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Nice. That's always been one of my favorite songs. I tried it a while ago and couldn't get it to where I wanted it. Figured I need some more skills. I'm working on getting my left hand to do something more than hold down a chord and I'll get there one day. I liked your version. This is a link I'll save and come back to as a "lesson."
Switching gears, I really do love that hat. It looks like something you could have won in a poker game.
- Zurf
I want to know how you got the extra two years worked into a week. I could use that to get caught up on some of my home improvement projects.
As far as Manson - a very strange man. Some folks looked to him as a messiah. How sad for them.
- Zurf
I think "Russell's Park Bench" would be a GREAT name for your act. I'll have to wait until I get on another computer to check out the video.
- Zurf
Question?..... can i be strumming and then switch to ,like picking like just hitting-kindof a solo?? is it proper? Or should i wait until there are two guitars???
Yes you can, it is proper, and you do not have to wait.
One of the more amazing things I've ever seen done on guitar was at a friend's wedding. They had hired a guy that we had seen in the bars a few times and greatly enjoyed. He showed up with his girlfriend to play the gig. It was great! Well, his girlfriend was no slouch on the guitar as she had been playing for sixteen years, a number of them doing her own gigs. At one point the fellow was playing a song that got a little faster on each cycle through. Well at one point, the girlfriend dropped out on playing rhythm because it was getting too fast for her and the guy who had been hired continued to play the lead licks AND PLAYED THE RHYTHM PART SIMULTANEOUSLY! It flat out floored us.
Oh, and congratulations on the family jamm. That is a memory that you will carry with you all your days. I hope you have many more and that they serve to bring you ever closer to your brother and father.
- Zurf
I'm against death penalty but for long term incarceration.
I don't like the idea of killing people as a matter of saving money, and that's about all it is. If they are incarcerated, the people are thereby removed from society. Done. That's what you were going for. You can't have murderers walking around in open society. It is expensive to keep someone incarcerated. I admit that. However, I think there are much better ways to save the government money than by killing people who are inconvenient to keep alive.
As far as Mr. Spector, he got the best defense he could afford and that's fine. He received a sentence and will have to live it out, and that's fine too.
I am still ticked about OJ not being found guilty. He has all but admitted to the crime, but because of botched detective work, he is walking around free. I understand that's better than having detectives allowed to botch investigations constantly and still rely on unreliable information, but it nevertheless ticks me off.
- Zurf
Thanks I checked it out which one is Detman
you guys need some light I couldn't tell who was who but it sounded good and that's all that counts and looks like you had a great time
Detman101 wrote:Russ...the link to the video is in my post above yours.
=p
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We were in the shade of a big maple. Detman on the left, me in the rear, and Jets60 on the right.
My camera did capture the video, but I've been having some "technical difficulties" lately with downloading photos. I'll get it straightened out and download the video. Maybe I can zip it or put it on a CD and send it to Detman to post on Youtube. I don't have an account.
- Zurf
Well, I'm just back from church and found out why the fellow from church's message made no sense. He was just back from the emergency room from falling off a moving truck and had 11 stitches in his head. I don't think any of us would have made much sense in those circumstances. Amazingly thoughtful of him to even think to send a message with all that going on.
He was sorry to have missed it (I'll bet! A jam is WAY better than getting your head stitched up). He hopes to make the next one, which I hope will be sooner than a whole year from now. Perhaps another before school goes back in session.
- Zurf
Well you guys are welcome back here anytime. My wife commented after you left how nice you both were, and how indulgent you were with my youngest's shenanigans. She was quite a pistol yesterday - interrupting songs to ask for "mushpillows" to roast even though she hadn't had dinner yet and had the same answer a zillion times already. At one point, she was literally hanging on my back with her arm around my neck *while* I was playing and singing. I messed up the lyrics on that one, but in my defense it is hard to concentrate on lyrics while fending off an over-excited child from kicking my guitar and strangling me. She shows off when new people are around, and I think we had a little bit of that and a little bit of "Holy Cow I can actually be outside for once" from all the rain we've been having.
My eldest lead two songs. One she learned in school, and one she wrote as a report for school. The guys seemed to like the second one, about alligators, particularly. So my eight year old has written half as many songs as I have, and both Jets60 and Detman101 agreed that she's got it all over me in quality. I have to admit they're right. Rhyming "scutes" would be tough.
