It is one of my ambitions to one day record an LP entitled Something to Annoy Almost Everyone! Clasics for 5-string Banjo include the first few bars of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven - you don't need more to get the point across, Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water ditto. For a major musical tour-de-force, Duelling Banjo and Kazoo (clawhammer) was deliberately arranged to piss-off Bluegrass players. Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze (clawhamer) was inspired by the fact that he had done Bob Dylan stuff - I also experimented with Voodoo Child but decided that one was enough, it did have interesting possibilities though!
I personally enjoy the William Tell Overture in clawhammer style.
Returnng to the original thrust of the thread - I have just returned from a holiday in Brittany, where we bought a Bombard, and am looking for sugestions for a repertoire - Obviously Silent Night and Brahms Lullaby are a tad inappropriate for the instrument, does anyone have other good ideas???
Quack!
Geoff the Duck!