BluesKing777 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 While practicing today, I recorded some acoustic blues very loosely based on Charley Patton's "Green River Blues". I have to go to the dentist tomorrow at my normal guitar practice time - may not be so chirpy after .......... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Fine Fine stuff there BK it's a pleasure to be in the company of such great muscians on these pages.. just currently listening to your version of All the Lonely People great stuff... im listening to all ya stuff as I make a cup of Earl Grey thanks indeed Blues King EDIT oops meant Eleanor Rigby...obviously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Jasus BK I knew ya were good..heard ya stuff here before..but man..Im just at Preachin Blues on ya Souncloud page bleedin el '... lovely stuff if ya in the mood for some blues..which I am you got an album there already BK..dont need no messin around with the recordins or anything..its all there.. just have to get it mastered and on to CD..( which can cost a few quid like ) but you'll defo make a few quid sellin em at ya gigs Excellent my man :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Agreeing with del here... Regardless of People being nice to be polite bluesking,s stuff is worthy of a CD. Just the kind of blues I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Looove your blues playing BK, always have ...... Jerry, point of view please ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 you got an album there already BK..dont need no messin around with the recordins or anything..its all there.. Bingo. You are a real gift, man. Love it....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Looove your blues playing BK, always have ...... Jerry, point of view please ? Schnorbitz hasn't been on much since the last debacle..... BK will listen later and revert back, no headphones with me today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Pony has it, picking and vocal. It's got that hypnotic Delta drone thing going on. Nice track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Gawd, this is good stuff, I could listen to it all day long. Next time you are in the states give me a shout, I'd love to take a lesson from ya, or just sit around a campfire and strum background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry K Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I liked the blues work, particularly the second one. Key to the highway or something. Around 1971 when I was a freshman in college I was playing folk, blues, James Taylor, that sort of thing. I went to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee at a small venue and he played a tune with basically the same progression as the second tune that came up. At the time my playing was well regarded in the dormitories (I could do alternating bass picking!) and I was able to impress quite a few people. After seeing Brownie McGee up close I couldn't play for about a week. It was that devastating. You sounded quite a bit like him. I didn't like Eleanor Rigby. You knew that was coming. Yes, it was a perfectly creditable rendering of the lyrics to that tune and time was kept and the basic structure was similar and so forth. Eleanor Rigby was originally done in this sort of faux classical manner, with a good deal of lushness and harmony. You reduced it to an odd shuffle beat and a kind of toneless vocal delivery. You have every right as an artist to do that and no doubt some will like this rendering. For me it loses what I like about Eleanor Rigby. For example, there's a line: "Ah, look at all the lonely people!" which is filled with a sort of pathos and there is a suggestion of towering harmonies, (especially on the "Ah") and sadness and foreboding. In your version "Ah" just gets one little tap, indistinguishable from the rest. Possibly this different way of expression is a sign of generational sensitivities or something. In the sixties I was listening to the Beatles but also Jimmy Smith and big band jazz. I went to Broadway plays and loved the lush arrangements and the beautiful way the arrangers could effortlessly transition between keys, tunes, rhythms. I know that BK is an artist, not an accountant, and won't be bent out of shape if I hate his Eleanor Rigby. Passion, even passionate dislike, is ok. This is still caring and being involved. Not caring is mere indifference, which often plays out as - wait for it - polite applause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 bing-bong, here we go again... are you trying to provoke me Jerry, or are you just on the booze and kinda flirty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I liked the blues work, particularly the second one. Key to the highway or something. Around 1971 when I was a freshman in college I was playing folk, blues, James Taylor, that sort of thing. I went to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee at a small venue and he played a tune with basically the same progression as the second tune that came up. At the time my playing was well regarded in the dormitories (I could do alternating bass picking!) and I was able to impress quite a few people. After seeing Brownie McGee up close I couldn't play for about a week. It was that devastating. You sounded quite a bit like him. Interesting. I was a college freshman in '69, getting immersed in Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Ligntnin' Hopkins, & Memphis Slim. Enjoyed Brownie's guitar work (but not so much his vocals or Sonny's hoots & hollers). Regardless of what pushed one's sonic buttons, those pre-Youtube days were filled with some amazing vinyl discoveries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry K Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I have never played Eleanor Rigby and don't have an arrangement for it. I pulled out my little volume with Beatles chords (I have the small one with basic chords, not the big volume with all the parts transcribed. It works well for me since I don't like to copy the original arrangements) and checked out the tune. It's kind of hard for solo guitar because there isn't much chord movement and the original themes are complex. When I play something like this where I know the melody pretty well I first come up with some basic chord ideas and eventually connect up bass lines and develop voices. Anyway I was dinking around with it just now and recorded a bit of it. Not an arrangement, just sharing some chord ideas. Played on my $135 EJ-200 Artist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CSBx2Umf0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Jerry. Very cool jazzy chords... I cant break away from the first 4 frets. I think I can occasionally play a minor chord! