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My sisters didn't but my first girl friend did. Actually not hidden under the bed, she covered her walls with the posters. Shaun Cassidy (david cassidy's younger brother) Leif Garrett

You mean your sister didn't hide tiger beat under the bed?

I'll say one thing. I've seen a definite rise in youmg rocking female performance in the last few years. Some of these gals are just great. And for every Orianthi who is breeding new life into classic rock there are hundreds more doing some great covers and originals. Mostly on youtube.

Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame has been quoted on several occasions stating that most of his influence came from TV shows. both musically and for lyric material. He'd take a basic premise from an episode then rewrite the narrative and construct a song from that. I know it seems like a long way to go for the end result.

@Alberta... Just checked out your music page. Nice stuff. beautifully arranged.

Red Red Wine - Neil Diamond / Tony Tribe (not bob marley)\ UB40

I had the good fortune of having a drummer/guitarist as a best friend when learning to play guitar and first starting writing music. When you co write with someone it opens a lot of doors and requires you to be flexible from the begining. No one is willing to work with you if you aren't willing to work with them. To step out of that for a minute two of my all time favorite singer songwriters are terrible at arrangement. James Taylor and Norah Jones. Everyone around them has to some how wrap what they are doing around the big banana's performance. It's something I've had to do in the past and was well compensated so I didn't mind that much. Being an accompianist to someone who views the world from a one man band perspective can be daunting and an art form in and of itself though few are celebrated for that ability. Getting back on track. After being in a few bands and going in a solo direction the best investment I ever made was in a 4 track cassette recorder. If you try to put everything into the first track you'll find out how little room there is for other instruments. You learn to make pockets so they can be filled up and you begin to study how other instruments are used to compliment the primary one. You begin to think about the bigger picture and accept that first ideas are not always the best. You also get a handle on how other instruments handle things in a band. Having too much technology can do more harm then good If you walk into a song thinking to yourself you don't have to play your best you can fix it later. Well one mistake becomes two becomes three and you keep on telling yourself a punch in here will work and it doesn't. Or I can just pull up any drum loop as long as it's the right tempo and it will work. Then it doesn't. And you spend all your time looking for loops that aren't related anywhere to what you are/were doing. The best thing to do is to write things down before recording. Know every measure by being able to point to it on a piece of paper. Know that not all the instruments need to be playing all the time and that more doesn't mean better. When you listen to songs, listen to how they are produced. What instruments are playing when the song begins. What instruments are added later. Where is the pause.

It's called hybrid.

Same here Rocky Mountan High (Colorado) - John Denver

What's odd to me, for a time I was working with a lot of hip hop artists during the early 90's and they loved Kashmir

Massachusetts - The Brothers Gibb

Georgia - Hoagy Carmichael (Ray Charles)

I've got no qualms with most music. I have noticed that while the majority of my playing stuff is jazz these days the majority of my listening habits is blues. I was a blues guitarist for many years and had a certain amount of success in the local blues circut but one day my professional non musician career took off and I had to leave it behind.

It doesn't matter in some homes. Many buildings built before 1960 had extremely bad wiring

Hi, When I was doing the acoustic thng I had no problems doing alternate tunings with one guitar. If it were just one or two songs in a show. However I always preferred to have a second guitar if possible for moments when I needed it.

WoW I never see big acts like that for free.

The Castro Hustle - Stu Hamm

Same here. Though I make it a point to go to the local free concerts in the park. I just saw Justine Blazer a country/ rock act out of Nashville. She put on a great performance even though the turnout was low (rain) I've got to say one thing I love about living in metro detroit many cities hold these free concerts and I've never been dissappointed with the performances.

How often do you actually go out and watch a live musical performance?

Waiting on a Friend - The rolling stones

Stone Cold Dead in the Market - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan Another double score.

The guy's I know who have gotten the big contracts way back when (Kid Rock, Sponge) went with the standard 3/5 contract. Three albums in 5 years. It doesn't do anyone any good to produce more records then radio stations will play in a given timeframe. If you do that you are competing with yourself. Indie/local is a different matter. If you are playing a local circut then you do want something to show the local music times on a regular basis. Here's my local rag http://metrotimes.com/music it's one big circus. Come out with a cd, Play locally, get press. Announce release, advertise, get local coverage. Get name recognition get gigs. Start all over again but don't get too popular locally or you'll be a has been before your time. In the indie circut CD's are something you hope to break even on and sell at gigs while offering them for free to clubs so you can get booked. Yes you do have to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. In the burbs you do the same thing only with covers. In the city if you are playing regular you kiss the bar owners and you kiss the followers, You develop a circut and you stay on the circut doing covers because they aren't coming to hear your songs they are coming to hear their favorites.

I'm going to have to go back for that one

I'm not familiar with that one but I love the title. Fire Lake - Bob Seger