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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

I've got to say I am very impressed by this site and all of its features.

For anyone interested enough to read this - I'm a relatively newbie on the banjo - I've had one for around 11 years, but it was only a few months ago as I write this that I started playing seriously.

My wife and daughters and myself are involved in local theater, and when our kids got into a production of Annie last summer, we both volunteered to help out backstage.  While chatting with one of the members of the band, she mentioned that I had a banjo, and in an instant I was "shanghaied" into the local Dixieland band.

I had to take something of a crash course - luckily, I was able to look over the music before my first rehearsal, and our first gig was the NEXT DAY!  I didn't do too poorly, and I've been having a great time with them ever since.  Our next gig is this Friday, at a hospital in Smyrna, Delaware.

I'm currently involved in a new show, "Li'l Abner", at the local high school.  The wife and kids and myself are playing hillbilly extras, and I offered my services as a greeter to the folks coming in, playing a little bit for them as they wait in line - but the director insisted that I take the stage before the show, as a sort of "warm up" act, playing and joking with the audience.  Just my banjo and me, in front of a whole lot of people, with no tuba player to hide behind.  That's gonna be some experience. Add Comment

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www.awkwardlabs.com
Playing Since: 2006
Experience Level: Novice

Interests:
[Socializing]

Occupation: Between jobs

Gender: Male
Age: 59

My Instruments:
An old Kay banjo that my wife bought me at a thrift store years ago. I love it to death.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Ronnie James Dio, George Clinton / P-Funk, Tool, The Time, Traveling Wilburys

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Created 2/3/2007
Last Visit 10/1/2007

Two eyes, two ears, a mouth, a nose. Two arms and legs, ten fingers, toes. A brain, a heart, some lungs, a spleen. Heavy doses of caffiene. Callouses and spots of ink. Social mores are out of sync. Paint and pencil marks and things. Plastic picks for strumming strings. Dice and little metal men, monsters, freaks, and bogeymen. A bare spot where there once was hair, but now there's not a hair to spare. A sense of feeling out of place within that thing called human race. Bored with grown-up things and such. Never really grew up much. Corrective lenses help to see. Procrastination. Apathy. These are the things I am and do. Other than those... ...I'm just like you.

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