Rudi

The key of A? I would love to play in the key of A. Those saxaphones only ever want to play in B flat.

Hi and Welcome Nousevas, We had have Finish members before. You seem to have a great attitude. I'm sure you'll get what you're looking for. Find the Lyrics area and take a look. See you around. Rudi

I wish you good luck, but I just wouldn't do what you're suggesting.

Welcome Summer, Take a look at the lyrics section. You can post yours there too. Good Luck

I did play it on your guitar at your house. It was probably mostly finished then. Pete (Blown Outs singer) said he thought it was double tracked (cheeky s*#). So I might need you as a witness that it certainly aint!

That explains it! Damn! All these years & I thought my audience was hearing what I do. In future I'll just play what people like. Actually.... no. That would be boring. Maybe I should give up? No, *#@% the public. They'll just have to put up with it.

It doesnt hurt, unless your core skills become neglected as you spread your style/genres/technique I dabble in everything, and am a jack of all trades, but master of none.

Producing the right mood/emotion for the music is something I cant do easily. Fortunately I am not the principle singer, nor a front man. I know how to project energy or produce a spirited performance. If we are unlucky enough to get an audience that is indifferent to the band, we will try harder to win them over. This usually creates another problem, if you try too hard, the performance becomes desperate. Intense but now its too intense. We haven't faced an audience like that for many years. I have studied this phenomena in myself, my band and other artists. All professional artists know how to inject energy of course, but I've heard enough of them try too hard and corrupt the mood by being overly intense. Very occasionally, if I have the opportunity,such as in an extended jam session (as a guitarist) I will not try to bring any mood nor energy to the music. This is deliberate. What I am trying for then is to find the mood after beginning playing. The reason is simple. When you step onto a stage and project energy straight away, its simulated energy. It sounds good, but it doesn't sound as good as naturally occurring energy or emotion. So when a begin to play, I am allowing the emotion to occur within the music. If it doesn't work, I will still have played competently. If it does work, it sounds much better this way.

Yes, there is some music I have never returned to. Steely Dan is one such example. I have all the albums on vinyl. I loved them all, but not felt it necessary to replace them with CD or download. I had listened to these frequently and feel I have 'exhausted the material'. The same has applied to the Allman Bros Band, the Eagles, Neil Young, America, Marshall Tucker Band and more. Even those that were 'extra-special' to me have been majorly neglected for the self same reason. eg: Grateful Dead, Little Feat & Traffic. Having said that, the seemingly inexhaustible font of Grateful Dead live recordings has made a difference. After avoiding them for 18 or so months, this month I bought a 21 cd box of shows from 1971 that had been Radio Broadcasts. I have only listened to one show (3 cds) in its entirety. That is Harding Theatre SF 7/November/1971 which is worth the whole £21 I paid for the box. The point is this includes performances I'd not not heard before, and some of which include improvisations that went somewhere unexpected. I was delighted and surprised all over again. Hell, I miss them. I admit I have been a voracious consumer of music. I recently found a Poi Dog Pondering album called '7' that was a return to form (some later stuff had been f-ing awful) and a delight to hear. Most of this trend is me looking backward. Even current artists such as Los Lobos & Ry Cooder are long in the tooth. There again though, I have a couple of friends who have never moved on from their teenage favourites. But 50% of my current music listening is from SongStuff members, which has become valuable to me. I listened to a piece by Steve Mueske yesterday. It engaged me immediately. Its unhelpful to have expectations when approaching new music, though we all do to some extent. This is a pretty damn good place. I'm going to drop a coin in the poorbox right now.

In England, we dont like skirting the issue, preferring instead to a-dress it directly. Now... If we want to see a man in a frock, we visit a church. But in Scotland they're all over the place + you get to see n' stuff... rock on bruv! PS Shouldn't a bloke's dress be called a ballgown?

Its lovely in Koper Slovenia this morning

All I Own - Basheba

tHE lAST sTOP - dave mathews band this is a fine rock song

Mike, I'm almost certainly not as sensitive to tone/timbre as you are. I can't listen to music the way you describe. I get it completely, but I've focused & trained myself differently. It makes perfect sense for what I know of you. It’s fascinating, because it explains so much about how we each have ‘created ourselves’ musically. Most guitarists chase sound. I might’ve been like that if was born later, or had more money. I seem to have determined early on just to settle for the notes and let the sound take care of itself. It certainly doesn’t mean I don’t care about timbre, it’s just became a neglected area because I had so little choice about it for so long. For that reason I usually practice unplugged. If I plug in, timbre can become a distraction for me and interfere with my practice. In retrospect, this has been a counterproductive thing. I hadn’t realised that my picking style had outgrown my sound. It was only when listening back to my solo at the end of ‘It Doesn’t Matter What I Sing’, I heard that time lag had crept into my sound (all the quick alternate picking is discernibly OFF). It’s precisely this that drove me to experiment with picks for the next couple of years. I’ve spent hundreds of pounds on picks since. That obsession grew directly from that single experience. The point is, I never heard this unplugged, nor even playing live. Often I listen to music to challenge me. The likes of Malcolm Arnold, Charles Ives, Derek Bailey or Anthony Braxton are essential for this. I will sometimes listen actively for a few minutes and then passively for the remainder of the piece. Following this, the difficult thing is to try to avoid other people’s music because that can drive the challenging music out of my head for the rest of the day. I used to listen to the music I love for a musical ‘fix’. It was like scratching an itch. That doesn’t happen much anymore because I can hear the music in my head when I want to. For that reason I don’t put music on as much as I used to. It’s also why I have ‘worn out’ some music too. This is an excellent thread.

I sometimes use Skull Candy In-ear phones for music when using the laptop. This is for music here at SongStuff or other online stuff. I also have some Shure & Sennheiser over-ear headphones in my sitting room. Both are a bit ‘clinical’; more like monitors really. These are used with the small Denon HiFi unit I have. (I got rid of the big stuff a few years back). I also have Denon Stereo speakers at the back of the room. Most of the time I will use an ipod classic through the Denon, but… if I want to listen attentively, I’ll use CDs. Not because of sound quality, but because the ipod will sometimes ‘drop out’ (pause) during play. TBH, I should have gotten a smaller ipod. They seem more stable. So the CDs are not merely back-up; they are the only way I can be sure of hearing music correctly. I sometime use the radio on the Denon, but tuning it confuses me greatly, so it’s just permanently set to Radio 3 (that’s the BBC’s Classical staion). I have a small media player in the kitchen also tuned to radio 3, but can accept the ipod as input. It’s neither loud nor great sound quality (bass is lacking). Anything more expensive would be a waste as the kitchen gets damp when cooking. Lots of important listening goes on in the car. CDs mostly, though I do have an old ipod plugged in there as well, though that one is never updated.

thats better!

You've ruined it for me now

I was enjoying the film. ps I'll answer this properly later

History Repeating - Propellerheads (double score)

Peggy. Thank you princess. All that rain helps Stevie boy... Heres my Facebook link to it https://www.facebook.com/rudi.samborski.5 If there is a problem with the vid/vimeo Its on soundcloud (without video)

Ubangi Stomp - Stray Cats

A link to SongStuff-showcase-video

Welcome to SS KiwiF

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog