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Follwoing up Clutch with another Frederick County based band?
what song are you listening to?
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Follwoing up Clutch with another Frederick County based band?
BOP
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Follwoing up Clutch with another Frederick County based band?
They're not on youtube, so they don't count.
I like the sound Larry, but I thought "Pain in the Ass" was the name of your band. Or was it Salad Tossers?
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Larry Gude
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They're not on youtube, so they don't count.
I like the sound Larry, but I thought "Pain in the Ass" was the name of your band. Or was it Salad Tossers?
Har de har We're Southpaw because everyone is a lefty and we're not kewl enough to be Nekkid Brittany
PITA was the working title because of the time signature with the rolling triplet patterns in the opening. I am a 4/4 guy in my DNA, being not properly trained, so I don't even count 4/4, I just 'feel' it. And even that, frankly, isn't intuitive. You just listen and do EVERYTHING in fours, 8's or 16'ths and it becomes what you're used to. So, I struggle, still, to be able to keep to the timing of opening and it's difficult for me to play out from their confidently which is necessary to figure out what sounds good and what maybe to do next. That recording is, essentially, the third time through the thing as a whole piece and the slow leads I wrote yesterday morning, on the fly and the rest or basically improvised so, there was great energy at rehearsal as it came together. Prior to that, I puked the triplets 4 or 5 times before I got it for that take.
It's easy but its a challenge, simply learning a new time signature and getting comfortable. A good player would get it right away. So, for us, as we did the pieces of it over the last 2 weeks, I HATED it because it was not coming to me, at all, and when one member is not into a song and actively despises it, it makes it a pain in the ass.
That said, as I learned to count it and now it's falling into my reach, I LOVE the damn thing. There is a LOT of music going on in there. The change to the outro part we came up with on the fly yesterday, worked it a coupe times and nailed it pretty quick. We write well together. And I was determined to put out effort for everyone elses sake, because they liked it from day 1, so, my obligation to play with the gang. And, it has rewarded me, us, with a song we ALL love to play and are very happy with especially considering that that take is barely past sketch phase. It''s only going to get better as our collective confidence in it increases. I've already made a very significant, yet very obvious in hindsight, change to the leads, something that comes to you when your not completely absorbed on simply getting the timing correct.
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Larry Gude
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Follwoing up Clutch with another Frederick County based band?
I'd LOVE to open for those guys!!! His voice is it. Man.
RPMDAD
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LIKE!!!!!! Sounding good Larry, wished i lived a little closer to catch you guys live.
Larry Gude
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BOP
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I liked Humble Pie back in the day. Nice to revisit old friends, of a sort. Former Small Faces member Steve Marriott with Peter Frampton before he went pop (Frampton Comes Alive - and sells out).
Some people say their self-titled album was their best, though I'm not convinced. I like "Thunderbox" a lot. They did put on a helluva show, though, and there are live albums on youtube.
Humble Pie - "Humble Pie"
Some people say their self-titled album was their best, though I'm not convinced. I like "Thunderbox" a lot. They did put on a helluva show, though, and there are live albums on youtube.
Humble Pie - "Humble Pie"
BOP
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Doesn't look like he's coming anywhere near here this year. I guess we'll have to go to him.
http://www.tabbenoit.com/tour/
BOP
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An amazing talent, gone too soon.
BOP
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The only song I know of that Mason Williams both wrote and performed, even though he was a very prolific song writer. He was also a comedian, having written for Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live.
So anyway, I was listening to his big hit "Classical Gas," and came across a few other versions I thought were share-worthy.
Mason Williams.
Mason Williams with Deborah Henson-Conant.
Vanessa Mae on violin. I'd never heard this version before, but I really like it.
So anyway, I was listening to his big hit "Classical Gas," and came across a few other versions I thought were share-worthy.
Mason Williams.
Mason Williams with Deborah Henson-Conant.
Vanessa Mae on violin. I'd never heard this version before, but I really like it.