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/07/2007:  13:28:16

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If there's a dark stage, there's a banjo picker on it! Those 20D's at high iso are really clean. Nice Mark- thanks.


Terry was nice enough to sign my '56 resonator, too!

Dean

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/10/2007:  01:23:14

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I just think we need another Kenny Ingram photo.

Kenny on stage at Ladysmith, VA with his now-retired 11 conversion



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

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Edited by - DHoffmeyer on 01/10/2007 09:57:37

Rounder 0044 - Posted - 01/10/2007:  07:43:15

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Dang Dean you do fantastic work. But then again, if I made my living taking photographs I would be ...........well, not a better photographer, but a lot skinner!
Keep em' comming!
Short thread....I don't think so! This stuff should be archived somewhere, too much history, and future history here. "Future history" I don't think I have ever seen those two words together!



Mark

canecreek.net

RayD - Posted - 01/10/2007:  09:34:45

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I have to agree with Mark - great pictures! But I hate to burst your bubble Mark - the terms "future history" have been used to talk about science fiction literature for years. I also agree that the pictures need to be archived in some way. I'll also take it a step further to ask - does anyone else have banjoist pictures - especially live performance ones - that can be uploaded? They're great for catching the elusive banjoist in its live environment.

Cheers,


RayD

Darcy - Posted - 01/10/2007:  21:23:55

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I feel embarassed to post pictures in here, but I do.

One of my favourite banjo players. I posted one on here before, but here is another one I found hidden away.

Rounder 0044 - Posted - 01/10/2007:  23:21:53

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Not a thing wrong with that image............or the subject! Well done.

Mark

canecreek.net

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/10/2007:  23:37:30

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Yep- it's a guud! This is not a contest; we're thrilled to see these photos. If you shot it, post it.

Dean



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

maxmax - Posted - 01/11/2007:  17:25:51

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Took this of Ken Perlman on my trip across the pond last summer.

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Edited by - maxmax on 01/11/2007 17:28:49

nirvano - Posted - 01/12/2007:  17:59:23

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JD right hand

RB3Deering - Posted - 01/12/2007:  23:22:48

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I love the pic of Alison. She is a very nice lady. I am lucky to have met her. She is definitely my favorite banjo picker.

Fred Frank - Posted - 01/13/2007:  22:12:46

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After seeing the thread with the lesson painting, I was reminded of this one:



Cia Cherryholmes with student at Darrington

Fred

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Edited by - Fred Frank on 01/13/2007 22:14:08

vincentbanjogh - Posted - 01/13/2007:  22:15:31

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Nice one Fred!

RB3Deering - Posted - 01/14/2007:  08:44:28

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Yes, I second that. Alison and Cia are the hottest banjo babes out there!

JIMBO53 - Posted - 01/14/2007:  08:50:59

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What?!? 13 pages of banjo pickers and none of Steve Martin?!? Oh, the humanity.

" Hi, my name is Jimbo, and I'm a Banjo-holic " ....." Hi, Jimbo "

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/14/2007:  21:43:36

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Here's something you don't get to see that often anymore, and I'm thrilled to add this to the collection. Only a week ago, Ralph Stanley was in the hospital with double pneumonia.
He and the Clinch Mountain Boys played in Appomattox, Va. on Jan 14, 2007. Ralph turns 80 in February.





myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

Mimspicker - Posted - 01/14/2007:  21:53:22

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Little Roy


Royce Burt




Mimspicker

1981 Stelling Whitestar
Gold Tone OB-250
Martin D-1R

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Berthold Auerbach, 1812-1882

skevincampbell - Posted - 01/14/2007:  23:16:13

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Hey Mims,

That's a good picture of Royce. The sunglasses are the way to go.

Kevin

Gold Star GF-100 Wreath
70's Alvarez Minstrel

SJL - Posted - 01/14/2007:  23:32:57

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Dean, Great picture of Dr. Ralph. Great to see that he is out of the hospital and back out there.

Is that a Stanleytone? It looks like it says Gibson on the Headstock. Is it an Archtop? Can't tell from the pic, but it looks pretty flat to me. Hmm.

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

banjo1930 - Posted - 01/15/2007:  00:18:45

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You cant really see it in the picture but it's an arch-top

Mimspicker - Posted - 01/15/2007:  17:51:40

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Hey Mims,

That's a good picture of Royce. The sunglasses are the way to go.

Kevin

Gold Star GF-100 Wreath
70's Alvarez Minstrel

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There's a picture of Royce and Little Roy pickin' together on this thread: banjohangout.org/forum/topic.a..._ID=71896



Mimspicker

1981 Stelling Whitestar
Gold Tone OB-250
Martin D-1R

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"
Berthold Auerbach, 1812-1882

DHoffmeyer - Posted - 01/15/2007:  19:10:49

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Royce wears the glasses, Little Roy wears the mic.

Dr.Ralph's banjo is a copy that Gibson made of the old '29 he used for years. James A. Shelton bought the original '29 a couple years ago. Steve Sparkman plays a similar Gibson banjo.

From the old school house in Lucketts, VA, here's The Patuxent Partners' John Brunschwyler- gotta love them German banjo players!


Dean



myspace.com/deanhoffmeyer

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royce - Posted - 01/15/2007:  21:39:33

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Little Roy is one of my all time favorites...plus he can pick the snot out of a banjo...POWERFUL PICKER is an understatement..
..at the festival this weekend he called EARL and let me talk to him for a few minutes....that was cool...
I appreciate Bill (Mimspicker) for taking the good photos.

mefloyd - Posted - 01/15/2007:  23:08:31

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Dr.Ralph's banjo is a copy that Gibson made of the old '29 he used for years. James A. Shelton bought the original '29 a couple years ago. Steve Sparkman plays a similar Gibson banjo.

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On the All Star Bluegrass Celebration DVD, I noticed it says "Stanleytone" on the banjo Steve Sparkman is playing. Are Stanleytones a Gibson product? I know I sure do like the sound of it and would like to own one someday.

Regards,

Michael Floyd
BluegrassFriends.com

I'm not ignorant or apathetic, but I don't know, and I just don't care!

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SJL - Posted - 01/16/2007:  18:08:35

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mefloyd, Stanleytones are not a Gibson Product. They are made by Frank Neat. Ralph always has one for sale at his shows. They are a beautiful instrument. That's why I was curious about the one that Ralph is playing in the picture.

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

Retropicker - Posted - 01/16/2007:  18:13:25

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I hope Dr. Ralph was wearing White ostrich boots to go with that belt. A great pic.