Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Morrissey, Christine Lavin and Peter, Paul and Mary performed at the concert, and Massie himself played the banjo in the closing number, "This Land is Your Land...
...Have you been experimenting more with triggering sounds from your banjo...
...starting....we try to blend all that stuff together. Now I have an electric banjo with a synth attachment, so I'm able to trigger synth sounds, so that's been a lot of fun too. We try really hard to make it organic, to make pleasing sounds, they have to be interesting sounds, they have to justify themselves. I play around with that live, because it's a lot of fun. People really get off on seeing me play banjo and hearing vibes come out. They like that, and it's fun. There's nothing wrong with good clean...
...Well the thing about it is, I don't tend to like to play real hard so in the beginning there were times where I could be overpowered a little bit just by the sheer funk of their playing. You know here I am with an acoustic banjo and the amplifying system is less than perfect still, so I couldn't get up over them, but as time has gone on I've grown stronger and they've grown more sensitive, I think. Somehow we've learned how to make it work together, we know when to hit it hard...
...There's much less competition. We'll play hard and strong but its together. I miss the lyric stuff; we have a tendency to do more stuff with faster notes, or it's harder to play a beautiful melody on a banjo or a bass than it is on a piano or a vocal-type instrument like a saxaphone or a harmonica or a voice or a violin, so the music does get faster and more rhythmic...