Description : I've been recording/playing alot of downtempo clean tone stuff so thought it's about time for something a bit more upbeat. Played on my 3 string fretless Lone Rider homemade guitar with a wine bottle neck slide By J. Ross Guitars, Boneshaker 2 string cigar box bass, addictive drums. Love it or hate it, I'm having way too much fun and that's what counts :D
On Facebook I'm involved with a group regarding learning to play and writing music. This weeks lesson was about finding your inspiration and putting together a song. Trains and blues just go together :D
I typically don't do covers and Hate telling people I'll do something and I end up not getting to it. What I'll do over the next couple days is record some portions of the song and share them privately with you to try and incorporate into your project. I downloaded some midi files to get the notes from and found various guitar and bass tabs, now to learn it. Check out Shane Speal and his Snake oil band doing Billie Jean, very cool cigar box guitar rendition. I love rockin' and inspiring others to do the same :D Thanks Nick :D Watch for a private message with a link to mediafire for some Billie Jean stuff.
RAD! this is absolutely outstanding playing here my goodness! this is SUPERB!!..you have a wonderful! talent sir and it is impressive!!! to listen to, i feel like i should be paying to listen. Keep up the GREAT! Work. Awesome.
Money just ruins the fun and it becomes a job :D Like you, I do it because I love music and the joy it brings, Same with making my homemade guitars. I get alot of crap for not charging "enough" for them. Some things money just can't buy. You should've seen people's reaction to the musician Fat Knuckle Freddy when he played on homemade guitars at Maine's first cigar box guitar festival, it was like Jimi hendrix up there, then the crowd swarmed all of us that were vending, "who knew you could get sounds like that out of a guitar made with discarded junk!!" Just having so much fun it should be illegal ;) Thank you Sweetcherries, stay tuned, more to come.
Quick mix entertaining myself before work, I think I'm going to revisit it and possibly add some length to it. Sometimes we just need a good jam session to get a break from the troubles of the real world. I like that nick name :D Caught my attention on your tune there earlier. Ive been making some loops for this community and been very impressed with the quality of the tracks people create with them. On facebook I've been involved in a group teaching others to play, soon I'll be using some of your great blues loops to teach about digital music, loops and composing around them. Always a pleasure Danke, handshake, guess I'll call myself Slider ;) Don't you play bass too? Bet you never tried a 2 string bass, it's a bit different!
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This track is outstanding my friend.
I love the sound effect at the end nice touch.
Well done.
Jamid
handshake to Slider by me, Danke