Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 08:09 AM

All in fun, Charley.

Will (tenor banjo) Fly

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 08:07 AM

"Banjo player's rage"?

After reviewing this thread I think I'm feeling some symptoms.

And some of you I've marked down for further attention.....

Charley 5-String Noble

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 07:27 AM

LOL - good one, John!

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 06:58 AM

Was it a 'weapon of man's destruction?'

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 06:41 AM

But did not the sainted Blair say we must be tough on banjos, tough on the players of banjos?

He did indeed. And has there been a reduction in banjos, or their causes? Not one whit - the buggers are still as plentiful as ever. Complete policy failure, in my view.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Young Buchan
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:52 AM

"Banjos do not maim or kill! They need not be outlawed."

But did not the sainted Blair say we must be tough on banjos, tough on the players of banjos?

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:49 AM

Pick your weapons, for Duelling Banjos. I don't recommend a Deering 'Good Times' it's too light.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: eddie1
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:30 AM

Many moons ago, in a previous incarnation when I was one of the very few Scottish singing cowboys in the USA, I bought a guitar from Baltimore Bluegrass (an institution I have been led to believe is sadly no longer with us?)
While having some adjustments made, I was allowed to enter their workshop to find, proudly displayed on the wall, a newspaper clipping about a man accused of beating his wife with a banjo. When the banjo neck broke, he continued beating her with a second banjo.
Whilst condemning the whole concept of domestic violence, I have to admit the man showed class!

Eddie

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:18 AM

A 'wife beater' beats his wife, he does not use her as an offensive weapon to hit someone else with...

Now there's an interesting concept. Must have a word with Mrs. F. and see what she thinks about the idea.

Perhaps not - the banjo's much easier.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:14 AM

I query the wording of the original report, & of the title of this thread derived from it. A 'wife beater' beats his wife, he does not use her as an offensive weapon to hit someone else with: ditto a 'child beater'.

So a "banjo beater" must surely mean someone who beats, or over-frails, or kicks out at becoz it won't stay in bloody tune no matter what he does, or in some other way abuses or misuses, his banjo. I don't see how the term can be used, as it appears to be here, for someone who uses his banjo as an offensive weapon with which to assault someone else.

Moderators, may we have a more accurate title for this thread, please?

MEtheGM aka Mike-the-Pedant

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 05:02 AM

Banjo players are tolerant and responsible members of society. I had a wooden resonator fitted to mine so that, when I walloped anybody with it, they were only being hit by wood - not the metal pot.

You can't get much more caring than that.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: GUEST,Roger Knowles
Date: 06 Jan 10 - 04:55 AM

So there it is! Proof beyond doubt that banjers is vishuss!!
Licencing the under a new law, the 'Vicious Banjos Act of 2010' may help.
Having worked professionally with several banjo players in my musical career, I can say I lived in fear most of the time that a banjo case was opened in my presence.
Nights were worse than days.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 11:07 PM

Who knows? *g*

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Artful Codger
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 10:40 PM

I wonder if the banjo was in worse or better tune after the cranial adjustment.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 10:28 PM

Stancato must be a bluegrass player; we old time pickers are much too laid back for that kind of activity. In addition, our banjos weigh a heck of a lot less and are less likely to inflict deadly injuries. But historically, it's blues harmonica players ya gotta watch out fer.

Charles (both a banjo and a harmonica player)

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: autoharper
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 10:21 PM

If we live in fear of the banjos, then the banjos have won.

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 08:12 PM

Banjos do not maim or kill! They need not be outlawed.

It's the occasional banjo players who needs to be locked up.

I wonder what kind of banjo it was?

Charley 5-String Noble

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: astro
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 07:22 PM

Some would say that the crime continues until he goes to jail, some would say....not me...


astro (beating lovingly my mandolin right now)

Subject: RE: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: olddude
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 07:18 PM

ONLY DEADLY WHEN I TRY TO PLAY IT

Subject: Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 05 Jan 10 - 07:16 PM

Accused Banjo Beater Allowed To Tour

Police: Denver Man Involved In Bus Stop Argument

POSTED: 8:19 am MST January 5, 2010

ASPEN, Colo. -- A banjo player accused of assaulting another man with his instrument will get to keep playing while awaiting his trial.

Thirty-three-year-old Joseph Stancato, of Denver, faces second-degree assault charges after allegedly hitting another man on the head with his banjo on New Year's Eve. Authorities said Stancato got into an argument with two men at the Rubey Park bus stop in Aspen.

District Judge James Boyd, on Monday, approved Stancato's request to be allowed on the road to tour with a band while awaiting his next court date on Feb. 6.

The banjo is considered "a deadly weapon" under Colorado law, so Stancato could face prison time, the Aspen Daily News reported.