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OT: What are you Watching/Listening/Drinking?

I haven't looked too closely, it's possible the guitar he's playing was made by his dad...my uncle lives about 10 minutes from me, and he's been building acoustic guitars for decades and he's damn good.

He's getting old, almost waited too long, but he's making me one this season.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
My cousin's on guitar.
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Excellent! Those guys have got it together. I'll be checking out more of their stuff, thanks for posting this.

My wife and I were/are friends with a bunch of guys and their wives/girlfriends who had a Bluegrass band 20/25 years ago. We travelled the festival circuit here in the Maritimes/Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec for several summers. It was a blast.

The field picking started shortly after the stage shows ended and often ran until dawn the next morning. Some of the best times of my life.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
I haven't looked too closely, it's possible the guitar he's playing was made by his dad...my uncle lives about 10 minutes from me, and he's been building acoustic guitars for decades and he's damn good.

He's getting old, almost waited too long, but he's making me one this season.
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I'm always interested in what instruments are being used. I tried to make out the name on the headstock but couldn't come up with any that I know. That would explain it.

It seems to be quite a small bodied guitar for a Bluegrass picker, they generally like a bigger bodied guitar in order to get a fuller sound. That one sounds good though.

I see pickups or mikes of some sort on the guitar and mandolin, pretty sure the bass has one too, that would bring the sound up better on a softer instrument. A banjo is plenty loud without amplification.

At the festivals I mentioned in my other post, pickups and amps were not allowed. Everything went through mics. The band we hung with had one of those big oldtime looking mics that could pickup a pin dropping in the middle of a song. They gathered around it with soloists stepping up to it when it was their turn just like your guys did at the end.

The sound guys hated it though, they wanted individual mics for every instrument.

Lol, sorry for the long ramble, this "struck a chord" with me this morning and I got carried away with memories.

Thanks.
 
Lol, I don't even really like Bluegrass, but I'm close to Tottenham, they have a major festival every summer so I used to drink myself silly down at the pond, didn't matter what was playing and now with my little cousin in a bluegrass band, I can appreciate it, but won't be playing in my house much.

My cousin played in a much heavier band before these guys, but it's these guys that took off so good for him.
 
Let Her Cry was a great song. But yeah... They could have been amazing if only they had written all of STPs stuff.
 
Ya that or just not been lame.

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the only two musicians to get busted for acting like rock stars in the past 20 years are hootie and the fat guy from bare naked ladies.
 
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