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| Great stuff, thanks for doing this Bobbo. It's nice to be reminded what great talent there is here. |
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Location: Tennessee | Sometimes you find talent just lurking. So it is with this next tune. There's a guy who has stuck his nose into the tent a couple of times here, and I've discovered he's an Ovationista through and through. He sent me a copy of his CD "A Cry For Help" to check out. It's real nice.
Kit Mann lives in Indiana, and following a career helping others as a soldier, an EMT, and a police officer ... he is now disabled and relies on help from others to get through his daily life. His CD is a mix of rocking electric and introspective acoustic music. I know Kit likes a lot of the other songs on his CD better, I picked the title track from the album to put up here just because it touched me.
Here's your song of the day:
Cry For Help - Kit Mann
I hope Kit comes on here and provides the back story to this song. And I know he'd love to get his CD and music into the hands of people here. You can probably contact him here through the messaging system, or PM me and I'll get his contact information to you.
Until the next time, play. |
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| Haunting, poignant (doubly so knowing the back story), and beautifully executed. Thank you, Kit Mann. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Wow, just wow... Movingly excellent!
Thanx to Kit and Bobbo. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Man...reminds me of when I cold-turkeyed off all my back pain meds. Laid in bed with all those same thoughts. Very unpleasant memories.
Nevertheless, well executed Kit, and hope things have improved for you. Good playing.
BTW, this was a great idea, Bobbo |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Hey you all this is Kit. Bobbo thank you for playing the song for me. It started out years ago as just music I warmed up my fingers and hands with. And like bobbo said, I have had 4 operations on my chest. Heart operation then the sternum split, reconstructive operation, then it split apart again, no I have no sternum, just kevlar and gortex fabric. Now I'm doing great, it has been a long journey. I played my Elite and Ovation 12 strings, we used two mic's 1 on the neck 2nd on the center of the guitars: along with 2 overhead mic's. I played my UKll on the main distortion channel of my Crate GFX2/12. It was mic'ed with a Shure SM57 I think. The leaad guitar player on my cd and this song used all of my Ovations and on the electric he ran it through a line 6 amp with 800 bagillion effects. I'm so happy you enjoyed the song. I'm trying to find the best and less expensive way to get my CD on the internet so everyone can down load the music either 1 song or the entire cd Free. Any advise or help would be greatly appreciated. Maybe latter Bobbo will play some more off the CD so you can hear the others. But so far I am enjoying all the music he has played. Great stuff. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Damn I forgot. After so many operation Karen and I came home from a trip and my dogs were big time excited. So I was taking Mac, my 100lb black lab out. As I was opening the door I dropped something and mac stuck his nose out the door while I was bent over. Guess who was there to meet Mac. A chipmonk. Well Mac took off with my hand wrapped in the leash. He dragged me out of the garage and I was able to get loose but it was too late. My chest was big time messed up. So I was layed up for a long time and while I was warming up with the music you heard I just started singing (A lone in these walls don't dare go outside) The song took off from there. It is about me but I wanted to write it such that anyone with problems could relate to the song. Hope I did well enough and by some of your comments it seemed to do what I wanted it to do. Thank you all
Kit Mann |
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Location: closely held secret | Great song, Kit. Have you looked into CDBaby for distribution? |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Waskel, I have and my brother has his 2 country cd's on CDBaby and when I asked him about it he has not sold a single CD. But then again the bumb wants $35.00 for a CD. I'm really not wanting to make a lot of money, as you can see by what Bobbo wrote about me money was not my big thing. I was more interested in being there when someone needed me....Good or bad. I texed Mr. Ovation to see if we could put here on the web page for free down loads, but his system and not set up to do that. Right now I'm looking into anything I can to Give the music away for free. And like my chosen job in life.....I one person is touched by one song on my CD for free, then I did my job. Besides CDBABY so far has not e-mailed back if they would process a free CD down load or individual songs.
Thanks for the advise
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Location: south east Michigan | Nice surprise to hear something that's not on the MNO discs.
I like.
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Just a couple weeks ago I ran through all 3 MNO discs while waxing the truck. Tho I've heard them before, I can't wait to see what will pop up next. |
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Location: Utah | Myspace is supposed to have a free download function, though I haven't been able to make it work. Soundclick is another hosting site that makes free downloads available. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Thank you FlySig, I never even heard of Soundclick. I will look into that, and this week end I will talk to my son when I go to Iowa, about myspace. He just had a new daughter. He's really into that myspace stuff
Again Thanks to everyone!
