WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[David Houck]

The last band I was in, we played Chameleon.  Kinda.  I did take liberties with the bass line.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real (yeah, he's Willie's kid):

Peter

[pauldo]

Chameleon!! 
That is a fun bass line.
Back in high school I had a trombonist friend and he and I would just groove on that for waaaayyyy too long. 

[David Houck]

Andy Wood

[David Houck]

Same band, but playing a bluegrass version of The Chain

[edwardofhuncote]

I enjoyed that interpretation of "The Chain", Dave. I do wish they would've given Todd Parks a little more room during the bass solo, as he is a monstrous talent. (and a super-nice guy too) 

On the Grassicana front- our FOH guy at a show the other night played me the Infamous Stringdusters covering the Allman Bros. classic jam, "Jessica". 

[hankster]

Just back from a big band rehearsal with a bad drummer. I’m listening to the metronome to relax.

[mario_farufyno]

Doug Johns is amazing. I simply love how he plays...

[David Houck]

The Jessica cover was nice!

[David Houck]

Just back from a big band rehearsal with a bad drummer. I’m listening to the metronome to relax.

Hah!

[edwardofhuncote]

Still digging the Andy Wood this morning. Man, those guys can play! 


I've posted it here before, but I played through the entire "High Lonesome Sound" album last night, stopping to work on a couple tunes. Lee Sklar is just brilliant. I didn't care for that record at all when Vince put it out, but it's become one of my just-push-play favorites now.

[David Houck]

Interesting thing about Andy Wood; he's a great guitar player in a lot of different styles, but he considers mandolin to be his primary instrument, and he says that a lot of his writing for the guitar-centered pieces is done on the mandolin.  His right-hand cross picking technique while playing chords is just one of the things that I like about his playing.

[edwardofhuncote]

I can hear that in his playing too. There are some who never quite learn to treat the two instruments differently though, and you really have to. It's just like speaking another language... some of the syntax is similar, so a translation is possible, but to be fluent you have to think in that language. I think for a few reasons, mandolin just 'makes sense' to some. Maybe it's the fifths tuning, that makes the scales more symmetrical than they are with a standard tuned guitar. Maybe it's just having fewer choices of notes.

I don't consider myself anything other than a bass player, but mandolin is my second instrument, and somewhat weirdly, it's always seemed both upside-down and backwards from bass. 

[pauldo]

I also enjoyed the Andy Wood, more the first video some monster playing, prefer the original Chain.

Funny thing Gregory, a friend was just asking for an opinion on wether he should get a ukulele or a mandolin.  I mentioned the same as as you... the mandolin -it’s an upside down, backwards bass.

I also consider it my second instrument although I am a far cry from Chris Thile, although he certainly is an inspiration.

[edwardofhuncote]

Here was a fun little mandolin thing a bunch of us did a few years ago... my buddy Tara is quite the ringleader when it comes to organizing grand scale pranks. I remember posting about this somewhere here back when we did it.