Experience Level: Novice
Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing]
Gender: Male
Age: 76
My Instruments:
Vega SS-5 Long Neck c.1962
Cox Kentucky 5
Vega Scruggs ST-5 c. 1964
Cox Carolina
Vega Conversion Tube-a-Phone openback
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Earl (of Course), Pete Seeger, Kingston Trio, Tommy Makem, Ralph Stanley, Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Don Reno, Eric Weissberg, Keith Richards, Luke Kelly, Sammy Shelor, Eric Gibson, John Hartford, Vladimir Horowitz, Raymond Fairchild, Jimmy Cox, Carter Logan, Ron Cody, and don't forget Dave Hum, and so many others...
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Created 3/5/2011
Last Visit 1/19/2025
Heard a lot of folkies in the 50s & 60s - started playing on Kay, then a Vega long-neck. Went to college, heard a lot of different music, didn't play much banjo for the next 40+ years -- Just started up again in Jan 2010. Bluegrass and banjo have come a long way, lots of catching up to do... Still got the Vega, and have recently purchased the Cox. Love the sound of both instruments...
Purchased a c 1964 Vega ST-5 Scruggs model from a lisiting on
BHO; it's a great playing instrument, and is lighter than a mastertone style so it makes a great 'festival' banjo.
More recently I've acquired another Cox, a Carolina. It's a great sounding maple banjo; cracks sharp as a tack, and it is LOUD. I love it.
Bluegrass Banjo-playing is, of course, more challanging than Bluegrass Banjo-owning, but I love all my banjos. I guess I may be suffering through the beginning twinges of BAS. And I do like to play these fine instruments.
