Tampon Bogroll (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
What, you think I'm lying or something? The patient, being treated for a hand tremor, is blue-grass maestro Eddie Adcock . Here he is playing in more congenial circumstances: Hope he's back bouncing soon. [via The Filter ]
Cronaca (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Banjo player Eddie Adcock recently had brain surgery where surgeons installed deep brain stimulator electrodes to control a tremor in his right hand. Patients are sometimes kept awake during brain surgery to interact with
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Banjo player Eddie Adcock recently had brain surgery where surgeons installed deep brain stimulator electrodes to control a tremor in his right hand. Patients are sometimes kept awake during brain surgery to interact with the surgeon and help guide the procedure. In Adcock's case, he played the banjo as the surgeon worked. ...
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
You want hardcore? Try bluegrass banjo vet Eddie Adcock, seen here playing his axe during his own brain surgery. The unflappable picker elected to have the surgery to correct a ...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
A perfectly sensible thing to do: "During the brain-implantation stage of the surgery, he was kept conscious in order to be able to play his Deering GoodTime banjo and assist the team of surgeons in directing the fine-tuning of their placement of electrodes in the brain -- an operating-room 'first.'" blog advertising blog advertising
ideonexus (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
The Great World Wide Star Count kicks off tonight, a way to measure how light and air pollution affect our ability to see the constellations. Great Worldwide Star Count Credit: NCAR/UCAR Beaver dams create an important habitat for migrating songbirds. Musician Eddie Adcock played his banjo throughout his brain surgery to test the success of the procedure (complete with [...]
Stephen's Untold Stories (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
Yes, that’s exactly what Eddie Adcock did. A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform professionally. Surgeons placed electrodes in Mr Adcock’s brain and [...]
GingerSnaps (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
Never let it be said that Nashville does not live up to its nickname of Music City USA in every sense. When musician Eddie Adcock began suffering from a tremor that grew worse over the course of three years, his neurologists recommended a deep-brain stimulation surgery available at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a last resort. The [...]
Follow Me Here... (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
"Surely this must be the greatest headline for a BBC News story ever: Banjo Used in Brain Surgery . Although the banjo wasn't in the hands of the surgeons it was still an essential part of the operation. It was played by legendary Blue Grass musician Eddie Adcock who was having surgery install a deep brain stimulation device to treat an essential tremor that had been affecting his playing. The BBC...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
The story of banjo man Eddie Adcock’s groundbreaking brain surgery, which we first reported here a month ago, is spilling out into the national and international media. The procedure involved embedding electrical leads in his brain, connected to a pulse generator implanted in his chest, with wires running between them under his skin. Know as Deep [...]
Muss My Hair (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Eddie Adcock, bluegrass banjo heavyweight, needed brain surgery and was allowed to play his banjo during the procedure to insure that nothing was done to hamper his ability to play. Here’s a video taken during the surgery (begins with an ad), and here’s a radio report about it (no ad).
kottke (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Due to a hand tremor, musician Eddie Adcock was having trouble playing the banjo. During the surgery to fix the problem, the doctors had Adcock play his banjo to isolate the problem in his brain and then they made the repair. Video here . (via delicious ghost ) ( link )
Fox News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Eddie Adcock has plucked his banjo on many stages but nothing probably comes close to playing the instrument on an operating table.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
Bluegrass maestro Eddie Adcock played his banjo as brain surgeons poked and prodded inside his head in a bid to discover the cause of his career-threatening hand tremor.
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Skepchick readers don’t need more excuses to love science, but when you mix music and kick ass medical science, you have the recipe for awesome. And when that music comes in the form of a bluegrass banjo virtuoso, it’s like awesome with cheese on it. Many of you may have seen this story recently (video included). Jen posted [...]
