The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

I'm also tempted by the Hagstrom Ultra Swede, after being totally seduced by the Hagstrom sound of VikingBlues's Viking. Unfortunately I haven't been able to try one out, living as I do in a musical backwater, but I would gamble that the ease of playing the very slim neck might compensate for the l...

Hello everyone - it's me again. :wall: There's a desparate rush of creative activity here as the holiday draws to a close and I return to the pit of ordure that is my work on Monday. So I'm feeling a bit out of ordure. :roll: Sorry. So here's a new song. http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9320596 Th...

Sounds like good advice Strummer and HCM.

Tickest ordered.

I can't believe there's a musical event worth going to within walking distance in this musical backwater!

Anyone seen Maggie Bell live in recent years. I'm interested to know if a gig is worth a try. She is appearing at a venue in North Berwick as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For North Berwick to have ANY music performance related to blues is about as rare as rocking horse droppings or me winn...

Thank you Vancouveris - I need encouragement for my voice as Strummer has pointed out! :D Look VB I think you need to cease all and any apologies around your vocal emissions !! Apologising just drags your confidence down... your saying "I'm no good" ..........and that is just tosh old chum...

Sweeeet! :clap: That would fit perfectly on a Knopfler album, IHMO. Nice floating guitar tone, soft vocals. :thumbsup: Thank you 12bar. I find putting up a piece here with vocals SO much more stressful, but I need them to say what I want to say. Nice. Don't be embarassed about the voice. You should...

Release date in the UK - September 20, 2010.

Golfxzq wrote:I am a sucker for female vocals.

Me too - I often decide not to listen to a group / artist where the lead vocals are male due to the vocal being not to my taste - I very rarely decide not to listen due to female lead vocals.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=9307683 Well - this is the fruit of my labours on holiday at Marnies Croft. "Labours" being me walking about with headphones on listening to backing tracks on the CD walkman and trying to get my poor head to come up with anything resembling worthwhile ly...

This 6 minute clip has short samples of the tracks. [youtube]9CAotXJByTg[/youtube] This does sound a bit different to the Cyndi Lauper I would expect - does sound nice and bluesy but I'd need to listen to more of it to form an opinion! Can be a good thing for the blues when a high profile non-blues ...

:beer: Congratulations to Grham McDowell for winning the 110th US Open!!! That was some great golf. :beer: A great performance of nerve too for a player ranked 37 in the world with no major titles. :clap: But I was just looking at his stats and he's obviously been working on his game:- Stroke Avera...

Very Sweet indeed.

Good song, nice singing, and good acoustic playing - I like the arrangement too. I admire your courage in not hiding your voice / playing behind a lot of sound / fx.

Thanks VB for the fantastic views! Looks like a great place to paddle for me (my other hobby)! I always enjoy this OT stuff :thumbsup: Well, holidays are coming... :dance: If you do go to Loch Ness for a paddle remember to pick your spot carefully - it's 750 feet deep (230 m)! Apparently contains m...

:wave: Hi there VB... great to have you back. Great looking views you had there, should have been very inspiring... can't wait to hear what came to you once you cleared your head from work. Never heard of a "midge" but they sound like dreadful little beasts!! Thanks Golfxzq. The Scottish ...

:welcome: drrock. Catching up after holidays and no access to this site while away so, sorry, I'm a bit late with the welcome. Nice set of gear you've got there - that should help your guitar playing. Finding this site should help too - it certainly helped me a lot, even after a lot of years of guit...

:welcome: Rod. I'm trying to catch up with the last weeks forum posts - so sorry for the late welcome but I'm just back from the wilds of Scotland with no internet - or mobile phone reception - or a guitar. :wall: I've been listening to some of your tracks on the soundclick link and would like to ad...

:welcome: james. You should find lots to help your playing here. I've had huge loads of great advice in just a few months since I found this site - it's made a big difference to my playing and to my confidence (just possibly these two are linked! :aha: ). Sorry for the late welcome but I'm just back...

Great playing and great showmanship - done with such passion.

And a nice touch at 07:50 - ther's someone who'll have a great story to tell for years to come.

Hi Strummer - don't want to hijack this thread on the holiday topic, so I've posted a new thread in the off-topic forum.

you're staying here with views like those below. And in answer to Strummers questions (well some of them) on the String Bending Technique thread:- Great holiday - very relaxed and chilled out - as you'll see ideal for just sitting outside the front door and looking at the view - all the pictures fro...

I guess that for me there's enough quality guitars around that I can get one with a neck that suits me. So I sort of have to confess ignorance of which sort of necks my guitars have other than the Hagstrom is definately thin, the "tele" copy is also slimmer compare to a Korean Squier Tele ...