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Post by howard lee on Mar 21, 2024 5:41:37 GMT -5
Good morning, Soundholers. Hoping everyone has a lovely day.
Off we go. Enjoy that morning coffee.
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Post by theevan on Mar 21, 2024 7:08:53 GMT -5
Free songwriting workshop with Pierce Pettis at noon at Baton Rouge Community College!
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 21, 2024 7:14:15 GMT -5
Good morning. Last night it rained. There was no rain in the forecast. I like it when nature declines to obey our computer models.
My running to-do list has a number of items on it for today.
I'm glad to have another day. Enjoy yours.
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Post by John B on Mar 21, 2024 7:46:16 GMT -5
Free songwriting workshop with Pierce Pettis at noon at Baton Rouge Community College! That sounds awesome!
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Post by kenlarsson on Mar 21, 2024 7:51:13 GMT -5
Good morning. Looks like a nice weather day here in Florida. I've got honeydews and bills to pay on the agenda. Have a great day folks.
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Post by Shannon on Mar 21, 2024 8:22:29 GMT -5
Good morning, all.
The men's NCAA basketball tournament begins today. I'm not a huge basketball follower, but I enjoy the tournament.
Evan, the Pierce Pettis workshop should be great!
Livingston Taylor is coming to our little town to do a songwriter's workshop in May. I may try to go.
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Post by Shannon on Mar 21, 2024 8:23:46 GMT -5
Oh, and Pierre Bensusan is doing a concert in town next week. I don't much about him, but I know he is something of a legend. Is he someone I should go see?
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Post by Marty on Mar 21, 2024 8:26:12 GMT -5
Good morning.
22F-34F cloudy.
INR this morning and some quick shopping.
Lunch with Da Boyz tomorrow although there will be girls there too.
Snow starting late tonight but I don't think it will be much.
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Post by Marty on Mar 21, 2024 8:40:58 GMT -5
Oh, and Pierre Bensusan is doing a concert in town next week. I don't much about him, but I know he is something of a legend. Is he someone I should go see? Pierre always stopped by the Podium when he was in town. He wanted to see Jim Olson so I called Jim and then took Pierre out to his place. He asked Jim to make a signature model for him but Jim refused, his only signature model is the James Taylor. Pierre got George Lowden to make the guitar. Don't sit in the front row, Pierre doesn't bath all that often. Laying his head on the guitar is something he just does while playing. It could be a hearing problem but I never asked him why.
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Post by theevan on Mar 21, 2024 9:13:08 GMT -5
Good morning, all. The men's NCAA basketball tournament begins today. I'm not a huge basketball follower, but I enjoy the tournament. Evan, the Pierce Pettis workshop should be great! Livingston Taylor is coming to our little town to do a songwriter's workshop in May. I may try to go. Go! And to Bensusnan as well. Auburn has become a force...that has to pique your interest further I'd imagine.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 21, 2024 9:28:37 GMT -5
"Livingston Taylor is coming to our little town to do a songwriter's workshop in May. I may try to go."
A nephew studied with him at Berklee and thought he was both a great guy and a great teacher.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 21, 2024 9:39:03 GMT -5
Up, coffee, sunny, and warm.
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Post by paleo on Mar 21, 2024 9:45:12 GMT -5
Today my daughter and Granddaughter will head to Scotland, via London, for the Irish Dance World Championships. My Granddaughter has retired from competition, but she is going as a coach. World medalists are in high demand as coaches, and she finds time to do some coaching in addition to a full college load and a part time job.
As for me, I'll make a grocery store run this afternoon, in preparation for some potentially foul weather the next couple days.
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Post by dradtke on Mar 21, 2024 10:11:53 GMT -5
Morning, all. My lovely wife's birthday today, so out for dinner with the kids later tonight.
We just got back from Illinois (lock the front door, oh boy) for the funeral of one of Melva's cousins. This cousin's wife's nephew was a contestant on American Idol a few years back, and he played and sang a few songs. Simple but very well done.
