Wed 9 Dec 2009
‘Across Tennessee by Kia’ will continue very shortly, when I will take the LTLP to a posh restaurant, bowling her over with my extravagance.
I am really, really busy at the moment. That will teach me to complain on Twitter that I am not busy at all and need more work. The problem is that if I stop doing work and start writing this then before you know it I am pissing about on the Internet, and I am struggling for time as it is, without pissing about on the Int…
Hang on! Here is video of Sonny Smith playing the banjo!
December 9th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Is it compulsary to be that shape to play in a Bluegrass band? It all makes sense now – the banjo, large quantites of ale at the Village Pub – the visits to the Pie Shop – you’re trying to achieve the qualification standard, aren’t you?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Wow, that’s fast, but sort of “ding-y”
December 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Stellar music. That fat guy is amazing.
Actually, I’d better clarify – the fat guy on the far right is amazing.
December 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
ajb – yes it is. Mostly because that’s the general shape they make blue overalls in and, obv, nothing less will do. I admit there could be a chicken-and-egg question about which came first, but personally I ascribe to side-by-side evolution over thousands of years eventually bringing us to this perfect symbiotic balance. [note: I lived for a year in Virginia (and survived) AND as a child was forced to go to folk festivals, thus the expertise]
December 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
With that amount of exercise, you’d think his fingers would be thin. Those are some fast-moving, fat finners!
December 9th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I think all 3 of those guys are in GREAT shape.
Round IS a shape.
Talented fingers, all 3 of them. Great finger-pickin’. Is that really “Folk”? Or does that fall into the C&W category? Somehow I can’t hear Joan Baez singing along to that…
December 9th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
That particular body shape puts the intrument in a more convenient position for high speed finger pickin’.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:17 am
For future reference, Jonny, chasing the high score on Tetris does not count as “busy”, no matter how difficult your chubby blue-grass fingers make it to use the keyboard…
December 10th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
“That particular body shape puts the instrument in a more convenient position for ??? OH, phew, high speed finger pickin’” Had me worried there for a moment.
December 10th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Oh I say. That’s very impressive. Can we have a recording of you playing the banjo next, please?
December 11th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Wow that is beyond brilliant. And they played my favourite too. Now I understand.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I am totally the right shape to be a world class banjo player.