Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:04 am
I am listening to Rouler Sa Bosse as I sip my Sunday morning coffee and type this. I love it. Please record and post some more!
-Bret
-Bret
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAsujWyluII actually have a hard time keeping it together on this song, which is why I haven't played it in easily 15 years. But I was up there an searching for something I wrote that would be appropriate and for some dumb reason decided on that one. You can see where I'm searching to rememeber the chords in several places. But it is a true story -- not me, but an old friend of mine who had this beautiful malamute named Boomer. Well, Boomer got loose once too often, and the courts gave my friend a choice between paying the fines and letting the dog live with some other family. He was forced to choose the latter, and even though it was probably the best thing for the dog, it broke many hearts to see him go. Aside from breaking into tears damn near every time I play the song (and if you look closely, you can see that I started to choke up early on into it), it turns out that the chords that I came up with for this song back in 1986 were eerily similar to Bruce Cockburn's "Lovers in a dangerous time", which is weird, because I didn't learn who he was until 1994 - and have been a student of his music ever since. Kismet is a word that comes to mind. Damn. But I hadn't played this tune in at least a decade, so you can amuse yourselves with the places where I just plain forgot where the fingering was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAyMqhFOPwI almost have to apologize for this one. I played it right, but at something near double-speed and forgot to sing it and feel it. But it is what it is and isn't all that bad, is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSH6MakgtkoThis was done kind of off the cuff --- I was in a mood. It seems to work better for me on my Telecaster and done more slowly and deliberately. But still, I kind of like what I did, in a way.
So, do the tell the old fuddy-duddys here WHAT YES TUNE????MeyerII wrote:Well, I've tried everything I can think of - including posting here - to try to see if there was anybody with input, but it seems like its a "go".
So if you want to buy a Martin guitar, in my mind you go to Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. I went to high school - waaaaaay back when - with one of the luthiers there. So I called him up after about 12 years since the last time I've spoke with him - and he says, "Holy shit! I was just thinking about you the other day! I was diddling with a guitar in the shop and started playing this old Yes tune and I remembered that Rob guy teaching me how to play it in my car in the rain back in 1985."
This is a GOOD sign.
So he's going to be going through the stock and he's going to pick me out a nice one. They'll probably ship it out to my Luthier here in a day or so.
Allright. Here goes nothing. This is scary.
I am a life-long Yes crazed fan of their music. Yes was the soundtrack to all of my early mechanical design art. Close To The Edge, The Yes Album, Starship Trooper, oh yeah anyways.MeyerII wrote:Gah. It was probably "And You And I". Even though the middle passages were impossible to carry off with an acoustic guitar.
Meyer wrote:I worked my ass off today, then literally worked it off again in the gym afterwards. Didn't get home until after 9:00. Rainy, but I'll be damned if there wasn't a break in the weather so I sent the wife to bed and poured the first of several glasses of Scotch and hit the hot tub.
So now I'm not ready for bed. Watched Stewart and Colbert, played my Martin LX-1 for a while (best $300 I ever spent), but still am not asleep.
I was working on cleaning out my upstairs man-cave last weekend, and finally took apart the box labeled 'fodder'. It is one of those boxes they ship copier paper in, and it is full of everything I've ever written and never did anything with. I threw away a great deal of it, but out of the things that I kept, there is one thing that is completely unusable: a poem. It is unusable because I have no intention whatsoever to put it to music because it will not work, and I can't even remember who I wrote it for, so as a poem, it is equally useless: I'm already married and if I'm going to try to wow her, I'll come up with something fresh, goddammit.
And after you read it, you may decide that it was useless to begin with. But I really like it. So what the fuck - I spent time on it, obviously got laid at one point partially because of it; so it either sits in my house until I die and some relative throws it into the recycle bin, or I take the time now to retype the fucker because I don't want to go to sleep right now and am not inventive enough to think of anything else I'd rather do (wife is asleep, bad idea to wake her).
Heck -- one of you younger folks might have your eye on some lass that you have absolutely no intention of spending your life with, but wouldn't mind bedding; send her this. It more likely than not will get you halfway there.
:D