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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Oct 8, 2018 6:49:21 GMT
Sad news but a great attitude, keep it up.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Aug 20, 2018 6:48:35 GMT
Agreed, his live performances are exceptional.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Aug 19, 2018 8:09:12 GMT
I saw him a few years ago. One of the best gigs I've ever been to.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Jul 23, 2018 7:39:37 GMT
Check out Batson guitars. They only have a sound hole at the side.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 25, 2018 11:14:34 GMT
Hi Andy,
Let me know what's confusing and I will get it sorteed out.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Jan 29, 2018 8:38:10 GMT
Due to end 14 Feb.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Jan 17, 2018 10:52:48 GMT
All working now.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on May 2, 2017 19:20:19 GMT
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 26, 2017 7:27:50 GMT
Two hundred and twenty three parts!
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 19, 2017 7:53:59 GMT
-in the higher frets we see the title to the first LP Monroe recorded, in the actual font, and given the text we can feel how the genre was beginning to take its name. Behind the lettering will be the blue sky as it looks on the album jacket -in the background to this title we see the stylized portrait of Bill, which actually comes from the right hand side of the same Opry poster we saw earlier. What this accomplished for me however is making Monroe himself the bookends to the narrative.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 18, 2017 16:42:44 GMT
It's a long explanation...
"The story is pretty boring. When I was 9 years old, and going to summer camp for the first time, people called me the nickname of the day: ‘billy goat’. FYI people called me Bill, not William or Will, either of which would have worked better with my last name. With Bill there are too many ‘L’s” in a row, so it sounds like Billlaskin. In primary school I always had to pause, to separate the names, during attendance.
Anyway, going to the same camp, three successive summers in a row, my pals played with my nickname—just fooling with language as kids do—and it morphed, over those three years, from Billy Goat to Billy Groat, to Groat, to Grit. Where it settled gave me a name that worked better with Laskin, so I clamped on to it.
When I came to Toronto as a 17 year old I introduced myself as Grit and began my ongoing double-name life. Early on some people knew me as William, others as Grit, and I developed the habit of putting both names in my signature, ie. William ‘Grit’ Laskin so there would be no confusion. When I used to perform more people would come up to me--Grit—after the gig and ask if I had a brother--William-- who made guitars? And the opposite would sometimes occur: “Is your brother a songwriter?”.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 18, 2017 7:24:14 GMT
From Grit. "-next we see the first of the other 3 original members of the Blue Grass Boys (this part drove me a bit nuts since personal changed frequently as the years went by, later—1945-- including Flatt & Scruggs as well). The three originals, which I’ve depicted, were: Clyde Moody on guitar, Tommy Magness on Fiddle and Bill Wesbrooks on bass. -Since Monroe’s appearance at the Grand Ole Opry was pivotal to his early growing fame, I included a poster from one of his earlier appearances. The poster’s first appearance is as it leans into the design in the midst of the band members."
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 17, 2017 10:34:42 GMT
Thanks. My Current build by Grit Laskin for TAMCO is under way. I asked for a Bluegrass theme. From Grit "After much thought I chose to focus entirely on Bill Monroe, and the very beginning moments of Bluegrass. I’m calling this design “Origins”. Here is what you’re going to see… Starting at the headstock and moving up the neck: -A portrait of an older Bill, playing his mandolin (a mandolin HAD to appear, not just because of Monroe’s legend, but because I’m making this for YOU!). -still in the headstock we begin the history lesson - we see the label from the first single-song record that Monroe made, in 1940, “Mule Skinner Blues”, recording with his ‘blue grass boys”.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 17, 2017 7:23:58 GMT
I have the initial sketches of the inlay from Grit. If anyone is interested I will post a build thread here as I update them on the Mandolin Cafe and the AGF.
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Post by Trevor TAMCO on Apr 14, 2017 8:55:05 GMT
I stock their octave mandolins, excellent fit and finish and tone.
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