daily music fix

[redneck joe]

best movie ever, best version ever.

 

[redneck joe]

holy crap looky what I found>>

 

[redneck joe]

ok, last one for the day

 

[southkogs]

Reminded me of this, think I posted it before ... but worth watching again ...

 

[southkogs]

If y'all haven't watched any of these, it's a good rabbit hole:

 

[redneck joe]

Reminded me of this, think I posted it before ... but worth watching again ...

i still remember the first time I saw this. I was married to my ex, me and her BFF were waiting on her to get ready to go out for dinner. She and I just looked at each other and was like wtf did we just see.

 

[redneck joe]

seems appropriate

 

[sangerwaker]

Gary Clark Jr is one of my newer faves.

 

[redneck joe]

My uncle has a country place
No one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the "Motor Law"
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For 50 odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Wind in my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenaline surge
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside

 

[southkogs]

 

[dwco5051]

Many don't know that he was probably one of the top 5 guitarists to play pop and country. He started out as a member of the session musicians known as the "wrecking crew" before he was out on his own. Even after that many artist would have him play when they would cut a record. The best ever on the 12 string guitar like he is playing in this video.

 

[southkogs]

Yup: Great documentary on the Wrecking Crew if you want to watch. This is the trailer for it:

 

[redneck joe]

Many don't know that he was probably one of the top 5 guitarists to play pop and country. He started out as a member of the session musicians known as the "wrecking crew" before he was out on his own. Even after that many artist would have him play when they would cut a record. The best ever on the 12 string guitar like he is playing in this video.

I'd challenge 12 string with Leo...

or the medley a few year later

 

[southkogs]

^^^ Good stuff. As a 12 string player ... I'd never heard of him. Fell down that rabbit hole for a while!

 

[dwco5051]

^^^ Good stuff. As a 12 string player ... I'd never heard of him. Fell down that rabbit hole for a while!

Always liked the 12 string but never played one except for a few times lately at the local guitar shop. Can't figure out yet how to sneak one into the house. Here is an interesting article I found last night; https://studentofguitar.com/12-string-guitar-players/
A whole evening until O'dark thirty doing research.

 

[southkogs]

I had played six strings up through high school and college. Had an old beat up Kingsford of Dad's and a cheap Cort electric that I bought. After college I wanted a decent instrument; I'd do live music from time to time and played with a couple of groups, but was never going to record or anything like that, so I knew I needed a good instrument - but not an extravagant one.

I leaned toward Guild and Martin guitars, but when I was at a shop not far from home the sales dude showed me a Sigma 12 string. Played it for 10 minutes, and fell in love with the sound. Been playing that guitar for close to 30 years now. I wound up with a Martin eventually, D12-35. It needs some work, but has that nice warm Martin sound.

 

[redneck joe]

^^^ Good stuff. As a 12 string player ... I'd never heard of him. Fell down that rabbit hole for a while!

grew up with him on 8 track on the boat (74 SRV 190, 140 Johnson). Every weekend it was my job to ensure the 8 track case was loaded.

Dad and the two people I'm named after started a band in high school thru college and a bit into adulthood. They did get together off and on until I was about 12 when we moved to Alpharetta (small town days). They cut one single that went nowhere, if you read any of dads books he blames in on the Vietnam war interruption when two of the three had to go. From his blog:

But for Vietnam (a massive absorptive agent of young men who wanted to do something else) the RF Trio might have been just ahead of, and subsequently been blown out of the water by, The Beatles (the Brits were lucky; they didn’t have to go to Vietnam).

Heavily patterned after the Kingston Trio. Two guitars and a banjo.

on a 1-10 scale i inherited a negative 12 on dads musical ability, but a plus 10 on appreciation. I did get grampas ability to do 'stuff' of which my father has almost none.

But, from as young as I can remember in Portland OR so 3 or so years old thru high school I remember dad playing his guitar downstairs as I fell asleep. He would take a diningroom chair (no matter which house we lived in) and put it in the livingroom in front of the fireplace and play. So that is where my guitar appreciation comes from.


Thanks for being bored with my story....

 

[southkogs]

Thanks for being bored with my story....

Cool story. My family has always had art/music going on in the background. Dad was a good baritone singer. Like your dad, had a few cracks at it but it never went anywhere. To this day, there are songs that no matter who sings 'em ... I hear Dad's voice boomin' away.

 

[redneck joe]

if you need eight hours of some nice guitar

 

[redneck joe]

Seals has passed