Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: Ron Davies
Date: 04 May 07 - 04:40 AM

Dave--

Fantastic! Is it yours?

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 May 07 - 04:27 AM

I expext Boo Boo played Old-Time.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 May 07 - 04:26 AM

It makes more sense than any other time someone has tried to explain bluegrass to me.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: kendall
Date: 03 May 07 - 11:08 PM

Sounds more like George Bush to me.

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: Beer
Date: 03 May 07 - 10:22 PM

Holly F...... are we talking about the same Y/B that caught and coached in baseball?? What the hell was he smokin?
Where did you get this information Uncle Dave?
Great story.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From:
Date: 03 May 07 - 09:57 PM

Unc, that is SO profound

Subject: Understanding Bluegrass w/Yogi Berra
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 May 07 - 09:50 PM

UNDERSTANDING BLUEGRASS ACCORDING TO YOGI BERRA

Interviewer: Yogi, can you explain bluegrass?

Yogi: I can't, but I will.... 90% of all bluegrass is half improvisation. The
other half is the part people play while others are playing something they
never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong
part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play
it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands bluegrass knows that you can't understand it. It's
too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great bluegrass players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great bluegrass players alive today are dead. Except for the
ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones
that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.

Interviewer: What is harmony?

Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before
or after you hear it. In bluegrass, you don't hear notes when they happen
because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can
be bluegrass, but only if they're the same as something different from those
other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.

Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand bluegrass that well.