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Friday, May 4, 2012
HOPE EVERYONE IS HAVING A GOOD SPRING OUT THERE.
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Playing Since: 2000
Experience Level: Purty Good
Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Gender: Male
Age: 70
My Instruments:
Paul Johnson built me one out of a walnut burl and an old hedge fence post. Also play a Dojo.
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Created 6/9/2007
Last Visit 1/16/2015
I'm really a guitar player by trade. Currently in a singer songwriter duet with Mary Henderson (Mary Henderson & Geoff Shannon) for about 15 years now. I write instrumentals for guitar, banjo, and Dojo. I don't really have an actual background in old time music. I'm more of a country player. I just like the rhythm of frailing, which is about all I do on 5 string instruments. Drop thumbing is a bit of a mystery to my thumb, which is not a very smart thumb to begin with, it seems. I suppose once I get done exploring frailing, I can see about getting a thumb transplant and learning to drop it into the mix.
I'll try to post a picture of a Dojo for those of you a-skeert to explore the underbelly of the dark side of old time music. In a nutshell, it's made by Dobro, has a resonator and a 5-string neck. All the tuning issues of a banjo with the sustain of a Dobro. Very creepy indeed. I love it though, sort of like a mother would love a child just cause it was her child, even though it has 3 noses and one well centered eye.
I selected 'Purty Good' as a description of my place on the food chain on account of there wasn't a choice for 'flailer', or "That ain't no part of Old time'. So any inaccuracies are the fault of the site management rather than false advertising on my part.
All tunes I post here will be originals. They are held by Prairie Smoke Publishing / BMI , and either are or hopefully will be recorded on Smoky Hill Records by Mary Henderson & Geoff Shannon.
We do have CD's.
'1934 Gibson F-12 Mandolin' 11 min
'Problem uploading photos' 52 min
