It's okay.

So, I started by playing and singing covers on the street corner, but don't do that anymore. It did pay my way around the country for couple of years, ha!

I don't do covers much these days, though I was more than willing to do them in Austin. I tend to just transcribe from piano sheet music. I will never play "Someone Like You" again.

I do have some pretty okay covers. One that I was pretty proud of was Space Oddity by David Bowie. I should probably try that one again and maybe upload it. I once had Unchained Melody cover and people were like "oh, that sounded so good! Is that an original?" FML.

I hate to sing and flat out refuse to do that anymore. I feel like my playing outclasses my singing and so I've been looking for a singer.

Dave,

If you could write something to get me on a dance floor, you'd be like a genius.

If you are hungry enough you'll dance

In contrast to your avatar, I see!

I'm pretty easy to get on the dance floor. It's a great way to meet women that like to run away from me.

Back in Austin, I met this girl and we danced, and by "dance," I mean we were basically screwing on the dance floor, old grind style.

At the end of the night, I chat her up about this or that and she mentions the dance scene isn't all that. I tell her that we ought to explore it a bit, I got a great home base in downtown, etc, and she says: "I just moved here from Asia and I don't want to be tied down."

Now, this is an English silver blonde bombshell. As a general rule, I'm not all that attracted to blondes but she was kind of an exception. I decide to end it and take a lonely walk home.

A few months later, I meet this DJ and he tells me that I ought to come check his set out. Okay, why not?

Guess who's there...

She's with her "chunky" girlfriend and I'm alone on the dance floor because hey, I got no friends I guess. She is standing next to me the whole time, not dancing, just standing there.

I ignore her.

I go again a few weeks later and guess who's there? I have a few beers in me, dancing a bit. She's standing next to me for the entire set and I didn't say a word to her.

This repeated a few times. I never did talk to her, but I never tied her down either.

Fabulously cheesy! I only dance with married women to make their husbands jealous.

hey wookie...i'm guessing you didn't watch ghost dog at the time of release or you didn't smoke enough dope when you did?
as for your critique on the 9/12 clip (and at the risk of sullying this thread), he spent a bullet or two shooting the guy at the car. he's anticipating he might need two guns to face whatever he finds in the house, so it makes sense he finishes off car guy with the freshly pulled pistol so he can have an equitable balance of bullets between each gun.

did you notice the nuance of him dropping one pistol when the old man had a coronary? or the old cartoon on the tv? or did you happen to hear the RZA soundtrack throughout the movie? or even notice a RZA cameo?

do you let your employees eat before you do?



and the full clip

preface: i don't play guitar and i never will (but i do play air guitar as a lefty, just like you ). this is from the point of view of a seriously casual music fan.

my quick opinion? you're obviously technically skilled and tight with the technique for those songs, but as i was listening i was wanting to hear you color outside the lines. lots of people can play a song technically well (just youtube search guitar hero videos), but fewer people can infuse the song with their own personal soul that results from an individual interpretation.

I never eat a food, until my soldjeers eat uh first.

... Those are my originals.

Part of it is losing 10% to recording, plus the general difficulty of recording with zero mistakes, plus the guitar is at a bad angle to play due to the camera.

Mostly though, it's just bad recording, bad software, a weak amp, and other technical issues. Playing live is also different because there is a lot more "slop" allowed with a healthy dose of improvising past the mistakes, which is all death to recording. This is why people tend to record to a click.

As I said, most people are very surprised by the contrast, but I'm still learning the nuances of recording. It's seriously difficult and I'll probably never get good at it (or be able to afford the few thousand in equipment).

daveT, check the unique twist on slides incorporated herein errrr

taster's choice

I'll share one of my vids lol

1 sec

lol some wicked guitar face in that one. got dayum, son

Oh man, these solos over a recording never work for me. It's definitely something you have to record then mix down so everything sounds even.

yeah.. it's a bit garbled, but if you know the original recording, and you don't hear much deviation while accompanied(obvs. not the case with my effort lol) I don't mind it

here's my favorite of mine looooooooolo

Is your guitar a Washburn?

Yes.

No.

What is your guitar, Phat Mack?

Schlitz mmmm;

Most of the youtube videos you see doing your style is record first them mime during the video.

A few examples:





I'm not a big fan of shredding, but just two examples. The first isn't totally obvious, but the second is obvious.

This is basically what I mean by not having the equipment. I can record into a DAW, which sounds okay-ish, and I can record a video, but I can't put them together. I just don't have the computing power or the soundcards.

Gibson? Martin? Fender? Epiphone? Seagull? Gretsch? Taylor? Rickenbacker? Ibanez?

Gibson?
If it's older than 15 years, it's pretty good. They've been sitting on their laurels and it shows.

They do take care of lefties, so they are very popular with us.

Martin?
Love child of folky type. They sound okay to me, but I don't like the feel very much. They tend to have lower sustain and higher timbre than other acoustics, with the exception of Ovation.

Fender?
Not a fan of Fender at all, except for the telecaster because you can't fake talent on a telecaster.

I hate strats and never used one I liked.

Fender is another company that sat on their laurels and it shows. They somehow get worse every year.

I used to have a Fender acoustic. It was pretty okay.

Epiphone?
Put them in the "most improved" category. They are finally making decent sounding guitars, but anyone who buys one may want to swap the pickups. I'm not a fan of their fretboards and the stock pickups aren't responsive enough for me.

(Washburn has very hot / responsive pickups, which can be jarring if you aren't used to that)

Seagull?
Never used or seen one, honestly. Do they make lefties?

Gretsch?
You can love them or hate them. I'm not a fan of the plastic fretboards they use, but in the right hands, they are amazing.

The Rev uses a Gretsch, so it's the prime guitar for the rockabilly genre.

Taylor?
Eh....

Rickenbacker?
They are more known for their basses. I've never used their guitars.

Ibanez?
Sigh... they are way too spread out in my opinion. Their cheaper guitars feel like they are priced 2x what they should be. Basically unplayable unless you want to spend $1,000 or more.

My last acoustic was an Ibanez and it was amazing, with a deep timbre, good sustain, and super expressive, It's a total bummer I couldn't ever get it fixed.

Instruments are such a personal thing. I'd buy any of the above brands if the guitar I happen to test out feels right to me. That's a quasi-concept really. Variations between wood, age, pickups, and so on can make the same model sound very different from its twin. Plus stupid things like strings (their age and type), humidity the day you test it, how much ear wax you have, and so on can make a major difference in your impression that day.

My last guitar was a cheap tele clone and I was fine playing it. They say the tone is in the hands and that's pretty true in my opinion. I'd never judge someone for the guitar they play.... well, don't play metal on a tele, haha.

Yeah. I don't have the equipment nor the understanding to do anything but hit record on my phone

I've got a late 60's Kawai and a Swedish Strat knockoff called a Hagstrom. Max I paid for either, with amp, was ~ $35.

I haven't seen either in a decade our two -- daughter has one and nephew the other -- but I still have their amps. I refused to surrender them because they've tubes, and neither kid could be made to believe how much current they produced. I gave them solid state stuff instead.

I was thinking of asking for them back. I have arthritis in my hands and was curious if I could delay its advancement with finger exercises. But screw it, I think they've been passed on to the next generation, and I've always hated having a bunch of "stuff" lying around.

Of note: I think Hound Dog Talyor used cheap knock-off Japanese electrical guitars - he liked the gritty sound they produced for his bar band. No clean super sharp sound for him. Boogie Woogie Bands just need lots of raucous noise to get the people out on the floor and dancing. Even John Cole would probably get out on the floor - or at least tap his foot.