It’s not that pointless, I know that there are several musos here.
OK, I’ll admit since taking possession of a new instrument, I’ve been spending far too much time on uchube.
If I ever look like this when playing music, I want to be “put to sleep”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6_B5OTXgU8
He doesn’t have great stage presence, does he. But I guess he needs to concentrate so he doesn’t stuff up the timing.
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Speaking of banjo, here’s the diminutive Amber Godin on 5 string banjo with her Dixieland Bluegrass Band, playing
Sledd Ridin’ . Her husband Jeramiah is on bass & her brother Chris Alexander is on guitar.
Here they are doing Foggy Mountain Breakdown at Amber & Jeramiah’s wedding. :)
If you like bluegrass there’s some good picking here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXPP66ImrgA
From the comments of the OP choob:
Joseph Mohan. The video must be 29 years old. Last time I heard, he was CEO of Heinz, Europe.
:)
I started playing my banjo when I heard they were going to flood the valley
wookiemeister said:
I started playing my banjo when I heard they were going to flood the valley
Your dealer, give me the name of your dealer.
If I hear banjos I always think Deliverance. I don’t hear them much.
Skunkworks said:
If I hear banjos I always think Deliverance. I don’t hear them much.
deliverance was the one vehicle that shot the banjo into the main stream
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concorde I don’t think so – strangest looking white elephant I’ve ever seen
wookiemeister said:
concorde I don’t think so – strangest looking white elephant I’ve ever seen
It’s quite a study in management is the concorde. It was realised quite early in the development that it could never make a cent, and would always be losing money. The brits and the french just wouldn’t shelve the project as too much money had already been invested and saving face was a political decision.
Throwing good money after bad.
sibeen said:
wookiemeister said:concorde I don’t think so – strangest looking white elephant I’ve ever seen
It’s quite a study in management is the concorde. It was realised quite early in the development that it could never make a cent, and would always be losing money. The brits and the french just wouldn’t shelve the project as too much money had already been invested and saving face was a political decision.
Throwing good money after bad.
Aye. The wrong strategy, ignoring the laws of physics and going for the prestige of faster than sound instead of most economical to operate.
i think the world is a better place for having the concorde.
sibeen said:
wookiemeister said:concorde I don’t think so – strangest looking white elephant I’ve ever seen
It’s quite a study in management is the concorde. It was realised quite early in the development that it could never make a cent, and would always be losing money. The brits and the french just wouldn’t shelve the project as too much money had already been invested and saving face was a political decision.
Throwing good money after bad.
given that the Australian threw 1 billion at seasprite and it could never work, was not anything particularly revolutionary and few people would ever remember it over here concorde was the expression of the end point of british manufacturing and an education system. britian is unlikely to ever produce anything close to concorde ever again – they don’t have the capability (skylon included – they’ve wasted too much money in Iraq and Afghanistan to ever make skylon work in any reasonable time frame)
you can consider concorde the british version of the Saturn V moon missions – they too would never make any money but for demonstrating an end point in American technology its hard to beat.
I read something a while back that mentioned that some nasa fellahs turned up and were taken around concorde and what it took to make the worlds first and only supersonic passenger aircraft and they were told by the nasa blokes that it was harder to do than go to the moon!
ChrispenEvan said:
i think the world is a better place for having the concorde.
Yeah. it was my favourite aeroplane as a kid. Never got to fly in one of course.
Concorde wasn’t the only supersonic passenger plane… Tu-144 and Tu-144D. They may have been better at buying farms than the Concorde though.
the yanks had Saturn V
the british had concorde
the only reason concorde was retired was because the French can’t maintain their aircraft
the French concorde when it crashed had 4 main problems
1 wreckage of other aircraft on the runway
2 concorde was OVERLOADED and the pilots knew it and they decided to operate outside its envelope
3 the engineers maintaining concorde had left a critical part off the undercarriage – after the crash a team went over to the hanger that day and discovered the spacer for the wheels still hanging on its rack. the spacer stopped the wheels going askew, the tyre marks of the problem was still to be seen on the runway, concorde was already on fire, overloaded with one set of wheels effectively locked and dragging along the runway (they smashed some of the lights on the runway)
4 the engineer on board decided without telling the captain to shut down the burning engine thus reducing airspeed and making sure that it could never gain enough speed to gain control. a breach of protocol.
(5) it was widely discussed at british airways that day in the engineering section that the French had left the fuel lines loose and thus fuel pouring out the engine was the cause for the fire
basically air france fucked up so badly it wasn’t funny – when I discovered all these things I decided never to fly with them
party_pants said:
ChrispenEvan said:
i think the world is a better place for having the concorde.
Yeah. it was my favourite aeroplane as a kid. Never got to fly in one of course.
I was sat in a small car at a carpark inside the boundaries of heathrow when I was amazed as concorde turned up and pointed its 4 engines at me and then opened up, it was like being immersed in thunder.
sibeen said:
wookiemeister said:concorde I don’t think so – strangest looking white elephant I’ve ever seen
It’s quite a study in management is the concorde. It was realised quite early in the development that it could never make a cent, and would always be losing money. The brits and the french just wouldn’t shelve the project as too much money had already been invested and saving face was a political decision.
Throwing good money after bad.
Why can’t they be the ones funding my current project? :(
PM 2Ring said:
…peaking of banjo, here’s the diminutive Amber Godin on 5 string banjo with her Dixieland Bluegrass Band, playing
“Sledd Ridin’”…..
Damn!
She’s good. Thanks for the link.
I’m not entertaining the idea of that sort of speed for a long time yet.
I’m amazed at the size of the step from guitar and having to start from pretty much first principals again, but at the same time, I’m able to play the machine in terms of being able to work out scales, chords and melodies :)
Teleost said:
PM 2Ring said:
…peaking of banjo, here’s the diminutive Amber Godin on 5 string banjo with her Dixieland Bluegrass Band, playing
“Sledd Ridin’”…..
Damn!
She’s good. Thanks for the link.
I’m not entertaining the idea of that sort of speed for a long time yet.I’m amazed at the size of the step from guitar and having to start from pretty much first principals again, but at the same time, I’m able to play the machine in terms of being able to work out scales, chords and melodies :)
I’m not much of a fan of country music, but I’m quite partial to bluegrass banjo. And how could anyone not like Amber? :)
I’ve been playing guitar since my early teens, but I’ve only tried to play banjo a couple of times – I find them a bit intimidating. I can knock out a tune on a mandolin, but I prefer to leave them to the experts. :)
My mum just started re-learning ukelele about a months ago; I sometimes play along on guitar when she’s practising. I have no great desire to play the uke, but at least normal guitar chords (mostly) work ok on them.
really gets into his banjo
Talking about the Banjo
Here’s a old gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBmYkXVteaU