Randy Lynn Rag

Number of posts : 65 Registration date : 2007-04-17

Classic Scruggs tune. Reason #1220 why Earl rocks, LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiqpk4aX828

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:16 am

SOoooo many reasons, so little time LOL!

Number of posts : 65 Registration date : 2007-04-17

Here is the same vid on myspace, this vid doesn't mess up at the up the neck section.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1986121276

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:37 pm

Thanks!

Number of posts : 65 Registration date : 2007-04-17

No problem, I found this looking for Fireball Mail, LOL.

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:57 pm

I have a DVD with that video on it, the whole concert. It was a USO show for the army. Even had the commercials for the army!

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Really? Where can I get one?

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:15 am

I got them off eBay with a bunch of MW shows.

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What year is this? Earl's Granada has the Bow-tie inlays, so somewhere between '50 and '58, right?

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:48 pm

Yup. Also with Hylo Brown on bass, so it's sometime in the early 50's.

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:48 pm

Yup. Also with Hylo Brown on bass, so it's sometime in the early 50's.

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So I was right!

Oh yeah, Carter, when you gave me the list of banjo necks, you might have left one out, in the late 60s Earl might have replaced the mahogany neck with a curly maple one with a smaller peghead, judging from what I read.

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:51 pm

Hmmm....I never heard about that one. Where did you hear that? I always thought through the 60's and into the 70's he had a H&F mahogany.

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Earnest banjo says so, heres the link:

http://www.earnestbanjo.com/gibson_banjo_RB-Granada_9584-3.htm

"The original neck warped and was replaced with a mahogany neck in the late 1950s; *a curly maple neck with a smaller peghead was installed on the banjo in the late sixties*."

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:51 am

One thing I just found out, when he got the bowtie inlays, is when he sent it back to Gibson after the trade for a restoration. The neck was not replaced, only the fingerboard with bowtie inlays. Sonny Osborne told me the same thing happened to him once.

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Oh, ok! Life makes sense now, LOL!

Subject: Re: Randy Lynn Rag Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:47 pm

Yup. So it was maple, mahogany, maple (current).