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I've got an AC60 that is wonderful.
The key thing for me in picking an acoustic amp is finding one that has a second channel that will accept a mic or a second instrument.
Mine has effects on each channel built into the amp, which is very useful. I can put a little reverb in my voice and drop in some bass, and have the guitar with a different setting.
Very nice! I've wanted either a banjitar or a banjolele for some while now. Mostly to play two songs - Rainbow Connection and Ol' King.
Jan
It was called chordiestock - I never went but it looked like so much fun.
There are many threads and photos somewhere on here about it. I think Mekidsmom, baldguydude, uncle joe and a bunch of others hosted some. Pretty sure Zurf went to a few.It would be great to have one again.
Jim
Topdown hosted Chordiestock. There were 10 of them I think. I went to 9. Or maybe it's 9 and 8. I don't know.
I hosted some back yard jams I called Zurfapaloozas.
Uncle Joe hosted some in his backyard. I think we called that "getting together in Uncle Joe's back yard." I went to a couple of those.
Mekidsmom has hosted a few. I went to one of those. I don't recall what she called hers. Someone who wears my clothes and stares at me in the mirror had more to drink than he ought to have.
I've been wanting to pull one together, but first I need to finish getting myself pulled together again.
Your fingers aren't too fat, long, skinny, weak, clumsy, weird, or anything else. Keep your nails on your fretting hand short. Screw the best way to do it. Do it the way that you enjoy it, so that you'll do it. Don't let the best be the enemy of the good.
Best wishes for a full and quick recovery.
Struggling with my voice at the moment again and I've a couple of solo gigs coming up this month so I'm not singing with the band at the moment. Hopefully it will settle but since getting covid in March I've had a recurring problem but I'll send how I feel after this week ends session
Zurf wrote:TIGLJK wrote:Ok - here is my version https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … ard-island
hope it doesn't hurt your ears too badly
Thanks for listening
Jim
Isn't that cool? You heard it totally differently. I hope a competent bluesman (or woman) (or someone who isn't sure one way or another) can take it on as a project and give us a third wholly different approach.
Graham.
I'm talking about Graham.
Ok - here is my version https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … ard-island
hope it doesn't hurt your ears too badly
Thanks for listening
Jim
Isn't that cool? You heard it totally differently. I hope a competent bluesman (or woman) (or someone who isn't sure one way or another) can take it on as a project and give us a third wholly different approach.
Graham.
I'm talking about Graham.
A quick and sloppy try at how I heard Jim's song.
I wrote this song a while ago ( I think Phill inspired it somehow - I forget
- spent today totally changing it to a blues song.
got four of the words - Rain, Goodbye, Love, Door
hoping someone (maybe Graham ?) could give this a shot -
I will probably post a version later this week - I am heading out for few days.
Prince Edward Island by Jim Kenyon
Verse 1.[Em]I’ve never been to Prince Edward Islandbut I [Am] hear it’s pretty there in the [Em]fallmy [Em]love left for there about a month agoand I’m still [B7]waiting for her to [Em]call.Verse 2.[Em]she’s like the North Atlantic at Prince EdwardWith its [Am] cold tide that ebbs and [Em]flowsSo [Em] beautiful, yet can chill your heartJust like that [B7]North Point rain that comes and [Em]goes.Chorus.Oh ya’ know [Am]heartache with time will go awayAt least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s sayBut I’m still [Am] hoping to get one more danceAnd maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance.Verse 3.[Em ] I wonder some nights, if she thinks of meYa’ know [Am]Prince Edward seems so far a[Em]waynever [Em] said goodbye, as she went out my doorjust like the [B7] rain that’s gone from yester[Em]day.Chorus.Oh ya’ know [Am]Heartache with time will go awayAt least [Em] that’s what all the poet’s sayBut I’m still [Am]hoping to get one more danceAnd maybe [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance...[B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chanceOh [B7]one more kiss, and just [Am]one more [Em] chance
As I read that, I read it as a talking blues with a country twist.
Zurf
some fantastic picking on these covers,im envious!
Thank you.
Zurf, really good both of them. The first song, Bob Dylan, I knew well and have covered it myself quite some time ago. But mine was no where as good as yours, your guitar skills are good in this song and I only had the ukulele. The second song I actually don't know, so it was new to me but you sounded good in it. Both songs you performed really well vocally and instrumentally.
