Playing Since: 1963
Experience Level: Purty Good
paadams has made 1 recent addition to Banjo Hangout
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Helping]
Occupation: art and antiques dealer
Gender: Male
My Instruments:
Ode, OME, Bacon,GSW Teel, Morgan Monroe, W. French
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
The Stanley Bros., Bill Keith, Bob Black, Earl, Tony Trishka, Uncle Dave Macon, Bascom
Lunsford, Obray Ramsey, Don Reno, I could go on for ever. Too many great pickers. Jack
Lawrence, Red Allen and the Kentuckians, Buz Busby, Scotty Stoneman, Hudie Ledbetter,
all the great Canadian and Irish fiddlers, Mike Bubb, Tony Rice, Sam and Kirk Macgee,
The (old) Morris Bros., Eck Robertson, Clark Kessinger. The early Elvis, Little Richard,
Chops LaConte, Arthur (guitar) Smith, The Everly Bros., Mark Spoelstra, Dave Van
Ronk, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Buddy Wachter, .Ben Eldridge, Ricky Scaggs, The
Hunger Mt. Boys, The Louvin Brothers ( just love em)..., Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Dave Davis, Dave Evans, The Delmore Bros, The
Carter Family, Jim Eanes, Stephen Wade, The Johnson Mt. Boys, Rich Stillman, Alan
Munde, Bill Knopf, Mike Snyder, Rising Fawn with Norman Blake...I'm gonna add more cuz there's no end to the # of great musicians
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Created 1/10/2009
Last Visit 11/27/2024
Started playing tenor banjo in High School until I bought a Stanley Bros. album for $1.25
and knew I was wasting my time on the 4 string., had a ten year dry spell, got pumped up again when
I dropped into the Bluegrass Pickin Parlor in Tampa, Fla. I've done minor professional
work on albums of others, have my own CD, won a bunch of contest ribbons, performed on stage a little from
Fla. to New Hamp. but I'd much rather jam. The stage just doesn't do much for me. Spent
10 years in residential construction. Been burning firewood for heat going on 40 years and
keep my cell phone in a drawer turned off 98% of the time. I still have one rotary dial
telephone plugged in.
I'm an art and antiques dealer specializing in 18th and 19th century high style items. I
do my own restoration work, occasionally sell a stringed instrument, like to tinker and
fix anything I take a fancy to.
That picture of me was taken on the tiny Island of Tahuata in the Marquesas group. I was spreading the gospel of the banjo to French Polynesia.They like it, and why not!
'No-hole Ryan Ring' 3 hrs
'Good Thursday Morning' 10 hrs
