Eriisa: lol

Groucho: yep

Christina Milian - You Snooze You Lose

TexasToest: I'll guess Nat King Cole

Eriisa: There's gotta be a song with that in the title ;)

Groucho: (whispers) you snooze you lose!

Eriisa: We were off topic, indeed. However, a mod under fire will fire back. Or not? But, there is something that can bring us back on topic. Who first recorded, "Straighten Up and Fly Right"?

Eriisa: Ratts, I missed it!

TexasToest: nice kitty


LOL I was going to entice you with a nice warm bowl of milk, but then I remembered that we are

Eriisa: Yes you did. And, beware. This kitten ain't so little.

TexasToest: but its so easy to bat the kitten accross the room!



oops, did I say that out loud?

Groucho & Bwild: I have resisted selling the guitars all these years, because I intend to play them again. When I can afford it (hopefully soon), I'm going to take voice lessons to improve my breathing. (Asthma that manifested itself when I was 48 has made singing very difficult for me.) When I get that back under control, I think making music will become a big part of my life again.

Eriisa: Ahem. There are 2 cats here, 1 cat and 1 kitten. Behave, I know where you live!

Bwild: I just gave one away! Serious. My son owed me 500$ so a year or so ago he gave me his brand new Alverez 12 string. Then on his last visit he talked me out of it...free!!

It was a nice guitar too but I didn't play it as much. Plus I have an effects pedal and it's got 12 string guitar as one effect. ;)

Are you familiar with Leo Kottke?

Groucho: I'v been lookin for a good twelve string myself..

http://www.youtube.com/v/mRsN1WWGqp0

Moloko - Fun For Me

TexasToest: I'm here! ;) I know a good home for those Gibsons if you need someone to take care of them.

Groucho: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait! I'm all by myself!!! You'd better pop in. I might get lost.

Groucho: I have a piano in my living room I haven't played in years now, and two guitars - lovely 60s vintage Gibsons I also haven't played in years. I played folk with the guitars and harp. I did the folk music curcuit in East Texas in the 60s and performed at a historical coffee house here in Dallas on weekends. When I started my own business in 1988, I didn't do anything but work until I made myself sick. Then, I didn't do anything but be sick for a looooong time.

baddessi: You're gonna be missed! That's a long time gone! :(

.....I'm going on summer vacation. Taking a hiatus from the site. I'll pop on from time to time. If my games time out, don't worry. Enjoy the win!!!
Carry on and have fun...good luck and high scores!!!!!

I'll leave you with my favorite lyric of all time for you to remember me by...

♫♪♫ ....And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make....♫♪♪

TexasToest: Do you still play alot? And what exactly do you play with the guitar? Classical or folk or all the above?

Groucho: Oh, silly man. Music never sounds bad. It's just the tune you play is different from someone else's.

Classically trained, yes - including a short time in college. Then, I decided to major in Drama. Then, I decided to become an accountant. Oh well, it's all math - except for Drama, and that was what I do naturally - act!

TexasToest: My voice is limited to all notes that are not in the key I'm trying to sing in!

Classically trained! I'm impressed. I should have stayed with piano. But the early lessons did put down a good foundation for later learning. I've played clarinet for years and still own the one I had in grade school. It has new pads and plays well. I still sound as bad as ever!@ ;)

Unfortunately, the baby boomers, those of us who were around when rock n roll was extracted from the blues, are beginning to age and die off. It's sooooo sad to hear about these deaths. Clarence Gatemouth Brown died shortly after Katrina. That was when I realized it was really beginning to hit home.

tehual: No problem. The input was fine. Thanks again.

Groucho: Yes, I am a classically trained pianist - 16 years of study from age 9. I also play guitars (6 and 12), harmonica, and kazoo. Hahaha! I also sing. A piano is limited to the 12 keys we've discussed before, but the voice is not. The voice is limitless.

Freddie Garrity
November 14th 1940 ~ May 19th 2006
65 year old Mantunian, Freddie Garrity, the lead singer of the 1960's pop band Freddie and the Dreamers, sadly died on Friday in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Wales, UK. from blood circulation problems. He had been suffering from systemic sclerosis and emphersemia for a few of years, spending much of his time in a wheelchair. He leaves his wife Christine, three daughters and a son.

Freddie is remembered most for his very happy, wacky stage shows with his band The Dreamers, and for being able to come up with a some light-hearted top hits at the height of Beatlemania. Freddie Garrity worked as a shoe salesman, a brush salesman, a milkman and he was an engineer also had played in a series of local Manchester skiffle groups - The Red Sox, the John Norman Four and finally The Kingfishers, which evolved into Freddie and The Dreamers in 1959. The band itself consisted of Garrity on vocals, Roy Crewsdon, guitar, Derek Quinn, guitar, Pete Birrell, bass and Bernie Dwyer, on drums. They stayed semi-professional until they passed a BBC audition in 1963. Their first release, a cover version of James Ray's, "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" reached to No 3 in the UK charts and led to a series of TV appearances, where audiences quickly remembered the band for their off beat humour and stage antics. After Freddie's U.S. No.1 with 'I'm Telling You Now', American audiences were amused by Freddie's zany stage antics and wanted to know more about the dance he seemed to do, swinging his arms and legs out to his sides, and all sorts of trouser splitting angles!! "It's called the Freddie", he innocently replied. A song of the same name was quickly written and released, it became a U.S. Top 20 hit called "Do The Freddie", even Chubby Checker recorded a cover version. Despite the success of the song in the US, it was never issued in Great Britain. In 1976, Garrity put the band back on the road with a new line-up. It was short-lived, but they did oldies tours in England, the US and in Australia. Twelve years later, in 1988, he got his first serious acting role in a production of 'The Tempest'. Since then, Freddie has also appeared in several British theatre productions and continued to work with different versions of The Dreamers. The original members of the band have all retired from the music business. Pete Birrell became a Taxi driver, Roy Crewsdon bought a bar in the Canary Isles, Derek Quinn went to work for a soft drink company and Bernie Dwyer died on December 4th 2002 at the age of 62. Sadly, by 2004, Freddie Garrity's health began to fail and following an American tour, he had a heart attack, which forced his retirement. He also suffered from systemic sclerosis and enthersemia, spending much of his time in a wheelchair.


(sent to me by someone in the BBC)

TexasToest: Why thanks. Posted only because the information
seemed useful for Rose and Tuesday. Should have condensed them to
just one message perhaps, but I simply forgot the other links twice. :)

TexasToest: True. Are you a piano player?

How do we use those other notes?

Groucho: I understand that, but we don't use that scale because we find our scale more pleasing due to the way our ears are trained. It doesn't mean we can't use those extra notes.....and in truth, we do.

TexasToest: Yeah but in Eastern music it can sound so strange. Plus they don't use chords like we do. You can't get an Allen Jackson from a 24 note scale ;) But you can get an Abdulah Jahaladin

Groucho: I studied music theory in high school, and at the University of North Texas, and we only had 12 notes in the chromatic scale. The Eastern scale is more accurate, but no one can name all possible sounds that can be made in the name of music.

TexasToest: I was thinking of octave. :) In Eastern music there are 24 notes per octave :) They use quarter-tone notes where we use whole and half tone only. ;)

A, B flat, B, C, C#, D, E flat, E, F, F#, G, G#

12 actually, and for swooners, and some wind instruments, all unnamed notes in between.

baddessi: Nope :) pretty cool bunch if Ya ask me :)

Musicians....not a boring lot, are we????

Bwild:

Groucho:
that'll teach you to wear socks.

Bwild: h

my math is bad ;)

Bwild: everyone kows the 8th note is B flat LOL
My excuse anyways!

Groucho I love blending of genres, or not labeling it at all. Just good Music. Thanks for the link

Groucho: a b c d e f g.....whats the 8th one?

Bwild: Let me know what you think. My son tells me all about these players. It's amazing what we still can do with 8 little notes !

Groucho: I'll check him out...it'll give me something to do while I'm learnn the rest of these new DChicks songs ;o)

Bwild: I think you'd like Harper too if you like Johnson. I like Johnson more but Harper has a great sound too.

baddessi: County/Folk/Rock

Lots of blending of genres I think. ;)

Groucho: lol..I've been calling it "tiki club" music...
never heard of Ben Harper....just learned JJ's.."Sitting,Waiting,Wishing....and "Times Like These"

baddessi: http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/