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(YouTube) Video This here feller plays the Star Wars on this here banjo... and it's pretty good   (thebestofyoutube.com) divider line
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Shrink
2006-07-19 2:41:59 AM  
I give that performance two thumbs up.
 
Drew [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-07-19 9:42:22 AM  
This video pretty much sums up the entire Internet
 
Benq
2006-07-19 9:43:16 AM  
come back when you can do it by blowing on a bottle.

(actually, that was pretty cool)
 
Teafortwo
2006-07-19 9:43:29 AM  
John Williams just felt a great disturbance in the force.
 
Snake939
2006-07-19 9:44:12 AM  
Classy!
 
Andyxc
2006-07-19 9:45:02 AM  
Huuuu dawgie, that was perty gol durn good.
 
machinesquad
2006-07-19 9:45:19 AM  
I've never wanted to be able to play the banjo so badly in my life.
 
Langdon Alger
2006-07-19 9:45:47 AM  
it would have been better had he shaved his head and sat on a front porch swing with a blank look on his face.
 
Darth Darth Binks
2006-07-19 9:47:32 AM  
[image from photodump.com too old to be available]
 
unicornrider
2006-07-19 9:47:51 AM  
Ya'all come back now ya here!

/NOT
 
Moloth
2006-07-19 9:48:12 AM  
I, for one, think that's awesome!

/loves blugrass
//hates country
 
BiggusDickus
2006-07-19 9:48:21 AM  
Shoulda been chewing on some tobacco or some straw.
 
Fritriac
2006-07-19 9:48:45 AM  
Thanks gawd my soundcard is farked.

/or not
 
Clever_Monkey
2006-07-19 9:49:08 AM  
The eyebrow waggle at the end totally sold it.
 
Snake939
2006-07-19 9:50:02 AM  
Drew

This video pretty much sums up the entire Internet

Yeah. This and "Star Wars Geek".

/wait... the two definitive Internet videos are both Star Wars-related
//discuss
 
celestial.dragon
2006-07-19 9:50:56 AM  
Being a minority I instinctively find any banjo playing scary.
 
The Fett
2006-07-19 9:53:05 AM  
I can't get the image of Darth Vader and Ned Beatty out of my head
 
BrotherB
2006-07-19 9:54:01 AM  
Seriously. How rowdy does a bluegrass crowd really get?
 
MessyDwarf
2006-07-19 9:54:48 AM  
Now we need Duel of the Fates on duelling banjos.
 
jgrynspan
2006-07-19 9:55:10 AM  
I saw the fingers moving, but couldn't hear any audio even at max volume. Heh.
 
IrishBlunder
2006-07-19 9:55:40 AM  
ObVader: "Luke, you know I am your father...

...and your uncle."

/got nunthin'
 
TheKidFromDeliverance
2006-07-19 9:56:06 AM  
He looked like a young George Lucas. Skinny, hornrims, beard.
Plaid shirt.

I think he's a clone.
 
junior's shadow
2006-07-19 9:56:07 AM  
what's Star Wars?
and I hate banjers.
 
wmoonfox
2006-07-19 9:57:01 AM  
That'd be great if everything played on a banjo didn't sound exactly the same.
 
DayBreakBoys17
2006-07-19 9:57:35 AM  
"I GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS!!"


/obvious?
//Slashie
 
Omis
2006-07-19 9:57:55 AM  
Who would have thought that the Star Wars theme translates into hillbilly so well?
 
Charles Martel
2006-07-19 9:58:11 AM  
Woooooooo-wee. Boy, that was a miiiighty fine a-pickin' and a-singin'. I'll tell you what, you come on in here and sign these papers here and I'm a gonna give you ten dollars a piece.
 
RatOmeter
2006-07-19 9:58:57 AM  
I really hate to perpetuate this thing, but...

Browsing the link's site, a video yesterday from our friend "thatgirlemily", supposedly the video of "Steve and Laura"
 
Major Thomb
2006-07-19 10:01:28 AM  
BrotherB: Seriously. How rowdy does a bluegrass crowd really get?


Directly proportional to the amount of beer and ammo you bring.
 
banjobee
2006-07-19 10:03:20 AM  
wmoonfox: how do you tell the difference between all the banjo songs?

The words.
 
