Hey there ES!

Kelly!

Got to love Carter’s honesty.

US ‘likely behind’ Chavez coup

Carter, left, said it was understandable that Chavez blames the US for the abortive coup [EPA]
Jimmy Carter, a former US president, has said that Washington knew about an abortive coup against Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, in 2002, and that it may even have taken part.

“I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved,” Carter said in an interview with Colombian El Tiempo newspaper published on Sunday.

Good to see you; and let me tell you something.

You’ve inspired me to try my hand at bluegrass. I’m sitting at the piano and synth right now. I figure why not give an untried-to-me-medium a try?

I’m having fun trying to make realistic banjo noises!

Got to love Carter’s honesty.

Yep. And in 50 years, imo, he won’t be a “failed” president either. He’ll be seen as “ahead of the curve.” Which, he was.

It’s scorpion night! One just walked across my foot.

Oh man.. it’s such a great genre … Bluegrass/ folk and Jazz Blues.. are America.

I always thought he was a good president. Remember as a kid pleading with family members not to vote for Reagan. These were family members who had been lifelong Democrats. I will say, to their credit, they all saw and admitted the error of their ways before Reagan’s first term ended.

And Zalaya’s. And the forthcoming coup in Afghanistan;

Agree!

Been working in the parlor for a while tonight; there’s this one for Suzanne. Been thinking about her this evening, after reading her facebook.

But you are next. And it’s an original tune. :)

OMG I love bluegrass!

Don’t forget the mandolin. :)

Forthcoming coup… do tell?

Then you would love Eureka Springs… we have so much music for a little town of 2,100.

Justa hypothesis. But the U.S. is in the same position it was in in VN without a legitimate govt to puppet its wishes. So the soln would seem to be to assasinate the ruler and install a new one. Wadaya think?

I thought his heart was in the right place but back then I hadn’t “come of age” politically yet. I thought he was lame with the hostage crisis…and stuck it to my friends by boycotting the Olympics. I have forgiven him a long time ago. I was a child. He’s an awesome statesman.

Oh! good to know. one of my friends way back when had her whole family in a bluegrass band. guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle here in suburbia.

OK, which one would win in a throwdown?

A mouse from NYC or a scorpion from ES?

(ecahn has mice…but they’re city mice)

So what’s that instrument in the first video called? It has a mandolin body but a 5-string banjo neck and strings. Nice mellow sound, which is nice – I always thought the banjo sounded like a kit scraping a stick along a picket fence. Unless in the hands of someone like Tony Rice of course.

Hiya Kelly – fancy seeing you here. ;-)

Nope. In the country. So they’re country mice.

Wovenhand is interesting, can’t tell WHAT that is the singer is playing. Strung like a 5 String Banjo, looks nylon, all wood instrument with a bazooki flavor. Good music.

Sara And Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) I just saw Labor Day Weekend Fest, as the Fest Closers.

WPA

They were really, really good. If WPA comes to YOUR hood, go see them!

Nice picks ES . . . thanks for the acoustic side of life!

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.. in Iraq or Afghanistan in particular.

Oh…my money’s on the scorpions then.

our suburban raccoons can take out any breed of dog…

good evening

That’s a tough call. No critter (like cats) will catch scorpions.. you are on your own.

Holy cow – talk to you on the phone Sunday, then can’t get rid of you! :)

Hey stranger, when did you get out of Kansas prison? /s

Dude, just go buy a starter banjo or mando, and do it right!!!

*G*

You can’t DO a three fingered roll for a 5 String on a keyboard, I don’t think.

There’s that HUBCAP for the tone, to begin with.

And a tone ring. And the head.

It’s a SIN to try to dupe The Grass on a synth!!! *G*

But I LOVE what Bruce Hornsby has brought to new grass and jam grass sounds with HIS piano work.

Go figger! *G*

LOL

my habits have changed

trying to get up earlier in the morning

how have you been?

nite all.

niters gang.

Leaving ya with Man of Constant Sorrow.

