Tears in Heaven -- NO vocals - for MAC

also in the Blues Room at:

http://12bar.de/forum/uploads.php?file= … _lead2.mp3

This is the same as the version with vocals, except I removed the vocals track. And it's basically the same audio track as the video of this I have on YouTube, but I added some guitar melodic soloing over it, some attempt at the slides and ornaments usually played on this, often by a 2nd guitarist. I pretty much just improvised over the basic song and no attempt was made to duplicate the vocal melody in the solo - it was just a melody as I heard it in my head.

Again, if you feel this is a danger to you Gerd, just delete it.

MAC - another one for you - you must know now HOW MUCH YOU ARE LOVED!!!!

-- Jim S

Two fitting tributes for MAC. Heartfelt, as HBL said. I'm so glad you were able to do these.

These pieces show so clearly your feelings expressed in your posts.

Its so incredibly brave of those of you doing these tributes to put your emotions on the line and trust your abilities to get it right for something so important.

This song really brings beautiful, sad and touching all in one! Its soo awesome and I've loved it since i was little and they played it at my 3 year old cousins funeral...everytime i hear it it makes me cry...but still a really beautiful song.

I'm so glad you guys were able to watch that beautiful video!  Both because I think it's so perfect as a song for MAC and I also was worried about how the access to the Mac site would be for you guys.

I uploaded it to ... well I'm not sure what to call it - it's iDisk on the MacBook "finder", but you give it an external name (like jimsig) so looking at the whole computer from the top level shows it with that name, and I access it through MobileMe and see it as a Gallery and Albums - "FOR MAC" in this case -  which I can see - both as the raw iDisk and Gallery, on my iPhone too, and upload from it as well.  But it also syncs with iPhoto and other Macs, and it can be used for general storage as the iDisk or jimsig, like any disk or server space, but it also has the Gallery concept to it - which is broken up into Albums, each of which you can give different rights to - whether files can be freely downloaded from it, or if it required a password, and whether others can upload or not, etc...   And it can also sync all the information such as Mail settings, and information between the calendar, contacts, Notes, Keychains, Bookmarks, and Preferences, and even Dock items if you have multiple MacBooks and Widgets, on any Mac, or iPhone or iPod.  In my case, whenever I plug my iPhone into the MacBook with the USB cable, it automatically syncs them for the stuff I mentioned that the iPhone also uses, and can save the latest settings in a file on your MacBook, but it can be set to not sync automatically or sync every so often, etc.   And I have a ".me" mail account on it that syncs with the regular Mail app and iPhone...  and this MobileMe optional package I bought with the MacBook Pro ($99 a year) has 20 GB iDisk space that comes with it, and that's expandable (for more $$$ of course).

So, it's multi-purpose and I really haven't made much use of serving out the albums of videos you can have on it to other people (sharing the Albums) in an unrestricted (no password needed) manner before, so I was a little worried that it only worked for me because I was watching it on the Mac that I had set it up from (and the info might have been cached) and I have administrative rights, whereas you guys might either not be able to get to the Album or the playing might be too slow - but it appears that you can watch it OK, which is great!  And as I said, I turned on the option that you can download the file without a password, so if you really like it, that way it will play without any internet traffic being an issue, as it is a relatively large file (almost 16 MB) - .  My regular Network solutions domain has 300 GB of space that comes with it, and I have used that in the past, but it's so easy to make something (Video or image) on the MacBook - or get an Image or Video in your mail or download it and have it upload to the iDisk into an Album you make, that I wanted to give that a try (plus I like the idea of being able to set rights on downloading, uploading, etc).  It doesn't take audio-only (mp3) files into the Gallery/Album model, so those will either go to the Blues room or another place, my regular server or SoundClick.

I do think it's an incredibly moving song sung in a way that also brings tears to my eyes.  Holly has just finished recording her first CD (in a studio - not a home-made on) and is living on the Isle of Wight now and playing at the shows there and gigging more and more as her name spreads.  I'll let you all know when her CD comes out (I watched a video of clips of one of her recording sessions, and she really was demanding and didn't let the guys at the studio push her around and make her change the way she wanted her songs done.  They occasionally made suggestions to her, and sometimes they made sense and she tried them, but she always had the final word.  It was funny because she also created the cover and inside art (photos or her) and put up a bunch of photos and asked a group of us which one we liked and she fretted over that - as well as making the final adjustments and touches on the recording of the album itself, the order of the songs on it, etc - for longer than the actual recording sessions. But the album SHOULD be out sometimes this month, and I'll let you all know when it is -- it's definitely worth getting as I think - even though it's not a Blues album - it' still incredibly beautiful (lots of original songs of hers too - and a lot are Celtic in nature, which I love and her lyrics are wonderful as is the music).  So, I believe she's going to be someone you will hear a lot about in the near future - and she's only 19 - so she's getting started at the right time to have a great career, and her fan base is already pretty big.

Thanks for listening and commenting!  I'll pass info on to Holly and I know she'll love the input!

And I know MAC would have been in disbelief (as would most all of us I think!) if he had known the level of love that is being sent his way, and it's only right, because he was so active and uploaded so many of the songs in the Blues Room, and was 100% supportive of us when we posted songs or told of things we had done.  As it's said, "what goes around, comes around..."

Jim