DanP in Real Life
Highschool
Homeschooled
College
Hopefully U.S. Naval Academy
Interests
Playing music, Running, Cooking, Politics, Rifles, The Military, Reading, Coffee.
Favorite Music
Django Reinhardt, Riders in the Sky, Kyle Creed, Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, Jack Johnson, Pete Seeger, Wade Ward, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Norman Blake, John Hartford, Sam McGee, Sally Douglas, Isaac Stern, New Hot Times, Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Chick Corea, Frederik Chopin, Eric and Travis Vick, Tommy Jarrell, Leroy Troy, Bruce Molsky, George Gershwin, Underoath, Aaron Copland, Mewithoutyou, The Beatles, Troyisms.
Favorite Movies
Braveheart, Twelve Angry Men, On the Town, The Last of the Mohicans, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pork Chop Hill, Stalag 17
Favorite Books
The Bible, Endurance, The Warrior Elite, Shaking the Nickel Bush, Lone Survivor, A Walk Across America, The Education of Little Tree, The Fields of Home, Ultramarathon Man, Anything C.S. Lewis, The Count Of Monte Christo, My Side of the Mountain, Walking on the Happy Side of Misery, Little Britches, The Lord of the Rings, Farmer Boy, Johnny Tremian, The Old Man and the Sea, Anything by O.Henry, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Tn Mafia Jug Band
January 26 2008
Sooo... Today I went to see the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band with our friends the Randolphs. It was awesome(well, for me it was). It was a very long drive there(about three hours) and so we stopped at Ruby Tuesday to eat. When it came time to order, Billy decided he wanted his hamburger medium rare. I tried to tell him that that was a bad idea, but he was like "No, it's great, just a little bit of pink inside, and well done on the outside" Not so on this one. When it came out, he took a bite of it, looked at it, and I'd swear his eye twitched a little bit. He turned it around to show it to me, and it might as well have been raw. He was okay with that, but when some "Juice" started dripping out of it, he about had a conniption. I said "Hey Billy, you know what that juice is, right?" "No, what is it" "that's blood, Billy" "No way! Dad, what is this juice?" " That's blood, Billy". " Gross!". So after that, he was a little more solemn. After awhile he was like " Hey, can I have your fries?" He had given up on the burger after two bites. About an hour later, we finally got there, after having to stop and ask for directions from Ellie Mae Clampett. The show was great, except for when the P.A. went out, but they just sang louder. After the show, I went up and talked to Leroy Troy for a minute, and he said "Do you pick a banjer?" "Yes sir." "Well I'd like to hear you sometime, What's your name?" "Daniel Pitts" "alright, you come back to another show sometime." Then we were given the tour of the facilities by the guy that runs that venue( long story why we even wanted a tour). We were still being shown around when the band was packing up, and Leroy saw me and said, "Daniel, come here a minute" so I followed him back into their dressing room, and he said, "Carry that banjo for me will ya, I want to hear you pick." So I carried it downstairs, and I played a couple of tunes. Then Dan Kelly(world champion fiddle player) said, "You play the fiddle, right( I had asked him a bowing question a little earlier). I said I did, and he handed me his fiddle to work on that lick he was showing me. So, all in all, I had a very eventful day.