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hi beamer,
i didn't say i didn't like elvis, he's just not on my favourite list. i like some of his songs and i do quite a few in my set. i respect other peoples choices and elvis, along with the beatles, dire straits, buddy holly etc get included.
my wife, every time she sees an elvis film or something always says "good man gone waste" ah well
it's funny how music puts thoughts of a song or words into your mind, and that's what russ's composition did for me. the words took less than an hour to write. i sent them to russ and he said go on, so i added to his original recording a keyboard string piano on one track, then electric piano on another. the vocals took a few tries. it just shows how good russ's composing is that the melody just appeared. i don't think the words made a lot of sense to russ at first as he wanted me to change some of them, i tried but i thought better of it, i like it as it is and i think russ does too now. i class the song as a success, and i'm proud of what we have done.
phill
i've played in several bands over the years; lead, rhythm, bass and vocalist (not all at the same time) since the day Elvis died, i've been solo. funny thing is, i remember that my first solo gig was the day he died, but i cant remember the date....i'm no Elvis fan.
i just put this up here so i dont have to look at that rdr909 tag (or whatever it is) thank you for reading.
hey joey, your collection reminds me of that "travelling willburys" song; "cool dry place" if you haven't heard it, it's well worth a listen, and it seems to fit your situation well
you jammy g....er, person you! isn't it just amazing how you have to move to Portugal to meet the famous?
i once met the drummer who left the Equals just before they released "baby come back" he was not a happy bunny.
having watched the vid, it occurred to me that no matter how much programming you did, you'd never get a drum machine to give a solo like that.
LONG LIVE THE LIVE DRUMMER
apparently they make good recording platforms. i saw a guitarist in tenerife using one for his backing tracks. did you say their illegal in the US?
i've been thinking about one of those tabs. since the first ones came out with (i think) the 10 inch screen, they've now brought out a 7 inch screen which i think seems more portable, and a much more wallet friendly price about £150 here in the UK for a kindle fire.
i wholeheartedly agree with you about amazon. i ran out of printer inks two weeks back, on other sites the best price was around £40 + for black and colour cartridges, amazon was only £18 for the two and delivered in a couple of days.
great song and the visuals were great too. congrats! back in the 60's i was a weekend hippy. patchouli beads afghan coat, but i never took that next step which was to drop acid or smoke dope or any other drugs. i'm still totally against drugs even now. but i still believe in LOVE AND PEACE.
thanks for sharing.
phill
by the creek i guess you mean that small body of water that separates us?
as for being stubborn; how else do you get things right?
from the moment i heard "carly" i felt i could do something with it, which is how i like to work. when i said i'd like to start again from scratch, i didnt believe you could stitch all the tracks together, but you did and a fantastic job you did too.
i think it's obvious from the vocals that the key is too high for me. but the strange thing is that if i performed it on stage i could reach the notes easily. when i'm recording at home i think i limit my self as i dont like people walking outside my window (my studio is down stairs at the front of the house) hearing me screaming my chestnuts off with no music, (headphones) one day i'll build myself a sound-proof studio. 
in my defense, i busked the keyboards when i recorded them, all lucky guesses, it took me a while to work out the chords on the guitar, i hope russ will correct any errors. 
hey russ, you've done a fab job considering the crap bits of vid i sent you.
i must say that working with russ is one of the easiest jobs i've ever done, his chord progressions are 2nd to none. it's only when we get to the next stage, recording, that he gets to be a bit a pain!!! that's flat, do this again, shoot a vid...ha ha. but at the end of it, it's well worth it, though i wish my face wasn't on the screen so long!
ps. i shall be putting the words up shortly.
after the acoustic v electric i got to thinking about the first amp i bought. god, i haven't thought about it for a good 40 years! as i mentioned before, i bought this crappy little zenta electric and my father tried to rig it up to an old radio, didn't work. anyway i was walking past this 2nd hand shop when i saw this selmer 5 watt amp and mic and stand. the guitar cost me £15 the amp cost me another £5, so i was rolling.
at 16 years old i had to have it up full volume, which made it distort rather badly, which is a major contributor to my dislike of distortion of any kind, unless i want it, which is why i have a fuzz pedal.
i later bought a WEM (watkins electrical music) which i think was a 25 watt. then i got a job that payed money so i bought a sound city 100 watt amp and cab. then various others till i came to the peavy i'm playing at present.
that's mine, what's yours?
i'm on number 2 roger, there wont be a number 3, if push came to shove, i think i'd rather be lonely, especially as ann is wonderful and no one else could fill her slippers
phill
have i done something stupid..? oh yes!!!
