Summer´s Retroactive Digestives

(observe: in some cases ordered links appear below the catalogue)

Well, midsummer´s coming.

Same procedure as last year?

Opening of the LOKA.

http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=midsummer

Weather is good, at last. Keep some vacation. Read retroactive.

By the way, the guitar shaped beach sandals are from

http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11184480/Guitar_Shape_Beach_Sandal.html

Self Portrait. Do you wanna buy car from this man?
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=Junes+short+cut

Do you know the n e w Little Red Riding Hood?
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html

Is your guitar Made in China too?
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=china+calling

Once upon time I struggled with the EAST-WEST CASE
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=the+east+west+case

Why did they scream in the movies?
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

Connections are better than isolation.
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html

OK Honey. Give me some of that Money.
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=bricks+in+my+pillow

Hey! They are Coming! Who? Women !! More links further from this:
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html

Dolls From Space !!
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html

Before touring (in a team)
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=before+touring

Before starting up The N e w B a n d.
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=before+starting+up

Why don´t get (keep)a nice natural haircut?

http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html

Brazil have it all.
ttp://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=brazilpower

Sound Effcts. Easy to learn.
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=sound+effects

New Hobby: Sing Along with a Picture !
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=new+hobby

Hearing The Pedagoqueing Lyrics!
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/search?q=hearing+the+lyrics

Who in the hell is John Renbourn?
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

Django Reinhardt, nearly know him.
http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

and more is to be found in the archives!

Check "View my complete profile "

Unfortunately only http://hvemsida.blogspot.com

have it in English, excuse me in Swinglish.

New Directions

...the future is naturally full of natural energy.

Why?Why?Why?

but, ...they like it.

Play it again

Never heard the swedish version, but I can´t imagine it would be like Peggy Lee´s,....longing, a little bit shady hoarsness, some echo (if I remember it right). As a mother of fact that record is of the kind when Bud Bundy in "Married with Children" says to his father (Al);

-"Dad. I want a guitar".

Al Bundy fully understands.

By the way, today this would be the perfect hit for Christina Applegate...., Send me some dollars for the idea, Chris, I mean Kelly... And of course, I´m ready to play the guitarpart any time.( and, ..You can hum more songs in my ear.)

Go for it! Go for it! Send me at least a Christmascard!

For the moment I´m not sure, maybe it´s was a version of Patti Page... From the lyrics, any way by Peggy Lee;

Play the guitar,
...play it again,
...my Johnny.
...May be you´re cold
...but you´re so warm inside.

That´s from the times when you didn´t (always) got the guitar punched in your head!

Women´s Group...

...nothing new really!

http://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen/historicalphotos.htm

As Time Goes By with Echo

"The Spotnicks - the first 45 years", is a great documentary book ( 450 pages) by Lars Åkerström.

The story began 1958 in Gothenburg,...and during the time when the book was published (2004), the Spotnicks were still very active. With over 18 million records sold, many long lasting tours abroad, this is one of Sweden´s most succesful popularmuisc exports ever.

It was the first group managing to climb the charts in England (1963). Followed by France, Mexico, Japan... (Like the Beatles they had played in Germany for months, before...)

Many pictures in the book also covers up; the unique story, of how it just happened in some natural order. Just looking at the many colourful record covers, from different parts of the world is a pleasure.

Remarkably, it was possible in the 1960ties, for a (world)wide audience play melody rather strictly. The (electric guitar) sound was still new, that echo...., ( it was almost listening to soundtracks from movies....). In these times the electric guitar was still a kind of monster in the terms of classical guitar education, you just couldn´t study it in music high schools, and the conflict many places continued over decades.

Lead guitarist of the Spotnicks, Bo Winberg, was early (1957) inspired by the records of Les Paul (and met him in the spring 2004...).

As a kid myself, I thought that Les Paul had long fingers,... something spiderlike, - later I understood that he was one of the influential pioneers of the solidbody guitar, and new recording techniques. A few years later I heard the Shadows (with Cliff ) live. Still my brain gives some shady colour pictures of the occasion. Late spring, outdoors.

