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Post by delb0y on Jan 21, 2016 16:55:47 GMT
Great stuff! Love Kris Kristofferson and would love to see him. I'm going to try this not retuning thing at my next gig - if it's good enough for him :-)
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Post by delb0y on Jan 16, 2016 11:34:46 GMT
That is really sad. I didn't know him, but I really liked him and his wife dropped me a line once to say thank you for posting a positive comment on the web about Pete. He'd been through so much and his playing was just sublime.
There's loads of great stuff out there but these two interviews will repay your time:
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Post by delb0y on Jan 10, 2016 17:37:31 GMT
(I'm sure you have but...) If you've not seen this it's well worth 18 minutes:
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Post by delb0y on Jan 10, 2016 17:11:44 GMT
I posted on a different forum how the £8 I spent on the Nightbird set just after Xmas might be the best £8 I've ever spent. I have the original concert CD and DVD but the new version was still more than worth the money.
I can still recall where I was when I first heard Eva - kudos to Terry Wogan! - the song was Say Goodbye and I stopped the car and wrote her name down. Bought my first Eva Cassidy CD later that day.
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Post by delb0y on Jan 10, 2016 10:59:26 GMT
I really struggle with melodies and I admire anyone who can come up with them. I'm very much a three chord man - with the occasional extra one thrown in - and trying to find new melodies that fit upon these old workhorses isn't easy. I mean, it wouldn't be easy for a melodic genius, but for one such as me that struggles it means I always fall back on standard melodies numbers 1, 2, and 3... I think this is why I like lyrics - they can take some of the strain. In fact "Let The Lyrics Take The Strain" is a great idea for a lyric...
Anyway, the point of that paragraph was just to say kudos to you for being able to come up with all these melodies. Well done.
As regards the methodology - I write fiction, too, and I've always adhered to a couple of other maxims as well. #1 Allow yourself to write badly - basically just get something down. Don't sit there trying to get every sentence perfect - that's what the rewrite is for - just get the story down. It's always surprising how one looks back after a few weeks and can't actually distinguish the work from the struggling days where you were "allowing yourself to write badly" from the days when you were in the flow. Although, maybe the reason for this is all my work is of bad standard. Hah. Maxim # 2 is more pertinent here - it is don't wait for inspiration, instead start writing and that will create the inspiration. It's hard, but when you do it, when you make yourself write (or play) when you don't feel like it, and you feel uninspired, this weird thing happens, after x amount of minutes, maybe 10, maybe 30, you suddenly enter this zone of inspiration. You don't even realise until it's happened - it's like falling asleep - but it does happen. You just have to give it that chance.
Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Jan 2, 2016 18:10:35 GMT
Not sure I bought any 2015 CDs in 2015. I did buy an early John Prine CD, a couple of Jeffrey Foucaults, and a Steve Earle. And in 2016 I bought Eva Cassidy's Nightbird, which was released in 2015 albeit it's old material. All of these are absolutely superb. Along with the four Little Feat CDs I had for Xmas they'll probably last me all of 2016, meaning this time next year I won't have bought any 2016 CDs.
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Post by delb0y on Dec 29, 2015 15:20:15 GMT
I have the first few Motorhead singles tucked away in the garage somewhere. Always liked Lemmy. Couldn't believe that the cancer was only diagnosed two days ago and now he's gone. They said it was an aggressive cancer - no kidding!
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Post by delb0y on Dec 16, 2015 6:35:14 GMT
I'm terrible with my guitars - can't recall if I've got the 000 or 0015m, but that's a size I really like. Whenever I've tried smaller guitars - incidentally, I'd love one - I've always found the sound too boxy. That's not to say it always is, just that I haven't found the right small body guitar yet. I also have a Furch dreadnaught - and that sound is just gorgeous, it just makes me shiver with delight every time I play a chord. Yet despite preferring the sound I still find myself reaching for the Martin because it's quieter and balances with my singing voice a little better. For an instrumental song that doesn't involve too many finger-stretches it would be the big guitar every time. But more and more I'm just playing simple open chords and thus the size down it is.
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Post by delb0y on Dec 8, 2015 20:20:01 GMT
I have a TW60 and a TW40. Love Tanglewoods!
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Post by delb0y on Nov 30, 2015 9:36:31 GMT
I just realised aside from my Martin which is Sapele I have no idea what woods any of my other acoustics (or indeed electrics) are made from, front, back, or sides. Bad Del !
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Post by delb0y on Aug 29, 2015 21:47:20 GMT
Beautiful! I'm hankering after a Gibson. Not that I need one...
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Post by delb0y on May 10, 2015 21:09:17 GMT
I adore Stonebridge guitars. I've played many over the last couple of years and loved them all. I finally raised the money and bought one a few months ago - D32SM (IIRC - I'm terrible with guitar names and numbers) and I couldn't be happier. I bought it mainly for flat-picking - there are several more Stonebridges I lust after for fingerpicking, but for now this one is all the guitar I need (or so I'm told...). I highly recommend them.
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Post by delb0y on Apr 29, 2015 7:05:54 GMT
Yep, I'd highly recommend the course too. I've been working with Bryan on re-adjusting my whole right hand technique / process. It's a tough thing to change habits that have been ingrained over 30 years, but with a good teacher it's possible and it's paying great dividends. Highly recommended.
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Post by delb0y on Mar 26, 2015 21:23:36 GMT
Very very sad. I don't recall ever hearing a bad note from JR.
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Post by delb0y on Mar 25, 2015 7:59:11 GMT
Habits can be changed at any age - I'm currently re-working my right hand when it comes to flat-picking. It's my 2015 goal. So it's not easy but it can be done.
But I know exactly where you're coming from. I've always felt my right hand is too heavy and lacks bounce and my left hand applies too much pressure. I've had exactly the same issue at noisy gigs, too, where I start to dig in and it all starts to go wrong...
Let us know how you get on. Any tips will be appreciated :-)
Cheers Derek
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