Blue, new and jam grass!

Folk, old folk, 1920’s Lomax folk, Great Folk Scare of 60’s!

Acoustic folk! Folk Rock!

Jazz Blues is so huge a genre almost anything could fit.

But yep, it’s America’s music, and you CAN lump in under AMERICANA label.

Bill Monroe, to Jean Ritchie to Dave Alvin.

What a long, strange trip its been, and is! *G*

Hang on! You just wait till I post something you can bitch about! Then, get out your righteous. Meanwhile, I’s workin on it.

I never knew! I’m a hound for the trad, new, and jamgrass!

Dobro, little mando, lotta appalachian dulcimer (not a grass instrument).

Glad to see another fan in FDL! *G*

Who’s yer favs? Who have you seen this summer?

Some kind of Irish bouzouki?

Good thanks… glad for our sake you are up late. You must be getting some of the same stormy weather we have tonight.

Will it ever stop raining? And to think this time last year we had a hurricane, eye intact, over my house.

Jean Ritchie.. wow.. I have old ten inch records of hers.

Tony Rice, that I know of, never had a banjo in his hands.

He’s Tony Tone, of the Martin Guitar. Started in bluegrass, helped found Grisman’s Quintet, went back to the grass and new grass.

Played with JD Crowe and New South, Bluegrass Album Band, and hundreds of other configurations with hundreds of names, all the same 30-40 pickers over the years. Has played with everyone then, and now. WAS on of the best tenor voices ever, till he lost it with throat surg, and now can’t hardly talk.

Has arthritis, is 58, and STILL on a bad night, has more PURPOSE in his notes than most guitar players have in a lifetime.

Tony’s Wiki. He’s A Git Picker, Less You Know Something I Don’t. Which Is ALWAYS Possible! *G*

Love me some Tony Rice, got TONS of his live shows I’ve collected over the years. *G*

LOL Somebody has Larue’s number.

BTW, Sara Watkins in the second video is the woman in Nickel Creek. Love that band.

Tyminski’s band is HOT, saw them in June out here in CA, at a major bg fest.

Got to see three different sets. Good, good stuff! *G*

Yer killin me, just don’t kill the music . . *G*

“It’s just not right.”

“That ain’t no part of nuttin.”

*G*

(famous quotes, name the author)

When ya think about it, she goes back to the 30’s.
What she did for folk music in her career was incredible, world wide.

Well, smack me into next Tuesday! That band is just FINE

g’evening ES & Pups! I’m not at work tonight … after another trip to the ER i gotta stay up for a while and put various drops in my eye. And then meet the eye surgeon at his office at 8 am. The good news is my retina didn’t detach. The bad news is that i have a very rare sterile (they think) infection in my eye. Sigh.

Hello to ES, Kelly, Larue, dosido, eCHANomics, neurophius, SadButTrue, and whomever I might have missed.

Perhaps, mon ami, I’ve got his. *G*

You don’t PLAY bluegrass on a piano.

Jam grass, maybe. *G*

But not the trad.

Just ask Mister MONroe!!! *G*

True integrity. A miracle he ever made it to the White House.

He doesn’t suffer fools gladly – I witnessed that just before he put his hat in the prex ring. He was soliciting policy info/help from folks who knew their stuff and was surprisingly blunt/abrupt with those who didn’t. Perhaps a style he learned in the military. Surely not one he learned as governor. All business.

Wow. I had something like that last year. Steroid drops for a month got it straightened out, but it was an ugly mess for a while.

Take care of it.

They is no mo, also.

Sara And Sean are in WPA, which I linked up above.

You would like them, don’t miss them if they come thru yer hood.

They cover a LOT of genres, including some classical ‘type’ things, as did Nickel Creek.

And Chris Thile, the mando player with Nickel Creek, is touring with a trio, and has a whole CD full of self written things of his that is right out of the classical genre, done with acoustic instruments.

I forget what the group is called, saw them last year, put me to sleep.

