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Sponges grow in the ocean. Hmmmmmmm. How much deeper would the ocean be, if that didn't happen? :blink: (Stephen Wright)

Groaaaaannnnnn!!! (I may be slow -- but if explained coyrectally -- I'll get it eventually!)

*Seriously bad hair* --- HA!!!

Coffee (on the house), for you! :)

Edawn --- welcome to GreaseSpot! Perhaps Penguin or I love Bagpipes can answer you best, as they just recently got out. Belle still has contacts in twi, so she could help too. Good luck! (PS --- I tried to find out what was happenening here in Minney-soda and when I called twi, I told them I was *interested in fellowship*, but they told me nothing over the phone. They did (however), take my name and passed it on to the state *leaders* --- who in turn got hold of me. What a suspicious bunch -- eh?) :unsure:

How many people is *huge*??

Looks like a GREAT TIME was had by all. :)

A MIGHTY FINE looking Gibson J-200 he has there!

Kenny Ingram was the banjo picker. Found this photo for you. left to right -- Kenny Ingram, Curly Secler, Paul Warren, and Marty Stuart. From the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, 1975

CK -- it never hurts to *change*. I'm willing to bet that you are not the same person today, that you were 10, or 5, or even one year ago. Why?? -- because you have changed. It happens, and *status quo* in your life might stay somewhat the same, but changes are inevitable. It happens to the best of us!! Seriously -- consider what you said, and then stack that up with Paul, or Peter, or others -- OK?? Paul could've decided *not to change* on the road to Damascus; Peter could've decided not to change when given the vision to go to Cornelius; Moses could've said *a burning bush -- so what??*; David could've said *I screwed and murdered, therefore I am screwed*; But they didn't -- they changed. I shudder to think of what I thought of as true years ago, and have found out differently (these days). If you want to hang on to docvic's teachings, so be it. But don't think of change as a bad thing. Life is a learning experience, and there are many teachers. Here's hoping you find some of them. :)

Deep subject, for shallow minds. ;)

Sure -- docvic was *lord* *throughly* of the *shambles*. If you're going to use the archaic definitiions, use them all. :unsure:

Cowgirl -- Put those miscreants up in a small room, and FORCE them to listen (over, and over, and over), to Guy Clark singing *Homegrown Tomatoes*!! ;) ;) ;)

Back in the early 70's when that song came out, every bluegrass group added it to their repetoire (sp?). The very best version I have heard was done by Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass. It's out on record somewhere, but I heard it live at the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. This was back in the early to mid 70's, as Lester passed away in 1979. Lester had long since split from Earl Scruggs, and had his own band called the Nashville Grass. Lester had a young upstart mandolin picker (of about 13 or 14 years old), by the name of Marty Stuart who absolutely tore that song apart!! I don't even remember who was picking banjo, but Marty's mandolin stole the day. This is the same Marty Stuart who is now so big in country music. He got his professional start in bluegrass with Lester way back when, and took it from there. They played it about 5x's faster than the way Eric Weisberg did in the movie, and instead of the guitar and banjo *dueling* it out --- it was the mando vs. the banjo. Here's a pic of the stage set in the woods there at Bean Blossom. It's bigger now -- but this is what it looked like back in the 1970's. (the caption at the top of the stage says -- Back Home Again, in Indiana):

Socks -- GREAT JOB on *I Saw The Light*!! (Nice touch with all the *extra* chords!)

So you want to help me spend my money, eh?? I'm thinking I might go broke reeeeally fast! ;) Seriously -- thanks for the info about the amps. I don't *gig* much anymore, so it would be for home use only. The most I do these days is go to jam sessions, though I will do an occasional square dance once in a while, and then it is strictly with the fiddle and mando. We have plenty of accomplished bass players here, so no need for me to take mine out in public, and make a real fool of myself! But again -- thanks for the *tech stuff* -- now I need to go out and do some pricing. :)

Rutherford sounds like QUITE THE TOWN.

Are there some that said He would??

Maybe Ben Franklin was one too??

Once the want for a light bulb is determined, and once the need for (said) light bulb is established; I nominate Socks, to install it. After all -- he's already spinning around and round and round! :)