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This guitarist finishes his gig and is the last one in the place with the bartender, who asks if he'd like a drink before he goes home. The player says 'sure' and the barkeep plunks down a big glass of Scotch and a bowl of peanuts to go with it, then wanders off to wipe down the counter. The guitarist take a swig and munches down some peanuts as he thinks back about the night. From nowhere a little voice says 'great gig man, you were hot tonight!'. The player looks at the bartender and says 'thanks' - bartender says 'Huh?' and the guitarist says 'for sayin' nice things about my playing tonight' - bartender says ' I didn't say nothing'. The guitarist thinks it's late and he's a bit spaced so he'd better head off when another little voice says 'yeah great licks man and nice moves too, you were ripping!'. The guitar player turns around and says 'thanks' but there's nobody there. The bartender says 'are you ok?' and the guitarist says 'hmmmmm....yeah....' and figures it's time to split and grabs a few more peanuts and one last wash of Scotch and hears the voice again - 'Band was tight! and the women were definitely diggin' your style man, you were TOTally - ' and the guitarist jumps up and looks around the bar - 'OK! THAT'S IT! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?' Bartender runs down and says 'what's your problem dude?' and guitarist says 'WHERE ARE THOSE VOICES COMING FROM? IS THIS CANDID CAMERA?' 'What voices??' - the guitarist tells the bartender what he's hearing and the bartender says 'ooooh those voices - that's the peanuts. They're complimentary!' (adapted from guitar dot com)

Yup, he's good, you're all welcome. What a song. Taylor's guitar style is so subtley prominent on this song. It's a great mix and blend, with the piano, electric guitar blending smoothly and the acoustic guitar weaving in and out - no "mud", all blood. It's great. Arnold McCuller deals on this, live. That's Steve Jordan on drums, last year was with the John Mayer Trio. And the great Jimmy Johnson on bass. make it make it make it rain, now, love.

Sweet Baby's, got 'em! Nice advice - news we can always use.

Pssssst....while no one's looking... (ASM's - remember Code 245 will be enacted in two weeks, when the Dark Monkey's hordes amass on the Western Shores...use Channel 67 for communications, it's encrypted...) Ahem... As we were saying - if you happen back, remember the Guitar thread and the ASM thread. ASM's salute, brother in arms! For all those who know as you know, we wish you safe passage and calm seas!

Dear Jonny, I hope this letter finds you well. I can't tell you what our time together has meant. The days, the nights. It makes what I have to say even harder, but I will try. I know that this will be hard to understand now, but someday, I know it will make sense. I have to go. Away. Please understand, it isn't you - it's me. Rather than hurt you down the line, I felt it best to do this now, before this relationship goes too far as it surely will. We know it will. We know. In time, the hurt will go away, but the memories - all good ones - will always remain. So - for now, let's just leave it at this. If our paths should cross again someday, on a street corner in Paris, or a loading dock in New Jersey, or even a Greyhound bus station somewhere in Wyoming, and we recognize each other, just remember this - the good times. They were good times. We will smile and remember...the good times. :(

I'm witcha on that dmiller. Where's diazbro, I wonder? What's he gotten off into? A la, if you're looking for the slickest way to download most of the UTewb videos use Firefox Mozilla's browser and download the VideoDownLoader plug in - HERE It will add it to your Firefox browser as a plug in, close and restart Firefox and it will appear as a small icon in the lower right hand side of the browser window. Download the viewer program from the Tekool.net site. Now you have a little viewer, simple to open and use for the videos. It's a separate program that will run when you open these files later. When you view a UT00b video, let it load and play all the way, and when the red load line is all the way over to the right, open the Videodownloader - it will give you a download button if the video can be downloaded that way. Most of them can. Select Download and it will save it to your PC, takes just a second or two depending on length. Now you'll have a file of that video saved. Go to where it's saved and rename it - like if it's named "get video1 something or other" rename it SocksRocks.flv or something you'll remember...the important part is the .flv The icon should change to a red FLV icon, indicating it's a recognized file format now. ...when you double click it it'll open in the view program you downloaded from Tekool.net. It sounds like a lot but it's not once you do it a couple times. Piece o' cake.

True, dmiller. Big things often come in small packages. Still, I hope they aren't an International ministry and that they're not infecting the rest of the world with their viruses.

Hey there, welcome Dreamer! A la - it was me - and it's here somewhere, a program that will download the Tube video. It's called Videodownloader. I think if you google it you can find instructions. Couldn't find the post here, yet. Sorry! After you download it you change the file extension to .flv and view it in a Flash file viewer, there's several free one, like FLV Player which you can get at Tekook.net - hope that helps.

Dave Gross - blues guitarist - bottom of page ad. Cool! Personalized media - and not imposing or distracting. I like it! The new board's a nice set up, yah?

Momentus - good reputation? Suggested research - Momentus, Dan Tochini, Lifespring church in Santa Rosa, California. I for one will never be ready for it, call me whacky. It's a waste of good time and good money. I'll make a confession here, and it will sound mean, but before I put this topic to bed I really have to say it - I'm not at all surprised that these guys got involved in Momentus. They follow whatever's blowing down the cutural-media pike in any given year. This type of self-improvement stuff has been the rage for years. If anyone really wants to get honest with themselves, contact me at socks_means_business.dot.com - I'm cheap and I can really help you to see what your problem is. Trust me - I know what I'm doing. You'll see.

I live to amuse! I guess as I go into Memory Lane, I can remember somewhat the way I was all those years ago. You guys may have similar memories. When I met my wonderful wife to-be, I was kind of cross wired between a couple of choice substances, and had been for a year or so, and continued that route for awhile after we were dating. I was, by all reports, a bit of a space case. At times. Like in the morning, and then again in the afternoon, and of course, there was the evening. And she told me later that those first few months when we'd be together, how quiet I'd be, or get sometimes. Just - flat lined, but vibrating. She'd wonder if I was "okay", as she didn't have much to do with the substances of the era. And I always was okay, but y'know, dealing with important stuff like breathing and remembering what my legs were for and trying to remember why there were two of them. :biglaugh: Man - the best thing that ever happened to me was meeting Her. Second to none, The Best Thing, and Still.

WTH, have you read up on Gene Scott yet, in the process, or...? M. Scott = Melissa Scott AKA --- I'll leave the rest to you to read up on. That's a fact. I'm not interpreting what it means, I still suggest you look at the facts of his background in a reasonable effort to know the man who's teaching is on TV and online. Now I know that even saying that might strike you (and others) as if I'm negatively judging him by his faults, by his divorces, by the things he did. For the purposes of this thread and your topic, I'm not. I'm simply saying and as friendly as I can, check it out. The facts are out there. