@alex I'm a simple man, I see the name 'Mrs. Miller' and I reflexively share a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqINg3H3DIo
It looks like I've probably got a "living history" style gig at an Old Home Day* celebration this fall, where they've decided to do a US Civil War theme, and want some period-appropriate music.
It's been a *long* time since I did a specifically civil-war focused thing and I definitely have mixed feelings about it now. The town in question is a tony Boston exurb, though, and I don't *think* their historical society would be going for a full-on reenactment with local dipshits pretending to be confederates like it's a sports team.
When it comes down to it though, I'd rather people remember the visceral sound of a low-tuned fretless banjo and bones (if my old partner in crime is available) playing real arrangements from the time period than a shitty 2nd south carolina stringband wanna-be outfit playing 'Dixie' and 'Bonnie Blue Flag' on modern steel strung instruments. Maybe I can find or write a pamphlet about banjo and cultural appropriation to distribute.
* Old Home Days are a mostly (I think?) New England thing that amounts to a town holding a small country fair for current and former residents
The final Antietam Early Banjo Gathering was seven years ago. I was lucky enough to attend the last five of them from 2011-2015, and for as long as I live I will yearn to be in that big old threshing barn on this last weekend of June.
I miss it, and my oddball adopted banjo family, so much
Honestly a cheap little tripod and my phone’s wide-angle lens would probably scratch most of this itch in terms of having a mic close enough to get decent sound (phones really are pretty good these days) *and* get video with out having the camera up my nose
I know it’s about 80% gear-chasing instead of just doing the thing, but until such time as I have the luxury of a space where I can leave a recording rig set up *and* use that space at all hours without worrying about disturbing/waking anyone, I’m thinking about getting something like a zoom h1n for ad hoc stuff
@alex I saw one of the Squier offset teles IRL last week and I knew better than to try it
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The Prisoner Theme (Free Man Mix)
https://youtu.be/MFs1RgmqLBo
Link: the wacky time signatures in the theme song to TV’s _Transformers_
@futzle I am going to watch this over morning coffee tomorrow! But in the meantime I have to share the amazing Scott Bradlee “Saturday Morning Slow Jams” version of the Transformers theme: https://youtu.be/oRRgsYvnPxs
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@alex fwiw from this non-dad, I think you’re crushing it
(Oof, that reverb is absolute overkill when re-combined with the video, knowing the actual size of my living room. Back to the DAW before I post this one to IG/YT)
I play (mostly) 19th and early 20th-century banjo music. I'd play 4-string early jazz banjo if I could find any musicians to play with. I reserve the right to post non-banjo content, although I aim to keep this account more or less focused on music.
I am not particularly interested in banjo as a good-old-timey-appalachian-country-folk-bluegrass totem.
You should also follow my "official" music account at @magicians.
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