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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Let me take a crack at all this deep theory. I've been playing both lead and rythym for over 50 years and I have a few basic observations of what to think about if you are faced with an audience that has payed a few bucks to hear us and wants their money's worth. First, we must play SONGS, whether we write them, or play other's songs, we must know the chord structure and perhaps the speed that is relevant for the song, then, if we have to sing, we should know the words and melody and perhaps some harmony to make it better, and then as a bluegrass player, a break on the melodic theme on your instrument is deriguear, now you can imitate someone or play that break you've been practicing for years.
Basically, you must learn the structure of music before you can fly . LEARN SONGS then you can entertain. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | hey bailey-------how are you doing recoverywise after that nasty sounding accident? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Russ
Thanks for asking, I typed a long and detailed answer to your posting on friday night and the gods of brevity knocked me off line before I could post it and bore everybody. I was hit in the driver's door by a young guy in a pickup who ran a red light. It destroyed my car and knocked me unconscious, I don't have any broken bones but my left side and leg is one big bruise from hip to ankle. My playing arm is OK so far so the rest is not fatal, but I now walk like an old man that has been hit in the ass by a truck. I lost my newest glasses so I can't see worth a damn but I hope my lawyer gets me some recompense as the guy was insured and three witnesses told the cop that showed up that he ran a red light. (He had the same company as our insurance so our agent is busy chewing us out for getting a lawyer because they could have "settled with us" without a lawyer) It's been 4 weeks (including Christmas and New Years) that we have been without a vehicle, and they haven't payed one red cent and they offered us blue book wholesale on our car that was totalled.
Anyway, after Al's good report, I'm buying a 1990 GMC Suburban in excellent condition so next time I do the damage in a collision.
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Location: Alabama | Bailey;
Good to know you're on the mend and still pickin'. I've got to think the lawyer was a good idea, especially since you both have the same insurance company. Good luck and keep us posted. :) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks ceres
I've been pretty much grounded with no vehicle and your good feelings help a lot. We're moving on, and in a day or so I should have my suburban. I'll reveal a little secret, I wanted that Surbuban even before I was destroyed in an accident, maybe fate awaits us and answers our desires with a form of justice. For those of you that see a bright light as you expire, I had strange dreams of an unknown better life as I was unconscous in the broken car, I woke up as if I had been sleeping, and they were asking me if I knew where I was, and to begin with I didn't know know where I was, then the reality set in that I was seriously injured. |
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Location: SoCal | Was there an Ovation slot head in that better after life? |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | glad you're on the mend bailey. i can really relate to your aches and pains, and that glimpse past the light at the end of the tunnel. when i hit a dumptruck with my harley 32 years ago in alaska (should have been in your old travelall) i was out for 3 days and had some pretty hard mental sorting to do when i came back to the real world and realized what had happened. the "dreams" weren't much better, triggered by the pain i guess. i've had two other life altering accidents since then and have the utmost sympathy for those who have tested their bodies against metal and have lost. i hope you continue to recover and stop walking like an old man. leave that to us guys with lots of practice.
and remember something that has always helped me amigo bailey-----------------donde cierre una puerta, mil abren. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | moodypi
It was different as Russ has said, but no, we can't stop you're constant desire to acquire more Ovations. The experience of being blown away by a speeding vehicle doesn't translate to a lessening of a desire to own more Ovations. I'm plotting my acquisition of a new twelve string as I work on getting my Suburban.
And Russ
You are absolutely right about the dreams that are in the mind after this kind of trauma. The people who examine us probaby couldn't keep a cycle upright, I'm still alive and kickin. |
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Location: SoCal | Cool chord link.
http://guitar.to/folder/guitar.html |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul
That is great, I'm amazed at the amount of work some people do to be seen on the web. I added it to my favorites. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Al
I picked up my Suburban tonight, it is great, it has a heavy duty radiator and a transmission cooler, fuel injection and an overdrive transmission and a third seat, removable if needed, I'm going to prowl the roads for the red light runners and bulldoze them off the road before they can do what they did to me. They will regret letting me buy a full sized truck.
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | paul,
that chord link is now on my favorites list. i have a little planet waves electronic chingadero that gives 5 common positions for each chord, but this is the whole thingie. playing with it for awhile the patterns start to show up. the light bulb is starting to glow after all these years.
the 29th is shaping up to be the best day for me in longbeach. i'll have a silver label acoustic 12 string that needs a setup, and a 1612 balladeer waiting for me in lomita. should i bring them to lunch? i'll pack my trenchcoat and gumsoles in case you need help following the bad guys. |
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Location: Alabama | That Is a cool chord link, thanks Paul. |
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