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Thanks, grab grab! I'll take that as a complement! I played a little bit of ball my self @ Berry College in Rome,Ga.

Since you SAID that you couldn't find a pic of Brad Pitt .. I figured that I would take 2 secs out of my busy day to find one for you. This pic makes me want to take up smoking.....ppppffff psych!!!!!!!

Glad to see you've been putting your crystal ball to work :D, GYF. What's your next prediction?

I am really glad you like reflections... it's one of my favorites. Gabe has been playing with numerous solely instrumental guitar pieces... many of his influences (Micheal Hedges, Don Ross, Leo Keottke..etc.) come thru in a lot of this type of stuff... if you have never heard of those guys... you might want to check them out!

Yall will get yours... payback's a bitch!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

You mofos need to stop playing!!!!!!!!!!! :reallymad:

Really glad you like music! I truly believe that these guys would blow up if they were simply exposed to enough people. Umma thanks again for you interest in the music... and I am glad you like the shirt. :D

that's a cute little devil!!! Doesn't look much like a sheep though... more like a cotton ball with legs.

eeewwww! the splating eyeball at the end is clutch.....

Yep it's the boobie one alright... and it's yucky....

^^^^^^^Random people wishing Shawn a happy birthday!

Check out this Athens Hip Hop act! Ishues Rock Athens http://www.ishues.com/ Ishues mp3 - better day

Yes!!!! .......Represent-in the 205 baby!!!!

Here's a right wing nut

I thought this was a wingnut?

you wait Ken... we'll get him one way or another.. though I prefer the old fashioned way..... with a little bit of .... THWACK....ZAMMM....POW.... SCHFTAFFFF!

What is the world comming to? Next thing you know they'll have bots playing the cello.

Is that the same thing as butt darts?

Sounds like Madison County Georgia (USA) pop 4,000 stats... I think we have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Country! Hooray for us!!!!

I had the pleasure of seeing this guy at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga last year... his "unkie" Greg played there also a about a week before (as Greg Allman and Friends). This kid is amazing... by far the best slide guitarist I have ever seen at a live show. I can't wait until he comes back to Athens. :strumma:

Dromedary These guys are great!!! Straight up, I had to ask Dromedary's Andrew Reissiger about the band's name. As my editor tipped me off, a "dromedary" is a type of camel that has a single hump, while a "bactrian" camel has two humps. However, there are two talented instrumentalists that comprise Athens' world-influenced Dromedary: Rob McMaken on dulcimer, mandolin and guitar, with Reissiger on charango and guitar. So, what gives? How does one plus one equal a single-humped camel? "Well, a camel illicits an image of traveling and world music," explains Reissiger, "which is what we do, for lack of a better word. We wanted to be the two-humped camel, but 'bactrian' sounded like something contagious, so we opted for 'dromedary' instead. "If you want to go further into it with the one hump, we take all these different genres, styles and instruments and lump them together into one thing. That's what we do, and that one thing is Dromedary." Now it's time for Dromedary to saddle up the camel again, as the band prepares to celebrate the release its new album, Live From the Make Believe, the follow-up to the duo's 2001 debut, Artifact. After recording all of the first record at the home of Erik Hinds, musician and founder of Athens-based Solponticello Records, Dromedary ended up cutting the new disc in two days in two entirely different settings and situations. The initial set of tracks laid down were the result of an impromptu recording session at 3rd Ear Recording with engineer Tom Lewis last August. "I had been sitting in on a session at Tom Lewis' studio for a Julie Powell record," notes Reissiger, "and was really blown away by the sound that Tom could capture and the overall mood and the vibe of the place. Tom has really, really big ears. He's a musician, so he has a different slant on recording and preserving the sanctity of the musical space. "[W]e take all these different genres, styles and instruments and lump them together into one thing. That’s what we do, and that one thing is Dromedary." "We ended up recording half the album in one day at his studio," he said, "but, at first, we had no intentions of using any of these songs for a record. We just wanted to feel out where we were and see if we were even ready to do another album. After a few weeks of listening to those tapes, we realized we had something." With six songs suddenly in the can, McMaken and Reissiger realized that what they had recorded was very much in the same vein as Artifact, with the two just sitting in front of a pair of microphones, documenting their sound. In an effort to branch beyond such a studio set-up, Dromedary opted to bring in a few friends and record more material during a concert at the Healing Arts Centre in September 2002. For the gig, Dromedary tapped Yugoslavian violinist Andrej Kurti, a University of Georgia performing arts doctoral student, as well as Rob's brother Ryan McMaken to lend a touch of dobro to the proceedings. "We always thought about expanding into trio and quartet combinations," Reissiger said, "not as a permanent thing, but as an alternative to the duo. Part of recording live, too, was the possibility that it could be fused with what we had already done in the studio. So we brought in Tom to record the show." "We didn't know how we were going to go about piecing the two together," he explains, "whether to switch back and forth between the studio tracks and the live songs or what. In the end, we felt it would be best to keep them separate. The first half of the record being an experience of its own, and the latter half does the same thing. As a whole, it constitutes something even greater." Aside from the split-sided nature of Live From the Make Believe, Dromedary suggests that the biggest difference in the new album is the subtle switch of instruments - a change that allowed the duo to get back to its musical beginnings. "The first album featured a cümbüs, which is this big Turkish banjo," Reissiger said. "There wasn't any dulcimer on Artifact, even though that represents the very roots of Dromedary, when Rob and I began by playing old Appalachian and Celtic songs on dulcimer." Three years of performing together has also strengthened the musical interplay between McMaken and Reissiger beyond that of their initial recordings. The improvs come fast and frequently on Live From the Make Believe, and Reissiger said that the duo was better prepared for how to capture such intimate intricacies to tape. "Our musical dialogue has grown a lot," he said. "We were able to improvise a lot more on the new LP because we have grown so comfortable doing it. We've gotten to know where each other tends to take things, even though there's always that element [of] surprise. "We're definitely figuring out how to get that across on CD. It's a trick to be able do that, because you usually spend all your time working on how to play your darn instrument. That's where the majority of your effort goes, then you have to realize, oh, yeah, a microphone reacts differently than a human ear." For Live From the Make Believe, Dromedary recorded four new songs, while an Artifact relic, "Four Camels Waltzing," is included in a live, re-worked version for a quartet. The remaining seven tracks feature Dromedary interpreting material by the likes of Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes, American jazzman Bill Evans, Quebec folkster Daniel Thonon - and even British artful-rockers Radiohead. Of the new Dromedary material featured on the new disc, the standout cut is "Cassiopeia's Dance," a heady, six-minute excursion into the roots of Mediterranean, Appalachian and Eastern folk. The song features some particularly exquisite interaction between McMaken and Reissiger - with Ryan McMaken throwing in a bit of "Amazing Grace" that should be as stirring to any Nick Drake fan as it is to world music aficionados. "That was a fun one," Reissiger said of "Cassiopeia's Dance." "The song grew out of this Greek-flavored scale and melody that's actually accessible on a dulcimer. It has a dronish quality that's beyond Appalachian. It's almost Indian-esque. "We were really able to explore on that song, and we didn't need electronic instruments or computers to do it. You can use acoustic instruments and create these textures that are reminiscent of the past, present and future." The connection between the past and future seems to be another theme employed throughout Live From the Make Believe, with Dromedary pushing their traditional arrangements into contemporary territory - a mix used to exhilarating effect on the cover of Radiohead's "Airbag." "Rob is a big Radiohead fan," Reissiger says, crediting his partner with the song selection. "But I didn't know the song almost up to the point that we recorded it. I had never heard the original version knowingly, so I was just following Rob. "I was coming at it from an innocent perspective instead of trying to mimic what the band does. ['Airbag'] just sounded sort of European and still Eastern to me, so I tried to play it with a little bit of flamenco sound on certain sections and drones on the others." Dromedary plans to celebrate its new tunes with Athens audiences during a pair of upcoming album release shows. On April 24, McMaken and Reissiger will perform a special homecoming show at the Flicker Theatre & Bar, the site of the duo's first gig as Dromedary back in December 2000. Following a Friday-night sojourn to Atlanta's Red Light Café, Dromedary heads back to Athens on April 26 for a second CD release party, this one slated for the Healing Arts Centre and will likely include a few special guests, according to Reissiger. "[The Healing Arts Centre] is the most unique room I've ever played in," he explained. "It's a pure listening room, there's no P.A. system, so it's authentic in that what you hear is what is there. It's got some natural reverb to it with the hardwood floors and all, so it just sounds great. Reissiger admitted that even the neighborhood traffic that bled through into the tracks while recording at the Healing Arts Centre was actually a pleasant bit of artistic and musical serendipity. "The venue is a little close to Prince Ave.," he said, "so occasionally you might hear a car go by on the CD, but I think that's cool. It's like these old jazz recordings from the '20s, '30s and '40s - where you hear glasses clinking together and conversation. "There's probably a few songs on the new album where you don't even notice that it's live, 'cause it's so clean. Then there's one or two tracks where you can hear the hum of a car go by or when someone dropped their keys. It's imperfect, but it's so perfect. It's reality." David Basham

Gabriel Young - Green AMAZING!!!

:rotfl: That's a good question Umma, I don't know how they're going to manage. What can I say... it's a hard life.... back-tracking a bit -- Gabriel Young did a great job at DT's "Song Writer Sing Off" on the April 5th. The guys advanced to the finals... which is taking place on April 26th @ DT's. Please come and support the guys at this competition if you happen to be in the Athens,Ga area! For those of you flying in to see the show... I am offering free room and board at my place. PM me for details! :D

Gabe - finger flamming gitt-fiddle picking

Gabe playing "reflections" to a hypnotized crowd