• mojo01
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Topic: why is it?

why is it  when my friends ask me to learn a new song for our annual get together it never fails to requires the vocal range of Roy Orbison and the chords are a bowl of alphabet soup?
i am three chords and a cloud of dust with a mono tone  vocal range , they best really be hammered when they ask me to play it . just saying 

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Re: why is it?

Mojo,

You playing alphabet soup chords and gigantic ranges of of vocals, even hammered, is 1000 % better than me playing and singing one chord and a nursery rhyme  smile
Just saying

Jim     

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Re: why is it?

My covers of other peoples songs are best heard by the deaf. The ones with hearing have learnt not to ask me to attempt to cover someone else's song. Most probably I could be used as a way of getting people to go home. Once I start singing and playing everyone suddenly realizes they need to leave and head home.     

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Re: why is it?

If there are more than four chords, it's the song-writer's fault.     

Granted B chord amnesty by King of the Mutants (Long live the king).
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Re: why is it?

Zurf
Good to hear from you!!

Jim     

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Re: why is it?

when the falling down liquid get to my son (and he can put them away) he will tell me to get my guitar out and "give us a tune dad." my reply is " i am an artiste and i only perform for money." which is a lie as i'm happy to play at the drop of a hat but not to family or when i'm drinking or when i'm sober!
my advice: get your excuses ready before hand     

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Re: why is it?

Phill Williams wrote:

when the falling down liquid get to my son (and he can put them away) he will tell me to get my guitar out and "give us a tune dad." my reply is " i am an artiste and i only perform for money." which is a lie as i'm happy to play at the drop of a hat but not to family or when i'm drinking or when i'm sober!
my advice: get your excuses ready before hand

could not have said it better     

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