| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Re: A cautionary tale---offensive dobro jokes? | | Date: | Monday, February 26, 2007 13:44:03 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Don,
Dobro players do share something with you banjo players tho. If we put our
fingerpicks on the dashboard, they let us park in "Handicap Zones".
Running for cover......
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From: don.hergert@verizon.net
> Speaking as a banjo player myself, I can tell you the spray doesn't work.
>
> Happily, a few of us play Dobro too. We just don't talk about it because
> everyone knows there aren't any offensive jokes you can tell about Dobro
> players.
>
> Well, at least in mixed company...
>
> ;b
>
> Seriously, I play in 3 to 4 jams a week, the numbers you speak of are pretty
> common. I have taken to playing Dobro most of the time when there are other
> banjo players around... It takes the pressure off of the rest of the
> musicians,
> there's one less banjo player to try to think of jokes about.
>
>
> I'm not as good on Dobro yet, but it is actually more fun to play Dobro because
> I can watch the pained look on everyone else's face when I play, and then tell
> them that's just what a Dobro sounds like.
>
>
> Best,
>
> -- Don
>
> = = = = =
>
> kbrown@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday afternoon, at our local jam, we had six (yes, that's right,
> six!)
> > banjo pickers in the jam circle. Later on, a seventh banjo picker showed
> up,
> > but he didn't bring his banjo.
> >
> > See, this is what happens when you don't spray for banjo pickers in late
> winter
> > or early spring. The eggs hatch out, and then you've got 'em all over
> the
> > place.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ken Brown
> > Austin, Texas
> >
> > I always wanted to play the dobro real bad, and I have finally
> succeeded.
> >
> >
>
>
>
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