Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 12 May 00 - 01:46 PM

I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that a banjo sounds something like someone dropping the silverware down the staris when played... LOL!!!

I agree with the above though, it's not the instrument, it's what ya can do with it!!

{~`

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: black walnut
Date: 12 May 00 - 01:54 PM

this is the funniest thread i've read in a long long time!

i had to pick myself off the floor where i was heaped in a pile of giggle fit in order to write you this.

~'nut

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Mbo
Date: 12 May 00 - 02:04 PM

Banjo players are sexy because they "let their fingers do the walking".

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 12 May 00 - 04:21 PM

Hey Guest, I think lady any instrumentalists are sexy, banjo players, fiddlers, makes no difference. I also think the banjo IS capable of playing pretty, even romantic accompaniment to soft and tender ballads. Althogh he is known mostly as the guy who thought up Homespun Tapes, Happy Traum does a very nice job on a couple of songs, "Thirsty Boots" composed by (Somebody) Anderson, and the traditional "500 Miles." Those rippling rolls done with bare fingernails, not fingerpicks are just soooo smooth. I could see going courting, and serenading your sweetie with your banjo on your knee, if you know her favorite ballads. Sounds positively romantic to me.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 May 00 - 04:32 PM

Any person can make any instrument sexy if they play it with passion. It's the passion that makes it sexy not the instrument.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 May 00 - 04:33 PM

Rick, you weirdo, if you want to date someone on the Hammered Dulcimer thing, I can make myself available. KISS ME FOOL

And MARION----I don't recall Freud saying that, but I think former VP John Nance Garner said, "A woman is just a woman, but a banjo is a SMOKE." He said something like that anyway............

Spaw

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Lanfranc
Date: 12 May 00 - 06:05 PM

I can remember feeling that Shirley Collins playing banjo and singing was sexy. It was the voice and the simplicity of the accompaniment that did it, plus I was at an impressionable age. Add her sister Dolly on portative organ and Davey Graham on guitar and .......!

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 12 May 00 - 06:28 PM

Thanks for the compliment Mbo and Catspaw.

Maybe I should make a fur lined leopard skin case and strap to match.

Little Neo who can see sensuality even in a scrub board player.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 May 00 - 07:10 PM

How about some sensuality in just a plain old fat guy Neo?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 12 May 00 - 07:25 PM

Yep Catspaw, with a warm heart, a big smile and a good sense of humor I could find a whole bunch of sensuality in a plain old fat guy too.
Give him a set of spoons, and I'd just melt!

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Mooh
Date: 12 May 00 - 07:53 PM

I (mis)spent part of my youth gazing at a glossy picture of Suzi Quatro in leather and a bass guitar, bit I swear I only had eyes for the base, I mean bass. Mooh.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 May 00 - 07:57 PM

Its OK Mooh....She probably appealed to your basser, uh baser, instincts. Did mine.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: GUEST,Guitar picker
Date: 12 May 00 - 09:14 PM

Because Banjo players tend to drool

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Racer
Date: 13 May 00 - 12:25 AM

A guitar can be in many shapes and sizes. Electric guitars can range from the exotic "flying V" to the trusty "stratocaster." Semi-acoustics have less variance than electrics, but more than acoustics. Acoustic guitars usually look about the same, but their shape is exotic in its own way.

With a banjo, you're almost always stuck with a board nailed to a drum.

-Racer

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Metchosin
Date: 13 May 00 - 12:37 AM

Drool isnot necessarily the banjo players perogative Guitar Picker, my husband drools when he plays guitar and my daughter drools when she plays mandolin. I think it might be a genetic disorder though.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Metchosin
Date: 13 May 00 - 12:40 AM

my other daughter however, plays bass and she doesn't drool so maybe, poor thing, she takes after me.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: The Shambles
Date: 13 May 00 - 03:33 AM

Maybe this is the answer? Electric Banjos

Not to drooling, however. But it could make it more risky?

