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This is really great! agree with @john on his points though, hard to do that with a song that's as beloved as this one though, this song always intrigued me musically as well, it sure just sounds simple right? but we know better hahaha. I think you could uniquely make it your own if any other instrumentation was done on top, but I really enjoyed this just acoustic. It's a tough line to toe, and deciding when to step on it or erase it completely That's the 2nd very brave cover I've heard you do remarkably well!

Well I was hoping for Dancing Queen , but sounds great! Especially loved the air-raid siren!? hahah

Just one question! WTF is snooker? Some kind of weird Scottish game with sheep? 🤣 But seriously that's pretty awesome John, glad you're getting back into recording. How difficult is it for you to cull the herd so to speak? (is that a snooker term?) saying you have done a lot of writing, but not much recording. I mean I know you know which ones are better than others, (technically, marketability wise, etc..) are you trying to stick to a certain theme for your ep? future albums? or just come what may? Your best or favorites just all together? I'm with you on using your own website for sells, especially if people are expecting or wanting a physical product and not just a download. (Yes some of us still exist )

Sounds ominous and dirty, but my new name for him hahaha

Happy accidents do happen Some places you can still safely busk, but better get the city permits first!......pretty much a self-defeating purpose, and those that do go that route are usually just doing it because they think its "artsy" and have something to put on their instafaceagramtube page. Funny conversation the other day about performing......I vowed never to again unless wearing breakaway pants and a sequined thong underneath in case things weren't going so well hahahah, places I'm usually at it would go from bad to get the hell out in a hurry hahah. Buddy Guy tells a story about not being able to play "his" music anywhere, other than small venues, even when he was in the studio pressing albums/playing guitar for others, until Clapton and the Creme boys cited him as an influence in their album, then Buddy was allowed to play whatever he wanted hahah, he thanks THEM now. Hope you enjoyed porch painting! I was getting drunk and blowing things up all day managed to keep all my fingers!

I'll second that @Richard Watashi whether he wants to or not Surely some others willing, just lurking around

Yup I had just pm'd you about ragweed and crotchety old bastard, somewhere in there amongst the rambles and I'd have to second, that......Thank you, sincerely @john and gang Haven't been close to the other in a while, but yeah he's pretty outspoken and loves a good laugh just have had a few recent conversations, but the old man has always been a handful never grew out of his mischievous adolescent ways gotta love him for it, he does see the world through the eyes of a very highly experienced child hahaha. Gee thanks said I'd be a guinea pig, nothing about the first one hah, it'll take me at least a month/two to get some recordings I'm actually happy enough with anyway If I'm going to do more than just push record and see what happens. As stated though, would be more than willing to get behind someone/help anyway I can, I'm nice and comfy behind the scene(s) I may jump without looking too hard, but I take a glance for broken bodies on some hidden rocks first

aye! or is it alive or dead? you'll never know, by looking you changed the outcome, or even by thinking about it!

Is there a cat in that box?

Hmmmmm actually quite interesting! Food for thought.....I know of a barn or three with internet access No AC though so livestreaming or virtual real selves might get a little uncomfy

😂 nope! TLTR not "here" for discussions or conversations or learning about all things music

well put! Kind of hard being a hobo when stuck in a house hahahah although the streets here in the US are not a place I'd wish on anyone right now. Maybe wisened old soul hobo with still a place to go Really always just considered myself a traveler as we're all just here passing through I think this is a great idea, and just the small time I've been here, am positive you have the best of intentions. I'll help in whatever capacity I can. I have tried to send a few people this way as well, I'll keep working on a few of them, but they're pretty bitter and been shit all over by the music industry themselves, particularly after the shift to online, and everyone seemed to of forgot the difference between a home recording, a show, or actual studio work , and probably all one big paradigm shift that will never return. One old man in particular would make @Patchez seem the most optimistic young buck you'd ever met Never set out for any fame/fortune and has managed to eek out a living doing what he loves and in the last few years has finally gotten some well deserved and long overdue recognition, says it means nothing, but give him a few sips and he'll tell you how good it feels . Dipped his toe into the internet world a time or two, had it bitten off, such is the world of 1's and 0's ....... Some other folks too could really benefit from this I know, just take awhile to track them down, and same sad old story, may not even be interested anymore. Thing the internet tied into music has been best at, the music industry has always been a you're not worthy type of business, but I am because I know so and so, or have done this for so many years, but was much easier to ignore from someone you could look in the eye and size up and know it was mostly due to jealousy, or just straight up hate. Hard to ignore when it's millions screaming it from behind screens, a lot of really great talent has always gone undiscovered and unheard, but when it's so easy for just the loudest voice per se to get all the attention and everyone says oh I have a computer and can do that too, that's nothing special.......I feel its even worse.

