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Originally posted by Ken Sparks:
GG, I have forgotten the name of the TDCAA band. What is it called? Or do we need to have a naming contest?

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A.P. and the Lesser Includeds. And we are truly lesser included to AP when it comes to talent! It's nice of him to tolerate being in a band with a bunch of lawyers.

AP didn't suggest that name, Scott Brumley came up with it as I recall. And we all universally and instantly agreed it was great!

I received this email today from a friend who is an corporate analyst and musician, who has nothing to do with this board and who knows nothing of the interest of certain members of this board in all things banjo.

My friend's comment with the email was:

"I am just surprised that there aren't more banjo players under indictment."

I think I'll start calling A.P. by the nickname "Salty Dog".

> Banjo Player Sought In Hootenanny Spree

BOSTON-Truck driver and banjo player Jay "Snapbean" Holcomb was named a "person of interest" by Boston police Tuesday in its
investigation of a series of unannounced and boisterous hootenannies responsible for bringing sections of the city to a virtual standstill
over the past several weeks.
>
> "Just a few minutes ago, I was on my way to Jamba Juice when I heard a high-lonesome voice yodel 'Hey y'all!'" said Credit Suisse Boston vice
president of asset management Stanley Hedges, who reported that his firm has lost more than a thousand man-hours to Holcomb's random acts of
old-time quick-steppin'. "Then he started that old banjo to sing; you could hear it talk, you could hear it ring. And as I felt myself start
to do-si-do, all I could think was, Not again."
>
> Holcomb, 42, known far and wide for his vigorous rolling style of picking and his good-timey, fast-tempo breakdowns, matches a description given by hundreds of eyewitnesses of an upbeat, banjo-toting vest-sporting man with a clawhammer style that he must have learned from
the Devil himself.
>
> Authorities said that Tuesday's barn-burner claimed over 300 roisterers. Although no actual barns were burned, victims of Holcomb's impromptu
celebrations say they are ill-timed and disruptive.
>
> "These constant hootenannings must stop," said Mayor Thomas Menino, an outspoken critic since the front doors of historic Faneuil Hall were
taken off their hinges and laid in the street to provide a dancing surface during a particularly spirited jamboree three weeks ago.

> "They're fine once in a while, like when the city brings in a record harvest, or when the schoolmarm agrees to marry Ol' Doc Blanchett. But a high-steppin' weekday ruckus is unbefittin' to a big, important county seat like Boston, and as mayor, I won't stand for these fool shenanigans."
>
> Though the spontaneous acts of bluegrass have been characterized as "hell-raisin'," they have yet to cause significant injury, aside from
damage inflicted on numerous brooms and washtubs converted into bass fiddles, and dozens of pairs of spoons bent while being repurposed as percussive aids. In addition, several clotheslines in the Beacon Hill neighborhood were trodden under by escaped hogs, at least one of which wound up wearing an area resident's best Sunday dress while Bostonians chased it through the already chaotic downtown t raffic.
>
> Despite the relatively harmless fun, many peace-loving residents now live in fear of being swept up in the exhausting yet irresistible revels.
>
> "I was already late for work last Monday morning when that smiling fellow started that hootenanny on [Boston Common]," stockbroker Sid
> Daley said. "It's one thing when infectious banjo music compels you to grab the nearest washboard or empty jug and join along on a Friday night or a Saturday afternoon, but on a Monday morning, when I have meetings?

> There's a time and a place for letting this kind of deal go down, is all I'm saying."
>
> Holcomb, born and raised in the hill country of Somerville, reportedly has a history of salty-dog-like behavior, beginning in his youth, when
he was often reprimanded at school for rowdy folk-music-related behavior. By the time he was 18, Holcomb had joined a local gang of
bluegrass boys, and started acting on his pathological hootennanish impulses.
>
> "We think Mr. Holcomb fits the profile of a hootenanny ringleader and has the skills to pull off something even bigger," Boston Police
> Commissioner Edward Davis said. "Wingdings, shindigs, pig pickin's-we're sure he's capable of those, too. He may enlist the help of other
banjoists, perhaps even fiddle players, and throw a full-blown hoedown."
>
"I do declare," added Davis, removing his hat and wiping his brow. "The people of Boston have to be prepared for the absolute gol-durndest."

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