VHT SPECIAL 6 COMBO AMP: I don’t need my 400-watt Roland Jazz Chorus to play my banjo, so I got this amp at Bluesmaster Guitars in Durham after the owner, Mike Miller, showed it to me. I’ve dedicated songs to him and told the story, and he wasn’t even there. I put a picture of my friend Keil on the headstock and named it Keil, but he doesn’t even know. I’ve always wanted to have one and I love how it sounds. REPUBLIC RESONATOR: I went to the factory in Dallas last summer and played like 30 of them. The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox. I have a weak nail, and it breaks all the time, so I started having to play with picks. I’ve only ever found them at Zepp’s in Wendell. Every banjo player that I’ve ever shown my clawhammer picks has never seen them before. I just can’t escape it, even though I try. What I’m really doing when I play the banjo is I’m playing piano in my head. I’ve found ways to play clawhammer where it’s still like a picking thing, too. But with clawhammer style, I like the rhythm in that. I can get into playing patterns, which I really enjoy. All my instruments cost less than $1,000 because I can’t afford to replace them otherwise my shit’s gotten stolen before, so I know.īANJO STYLE: I really love to play with fingerpicks on. I don’t need to go out and buy a Gibson SG. It’s so shitty, but he’s a good bass player so he just wails on that, and there’s a lesson in there. CHEAP INSTRUMENTS: I love the fact that my favorite bass player, James Buckley, plays a Mexican Fender Squier with two holes in it.
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