BluesKing777 Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Here is my solo acoustic/vocal version of a song by James Reyne called "Reckless". The chords/lrics are from my new book but I have been fiddling around getting an arrangement and fingerpicking for it and then I thought which guitar shall I play to record.....they are all calling 'Pick Me" Pick Me" And I grabbed the Gibson J45 Standard and capoed up to the 5th fret...... https://soundcloud.com/bk7-3/reckless-j457b BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trans Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Luv it BK! Very good sounding and deliverance. Trans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Great again...nice work BK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 Thanks for the replies! Recorded my usual recent way - Neumann KM184 > mixer > iMac. Just fantastic to have the gear ready to go, though if I setup again, I would not put the mic and stand and leads and gadgets and amps in the middle of the room in the way of everything else I do! I would put it up against a wall in the corner, out of the way. Worth walking around the stuff though... I could probably safely trade off some old stuff towards a second Neumann mic. Hmmm..... Forgot a photo! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Sweet rendition. I sincerely enjoy your vocals and fingerpicking. Real good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 Sweet rendition. I sincerely enjoy your vocals and fingerpicking. Real good stuff. Thanks MP! It has taken me a long while to get that fingerpicking version, and it is nothing like the original tune much.... Now I did get a bit of the exaggerated vibrato in my voice in the chorus bits like the original singer use to - he was also well known for mumbling fairly unintelligible lyrics all the way through many pop star hits - and his band was just everywhere for a while. Now about 1990, I started a purist electric type blues band and we rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed until we were sick of each other but did about 3 gigs before falling apart. One of those gigs, we were playing at a hotel in a trendy area, lots of rich girls with absolutely NO interest in us and on we plugged with our set and the guy who wrote the song above was sitting on a barstool getting sloshed and then staggered up and asked if he could sing a few blues with us! And he was superb! Who knew? Frustrated blues singer....stuck singing pop, I guess. Later on in his career he went out as a solo singer guitarist! There you go, some snippets from the past... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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