Search options (Page 9 of 49)

Cover bands are OK. Tribute acts, not so much.

As others have said, if you want to play songs written by someone else, make it your own. You'll probably sound better being yourself.

When we got together in NY in August, Dirty Ed made a comment when I had finished City of New Orleans. He said; "You play it slightly different than what I'm used to." I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. But it was my version and I'm stickin' to it.

I'll put you between my place and the pavilion.

It's a standard 110v plug?

Then yes. You can back in where everyone was parked in '15. I'll figure out other parking arrangements for folks. There's an outlet on the pole. There's also a water hydrant you can plug into.

I was up at camp over the Labor Day weekend. The above mentioned Jeff was there as well. He built a fire Sunday night and we sat down to play for awhile. Within about 15 minutes we had 12 people sitting around listening. Turns out 3 of them were also musicians. One of them used to play in a bluegrass band. He's coming and bringing his banjo and mandolin. The other 2 play guitar and will be coming as well. So there are now 6 local musicians.

Let's hope this string of hurricanes ends and we have a nice dry weekend.

Unfortunately, it now looks like Irma is going to be knocking on your door as well.  Stock up and stay safe.

And it looks like Jeff has a great big bulls eye painted on his place.

This requires a slightly longer explanation than some of you.

When I moved 100 miles away from home I didn't know anyone. Met a couple people from my apt complex and they invited me to a weekly Sunday afternoon volleyball game. There was a guy there that almost immediately started calling me Uncle Joe and others picked it up.

Fast forward 4 years. Met a guy who had this thing about calling his male friends "Dad" and female friends "Mom." One day he referred to me as dad and then thought about it for a few seconds. He said; "No, you're not a dad kinda person. You're more like an uncle, Uncle Joe." So now I had it from two completely different circles. It stuck and I'm known as Uncle Joe just about anywhere I go. I even introduce myself that way sometimes to new acquaintances. Folks seem to remember that.

Fast forward a couple more years. There was a small group of us that got together almost every weekend to make music. My wife at the time worked at an assisted living facility. One day she came home and asked if we would consider playing for the residents. A couple weeks later and there we were, 3 guys on guitar and two girls singing. We were getting close to the hour we had and one of the residents asked what we called ourselves. We all looked at each other with this blank look. Since we played mostly Grateful Dead I finally broke the silence and said Uncle Joe's Band, which is a play on words from the Dead's song Uncle Johns Band. I discovered online forums around '07 and started using UncleJoe as a screen name. When I found Chordie a few years ago UncleJoe was taken so I used Unclejoesband.

Indeed, Yes had the best album covers.

Happy Birthday Roger.

Wish I could help you Phill but they never seem to post in my sections.

Oh wow! You're practically in the heart of that mess. Will you have to bug out?

Hang in there and good luck

Ours was only 75% but well worth the time. I shot a video of the whole thing; 35:00. There was some light cloud cover but the sun/moon did poke through a few times. Then the heavy clouds moved in and that was the end for me. I trimmed the video down to just over 4:00.

https://vimeo.com/230529306

Ripple is what made me look at the way I played the G.

Still going through everything. Here's one that didn't need any work except trimming a little off the ends.

https://vimeo.com/229506817

Here's another one. Raw. No editing.  You're welcome Jim.

https://vimeo.com/229511510