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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 13:32:08 GMT -5
I signed up to do 4 tunes for a "Birthday Bash" gig end of the month. The premise is to play songs from artists born in that month. There are some monster people born in October including; John Lennon; Jackson Browne; Laura nyro; and Tom Petty for starters. Oh, Paul Simon too. But I search for something interesting that I can do. Looks like I'm going to try Dwight Yokum's "Goodtime Charlie's Got the Blues." And "The Boxer" by Paul Simon. And likely "Whiskey or God" from Dale Watson. But I also found a Tom Paxton tune I want to try
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Post by millring on Oct 8, 2015 13:40:07 GMT -5
Danny O'Keefe's "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues" (He's a very close facebook friend of mine )
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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 14:12:22 GMT -5
Nice. That might help. But it's hard to pass up Dwight's version
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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 14:14:09 GMT -5
Here's Dale Watson
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Post by billhammond on Oct 8, 2015 14:26:21 GMT -5
Does the Minn Guitar Mafia get credit for turning you on to Dale Watson, Marshall, or did you do that on your own?
I shall never ever forget that glorious day at Ginny's Longhorn Saloon, where I sat right next to the amp of Dale's incredible pedal-steel player, who I later learned was THE BACKUP GUY!
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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 14:28:38 GMT -5
I'm not so sure about "Buy a Gun" anymore. It's a perfect Tom Paxton. And still timely. But obscure and controversial. And maybe hard to do.
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Post by millring on Oct 8, 2015 14:29:28 GMT -5
I think I told the story of many years ago when I was told that Doc Watson was coming to Warsaw....and it turned out to be Dale Watson?
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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 14:30:04 GMT -5
Does the Minn Guitar Mafia get credit for turning you on to Dale Watson, Marshall, or did you do that on your own? I shall never ever forget that glorious day at Ginny's Longhorn Saloon, where I sat right next to the amp of Dale's incredible pedal-steel player, who I later learned was THE BACKUP GUY! Well no. He was on the list and I googled him and that popped up. But now that you mention it, I do remember a discussion. He played at Jeff's daughter's wedding, right?
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Post by billhammond on Oct 8, 2015 14:32:54 GMT -5
Yes, that is correct.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 8, 2015 14:40:00 GMT -5
I think I told the story of many years ago when I was told that Doc Watson was coming to Warsaw....and it turned out to be Dale Watson? Either way, a winner.
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Post by Doug on Oct 8, 2015 17:53:17 GMT -5
Nice. That might help. But it's hard to pass up Dwight's version But it's an O'Keefe song. And it's hard to sing with feeling if you weren't in Seattle when the billboards read, "Will the last person leaving please turn out the lights"
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 8, 2015 21:23:46 GMT -5
I'm not so sure about "Buy a Gun" anymore. It's a perfect Tom Paxton. And still timely. But obscure and controversial. And maybe hard to do. That song isn't obscure to me, but I think you are thinking correctly with the idea that it might be too controversial. In some settings it might work great, but yours is one of celebration, no point in using it to make a statement.
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Post by xyrn on Oct 8, 2015 22:34:04 GMT -5
I actually did buy my son a gun. Of course, he's currently four so it'll be awhile yet before he gets to hold it, let alone use it. Marlin's "Little Buckaroo", a youth sized .22LR single shot. When I decide he's ready I'll start him off with a BB gun, and when he has shown responsibility with that we'll move up to the .22 rifle. The safest kids are those that are taught well from the get go. Oh, and that rifle is in an 800 pound safe bolted to 12" concrete.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 8, 2015 22:44:27 GMT -5
I'm not so sure about "Buy a Gun" anymore. It's a perfect Tom Paxton. And still timely. But obscure and controversial. And maybe hard to do. That song isn't obscure to me, but I think you are thinking correctly with the idea that it might be too controversial. In some settings it might work great, but yours is one of celebration, no point in using it to make a statement. No. Mine is a situation of privileged people in a ritzy suburb that live a comfortable life and could use a little tweaking now and then. My pastor is fond of saying, "The purpose of religion is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." I feel pretty much the same about music. If it doesn't communicate something it's just pretty noise. If I'd wanted to play party cover songs I'd have been in a wedding band decades ago. That being said, I'm not sure this the statement I want to make in this setting. Plus I'm not sure I can pull it off. There's a LOT of words. If I can't do it well, I don't want to do it. But I'm not adverse to doing something controversial. Afterall John Paxton was born in October, damn it, and he had something worth while to say. It still applies today and should be heard. Actually most the songs I chose are a little off-base. I mean "Whiskey or God" is a funky in it's own right. Two months ago I chose Don Hendly's "Dirty Laundry," because it says something. (I could just as easily chosen "Peaceful easy Feeling" )That's my folk song traditional roots. I'm not a pop guy. As much fun as "8 Days a Week" is, it really says absolutely nothing. "Good Time Charlie," on the other hand is something that conveys real honest emotion. It doesn't stick in anybody's face. But it does communicate real human emotion. Rant over for now.
