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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:12 PM Original message |
Banjos are a distinctly African American insturment. Why is it always associated with Freepers? |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. It is? I always associated it with musicians, whom I tend to think of as liberal. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Jerry Garcia was an accomplished banjo player |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Garcia was competent, I'll give him credit for that much. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I suspect that most banjo players today are not liberal. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Ummm, I'm a bluegrass banjo picker, and I'm a liberal. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. No but there seems to be a fair share of conservatives |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bluegrass music... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Which explains why Ralph Stanley endorsed Obama |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Well good. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 03:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. And on top of that, they're usually dirt poor, too |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 05:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Yes, Ralph Stanley is a Democrat. |
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IndianaJones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Roy Clark. nt. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. I guess whites in the South just adopted it because it was available. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
9. Pete Seeger is a Freeper??!!!????!!??? |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 05:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. YES! PETE SEEGER! FOR GOODNESS SAKES! |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Whole lotta banjo |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. this thread's no good without youtube! |
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lightningandsnow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. That makes me angry. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 03:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. One of the Dixie Chicks (the name escapes me right now) |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. many images of banjo history here |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. The Celine Dion-with-steel-guitars shit Freepers call "country music" |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. EX-ACTLY! |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. "distinctly African American insturment" |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
21. Real hillbillies ain't freepers |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-29-08 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. 'Cause Muddy Waters invented electricity... |
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