uncle fester

Very cool pics everyone, thanks for posting. Sgt - that white album is killer!

wishing you luck, love a good band.

Not to derail, but what are you all using for turntables. I had an old bang and olufsen, was great back in the day - but couldn't get needles for it anymore so sold it on craigs list a couple years back. All my vinal got ruined when my basement flooded... cool stuff from me, but even cooler stuff from my dad.

RCT - what's your ideal situation? Players in the band, type of music, gigging frequency...

Thank you again all. It's a journey but one i'm enjoying. I do appreciate the input from those in a know, so appreciated! Not for not, been listening a bit to the dead lately - that's just happy music I don't play any, but maybe worth learning a song or two.

First pass at my want ad: Little bit older guy (50 yrs or so) looking for musicians to play mostly acoustic blues / rock blues on mellow scale. Also play a few songs on 3 string cigar box guitar, and banjo. Play some covers, but got a bunch of originals I like as well. (some of the covers: Mary Janes Last Dance, Blister in the Sun, Come Together, I am the Walrus, For What it's Worth, Baby Please don't go, Lake of Fire, Sweet Dreams...) Hope to get together 1x / week or every other week with intention to learn a few songs for open mics once a month or every two months or so. W/in 6 mo. hope to have enough material to offer up a 90 min gig. Really would like bass and drums, but guitars and other stringed instruments are welcome to see how we fit. I sing good enough, not opposed to others singing, I still want to sing some. I've played guitar for 30 yrs, never played with people before... so apologies ahead of time for the learning curve. ============== Besides contact info, anything else I should include?

never thought of that, thank you

be still my heart - here's to a real 'super tuesday'

Rabs, nice wood! Glad to see another guitar in progress.

Thanks for the replies, and yes listening to myself (from recordings) has really helped me. I mentioned it in another thread, one of the final steps I go through now learning a song is to record it, listen back, and then smooth everything out from there... was eye opening the first couple of times.

Seems like quite a few folks here have walked the music path through high school and beyond, getting the band experience and cutting their musical chops there. Not me, was post college I started to cut my guitar chops. Since college and after returning from a stint overseas I picked up the guitar and been strumming it at my kitchen table for the last 30 yrs. The last 10, with the advent of youtube as a learning device, I've gone from playing a perpetual lick, to playing (and singing) full songs, some covers which is always cool, but it's my originals... I like the best. 30 yrs of noodling on licks has given me a few things to build into songs. So that got me to this point in life, an old guy (50+), trying to figure out how to take this performing thing to the next level. I figure there's a solo career path and band path. For the band path, I would love to get together with a bass and drums, but would take whatever comes along but again, being a bit more senior, finding folks who are into jamming a bit, while dealing with the pains of working with someone whose never played with other people before is not a small task. ...and my 8:30pm bedtime doesn't help 🙂 Then it's song selection as well and how it draws an audience. I can't and don't want to join a cover band. To me it's the folks that did this in younger years just have the inventory of songs and experience I'll never get... On the solo front, I've been to several open mics, and that's my main outlet to perform. I enjoy it, most are a lot of fun, but I aspire to do a full show, I could fill 90 mins w/o a problem, but it's finding a room full of people who want to listen to my stuff for that amount of time. So my plan here is to find a captive audience that would just be happy with some live music... which has lead me to the local senior centers... went into one and discussed possibly doing a show on a regular basis, there's some interest, maybe I'll be the senior whisperer. Regardless I love playing, but really wonder how I can expand what I do in the music world... maybe busking? Any recommendations to an old trying to ease his way into the performance spectrum? Just rambling thoughts

Very cool story to hear, best of luck for continued success!

Been pondering this thought for the last 20 minutes, and I'm struggling with a finger picking version of Eleanor Rigby... I got the first two parts down, but the 3rd part 'ohhhh, where have all the lonely people gone' is stumping me - think I'll do the chord thing this weekend and at least see if I can make it end to end on the song. seems like such an obvious thing, but I seem to miss the obvious a lot, but appreciate the tip!

I'd say I'm in this camp

I go back to Stevie always... hard to see what he's doing alot of times, the two vids of the women above gave me a foundation to start with. When I can get the basic framework under control... which took me forever on this song, I then look back to the originals and start to pick of other items. Again in this case, every time I look there's another little thing to add. Having said that, I don't try to duplicate the originals exactly (I know I don't have the chops to be Steview). But get close enough to evolve it to something I feel is a good smooth playing song to listen to with maybe a little bit of billroy flair

I've watched that one from Yana several times... I like Yana 🙂 . Below is the one I watch most. Just listened again and for the record, I go at about a 3rd of the speed...

Continued luck to you digger. Hearing things are moving forward is a happy sound, good to hear there are some good folks out there helping you all out.

Just rambling, but was playing Scuttlebuttin' by SRV, and feel I got it to the next level which got me into the stages of learning a song learn the basic song start to finish, guitar and singing practice practice practice till it sounds good at low / acoustic volume amplify, identify the bugs and smooth out again record it, listen back, identify the rest of the messy stuff and smooth out record it again and sit back satisfied that I am performance ready. I find some songs I can go through the process in a couple weeks, but then something like scuttle buttin' i've been working on for 4 years - but feel I reached the point to where it's good amplified, with the next step to record it an listen back. This step scares me because the recording never sounds as good as I do in my head... and so it goes. Might be another year or two before I'm ready to perform, but I see progress... Anybody else follow any processes to learn a song?

Scuttlebuttin - SRV, Aint no rest for the wicked - cage the elephant

These got some good traction in the lounge. walker and williams Seems like an affordable way to get a decent strap that is backed by a bunch of reviews. Having said that - you're talking about your new G45. Instead of going for 'good enough', I'd go for 'top nines', and go all out and get a Sully's strap mentioned above. Maybe it's a little decadent, but nows the time 😉 ps - a strap is a personal thing, so good luck, the only solid advice I have is dont get anything with big metal pieces on it.

Nicely done, how'd you sting to play bass for you?

Very cool stories, all of you - OP - cool thread (and nice song)!

Thanks much!

Has anyone gone full wireless? Wireless for the guitar, wireless mics etc... Just wondering if anyone tried and what the results were - if there was cross static by having more than one system etc... (Murph - nice song!)

Saw a documentary with Sam Bush playing something similar... seems like an electric uke shaped to look like a strat. A few parts in here reminded me how much I want to learn the fiddle... anyone ever give one a go - I would think there'd be big learning curve to it before able to make any good sounds, anyone ever try?