But google it up, Thile’s new trio. It’s steeped in the classical tradition. Heavy stuff, all of it.

glad to hear that you survived eye unpleasantness! Doc wants me putting steroid drops in eye every 15 minutes until i go to bed. yech.

Oh, ndfg, that’s a shame. Take very, very good care.

Howdy! Wanna pick some?

Do some blue, new, trad, jam, hip hop pick till ya drop Hindu, Paki, WangoTango Knock Yer Self Out Acoustic Eclectic Jam Pickin?

LOL

(I’m a bit fired up on the music tonite)

Oh you rascal – there will be NO piano on my original tune. None. At. All.

But werking the controls on bending guitar/banjo notes, not to mention flirting with harmonica, is not a task for the faint of heart. Just saying.

I stand corrected. I’m not really a bluegrass fan, though I love Alison Krause (natch) – especially her early stuff which is quite traditional compared with her later work.

The thing is, I lived with a bluegrass mandolin player for a while back in 1977-78, and told him the same complaint about the banjo’s twangy sound. He turned me on to a record of someone playing the banjo, maybe in Tony Rice’s band – and whoever it was played the instrument to transcend its tonal limitations. Any help on a name? Google kind of steers me to Bela Fleck, but I don’t know.

Trumpet is another instrument that in the average player’s hands sounds, well brassy. A few really good players with excellent emboucher (sp?) can make it produce velvet-smooth tones.

bless your heart.. what does sterile infection mean?

Dang, sorry to hear of the setback!
But stick to the routine, and heal well fast!
*waves*

It works. He will probably have you taper off after a couple of weeks of the constant application, and in 30 days you will be ok (hopes).

Just buy a banjo, for dawg’s sake and leave the synth outta it!!!

And if you ARE gonna prevert a sacred artform, at least do it minor and modal, please.

*G*

LOL

Hey there… I was very late to your diary over the weekend, but managed to rustle up someone to fix the video in your post.

All you have to do.. is copy and paste the embed code (not the page address) from the youtube page.. paste directly into the post box of the diary. Does that make sense?

Agreed… And I read a short story by John McPhee… a few years before he ran for pres. when he and a couple other folks went on a float trip with then Governor Carter. Anyway.. it made quite an impression on me as a kid.

I think it was in either the book called Coming Into The Country or Giving Good Weight.

Both of tonight’s selections are excellent. In fact, “Early mornin’ Rain” has been running through my head ever since Suzanne posted it last week, the night after Mary Travers passed away.

Proud Pervert here, but I will tell you;

#1 may not be minor and modal, but successive posts prolly will. I’m all Aeolian and shit….

All you have to do.. is copy and paste the embed code (not the page address) from the youtube page.. paste directly into the post box of the diary. Does that make sense?

Almost. Where and how do I find the “embedded code”?

Eureka, I’m really liking opera 10. Still getting used to the navigation and bookmarking, but have high hopes. It’s noticeably faster.

You like it better than FireFox?

Banjo Hall Of Fame:

Earl Scruggs, Father Of Bluegrass Banjo
JD Crowe, Father Of NewGrass Banjo
Ben Eldridge, Seldom Scene.
Tony Trischka.
Eddie Adcock.
Don Reno.
Raymond Fairchild.
Dr. Pete Wernick.

And a hundred others I can’t recall off the top of my head . . *G*

Dan Tyminski, of course, is the vocal/rhythm git for Alison K and Union Station.
He has a new band on the side, google it up. They are GREAT!

Alison and Union Station used to play in The City, when I lived on The Peninsula.
I saw them often at Paul’s Saloon and a couple of other venues long ago in the 80’s/90’s.
Before Tyminski was IN the band.
This is SF, CA.

It’s all great music, and WIDE ranging in its scope, born of the folk and country of the 20’s/30’s/40’s till Mr. MONroe got ahold of it and made it bluegrass.

Then came Earl Scruggs. And it was off to the races for the growth and progression of the basic bluegrass.

