Peter Langston's Home Page

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3 Play Ricochet		String Band Americana   Bluegrass, Old-Time, Ragtime, Good Time Re-Imagined!

American Banjo Camp		ABC - A Summer 5-String Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin, & Guitar Workshop in the Pacific Northwest

Dobro Chords		Find complex chords on the dobro using slants and open strings.

Boogie-Woogie	Play a short sample	A computer program makes up a bit of boogie-woogie

Bluegrass Banjo Tune	Play a short sample	A computer program makes up a Bluegrass Banjo Instrumental just for you

THE SEATLES		The Northwest Folklife Festival's Premier Beatles Sing-Along Band

P.Z.E.B.		This started out in 1966 in Portland, Oregon, but came back to life in 2008 and 2013

Puddle City		The premier Portland Bluegrass Band in the Early 70s and again in 2010

PSGW		Peter's Special Guide to Workshops

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News?		News doesn't happen very often... At least not like this! (This news is from 3/24/2000 -- didn't I already mention that news like this doesn't happen very often?)

More News		A few photographs from a trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

Fun_People Archive		The Fun_People mailing list/cyberzine "It's ... er, interesting..." And it's on sabbatical right now, but the archives are open...

Race the River Jordan		An album of "New Old-time Fiddle Tunes" by Mark Simos & Friends

English		It's a pretty cool language, but little bits of it keep falling off or sometimes they just get broken off by people who aren't paying attention...

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Peter Langston's Papers		Some about music, some about games, some about telephones, some...

The Metropolitan Opry		A fixture in New York City between 1977 and 1989.

Entropy Service		An innovative acoustic music quartet that played its way from Olympia, Washington in 1973 to Cambridge, Mass in 1975.

Wretched Refuse String Band		New York City's Premier Immigrant Old-Time Band

Empire		I'm justifiably proud of this little program (started in 1972)... The game is popular (and addictive) enough that there has almost always been a domain devoted to it. The current home of Empire seems to be wolfpackempire.com, and you can find the Jargon File entry here and the computer dictionary definition here (and quite a few other places, e.g. the Hacker's Jargon File).

Oracle		This one's only been around since 1975, but it's a winner, too!

Lucasfilm Games		It became LucasArts, but we called it Lucasfilm Games when I started it in 1982.

Eedie & Eddie On The Wire		This tribute to Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood comes from 1986.

Usenix Computer GO Tournament		We started the first American computer GO tournaments (at Usenix conferences). I even won once! Oog...

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Greenwich Village Music that defined a generation		A documentary about the place and time of my childhood

WFMU		The Home of Freeform Radio (and then some)

Honking Duck		Listen to old-Time Music from 78s

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Some Related Social Networking Pages
Peter on Facebook Puddle City on YouTube American Banjo Camp on MySpace American Banjo Camp on Facebook 3 Play Ricochet Group on Facebook 3 Play Ricochet page on Facebook CBA Music Camp on Facebook Not The Jangles on MySpace The Fireants on MySpace Peter on LinkedIn Peter on YouTube

Awards!

This page has been honored by a prestigious award: Wow!

While, for some reason, it was completely passed over when the garish icon shown below was being awarded (to pages that had been engaging in juvenile spasms of hype, puffery, and braggadocio, no doubt):
Other miscellaneous (and badly hidden) stuff...

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