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........allows the user to access among others, Netflix and YouTube, but the kid who's helping us install it tells me either the computer or the player (don't remember which) is missing a small attachment, but he couldn't remember it's name (blind leading the blind, right? 
). Anyone know what it might be and where I can obtain it?
Thanks
Bill
All is well, Phill! Even with the little faux pas I laughed out loud while thinking to myself, "Yup, just what I need: a paradisial bird up my nose!" 
Neither of us laugh too much these days so it was just what I needed.
Bill
The same to you and your loved ones, Mo'. I hope to hear some more of your fine work in 2018.
Bill
I looked for the best version of this Dylan cover for y'all, but of all of the live ones, this is the best. I don't know what the problem with the mix was, but it sounds to me like there was no sound person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtllmSbdbH4
The version I have (on cassette) starts the song with a long drawn out "GAWWWWD said to Abrhamam......" If you can find this on e, then you have the best version.
Bill
As we approach the Christmas Holiday, Dondra and I would like ALL of you to know how dearly we hold you in our hearts. You have been there for us EVERY DAY of the year and have ridden out the tough times with the both of us with your words of love, caring and kindness.
While we have nothing but profound thanks in return, within them is a happiness that no matter to what religion you may belong not one of you has forgotten any and all proverbs dealing with kindness and help for those less fortunate than you, and that makes us both proud and loved.
Thank you, dear family and we wish all of you Merry Holdays and a safe, healthy and successful 2018.
Whenever I get emotional, instead of "crying" I like to say "I'm raining" , and let me tell y'all, it's a "monsoon of happiness" in my little studio right now.
We send our love
Bill and Dondra Craig
Being that it is the Season, I want to share with you that every time one of our family pens a new tune, I'm like a kid opening a present.
I know I'm being redundant, but when one considers the many walks of life, cultural differences and distances represented here it should come as no surprise that the thread which binds us all is called "music'.
I realize how corny this all sounds, but I have never had a group of mates like you all and this is just my way of nurturing that feeling.
Thank you,
Bill
Comment left on YT for you, Curt. I've never heard the version by Elvis, but the change in rhythm and speed sounds like it may have been a challenge with the chord changes.
Along with "New York Mining Disaster, 1941" this ranks in the top 5 of my fave BeeGees tunes. Didn't care much for the Disco phase at all. Thanks, Curt!
Bill
"Don't beat your head against a dead horse"
I hear some Fahey/Kottke influences coming through, TF? Beautiful tune and the stroll through the crowd just adds to its uniqueness. Great choice!
Bill
Jim.
I really like what you did with the "time/feelings" progression, and, in my opinion the "hook" phrase is "......a little too much and a lot too often".
I can imagine somewhere in some "hole in the wall" bar sits a guy writing these words. I hope he doesn't forget to pocket that napkin he just wrote those words on, because that's the "scene" I just "conjured up"in my head.'
Very nice, my friend!
Bill
....... your guitar? Have you ever done it? Is there a "trick" to doing it correctly?
A couple of years ago, I had my Rogue Beatle Bass changed from round to flat wound strings and, as part of the service, the luthier polished the finish with carnauba wax (I knew right away it was for cars because of the picture on the container and from the way my pulse began to race as I watched him squirt the stuff on my "baby".
"You, uh.....you uh, uh...... er.... um"
Finally he looked up, winked and said, "Relax, Bill. I know I'm using car wax."
Which I guess is luthier-speak for, "I know what I'm doing, so why don't you just go look at all the pretty guitars and drums, my friend and let me do what you're paying me for?"
So that's what I did and because I did, I missed some of the more salient points of polishing a guitar with carnauba wax.
Can anyone help me with this? Maybe some of y'all might use it on your pate? I just really don't want to mess up my pretty bass.
Thanks, Mates!
Bill
Thanks for another great tune, Mo'! Comments left on the Cloud for ya', my friend!
While stationed in Minot, North Dakota a few other guys and I went to see Frank Zappa And The Mothers one night in the city's small auditorium.
Since there wasn't really a regulation against it, all five of us attended in our fatigues.
It was a full house and, as one might expect, it being the late 60's/early70's we airmen got roundly booed.
"Out with the Uniforms, out with the Uniforms! Get OUT of here War, mongers!!!" were two I remember especially.
As the booing quieted, Mr. Zappa was heard to say, "Everyone in this room's in uniform. Don't kid yourself."
Bill
Hi, Pete
First, it is I who is lucky to know you!
Secondly, my only function is as a door opener/suggestion maker. And those "suggestions" a very few, indeed. I can tell when you hit your "groove" almost every time you do it, so if I help at all, it's because I have heard a few "hooks" in my life.
