Banjo

[Old Grumpy]

Sound familiar?

Fred Hunt: "The biggest change in British Jazz over the last 10 years? The emancipation of the bloody banjo." - (Melody Maker March 26, 1960).

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Sound familiar?

Fred Hunt: "The biggest change in British Jazz over the last 10 years? The emancipation of the bloody banjo." - (Melody Maker March 26, 1960).

OG

It sounds highly strung.

(OK then - I'll bow out)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Who is Jo, and why should we ban her?

[Serial_Apologist]

Who is Jo, and why should we ban her?

I think it was Ronnie Scott who, on being asked for his definition of silence, replied, "The sound made by a banjo being chucked down the toilet without hitting the sides".

Slightly different from John Cage's definition!

[Padraig]

But what would we do without the banjo? Prepare a piano?

[Serial_Apologist]

But what would we do without the banjo? Prepare a piano?

For both, pluck would be required.

I SAID.... PLUCK!

[Tom Audustus]

How can you tell if the band stand is level?

The banjo player drools out of both sides of his mouth.

[Padraig]

I SAID.... PLUCK!

Chicken!

[Serial_Apologist]

Chicken!

No - pheasant!

[Padraig]

No - pheasant!

No need to crow.

[Tom Audustus]

No - pheasant!

Was that pheasant plucking or pleasant phucking ?

[Serial_Apologist]

Was that pheasant plucking or pleasant phucking ?

BOTH - heh heh heh!

[RayBurns]

Another Ronnie observation was 'What's the difference between an trampoline and a banjo? You take your boots off before you jump up and down on a trampoline'.
Miss Ronnie so much.

[Serial_Apologist]

Another Ronnie observation was 'What's the difference between an trampoline and a banjo? You take your boots off before you jump up and down on a trampoline'.
Miss Ronnie so much.

Hadn't heard that one!

[cloughie]

The other one is the definition of a gentleman. Someone who knows how to play the banjo but refrains from doing so.