Music: Your flavor of the month?

I'm seriously considering getting a guitar holder like Steve Howe and Carlos Santana use so I can just walk up to my heavier guitars and play them without holding them at all....

 

Those guys could really play and sing harmony

 

Two legends. Same song.

 

A friend of mine has a Fender Jazz bass that he bought an air bag sort of strap for...you pump it up and it really takes the weight off your shoulder.....I used to play a les paul and when I did I'd have a back adjustment every six weeks....now I have a few heavy instruments that I don't play much for that reason...one is a solid mahogany bodied strat with the big 70s headstock and a huge baseball bat neck....tone forever but it must weigh 12 pounds....

 

You remind me of a Haight/Ashbury kinda dude. I remember our trip there in 2018. Snapped this pic.

 

I've been there.

 

This is just good ol' gospel music. Gordon Mote (who's blind, BYW) kills it on this song. He's amazingly talented and likes to have fun with the crowd, as well. Definitely worth a listen all the way through.

 

I subscribe to Gordon's youtube site after discovering him last year...he's a genius...his best friend is one of my online teachers from Nashville....he just finished recording Ann Wilson's solos LP at Muscle Shoals studio..with.my teacher Tom Bukovac ..Nashville session man who has toured with many greats....he's Joe Walsh's guitarist when Joe tours on his own....also toured with John Fogerty and tons of greats like Vince Gill and Hall and Oates...played around Nashville with Trigger Hippy a few years ago....

 

That is awesome. I like you a little better now.

 

I also follow a great folk singer, story teller from Nashville Otis Gibb and through my correspondence with him I was thrilled 2 months ago to get an email from Kris Kristofferson asking me to swap some stories with him...we've been writing back and forth since he retired...I am happy to say Kris is really a great guy...always good to discover. Also good to have someone like him enjoy my writing and to thank him for his body of work..it was an honor to have someone like him reach out to me and offer friendship...I'm grateful .

 

Hey, I'm "kinda" friends with Even Stevens (see: Eddie Rabbitt)....does that count!? LOL

http://nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/Site/inductee?entry_id=6614

 

sure...that means you almost kinda have one friend! easy to count so far! next up...almost kinda two!

 

Kinda almost friends work very well for me. I have a very short list of absolute friends.

 

I used to spend 3 days every 6 weeks in San Francisco but my area was North Beach, Chinatown, the Wharf and the Mission district for music buying....great latin music stores....I've never been an urban guy so 3 days eating the food and browsing City Lights bookstore was all I could take...back to my cabin in the Sierra's...I've never had a desire to live in San Francisco at all...it was the last stop on my music tours after Davis California and Berkley....would start in Tahoe and do shows in 7 cities and go home...great circuit in the 70s..great memories...I would take in a show at the Palace of fine arts every trip.....I was stationed in the Bay Area for 6 months waiting for orders to Vietnam and was in the City almost every night at Winterland and Philmore West or the Berkley Ampitheater....saw amazing concert lineups....but the Navy sent me there....lived on base with a rented Ford Pinto to get into the city from Treasure Island.

 

OK, then, this song is for you....