Wildwood

A couple of names there in your list I'm not familiar with I'll have to check them out.

After taking a listen at what your into  I thought you  might get a kick out of Ray Beadle

Last edited by SOG (Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:04:40)

If you have a smiley wish, let me know...

wildwood wrote:

Picked up the guitar again about four years ago.

Many members here have a similar background... playing when young, real life starts, years later rediscovering the guitar and discovering the Blues

Hi Wildwood, welcome to a fun site.
I see that you are from St. Louis. I stopped there last fall with my wife and we had a really great time. Stayed at a hotel near the arch, had good food and saw killer blues bands at two bars. I am even wearing a t-shirt from one of them (called BBs') as I type. Anyway, St. Louis is a great blues town.

Wildwood....want a giggle. I'm the guitar player on Sugar Cane Collins' albums.
Well, the electric parts that is.

Last edited by pee.gee (Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:05:32)

It's a small world...

Welcome to the site from another over-50 recent arrival, who's been enjoying the company here, and been made to fell very welcome.

It's amazed me to find how many people have found themselves in the "rediscovering the guitar and discovering the blues" boat.

pee.gee wrote:

Wildwood....want a giggle. I'm the guitar player on Sugar Cane Collins' albums.
Well, the electric parts that is.

"some laid back electric guitar from Paul Green that has you rolling across the endless countryside looking for a place to play."

You old dark horse I'll have to go get me a copy.

Welcome Wildwood.

hgnnnnd......  see,

no smiley  <grin>

Yeah that was the gig. To provide colour more than anything else. So you got the " down the river " album? See we  actually recorded 2 albums in the same lot of sessions. Which was the last 2 albums. I think this one couldve been recorded,  ooh shit up to a  year before it was released. I had no idea what was coming out on each album. So there was no real concept  to grab a hold of  per se.
Thats part of the fun ( cough , cough ) of session work. Some producers want you to be you and put a stamp on the music. While others just want you to colour by numbers  lol. You never really know from day to day.
Some days you wake up and have a play..feeling all inspired. Get to the studio and your'e doing a  jingle for  rice bubbles  or something   haha. Madness.

Haha  yes  very similar. The breif varies. If its a tv jingle, usually i'd get the gig writing the score. Some times you'd be working with just the artist and the engineer on a self produced project. 9 times out of 10 the artist knows absolutely nothing about music apart from their own material. So you cant really give them many ideas and if you do the engineer starts hinting about the time is money factor. So you have to zip the lip and make the best of what youve got to play with. Other times you get a bigger budget job that has some arty farty producer who uses lines  like..."  oooh  i just love what you played....but do you think you could make it sound a  little more...hmmmm  YELLOW  ?.... Yellow ?....pharkkkkkkkk.   That actually happened. Thats just a few examples. More often than not you'd be playing on stuff that never goes to air. Demo's for record labels. It's cheaper for the label to send the artist around to us and free up their own facilities for bigger budget  tracking and mixing. You really do get the pleasure of playing on some total crap. That's probably 65% of the time. So yeah, it's a weird feeling to be sitting in a  recording studio  dreaming about having a normal job  hahahaha.

Re down the river. Poor Andy. I'd just split with my wife as we started this album. On top of gigging of a night and recording all day, i'd be getting wasted after the gig to numb the pain.
Up and ready to start recording at 10 am. Having the odd quick nap between takes  lol, and generally feeling like shit. As much as i felt for Andy, it was a good thing for me, having to drag myself up to perform. So when i said, if i had my way i'd do a lot of those parts again.....that's why.

Last edited by pee.gee (Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:53:29)

I've taken a break from live. I just got sick of it. Needed a break. So now i'm just doing sessions for a few local studios and have an  internet situation where i do sessions for interstate studios as well. Yeah it's ok actually. Different areas usually have their musical genre attached geographically. I spose country would be the biggest earner for me. I have no desire to go back out live until i finish writing this solo album. I sooooooooo  love  hitting  the "SEND " button as opposed to getting on a tour bus  lol.
Gigging every night was never an issue. She knew that  is my job and it fed the family, bought the house and paid for 2 cars. She's a smart girl. Nah nothing out of the ordinary there...the result  of continual change. Shit happens, pick yourself up and  move on. There were periods like  11 gigs a week plus studio dates then squeeze the family in somewhere. That was quite normal. I lived on 3 hours sleep a night for 17 years. That was fine too. My body didnt object  lol. I spose it all comes down to how good your attitude is at the time.

Hahaha yeah 3 hours. I'd get home after the grave yard shift at a local blues club, about 4 am, grab some sleep and be back up at 7 am to make school lunches and  breakfast for the wife and son. I didnt have to. Looking back i dont know why i did it either   lol. I always told myself i'd go back to bed  hahaha   ..but that never happened. Instead  jump on the exercise bike with Jeff Beck  in my ears ...Wakes you up  in a  kinda snappy fashion. I used to get MBS too. Mine was sexually derived. With my weird schedule sex had to be spontenious. Like   at   intersections or supermarkets  or your mother inlaws kitchen...lol  yeah   it made me very curious about normality.
Ah man the internet, i visualised years ago. The thought of being a musician who works from home was at the forefront of my mind. Then it happened. I now buy my stage clothes from the mens underware department  hahaha.