Beverley Banjo Frenzy!

Subject: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 03:14 AM

Hola ladies,
                            What's happened in Beverley? I recently bought a banjo, built for me by the very lovely Eric Beharrell. He's also recently built one for Ged, and now I hear that young Graham from the wednesday Tiger session has also ordered one from him!
                            Oombanjo's banjo free jazz quartet were practising in the big room of The Tiger last night as well, so the place was full of them!
                            In light of all this I propose:
1) That we don't all congregate in the same Pub for fear of attack.
2) we should form our own secret society/tune session.
3) we should have a monthly Bob Dylan night in alternate tunings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkviw27Vh8

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 03:23 AM

I don't think it is possible to have a Secret banjo society - people would hear you!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:32 AM

Enough of the Bob Dylan already....!!!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,Dianne Forritt
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:42 AM

All these banjoes! it must be a boy thing You wouldnt see a real lady with a banjoe would one?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:45 AM

Why not have a Leonard Cohen and slow air banjo session?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 05:00 AM

All this banjo talk...and relatively just down the road......

I've been so sad, lonely and abused up here in North Yorks, can I join the support group?

Paul

PS Banjos welcome...nay encouraged at Kirkby Fleetham Folk Club for sessions anytime and we have some banjo driven main acts come the spring. Also check out this young guy who we have playing in one of the support acts in May:
Dan Walsh . The track "No More" with Kathryn Davidson is stunning!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 05:28 AM

Thanks for the invite Banjiman. Have a look at Eric's banjo making expertise on this link, if I ever get it right! Bugger!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkviw27Vh8

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 05:50 AM

Looks nice...does he do 5 stringers?

Paul

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 06:09 AM

Yes, I think he does.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,the one
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 06:49 AM

well said ted... pip

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Ernest
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 07:20 AM

@ ThreeSheds: You `d probably need a whole weekend for that Leonard-Cohen-idea...playing just one song doesn`t meet the definition of a session...

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:26 AM

I was being tongue in cheek!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Gedpipes
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:34 AM

Good grief Ted. Can you please be quiet.
I borrowed this banjo to dissect it
Blue skies
Ged

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 08:44 AM

Relax Ged. You have been 'outed' and you can't go back into the closet now!
Brown, the new black!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:30 PM

Banjoes are already taking over in this house. At last count we had (well geoff has) 7. A very nice Clifford Essex paragon to sell if anyone interested :0)

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Ernest
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:34 PM

Mrs. Duck, don`t forget the 11th commandement:

"Thou shallest not sell thyne husbands banjoes!"

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 01:44 PM

Hi Paul. Eric has built me two One long neck and one A scale he also put a new fret board on my fretless. Cheers all BANJOS RULE "even the cheep ones with only 4 strings that come with ear defenders"

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 02:30 PM

Oombanjo....I trust you are bringing at least one banjo on Saturday to KFFC?

What time are you arriving?

Paul

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 03:31 PM

Thats a def, if I don't there is nothing to fry the eggs with. However we should get there around 2/3.Cheers Ombanjo.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,Flatpick
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 09:30 AM

Paddle faster...I hear banjoes.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 09:42 AM

Didn't John Betcheman, write a poem along the lines:

And will their still be Banjos for tea?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:21 AM

Bacon banjos I like

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 10:26 AM

more than one banjo. Is that a pluck of!?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 02:48 PM

Actually, technically, the Clifford Essex is mine!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 03:12 PM

I expect the above guest was my dear wife who bought the banjo on recommendation of Bill Sables.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,Flatpick
Date: 23 Nov 07 - 07:36 PM

If Bill Sables sold you a banjo, it's ok.
He's my friend and colleague and knows his stuff.
I'll be happy to reinforce his opinion on an instrument - it will be fine,
Roger Knowles

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 04:26 AM

Who said:

For what is in a name?
Would a banjo by any other name sound so sweet?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,Geoff the Duck
Date: 24 Nov 07 - 02:49 PM

Actualy, Bill didn't sell us the banjo.
It was one he would have bought, but his cash was tied up for visiting New Zealand. He thought someone ought to get the benefit of it, so passed it our direction. It's a class banjo and deserves a home where it will be played and loved.

And Les in Chorlton - It would sound as sweet, it is called Paragon.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 05:47 AM

You all should have been at KFFC. over the weekend we would have turned the three of us "a Pluck" into a "K.F.C. finger lick'n pluck'n chuck'n weekend". El Teddybearo, isn't it about time you got a full size Banjo with the extra string. Let the Banjo's ring. cheers Oombanjo.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 06:05 AM

Hola John,
                           Five string? Is there such a thing? I thought four string were the true path! Anyway if you want to hear it fired in anger, me and Three Sheds are going to Monks Walk session tomorrow.
                            Ted
                  Pipe smoker of the year 1874.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: theleveller
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:15 AM

Hell, I've been fighting it but I'm just going to have to get my banjo out of the attic where it's been for the last 30-odd years while I've been concentrating on guitar and cittern. It's a very nice Lund 5-string, made in the 1920s but, unfortunately, it's now got a neck like a banana. Do any of you gents (or ladies) know of a good repairer in the East/North Yorks region who could fix it?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:27 AM

Good afternoon Mr leveller. Yes I do. Standby for a PM

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: theleveller
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 08:48 AM

Many thanks for that, Paco. Ironically, I was living in Hornsea when I first bought the banjo, over 40 years ago, from the widow of a former dance band player who also lived in Hornsea. Small world!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 11:35 AM

I don't know what "Pica Bananna" Pm'd you, but with the Hornsea conection I'd have to aggree, as he has sorted many of mine out. Cheers Oombanjo

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 04:02 AM

Last night young Shedlet came out with the news he's been hankering after a banjo for some time.
We are now distraught parents, gone are his teenage ambitions to be a rock god ( and therefore our chance of him buying us a bungalow)I suppose I shall just have to be stoic but the thought of him day and night wearing a John Deere Rounders cap is just too much!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 04:28 AM

Never mind the cap, it's the drool you need to worry about!

Paul

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 04:37 AM

For once I'm in agreement with Mrs Shed that "theres enough instruments in this house"

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 06:13 AM

I've been insulted by the best, derided by the worst
I've been abused relentlessly
But I just love this plinky plonky sound
So I'm moving to Tennessee, yes Lord I'm leaving for Tennessee

Chorus

So smile along with me,
I've got me banjo I me knee
All this fuss & bother
Must be 5th string jealousy

From "5th String Jealousy" by, um....me!

You simply can't have too many banjos in the house!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Banjiman
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 08:02 AM

2nd line of the chorus should be:

I've got me banjo on me knee....makes slightly more sense that way!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 08:46 AM

Banjo players ain't supposed to make sense...
Quack
GtD.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 08:01 AM

We had THREE banjos in the same room at Monks Walk last night, could life get any better?

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: GUEST,6,7,8&12 strings good............
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 09:04 AM

And they all played at the same time..........
Differant tunes of course!!!!

kerplunk!

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 09:09 AM

and in different keys.....

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: theleveller
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 09:41 AM

Anyone know who those banjo players were sat in the food tent at Beverley Festival this year at around 2 in the morning (Friday or Saturday, can't remember which)? One of them very kindly let me have a go on his rather nice (maple?) five string.

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 10:02 AM

me

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: oombanjo
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 10:03 AM

and Dave and Clive

Subject: RE: Beverley Banjo Frenzy!
From: theleveller
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 10:38 AM

Hey, nice to meet you. Think I might have been a bit pissed though, so couldn't fully appreciate the moment. Nice banjo!