I simply don't get involved in that sort of thing.I can also use any advice anyone has on this sort of blog or website. I hope you nailed it. I heard it that way on an SF station several months before the album was released.The rumour eventually was that Stills listened to that long rambling multi-guitar business and decided it was too noisy, too much like Cream or Hendrix. Charlie Shin est né à Nankin le 19 mai 1948. Charlie Chin est un acteur chinois né le 19 mai 1948 à Nankin. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to, Playing Advice: Clawhammer and Old-Time Styles, http://www.banjohangout.org/archive/166973. Charlie Chin played a Long Neck Vega – just like every other well known banjo player of the 60s. Again just the SF rumour mill, but the story was that Stills suppressed that recording and may have even destroyed the guitar jam part of the master tape. this produced the same tuning as Double G on a long neck gGCGA. furthermore my little solo would give the basics of the tune and players could fool around with it from there – put it in the right octave, – add a few decorations, etc. See our vintage Gibson inventory, plus new banjos from Prucha, OME, Williams and more. A really nice guy. 21 on the U.S. It sounds like some clawhammer possibly or at least there are some strums going on, might be up picking (Seeger Style) a very cheery sound, i've always loved it all these many years.

So the other night I get a lot of emails on the subject of playing the banjo solo from Bluebird, the Stephen Stills/Buffalo Springfield song. By reading your blog post, I'm fairly convinced that you did. Anybody know what happened to him?

Charlie Chin!  Playing Advice: Clawhammer and Old-Time Styles Has anyone ever taken on Charlie Chin's banjo part to Buffalo Springfield's Bluebird, i remember this as a very refreshing sound when i was a youngun, got to see them play this live but alas no banjo part (but they played it about ten minutes). INFP47 - Posted - 01/01/2010: 18:18:24. At the time I didn't play banjo and have to admit I never gave much thought to the banjo. oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 01/03/2010:  15:04:05. a lot of left hand pull offs and hammer ons in that banjo part very banjo- ie, Buffalo Springfield put on the best show of any rock group i've ever seen (and fantsatic songwriting skills) and i've seen a lot of them, Stills is a very interesting guitar player, but really don't want to get into all that just wondered if anybody ever tried to play that banjo part as it has been in my head for over 40 years now and i still don't have a handle on it.

 Playing the Banjo DVD-quality lessons (including tabs/sheet music) available for immediate viewing on any device. The members of the band were Bob Smith on vocals, keyboards and drums, Roy Michaels on vocals and bass guitar, William David "Charlie" Chin on vocals and guitar, Larry Packer on guitar and violin and Michael Equine on drums and guitar. I text-tabbed a possibility but that was rejected as also being un-Chin like. After the long fade out and the Bluebird riff, they took off into about 6 minutes of guitar solos tossed back and forth. All Rights Reserved. At the time I didn't play banjo and have to admit I never gave much thought to the banjo. But I, as I'm sure many others, will be interested to see how this all shakes out. The original studio recording was supposed to be more or less what you heard live.

I think I've got it - but I'm not sure.It has been an adventure, and one that would take up too much room here - so I put it on my blog - but not the blog you are thinking of - I have more than one as of today and I want to compare them for a while.So if you want to know about Bluebird, pop on over tohttp://oldwoodchuckb.wordpress.com/As you all know Bluebird is a copyrighted song and I don't do illegal tabbing, so there is no way i am going to make a rough tab of the song tonight and email it out to anyone who writes and asks for it. OTOH it is a lot of fun to play. Charlie Chin is an folksinger guitarist and banjo player. He was in group Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys who had a Top 40 hit in the Summer of 1969, reaching no. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.RSS 2.0Comments RSS 2.0. I still don’t think I have Bluebird dead on correct. I went back to Old G a few times in all this because I was almost certain it was the ‘key’ to the entire mystery. I might have absolutely the wrong tuning or I might simply have spent 40 years hearing it through the prism of time.

I've heard both, and Bluebird would have simply been the last tune on the record if it ended with a guitar jam. Now my manhood was in question. Thanks! I awoke several times (I think) and had recurring dream of sailing a small schooner with a very tall mast, in a Pacific gale, of barely escaping the rising winds by making a landing on Donovan’s Reef where I kept getting involved with John Wayne’s hijinks under very tall palm trees. I believe there was a 'Bluebird' tuning that Stills used a lot in the years after the group (and the relationship) ended, and my first thought was that perhaps the banjo was in a similar tuning - if anyone knows what it was.  ARCHIVED TOPIC: Charlie Chin and Bluebird, Please note this is an archived topic, so it is locked and unable to be replied to. I just assumed it was Stills.

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