Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers - So Familiar

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 08/21/2018 at 19:43 • Filed to: musiclopnik

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I don’t care if you don’t like banjo. You’re going to get banjo and you’re going to like it.

C62030 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/21/2018 at 19:51

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I can’t believe h e’s 73. I think Paul Rudd shared his recipe for anti-aging serum with him.

smobgirl > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/21/2018 at 20:03

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I lo ve Steep Canyon, but I like them way more without Steve Martin.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > smobgirl 08/21/2018 at 20:14

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tromoly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/21/2018 at 20:15

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Been listening to him for years, here’s a couple personal favorites.

smobgirl > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/21/2018 at 20:26

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Oh dear. I’m sorry, I like him as a musician! But I  heard the same jokes at too many shows.

valis86 > smobgirl 08/21/2018 at 21:16

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I gotta disagree.  Stevie has great chops.  But yup on Steep Canyon Rangers.

ranwhenparked > C62030 08/21/2018 at 21:30

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Doing most of your aging extremely fast at a very young age helps, his hair turned white when he was like 18.

smobgirl > valis86 08/21/2018 at 22:27

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I will amend. I’d like them fine with Steve if they wouldn’t let him talk between tunes. (Also, no Edie Brickell please). 

tromoly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/21/2018 at 23:01

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Second post is necessary, just remembered he did a Tiny Desk Concert about 10 months ago, the last song “ Caroline” alone is worth a watch/listen:

MUSASHI66 > smobgirl 08/21/2018 at 23:36

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While the show with Steve is fun, music without Steve is so much better. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 07:23

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i was unaware that Steve Martin was also a musician.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/22/2018 at 09:20

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He’s purportedly in the top tier of banjo players everywhere - among the very best . This kind of thing is probably more uncommon than it should be, because somebody in the entertainment industry can have whole months at a time not working on projects, and hours at a time on set doing nothing. I guess it takes a special mind to spend that time keeping razor-sharp on banjo rather than boozing and taking ex.

There’s a “rare guitars” shop on Youtube that puts up clips of people coming in to play their wares, and one guy who did a guitar duel with someone else was an NBA basketball player. Quite good, too.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 09:26

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So good. Got to see them live once.

Toes tapping as I type...

MUSASHI66 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 09:58

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Watched him live - not even close to top tier. But, he is Steve Martin so he can play where the best ones play. My impression of Steve with SCR was that of a really good entertainer and mediocre banjo player. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MUSASHI66 08/22/2018 at 10:02

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The “entertainer” thing works against him on stage, I think. I think he *can* play better than he often ends up playing, because he’s focused on the other side of things.

oldmxer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/22/2018 at 12:00

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he put out an album back in the day that was comedy on one side and banjo on the other, like late 70's early 80's

valis86 > smobgirl 08/22/2018 at 13:13

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agree and VERY MUCH agree on the second part.  :)