Dedmon
2006-07-19 10:04:13 AM  
Lets perpetuate the stereotype of Southerners!

Yes! We all talk like this:

Dem damn leeebruls always takin or jobs. Ima fark mah siistar while figthn turrist.

Deliverance was 100% accurate in every way. We all talk and live just like that.


BTW this wasn't aimed at anyone in this thread, just pre-emptive defense to the soon-to-be southern U.S. bashing that is no doubt incoming. :)
 
VeryVeryBigNose
2006-07-19 10:05:26 AM  
What? No banjo jokes, yet? Let's correct that.

Q. How do you know when the stage is level?


A. When the banjo player drools from both sides of his mouth.

/Thanks. You've been a great audience. Please tip your waitresses.
 
ColSanders
2006-07-19 10:05:50 AM  
Simply awesome. Someone should record the entire soundtrack in bluegrass style. I'd buy it. Twice. And I hate bluegrass.
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2006-07-19 10:09:28 AM  
I've been scared of banjos (& crewcuts) ever since that canoe trip I took with my buddies back in the 70's.
 
Parthenogenetic
2006-07-19 10:09:40 AM  
[image from img145.imageshack.us too old to be available]

"He's got a real purty mouth, ain't he? Squeal like a wookiee, boy!"
 
Langdon Alger
2006-07-19 10:10:20 AM  
we interviewed David Lee Roth in regards to his new bluegrass album--- Van Halen and his songs with blue grass music---i like bluegrass but i didn't like my favorite VH songs in this style
 
dervish16108
2006-07-19 10:11:46 AM  
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chug
2006-07-19 10:12:25 AM  
Not impressed.

The idea is OK. The execution leaves something to be desired.

Something like the whole arrangement.
 
orange soup
2006-07-19 10:12:49 AM  
I used to know those guys in the Second String Bluegrass band.

Oh, and a bluegrass crowd in Asheville NC can get quite rowdy.


What's the difference between a banjo player and a large pizza?


A large pizza can feed a family of four.

What do you say to a banjo player in a suit?


Will the defendant please rise.
 
Donutmaker
2006-07-19 10:16:42 AM  
[image from img147.imageshack.us too old to be available]
 
BobLaBrea
2006-07-19 10:18:17 AM  
What's the best sound a banjo makes?

Splash!

/'s like two cats fighting on a tin roof
//It really rocks
///bluegrass uke player
 
i.r.id10t
2006-07-19 10:20:49 AM  
Hayseed Dixie anyone?
 
for good or for awesome
2006-07-19 10:22:21 AM  
Very nice, but how about "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on a ukulele.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo&search=guitar%20gently%20weeps
You'll have to cut and paste you-tube is giving me a plastic hassle.
 
tsx11
2006-07-19 10:25:12 AM  
Man, I'M SO TENTING.
 
mandoskippy
2006-07-19 10:26:54 AM  
Seriously. How rowdy does a bluegrass crowd really get?


Acutally they can be a blast. I was a anti-bluegrass music major type who thought it was all lame hillbilly music. Then I quit being a music major, saw a band (Nickel Creek) and bought a mandolin. Now I play in a bunch of local bands. It is so much fun, all of the improv of jazz without the stuck up yuppies.

Another bonus that most BG players don't let on to... much of the crowd (at least up nort here in Wisconsin) tends to be pretty, high, bra-less hippies who "dance" to music by hopping to the beat... many think that I nod to the beat while on stage... yep that's it.
 
gezortenplotz
2006-07-19 10:32:17 AM  
Just took up re-learning the banjo after decades of neglect. I know it's the accordian of stringed instruments, but just like mandoskippy says, it's so much fun.

/A guilty pleasure I don't feel guilty about
 
tacos4jesus
2006-07-19 10:34:52 AM  
long-time submitter, first-time green light

bluegrass live totally kicks. there's nothing like a big rowdy group of people sucking down PBR and pretending to dance. it's good wholesome fun.

and yes, Second String Bluegrass rocked the house
 
lohphat
2006-07-19 10:35:31 AM  
I didn't know they had basements in the South.

Wonder if he has a Younicks system too...
 
braingame
2006-07-19 10:40:48 AM  
SMITTY sure has a purty mouth...
 
larsoncc
2006-07-19 10:44:01 AM  
That was awesome.
 
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