After that, not really my conscious part of the brain working, it was just that: "I wanna have guitar".

In that case I understand young people of today, ...you don´t really understand it, all the surroundings - but you want. Maybe it´s like sex...., excuse me, not technically, ...but maybe spiritually.

Very naturalistic

The Celtic Harp - by John Loesberg
CD edition
published by Ossian Publications, 8/9 Frith Street, London WID 3JB, UK

What a nice sound, can immediately be related to the classical guitar,... but, here with "better" basslines.... (If you dont´ "solve" your great polyphonic problems in a guitar duo)

Some of the pieces are well known by classical guitarists. For example Kemp´s Jig sounds here relaxed, in a way I think agrees with ancient times. For an outsider it´s good to get a kind of summary of categories; Irish, Welsh, Breton, Scottish, English, Cornish, Manx...

Yes, I have often felt that guitarists been a bit hysterical. Maybe it´s because of the competition, no one wants to be a slowhand, in the real sense of the word. In general, the tempo in the media today for example, tendence to give up-tempo -stressed attitudes. Of course traces are found in art.

Already a few decades ago; talkin bout classical solo guitar; ....metallic, long sounding, new bass strings,....modern experiments , but with romantic echo...., just like in a castle .... no real polyrythmics
How honest is that? The lonely boy eating cakes? Macho-Mucho?

If you play folkmusic on the guitar you must basically be simple and honest, no more. Guitarists can in general learn something from The Celtic Harp, - it´s about the natural and social thing ....,

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http://www.musicgadgets.net/2006/05/08/top-20-strangest-guitars

"FOLKVISA" (Sweden)

Older swedish folksongs (with lyrics of course...) are called "Folkvisa". They are still more or less known, at least for the older generation. These tunes were common in every school´s songbook.
You find more of these, and folk tunes in general, on
http://drtaboola.blogspot.com

Classical Signs

Please Shudup your´e Hooligan-yelling... and study the signs.

There are absolutely worse ideas.

(Photo: Patrik Leonardsson)

Future Show(-s,-er)

Hello Guitar Lovers,

Some Tab is coming up, so far mainly on the neighbour http://hvemsida.blogspot.com.

I´ve been wondering if there´s a good reason to open up New Blog (in this Blogger area),

W I T H O N L Y T A B S ....,but I dunno, I dunno.

But why me?

"That´s because you are dedicated to work UN-payed"

Anyway.

Now it began on.......

http://drtaboola.blogspot.com

Check it up!

You are the winner, I´m the looser.

the SPANISH JOB

"Writing Down Flamenco"

Flamenco is an art-form which traditionally does not use written notation. Many readers must, therefore, wonder about the authenticity and accuracy of the transcritions of Juan Martin´s music into staff notation and tablature (cifra). The approach adopted here was designed to preserve as much as possible the vital spontaneity of Juan´s playing and to avoid simplification or distrortion in showing how Flamenco is actually played.

After the main outlines of the Method had been decided upon, he played and tape-recorded the pieces impromptu, most of them in just one and very inspired session. In this way he linked together many melodic falsetas and rhythmic passages of rasgueo into pieces suitable for a progressive introduction to guitar techniques as well as for solo performance. Next, the music was transcribed from the tape-recording into notation and cifra. Some further sections were recorded and transcribed separately in order to complete the coverage of basic techniques and essential toques.

Working now from the basis of the transcriptions and the recordings, Juan memorised the pieces as he had originally played them and re-recorded them for the cassette to go with the book. Both during and after the re-recording at EMI´s studios the transcriptions were checked through again note by note to ensure that they correspond as exactly as possible to the final recording you will hear.

P.C. " (signature)

No wonder this is still the best tutorial flamenco book, crossed my way; EL ARTE FLAMENCO DE LA GUITARRA, by JUAN MARTIN. United Music Publishers Ltd., 1978.

It went back to basic flamenco traditions, more understandable for the outsider than ever.

