I inadvertently made a great punk rock road tape of my own banjo playing. I was never in a band, except for a rehearsal band called Smart Cats, because there was a now defunct cat food called Smart Cat, and the 2 woman in our band were Veterinary Medicine students. Even with a band that never played a gig, there was Fleetwood Mac-like social drama. We mainly played Beatles tunes, and the other guy in the band recorded us once or twice. I thought it sounded real corny. So one time at home I set up a low-fi recording set-up but with a nice mic though, and just played as weird as I could. I also put a whammy bar on the banjo bridge, and did all sorts of tuning peg and other strange string manipulations (like scraping the strings with coins). It was really awesome, like a strange cross between Robert Johnson, and Frank Zappa playing the bicycle (video from 1963). So I would just keep this ~30 minute tape in my car, and occasionally would play it for hitchhikers and they would be blown away. "Who the Hell Is That?!" I would usually play it after playing some conventional band like U2 or Van Morrison, which had gotten a real meh response. "Umm, well, that's me". They would be all, "Are You Kidding?, That is Insane!" And it was. 

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