BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?

Subject: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:14 PM

There was a lady on said show tonight with a banjo (not a good start) she said that her sons play, she does not, but she is involved in the folk world on the sing side. The show was from Chester, is she "one of us"?
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: meself
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:17 PM

So she's planning on selling the sons' banjo? Imagine!

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:20 PM

I will or could be for the better, it could save them from a life of abuse and maybe just maybe in a few years they will be able to make friends with ordinary people.
Skipy,
ordering a taxi to ************

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Bee
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:34 PM

I know it's a terrible thing to admit, and just goes to show I was brought up wrong, but.... I really like me some good banjo-playin'...

(Runs off to change identity and move to different country...)

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:38 PM

meself, I'm trying to imagine "imagine" being played on banjo! 'spect someone can do it.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:38 PM

My dad was a banjo player, and Skipy before you sayt "That explains a lot" just think of the momemtum a skelp could have built up between hear and there :)

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: meself
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:39 PM

No need to run off, dear; you'll get over it ...

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:41 PM

It's not me that has a problem with banjos! I even list openly Terry amonst my friends!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:42 PM

Here is the missing "g" please insert in above message
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:43 PM

And I see you borrowed his keyboard as well LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: skipy
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 04:46 PM

Looks that way, need to replace the bloody thing, so much rubbish under the keys, some work when they want too! Probably enough rolling backy under them to keep me going for a week!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Helen
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 05:21 PM

Folky bumper sticker:

Warning! I have a banjo and I know how to use it!

:-)

Duckingi for cover - whilst admitting that I've heard some very good banjo playing and really enjoyed it.

BTW the Antiques Roadshow is where people take their treasured items to be evaluated, both in the historic sense and the monetary sense. It isn't a treasures-for-sale show. I hope that reassures meself, as in the person who posted second, not "meself" as in me. Just to try to clarify, or am I just confusing meself and others.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 05:22 PM

I am very fond of good banjo playing - I don't understand this ridiculous prejudice against the instrument. I suspect that the banjophobes are really rock fans who don't really like folk music and wish that it was more like rock (their imaginations don't stretch any further).

Did anyone notice that the banjo on the Antiques Roadshow didn't have any frets?

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 06:02 PM

Why fret over a banjo?

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: mandotim
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 06:17 PM

For good banjo playin' ; listen here . Scroll down and have a listen to 'Blackberry Blossom'. The banjo is home-made by the player, Ralph Crossley.
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: meself
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 06:42 PM

"need to replace the bloody thing"

Hang on to it - Antiques Roadshow may be heading to your neighbourhood one of these days ...

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 07:51 PM

Antiques Roadshow is shown on Monday nights here, not Sundays. I had assumed it was the same across the country.

Oh, wait. Skipy, are you from t'other side? That might explain the discrepancy.

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 12:11 AM

"Here" in Ebbie's post being the U.S. and the American version of the program. But down here in Dallas, anyway, we've seen the British version also.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 12:27 AM

We get the US version on Mondays and the British one on Thursdays.

mandotim, great stuff!

My dad played banjo...I've always liked them!

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: Rasener
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 05:22 AM

Whats this problem about Banjo's.

Lots of people like getting banjoed

Subject: RE: BS: Antiques roadshow tonight mudcatter?
From: mouldy
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 05:54 AM

I will admit to wishing now and again that I could play one. Bill Sables bet a year ago that he could teach me - he still hasn't tried!

The banjo last night was a late 19th century English (Newcastle Upon Tyne) 5 string, one of only a relatively few made, and it was sorta pretty, as banjos go....

(Bill's got a VERY sweet one, with flowers up the neck)

Andrea