Hthomas Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 here is a video of me playing yesterday. I had to fill in at a church for them not the best quality and not the best singing! but you get the idea of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfZ6_9pva0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Cool man, you have good stage prescence. I just got an R8 myself and I am loving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hthomas Posted April 26, 2010 Author Share Posted April 26, 2010 really? thats cool man! this r8 is the most amazing thing ive ever played best choice of my life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hthomas Posted April 26, 2010 Author Share Posted April 26, 2010 haha! yes! its a very upbeat church. good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenKen Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Ah, I remember being a young buck, strapping on my Lester and playing anywhere, anytime. Enjoy every minute of it. You rock man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Nice job man keep up the good work. There is no substitute for playing live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 My Church does have great music but it is more subdued, a lot of talent here in Nashville in all kinds of genres of music. There are Churches around here that have a very competitive music "scene" if you will. A lot of folks after a place on the stage. What's not to like, it is a very consistent gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Here's a "non-denominational" comment followed by somewhat denominational one... When I was a kid, I don't know anybody who would have played a guitar in church or particularly wanted anybody to play a guitar in their church. At church picnics, perhaps at a "revival camp" or something similar, church meetings and just plain "on stage entertainment" of any sort? Absolutely, athough it tended to be considered a bit ... declasse. You've gotta figure that after the dirty 30s and WWII, my childhood was watching parents and friends fight like all getout to have the lives they couldn't have had in their own youth and young adulthood. They wanted "better." That tended to include music. Just an old battered piano wasn't enough in even churches that had used the same one since 1880. They needed not just a new piano, they needed a new eeeeelecktronic organ. An old pedal pump organ? Not good enough. Gotta have the new version. Even big "liturgical" churches with pipe organs did upgrades. I did play guitar a couple of times in church, but it was considered kinda experimental and "way out" in 63-65 or so. The last half dozen years I've filled in for a church organist at Christmas - but functionally I was playing traditional Christmas carols on an organ, but just using a guitar instead of a keyboard. Here's the "denominational" thing: I've seen "church music" reeeeally change a lot in the last 50+ years. Some may like it, some may not. It may help somebody's "church feeling," it may not. The point is that it seems as if there are indeed more opportunities for professional church musicians today than when I was a kid. Interesting. Very interesting. As stiffhand noted, it can be a very consistent gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 Good stuff man. Church music sure has changed. I never really went to church that much, aside from being in a catholic school, never went on weekends. "Cool" church music used a piano and bass, sometimes with an acoustic, or a violin. Now, if its like this, that rocks man! R8 is the one Les Paul I really want, that and a Trad Pro, but I would go for the R8 first That kicks *** man, keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Good job... Looks like there were some cool visuals going on too... Very cool church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgman Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Great stuff Hthomas. Cool that you guys got such a rousing reception! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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