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Post by K Tresp on Nov 13, 2013 17:03:02 GMT
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Post by Martin on Nov 14, 2013 9:51:49 GMT
That's amazing. I'd heard about this new Shackleton banjo, but didn't realise it's significance until reading that. A banjo at the South Pole, eh? Nope, we've no room for that extra bedding, those winter clothes or that box of firelighters. A banjo? Aye, definitely!  "We must have that banjo: it is vital mental medicine" |
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Post by brianr2 on Nov 14, 2013 11:43:22 GMT
Martin: if we must have C********, this potential prezzie may be worth a note to the bearded git in the red suit who annually breaks all Civil Aviation Authority and RSPCA Rules. Brian
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Post by ocarolan on Nov 14, 2013 12:16:01 GMT
Actually, that could be fun, Brian, irrespective of seasonal celebratory occasions.  keith |
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Post by Martin on Nov 14, 2013 13:31:27 GMT
Yes indeedy - a virtual lego set for the older, musically challenged gentleman  It's on my list  |
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Post by brianr2 on Nov 14, 2013 17:33:01 GMT
Good man! I hope your Domestic Line Manager sees the benefit of keeping you gainfully occupied in bringing another banjer into the world.
Looking forward to your build thread.
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Post by K Tresp on Nov 14, 2013 20:41:57 GMT
Martin: if we must have C********, this potential prezzie may be worth a note to the bearded git in the red suit who annually breaks all Civil Aviation Authority and RSPCA Rules. Brian If, as I am detecting from various posts, Keith is a grinch-like disliker of C********, the south pole is a far as you can get from the red suited one. A banjo and Ceol Binn Mor duet would surely have morale at stratospheric levels |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2013 23:25:10 GMT
Don't know whether it's as exotic as the South Pole, but I took a Kay banjo to the Grateful Dead's shindig in Egypt in 1978. It wasn't the happiest of experiences. Two days after arriving in Cairo - on my birthday, as it goes -I got a monumental case of dysentery and was thrown out of the cheap hotel we were staying in: "No germ! No smell Clean hotel!"
I insisted that I'd look for somewhere to stay on my own while the others went to eat, but was so weak and out of it that I had no idea what I was doing. When it started to rain I crawled under a lorry at the concert site and just lay there for hours, while the others looked for me. At some stage I became aware of Ken Kesey and another guy filming me, clearly thinking I was stoned!
It was dark when I crawled out and my girlfriend Norma and my friends found me. My clothes were, ahem, soiled, so somehow we got the brilliant idea of going to change my clothes on Cairo railway station. Picked up by the police, six hours in the police station, rest of the day waiting at the hospital and barely noticing the Dead's first set by the pyramids.
Next day I hung around the pyramids with my girlfriend while the others went exploring. Still out of it and desperately tired: so tired that I barely remember Jerry Garcia seeing my instruments and coming over for a chat. Norma swore that Jerry even picked up the Kay and played a few bars at one stage, but I don't remember! Jerry fecking Garcia playing my banjo at the Pyramids and I don't remember...
By the last concert I was more with it. Grateful Dead, the Pyramids - and a total eclipse of the Moon. Magic right? What could go wrong? Well, the Dead were crap that night...
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Post by Martin on Nov 16, 2013 9:37:20 GMT
Great story Pete. And all because of a pesky banjo, eh? So did this film of you in distress ever become available commercially 
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Post by davewhite on Nov 16, 2013 17:52:33 GMT
"We must have that banjo: it is vital mental medicine" "Keeps us and the huskies moving in the snow knowing that if we stop some bugger might play it  " |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2013 17:58:04 GMT
Great story Pete. And all because of a pesky banjo, eh? So did this film of you in distress ever become available commercially I've no idea what Kesey ever did with his footage. If you were a Deadhead you got used to seeing him or one or another of his Pranksters pointing their glass eyes at everything. I'm certainly not in the bloody awful concert DVD of the bloody awful concert released by his son. |
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Post by leoroberts on Nov 20, 2013 16:46:03 GMT
I've decided that the banjo is a damned hard instrument to sing along to. and to get in tune. and to keep in tune. and to play. Sincere apologies to Martin who would make an infinitely better job of this... Earnest Ernie ShackletonI'd've put this in The Plucky Duck - but it's shite (well, even more so than usual) |
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Post by Martin on Nov 20, 2013 18:13:26 GMT
Lyrically inspired as usual, Leo. A worthy addition to Hecklers Corner The Plucky Duck  |
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Post by K Tresp on Dec 9, 2013 23:31:34 GMT
Seems like everyone is off to the Antarctic. . Wonder if they went after the banjo.
At this rate there will be more fretted instruments per capita in Antarctic than anywhere else on earth. HB5 might have to change venue to keep up with the trend
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