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and a great job too.
i looked on chordie, and was directed to a bunch of versions. i wanted the words so i for the nancy sinatra version. chords are:
Fm-Bbm-Eb-Cm
i prefer your version so i ignored the above as whoever did it messed right up. i only wanted the words like i said
phill
sorry TF but if you listen to the tambourine in-stead of the drums you will see that it's actually in common time 4/4. i'd be more concerned about the key changes. the drum pattern is just a rhythm thing, ian anderson does it a lot.
i gave up trying to play jethro tull stuff years ago, i just sit back and enjoy it now....let the mysteries engulf me in a blissful funk of folk/rock euphoria.
OK, brilliant line-up, but where is the music?
thank you and goodnight....elvis has left the building
after listening to your version, i checked it out in "songs". now the quandary i have is; you've changed the beat (which i love) and you've also changed the chording (which i also prefer) and dont appologise for making an excellent recording, the drums are just not what i'm used to on a loop. top notch
hi zurf, just had to say that here in the UK when you say "tie my own flies" it's taken as doing up your own zipper! i realized then that you were referring to fishing flies, (another bad habit i dont have)
phill
hey roger, up-tempo, i've never heard you do up-tempo before it sounds great and the accompanying video was excellent timing perfect! congrats.
is that a live drummer? if not then ive underrated band in the box all this time.
since i heard your version i've decided to do this myself in my live shows.....phill
this thread is from 2008, when you look back....!
never mentioned but one of the best live albums ever and DVD is YES AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES.
i've added 2 new songs on myspace. for some reason the sound is distorted, dont know why. if you'd like a listen then click the web button on your left. thanks, hope you enjoy them. now i've found a way to up-load again, i shall be doing more.
phill
comments welcome
that's what i was trying to say, so thanks for that. the guy is obviously a very skilled musician and well practiced on this instrument.
i had noticed he never stops fingering the guitar frettboard, he thumps down to get the note, not easy on a loudly amplified electric guitar, but he's doing it on a mic'ed acoustic...kudos
very interesting. from what i could make out, it is tuned as a harp/sitar. all the notes he played (apart from the bass notes on the heavy strung classic guitar) were open notes as per harp. he then added a little strum for effect as you would a sitar, but i think the main carrier of the melody (what there was of it) was played by the pianist.
dont get me wrong i'm not knocking this guy, he's very skillful and melodic in his own right. do you think he would want to join the other strings forum?
when i listen to the guitar greats, clapton, howe, blackmore etc, and i think to myself, "yeah, i can do that" then i try and i wonder "how the hell did they do that?" i realize that my plateau is way lower than theirs. so i content myself with the knowledge that they'll never have the luxury of playing one of my songs 
hi bob,
i too have an alesis multimix 8 usb and i'm very happy with it, and starngely enough a logitec webcam. knock yourself out, good choice
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
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