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: zander (inactive)
Date: 13 May 00 - 09:11 AM

Jon W, yes she did, introduced to each other by Alan Lomax Peggy came to England to play banlo in a TV. play

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: zander (inactive)
Date: 13 May 00 - 09:13 AM

That should have said banjo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: sophocleese
Date: 13 May 00 - 10:05 AM

Since we've mentioned mandolins and hammered dulcimer what about fiddle, viola, cello and bass. Which are the sexiest in that list? They're shaped with exciting curves similar to a guitar and are woody like a guitar. Personally I find cellos exciting but it might be because they're played between the person's legs, a guitar is on the lap which is also a comfortable, intimate place to be but a fiddle and viola are perched awkwardly on a shoulder. Then again I melt at the sound of a bass.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: bbelle
Date: 13 May 00 - 02:24 PM

I never seen or heard a drummer that I thought was sexy. There's a certain sensuality about the guitar ... some men look like their making love to their guitar, which I think is very, very sexy. Regarding banjo players ... perhaps the reason they're not thought of as sexy is because they're always having to tune in midstream ... moonchild(who has never dated a banjo player but lots and lots of guitar and piano players)

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 May 00 - 02:32 PM

Fortunato. When I was 15, I was a conosseur of both Playboy AND Sing-Out.(for vastly different reasons)

The promo shot of Peggy (wish I could find it, and get one of the "computer folks" to post it), in jeans, white shirt and banjo....well, I can't go on...just too nostalgic!

On the other hand, Elke Sommer never made Sing-Out (nor played banjo) and I had no complaints there.

Rick

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 May 00 - 06:38 PM

Wasn't it A woman is only a woman, But a good Seeger is a smoke?

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 May 00 - 10:27 PM

My old uncle used to say that it all depends on what your sexual preferences are. He was a great guitarist. That said, I often heard him declare that the banjo was first invented as an I.U.D. for Catherine The Great.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 May 00 - 10:31 PM

Great line Art!!!!

But Art, you, of all people, should know better than to start something dealing with contraceptives around here!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 13 May 00 - 10:31 PM

Art is that because Catherine's husband was so absorbed in playing his banjo that it became a good method of birth control for them?

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 13 May 00 - 11:24 PM

Hello all.. God Sex and Banjos.. Who would have thought.. How about the blond in the Dixy Chicks.. I guess being country western no ones had a look hah?????To bad she does'nt frail...Sort of Grampa Jones meets the Maraline Monroe.. There's a fantisy (or Night-mare depending how you put the whole thing together)..I think Bonnie is our best bet for Banjo of the Mounth photo in reality . With respect , Her freind Guy.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 13 May 00 - 11:53 PM

Neo, use some "horse sense".

The Queen's Guard

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 May 00 - 12:50 AM

Art, I thought it was because banjos were made of stretched sheep skin.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 May 00 - 02:27 PM

That reminds me of a useless piece of information that stuck in my head that Charley Poole came from Spray, North Carolina. Is there really a Spray, North Carolina?

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 14 May 00 - 02:43 PM

Thanks Guy, you just made my day.

Now Rick, I know I can be really stupid even though I know I am not but..........
What are you talking about "horse sense"?
Does that mean Catherine The GREAT needed an IUD big enough for the size of a horse?
Or did you meant something else?

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 May 00 - 02:52 PM

Not anymore Peter.......Its a part of Eden, NC.....just south of Danville, Virginia on the VA/NC border.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 May 00 - 02:54 PM

Now think of that scene in Animal House when the guy on the stairs with a guitar is trying to chat up a girl with "I gave my Love a Cherry", and John Belushi rescues her by smashing the guitar on the wall.

Imagine that had been a banjo. Wouldn't have worked. Totally different situation. He'd have got the girl.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 00 - 03:08 PM

My wife described the banjo as being 'BORG'!

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: RichM
Date: 14 May 00 - 06:07 PM

Guitars are. Banjos aren't. Don't know why, just the way it is...

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 May 00 - 06:11 PM

Guitars are more romantic. Not the same thing at all.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 14 May 00 - 07:53 PM

Romance is in the eye of the romancer

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 May 00 - 07:55 PM

"Resistance is futile"

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 14 May 00 - 08:48 PM

Getting back to the scientific data ~~~ Several years ago I took a test that had to do with the most desirable female body shape (one of the more enjoyable tests that I've ever taken). The test consisted of several female body outlines with the only difference being the ratio of the hips and chest to the waist. I found out later that my answers were the same as men all over the world ~ The ratio of 7/10 was the most desirable (sexy). I applied this same theory to my instruments ~ the results are as follows:

Martin D35 Chest 9/10 Hipps 7/10

Gibson ES 125 Chest 8/10 Hipps 6/10

Classical Chest 8/10 Hipps 6/10

Fiddle Chest 8/10 Hipps 6/10

Pretty close eh'!

It was impossible to apply the formula to the banjo's because the bodies are round. I guess the waist would be the diameter however the smallest distance on the linear axis would be zero. If you devide 10 for example by 0 you can see why banjo's are not sexy at all.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 14 May 00 - 09:02 PM

Dear Captain Roberto
Not only is sex & romance in the eye of the beholder, but love can not be measured by scientific data.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 14 May 00 - 09:07 PM

Little Neo ~ Do you mean love and sex are the same thing? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Not always the case.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 14 May 00 - 10:00 PM

Dear Captain Crunch Okay, lets try this again.......
Love can not be measured by scientific data
Romance is in the eye of the romancer
And sex, is sex

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: bflat
Date: 14 May 00 - 10:19 PM

somtimes when i play my guitar it's just music and sometimes when i play my guitar i feel sexy that is when i feel the guitar is sexy...osmosis/diffusion. feels good.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 14 May 00 - 11:44 PM

Dear Little Neophyte ~ I agree with you 100 % ~~ Love cannot be measured with scientific date and romance is in the eye of the romancer (you will have to take that up with "bflat"), however, scientifica data can be used to determine shapes that men find sexy. Now, I need to go have some kind of a relationship with my classical guitar ~ the closest guitar I have to 7/10. (LOL) as Cap't Crunch rows across the lagoon ~~~~

Cap't Row Bare

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 May 00 - 10:37 AM

Hey how come you guys have the sexy discussions when I'm already asleep?

fortunato

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: jeremie
Date: 15 May 00 - 11:03 AM

Hi !

Everybody knows the traditional image of a spanish man playing the guitar for a woman, not banjo. So, as a french man, I think guitar is more romantic.

jeremie

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 15 May 00 - 01:48 PM

OK! Picture this-man on his knees in a crowded room singing Roseville fair just for you. Huh-who needs guitars! And believe me clawhammer banjo players know some pretty nifty finger work!!! Of course Geoff's has a duck on it but......

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Kim C
Date: 15 May 00 - 03:46 PM

I dated a fat guy when I was in college and he was sexy. (He was a bass player.) I think John Goodman is sexy too. It's an attitude.

Of course I am biased but I think the fiddle is sexiest! Primarily because it can "say" a lot of different things, bring forth a plethora of emotions. But I have to tell you, everytime I play in public, I get a throng of men following me around. Sometimes it's amusing, sometimes not. Once I had a solo gig (without Mister) and one bloke was downright annoying. I told my teacher that if I had known the fiddle was going to give me such power over men, I might have picked it up long ago!

But then again, perhaps it was a good thing that I waited till after I was married........

I think another part of the fiddle's intrigue, for me anyway, is its age-old reputation as the Devil's Box. (If anyone can splain to me exactly WHY the fiddle was the devil's instrument, I'd appreciate it.)However, I prefer to think of it as the Angels' Strings. For me it really is a gift from God.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 May 00 - 04:52 PM

But the jewa harp is the only one that vibrates.

Subject: RE: Why are guitars SEXY and banjos, not?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 May 00 - 10:43 PM

That should be an "s" and not an "a".

The jawas are the little guys in Star Wars who scavenge droids.

Art Thieme