From: v_abadie@cox.net   
      
   I was thinking back and trying to decide when I really started to   
   appreciate bluegrass music. For as long as I can remember, I've wanted   
   to play the banjo. There was a Brown's Velvet Ice Cream commercial when   
   I was kid that featured Farmer Brown playing his banjo. That always got   
   my attention. For my 5th birthday, my parents got me a Dixie banjo-uke   
   (hanging on my wall, no bridge and missing one peg, today) and a book on   
   how to play banjo.  The book didn't really go along with the banjo uke,   
   but when I was older, it was  useful in learning some basics on the 5   
   string. On Hee Haw, Grandpa Jones and Roy Clark always got my little   
   foot tappin'. But I think my real "bluegrass epiphone" came in high   
   school, when my brother came home with the first "Circle" album. Shortly   
   after that, I started saving my bus-boy money and I bought my first   
   banjo and Pete Wernick's Bluegrass Banjo book. The rest is a history   
   still in the making.   
   What was it for you?   
   Vince   
      
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