"Dobro Summit" - Josh Graves, Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas 

Vassar Clements was an absolute master!

​@@braddemoss8208Absolutely !

To anyone that never had the pleasure of meeting him, Uncle Josh was a Prince Among Men!

4 are now gone. Josh, Jake, Mike and Vassar, and they are truly missed!

Yes. Those damned cigarettes. So many gone because of them.

@@jwills8606lived to 77, you can do worse

D45

I didn't know Hank Sr. had a D-45. I'd had seen him on stage with D-28s and some Gibsons in pictures. I even have a picture of him playing a hollow body electric, and a fiddle.

That D-45 was also owned by Johnny Cash and Marty got the guitar from him in a trade, it's a great story actually. A musician/luthier friend who has worked on that guitar says it is one of the best sounding guitars he ever played.

Jerry's had a lot of different looks over the span of his career. If you could put versions of him from every 6-8 years from 1975 to now in a line-up, you be hard pressed to think it was all the same guy. He's really unrecognizable here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Py9ZPX-8CUE.html

Hey buddy, its happens to all of us lol. I wish i looked like how I was in my 20s

And Women were>>>>>>>Glad of it !🙀

Thanks Richard. Not sure I completely understand what you're asking. You want to play in chords besides G but you don't want to bar across the whole fret? This is a very tricky question. Assuming we are talking about using G tuning. It can be done but it works better for some chords than others. You'll be able to play more open notes in C or D but you'll still have to bar the strings at some point (at least partially). As for other chords you'll be limited because of the lack of open notes you can hit. You can pick out individual notes in any key without barring the whole fret but it wouldn't be very practical or sound too good. I can't speak much for more modern styles but Josh would definitely bar the frets on chords you mentioned above. You just have to use partial chords, slides, and slants to get the melody notes you want. You could always tune the dobro differently to play open notes in other keys but that'd be a lot of work as well. Not sure if that helps answer your question or not.

he obviously has vitiligo. It is very common. I have it as well. It is a disease that causes loss of skin color in patches