latest stupid decision was to buy a pair of speakers off the internet before hearing them...
i'm now paying the price for buying cheap .
i bought a pair of FBT's which were top notch til one blew a speaker. to repair the driver would cost £95 + so i asked about buying a new pair from the music shop and using the speakers as part exchange. they said yes but would only allow me £150 for the two against the new pair costing about £400. FBT's are selling 2nd hand at around £350-400 each, so i told the shop to stick his £150 where a monkey sticks his nuts and surfed the net till i found a pair of Laney's for £200 the pair! and they were delivered in 2 days...result. unfortunately, they have a very dull, bassey sound and dont lend themselves to backing tracks and guitar.
so there you have it, listen/play before you buy. my something stupid
thanks you guys for putting forward your thoughts, it's a nice discussion and says a lot about everyone's preferences and style.
i bought some new PA speakers a few weeks ago and i'm really annoyed with the sound i'm getting from them, as i play (or played) guitar as well as vocal and backing tracks through them. i eventually got the vocals sounding OK-ish and the backing tracks sounding OK too. but the guitar sounded awful. so i started taking my peavy amp with me again, and i love the sound i'm getting!
till last night. i knew it was a small venue so i left the peavy at home. boy do i regret that decision! i kept twiddling knobs all night trying to get an acceptable sound, and failed. the amp comes regardless in future, as i get a great sound at any volume.
PS i only play electric at gigs. i used to play my acoustic before i started recording my own backing, so solo's weren't a concern, just a nice rhythm.
i'm so glad that you can see where i'm coming from. both types have merit and stand up in their own right.
i bought my first acoustic when i was 14 and my first electric at 17. it was a cheap and nasty guitar made by zenta. i battered hell out of it for a couple of years till i really, really had to get a semi decent axe.
at that time (even though i had an acoustic) i spent most of my time on the electric and i must have got to a fairly good standard, which i maintained for a number of years, you want to see the state of the frets on my strat!
then i bought a crafter acoustic with built in pick-up which i seem to play all the time since i got it 4 years ago. the point is; i only play my electric on gigs now or if i'm doing a solo on a recording so i feel my soloing has suffered. this is mainly due to the crafter having 11 gauge strings while the tele has 9 gauge, the latter being easier to bend. i tend to leave the tele as i keep it in it's case while the crafter is sitting right next to my PC, so it's more convenient.
has anyone else noticed their playing has suffered by playing the easy option?
not so much a lobotomy as passing a liquidizer through the nose and switching on, then trying to talk sense with the mush that's left.
tea is refreshing, i also enjoy a coffee but as i get palpitations after, i try and keep my intake to one a month.
at airports i usually drink hot chocolate as both tea and coffee tastes like something a horse might leave in the street after a big meal!
brilliant
like a lot of great US comics; dead pan and funnier than watching a politician tripping over her own feet
hi TF, "stick it in your boot"? never heard that one before, i cant imagine what that means in yankese, but a boot here is what you wear on your feet and it's the bit that sticks out the back of your car what you call "the trunk". also noticeable differences; US "the hood" = UK the bonnet. US "jello" = UK jelly. US jelly UK = jam. fortunately, beer is the same in both countries.
also; German = bier
Turkish = bira
Spanish = cervesa ? what?
from the picture, it looks like the neck between frets look concave as opposed to flat on a normal fingerboard. i would guess that you would need to press harder or you would get string buzz and any neck misalignment would put it out of tune as soon as you started fingering. probably good for slide playing though?
yes TT, i try to forget my age too. they tell me by next year (i'll be 62) i wont be able to remember which string is E!
i did a gig last year and forgot to take my guitar! i felt naked singing without it and had to hum the solo's
when i saw jean luc picard, i had to check out this post as a trekkie!
FYI jean luc played the flute not the cello. and as i have no love for the stones, no he wouldn't. apart from maybe charlie watts, they all look haggard, alcohol and drug ravaged, that doesn't mean that charlie hasn't been naughty too, i wouldn't know, and i dont care anyway.
live long and prosper....nanoo nanoo
just as an aside, i have a friend that does motown music. all his backing tracks are on his mobile phone, so that when he plays larger venues that have big PA systems, he just plugs in and away to go.
i've just decided that i hate vocalists. i've got 2 cases with FX, leads etc plus a guitar and amp. 2 large speakers and a mixer amp to carry in and out of venues, in the pouring rain, gale force winds 3 flights of stairs and a shed full of half drunk punters that wont get out of the way. then after the last song they want more....
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