Hey how’s everyone today?
So this girl broke up with me, probably deserved it. But I get to write about it in a song.
This is the result. And it made me want to get out of Dodge so much that I moved to New York for a couple of years.
Until another girl broke up with me. Hey I never wrote that song…
John Grey explorer is the guitar. Love this guitar, love the feel of the neck. It has a Gibson Les Paul thickness with an ebony fretboard. Just feels great. Big piece of mahogany with lots of sustain.
Ahh back to the black Les Paul. Sweet stock humbucker in front with cover removed, Dimarzio in back.
You’re in the big time too.
I’m using my black strat with Seymour Duncan active pickups. Dare I say it. This song has a slight country twang to it. I never really cared for traditional country music. But I did like a few artists, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark and even Glen Campbell.
I do like the sound of this guitar. It has a really different tone from my other guitars. It feels a little raw and not much overdrive. More of a throaty growl.
Here is a new idea I’m working on. It’s what I do and what I’m working on. So let’s all tune it down to sexy and let’s play all day. A new original song. Cha.
Yes, I’m an American. That was once a good thing. We used to be the good guys. Our standing in the world has fallen. I believe we can recapture our glory. But we can’t do it with apathy, greed, self-indulgence on a personal level. We can’t do it with those things and torture and war on a governmental level.
Yes, I’m an American. I want to be able to say that with pride again some day. It is a new original song I am working on. I’m not ready to give up yet. We do need to change our ways.
This is an original song about a subject dear to a man’s heart. The guitar is an Explorer copy I had made by John Gray long ago. Bill Lawrence double coil pickups and ebony fretboard. Gibson style neck, has a great feel. Don’t tell the Tele, this is my fav guitar to play. It’s got playability. Meh.
First verse and chorus for “I’ve Got Wood”. I’m playing the Telecaster from 1971 and Bzzz is on the SPD 20. No stripped down kit, just the SPD. We most often use a hi hat and snare with the SPD for rehearsal. I am playing through a Marshall tube amp with a straight front 4×12 and a Mesa Boogie 1×12 EV. No effects most of the time. I like the amp sound.
Here is a drawing in charcoal and pencil that I am working on. I’ll show you the finished piece when I get it where it needs to go.
I’ve been working on learning to use Painter. It is a digital painting program. It works with the Wacom tablet. Very cool, simulates any kind of media and has various textures of paper or canvas. This is one of my son in acrylics in the computer that is.