vikingrat Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Just saw a clip of these two.Does anyone know the tunning of his Banjo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hey, that's not a guitar! Kidding, no idea. Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingrat Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 I just wonder if you can apply some of that to guitar.Danny Gatton did alot of those rolls but the context was a little different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauce Posted June 8, 2006 Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hah sorry but just curious if you saw them on the Bonnaroo 2002 video on demand and if not I guess check them out on that, it was a good clip. Then you'll never hear surf music again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingrat Posted June 8, 2006 Author Share Posted June 8, 2006 Originally posted by Sauce: Hah sorry but just curious if you saw them on the Bonnaroo 2002 video on demand and if not I guess check them out on that, it was a good clip. BINGO!! That is just where i saw it this morning.I saw Bela once at the free santa monica pier concerts but i liked this even more.The sound of him and the acoustic stand up bass with a bow was awesome.The bass player reminds me a bit of Edward Weber.Ive never hear a banjo sound so poignat before.Kinda happy sad to qoute Tim Buckley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauce Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 Yeah it was a great video. I still haven't seen him live yet although he's on my list to see eventually, hopefully. I thought the rest of the clips were real good too, they had a good line up that year (like every year hah). Then you'll never hear surf music again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbqbob Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 EXCELLENT show when I saw him in concert. Really quite amazing the sounds he gets out of the banjo. Very enjoyable show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvar Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I've had the pleasure of working with Bela' several times, and he always amazes me, and truly a nice person, (my cousin named his son after him, and I got him to sign a picture for little Bela') Seeing Victor Wooten play is almost worth seeing the show also, as for Edgar Meyer, he is a hometown boy- from Oak Ridge, Tn. Where I grew up, and my parents still live, just about 10 miles north of Knoxville. He's a few years younger than I am, but he grew up next door to my best friend's house. "Who's gonna teach the children about Chuck Berry?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Several years ago Béla and Edgar came to Bristol and put on a show in the Paramount Theater as a benefit for the local high school band's trip to Ireland. (One of the kids in the band wrote Béla and invited him, Béla accepted, and the kid worked out setting up the gig himself.) It was an amazing show. Toward the end of the first set, as he was going on playing "Perpetual Motion" on the banjo with Edgar on bass, my mind drifted and I pondered how it wasn't just an oddity that he was playing a piano concerto on a banjo, but that he was playing it damn well. Then I thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if someone took a National Tricone and played Spanish classical guitar on it?" There was an intermission, and when Béla came out for the second set, what was he carrying but a shiny National Style 1 Tricone?! He played some killer classical guitar on it, too! Oh, yeah: I brought along my teacher to the show, and he was more interested in Edgar's bass playing than anything. Edgar is amazing! He brought along a friend of his (I'd given him a pair of tickets) whose name I can't think of now, but he's played bass with The Oak Ridge Boys. He was just raving over Edgar's bass playing. "A cheerful heart is good medicine." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Hey,... post a link to Victor and the crew. I want to see him playing URB. Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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