Okay, the golden rule of fighting sneaky old bastards is simple: Snipe at range, or Run like hell. Followed closely by "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", etc... Usually, they have your moves, plus experience backing them up. So the only alternative is a nuclear bomb, or not to play. The current consensus is warning me not to play. The warnings are coming from people who do indeed know better...
...On the other hand, I just can't stop myself. So, once again, in the spirit of disrespect to my elders (And I do mean ANCIENT elders, here) Seperated at birth:
Steve Perry and the Banjo Player from"Deliverance"!!
Now, I realize I am probably about to get my ass chewed all to hell and back. It's the price I pay to bring you, the reader, this great entertainment. Also, this is the best I could do after hours of scouring the internet. If Steve has anything left in his spetsdod, I'm screwed.
...On the other hand, I just can't stop myself. So, once again, in the spirit of disrespect to my elders (And I do mean ANCIENT elders, here) Seperated at birth:
Steve Perry and the Banjo Player from"Deliverance"!!
Now, I realize I am probably about to get my ass chewed all to hell and back. It's the price I pay to bring you, the reader, this great entertainment. Also, this is the best I could do after hours of scouring the internet. If Steve has anything left in his spetsdod, I'm screwed.
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Tsk, tsk. Is this the best you can do? Have you heard this guy play the banjo? He's a musical genius.
I have relatives out at LSU -- well, they are in big jars of formaldehyde -- make this fellow look like Einstein.
And even those ole boys could come up with better than *this.*
Sad ...
WHAT?!?! Ar eyou telling me that I actually know something you DON'T?!?!
Wait. No, really, wait. I want to enjoy this. It's almost...Cosmic.
Steve, Steve, Steve...I'm so sorry to inform you that this guy, who played the inbred banjo strummer in "Deliverance", is in fact NOT musically inclined at all...He had to fake it for the film! Now, the guy who is ACTUALLY strumming the banjo is indeed a famous player...But he ain't the low-eared bastard you see in the photo!
YEEEEESSSSSS!!!! Bobbe comes back with both barrels!!
Now, I have to admit, I am cheating a bit with this...James Dickey, the author of the book, was a professor at the University of South Carolina. Did I mention where I graduated, by any chance...? I think I told Mushtaq, but it may have never came up between you & I. Wanna take a guess whose class I was in? (I probably shouldn't brag too much...Robbie Benson also teaches there, and all he ever did was "Ode to Billy Joe").
He (Dickey) is actually deceased now, but we were always getting these funny ancedotes about the film & the crew from him. That's how I know about the banjo player.
Got 'ya, old man. Just once, in my sad, lonely life, I got you. I can die happy now.
'cept that Perry doesn't actually look anything like the guy in the picture.
pwned again...
Well, um, don't die yet, kid -- I knew that the guy on the porch wasn't the player, I was being facetious. You want to go look that up? I can wait ...
Back?
There was a piece in the New Yorker a couple years ago, about, as I recall, Tim Burton's movie, Big Fish, also shot dowh south, and the story of the banjo player was laid out as an aside. If you watch the film closely, you might be able to see that there was a real banjo player behind the shallow end of the gene pool, because the actor -- I use the term loosely here -- couldn't even fake fingering the chords. So they stuck a player behind him wearing the same color shirt and filmed that.
The actual playing was done in a studio and dubbed.
The banjo player wound up working at a 7-Eleven or somesuch, and if memory serves, Burton wanted to use him in his movie, just for kicks.
Bobbe comes back with blanks. Sorry ...
Want to reload and try again?
No. I wanna curl up in my sock drawer & sleep for a week.
Maybe I'll wake up & this will all have been a bad dream.
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