Celebrity Banjo Players?
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They would be Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), John Litgow I
believe, and I also think George Segal plays. Does anyone know of anybody else?
Just killing time on a cold New England Morning.
Peace.
Rick.
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LREVIS1188
who prosecuted Mike Tyson in his rape conviction and is also a sometime
network legal analyst and local radio personality (Indianapolis). Larry
Dave &Sandy
Mortcastle
Literary world -- novelist Tom Elliott (THE DWELLING) plays banjo, I often take
mine along and "sorta pick" when I'm doing readings -- my latest stuff: WRITING
HORROR, from Writer's Digest Books (editor); IN MEMORIAM, from DarkTales
Publications; forthcoming MOON ON THE WATER (short story collection)
Mort Castle
http://mortwrites.freeservers.com
Jeffrey Friedman
quite a player. I wonder where it is now?
Jeff
Bill Rogers
rf...@aol.com wrote:
> Just curious as to how many celebrities play banjo, besides the few I
know of.
> They would be Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), John
Litgow I
> believe, and I also think George Segal plays. Does anyone know of
anybody else?
> Just killing time on a cold New England Morning.
> Peace.
> Rick.
John Lithgow; one of "Click and Clack," but I don't remember which.
Bill
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Jeremy Cole
And I think "Woodstock" from the peanuts comic strip picked a banjo.
FDR muddled aound with "walk softly, and always carry a banjo", but
later changed it to "Big stick" because it was the depression, and
sticks were alot cheaper than banjo's back then.
LOL
Jeremy
ofel...@tin.it
I am Italian and I never heard of Mussolini playing banjo: could you please tell me where you have read that fact ?
Therefore it is well known that he played violin.
One of his sons, Romano, is a very good pro jazz piano player and he is busy with concerts and jazz festivals all around the world.
Nino
S.J.Carras
>Just curious as to how many celebrities play banjo, besides the few I know
>of.
>They would be Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), John Litgow I
>believe, and I also think George Segal plays. Does anyone know of anybody
>else?
>Just killing time on a cold New England Morning.
>Peace.
>Rick.
>
Too many to count. I'll get back later.Gotta get going!
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Tom Allen
Billy Connolly began his career as a g-banjo player in a folk group.I had
the good fortune to meet him in Dublin recently when he approached me,and a
friend asking directions to a well known folk music venue.When I mentioned
that I too was a banjo player he greeted me like long lost friend and
proudly displayed a tattoo of a banjo inscribed into the heel of his right
hand.A lovely man.No doubt about it.
My pal who is a piper(Irish/uillean pipes)was as horrified as
he always is to find two banjo players within arms reach.
I too wonder how many secret pickers and pluckers are out there torturing
their horrid little instrument outside of the gaze of the World.I wish you
luck in you noble efforts toi expose them.
Tom
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Gary Richardson
"Rainbow Connection" In that classic movie " The Muppet Movie"
Mike Stanger
He played as badly as he sang, but he was really playing.
Stanger
Dave Douglass
Warner Zacher
"S.J.Carras" <gca...@aol.combination> wrote in message
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> >
> >Just curious as to how many celebrities play banjo, besides the few I
know
> >of.
> >They would be Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), John
Litgow I
> >believe, and I also think George Segal plays. Does anyone know of anybody
> >else?
> >Just killing time on a cold New England Morning.
> >Peace.
> >Rick.
> >
> >Stop by and say howdy at:
> >Folk U.S.A.
> >http://members.aol.com/rfdjr/index.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
Chris Goodland
lead instrument. I still hear one of the songs every three months on the
radio. -CHRIS
Bert Brehm
Sally Goodwin on the back of the King Tut single.
Nick Kennedy
"Bert Brehm" <bert....@ui.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone mentioned Steve Martin, yet? IIRC, he recorded
> Sally Goodwin on the back of the King Tut single.
>
>
We're not doing so well on these celebrity banjo players, so
I'll nominate myself. I haven't been on the cover of People
yet, but my family could probably pick me out of a lineup.
If I had my banjo.
Seriously, Steve Martin is a pretty good banjo player. I
saw a Muppets rerun a couple years ago and there was Steve
playing his banjo. He was playing a simple Scruggs "G" vamp
with a little hammer-on over and over. When the camera
zoomed in on his face, he gave that smirk and said, "Hey,
this guy's gooooood." The joke being that he was actually
just playing something very simple. But in fact, it *was*
good. I'd thought I knew that lick, but I ran and got my
banjo and worked on playing it just like Steve.
