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Ken,
How can you live with yourself, cheating like that? The chords must submit to our will. Except B, of course. It vexes me.
Actually, I take the same approach as you do, except I don't 'cheat' the chords, I play the barre chord and it sounds awful but I don't care because as you say, I'm not getting paid. I figure if I do it enough, eventually they may start to sound better and wouldn't that be nice if it ever happens.
- Zurf
Ohio can do that to you.
- Zurf
Well, that depends on the R&B. If it's R&B Rehashed Disco Dance Remix Crap, that's one thing. But if it's old school R&B that was essentially the love child of Soul and Motown, then there's no reason to hate it.
So, which R&B are you talking about?
- Zurf
No. One of the universe's most vexing and horrible problems to which there is no solution is an easier way to play barre chords. It is one way we can know for sure, despite the many kindnesses and beauty we may see, that we are not yet in heaven. In heaven Bm and F#m will be easy, and there will be no cause for playing an "A" shaped barre chord ever.
- Zurf
SUMELTON1 is a freakin' genius!!! Rusell Harding, however, remains a mutant.
- Zurf
I'll sing, but I refuse to fade.
- Zurf
I don't believe in a LACK of ghosts. I've seen enough strange things in the world. I'm quite certain that I saw my grandmother several weeks after she passed. I inhereted her rocking chair, which was placed in my bedroom (which was very much like an efficiency apartment). I woke in the middle of the night and saw her in the chair looking in on me like she used to do when I was little. She just made the gesture for me to put my head down and go back to sleep the way she had all my life, and so I did. Just because she was dead was no reason to stop obeying her.
- Zurf
Thought it was you Russell. Will the real genius please stand up?
You know what? That's not helping.
Will the real genius please identify himself/herself on-line? (I think that'll work better than standing up. No matter how hard I look at my monitor, I can't see y'all typing.)
- Zurf
No, I'm not talking about his CD (which will be ordered next payday). I am talking about some advice that he gave me in jest and works PERFECTLY! A buddy of mine is a huge "Smokey and the Bandit" fan, so I was trying to learn "East Bound and Down", but it contains the evil B chord, so has been lingering in my Songbook. Russell jokingly said once to just play it with a B7 and say "that's jaaaaazzzz". Guess what? I am convinced that B7 is the right chord in the right place! B sounds awful (it is evil after all, what else could we expect), but it's non-evil only mildly annoying cousin B7 sounds just right in the piece.
Thanks Russell, even if your genius in this case was accidental. 
- Zurf
Well, when my first child came along she was a girl. My wife and I had always liked the name Sarah, but when we checked the popularity lists, we saw that Sarah had been the number one or two name the two previous years. So, we skipped using it and selected another name we liked: Abigail. It hadn't appeared anywhere on the list of the top twenty. Guess what? That year, Abigail was a dark horse and took the number two spot for most common name for girls. So when the second came along, we didn't check the lists and went ahead and named her Sarah.
We had another between them who died before he was born so we didn't get to name, but will always be Peter William in my mind.
- Zurf
Caught in the middle. I understand the admin's position, but I understand Russell's too. Russell's one of our own, but then again it was a commercial enterprise for his own benefit. Glad it worked out and no one was shot.
- Zurf
Mine is like that too. It hasn't seemed to affect the playability of the guitar, which is what I care about. Well, that and the sound, which also seems unaffected. Play it till it's broke, then fix it. It ain't broke yet.
- Zurf
The praise band I used to be in we called The Joyful Noisemakers.
A better description of who I mostly play with now would be Smelly Drunk Men Around a Campfire. Some other names we could go by:
- Instant Hops Shortage
- Never Shave
- Friends of Elijah Craig
- Prop Up the Mandolin Player
- RiverRats
If we're at your house NELA and I left my guitar at home, for the time being yours is definitely better than mine.
- Zurf
It was definitely in Virginia (I wasn't that stoned)
I'm afraid you were David. We here in Virginia do not permit fun. Moral Majority and whatnot. It must have been North Carolina.
- Zurf
Sounds great. I'm recovering from surgery on my right shoulder and have been practicing casting left-handed. Ought to be great entertainment for you and your son. I was organizing my music printouts the other day and came across that one you wrote to sing as a duet with him and prayed for his safety then, and I'll say another for his safe return.
- Zurf
Doc, you have lead a wierd life.
I've been fortunate enough to meet a few artists and I agree that they tend to be fun people. Though I cannot say that I have ever been kissed by a naked musician.
I'd love to get you and Russell around a campfire, sipping brews, playing music and telling stories late into the night. I bet we'd hear some good ones.
