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Had a pretty good time...

Got a call from the guys I played guitar with here years ago, they wanted to record something so I said I'm in. Showed up around 5:30 last night, rainstorm hit on the way there and knocked out power so we sat down with acoustics and a kerosene lamp to doodle around a little. Knew what song they wanted to record, and we decided to practice it a while and get things together and do the actual recording later. As opposed to the way we did it the last couple of times, one quick run through and set the mics up...

It ended up being a pretty good practice/jam session, mostly acoustic. Played the one we want to record several times, worked out a few trouble spots and in between went through around 15 other songs, practiced a bit on a couple and just had fun with most of them.

I brought the Fender Champ, which I fixed recently it's working great now and sounds better than ever. They hadn't heard it so I brought it in (lights came back on about a half hour after we started) and plugged in the Squier Strat and we did a few with electric too, then went back to all acoustic. Alan has an Alvarez acoustic bass that sounds great, Shane was using a Ovation 12 string, I had my trusty Takamine.

All in all we had a good time, and should be getting together again before long to try and record a little. Also kicking around the idea of playing a local coffee house, and concentrated on acoustic stuff we can do in that venue.

Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
Crazy love - Poco
Rose of Cimmaron - Poco
Heart of the Night - Poco (maybe)
Legend - Poco (maybe)
Southern Cross - CSN
Sandman - America
Riverside - America (another maybe}
Ventura highway - America (another maybe)
Already Gone - Eagles

And several others, I can't remember everything but we wrote down a song list. We played all those plus some, my fingers are sore...been a long time since I did that much acoustic...

Just thought I'd share, we've talked about getting together to record several times since I moved back, hard to get schedules to mesh, but after having that much fun without beer and drugs maybe we'll be getting together a little more soon...It was a blast. We've played together for a long time, but not much in the past 10 years, adn it only took about 15 minutes to get back to the old know what each other will do before they do it mode...make mistakes and laugh at each other and still not lose the song...go back over the vocals at a certain spot without even counting it off...

I think I can handle some more of this...

EDIT - I remembered a couple of others...

South City Midnight Lady - Doobies
Rockin Down the Highway - Doobies
Hotel California - Eagles

Poco - there's a 'forgotten band' that no one ever mentions!

Sounds like a fun time.

Sounds like southern California 1976 lol.

jimmydanger wrote:Sounds like southern California 1976 lol.

He said "no beer or drugs" Jimmy . . . LOL


Sounds great !

Cool glad to hear you are back at it Billy!

No beer or drugs?? I'm outa here!

Thanks guys, we had a great time, and we've always done it without...supplements...and it sounded good as always. This is not new to us, though, we used to get together with just an acoustic to work out vocal parts when we were playing in a band together.

We've also talked about a bunch of other songs to kick around, and since we're all good at harmonies, we're mostly looking for stuff with lots of vocals, which is different for me. I'm usually looking for guitar songs...
So we're looking at lots of Eagles, America, some CSN, and we're all Poco fans so some Poco had to be in the mix...great band, I've been a fan for longer than I care to admit...ditto for all of those bands actually, I was listening to them in high school for the most part...

I'm sure we'll think up more, and we're also talking about working up my song Last Train. I played it for them last night, the same recording on my profile player, with just guitars and vocals, and they liked it so we might be getting that redone before long. Also thinking about trying some a capella stuff. It should be interesting...

by the way, it's these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKnqSKQCIs4

I recall seeing that before.

Enjoyed it again !

Thanks George. We had a laugh or three about the glitch in the vocals at the first chorus, we're still not sure if it was me or Shane that goofed...He thinks it was him, I think it was me...

I posted it as an afterthought, some of these guys may not know who I was talking about, some might...and they made me torture my vocal chords doing that one too...

All things considered I felt you all did a great job.
I posted the link up for my friends, whom also enjoyed.

Great music, thanks, one said.

I concur.

Is that a Crosby, Stills, and Nash cover?


Seems like I heard that song before....but lost it in the great memory crash of 1988

George - Thanks again, and thanks for passing it on.

Yod - Yep, it's a CSN cover. They asked me if I could play it one day at band practice, I said sure...it's been on our song list ever since.

Got a call last night from Shane, he asked me if I'd be interested in practicing on Sundays. Of course I said I'm in, they want to go ahead and put it together again and start playing some places like restaurants around here that seem to be doing acoustic stuff on the patio...

So it looks like we're going to be putting a band together again, and if they get a few regular club gigs now and then they have a good drummer in mind who can fill in when necessary. I'm really looking forward to it, can't wait to see what we can do with a month of regular practice.

Fingers crossed Pete. Sounds like it could be an ideal situation.

Talbot