After 40 years of noodling around on a six string I picked up a double bass. This summer I had the opportunity of backing up some really talented guys on stage at a small local bluegrass festival. Fell in love with the dobro sound. So the wife said if I teach her the bass I could get a dobro. Deal!!!
After some research I decided on a Red Line Rambler. Red Line is an up and coming custom builder just north of Nashville. Fortunately they also hand build a reasonably priced instrument. It will be here Monday and I’m stoked!
Nice! I’ve always wondered if lap steel players felt like they were playing backwards. The whole concept of reaching over the top of the fretboard instead of underneath always seemed so alien to me.
A guy in my high school jazz band did that with a stand up bass, but I suspect he did it to try and look cool. I played trumpet…no way to look cool doing that. 8)
When I go to acquire a new instrument, I often get “you don’t even play the ones you have”. And at hundreds or thousands of dollars per investment, I find it increasingly difficult to justify.
A getting stopped with a new didgerido from guitar center in the car is a sure way to get searched, I would think. Unless you are in Washington or Colorado
Yes, a didgeridoo that is in plain sight surely constitutes reasonable suspicion to conduct a vehicle search. If the search turns up Frisbee golf discs they don’t even have to find the pot to get a conviction.