Earl scruggs

[BANJOPICKER1]

For anyone out there thats into Bluegrass or folk music, Earl Scruggs passed away today at the age of 88..I copyed my style of Banjo picking after him, when I was 12. I got my first LP called foggy moutain banjo and learned to play from that record. Playing part of a tune, then moving the record backwards to learn each lick...He was the man who wrote Foggy Mt Breakdown for the movie bonnie and clyde.. He will be missed!!

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/17...y-steve-martin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOIq...layer_embedded


Also sad today for me, Doug Dillard from the Dillards ( andy griffith show the darlins) is in ICU in Tenn and the outlook is grim..Bad day for five string banjo pickers..

Prayers go out to both and their familys..

[ChrisKamanowns]

R.I.P. Earl. Being a banjo player it's a sad day but he lives on in the music he created.

[BANJOPICKER1]

R.I.P. Earl. Being a banjo player it's a sad day but he lives on in the music he created.

Thanks for the response, his music will live on, in every kid or adult that picks up a 5 string..:thumb:


CP to a fellow picker! By the way, I was born in Flint in 1960

[samparnell]

Earl Scruggs in Colorado

For anyone out there thats into Bluegrass or folk music, Earl Scruggs passed away today at the age of 88..I copyed my style of Banjo picking after him, when I was 12. I got my first LP called foggy moutain banjo and learned to play from that record. Playing part of a tune, then moving the record backwards to learn each lick...He was the man who wrote Foggy Mt Breakdown for the movie bonnie and clyde.. He will be missed!!

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/17...y-steve-martin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOIq...layer_embedded


Also sad today for me, Doug Dillard from the Dillards ( andy griffith show the darlins) is in ICU in Tenn and the outlook is grim..Bad day for five string banjo pickers..

Prayers go out to both and their familys..

When I was the Entertainment Director at Western State College, we booked Earl Scruggs for a show. It was May 1973, I believe, and Randy was with him if memeory serves. Great show. It was in the gym at WSC.

Requiescat in pace, Earl.

[Oilersfan34]

RIP Mr. Scruggs. If it wasn't for Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley I wouldnt love Bluegrass!

[Peanut]

I hadn't heard the news.

Prayers for the Scruggs family.



BANJOPICKER1, you have one of the coolest avys around.

[Oilersfan34]

I hadn't heard the news.

Prayers for the Scruggs family.



BANJOPICKER1, you have one of the coolest avys around.

Me Neither. Sad really because he was a class guy and really a true pioneer.

[ChrisKamanowns]

Thanks for the response, his music will live on, in every kid or adult that picks up a 5 string..:thumb:


CP to a fellow picker! By the way, I was born in Flint in 1960

Do you go to the midwest banjo camp at Olivet college in june? I was born in Grand Rapids in 1991.

[BANJOPICKER1]

Do you go to the midwest banjo camp at Olivet college in june? I was born in Grand Rapids in 1991.

Im on the banjo hangout site and have been in many bands from Colorado to Nevada to the Boston area. Still have a buddy in Denver named Doug who plays with the High Plains Drifters. Never have done the banjo camps but see them listed on Banjo hangout. I got a ton of licks I have learned just from jam sessions and feel for me, thats the best place to get new licks and tunes. Some day when I win the lottery here in Seattle, I will try a banjo camp im sure.
I play a 1982 OME triple X as my main banjo and have a Gibson RB4 that Im still trying out ( had it since 2001) just not as comfortable as the OME..:thumb:

[LABroncosFan18]

Earl Scruggs was like... the Jimi Hendrix of the banjo! RIP, Earl Scruggs! May the grass grow blue in heaven!

[kcvet]

many will follow in his foot steps. RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3qbB4Kq3Y0