One of Steve's jokes in the 70's when Nixon was under fire
was, "Nixon needs a banjo. When he gets off the plane and a
reporter shouts, 'Tell us about Watergate', someone else
will say, 'Play Foggy Mountain Breakdown!'." So then Steve
simulates Nixon going into FMB and the crowd goes wild and
forgets about Watergate.
I didn't know about Sally Goodin on the back of King Tut.
Nick
in Arkansas
James Stewart
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> also dont forget about steave martin "the comedian", & john lithgo "3rd
rock
> from the sun" & jerry vandyke "from coach"
Not to mention Fred Warring, who started out as a banjo player.
Prewar1932
Steven Wheeler
Bert Brehm wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned Steve Martin, yet? IIRC, he recorded
> Sally Goodwin on the back of the King Tut single.
Actually, he was mentioned in the message that started this thread
(unless some other Steve Martin was meant).
He also recorded an LP called, IIRC, "The Steve Martin Brothers."
One one side, he had several comedy routines and a picture of
himself looking like a Vegas lounge act. The other side was all banjo,
including a few of his own compositions. One of them, Freddie's Lilt,
Parts 1 & 2, he actually made into a music video. In it, he plays the
banjo and does lariat tricks. The album cover for the banjo side showed
him in jeans and denim jacket, banjo slung over the shoulder, and (I
think) bearded. The liner notes said that banjo music was your best
value in music, because there were more notes per second than in
any other type of music.
Now I'm going to have to find the LP and get a new needle so I can
play it again.
- wheels
Mike Stanger
here are a couple of famous guitar players who really loved playing the
banjo...
Brian Setzer
Steven Stills
Jerry Garcia
do you know any more musicians who are famous on another instrument and
play the banjo as well?
Stanger
ThisOldGuitar
>Sally Goodwin on the back of the King Tut single.
Probably hard to come by, but well worth it if you can find it, is the Steve
Martin album called "The Steve Martin Brothers". One side of the record is the
usual Steve Martin comedy, and the other side is all banjo music. Now if I
only had a working turntable!
Dave
Ray Chandler
several of the big-name classical orchestras and ensembles, plays a mean
tenor banjo, and was disgustingly impressive when he had a go at my
5-string!
Ray
http://www.chandler.ukf.net/music.htm
Bert Brehm
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>
> do you know any more musicians who are famous on another instrument and
> play the banjo as well?
...uhmmm...Roy Clark. He's not one of my favorites, but hard to avoid.
"Hey, Roy! That sister of yours sure is spoiled"
"Naw, she ain't spoiled, it's just the perfume she uses!"
[Cue: Half a break from Cripple Creek]
Craig Keefner
> Mike Stanger <msta...@cyberhighway.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > do you know any more musicians who are famous on another instrument and
> > play the banjo as well?
>
> ...uhmmm...Roy Clark. He's not one of my favorites, but hard to avoid.
>
i always liked a few of the tunes on the Buck Trent/Roy Clark collaborations. i thought they were really good (but i'm not a very good banjo player :-)
craig
Rodney
Peter Tork from the " Monkees"....
JCOSTON
they both worked in the magic shop on Main street at Disneyland back in the
1960's.
I had the pleasure of meeting & Interviewing John many years ago when I wrote
for INTERNATIONAL BANJO Magazine.
Other Celebrities who play banjo
Wayne Newton
John Davidson
Gearge Seagal
Kirk Douglas
Regards,
Jim Coston
http://www.geocities.com/jcoston54
Bill Chaffin
Bill - in Falling Waters, WV: Home of the Intergalactic Home for Trashy
Unwanted Korean and Japanese Banjos and WHANGO Records!
Steve Harder-Kucera
Paul Schaeffer of David Letterman fame played an incredibly lame version of
Dueling Banjos on an old SNL.
ThisOldGuitar
Dave
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> Just curious as to how many celebrities play banjo, besides the few I know of.
> They would be Steve Martin, Kevin Nealon (Saturday Night Live), John Litgow I
> believe, and I also think George Segal plays. Does anyone know of anybody else?
> Just killing time on a cold New England Morning.
> Peace.
> Rick.
>
> Stop by and say howdy at:
> Folk U.S.A.
> http://members.aol.com/rfdjr/index.html