And MY not so humble opinion is, to HANG and play that music, on acoustic instruments, to the highest of standard, and sing the parts, is as complex and demanding as any classical or jazz music.

The manual work with both hands, and the memorization and knowledge of your fretboard, EACH AND EVERY NOTE and chord, and music theory is DEMANDING.

And the end results are fantastic! *G*

And they do it without charts or lengthy score sheets, too. *G*

LOVES me my mountain sounding modes! *G*

Doh! Well repeats are bound to happen sometime. At least they are good ones.

“sterile infection” sounded a bit bizarre to me, but apparently my eye didn’t like the cryosurgery on friday for partially detached retina, and has started rallying the white blood cells. They aren’t ruling out bacterial type infection but it doesn’t present those symptoms. It hurts like hell and i can’t see anything but a blur of light outta that eye. My layman’s interpretation is that my eye didn’t like being messed with and is having a little auto-immune reaction all by its lone. Doc said he’s only seen this reaction maybe one other time in the last 15 yrs.

if it reacts well to the steroid drops overnight, then, like newtonusr, i’ll be on them for a while.

Wigwam -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e3vLaHt7yY

Open that page.. Look at the large light gray box to the immediate right of the video. In the lower portion of that box you will see two choices. URL and Embed.

evening, FDL’ers

I have the original Gordon Lightfoot first album, two of them, on vinyl.

HIS version still makes me cry, he wrote it.

Many have covered Early Morning Rain, including Tony Rice! *G*

Mary Travers and PP&M did a GREAT version of it.

A great song, and done well by many . . . always moves me.

*bows*

“But yep, it’s America’s music, and you CAN lump in under AMERICANA label.”

How ironic then that the second selection was written by Canadian Gordon Lightfoot. I must say that it works very well in the bluegrass genre.

And talking about unusual instruments, I think the Oud is one I’ll never forget. Twelve strings tuned in pairs like a mandolin, and FRETLESS!! The only time I’ve ever encountered one it was in a Greek restaurant in Toronto – backing up a belly dancer of all things. Highly exotic, especially while sipping iced Ouzo and nibbling baklava.

That’s kind of what I took from my ophthalmologist. I had scratched or irritated the cornea badly, and it seemed to want to scar, the tissue of which was attacked by white cells, causing inflammation. Not bacterial, but tissue irritation.

I upgraded FF and Opera over the weekend.. FF seems no different, which is fine. Opera looks good, but I need to play with it some more to be sure.

Evening PPDCUS

Hmmm. Five string guitar, song about a woman in chains who likes to hurt people. That’s some serious kinky.

“The manual work with both hands, and the memorization and knowledge of your fretboard, EACH AND EVERY NOTE and chord, and music theory is DEMANDING.

And the end results are fantastic! *G* “

I agree. A significant number of the bluegrass musicians I know up here in Canada are also fans of jazz legend Django Reinhart, whose solos are very demanding indeed.

Mary Travers and PP&M did a GREAT version of it.

I’m a big fan of Gordon Lightfoot, but the PPM version of Early Morning Rain has always been the one that brought tears to my eyes.

Hey. As far as I’m concerned, you can repeat music like that as often as you like.

Bob Dylan was always my favorite EMR.

Ouch! Hope all goes well in the morning.

Django is his own genre.

Maybe I should give Opera another try. For reasons I don’t understand, FireFox often starts running very slowly and dragging my whole system down with it.

(I’m a bit fired up on the music tonite)

I get to see BonTaj Friday night!

Django is GOD! He started the swang thang!

Then there was the cat with Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian.

Along the ways were Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Chet Atkins, and a few others.

On the grassy side, Doc Watson was one of the FIRST flat pickers to tear it up, then Norman Blake, and of course, Tony Rice is KING of it all, as he learned from Django thru them all and proved it with Grisman’s Music, and with all the grass and new grass he has done and does.

Tony Rice, KING of the FlatTop Martin Guitar. Tony Tone. The Hoss OF Hosses.

