Friday, July 27, 2012

Brown Eyed Women

I kind of like the way this came out, despite the heavy echo and the fact that it falls apart at the end...
Free MP3 download: brown_eyed_1.mp3
I found them on sale for 55 bucks, but I still got a deal, I guess
I now go to the bus stop to see if I can get a "courtesy" ride downtown. Spending the 10 bucks on the Nike Air sneakers might mean that I will have to walk 8 miles in them to get to my spot. 
The library is closing soon...
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3 comments:

  1. AlexJuly 27, 2012 at 11:31 PM

    Good to hear you're not in jail!

    Work on that fingerpicking, because if you can pull off a little Chet Atkins, people will love you. Face it, probably a good 75% of street musicians are guitarists, and of those, about 98%, maybe 99%, are blanging away with a flat pick. Fingerpicking or slide, anything different is a huge count in your favor.

    Count on sounding good in real life, so as I've mentioned, the Kool Kids with their $2000 iPhones and $500-a-month connect, can film you and put you on YouTube. People like you, or I, are going to find the Internet slipping away from us. For example, when I move from here, since my IP address will be different, there's a very good chance I won't be able to list stuff on Craig's List for a while. But I'll be able to play at farmer's markets etc., so I won't have the Internet as my only lifeline to the outside world.

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  2. Daniel McKenna IIIJuly 28, 2012 at 2:31 PM

    Yeah, except when you start to play slide, people are likely to come over and request some "classic" slide piece (Statesboro Blues comes to mind) or something else by a Slide Master, same with fingerpicking "You must know some Reverand Gary Davis, if you're a finger picker!"
    But I am planning to expand my "Dust In The Wind" and "Dear Prudence", the intro to "More Than A Feeling" and "Stairway to Heaven" to more than 4 songs, at least; and once you get the picking patterns down it opens up another thousand songs; if you can stomach John Denver and Dan Fogelberg and Jim Croce

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  3. AlexJuly 28, 2012 at 10:54 PM

    You don't have to be a Slide Master, just sound decent. Mastery can come later.

    But I can talk; my practice has been going to hell. And I may not have as large a "bolus" of money when I leave here as I hoped, because I just don't have as much stuff to sell as I thought.

    However my position at my friend's is even more firm, since his wife "really" wants their back yard to look good, and since it will effectively be my living room, I intend to make it look excellent and grow things like tomatoes and herbs.

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