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I have never played Eleanor Rigby and don't have an arrangement for it. I pulled out my little volume with Beatles chords (I have the small one with basic chords, not the big volume with all the parts transcribed. It works well for me since I don't like to copy the original arrangements) and checked out the tune. It's kind of hard for solo guitar because there isn't much chord movement and the original themes are complex. When I play something like this where I know the melody pretty well I first come up with some basic chord ideas and eventually connect up bass lines and develop voices. Anyway I was dinking around with it just now and recorded a bit of it. Not an arrangement, just sharing some chord ideas. Played on my $135 EJ-200 Artist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CSBx2Umf0 There's no doubt about it Jerry, you have a decent fretboard knowledge, a good understanding of chordal voicing.... but there's just no flow, Jerry. I'm not being deliberately mean there, really I'm not. Your rendition still requires the user fill in mass blanks based on the fact you overload on chords and provide no rhythm. Surely you wont deny me the right to an honest critique? Good knowledge but no flow, dude.... it's like a fast game of 'name that tune'... I'll name that tune in seven, Lionel. Lionel I'll name that tune in four.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Thanks for the replies! After the first few replies, I was starting to count some chickens, signed a record contract, bought the new coupe..... to arrive home to find they have all changed their mind! So I guess I am back to 'marginale'. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 BK is one guy I would love to Jam with!!! Let me know if you come to California!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 BK is one guy I would love to Jam with!!! Let me know if you come to California!! Great! Thanks OWF - we could go have a jam with Jerry! Kidding! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry K Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Great! Thanks OWF - we could go have a jam with Jerry! Kidding! BluesKing777. Oaksterjam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 A friend just sent me some Bob Hope quotes - here's one to suit: ON HIS EARLY FAILURES 'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the Stuff the audience threw at me.' BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 There's no doubt about it Jerry, you have a decent fretboard knowledge, a good understanding of chordal voicing.... but there's just no flow, Jerry. I'm not being deliberately mean there, really I'm not. Your rendition still requires the user fill in mass blanks based on the fact you overload on chords and provide no rhythm. Surely you wont deny me the right to an honest critique? Good knowledge but no flow, dude.... it's like a fast game of 'name that tune'... I'll name that tune in seven, Lionel. Lionel I'll name that tune in four.... hahah..you have had me laughin all day PM..I know we have our little lovers tiffs..but all is forgiven Lionel..I'll name that tune in 1 A friend just sent me some Bob Hope quotes - here's one to suit: ON HIS EARLY FAILURES 'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the Stuff the audience threw at me.' BluesKing777. classic BK Im glad im back here..i missed this fun n games :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 I have to go to the dentist tomorrow at my normal guitar practice time - may not be so chirpy after .......... BluesKing777. Well, I have survived the Dentist until another visit - is there a fear called Dentnaphobiaitis or something? And after a good cleaning, the report is not too bad, until next time. I imagine a lot of people would let go a few bodily functions during that cleaning bit.......and to top it off, I am not allowed to eat or drink for an hour. But I have had way worse than that........ BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Well, I have survived the Dentist until another visit - is there a fear called Dentnaphobiaitis or something? And after a good cleaning, the report is not too bad, until next time. I imagine a lot of people would let go a few bodily functions during that cleaning bit.......and to top it off, I am not allowed to eat or drink for an hour. But I have had way worse than that........ BluesKing777. Must be a blues song in there somewhere BK. Maybe by Clarence gatemouth brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 Must be a blues song in there somewhere BK. Maybe by Clarence gatemouth brown. Perfect thanks BBG! Gatemouth! It is a bit hard to get it to rhyme ..... Here's a go... "I'm gonna get up in the morning, I believe I'll go to my Dentist.... I'm gonna get up in the morning, I believe I'll go to my Dentist.... He wants to take my car, but I told him I only RENT IT!" BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 And a few more Bob Hope quotes to take me to tea..... When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. Bob Hope A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. Bob Hope I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. Bob Hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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