The Watering Hole

New you-tube clip - just getting into it when the wife comes in, & then the phone goes - ah well, somedays you just get those 'slow interrupted twice' blues!   :lol:  :lol:

I've got those 'slow interrupted twice' blues

Pretty amateurish video I'm afraid, but see what you think.

Rich  :wink:

Very NICE !!

Ciao !
Marco

Very good Rich. Nice playing.

Thanks guys - appreciate you watching/listening in.  :)

Sounds like you should get interupted more often!  Nice!  :)

Noice playing man and a schweet schweet Paul!

good stuff Rich.  how did you film it?  

Thanks guys

Howie - just with a really cheap Kodak digital camera which has a neat little video facility with sound that I discovered by accident!  I put it on top of my printer & try to stand and play where its aimimg via the little screen it has on the back!  As you can gather, its not a very sophisticated process!  ;D

If/when I've got some spare money I'd like to get a proper hard-drive video camera with better picture & sound, which I can put on a tripod - a bit like my friend Robert Renman does on his site 'Dolphin Street'.  

Rich  ;)

I have to say, as much as I enjoyed the playing, my favorite part was the look on your face when you shoo'd the wife away.  In fact, the only thing that could have been funnier is if we could actually hear her saying "could you turn it down please!"   ;D

Great stuff, you beez a blues man.

That was some very enjoyable blues playing.  It must be nice to have da blues.

Dude,

I have totally given the old lady that look and the hand gesture on more than one occasion.  I think to myself, "Woman, you KNOW that if I am in this room and playing.....I could fucking be recording....don't you DARE come in till the music ceases."  I can't count the takes that my wife has ruined or the occasional kid pitching a bitch about a sibling! HAHAHAHAAH

Good playing BTW.

Hey Rich...damn good one man!  :)

It's funny, when the vid first started...I thought it was going to be a kunfu movie...where the sound is way off from the speaking.  ;D
All I could hear was slide guitar and you just standing there.
When you kicked in I realized what was going on.  ;D

Good stuff man...you should come down here in the south and we'll take a trip to Memphis.  
We'll head on down to the crossroads. ;)

Randy

Thanks Randy, glad you enjoyed it.  Wish I could take you up on your offer - I'd love to explore the home of the blues in the US - unfortunately I'm the other side of the pond in the UK.   :(

There's other stuff there too inc. another blues ('BB Blues') with my PRS - all under 'voxman5' - see what you think.

Best

Rich :)

Hey Rich,

I'll tell you something but you'll swear I'm feeding you a line.

Just for example if you ever were to come down here and you wanted to get to the heart of the blues....this is where I'd tell you to start.
We'd go to some obscure little Mississippi town in the scorching middle of July.
Then we'd go out in a cotton field and pick some cotton for a couple of hours.
Stick with me.....

So far, we're not playing guitar....get it?

In the 100+ degree weather in the cotton fields you can hear the bug noises, see the heat rise, and the sweat will be pouring off you.
Even the dirt is hot and radiating back at you.
You check out the surrounding tree line with the grey spanish moss lilting in the very slight breeze...if any.
You drink a gallon of water about every 1/2 hour to keep from falling out...just soaking up the vibe.
You do this long enough til it's starting to piss you off.
In doing that...you start to get just a hint of where the blues came from.
You stay there just long enough to get that hopeless feeling and to get a feel of what it was like when the blues started.

Then if you can handle it...we'd jump on a boxcar train, drink a pint of Jim Beam and ride it for a while.  ;D

I know that sounds crazy, but when I was around 10, I used to live in such an area and one of my best friends was an over 100 year old black woman named Mariah. This was in the middle 60's and she had been born a slave.

She was pretty scary old looking but had the best stories.
We'd chop wood for her and do some chores just so she'd tell us stories.
We also had an old time black church just down the road from us.
A couple of us would go down there on Sudays and hang out by the windows and listen to the music.
It was gospel...but it ROCKED!  :D

Anyway, we've done such stuff in the past to try to get back to a place and time when we were in musical ruts or wanted inspiration.
Later on after a shower, food and some alcohol...we were ready to rock.  ;D

Crazy yes...but it's pretty cool and keeps it fresh.  :D

See you at the crossroads....SCRATCH!  ;)

Randy

Hhaha....I loved his line...."I'm talkin' bout' the Blues, I ain't talkin' bout no monkey junk."  ;D

That's a damn good line and I wish I'd coined it.  ;D

Have a great evening...and I don't mean no monkey junk.  ;D

Randy

Alternatively Randy, to really get a taste of the blues - just look at my mortgage,  university fees, the gas, electric, council tax bills, and my wife's car repair & credit card bill!!  THEN you'll know the blues my man - where else did you think I get my inspiration from! - & I ain't talking no monkey junk neither! ;D ;D

To get a real taste of the blues, I've just to think to my MIL...  Oooooh, well !!!   >:( :( :(

Tigerbill — Oct 21, 2008To get a real taste of the blues, I've just to think to my MIL...  Oooooh, well !!!   >:( :( :(

That's not the blues TB, those be the BLAHS!!!  :D ;D

MWAHAHahaahahahahahahaha to all of you.  ;D

Yep, the bank owns all our shit as well.
We do have the cars paid for though...that's one good thing.
I'm taking my little Mazda in tomorrow for a BIG scheduled maintenance though.  :(
Hell, that'll cost me somewhere between $250 to $300.
Oh well, that's better'n a repair bill...and that ain't no monkey junk.   :D

Randy