HOT DAMN!!!

VB you know I stated before that I liked your song the way it was  .......   BUT   ...... I stand corrected !

This is an AWESOME collaboration !

Congratulations you two ... VERY nicely done.






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Thanks VB, LOF and JimR.
It took me some (a lot of) time. but I loved working on this one.
I'ts the fantastic work Vikingblues did with this song and the beautiful lyrics that triggered me to try and do my best.

This has been a fascinating and exciting experience. I've been receiving every few days samplers and tasters of his ideas from HBL and boy has it built up the anticipation.

The final version surpassed my highest hopes.

The way this piece has fitted together from the start has been quite spooky. At the root of it all was the lyrics - they fitted perfectly for rhyhmn and helped create the atmosphere. I've felt at times as if there was someone else at work with me even before HBL got to work on putting some final magical pieces in the jigsaw.

I think its time to go bananas!!!   

Strummer07 wrote:

......but the added solo's Oooohh! !! ( and that tone makes you wanna weep )

It makes me want to rush out and get a good Strat - but I'd need to spend the next 20 years practicing like mad to have a chance of getting even near those sounds. You should have seen the size of the grin on my face when the first phrase of HBLs solo after the first verse hit the big Gilmour bend.

HalfBlindLefty wrote:

Oheee  VB,  still underestimating yourself my friend ?    I didn't leave your first lead in just to be polite.   It is different, it is good, it is well played and runs like clockwork.
To jump ahead I cut out the rest to get more space for my work. Not because you didn't play well

And...   the fills during the verses are cut out couse your singing doesn't need them.

(done HBL spoke up  (mumble...grumble....    )

I'm trying to keep my feet on the ground HBL, and its not easy!

I spent a lot of years playing strat style guitars, but only started to make good progress when I started using "Gibson" style humbucker equipped guitars. This is why I feel I need to resist the temptation to rush out and get a strat when I hear what players like you can manage with them. Now possibly those strat style guitars I had were just not the right quality (I'm pretty sure they weren't very good ) but I think I should stick with what I've got just now. I'm still getting better and I love the sounds I'm starting to get and I love the way I'm learning here from you all about phrasing and dynamics and interpretation. I also find it inspiring that this learning process should haev no end - always something new to discover.

I remember when you raised the point about not playing any lead fills at all during the verses and I remember I wasn't sure. Partly through lack of pratice at singing, and also in confidence.   You were absolutely right though - the song flows and sounds better for having no fills and it brings out the words better which is as it should be. I am glad I had the nerve to mix the vocals high enough in the mix for them to be clear - it was very tempting to try to hide them a bit.

I hope too you feel my opinion was right in that your lead playing should be similarly uncluttered by other guitar lines - I really like being able to hear the full tones of a well played guitar.

I'll be raising a glass to the finished product tonight.

Meanwhile.....



Still work in progress, but close, so if it doesn't work I'm updating the video

Golfxzq wrote:

I am truly humbled...  now I know that I am in the presence of experts.  Although I am well past my prime and started my guitar experience very, very, late in life I now feel like an infant in an adult world.  This song and prose writing, musical execution, and now an exceptional video have completely blown me away.

That said... I have also taken heart at the video posted by MAC (hate that I did not get to know him, those of you who did hold him in high esteem) in Oct. of '09 of the 73 year old grandmother playing "Need your love so bad".  It has given me hope and encouragement that I may be able to play with some moderate skill if I live long enough and stick with it.  Thanks to you experts for sharing some of your knowledge with us fledglings.

Chuck

Very flattered to be a part of something that you can say this about Chuck.

It's a never ending mountain we're all climbing. And at each peak we reach there's usually a nice little downslope waiting for us before we can ascend again.

I have HBL to thank for the video and for adding a whole new dimension to the ending. He has been David Gilmour and also with his suggestions and ideas a kind of George Martin on this project. Also I have to admit the song would never have happened without the lyrics, and I would need to come back in another lifetime and personality to have a chance of writing lyrics to be close to matching them. I also will admit that if I had heard the backingtrack during my searches I would almost certainly have not even thought of it as one I could use. HBL saw the potential I think with his knowledge of my playing - the coincidence of the rythmn and meter of the words of the poem fittingthe backing track was just very spooky and was the sparking point for the project.

As I think I've said elsewhere I felt there were other forces putting this together with me. So now I sit looking at quite a steep drop all round this peak and I'll need to get on down the slope soon and hope I can find another peak I can manage to climb up to. Always much more to learn.

Great track , really enjoyed listening to that