I learned a long, long time ago by good example of my father that everyone is just another person. Famous or indigent, we're all people and we all deserve respect. I think the only musician I've ever met who made me nervous was Matt "Guitar" Murphy, but that wound up OK after we were reintroduced later that night by a mutual friend. He shook my hand and let me buy him a drink to make up for something stupid I had said, so that was cool.
The only nudity in my career that I can recall was when I was a bass player for a small playhouse so far off Broadway it was in Pennsylvania. The playhouse was hot - and the orchestra loft especially so. Our horn players kept small coolers with ice in them. Just before playing, they'd drop an ice cube into their mouthpieces and it would run through as quick as if they were just pouring water. That kept them from burning their lips. Anyway, at intermission, we'd go to the cast room where there was an air conditioner and fans. Some of the actors and actresses would strip out of their costumes to cool off before going back on stage. So folks would sit around the cast room in their underwear, or not even that sometimes. There's little modesty in the theatre. You'd think it would have been exciting for a young man to see these beautiful actresses in a state of undress, but it wasn't. It was just hot people trying to get cool. Just another day at work.
- Zurf
On a trip, my brother had to go to the emergency room. He was treated by Doctor Pain. I think I'd have walked out.
IF THIS IS TOO OFF COLOR MODERATOR PLEASE REMOVE OR ANYONE ASK ME TO REMOVE IT AND I WILL - The principal at a high school a few of my friends went to was Anita Dick. I attended an elementary school named for Harry Dickey (whom I later met and was a genuinely nice man but his name still gives me the chuckles).
- Zurf
yeah well..what if we dont want to consintrate on studys???jk!
I'm not saying Rockerchick is wrong about the music in everyday things. The difference between someone taking away your music and allowing you to concentrate on your studies is the difference between vengeance and caring. It's an important distinction.
I whole heartedly agree with Old Doll. There is music in the dawn. I love dawn at the beach, hearing the gulls and pelicans and crashing surf and scurrying of the crabs back into their holes. Some mornings, I'd swear that I could hear the sun hitting the water.
- Zurf
My momma used to hang out with the Statler Brothers, whose real name isn't Statler and only two of the four are brothers. But she used to hang out with the two Statler Brothers who were brothers and aren't named Statler when she was a girl. Their momma sent them off to their grandma's house in the summer, and my grandma watched them during the work day (my grandma was a teacher and didn't work in the summer and needed the babysitting money). Anyway, those boys and my momma ran around the woods and created all manner of havoc and consternation for my grandma. But that has nothing to do with me. I haven't ever met a Statler Brother. Grandma knew Roy Clark too, or so the story goes. Something about her playing ukelale but I never could get the story and now its too late as both Momma and Grandma have gone to the other side to wait for the Statler Brothers and Roy Clark to join them, though I'll betcha they're wearing out ol' Johnny Cash. A buddy of mine used to play bass for Roy Clark, so maybe someday I could meet him as unlikely as that seems and if I ever do I'm going to ask him about my Grandma.
- Zurf
Buddy Guy
John Lee Hooker
Bonnie Raitt
Matt "Guitar" Murphy for sheer awesomeness on guitar (don't think he sings)
Magic Sam
Pretty much the whole batch of 1950's-80's Chicago Blues artists.
- Zurf
Easy! The one(s) you own. I can't play any guitars hanging in the store, but I can play the guitars in my den.
- Zurf
Well I printed this out yesterday during lunch and gave it a go as I took a coffee break this morning. I like it even better now. Very, very good song. If you ever hear me play it, you'll notice that I customized it a little for me. Can't help it. It's nothing to do with the song itself, and everything to do with me. I think that it is a genetic impossibility for me to leave well enough alone.
Now that it's spring, I'm looking forward to harrassing some of those Shenandoah National Park trout with you like we talked about over the winter. Maybe we'll have to write a song about the Rose River.
- Zurf
First concert was Chuck Mangione on his Feels So Good tour seen at Penn State sometime in the late 70's.
Best concert I went to was a comedy concert featuring David Brenner. It wasn't that Mr. Brenner was so funny (he was), but the company. It was the first 'formal' date with the person to whom I've been married for twenty years and with whom I am raising a family.
If it's got to be music concerts, I'm thinking that my favorite concert is the campfire sessions alongside the New River in West Virginia when my buddies and I go camping and fishing. Or alongside the Potomac when I was playing guitar and my buddy Al sang (Al_from_WV who pops up from time to time on the Songwriting forum).
- Zurf
HOLY SHMOLEY!!! I've got a new favorite Chordian song (regrets and apologies to my former favorite song songwriters James, Last Rebel, and Selso). I can SOOOOOOOOO relate to this song, and you had the extreme good sense not to use any "B" chords in it!
Good lyrics, the meter's right on the money, I haven't played the chord progression but I can just about hear it in my head. Just love it. Love it, love it, love it, love it, ad infinitum.
- Zurf
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