Here is my version of it done 5 years ago and sung probably way too fast
Hey! That's cool! I really like how you started out with staccato strums and syllables and then worked into a steady strum pattern and straight singing. What a neat arrangement.
The second song, Early Morning Rain, is a Gordon Lightfoot classic. It's been covered by nearly everyone from the 1970's folk scare, but probably most memorably by Peter, Paul, and Mary. I love how in this song in the first portion Mr. Lightfoot almost whistfully sings about how the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast. Then at the end of the song, the woman he loves is flying home - quite some distance if it's a three hour flight in a 707 (we are left to presume "she" is a woman and not the aircraft - a beautiful bit of underwriting where the listener fills in the blanks), and he remains behind and practically spits out the phrase "cold and drunk as I can be" and we can imagine him on the ground near the airfield watching the plane leave with her and without him. And we are left to imagine the purpose in her coming was to take him home. It's such a wonderfully written song where he gives no details but provides enough hints for the listener to fill in a complete story.
Someone should write a song about "Tomorrow I'll buy flowers and go without whiskey" or vice versa, as the case may be.
Here's rain.
Well. I expect we can come up with a whiskey song easy enough.
Trampled by Turtles - Ain't No Use In Trying is right off the top of my head. "My friends they drink whiskey. Sometimes I go along."
"The Wild Rover" by everybody who has ever owned a guitar or seen one. "I spent all me money on whiskey or beer."
"Whiskey in the Jar" Dubliners first, but Beamer knows Metallica's version.
"Walkin' Cane" - traditional but I heard it first by Robert Earl Keen. It doesn't say "whiskey" specifically, but it does make a request for having someone "hand me down my bottle of corn". I don't think he was wanting niblets.
And of course, ol' Willie! "Whiskey River" - a love song sang TO the whiskey! "Whiskey River take my mind! Don't let her memory get to me." and so on...
Includes child, goodbye, door and it's easy to imagine rain.
a quicky for song of mth
i may not be a free man much longer, due to murdering a banjo and assaulting a recording device.
threw in a few mistakes just to keep it real, best listened to after a few drinks.you have been warned!
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/autumn-rains
You don't hear enough lead banjo.
I liked it. I especially liked the mention of coffee keeping you warm to rhyme with staying out of the storm.
Jim it was supposed to be this one https://soundcloud.com/graham-windle/just-for-a-change
Oh.That's the one I was supposed to listen to. The recording was much better on it, and I liked it very well. The picking was really outstanding.
https://m.soundcloud.com/graham-windle/ … r-a-change
Here's a song about rain.We get a lot over here .
I'm not sure which one it's supposed to be, but I listened to Wonder and liked it.
Probably also do "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - "I once loved a woman, a child I'm told." Also "Goodbye's too good a word, gal, so I'll just say fare-thee-well."
I'm going to do Early Morning Rain.
Some lovely guitar playing Zurf, what was the numbers song called?
That's "Seven Bridges Road.". I don't know who wrote it. The Eagles made it famous.
Utterly incompetently performed day of the week song dredged to the front of my memory by the sad news of Dan Seals passing.
It is horrendous, but I laughed making it and maybe you could use a laugh too.
A day of the week song.
A number song.
For the bass players among us, I'm wondering what you like for strings?
My Thunderbird came with standard round-wound strings on it, but of course they're fairly noisy. I also like to use a felt ukele pick sometimes, and the rounds chew up them quickly. But ... I didn't want to lose the brightness rounds offer by switching to flat-wounds, so the guy at our local music store suggested these half-rounds by D'Addario:
What type of bass strings do you use / prefer, and why?
I use those, but a little lighter in gauge. I'll also use GHS half rounds.
On my fretless, I have flatwounds like God intended.
Jandle wrote:Peatle Jville wrote:I hope it is ok to put another song up this month. Easy beat Brian asked me to put this song up I composed called The Man At The Bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipPHr6Cs5sPeatle, you can post as many as you like each month, no restrictions
Cheers Jan. That is me playing piano on that one. If Maree had played on that the piano would have been far more better than what I can do. Maree has stopped playing the piano and I don't think she has played anything for about two years now.
God bless Maree.
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