Shades of spinal tap!

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

I wonder if you could weld an Emmons to a Sho-Bud ..... nah.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wpbK1OTreSM

Jon Light · From: Saugerties, NY

Some kids spend their youth locked in the bedroom with a Victoria's Secret catalog. This guy spent that time in an entirely different way. The bedroom kid ends up with only one highly skilled hand. This guy really worked up the ambidextrous thing. The bedroom kid has enough sense to not show his skills in public.

John McGann · From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.

Virtuoso hair, though.

Mark Herrick · From: Bakersfield, CA

I'm guessing that's one amp for each guitar/neck. I wonder if he has two sets of pedals...

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Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

And then there's this one ....
http://www.mandotunes.com/YouTubeVideos/stoneman1.php

I don't even know where to begin

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Andy, THAT is frightening!

Ben Slaughter · From: Madera, California

Which one is the C6 neck?

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

Mike Perlowin · From: Los Angeles CA

Smiley Roberts · From: Hendersonville,Tn. 37075

Yeah,but can he play "Wildwood Flower" like Chet??

Boy,I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

How is he able to see the strings with all that hair hangin' in front of his eyes??? He looks like a dark-haired sheep dog.

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David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

It kind of makes me want one of those double neck thingamabobs... it seems like he could do a whole lot more with it if he expanded his listening tastes. I'm a big fan of Stanley Jordan, the tap-happy jazz guitarist, but he always seemed to put the music first and avoid the "gimmick" label. Watching Jordan cut loose on a solo improv is always one of those "sell-your-gear-and-find-an-easier-hobby" moments. Some of those Stick players can get going too, but they seem to get locked into rhythmic ruts most of the time.

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

I heard that they are assembling an international medical team to separate those guitars at the body so each one can live a quality independent life. Its on Nightline tonight. Oh yeah, they found that guy sitting in a time capsule buried under The Santa Monica Civic Center. He still thinks its 1983.

Rick Collins · From: Claremont , CA USA

Noise pollution abounds.

Bill McCloskey · Posted 24 Mar 2006 9:21 am

the Stoneman Family are a trip. I attended a mandolin symposium with David Grisman last summer and he played a long video clip from them that was hysterical. Apparently, they had quite a following back in the 60's with their own TV show. I never saw it but I've talked to people who loved it.

In fact here is the clip Griman played: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIHWoGqJwyQ

[This message was edited by Bill McCloskey on 24 March 2006 at 09:25 AM.]

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

For the first time in my experience as a lifelong, card-carrying klutz I feel that maybe I do have an iota of rhythm after all. Thank you Stoneman Family! That's some amazing body language. she actually has some mando chops but I can't divorece the chops from the dance moves. It'd be "instructive" to view back to back clips of the Stonemans with the Motown groups from the same era.

Donny Hinson · From: Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.

Yes, some people will do just about anything to attract attention. Back in the old days, all it took was talent.

Rick McDuffie · From: Benson, North Carolina, USA

Roni Stoneman spent many years on Hee Haw- with a tooth blacked out, as I remember.

She's pretty funny in that video, too... it's hilarious the way she keeps a perfectly deadpan face, then randomly lifts her foot up now and then.

Bill McCloskey · Posted 24 Mar 2006 12:26 pm

"Back in the old days, all it took was talent"

Sorry, Donny. the Stoneman's were the good old days.

Larry Robbins · From: Fort Edward, New York

Like Wow, man...I can dig that crazy beat!
( actually I kind of liked it)
maybe they should have called them The "Stoned-men

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Stephen Gambrell · From: Over there

The Stonemans were an EXTREMELY talented family. Pop wrote some old stuff, Scott's Fiddling was outrageous, Van's rhythm guitar, Roni's banjo, Donna's mandolin---ALL THOSE DEARMOND PICKUPS---And y'all remember when the girls wore short skirts and go-go boots on their TV show?

Jennings Ward · From: Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.

DAM RIGHT GOOD OLD DAYS.. DONNA WAS A SHOW BY HERSELF....I ALWAYS LIKED THE STONEMANS,,,
THEY COULD AND DID PLAY SOME VERY FINE MUSIC,
AND THY LIKED TO CLOWN A LOT.. MADE IT FUN...
THANKS FOR THE CLIPS FELLAS, I REALLY ENJOYED THEM,,,,,,,,JENNINGS

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Jason Odd · From: Stawell, Victoria, Australia

Hey, those Stonean clips are actually from the film The Nashville Sound, a low budget showcase with dozens of acts running through part of their show for a film crew's advance scout, a vague premise to basically show them at work.