I hope you do find the books useful, my friend, and don't let the word "College" in the title of the first one throw you off. The way to beat that is by doing something all of us (including you) are already doing anyway: Just ask, "What's he/she trying to tell me"?, and there you go - just use it on yourself: "What am I trying to tell my listener"?
I wish I could follow my own advice!
I look forward to reading and listening to your next work, my friend and that goes for all of you. More often than not, I'll come away with the thought. "Wow! I Wish I had written that!"
Bill
Two books I am never without, Pete are:
1. The Harbrace College Handbook, by John Hodges (now in its10th edition/revision) which I would be happy to gift you, if you will pm me your address; and
2. The Elements Of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White* and Its 50th edition may be purchased at Barnes & Noble (among other online sellers) in paperback for about $7..00 USD
Although I consider them both "textbooks", the latter, instead of concentrating on style rather than grammar. It's about 64 pages in length, but worth every word.
Don't forget to send me your name and address.
Your Friends
Bill and Dondra
*If the name E.B. White, sounds familiar to you, (it should). Mr. White also wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.
****I am NOT affiliated with ANY booksellers******
THIS is what I meant, Pete! Great job and your voice is really accentuated and is "let loose" when that guitar plays softly in the background. I hope you didn't mind my suggestion, but that poem just cried out for that little bit of accompaniment in the background.
Love right back at you and Maree, my friend!
Bill
I have to echo Jan's critique, Jim. I left notes on both of them on Sound Cloud, but for the benefit of our Chordie family, I will say here that I am enjoying immensely the talent that you, Jim, and all of you are sharing with us. Speaking just for myself, I feel both entertained AND instructed as I listen. Strong work, my friend!
Bill
There you go again, Z, proving what a generous and totally nice guy you are. A beer and one ice cream wouldn't even get us started good. You need a pitcher and a gallon of your favorite flavor of Ben&Jerry's. A round of brew would be provided (by the recipients of your kindness) for anyone there, plus several choruses of "Jolly Good Fellow (and so say all of us)".
A beer and ice cream float. That's what I'm talkin' about!
Privilege to know you, my brotha!
Bill
Richard and everyone, until I got my Rogue "Beatle Bass" ALL my guitars were blue. I had 4 at once (not expensive). Takamine Jasmine (acc/elec), a Galveston acc/electr, bass, a Fender Strat, and the Epi Les Paul Studio.
Funny, isn't it how some of us musicians have that "fetish" for a certain color, or other attributes on their instruments?
I'm reminded of Dizzie Gillespie and that bent-upward horn end of his trumpet; some folks want the same color as Chet Atkins' "Country Gentleman" in the same color as Chet's; and was it Sammy Hagar who only played red Strats? and so on.
I like Richard's black and red 6-string (model name?) and wouldn't mind going off the blue for one like that.
Can y'all think of any other guitarists who do this?
Bill
I print them out, in larger format and then write in the chords as they reappear in the verses which follow. I have to do it that way, because the dementia has affected my memory to the point where I don't trust it, and it's a "show-stopper" for me if I have to leaf back to see what chords to play.
This may seem and odd way to do it if you're one of the younger, more accomplished Chordians, but being solo and even repeating a tune over and over, I can no longer remember 3 songs at best.
The printed pages with all chords written over the words, I place the pages into a losse-leaf binder.
Bill
Depending on your guitar, look up Tronical tuners ...
https://www.tronicaltune.com/tuners?front=1
Cheers
I went to the site, neo and it looks cool, but is the site supposed to let you hear the tunings as they change?
Thanks
Bill
Is that you, Lord Buckley? Man, what a story teller you are, Pete! Another one for the "book" you should be keeping, my friend and I am happy to know you carry a pad and pencil with you! It has inspired me to begin doing the same.
In reference to it not being a "song", I agree, but I hear a guitar softly strumming in the background. Would you consider adding that?
Well done, my friend!
Bill
Nice one, Mr. badeye! The sound came over nice and clear and I enjoyed every minute.
"You can't have whiskey without the blues": I don't know if anyone actually said that, but if not, well I just did.
Every time I hear a blues song with booze as the subject, I can't help but think of the song, "One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer". I also get a little nauseated when it's played.
Nicely chosen, my friend.
Bill
Tight and Right, Neophytte (or is it "neo-fit").
Dumb question, but "in one of my duo's.......": what does that mean (keeping in mind I'm a "Yank")? Were you two musicians at the time? I loved the tune, by the way and I'm glad it's a part of an album. Can one hear it in it's entiriety on you tube, or might you be selling it on Amazon or elsewhere? Well done, and i'd also appreciate knowing where you got that red/black 6-string or is it available only in Perth.
Thank you for sharing that rockin' tune with us!
Bill
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