Banjo?

[duncan disorderly]

I play Tenor Banjo and I know thats not what Jem uses but it does sound good for some songs like Streams of Whiskey and Sally Maclennane and Popes one slike Nancy Whiskey.
Anyway i like playing jigs and reels in the style of Barney McKenna ( well not quite that well )

What i really ned to know is what is the best way to amplify the banjo ?
I recently purchased a replacement bridge with a pickup made by shadow which works great, but as soon as the drummer and bass player start up it feeds back something rotten. I am playing mandolin in a band but i would really like to play tenor banjo but cant risk going on stage and giveing everyone a headache with feedback. Does anyone know of a better pickup system for banjo .??

[Jan-Kolja]

Check this out:

"FISHMAN BANJO-HUMBUCKER RARE EARTH"

I use this in my band (with a very loud drummer right behind me), Blood Or Whiskey and as far as i know even Jem uses it. Good sound and almost no problems with feedbacking (most times a loud banjo in the monitor causes that, by the way)
Prize: aprox. 200 $ (and worth it)
Greetings,
Jan

[thebelfastbrigade]

Does anyone no where I can find any tenor tabs for some pogues song, and shane mcgowan and the popes ones to if you have them, I was looking everywhere but nothing!!

[Mick Molloy]

Try the mandolin ones

[Low D]

Try the mandolin ones

... and you can find links to many of those in this thread here:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4175

[gam]

hi,

also try " mandolin.org.uk " as i have sent a few mandolin tabs there

greg

[Banjo Guy]

I recommend this site to find a lot of Irish and other tunes in Tenor Banjo Tab: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/mando ... tab-T.html

It's meant for mandolin but generally works well for GDAE Tenors.

Here's another:
http://theinternetlol.com/mandolin/

[John Powers]

Just read this topic through and I gotta ask, is there any change in finding 5-string banjo tabs for The Pogues songs? A book or a site?

And I miss Phil Chevron. What a great guy he was. It still is helpful to read his comments here on all things Pogues.