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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 19:18:19 GMT
I downloaded the relevant pages and was able to read them perfectly - and discovered that the interview is actually a video that is clickable from the original link and I didn't need to read any text at all. This modern world, eh? Whatever will they think of next?
Haven't watched the multimedia stuff yet... Something to look forward to later!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 21, 2014 12:21:04 GMT
Cool. Not seen Guitar Interactive before - it looks good. Except the standard view is too small for me to read and if I zoom in it's too close and I'm having to scroll up and down and left and right for every few words. Is there a way of controlling the zoom, do you know?
Regarding Pierre, Ben and Susan, I'm still enjoying the three CD Encore set, although it does range from the brilliant shiver sending utterly moving and scarcely imaginable imagination to the "Hmmm...probably won't be playing that one again!". Luckily the former more than make up for the latter!
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Post by delb0y on Aug 20, 2014 19:00:20 GMT
This is a truly wonderful book. Having read just a few chapters I wrote my first DADGAD tune which I'm sure I've posted here before: I've just been lucky enough to pick up a gorgeous used (but you wouldn't know it) Tanglewood TW40 at a bargain price which might well become my DADGAD machine. It's got a beautiful ringing shimmering tone and the intonation is spot on - both key for DADGAD. Also based on a Doug Young arrangement is this short version of Down By The Salley Gardens played on the new guitar: soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12892259Doug's Young's CD are well worth getting too. I'm not sure there's anyone who both plays and records an acoustic guitar so well. I'm a Doug Young fan you can tell! Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on Jun 7, 2014 19:08:32 GMT
Only this morning I watched this documentary on the Toob: I love Django, and the whole gypsy jazz sound. There are some amazing players around these days. Kind regards Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 21, 2014 11:37:53 GMT
I have lots of all-time favourite guitar players - my top 10 or 20 fluctuates depending on whom I'm listening to and what style I'm aspiring to at any given time. But one chap who's always up there hovering around the top spot is David Grier. Not only is he technically brilliant, but melodically, too. He conjures up melodies and improvisations that really hit the spot. He's funny as hell, too. I'd recommend getting on over to the Fretboard Journal site and spending an hour watching their interview with David Grier (and when you're done, watch the one with Pete Huttlinger!).
Anyway, I did a search of the Café and lo and behold no results popped up...so here he is playing a tune that I think is just about perfect:
Kind regards Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 18, 2014 21:23:43 GMT
I can't say I'd recognize a Mumford and Sons if it jumped up and bit me on the nose. Don't think I've ever heard them. From reading that review and this thread, I guess I'm lucky.
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Post by delb0y on May 14, 2014 9:02:27 GMT
Thank you, kind sir.
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Post by delb0y on May 13, 2014 21:08:23 GMT
I love this video and have listened to it many times over the last month or so. Today is my birthday and one of my presents was Pierre's 3 CD "Encore" set. Can't wait to get into it :-)
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Post by delb0y on May 12, 2014 12:38:57 GMT
Wouldn't say I've had one guitar spoil another - but I'm very wary that the Martin is so easy to play that if I'm not careful I play it too much then struggle when playing something else. So I tend to play the Tanglewood (lovely sound, slightly harder to play) a fair bit just to keep my chops, such as they are, together. I also have a masochistic tendency to learn fingerpicking tunes on the 12 string even when intended to play them on the six...when I go back to any 6 string after the 12 it's like the weights have been taken off my ankles and wrists and I'm allowed to skip along unfettered!
All that said, I recall thinking when I bought it that the Martin was a lot more difficult to play than I'd anticipated. But I guess I've adapted to it.
Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 9, 2014 13:58:42 GMT
Superb!!
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Post by delb0y on May 9, 2014 8:10:38 GMT
In the interests of science I thought I'd provide the raw material to enable a proper and scientific comparison to be made. So here's a version of Thwarted in my natural accent. As I said previously I'm over in Gloucester, so there's a very slight West Country twang to this version, but other than that is there a lot of difference? soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12784779Cheers Derek
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Post by delb0y on May 7, 2014 13:43:43 GMT
I stopped the car last year when Darrell Scott was on Bob Harris's show doing an acoustic session. I just had to listen. It was awesome. I wish that session (conversation and songs) was available somewhere, it was great. Superb artist!
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Post by delb0y on May 7, 2014 13:19:39 GMT
As mentioned in the thread on singing, one of my favourites when I'm in a mellow mood:
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Post by delb0y on May 7, 2014 11:45:58 GMT
Best I chime in as it was my American accent.... First of all, I'm from Gloucester, and if I sing in my normal accent it sounds like I'm a poor version of a Wurzal. Nothing wrong with the Wurzals - I can't remember if they were the first or second band/artist I ever saw live (it's between them and George Hamilton IV). But it was a good gig (as was George). Anyway, singing with a West Country accent is great for cider drinkers or Bill Bailey comedy sketches, and maybe I'd get away with a tale of Elver fishermen in my natural accent, but it's not great for singing story songs about blues-singers, devils, morticians, cowboy outlaws, or any of the other characters that inhabit my songs. I suppose I could put on an accent from somewhere else in Blighty, but that would be no different in a way to the one I've adopted. In fact - I no longer realise I do it, as there was no intent behind the accent. I opened my mouth to sing and that's what came out. Years of listening to music from across the pond, I guess (and Mick Jagger). Hints and tips - always open to learning about singing. I'd like to learn how to do it properly... I know, take lessons. I keep thinking about it and one day when the £££s are in better shape I might well do. That said, I do tend to enjoy the story-teller like vocalists - John Prine, Jeffrey Foucault, Ray Wylie Hubbard - and that's kind of why i sing like I do. We use what we've got, I guess. Probably the one and only thing I dislike about singing and singers are those very skilful and talented folk who have the amazing ability to use 24 notes when one would do. I much prefer to hear an unadorned melody (unless it's Django doing the adorning) or a tastefully adorned one, rather than a demonstration of vocal pyrotechnics. Things do seem to have improved in this regard lately, but a few years ago you couldn't turn on the wireless without hearing such things. Kind regards Derek
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Post by delb0y on Apr 17, 2014 21:32:38 GMT
How about covers of John Prine material? Bonnie Raitt doing Angel From Montgomery comes to mind. Susan Tedechi did a great version, too.
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