All1Song,

I personally enjoy testing out some of the, "wrong", interpretations of the tunes here on Chordie. It isn't always about imitation, sometimes it's about interpretation.

I mean you no disrespect for what you've presented, it's nice to listen to your posts'( they're all top notch stuff!) but the ultimate test is to try out your product on a live crowd. Where and when are you playing out and how do your audiences react to your pre-recorded tracks? Thanks for contributing, just curious......

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L

edited to add (1-23-09 app. 12:25am)

Hi, thanks for the response. I never intended to imply that anyone was wrong in their interpretation, I was simply trying to respond to the song request with the correct chords.  I gave my video more as a guide than anything else so they can hear the chord changes and strum timing.  I think others will then surely interpret the song their own way given the chords.  Unfortunately that was an audio recording however it is actually recorded live to a microphone in one take so except for the harmony vocals it can be performed live the way I play it.

As for playing out, my most recent venture out was at the 2008 International Rust fest where I got a great response from a packed house (I was one of many perfromers that night).  Of course I took video. One of the songs I performed was singled out for a feature on Thrasher's Wheat, a Neil Young News Blog.  I'm pretty proud of that because it is very rare for anyone else other than Neil Young to be featured and talked about there.

Here's that performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSNcjw4zwJA&fmt=18

As for imitating, when I cover a song I ry to do it like the original. It takes a really specially talented musician to put their own signature on someone elses song.  I'm not at that level. Best I can do is emulate the original.  All I can do is have fun trying.

I personally enjoy testing out some of the, "wrong", interpretations of the tunes here on Chordie. It isn't always about imitation, sometimes it's about interpretation.

I mean you no disrespect for what you've presented, it's nice to listen to your posts'( they're all top notch stuff!) but the ultimate test is to try out your product on a live crowd. Where and when are you playing out and how do your audiences react to your pre-recorded tracks? Thanks for contributing, just curious......

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L

edited to add (1-23-09 app. 12:25am)

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.x … rm_gun.txt

BTW, The audio sounds horrible because it was a stereo mix and YouTube converts to Mono.
To hear the video in true Stereo (huge improvement) you have to listen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpncH5jxTs&fmt=18

I tried but can't post in stereo to Chordie.
I have no idea how to correct the chord symbol blocks so use the Corrected Chords I list as text instaed of the block symbols.

You can find this song along with every other song written by Lennon at the following link. Go to http://lennonchords.info/   There is also a link to Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Bob Dylan. Hope this helps.

Excellent site! Thanks for sharing.....