Forum - Banjo Ben Clark

What are y'all up to?

Pavilion looks awesome! Will it have trap doors in the floor to send less than adequate pickers to BG jail?

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got it yesterday, about 15 minutes before I had to go to work. Got it all tuned up, and time to go. I will be hitting it when I get up this afternoon for sure. I am on nights 5 to 5 until Monday.

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What you intend to sleep after they have arrived:dizzy_face:

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lol, I got up at 0430 to take daughter to Dr. in Raleigh. Got home around 12 ish … waited… and waited. banjo arrived. tuned it, went to work at 1530. got home at 0630… yep, I went to bed, lol. Shhhh… I brought it to work tonight though :wink:

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Believe me… I told the wife and daughter I would be standing on the bed waking them up with beautiful BANJO music. Well, as beautiful as I could make it anyway, :roll_eyes: Can you believe it… I WAS THREATENED!!! So, in my better judgement, I went to bed quietly.:sunglasses:

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No problems, mate. You simply need to buy your wife this banjo mute. They sell them down at the hardware store.

BanjoMute

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I am ROFL!

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My practice time goes way down when my kids are back home. No matter how softly I play my mandolin, it must travel straight to their ears. I know I have no volume control on my fiddle, so I don’t even try :rofl:

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Make sure you get the 9 Lb option. :wink:

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Maybe you… But it’s a little too heavy for my size Lord Lord for my size.

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Went to see Billy Strings last nite! Was a great & late evening! Got several videos too! Lots of improv, energy, nice vocal harmonies, killer breaks. Even a popped banjo string that you can hear (&see) on the ‘my sweet blue eyed darlin’ vid. I’ll attach a few links here if anyone’s interested. (The rest can be found on my YouTube.) Hope yall enjoy! (Some of it’s more traditional, some is progressive.)

3 song jam - home of the red fox > 10:50 also sprach zarathustra op.30 (yes that’s its name) > Ole Slewfoot @ 15:00 ish:


Rosa Lee McFall:

Taking water:

The train that carried my girl from town & I think maybe there’s some Beaumont rag mixed in there:
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Thats a long trip from Jackson to Old Faithful! Oh wait, bet you went from West Yellowstine to snowmobile in! Did you stay @ Old Faithful lodge? I so love that building. Was always going to get married there, but no husband came along! :slight_smile: You drove by my place if you indeed went to West to go into Old Faithful, well, at least about 60 miles from it!

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Sounds like government!

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Sounds like you saw a great show @Simone . I’m driving over to Oxford,MS tomorrow to catch Billy Strings. I saw him last year in a Jackson, MS. We can’t wait to get to hear him again.

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We have moved on in our house Marie would often comment “If I hear that passage on your guitar one more time”. My saviour has proven to be Channels such as Hallmark.

Hallmark how so you ask Lol!

A casual glance to the television set when I attract a negative comment can be countered by:

“If we watch that episode of Good Witch one more time” life is great:wink:

We know just sit and smile at each other.

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@stuart.gamble, yes!, show was fantastic! It was @ Huntsville AL Mars Music Hall which was sold out & standing room only except for about 100 seats in the mezzanine. We got there early stood in line about an hour & half & were lucky to get seats up there! Went to see him in Birmingham AL @ The Saturn last March (also excellent show) & also standing room only. In Birmingham we were standing right at the stage & right beside a big ole speaker which was cool at first but then…well… yeah… :confounded: The seats in Huntsville made the evening a whole lot nicer :grin:! Hope yall have a great time @ the show :blush:!!
This is video of Shady Grove (@ Birmingham) & u can see the big black speaker on my right & how close we were:

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Took my girl to see some big trucks today.

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She is so sweet! Daddy’s girl?? :slight_smile:

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She looks mildly amused with a couple of them… but she positively glows in front of Avenger.
[hint hint]
At least you’ll be able to keep tabs on her… like pretty much the rest of the county too.

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When she wants something. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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