DJANGO REINHARDT

"Jean Baptiste (Django) Reinhardt 1910-1953.

Guitarist/Composer born to gypsy parents in Belgium. Though he never attended a day of school -he could barely write his name-he possessed the qualities of a prince and the gifts of a genius. At the age of 18 he lost the use of two fingers on his left hand when he was severely burned in a fire. As a result of this accident, he devised an entirely new approach to the guitar, creating a voice for the instrument that is unsurpassed even today."

"The creation of the QHCF was direct result of the Hot Club of France´s search for an all-French musical group to represent their organization. This small society of French jazz enthusiasts was spearheaded by Hugues Panassie and then nurtured by Charles Delaunay. Primarly, they entertained themselves by playing and studying imported American jazz records, but in a effort to increase their activities they began to promote jazz concerts. Initially drawing from the visiting American musicans and the modest but growing school of French jazz players, they presented their first concert in May of 1933. Django Reinhardt had come to the attention of the society in the spring of 1933, and it was in that winter that he began to be featured at their concerts, in mid-1934, while backstage during a performance at an afternoon tea-dance.

Django and Stephane Grappelli (whom he met at the end of 1931) began to improvise on the jazz standards of the day such as Dinah, Lady Be Good and Tiger Rag. These impromptu sessions grew into a daily practise (with three acoustic guitars, bass and violin) and led to the making of an audition record in September 1934."

"Due to the efforts of Duke Ellington in October 1946, Django made his first and only appearance in the U.S. (Oct.1946-Jan.1947). Ellington, who first met Reinhardt in 1939, was anxious to have Django return to the States with him then, but the outbreak of war prevented this. It wasn´t until seven years later that the fabulous gypsy arrived in N.Y.C. and performed a series of concerts as a guest soloist with the Ellington Orchestra. Not having brought his trusty Selmer guitar from Europe, Django was forced to use an American Gibson amplified guitar. Recordings made during a concert in Chicago reveal Django to be quite at home with the instrument, even utilizing the sustaining power which the amplified guitar possesses. For recordings and apperances from 1947 through 1950, Django performed intermittently on the amplified guitar, opting at times to use his acoustic instrument.

It wasn´t until 1951 that he exclusively played his amplified instrument (the Selmer with a pickup), using this voice to express his "new" ideas and repertoire in the 1950s world of "modern" jazz. "

Source: THE DJANGO REINHARDT ANTHOLOGY , Jewel Music Publishing 1984. Mike Peters/Dan Fox. In this informative book is also mentioned the existence of THE DJANGO REINHARDT SOCIETY 25-38 76th street, Jackson Heights, N.Y. 11370. More information is surely today to be found on Internet.

Festival Coming in Adelaide

WHY JOHN RENBOURN ?

At least 300 full-moons ago, when living in Malmö (Malmoe), in the southerns of Sweden, I happened to borrow some written music for guitar made by John Renbourn. During this time I was very much into study the classical guitar and improve my sight-reading to new heights. I can never regret the procedure.

I found John Renbourns guitar music immediately interesting. Later I got copies of some more, but as a mother of fact, still in this day, I have not heard so many of them in recorded versions. So, and but, how it´s written on paper, can have the power of surviving. Like in the older classical music tradition, when there were no studios. No electricty. No Corn-Flakes. Touring took years, with boat, horse and wagon.

John Renbourn appeared to me broadly, through his pieces, of course with even greater links to folkmusic traditions. Comparing with other "modern" stuff written for the classical guitar, this was for me truly interesting beacuse of connections to classical from different ages, but also some blues/ popmusic of the time, and seemed mostly done with relatively freedom in form.

When I´m playing with right hand fingers, I usually do it on nylonstrings. I think most of the tunes were originally played on steel, "all people know" there´s a difference. So, I´ve practised them as nylonguitar tunes; Ladye Nothynges Toye Puffe, Lady and the Unicorn, Lady goes to church, A Day at the Seaside, ...., to mention some of the prints.

But it´s not only about tricky sologuitarplaying. It´s a must to study his accompaniaments in the songs., if you are to fingerpickin delights.

