is the sound it makes hitting a banjo in a dumpster.

Sorry, Sarge.

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You impugn the virtues of the accordian right at me?

You know I'm a coal country hillbilly - yet you include the banjo in this base attack?

Harumph.

Nah. JK

I don't mind, not everyone likes the same stuff. Hell they make smooth and crunchy 'cause folks can't even agee about peanut butter ferfucksakes.

But didja see his video of Billy Jean played entirely on springy door stops though?

Genius

I was just going to tell you I found that whole thing mesmerizing, but now I want to know where to find the door stop video!

Thanks! That young man is amazing.

I just flashed back to every wedding I ever went to as a kid! Thanks, it was fun!!

Then go a little further in town and hear this in the air

especially really bad bagpiping. They've drawn a crowd and they can't stop.

Hard to become that adept at any instrument, let alone four. Subscribed.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

that's better than being a complete beatoff.

I've taken it, with a guitar to acoustic jam nights.
Haven't done that for a while though.

Good on marble!
It was fun at an acoustic jam night cuz it allowed "keyboard" parts and still be authentically acoustic.
Only did it a 2 or 3 times. Thing is way heavier than a guitar!

bands in Akron, Tin Huey that evolved from folkie to edgy rock, has a side group of the most of the origional band and is doing their old folkie music and they sound better than ever.

Hows teaching going?

Thanks for asking
Taking a breather mid week.
Just 2 days this week.

In any subject matter.
Took me 4 days to get licensed.
There's the whole, never been convicted of a sex crime, thing too! A slam dunk for nearly all of us.

Holy Smokes I didn't know that. What is the folky side band's name?

I was a big fan once upon a time.

Saw 'em by mistake in Steubenville when the band I drove out to see cancelled and I wandered around looking for something to do before heading home.

We've shared houses, I roadied with them and Wild Butter.

Theres a bunch of permutations - Half Cleveland, the Hi-Fi's.

https://thehifis.bandcamp.com/album/the-hi-fis-6-x-5

Tin Huey is still playing around, check out their youtube stuff.


Harvey Gold's granddaughter is in a band called Detention which will be at SXSW this year, the sax player, Raloh Carney (who died last year after slipping on the ice on his front steps) son is one of the Black Keys, former Waitresses player john Bennet (who owns Jeffrey Dahlmer's Akron home) is in Tin Huey and Half Cleveland, he was also in the Numbers Band .....

Peter Laufner was in Tin Huey for a week.


Got a lot of stories about Akron bands, including Devo who recorded their EPs and first Album in my basement. Good times.

Got stories of Tin Huey when it was Rags being kicked out of places that are a crack up, one of them was a coffee house where I saw David Allen Coe play when he was living in a hearse after he got kicked out of Damnation of Adam Blessing, gooood times.

I can still here the pink panther theme.

Last time I heard accordion was the mariachi band at the beach a month ago.

Last week I watched the first minute or so of a marching band video and now YouTube is flooding me with marching band recommendations that I really, really don't want. What could be worse, you ask? Now YouTube is gonna flood me with accordion recommendations! Reminds me of the bumper sticker I once saw: "Use and accordion; Go to jail. It's the law."

Accordian is even better with a dash of yodeling and a teaspoon of whistling

When in early college, I worked as a janitor at a banquet hall.
On Sundays, they did polka bands.
But, a couple times a year, they'd have Frank's band. Was a big deal to that crowd.
So, actually kicked on the fryers to make chicken and fries.
I'm in the kitchen helping prep and bread the chicken.
Frank walks in and sees me, and says "Here, let me give you a hand.". He takes the butcher knife and in about 5 minutes, 12 more chickens were breasts, thighs, legs, and drumsticks!
Turns out Frank was trained as a butcher.
I couldn't listen to the music, but he had mad knife skills!

I'm not a polka fan by any means but to my parents' and especially my grand parents' generation Frank Yankovic was a star.
For a specific era in Southwestern PA the Frank Y. version of Pennsylvania Polka was the Electric Slide.
By that i mean it was the song that got the party going.
It got all the tipsy old folks out on the dance floor at every wedding i attended as a child.
It was usually the last song I'd hear before an older cousin was forcedto round up all the little kids for a sleepover at the closest aunt or uncle's house.