We talked about redoing this event in Detman's studio. I'd like that. I'd love to hear "Forgotten Wheels" with a rhythm, lead, bass combo. I'll have to brush up on bass, as right now my basses are dust collectors, but it'd be worth it. Also "A Few To Many." You guys should have heard Detman's leads on that. For a guy who claims to have grown up on 80's techno music, he's sure got Country style drinkin' and cheatin' lead licks down cold.
- Zurf
Well, OldNewbie couldn't make it. Or at least didn't. My fishing buds backed out too, at least one of which notified me in advance. The neighbor never showed up, which is fine. He's got a couple kids and a wife and so his time is no more his own than mine is. I understand perfectly where he's coming from. And the guy from church text messaged me, but he used text message code and I have no idea what he meant. I'll ask him tomorrow. It was nice of him to try to let me know something anyway.
But all of those no-shows are made up for by who did show, and right on time too. Detman101 and Jets60. The three of us, and for two songs my eight year old daughter, had a good time.
We mostly played our own stuff and did some fill in when we knew it, but we all got together and played Jets60's "Forgotten Wheels". I tried to record it on my camera, but it doesn't seem to have taken. But Detman101 got a sound recording on his smart phone. He intends to post it. We also all played together on Russell's "A Few To Many" with me doing lead lyrics and Detman101 playing lead on guitar. Jets60 strummed along. Finally, Detman101 was riffing on some stuff and then through in a lick I recognized and we turned it into "Ain't No Sunshine" by ??? Withers. I messed the lyrics up by singing the wrong verses in the right places or the right verses in the wrong places, I'm not sure which. Suffice to say it wasn't correct, but we had a good time anyway.
I did get some still photos that I'll post once I get them downloaded.
- Zurf
Okay,
So which one of those old dead mutants do we get to blame for dreaming up the B Chord? LOL
Doug
I do believe the B chord was brought to you by the same old Greek dude that brought us geomotry. Pythagorus or some such. I expect he brought all that meanness on the world because his Momma gave his that name.
- Zurf
Sweet. My day is complete.
Detman101 and Jets60 just left about 1/2 hour ago. They were here and we had a good time out back for a little longer than 3 hours together before the thunder started talking and the fellows thought they ought to get home.
Between them and this, and especially because you explained how the song is played and now I HAVE to try it myself, my day has been sure enough a good one.
- Zurf
If I Had a Boat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_W18CWypE
also - a bad bootleg, but it shows his picking better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9HVFw0jj00
She's No Lady: Uses some nice jazz progressions and chords, and includes the lyric "And the preacher said I pronounce you 99 to life..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3m1Fwhus
- Zurf
The Duhks did a neat version of Sting's "Love is the Seventh Wave". I like that.
However, I think my favorite cover is Luther Allison's version of the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
In an interview with him, I heard Yngwie Malmsteen say that he was influenced by Mozart. That's not to say that he didn't have other inspirations and influences, but they do not diminish the influence by Mozart. Mozart's influence on metal was at question, not all the influences of Malmsteen. He even did a straight up version of some Mozart, and then rocked it. The little speed fills that almost all metal-heads use are direct descendants of the fills that Mozart used on harpsichord. But to say that Beethoven with his heavy bass structures or Paganini with his shocking blasts to full orchestral volume from soft strings didn't affect metal would be overstating Mozart's contribution.
- Zurf
Doug -
Gold hasn't been the backing for U.S. money for almost 100 years. The only thing backing U.S. money is the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. government. And then they wonder why it's not holding it's value.
- Zurf
Ooooh. Grilled pineapple should not be wasted on a kabob stick. Get you a pineapple, skin it, core it, and cut it into slices AT LEAST an inch thick. Get the grill good and hot. No, hotter. Ooops. You should have made sure the rack was clean first. It's going to hurt to clean it now. Just scrape it as best you can with the wire brush thingy. Lubricate it with a little oil. There you go, not too much. Great, now put those thick pineapple rings right on the grill, close the lid and let them sit. Yep. Right on there like a burger. That's it. Flip them like a burger too, but be sure to put them down where the grill is hottest not right back on the same spot. You want caramalization. When you flip them, you may as well put those halved and pitted peaches on right beside them. Grill those up too.
