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05 Oct 05 - 03:49 PM (#1576692) Subject: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: Bee-dubya-ell Seem to be a lot more liberals among frailing and clawhammer style banjo players than among three-finger pickers. Your thoughts? And, yes, this is a copycat thread, but unlike the thread it's copycatting I haven't simply provided links to several opinion pieces without giving you any idea why you would want to read them. |
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05 Oct 05 - 03:57 PM (#1576697) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: gnu A two-step in the right direction. |
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05 Oct 05 - 04:03 PM (#1576702) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: Bill D I suspect Bill Monroe used to shoot any banjo pickers who didn't play...and think.... right...(Scruggs style Bluegrass)*grin* Drove 'em to hide behind the barn and play surreptitiously and think in funny ways. Thank goodness! |
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05 Oct 05 - 04:06 PM (#1576705) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: John Hardly I cannot refute your thesis. Brilliant observation, in fact. Every frailer I know is left-leaning. And though I could, at one time, frail pretty well, I no longer play my banjo at all -- which show me nicely as the independent thinker I am. On the other hand, both frailers and three-finger players use both right and left hands. |
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06 Oct 05 - 11:12 AM (#1577083) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: Amos I am a complete frailure as a banjo player. But I am inclined toward severely constrained liberalism, politically -- that is, liberalism with a severe respect for individual responsibility and self-determination. A |
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06 Oct 05 - 03:44 PM (#1577358) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: M.Ted Stringbean was a clawhammer player, and he was with Monroe before Scruggs was--and my recollection is that Earl leans a bit to the left--For that matter, our own dear departed Rick Fielding was a Scruggs-style picker and a left-leaner--All told though, I wouldn't wear a Kerry button to a Bluegrass Festival-- |
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06 Oct 05 - 07:40 PM (#1577576) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: Bill D well, the Mudcat "smart-alec joke vetting" crew strikes again! *grin*...ok M. Ted....but I'd be careful also what buttons I wore at BG festivals. |
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06 Oct 05 - 08:45 PM (#1577622) Subject: RE: BS: Why Liberals Frail From: Mr Happy 'cos they're no pluckin' good! |