John Paul Jones and the mandolin - ITW Lunel 2013

the first Madeleine I supposed that I noticed was probably they were too close one was with fairport convention they were playing fiddle tunes and mandolin tunes there's one record that was very big in England and I heard that I thought mmm that's very interesting sound and then I was already just touring with Led Zeppelin and I met some people in New York mmm and they gave me this record a vinyl record called back porch bluegrass by the Dillards and this had this amazing again what's that what's that and so I researched it a bit and on a tour I think about 1970 I went with my wife moved we went down to a thrift shop which in a very strange area and with all these people drunks hanging around in it I went to this pointer and found there was a a new mandolin there a Martin mandolin in a little little case I have that song I think I should get that and I bought that mainly just to have a small instrument to carry around so I could just whenever I want to just pick it out and play because when you're with a band you know you have quick ones and I play bass and has big amplifiers and I play organ and it takes 20 people to move it and and so just to have a little instrument but you just and be very okay really quiet or you know may versatile so that that was my entrance to the mandolin world then as I played mandolin mainly just by myself through all the Zeppelin years and then I put it down for a while and then I again much later heard more bluegrass I think it's probably a a Union Station alison krauss or something like that and then I discovered Bill Monroe and then I started really wanting to to play the mandolin and to play that style abandoned specifically I always had it around and played a little bit but then after producing a New Zealand rock band 20 in 2004 I really wanted to be somewhere where there was more of acoustic music and folk music and so I went on the internet and I found a site a festival site of festivals and it had a list of festivals in America and I just looked home I saw merleFest and Eiffel booked a ticket just turned up though mandolin didn't know anybody there it's in North Carolina and it's bluegrass pretty much or little bit of country but mainly bluegrass and then I just met all these people I met Christie Lee for the first time and Mike Marshall and I played with Gillian Welsh and in fact I played with Christy Liana almost the second night I was there on the midnight jam I was 20 missus 30 musicians on stage or playing stuff and I just kind of all right I'm joining you knows a lot of people nobody will hear me too much right it'd be okay and then I just made all these friends metal these people and I remember as I left that to come home Mike Marshall said there's a there's a festival in corsica run by this guy gone only be a genre but that was that's in the summer and I think well it's spring now I've got to do something else than anything but he said I think he's going to start a new festival in luenell just mandolin okay I can do that so I did the same thing I just I think I drove down here and if I brought her the first one if I had a triple neck on the first or the second time but anyway again I met all these people and I saw I was there when when the soundcheck when Mike Marshall met i milton and they met at literally a Milton came off the train or something like that and and they just met and then he got their instruments out and suddenly the place exploded diversity what fifteen people were just sitting around the chairs in the Old Hall I was just it was just amazing just pure magic these two brilliant musicians meeting for the first time you let's just get this nice to see electric and the concert that night I wish just just fantastic and since then I keep coming back and now they've made me a godfather which is Lipper home which is very important I feel I'm but I feel very honored to be to be part you know numbered amongst those those musicians because they are absolutely the the best of the world and and so it's really great for me to be to be here and everybody looks after me every treats me very nicely very kind very polite to me so far so is really good to be here and and be part of the world of mandolins I knew a little bit about Shiraz because I toured with a band again in 2004 I was quite a life-changing year for me but Christy Lee called me up and said would you like to come out on the road with us I'm starting a band we calling it the mutual admiration society and it was the three members of nickel creek um Pete Thomas from the attractions on drums I was on bass bass guitar and Glen Phillips from tirtha Wet Sprocket singer and we went out on the road together but in the bus he said Mike Marshall has just given me all these books offshore us and we were playing shows on the bus and I had an octave mandolin and so I was doing the guitar parts and it's great and then I came here and and heard a mutant and just wow that's fantastic but over the years I've because I go to the workshops as well I haven't been so much this time that uh previous times and and I've learnt an Indian mandolin and some Shiraz Big Show Venezuelan merengue and brush and Umbra I was at the the class she gave which was quite funny because she didn't know who I was at all and she said they're fabiola tell you this he was there and he said she wanted a volunteer to show something a pic technique she did and I was sitting in the front in reminding my own vision should you out here okay okay yes she's a Russian woman she must be obeyed you know she was that tiger bit okay you know hold the pic like not like this no okay and then we did the lesson and she didn't know and then of course the concert she saw me on stage with this triple neck - she should have said terribly sorry that's okay yes but you know I learnt the man I learned something else on the mandolin it was good for me well when I think of luenell that's mandolins most doesn't luenell French for mandolin know where it should be and yeah it's no risk or saloon Ellis Olivier nah it's all his fault basically all of this and it's amazing to to just grow from from nothing an international mandolin festival which as I said I heard it from that Mike Marshall in North Carolina and so now I tell all my friends you know sheshe come to this fantastic and never see anything like it anywhere else let's just happy to be here always happy to be here and to come back and see met lots of new friends my French one day will get better you

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Keywords: John Paul Jones, mandolin, Festival International Mandolines de Lunel, mandoline, festival, lunel, Hamilton de Holanda, Mike Marshall (Musical Artist)

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Length: 9min 11sec (551 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 22 2014