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Out Here

1) The sun is risin behind me

   There's a full moon shinin on this heartland hyway

   I know California is up ahead

   I'm tired of the hayfields; tired of the corn

   I wanta wake up on the beach some mornin

   I'm tired of bein lost, I wanta be found instead.

2) Out here is where my folks all came

   Five generations later it's still the same

   But my fate isn't sealed till I'm planted in some

   field

   They came out here lookin for a home

   Cedar creek was the end of the roamin

   Now they're all dust & bones; all names on pretty

   white stones.

cho.) A life time of toil

      Hard work every day

      Earned them a hole in this rich black soil

      And on down in the clay.

3) Out here the air is clean

   Out here the grass is green

   Out here you won't believe the things that I have

   seen

   Murder has been done under the prairie sun

   There's a corporate finger on the trigger

   Of a smoking gun.

Interlude:

   From back of beyond, though I could be wrong

   I thought I heard a cemetery song.

White Rabbit. peace,slim

hey hey!

just put my one chord song on youtube.

i tryed to do an instructive thing using an E chord, scales, and single notes

go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYEGIHwIYs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkYEGIHwIYs</a>

(hope thats right lol)

  peace, slim

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"King of rock and roll" I THINK NOT - he was just an average but OVERLY noisy blues guitarist in fancy dress - OLD CHUCK BERRY WAS THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL GUITARISTS - basic? yes ! but rock and roll most definately - and he sang well and wrote GREAT songs - something Jimi never could do!!!!
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hey hey!

what about louis jordan, who was one of chucks major influences... that jumpin cat who many feel was the true pioneer of rock n roll? what about the early bluesmen who incorporated the augmented "blue note" into

the pentatonic scale that chuck used so well? what about the thousands of african slaves whose call and

response singing evolved into the 12 bar pattern chuck used in most of his songs?

peace, slim.

hey hey!

another 3 chord classic- All Along The Watchtower by

Bob Dylan. U2 covered this one also C#m, B, A, B etc.

peace, slim.

hey hey!

  first, i'm no expert, but as a working musician...

bass in a bar band, instructor( mostly beginners ),

and on call drummer for a couple local studios...

i am buying/selling/trading musical gear weekly, sometimes dayly.

  when i'm looking to aquire something different, what name is on the instrument is of the least importance.

i'm concerned with.. does it fret true, stay in tune up the neck, have a good low end punch, have a sweet tone in the upper register, the right reach for me ( i have small hands) or my student, and does it fall in the right price range. with acoustics i lean toward the lower end of price ranges, for several reasons:

  1) i'm poor

  2) if it's for a student, most of them( or their parents) are also poor

  3)  if it gets stolen, dropped, kicked, abused or busted by my 4 teenagers, i'm not out a ton of money

  4)  the less i spend on music stuff, the more i have for other important things( schnapps, beer, weed, etc.)

  5) the type of songs i write require a flashy, acid country, punk folk, cheap white trash twang

  6) i'm poor

  the main thing is play everthing you can get your hands on.. the right instrument will pick you.

  peace, slim.

hey hey!

try wholenote.com

peace, slim

hey hey!

I have an Oscar Scmidt washburn cutaway it's one of the finest i've ever played. Gave 169.00$ for it used in a music store. also had an alvarez acoustic-electric had a fair tone but was clunky to play i traded it for some other gear at the same store.

the alvarez was around 125.00 used.

peace... slim.

Ken makes a good point. I have a couple buddys who have been working with the biggies in nashville...

they have two songs in the top 100 country charts right now. They say this.. follow the  "nashville formula" and you can break big. But the only nashville formula i can see is have a pretty front man, a fiddle and steel guitar, then play 80's rock. they have been trying to get me involved because nashville wants 3 songwriters colaborating together!?!? i, however, ain,t

just outside the box, i'm outside the circle thats outside the box... write about what moves you.. whats important in your life and it will fall together.

i've written hundreds of songs over the past 30 or so years and consider all but a handfull to be total junk. the big thing is keep at it! the hardest person to please is yourself...

peace, slim

hey hey...

I agree with everyone...hard to pick one !

Mama was a swing baby. All day it was Glen Miller,

Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, etc.

made me the swing drummer i am today. ha

then night in the midwest.... am radio-wls out of chicago.

jethro tull, zz top, deep purple, the doors, hendrix,

zepplin...daytime radio-the beatles, folk, and bubblegum!

so i vote for the archies, for that timeless classic-

sugar sugar.

peace, slim