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Post by david on Mar 21, 2024 11:19:25 GMT -5
Oh, and Pierre Bensusan is doing a concert in town next week. I don't much about him, but I know he is something of a legend. Is he someone I should go see? I have seen him just once and would want to do so again. Our rain respite is over. 10 days of cloudy and/or wet days forecast. Wordle 1,006 4/6 π©β¬π©β¬π© π©π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©π©π©
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 21, 2024 11:35:42 GMT -5
Bensusan was a major inspiration for ambitious fingerstyle players in the 1970 and 80s--one of the reasons a lot of players took up DADGAD, Celtic style/repertory, and Lowdens. Maybe a bit less influential than John Renbourn in the States, but still a force. One of my earliest workshop memories is of a Bensusan session--at the start, he had everyone come up front and play a tune. I attempted "Anji," probably the most challenging piece I knew at the time, and I pretty much mimicked the Jansch version. Pierre said, "Why do you not play eet like zeese"? and proceeded to play it at a slower and very slinky tempo. My answer would have been, "Because I only know one way to play it." And 30-plus years on, I can almost manage the kind of transformation he wrought on the tune. Almost.
(And as much as I love the music, I never did manage to learn the material from his early albums, published in his first book. DADGAD just makes my head hurt.)
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Post by PaulKay on Mar 21, 2024 11:51:39 GMT -5
Bensusan was a major inspiration for ambitious fingerstyle players in the 1970 and 80s--one of the reasons a lot of players took up DADGAD, Celtic style/repertory, and Lowdens. Maybe a bit less influential than John Renbourn in the States, but still a force. One of my earliest workshop memories is of a Bensusan session--at the start, he had everyone come up front and play a tune. I attempted "Anji," probably the most challenging piece I knew at the time, and I pretty much mimicked the Jansch version. Pierre said, "Why do you not play eet like zeese"? and proceeded to play it at a slower and very slinky tempo. My answer would have been, "Because I only know one way to play it." And 30-plus years on, I can almost manage the kind of transformation he wrought on the tune. Almost. (And as much as I love the music, I never did manage to learn the material from his early albums, published in his first book. DADGAD just makes my head hurt.) Bensusan has been quite influential in the fingerstyle community for decades. I remember first seeing him at fingerstyle festival at the University of Milwaukee in the early 80's. That event also had Leo Kottke performing. I attended one of his master class workshops in Wisconsin a couple decades back. He has us all sitting around in a circle and I had my guitar on my stomach and was leaning back in the chair. He apparently took exception to my crappy posture with the guitar and called me out on it. Made me sit up and get the guitar where it should be. I still find it humorous today. I have many of his CDs and also the book mentioned. I could never get into anything he published in that book. I didn't even like DADGAD all that much and that was exclusively what he played in. I found his compositions to sound more New Age. Some of his earliest stuff I really liked. Kind of an "open tuning classical guitarist".
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Post by Russell Letson on Mar 21, 2024 12:03:57 GMT -5
I recall that Bensusan also questioned why I had my guitar (my old Guild D-40) capoed at the second fret. At the time, the guitar was probably in need of a neck reset, and in any case I thought it sounded better tuned down a step and then capoed up to concert pitch. I don't recall Pierre's response, except that it probably wasn't all that sympathetic.
I don't usually get the benefit of a workshop on the spot--the technical parts especially just don't stick, and in any case I'm terrible at practicing. But it's always interesting to watch a great player up close and to observe teaching technique (one of my actual professional skillsets), and often enough something will sit in the mental basement and emerge into the daylight years or decades later and work its way into my playing. I think the slinky "Anji" might be one of those items.
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Post by billhammond on Mar 21, 2024 13:42:12 GMT -5
Tonight's takeout meal, on the left, before the snow flies, from a small local chain, D'Amico & Sons: GRILLED SHRIMP WITH FETTUCCINE LIMONE With Baby Spinach, Cream, Lemon Juice, White Wine, Calabrian Chili Oil, Garlic, Basil, Parsley and Butter(The photo on the right is of BALSAMIC BING CHERRY WITH BURRATA PIZZA, with spinach, red onion, ricotta, pistachio and basil)
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Post by theevan on Mar 21, 2024 14:17:40 GMT -5
Free songwriting workshop with Pierce Pettis at noon at Baton Rouge Community College! What a maddening disappointment. Pierce was fine, but BRCC was ill-prepared for him. No sound system, just the proximity mic inherent with the lectern. Could hear him. Just everything they did was so haphazard. Well, at least he got paid.
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