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Jeez – I’m honored (and horrified) that y’all consider me a musician. I do feel pretty blessed to have found a few guys that we all enjoy getting together and playing music. It was all rather accidental, taking a chance getting together with someone I had just met, and just trying to do some songs we both knew. It was really helpful that I had a “man cave” where we could hang and drink a few beers and try playing some guitar. Then Alan brought his brother in who plays bass, and then we got a small PA, played more stuff, added a drum machine box, then actually somehow found a real drummer. We’ve been playing for a number of years now, but purely for fun – every couple weeks we get together and someone will have found a couple songs on-line, and suggest we try it. And we’ll do anything, once – or twice, or maybe thrice, before we decide its worth more effort, or we got it as close as we ever will, or we just suck. And we try ANYTHING – and thats really the challenge, and where I feel I learn.
But after doing this for a while, we were asked to do a couple parties, and those were incredibly nerve-wracking for me, but they were fun! And Alan and Glenn and Gary all had lots of experience playing in bands, going back to high school, so while I am still pretty uneasy performing, I am learning to relax and get into it more, even though I really just strum some chords in the background. Now Alan wants to do more gigs, amd make some money at this, but the rest of us have pretty full lives, So maybe 1, with the occasional 2 gigs a month, is probably gonna be our fill. But thats what those videos are for – so Alan can try and line up some paying gigs. We’ll see – Maybe some day we could even open for the Carolyn Sills Combo – that would def be the big time!!
Glad y’all like the jackets – we decided we needed to look “official”, and I can probably find the Amazon link for anyone interested, They are amazingly cheap (and feel that way!)
What was really fun about this latest gig was working with the Jewel Tones – they are so cute, and so talented, and such great people to work with to figure songs out – it was a really great added level of fun. We hope to do more with them in the future, but they’re pretty talented and may not have enough time for us antique farts –
I’m still pretty sure that if I sat down to play guitar with most of y’all, you’d be way better the I could ever hope to be – but I’m gonna keep trying, and most importantly, gonna keep having as much fun as I can. I’d recommend it to anyone –
Maple is so easy to make look good but sound “bleh” – SCGC seems to do maple very well, and I seem to be drawn to their maple guitars far too easily –
I just kinda realized that its been so long since I played a Taylor (other than in crowded halls at shows) that I really can’t say anything one way or another, other than I really have no interest in making an effort to try them –
Oh – it might take an hour and it might take 8
But believe me darlin’, I’m worth the wait –
You won’t miss when I start, you be so glad when I end
I’m your Forum man – I know you understand –
I’m your forum, forum, forum, forum, forum man
When you’re down I bring you up and when you’re up I got the plan
Please stand by while I apply my hands –
I’m your forum, forum, forum, forum, forum man
Standard deep socket with ¼” drive should be fine – avoid sockets designed for larger drives, and sockets designed for impact as they tend to have thicker, heavier sides.
Born to Run – Emmy Lou Harris
Honky Tonk Side of Town – Randy Travis
amd 3 or 4 originals by The Muted Jewel Tones, local girls that we’re backing up for a show at The Uptown this weekend-
and no, thats not mine (unfortunately) – but soon! – (soon?) – yes, soon!
Cool video! I plan to go try those out – And that may be the ultimate (non-violent) video to make my wife leave the room and go watch TV somewhere else! 😉
It would be great to do an informal video just going over everything in the booth, and discussing all things new and changing at SCGC, just for us fans who can’t actually make it NAMM (and would probably only go to see the SCGC booth anyway -)
Yes, you have to pay for a special membership in order to list things for sale on AGF – it would be nice if our for sale section had more action, but it takes a while to build that up. I have to list a couple things in the near future, so I will be adding a couple new ads – unfortunately, I’m not really in a position to buy alot right now –
Please post a post meet-up report! Saw a bit on AGF, but a more detailed follow-up would be good reading –
I may have gone off a bit – but the situation seemed a bit extreme. If all of us expected that same heightened need of perfection in all things, and treated each other in that way, the world would come to a grinding (and very unhappy) halt. Its actually why I worry about listing a couple of my guitars for sale – I’ve played them, they show that, and they are still great instruments. But there is this extreme belief that anything that isn’t absolutely perfect has lost a great deal of its value.
I’m really different – I’ve bought more than a few Santa Cruz guitars that were in need of work. Neck resets, finish repair, refrets – Its all good by me if the instrument is one I want. And I have no problem with these, because I know the guitar was built with good wood, proven techniques, and is ultimately repairable and preservable. I don’t go for a lot of cosmetic repairs – not really important to me,
I even bought a Klepper guitar he called “Wabi Sabi” – its a concept that things that are imperfect can be more beautiful than things that are “perfect” – more to it than that, but I just loved the guitar.
Oh well – I’ve learned that my take on things isn’t always the norm – but I’ve also learned that the “norm” is rarely right –
