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Tourists from the North are called snowbirds around here. There is a song and a license plate that reads:
"If it's snowbird season why can't we shoot 'em?"
another:
"We don't care how you do it up North"

Now that we have our recording capability up and running, I want to get Casey and my arrangements on some classics. I am working on full band arrangements of:
"The Saints Go Marching in"-parade band version
"Got You on my Mind" by Delbert McClinton - in two part harmony.
I did a cleaned up version of Pat Dailey's "What the H#** You Got Against Fish" that got me fussed at. A lot of folks liked it better with all the cussin'.
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Wall of guitarists website delivers a bewildering fine selection:

http://www.myguitarsolo.com/Wall/wallofguitarists.html

nevets17, how did it play with the extra lights?
Do you like them better or are you getting buzz sounds?
My buddy always uses medium strings in his Taylor to get a big bassier sound and he put them on an "Applause" (Chinese Ovation copy) guitar he won. He gave me the Applause for a boat guitar and it was a chore to play. I replaced the mediums with light gauge strings and the guitar came alive, sounded better ,fretted more easily and still holds a tune fine.
I would suggest, sir, that you pay a dollar for a crank to turn the tuners fast and learn to change your own strings. All you need to know is to get at least three turns on each tuner post and try to play the new strings in rather than stretching them really hard to get them to hold a tune.
If you don't own a tuner go to Free Web-Based Guitar Tuner Guituner .com.
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Go get 'em Pix. Tear 'em up.
I D.J.'d a booze free wedding last year. They all walked into the reception room after the wedding, ate some free food and left. An hour into the reception and the party was over.
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Wow, every time you click on the link you get a different song selection off of five different C.D.'s.
Uh oh, I see some of the song selections are from our "naughty list".
Sorry about that.
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One of the best things about music and one of the worst things about music is that none of us will ever live long enough to learn it all.
There will never be an end to the discovery and excitement.
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I played a single song guy act for 10 years. I used to use my fat book for lyrics to songs I played less often. It helps with requests too because i have 400+ songs in that book.
My best buddy John Reno hired me to play single gigs when he was double booked. John is a really polished musician, song writer and never takes music onstage. He ordered me to play only songs I had completely memorized because playing to a crowd while staring into a book is highly unprofessional. It was tough at first because I only had 40 or so songs down that well.
I jotted lyrics to two songs at a time on 3by5 cards and took them with me on my daily heart-healthy walks. I would drill lyrics to one song until I tired of it and then switch to the second. By the time I did three miles I would have both sets of lyrics pretty well down.
John told me that drilling a song so many times that you are sick of it and never want to hear it again is when you finally have it down well enough so that you can not play the thing for a month or so and then do it perfectly.
Usually if you get the first few words of each verse, you can remember the rest of it.
I am sick and tired of many of my songs I have played and sang for many years but I am aware that tonight's audience has never heard me do it before.
I like to start an evening with some simple tried and true material I know well so I can divide my attention and listen to how my sound system is doing and observe the crowd to tell what they appear to enjoy most.
I will try some unfarmiliar tunes by request or because I think it may be fun but I warn the audience in advance that I may splatter this one off the wall.
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Oh yeah, they're out there and plenty of them. Makes you want to cut their grubby little fingers off.
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Here's a drummer that kicks. This guy is four years old.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligen … ummer.html

Sorry about you funky day, sir. I've had a few like it.
In the 70's, a bar I played in burned to the ground incinerating my instruments except my old 1960 Gibson guitar and my trumpet - both in their cases.
My valve trombone, Fender amp, Schure P.A. system and Fender Rhodes piano - all toast.
No work or axes to work with.
I had a wife, mother-in-law and two kids to feed so I canvassed the neighborhood, knocking at houses that were dirty or mildewed (lots of those here in the deep South) until I located three that agreed to let me power wash them.
I rented a power washer and bought some bleach and TSP and washed them. I wound up $300 ahead. Did the same thing the next week and met a paint contractor who hired me to prep his work and later hired me to help him paint as well.
I worked part time for this guy for two years until I got back into bar gigging again and we are still good friends to this day.
Just keep beating the bushes until something good falls out of a tree. Sooner or later good things happen.
I learned to do my own and others paint work. That knowledge enabled me to restore a wonderful wooden boat (a project that made me a half dozen more wonderful friends who loved helping me with that one).
My unemployment set me off on a strange and fulfilling path.
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