Pull them off and you've got a treat. If you happen to have a bowl handy, put the peaches in it, some rasperry puree, and a big ol' scoop of vanilla ice cream. I'm not sure which is better, the caramelized pineapple (which goes GREAT with Gewurtztraminer or a muscat dessert wine) or the peach melba sundae.
Why don't y'all give them both a try and let me know what you like better?
Peppers and 'maters sound good, and maybe some potato and mushroom. They'd both soak up the jerk sauce flavors nicely if you brush it on the whole kabob.
- Zurf
"Toots" 
Keep Lyle Lovett in mind. He plays some crazy chords and has tough timing to duplicate. The audience won't have heard many Lyle Lovett tunes, but with your skill and talent I think you'd be able to cover him very well. It could be a little bit of a discriminator from the other players. "If I Had a Boat" and "Skinny Legs" are a couple of my favorites.
Oh, and one Jimmy Buffett song that is just about perfect for your pitch and voice is "Something So Feminine About a Mandolin".
Man. I could sit here and come up with songs a talented person could play all day long. I've got to find some of that mutant gel stuff that lets you play B chords lying around one of these days.
- Zurf
I played out on the porch swing last night. All the neighbors ran away. I don't think it went well.
Just wait 'till we get four or six of us out banging out tunes. I'm thinking I had better have a spare cooler full of beer and wine just to keep the neighbors from calling the cops. By the time they've had "enough", we'll be sounding good!
- Zurf
It's not a recipe, but thought I'd bounce an idea of y'all.
On a fishing forum, one of the guys was asking about foods to cook when he's camping that are other than burgers and dogs. We joked around a bit, but we wound up coming up with a suggestion that sounded pretty good - shiskebob style jerked chicken and cold beer. I'm not sure what kind of vegetable to put with it though.
I have a good jerk sauce recipe somewhere - lime and curry and cayenne and and habenero and garlic and a few other things all mashed up together in a pulp.
- Zurf
I'd listen to that.
Mix in a little country/folk/rock like some more Eagles, some old Johnny Cash (Hey Porter!, Blue Train, etc.), and maybe some Brit invasion - Who or Stones and I think you've got one heck of a set that'll appeal to a wide audience. I know you are comfortable in nearly any style with your writing, so expect that you'd be comfy with just about anything as covers.
Be sure to throw "A Few To Many" at them!!! Followed up maybe by Whiskey River or Bloody Mary Morning.
I've been working on It's a Great Day To Be Alive by Travis Tritt, but can't get his peculiar growl-shout singing down, and especially not in his key. I can go higher or lower, but can't hit his particular key. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.
- Zurf
Post count shmost count. If someone wants to boost post count, let them. What's it hurt any of us? Bandwidth concerns notwithstanding.
Badeye excluded of course.
- Zurf
Who's Mozart and what's his latest CD called!!
You don't want to be flippant about Mozart. If your avatar correctly suggests that you like metal music, you've GOT to like Mozart. He was the party hardy rock star of his day, he completely turned music on it's ear, AND the grand-daddy of all speed metalists, Yngwie Malmsteen, uses Mozart licks and musical techniques to this day! Everyone influenced by Yngwie is influenced by Mozart.
- Zurf
Good one SeaDawg. Pink Floyd's got some great lyrics that I can never quite remember (now why would that be?).
This morning on my commute, I was listening to John Denver. I've said before how I like Rocky Mountain High. This morning I noticed why. One of my favorite "tricks" to move a song forward is to change a line in the chorus each time around rather than just repeat the same lines (unless repeating the same lines is important to the song). Anyway, John Denver used three great lines to rhyme with "Rocky Mountain High"
1. You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply.
2. He knew he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
3. Friends all around the campfire and everybody's high.
Of course, when the song/story starts with the line "He was born in the summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place he'd never been before...", you ought to know you're in for a lyrical ride.
- Zurf
That's the spirit! "If you can't play something good, play something we know." 
- Zurf
Sounds like you guys and gals are gonna have an awesome jam.
Wish I was closer myself.
Post pictures...must have pictures.Hey is this gonna be a get toasted and jam party.
Kenny
I'll be serving beer and wine, but I hope that folks will use sense as everyone has to drive in, and presumably drive home afterwards.
- Zurf
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