General Music Chat

You shoulda played the Buddy Rich version!
https://youtu.be/hY5zeoSb8Io

Things are so much different now! Back then you learned songs by playing the records over and over again and saying 'what chord are they doing?' Do you remember lifting the needle up and placing it back over and over again, replaying sections trying to interpret the lyrics?

Ernest Tubbs? Porter Waggoner? I remember when he had his own TV show...and Dolly was his singer.

Regarding the original question, given that I'm in Tampa ('The Black Hole of Music'), I figure I've got 2 options. First, I could pick up a Lynyrd Skynyrd songbook, maybe learn Death Metal piano (does such a thing exist?), play blues again (ZZZzzz) or maybe build synth samples for some rapper. But I'm still seein' the fleas for the dog, and luggin' around that hefty rig doesn't seem all that enticing. Besides, I'd prob'ly need to get a haircut.

Or I could do what others have done and keep it at home, and just do an occasional piano bar to keep my hand in. Used to be I couldn't understand why so many really good players refused to join a band or play out anywhere. I finally asked one of my friends--a really good guitarist--about this, and he told me, 'Think about it: you can play whatever you want for as long as you want and stop when you want, and nobody ever gives you any sh*t for not playin' what they want to hear. And you don't need to haul or set up and tear down anything.' I wouldn't make any money, but I'm not missing any meals as it is. Music isn't exactly a lucrative vocation, anyway.

I'm leaning toward the latter...

"Ernest Tubbs? Porter Waggoner? I remember when he had his own TV show...and Dolly was his singer. "

Pick up the needle? I remember having to re crank the phonograph to hear the rest of a 78 with Glen Miller, the Dorseys, or even "Peter and the Wolf" when I was a kid. All I listened to was big band music for a good deal of my early life. That stuff was good. When I got a little older rockabilly was the groove. I liked it then and I still like it, but few play it. I was not permitted to take music class in school because some liberal fool said I was tone deaf. When I was in my 20's I picked up a guitar.

Nope. No plan to change. I played rockabilly and have for years. Now phony "country" is playing bad rockabilly but they call it country.

Just keep playing what you are playing... music will catch up with you eventually.

gimme some Rockabilly for a collab, Slacker!

ooooh! ooooooh! I got one !

I thought of the waltz aspect of this thread yesterday when i heard an old favorite song of mine for the 1st time in awhile.


I've always thought that Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman never got their due. And this tune always furthered RB's case for me.

BTO doing "Looking Out for Number One". Cool for it being yet another song where RB talks about "the biz" of being a touring musician. But like so much stuff from that era (vs. now) back then you'd regularly be exposed to some really different things going on time wise.

First four min are this pretty cool (and certainly not your average Top 40 groove) of Bossa Nova w some hip changes. and you've got RB's laid back vcl delivery w his limited range.... i often find myself wondering if he's gonna make that next note.....but i'm always pulling for him!

and then maybe just cos maybe he feels like blowing over some 6/8..... they go off in that direction at the 4:00 min for some more cool gtr playing. nothing jaw dropping or technically that impressive (but GREAT TONES for sure!) and just some simple but cool lines presented in a very straightfwd way.

and i like how they set up the rhythm on this section before RB starts blowing over the changes.

this youtube actually goes to fade a little early as it shaves off another few cool volleys between RG's gtr tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4_0Pt3HAR8

Porter Waggoner? I remember when he had his own TV show...

When I was looking for something ANYTHING to get me out of Beaumont in 1980, I hooked up as the guitar player for Buck Trent & Pretty Miss Norma Jean, both from the Porter Waggoner show. I still think he's the greatest banjo player of all time.

It paid really well, but Buck was drunk by 1PM every day. He's a great guy when he isn't drunk, but no one could handle him when he was. We were doing a Muscular Dystrophy benefit at Jena High School (Louisiana) and Buck started making fun onstage of the kid we were doing it for. We were lucky to escape with our scalps intact that night.

I hitch-hiked home from there the next day just in time to audition with a band from Dallas, and moved the following Wednesday to join them. Been living there ever since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKNt8JZEqA


And we played "Waltz Across Texas" every night.

Though I couldn't tell you what a 6/8 beat is, I have written quite a few waltzes.

Ted

I played with a guy called Billy Carrol Whiteman for a while. He was very good and his claim to fame was that he had gotten drunk with George Jones in Jones's Cadillac with the steer horns on the hood.

What I liked about Billy was he was all the way in. He had one of those glitzy c&w suits and could sing those old songs. I've always liked country (not that new pop country crapola) but had never played it before.

I started with him playing lead but he didn't like my playing style to much - I was clueless truly as how to do the country leads. It ain't just the notes, there is a 'feel' to it. So I switched back to bass and brought in some friends. Poor Billy ended up doing hard core country with a rock band behind him. It worked for a while and it was fun.

Talbot