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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On May 16, 2014, stoneunhinged wrote: If the topic is musical genius, this man obviously qualifies. That's right baby, TEN strings. |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
LOL!
I wonder how many strings Nigel Tufnel's banjo has? |
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
Ha! It would have to go to eleven.
Ford Nix, the ten string banjo guy, was featured on what is considered by some the worst song the Supremes ever recorded. "(The Man With The) Rock And Roll Banjo Band" "Mr Nix was a top bluegrass banjo player, who somehow ended up in a Motown recording session after what one can only assume was a frantic brainstorm or a series of increasingly ill-considered bets. This song appears to have been written for him, rather than him being drafted in as a recognizable banjo star to do a part on this record. The fact that rather than cut a proper bluegrass number on Nix, Motown instead shackled him together with the Supremes – probably, in hindsight, the least appropriate choice they could possibly have made – just shows how little the company knew about how best to handle either the group or the banjo virtuoso. ...what business does a banjo player have on a Supremes record? Or, alternatively, what business do the Supremes have on a banjo record? The marriage absolutely, 100% does not work in any way. Apart from anything else, Nix's frantic bluegrass playing is in a completely different, three-beat time to the leaden 4/4 R&B stomp of the backing track. Coupled with the fact Nix doesn't actually do anything in terms of a tune, just some frenetic and difficult fingerwork, his parts feel incongruous and tacked on. (I mean, more incongruous than a banjo on a Supremes track in the first place.) It’s reduced to the level of just being an annoying noise... This is a complete embarrassment, and were it not for the existence of the truly wretched (He’s) Seventeen (which, I’ve just noticed, starts with parentheses too – maybe there’s something in that!), this would be the worst record the Supremes ever made." |
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
Here's something so obvious, I didn't get to it 'til now. Gratitude. "Thankyou, thankyou very much. Thankyou, ladies and gentlemen, you're a beautiful audience. Thankyou, you're a wonderful audience. Thankyou, you're a fantastic audience. Thankyou, thankyou very much. Thankyou, you're a good audience. Thankyou very much, ladies and gentlemen... Thankyou very much, ladies and gentlemen... I'd like to thank the Jaycees... Thankyou, thankyou very much."
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