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Post by xyrn on Oct 8, 2015 23:28:16 GMT -5
...My pastor is fond of saying, "The purpose of religion is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." I feel pretty much the same about music. If it doesn't communicate something it's just pretty noise. I've heard people say the same thing about stand up comedy. It's supposed to be edgy, controversial and/or put a twist on something in a unique way. These days there is so much that people say "oh you can't say that" about that a lot of comedy has devolved into sex jokes, which oddly are considered not shocking anymore. When TV was a new thing you couldn't show a married couple reading in bed together. Now you're as likely to hear a joke about a clitoris on primetime 'family' programming as you are too hear a joke about anything else. That's not clever or funny, it's base humor for the lowest denominator. Anyway, not to hijack the thread, just was struck by Marshall's statement.
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Post by Doug on Oct 9, 2015 7:56:16 GMT -5
I actually did buy my son a gun. Of course, he's currently four so it'll be awhile yet before he gets to hold it, let alone use it. Marlin's "Little Buckaroo", a youth sized .22LR single shot. When I decide he's ready I'll start him off with a BB gun, and when he has shown responsibility with that we'll move up to the .22 rifle. The safest kids are those that are taught well from the get go. Oh, and that rifle is in an 800 pound safe bolted to 12" concrete. I built my grandson a .22 by cutting down and reworking a .22 single shot I had. Because he was almost a month early I didn't finish building it before he was born but got it done before he came home from the hospital. Now he's a grown man.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 25, 2015 8:13:06 GMT -5
I'm sticking with the 4 tunes mentioned above. They're coming along nicely. "The Boxer" will be to a reggae beat and be 1/2 step lower than Paul Simon does it. B instead of C. I've charted them all for the band. It'll be the sing-along song. Becasue everybody knows the chorus; "Lie, la lie."And "Buy a Gun" will still be in the mix. That one will be up a whole step from Tom Paxton's version. I'm not going to be heavy handed with it. It's topical. I'll treat it tongue-in-cheek. "Goodtime Charlie" is really a neat tune. I'll do it a whole step lower than Dwight Yoakum. My take is even more melancholy that the other versions. Some times I like to wallow in it. I've even got the lead guitar part worked into my chord progression, so I could do the tune solo if I decide to keep it after this show. Also there's a nice female singer in the group. I'll try to get her to do some harmony on the chorus. www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=13238792&q=hi&newref=1"Whiskey or God" will be in the same key as Dale Watson. It really needs a band because there's only one repeated verse and no chorus. There's an instrumental verse between the first and last time through the lyric. So, it needs to be stretched out. And it's not fitting into anything I can do a solo lead over my own chords. So this is probably a one-and-done. (But the theme could have some mileage with my church band friends. )
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Post by millring on Oct 25, 2015 11:13:22 GMT -5
my chords
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Post by billhammond on Oct 25, 2015 11:20:32 GMT -5
What sad times are these when young ruffians can openly play and record and post major sevenths.
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Post by millring on Oct 25, 2015 11:43:28 GMT -5
What sad times are these when young ruffians can openly play and record and post major sevenths. The methamphetamine of chords.
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