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Post by drlj on May 17, 2012 8:07:55 GMT -5
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Post by mccoyblues on May 17, 2012 8:32:01 GMT -5
My first exposure to Doug Dillard and The Dillards were their appearances on The Andy Griffith Show as the Darling family. One of the many highlights of that delightful TV series.
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Post by millring on May 17, 2012 8:48:15 GMT -5
That was also many folks first introduction to bluegrass. The Darlings, Flatt & Scruggs on the Beverly Hillbillies, and the Dirt Band. It was a good introduction.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 9:23:19 GMT -5
Don't forget the Kentucky Colonels appeared on Andy Griffith, too (that's Clarence and Roland's oldest brother, Eric White, on bass).  RIP, Mr. Dillard. |
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Post by TKennedy on May 17, 2012 9:41:32 GMT -5
I saw him first at a folk club in Denver,The Exodus, in 1966. I was a budding banjo player and was blown away. They were really funny. Rodney was introduced as the family half-wit and acted the part.
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Post by millring on May 17, 2012 9:42:44 GMT -5
"...slicker than deer guts on a door knob"
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 9:56:18 GMT -5
My best friend from childhood, Butch Ruffner, is a huge Griffith fan and by virtue of going to Mt. Airy every year, met the Dillards, sees them fairly regularly and has spent time lounging by the poolside at night talking to them. They'd bring out their instruments and have an impromptu jam session. Said Doug was a nice guy.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2012 10:34:45 GMT -5
The first I heard of The Dillards was in 1963 when a friend had their brand new Electra LP. I liked them a lot but thought some of that material was a little silly and self-conscious. Their most performed and recorded song is probably The Old Home Place. R.I.P., Doug. _____________________ An afterthought from Howards posting of the photo of The Country Boys with Andy Griffith, I wonder how many here recognized Eric White's brothers, Roland and Clarence? Here's the clip... |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 10:38:05 GMT -5
I think Clarence might have been 19 or 20 when they did that TV show.
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2012 10:43:20 GMT -5
I think Clarence might have been 19 or 20 when they did that TV show. He would have turned 20 in 1964. I'm guessing he was 17 or 18 in that clip. It was before The Country Boys became The Kentucky Colonels. |
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 17, 2012 12:14:44 GMT -5
Never have I been able to figure out what Andy is doing with his right hand. Just looks like he is sort of flicking at the strings with no precision, but that can't be true because it sounds good.
Dub, can you explain his style?
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Post by Dub on May 17, 2012 12:27:40 GMT -5
Never have I been able to figure out what Andy is doing with his right hand. Just looks like he is sort of flicking at the strings with no precision, but that can't be true because it sounds good. Dub, can you explain his style? He's playing something akin to what Mother Maybelle Carter played but he's not using a thumb pick or finger pick. And of course he's not playing any melody, just bass and chord. Charlie Monroe, Lester Flatt, and Carter Stanley all played that way but with a thumb pick and sometimes a single finger pick used only to brush chords. Of course the guitar you're mostly hearing in the clip is Clarence, not Andy. When you watch those old clips you realize that acting and cutting shots were way more important than the music. I think Griffith may actually be a decent guitarist for accompanying himself but he's probably trying to mimic what he remembers as hillbilly guitar in that program episode. |
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Post by millring on May 17, 2012 13:24:08 GMT -5
We used to call that "Scratch picking". It was basically playing the same thing one might play with a flatpick, but separating the tasks of bass or "boom" to the thumb, and strum or "chuck" to the fingers. The only thing different about Andy's approach from the way most people I know is that he brushes UP with his finger instead of down. I still play this way quite a bit.
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Post by drlj on May 17, 2012 13:35:32 GMT -5
I pick and scratch a lot but mostly when I have been outside working and the mosquitoes are bad.
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Post by millring on May 17, 2012 13:38:18 GMT -5
You must get out in the mosquitoes a lot.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 17, 2012 13:56:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, all.
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