Kit Mann |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | FlySig, Thanks for turning me on to Sounclick. I have signed up and now I just have to figure out how to upload pics and music for people to down load. Again thank you.
Kit Mann |
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Location: Tennessee | Thanks, Kit ... for your service and contributions. Hope to see more of you around here.
Now here's a rare one ... and a unique bit of history for all things Ovation and Kaman. One of Charlie's philanthropic endeavors was the Fidelco Foundation ... you know, the guide dogs for the blind people. Charlie's wife Roberta was the driving force behind the foundation ... and sadly Robbie passed away a couple of weeks ago. But she left behind a legacy of service and contribution that is admirable. This is a tip of the hat to Robbie.
Anyway, back in the late 70's, Charlie, Bill & Steve Kaman got together to record an album of songs ... which would be sold to raise money for the foundation. I was lucky enough to get an copy of the album when a small stash were found a few years ago.
There are a whole lot of good songs on the record, but I picked this one in particular for a number reasons, including the opening banter, the beautiful song, the great sounds of the Ovations, and a special guest appearance by the great Marcel Dadi. Enjoy!!
Two Days With Charlie - Charlie, Bill & Steve Kaman
Until the next time. Be cool. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | That's beyond special! |
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| Nice song; couldn't help but smile all the way through it. |
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Location: Connersville, Indiana | Hey I'm here! WOW.....It is just like listening to the Greek bands at Munich Germany during October Fest. Crowds swaying back and forth, raising mugs, eating brats and schenzeil. Hey I got to go get a beer. Great! |
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Location: Tennessee | All right, let's get ready for the weekend here. Nothing quite like a summer day. And even though there was a whole OFC CD (Vol 3) about summertime and such, this song actually appeared on the first OFC disc. It was the penultimate track on the disc ... a counterpoint to the opening track which was also performed by John Peterson.
Get a hold of your favorite beverage, find a comfortable chair or hammock, kick back, and float away on:
Soft Breeze on a Summer\'s Day - Waskel
If you like this, he has a whole album available on CDBaby.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | "Rest" is highly recommended.
A very relaxing CD for those evenings when you are dog tired and having a drink to end the day on a high note! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Had to play it three times to get all the way through it... I kept drifting of to dreamland! 
Must be nice to have a symphony accompanying ya... 
Another GREAT cut! |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks, Bobbo. This has always been one of my favorite tracks. I hope everyone enjoys it.
I had fun doing that one, because I didn't know where it was going when I started recording. I played both guitar parts with my 1867 Legend running through my 4 channel mixer into an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 interface. Recording was done with Cubase. Added the bass line with my Yamaha bass, and the cymbal swells are from loop files.
The strings I added using Sampletank. Mastering was done using ACID and Izotope Ozone.
My one regret on this track is that I didn't notice the lead track was overdriven in spots until I was mastering. Didn't think I could capture it again, so I cleaned it up as best as I could with Ozone and went with it. |
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Location: Tennessee | So, here it is Saturday and time to do the chores around mi casa. I went out front to tend to the foliage, and the few lizards who call my front yard home jumped off the brick planters and rocks and scattered. Yes there were lizards in the air ... not alligator lizards in the air - that would be over on the Ventura Highway which is a bit southeast of me here. And no, the Song-O-Th'Day is not that America tune you thought I was leading up to, but instead something that just made me smile the first time I heard it on the inaugural OFC CD. It still makes me smile every time I hear it ...
He is now part of Guitars Of Fire, but in the old days he was the artist known as Jeff Burns.
Leapin\' Lizards - Jeff Burns
Have fun this Saturday. Smile. Kiss your honey. Play your guitar. Catch you tomorrow. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | superb
it's why Jeff and Greg kick serious butt in GOF! |
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Location: Newington, CT | "Soft Breeze on a Summer's Day" is GREAT! I'll listen to it a lot! Just gorgeous!
Looking forward to "Leapin' Lizards!" |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Day-um bobbo, da hits keep on comin'...
"Leapin' Lizards!" is a 'fun' song to listen to and I'm sure not an easy one! |
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