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| Date | 2011-10-02 |
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| Message | Hi! Just want to say many, many, many Thanks to you for creating this site. I've beeen a folkfreak for ages now and I've allways admired the five-string-banjo played in the style of Pete Seeger and Deroll Adams. Never had time to learn it, in fact. Now, getting more grey-haired (53) I'm making a try again and I was looking around for help. As there are lots of links to Pete Seeger, I hardly found something about Deroll Adams. And by luck I found your site yesterday! That's what I've been looking for the last few years. Thanks a lot once again and I'm quite sure that your site will help me to spent some wonderful hours in memory of Deroll Adams. Yours Dieter  |
| Date | 2011-08-15 |
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| Message | Thanks heaps for this. I was a big fan of Derrol's 25-30 years ago, and am just getting back into playing the banjo myself. You've saved months of research. Much appreciated! |
| Date | 2010-11-18 |
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| Message | hi walter i have been a fan of derroll for many years back to the sixties i am trying to find the dvd banjoman by patrick ferryn do you know a site where i could order a copy thank you and keep up your great work |
| Date | 2010-11-17 |
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| Message | gid,day mate i have been teaching myself clawhammer style banjo love it i just bought a cd called BANJOMAN(a tribute to derroll Adams)it is great i love Derrols Style i am goin to have a go at it The TABS are goin to help me under stand his playing a lot, THANKS :  |
| Date | 2010-10-20 |
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| Message | Ik heb het genoegen gehad Derroll eens aan het werk te zien in café Het Natiepeerd op de stadswaag in antwerpen. Ik kan het in tijd niet meer plaatsen, maar was héél erg onder de indruk! Folksong en protestsong hebben van tijdens mijn jeugd altijd mijn interesse gewekt. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan...e.a. Dat ik Derroll pas later, dan de jaren '60 heb leren kennen heb ik altijd spijtig gevonden. jaren '90 heb ik dan ergens een LP van hem op de kop kunnen tikken, mooi is dat. Spijtig is dat ik de "tribute" ter zijner naam heb gemist, enkele jaren terug in "De Muze" in Meise. Eveneens van een optreden rond hem, kortgeleden, was ik niet op de hoogte; spijtig. Nogmaals spijtig dat ik die pas nu ontdekte... Om de reeks "spijtig" af te maken: Op Jack Elliot's web site wordt er blijkbaar met géén woord gerept over Derroll, dat vind ik spijtig. Een commentaar daarover bleef onbeantwoord... Mag ik zo vrij zijn U hier eveneens proficiat te wensen met de eenvoudige maar fijne Derroll webstek! |
| Date | 2010-10-18 |
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| Message | Hello, During the 1950's I met Derroll and Jack in London a number of times, and watched and listened to them at "The Ballads and Blues Association" in Soho, I also went to a concert, I think it was the Odeon in Tottenham Court Road, London, but after over 50 years I wouldn't stake my life on it! I still have my copy of their Album that I bought that night, unfortunately my brother has it in storage at present ,but I think it was "The Rambling Boys" Although I rember most of what they played and sang but I remember Derroll very clearly singing " I wish I was a Rock" that has stuck in my brain and everytime I think of him this little simple ditty pops up! I still have a few photos, but mostly of Jack but at least one of the two of them playing together. Back in those days I used to play in a skiffle group, first playing a Tea Chest but later a double Bass, I also used to play in a Jazz Band, but eventually the Bass had to go to help fund my Wedding in 1964. I originally had more photos, but I sent them to Peggy Seeger and Ewan McColl to look at, but I never got them back  Thinking about it, somewhere I must still have the negatives, though heaven alone knows where! Rummaging through some old papers the other day, I came across a number of folk related magazine/song books from the late 1950's, I have 5 copies of 'sing' Ranging from June/July 1956 to December 1959, this last has a picture of Jack and June Elliot with Pete Seeger on the front cover. Brian |
| Date | 2010-09-03 |
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| Message | Came across your site via Uncle Gil's Rockin' Archive. Really enjoy Darroll's work, and appreciate your devotion to a particular banjo style and/or player. I also like that you referenced Pete Segeer's "Basic Stroke" in the how-to area. Pete's "How To Play the 5-String Banjo" is still in print and might be useful to anybody interested in "folk" banjo. |
| Date | 2010-07-01 |
| Message | merci de me permettre de penser que Derroll est toujours là. Je gratte le Banjo à 58 ans et vos précisions vont m'être très utiles pour partir sur de bonnes bases. A bientôt. |
| Date | 2009-10-17 |
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| Message | Walter, thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been looking for Derroll's tabs for years. He was great, and so are you! |
| Date | 2009-06-12 |
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| Message | Hey Walter, Als grote fan van Derroll en trotse bezitter van een stel banjo's (Deering Vega Old Tyme Wonder en Recording King RK85) was het een grote wens om zijn songs te kunnen spelen.Uiteindelijk op deze prachtige site verzeild geraakt, waarvoor oprechte dank en bewondering ! |
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