Sounds awesome guys!!
Larry, I visited your soundclick page and tried to rate it and clicked the fan thing at the top right hand corner. I guess you have to be a member to give any feedback. Hopefully y’all will get a vote just from visiting the page.
Seriously guys, great job!
Thanks, Shawn. You’ll have to join in on the next project.
Though the song has changed, I think the same band (The Rosinators) has held the #1 bluegrass spot the entire 2+ years I’ve been over at Soundclick. They make some pretty good music, but I’d gain a perverse sense of pleasure in displacing them. 
Larry I have chatted with our fearless leader Ben and he has been up to his nose in work! However I told him to post our song on his facebook page to get some hits for you in soundclick.
He told me to tell you and fiddlewood that he will be back in a week or so and that the 3 of us and him will do a collaboration just like the three of us did here and for us to pick a song. He said we can either have me and him doing guitar or he will play Dobro or any instrument that we don’t play.
So be thinking of a song.
Crap! I already felt overmatched picking with you and Dave. Now, we’re adding, Ben? No pressure there. Guess I’ll just keep letting you guys make me sound good.
We should come up with a name for our ensemble band and I’ll open a Soundclick account just for us Banjo Ben members.
Just a couple things. voices still sound unbalanced on harmony: Front = Lead voice needs to come up or the other two down.
Back, The High harmony is way louder than the Low, With the amount you have them panned out it gives an unbalanced sound that is louder on one side.
Just before the first singing there is a banjo lead in you might want to kick up a bit (I know, I know, I’m surrounded by banjo haters). It is in correct time with the vocals though…
Oh and now Dave decides to get picky! Dern banjo guys are never happy! Using quotes from the late “not-so-great” Rodney King who passed away two weeks or so ago “Can’t we all just get along?” In the next collaboration I am gonna suggest a song with no banjer in it!
Ben said he’d post the song tomorrow on his Facebook page Larry.
Yeah right Larry, you guys can pick circles around me.
We can call the group:
“1 Banjo & Insignificant Others”
Sweet!
Can’t wait to see what you guys come up with. I’ll be watching, for sure.
Pretty cool for Ben to throw it up on Facebook to give you guys some exposure. Just remember us little guys when y’all get big. 
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“1 Banjo & Insignificant Others”
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HaHa… good first suggestion.
Dave, I’ll tweak the mix as soon as mama relinquishes control of my mixing computer.
As far as songs ideas for the future, I really would like to explore harmony singing some more. We also need to consider copyright issues if we want to post our completed recordings online. A song in the public domain might be the best choice.
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Pretty cool for Ben to throw it up on Facebook to give you guys some exposure.
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If we create a Soundclick page just for Banjo Ben people, we might be able to steer some new people to to this site, too.
We could be “Ben’s Bluegrass Boys” (I like the alliteration), but I wouldn’t want to exclude any lady pickers that might want to join in.
I have a friend who wrote a pretty damn good song and never tried to do anything with it…probably one of the better ones I have heard in the amateur ranks…I will get in touch with him and see if he minds if we use it and as I’d never use it without his permission. If he is ok with it I can easily play the melody/sing it to let you guy hear it.
Just having fun…
Old Hats & dogs
netgrass
the Collaborators
LP and the Demos
Nobody Sleeps
Fountain Hill
The Hill District
The Foothills
The Wood Chips
Song Forum
Field Operations
Broken in the Dust
“Nobody Sleeps”…haha, there is no doubt that the 3 of us keep some weird hours! I know many days I will stay awake for around 40 hours before finally bedding down…to much fun stuff to be doing…sleep is just as over-rated as the banjo!
Guess it’s a good thing I’m a Bassist…
Nice bit of brainstorming, Dave.
I sure did quite a bit of late night/early morning mixing on this project, so Nobody Sleeps (including my wife) is appropriate. LP and the Demos is clever, but my ego’s not that big 
I like netgrass - better trademark that one. I googled it and it looks like no one has coined the term yet.
netgrass: primitive music created with modern technology
“netgrass” it is then!
Hey we could do “I am a Pilgrim” as a collaborative. Is a good song boys I tell ya!
But 'I am a Pilgrim wouldn’t center around the banjo… 
It would be nice to do something in a different time signature or with a different feeling than the last one. Maybe something slower/simpler would invite more participation. Though most of the slower things I know have more difficult chord progressions.
It is possible to do a three part guitar song. we do all pick them…
We could write something…
I have a few more songs I haven’t recorded yet…both vocal and instrumental.
just kicking tires…
I’ve got one “decent one” that I have not recorded that I wrote called “Walking through the Maples”. Is about a guy I know that taps the maples and makes syrup. Is a mandolin player.
He’s a “homesteader” and makes his livin’ off of the syrup. Gins around and tends to just move stuff around on his farm and never gets anything done. If he does decide to actually work and you interrupt him wanting to talk then he’ll let you know that he’s busy. IF he is not busy then he wants to be a chatty Kathy and yack all the time. Thursday nights are his big night “out on the town” as that is “jam night” and he’s sure to play. Brings “free range” chicken eggs for folks and sells them for 2.00/dz to get some spending money. Is really a character.
I bow hunted the adjacent property. Old feller would never let anyone on his property…I asked every year. Well he told me that if I did ever shoot one and it got on his property then to come let him know and I would be more than welcome to retrieve it…well that very thing happened later that year and I go to his house to ask to retrieve my deer and low-and-behold he’s pickin a mandolin. I say “I play guitar” he answers with “Lots of folks say they can play the guitar”. I say “well I’m decent” and then out comes the “I tell you what you’ve been wanting to hunt my property for years, I have a guitar back there that no one in the family can play and a tuner, you tune it up and play for me right now and if you are “decent” like you say you are then I’ll give you exclusive permission to hunt my property as long as you pick with me from time to time”…Well needless to say I got permission to hunt, moved a camper onto his 200 acres and pick and grin all the time with him when I am there bow hunting. Is a peculiar feller as he is a tried and true homesteader, gave up the ‘good life’ 30 years ago and bought himself some property and basically checked out from society. He tells me he had the perfect plan as he was single when he done it, the 150 year old log cabin with no electric, the outhouse, and bathing in the creek was perfect until he got lonely and got married and had kids!
That’s him in a nutshell and I wrote a song about this peculiar “real” person.
I kind of like both Netgrass and 1 Banjo and Insignificant Others (1-BIO could be the “cool” version).