a duet

[davebrown]

between me and saba the dog.

i don't know how to embed a video.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3748171...in/photostream

[Duane Brown]

Way to scrub one off Dave. Sounds good.

[davebrown]

Funny thing is all of the other dogs in the neighborhood start barking too.

[Ian McColgin]

How to get your dog into the bar . . . Oh, he's with the band.

[Eddiebou]

Thatta D-28? I've got one, too. Go-on wit yo bad self! Play it, boy.

[davebrown]

Yeppers Eddie. D28. The Bluegrass Cannon. Don't stand too close. What year is yours? I played a '58 four months ago that I can't stop thinking about. It's still there, just hanging on a wall feeling lonesome...

[Eddiebou]

Mine's a '71. also have a '94 D-41. Oh man, a '58 would be nice! A friend of mine has a '49. I saw him turn down an offer of $25,000.00 for it. Maybe it's a 46, I don't know, it's a herringbone.
I once found a Lloyd Loar F-5 that had been through a flood. It was moldy and cracked, the tuning keys were all rusty. I was hoping to make a project out of it. The owner put it up for sale and got $118,000.00 for it. I ended up building an F-style mando from scratch. Haven't gotten around to building a guitar yet. I've got some nice rosewood for the back/sides, nice mahogany for the neck, I just haven't found the right piece for the soundboard. It's gonna be an OM size, though.

[davebrown]

I've had two instrument trading disasters. The first was a 1964 SG that I had, which I traded for another SG and $75. The first one later become the same prototype for the Pete Townsend reissue. I see them every now and then for about $10,000. No electric I have ever played would talk like that one. The second was a 1944--yes, 1944--d28 with a freshly broken neck for $2500. I could have sent it back to martin and had a $3500 playable 1944. Not a collector, but still, a workhorse boomer that you could play around and not worry about. I dithered for a day and it was gone like smoke. I have a mandolin that I started and never finished. I want to build an upright bass. It's the instrument that I think I play the best. I have a pretty good laminate bass...but that's a plywood boat vs. a chesapeake skiff built from lines taken off of one of the old girls, if you get my meaning, Eddiebou. I hvae a few other ones laying around though: a 1921 model A Gibson, a 1928 Gibson L00, and a 1939 Gibson j45 that is very comparable to a 30s d18. The j45 has adirondack red spruce and it will talk. Needs a neck reset right now though so I haven't played it much lately. I also have about 15 more various electrics and acoustics. You know, cluttering up the place. I gave away a 1969 335 as a gift one time.

[Eddiebou]

The coolest upright bass player I ever saw was Brend Davies?. She was with Tony Rice Unit at Menokin about 5 miles from my house. Tony could hardly even talk but "Brend" was incredible. I don't know anything about her. I believe she's from California.

[davebrown]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm2fKs4Hm9M

She's from Dublin, I think, which is about an hour away from here. But man, I don't know if The Road is being too kind to her.