Contest Fiddling Championship Style - Taught by Mark O'Connor ('84)

Here's a sample lesson from Contest Fiddling Championship Style - Taught by Mark O'Connor (1984). Catalog number DVD-OCC-FI21. Available at www.homespun.com.


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[capitalismforme]

@dukeofearlbanjo You seem to have it all figured out then. Move along.

[dukeofearlbanjo]

@capitalismforme care to say who you played with? Because I'm guessing, like everything else, you can't back THAT up either.

[capitalismforme]

@dukeofearlbanjo I back it up 3 nights per week, 25,000 people per night :) I have no desire or interest in appeasing a hack such as yourself. As I said, I have more intricacy in an instrument I barely play (the guitar), than you have on your primary instrument on your best day. You'll get no more from me. If I was as fat and zit faced as you, I'd be angry at life too.

[dukeofearlbanjo]

@capitalismforme You're the one who talked about your awards, mastery and experience. All I'm saying is if you can't back it up, then keep your trap shut!

[dukeofearlbanjo]

@capitalismforme yeah yeah...i saw your lame ass guitar video but we're talking about fiddling...Did you or did you not win Grand Champ at Weiser? You have been dodging that question.

[capitalismforme]

@dukeofearlbanjo Mad? Not even close child. What makes you think I "need" to prove anything? I already "proved" what needs proving to the man who signs my paychecks. I certaintly don't have to nor am in need of proving anything to a closet picker. I've already told you where you can see a clip of my music.

[dukeofearlbanjo]

@capitalismforme Ahhh are you mad because someone actually called you out?? All I have asked of you is to back it up....you can't prove you can play, you can't prove you won anything...IMO you're all talk. Prove something otherwise!

[capitalismforme]

@dukeofearlbanjo Who exactly did I talk down too you fat fuck?

[dukeofearlbanjo]

@dukeofearlbanjo going back to you original comment, what has progressed about this particular style of fiddling in the last 20 years? I'm a friend of Byron Berline's and I got to see Herman Johnson play close up a few times. I'm from Oklahoma, man. I know a lot about Texas contest fiddle style although I choose to play music with more soul like bluegrass and old time music. To me, all the greats could play the same stuff they played 30 -40 years ago and still contend.

[capitalismforme]

@dukeofearlbanjo guess you're right and I have mastered Texas style contest playing, obviously. LOL. They don't have out awards to people that don't.