*G*

BTW, Canada has produced so many fine, fine artists over the past 3 decades (post Joni and Neal) for the acoustic and americana genre it’s been PROLIFIC! You got it going on from the Pac Coast to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.

THANKS! *waves*

we had about 10 straight days of rain forecast, so we planted some grass seed. then it didn’t rain at all for about 10 days so had to water it a lot. now yesterday finally we did get some rain. I guess the rain clouds have been going around us or something.

Firefox’s Flash & Java implementation is pretty sad. On the Mac, you can watch the activity viewer and see the processor drain soar.
Safari is better, but not the newest version, which many of us (*clears throat*) unwittingly upgraded to…

Don’t know them, that?

I think for me, it’s just that PPM’s was the first version I heard, so no other version ever sounded quite so sweet. And that was true for me regarding some of Dylan’s own songs. Much as I liked him, if I heard their version first, his didn’t sound quite right. That was also true of Leonard Cohen’s stuff. (BTW, I read that Cohen passed out on stage in Madrid last week.)

FF only gives me trouble when I have over twenty youtubes / tabs, or more, fully loaded. Or if the cache is acting up… which may be the same thing for what little I know.

Did you see my #71 above?

Yep, gypsy swing, at it’s birth and finest.
With his brother, and Stephane.
Wow.

I got to SEE Stephane once, one night, at Great American Music Hall.

Mid 80’s. With Grisman’s Quintet! N Tony Rice. *G*

Got the recording off of an FM feed from a peer to peer group.

Good lord, what an honor that was.

BTW, I could always burn a cd, if ya want, ES . . . *G*

laruepork at netzero dot com

Just sayin . . . ;-)

…when I have over twenty youtubes / tabs, or more, fully loaded…

Firefox is a wimp /s
Dude, that is a lot of resources.

FF acts like it gets stuck in some kind of loop with some Java scripts.

I typically run with a few dozen tabs open, and I have no way of knowing which one went crazy. Everything just slowly grinds to a halt.

Yeah… I managed to get a little help from the Safari specialists this weekend. Omitting the top ten gizmo / loading upon every new open tab helped a lot. If only I could put the refresh button back in the left corner of the browser.

I really don’t notice a performance speed difference now that the top ten gimmick is not an issue.

I usually stop at ten. It seems to do OK, though. It’s hard to compare to how it works on Macs and Windows, though, because on POSIX systems it’s usually using dynamic libraries that are already in use. On Windows, at least, it usually has to load its entire environment.

Once I get past 22 tabs on 3 or fewer pages, I get script warnings. But I am in v2.0.0.20, and I am not going to v 3.x.x any time soon.

Bonnie Raite and Taj Mahal. = BonTaj

Repeat after me:
Command-R.
Command-R.
Command-R.

Did you see my #71 above?

Oops. Missed it. And, thanks. I’ve long wondered how to do that.

I think I see less of that because I use the Noscript addon. It’s a bit of a pain, because for some sites to work you have to enable scripts from particular domains, but it remembers what you’ve enabled from one session to the next. It guards against cross-site script attacks, and limits what sites get to download scripts onto your computer and run them. You might want to try it.

Some Canuckistanian ‘Early Morning Rain’. This Don’t Suck!

Sigh, Ian, and Sylvia. Sylvia, sigh. *G*

I’ll take you up on that.. especially a good FM recording. Thanks! I must have been in love at the time or I would have been there or crying in a cocktail because I couldn’t get a ticket. *s*

I get to see BonTaj Friday night!

Where are they playing?

Well, some of us are hogs.. we do it for the dogs, don’t we? /s

Yep, think so. Upgraded to FF 3.5.3 because 2.0 was going hinky – felt a bit like a forced upgrade. No particular beef with 3.5.3, though google in my face 24/7 doesn’t thrill.

