Category: Music
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carry that water of love to me
Got on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):
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Take the Skinheads Bowling – first solo acoustic uke take
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Bertha trainwreck
Bertha trainwreck by Christian Crumlish & co.
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Water of Love – solo acoustic uke version – no overdub proof of concept – take one
Source: Youtube
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Water of Love – working up an overdub arrangement – solidbody electric uke – looper – microamp
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Bird Song – lunch break jam
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Effervescing Rolandamp
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Powderfinger – quick lectric fuzz take
Source: Youtube
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Bertha – slowly but surely
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Creampuff Trainwreck
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Bertha – still working out the kinks – but raucous
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I know a little something
Before applying the electrodes to the heart of the typewriter yesterday my last post here was about an experiment I started last July of posting videos of myself playing and singing songs to YouTube. That’s really where my “blogging” energy has been since then, as I have built of quite a body of performances. It’s…
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This ain’t no cocktail you buy in a bar
One of the songs I’ve been playing the longest with the Reuben Kincaid is an original by Ceil Vortex about prison booze called “Pruno”…
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Must-share flotsam: Dylan and the Band live
For your listening pleasure, this Bob Dylan and The Band 1969-1970 Compilation DVD:
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stump the chumps
what’s the difference between a duck? – Wolfram|Alpha Originally uploaded by xian ok – trick questions are no fair, but hire someone with a sense of humor and load it up with snappy answers, yo.
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When it comes to thinking, bigger really is better
Michael Port, author of a number of bestselling sales-guru business books, has now come out with a pocket volume called The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World?) Think Again. I like the arresting graphic design of the book (a publicist sent me an advance copy) but was somewhat wary…