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: ) I disagree, but this is hilarious!!!!

Bill

Thanks, Russell. Umm, I'm not gonna make an ass out of myself, am I?

Oh. Well then......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjYoNL4g5Vg

Well, could you pretend you're that Doug Smith, then? I mean, that's a lot of words of praise I just wrote and if you played as well as that guy, I'd have written them to you instead.

All kidding aside thanks for being a bud and my personal Doug Smith. That goes for everyone here.

Disclaimer: Not gay. Just an English major who also loves to write. Sometimes with his foot in his hand and his mouth.

Bill

Zurf,

I was just thinking about you and found the perfect song to dedicate to you. Listen especially closely to the "Chet's Guitar Course" part right at the first. That's you all over, Buddy!

Bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8sDd7DSl8

First off, I see what you did there, my friend!

Just a few comments: I found the playing and music presented very pleasing and ...... amazing. The finger picking on #1 especially. I will have to click on more of Mr. Graham's work. Same goes for #2, That guy keeps that thumbnail nice and long which makes for a very nice percussive sound to complement those he makes with his other fingers.

[short note on this post: I am writing my comments as I listen or just after in case the reading of the post sounds a little disjointed to you. ]

3. Do I know this guy sorta "personally"? Gee Whiz, Doug! I never even knew I was "speaking" with a virtuoso guitarist. At my age and given my history with music, I've often thought there's nothing new to be heard for me, but here you come with no warning of what I was about to hear and see, and whammo, I've found what I thought was gone or had eluded me. I have no superlatives, Doug that you haven't heard or read before, so what I plan to do is visit your site, buy some of your work, ask if I can have an autographed picture for my "My Wall of Fame", and tell folks they're listening to a "virtual personal friend of mine" and hoping they skip over the word virtual in
hearing me say it.

Adding the expletive "WOW" to "Gee Whiz" is about the best I can do, my (virtual) friend. I'm totally amazed. Thank you!

4. Beautiful. I've heard "Water Is Wide" before and it isn't hard to imagine a river with Mark Hanson sitting on the banks playing this.

5. Never having heard "Ebon Coast" and lacking the expertise of some of the commenters, I can't really speak intelligently enough to critique the song, Doug. It's beautiful to hear and when I found out that the baritone guitar by Greenfield is $14k, I almost croaked. Plus, now I have the added "Burdon" of comparing the rest of all these guys' playing to yours!

6. I agree with one of the comments: The person wrote "this feels like walking through a city at night". One can hear the "frantic" sounds of a city in the performer's playing. Can you tell I'm big on tone poems? I love The Moldau from Pictures At An Exhibition and my all-time favorite, "The Grand Canyon Suite".

7. "Ocean" looks hard as hell to play, Doug, but to a drummer it all looks hard to play, so most of us are satisfied, during a performance, just to stick with the bass player and pray he has a good sense of "time". That guitar looks like it's had its share of beers and then some, doesn't it, but so does Willie's. Doesn't distract from the sound, though.

Thanks for sending these to me, my friend. I thoroughly enjoyed every piece I listened to and plan to make a playlist. Especially one of that Smith guy!

Bill

Wow! We're totally whacko over this song, Phill!!!!

Sorry I'm just now getting around to posting about it, but we've been a little busy here.

The way I even heard it for the first time might interest you, my friend: Dondra and I were listening to TIG's "(Lift Me Up On) Angel's Wings" on Soundcloud and the very next song in the queue was yours.

When it began playing, I looked up at my address bar, thinking I had left one of the radio channels on.

Well, imagine my surprise when I looked at the lineup of tunes and saw your whole nickname (including the 2 L's ).

"Hey! That's Phill from CHORDIE!", I said, and sure enough, I did a search here and found the link.

So long story short, I thought we'd been listening to the radio, heard your tune, loved it and were mightily pleased to learn it was you.

And that's our compliment.

Bill

ETA: Changed "liked" to "loved" and wanted to let you know that comments were left.

This is one of the most beautiful passages of prose I have ever read. Thank you, Jim.

And NOT one B or B7 anywhere to be found, TIGger! . I had been meaning to tell you that, but with all the stuff that's been going on here, I just kept forgetting. Dondra just heard the latest version, liked it so much that she asked me to learn it for our anniversary.

"Which one?" (anniversary), I asked her.

^That's going to take some explaining and it's been a "private" joke just between she and I, but since you, TIG, along with all my other friends are now family, I'll let you in on it.

I may have mentioned that she and I are married for the second time (there were 22 years between marriage 1 and 2 with no other marriages inbetween - long story). Well, for some reason we both have been forgetting our second marriage's anniversary and have been going back and forth since about which one we ought to honor.

We still haven't come to a satisfactory date, so what do my friends here think?

Sounds like a song, don't it?

Ah, but that's my life: A sitcom, and I'm enjoying it more and more as I look back. Enjoying it more now that I'm part of our musical family, too!

Thanks a million, Jim for that beautiful, and more than fitting song which I plan to learn and sing for my bride who I loved so much I married her twice!

Your Friend

Bill

Zurf,

We can't pick up the latest song, buddy. Still getting that message even though I joined drop box. Sorry!

Bill

PS: How you comin' on "Happy Boy", my friend? "Hubba-hubba-hubba-hubba-hubba"? No rush, but she sure would like your version of it. There's you a CHALLENGE my friend!

Your Pal

Bill