Tried new Opera 10 because it was getting good buzz, lots of downloads. So far, so good. Learning curve not particularly steep. The improved speed is a biggie here.

yeah, that’s kinda the issue with me. Started with a torn retina, that was surgically repaired with laser. At my 2 week check up last thurs, the smaller of the two tears had started to “delam” at one edge, thru the laser “welding” So i had emergency cryosurgery friday morning for partial detachment of the retina, with a medically-induced air bubble to hold the surgery in place. So apparently all that commotion upset my eye, and ta-da! While blood cells to the rescue. Surgeon said he’s only seen this happen maybe once before in the last 15 years. What a thrill to be a medical oddity.

Rancho Mirage.

we do

NO!!! SWEAH?!?!?

I”ve seen Tah, a few times, never Bonnie, live.

Wow, nice duet! Good catch! *G*

One last Gordon, Perhaps, My Fav Gordon

But all his work is so good . . . *G*

I finished the course of steroids in mid-December, and had a relapse over Christmas. But it went away in a few days and hasn’t returned.

My stupid – I scratched or irritated it a month earlier and only went to the doc when the secondary symptoms appeared.
My bad.

Some Canuckistanian ‘Early Morning Rain’. This Don’t Suck!

Beautiful!

I’ll toss in some goodies . . . you don’t hate Cohen, do ya? *G*

Shoot me the email with the addy to send to . . . .

Gimme a few daze . . . *G*

An honor to do so given all your work to keep us amuzed in here over the years!

My brother and his wife are taking me for my boithday! He made the catch, and tells me we have primo seats.

Thanks, I’ve always found that one to be so special.

Nowadays, with Gordon having had serious med comps, and barely surviving, and STILL now trying to tour.

Well, every note becomes more special as our heroes age and we face the finality of losing them.

I feel about Gordon as I do about Tony Rice. And Mary Travers.

“And all gods they were.”

oh dear! Well i’m glad you went later rather than way-to-late later.

Oh! A show to COME!!!

Hippo Birdie, Loo!

What a FINE gift!!!

*G*

Tell us ALL about it, please!

YOU need a care package, music wise?

Lemme know, ask Betsy about hers.

Be well, FarmGal!

Folks, really nice chatting with you all, and thanks for letting me go on FOREVAH about my love for the musics.

Hope I didn’t step over anyone with my exuberance!

But it’s time to g’thud, as Busted would say.

Bless and best to all and yours, from me and mine.

Pick it if you can, listen to it, when you can.

Music makes the world go round. *G*

Well dogs.. time for me to turn in.

Y’all keep the home thread burning.

Good night.

Thanks.

Back in the 80s I saw each of them and in very small venues.

larue, you hoss you, i’d lurv a bluegrass/newgrass care package. It’s been a wonderful distraction for me tonight to hear you on such a fine music rant.

G’thud larue! And g’night ES.

and i think i will prop my exhausted self up ‘n get some sleep before i show up at the doc’s office at 8 (need to sleep elevated because of the detached retina)

*waves g’night to all the other pups*

Thanks.

Time for me to turn in, as well.

G’nite, all.

nite eureka, newdealfarmgrrrlll, wigwam

i am out, too
nite pups

I’ve never seen either one live before, and can hardly wait!

There used to be a little spot in Escondido called The Alley…very small. Saw Kris Kristofferson and Dan Hick and the Hot Licks there.

I love really small venues.

Nite all, me too.

ndfg, went looking for Tim Dorsey at my usual used bookstore today. Nada. They report heavy demand, but that folks keep them. Got one other place to try, heaven forfend I should buy a new paperback :-)

nite all. Me too.

Speaking of In the Early Morning Rain, one group that covered it nicely way back when, was Peter Paul & Mary.

RIP, Mary.

Speaking of Canadian artists, check out Lenny Breau. He practically re-invented how to play the guitar.
Samples:
The Claw

With Chet Atkins: Sweet Georgia Brown – this one shows off his signature harmonics technique. Atkins serves up his usual brilliance on this one.

Off to bed now me. Nice talkin’ with all y’all. (see? I can speak ‘Murkan.)