She had a really nice LP copy one of the first Chibsons that were hitting the US, I don't remember brand name....too many to count anymore hahah, little bridge tweak and intonated, and I was jealous hahah. Just fell in love with one of my old nylons as well....weird, maybe it's the boomy vibrations.......that's what gets me about 'em What I'd still play if I was deaf. I need to go find another one somebody put some steel .13s on I don't think I could ever teach anything, especially as a job......, and just reading Juliard gave me a shiver down my spine

I could be interested to participate in whatever "challenge" this may be, or at least be your guinea pig .... I have no real online presence.....haven't for years, I have no archived recordings/albums....the few I have done were very limited(tapes, so not many would ever want them anyway hahah) and mostly given away at shows, the demos I do do are just that, mostly done while writing a tune, so I can hear it, get some initial feedback, then work on it, to be played, not recorded and passed around as @Patchez puts it quite well.....used cars to used car dealers, the music "non-business" being what it is today, here and now, not 6 months ago, not 6 months in the future, (but nobody knows what the future holds for live-venue music, where I'm usually quite content to pluck away in relative obscurity) usually even a different band name every time, and usually some tragic accident that has befallen the "band" so sorry they can't make it tonight Fans? what're those? you mean those drunk people whose dollars I from time to time enjoy So with some trepidation sure, I suppose count me in I'll get some recording done next few months. Not really any work around music or otherwise, not with my skill set, and not anywhere I can get to. Not like you're asking for a blood contract ......would do you no good anyway, my soul got sold long ago, pretty sure my buddy still has the paper framed haha. I think I got a doobie for it, and maybe some guitar strings he got ripped off.

One of the few people I've taken the time to "teach" guitar to, heh as if I know......was a friends kid....pretty high on the autistic spectrum....loved music, was one of the few things other than cbd that actually helped her. Once she realized (took awhile) that her hand was going to hurt if she wanted to play, the "right" way how she'd seen others do and wanted to...... our wrists/fingers aren't really meant to do such things , she really took to it and plays a pretty mean slide

yes, yes, yes! Oh NO! the end is nigh.......I heard a song I didn't like any closure? haha Where do I get me one of them? My fingers are a little sore and nobody has paid me my millions I "deserve" yet

I don't know the issues or person that that the best I can gather left the site because lack of promotion? and as always correct me if I'm wrong. I guess it just comes back around to that perceived value thing.......my two cents is it was a net loss for all parties involved? or did said person go get signed to a multi-billion dollar FB label and now shuns everyone here that may of helped them out along the way.

Nope, you don't exist if you've stepped in bear shit and are still pondering the answer to that old rhetorical question and don't hear the tree falling over the sound of your own thoughts

<---is terrible at business The customer is almost never right, and not willing to bold-faced lie(or creative marketing, as I've heard it called haha) for a quick buck.

Well I'll just jump in and read post of ye old long-winded ones later hahaha...... had kind of forgotten about this thread already hah(have a silent partner on this one, but he don't matter, songs mine, and he's given up.....for lots of reasons, many touched on in other threads here ) Old Forrester on a dirty road Sometimes I think my head'll explode When death rings that dinner bell Pass the bottle of Rebel Yell (chorus) Anykind of whiskey you bring is just fine We can toke if you wanna Anyday out of the week is just fine Time, I've got all I wanted Other verses....all about Jack and Jim my only friends green labeled bourbon walkin all over ya etc, etc, etc.... and look out! it might even have a bridge.... Shine up the pie plate belt buckles and break out the Stetson that's never seen a days work and "country" this thing right on up Don't forget that over exaggerated fake drawl "country" enough?

squirrels..........natures crackhead! will probably do something with that

good question.....money is the most likely answer, but I assume you know that haha.

Old thread, but I'm on board

Thanks!...Still reads kinda rough for people that just know how an instrument works...but well written