From John Renbourns Biography chapter one, I found in 2003;

"In Britain in the late fifties the musical craze was for "Skiffle", an amalgam of American folk, bluegrass and jugband styles. The big hit was "Freight Train" which drew attention to Elisabeth Cotten´s original, as well as to the work of such musicians as Leadbelly, Jesse Fuller, Josh White, Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee and Ramblin´ Jack Elliot. These players all came over to England and their guitar styles left a strong impression on a generation of young skifflers. As soon as I left school I went hitchhiking, and met up with others trying to play like them. Mac McCloud, Gerry Lockran, Mike Softly and Wizz Jones were already well on the way, and were all i awe of Davey Graham."

http://www.john-renbourn.com

FROM ONE OF...

...my secret agents (Adelaide, Australia)

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COOL EVENING

(Decembers Short-Cut Ticket)

If you got some money for christmas, let me give you a hand with those parcels.
The last day of the year means fireworks, originally an cultivated idea from China, which in western world nowdays means war between youngsters who still don´t really know about the wonder of washing their own underpants. Tomorrow I read in the newspapers about the damages.
How many dead? How many got just got rockets in their head? How many fingers lost?
Yes, it´s just like in the old MAD comic books. Here in the DRIVE MY GUITAR area, everything is more serious. If you this evening are invited to an elegant restaurant uptown, don´t miss the opportunity to appear on stage. I suggest, Good Year rubber is the best for your shoes an evening like this, you jump up on stage un-invited in tight trashy bluejeans and give Chuck Berry´s old tune some new energy.
I promise you are the surprise of the evening!
Dont forget to take your git-axe with you, I mean the Teleboxer 19566-66-Gold with extra bazookas.

Too Much Monkey Business
Runnin´ to and fro, hard workin´ at the mill,
Never fails in the mail, there comes a rotten bill.

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

Salesman talkin´ to me, try´n´, to run me up a creek,
Said, "You can buy it, go on, try it, You can pay me next week!" Arrgh,,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

Blonde hair, good lookin´, try´n´´ to get me hooked,
Wants me to marry, get a home, Settle down, write a book! Arrgh,,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

Same thing, ev´ry day, gettin´ up, goin´ to school,
No need of me complainin´, My objections overruled! Arrgh,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.
Pay phone, somethin´´ wrong, dime gone, will mail,
Oughta sue the op´rator for tellin´ me a tale! Arrgh,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

Been to Yokohama, been fightin´ in the war,
Army bunk, army chow, army clothes, army car! Arrgh,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

Workin´ in the fillin´ station, Too many tasks,
"Wipe the windows, check the tires, check the oil, dollar gas?!!!" Arrgh,,,,

TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, TOO MUCH MONKEY BUS´NESS, For me to be involved in.

This rocker song, from MCMLVI (1956), from one of the truly first musicbooks I bought with own money (from the HAGSTROM music shop in this small town), way back, way back...., way back, - has maybe been recorded by hundreds, as many of Chuck Berry´s tunes. At the time I thought, by learning to read the music very carefully I will sound like Chuck ... Picture is from that book, young upcoming artist....., later, influential giant on the R&B scene. The energy.. Give the guitarsolo a shot . Backbeat. Always some blues. Boogiejazzy.
Chuck Berry´s have entertained so many.

AT LAST, WORKING DAY

HEARING THE LYRICS

For decades, I wondered,... is the true version;
"My baby drew up,....in a brandnew......Cadillac".....
or this "My baby grew up,....in a brandnew....Cadillac"?
Few years back I saw it written on paper, maybe the answer of this BIG QUESTION;
"My baby drove up...., in a brandnew...Cadillac".
That´s supposingly the true version, but do they all really sing that?
In Sweden we also have the a little bit confusing version, when the story goes, directly translated:
"My baby took up.....a brandnew.....Caviar"!
But,..... is it Russian or Persian? No doubt, it´s about the cheaper form of caviar, sold in tubes, well known in this country.

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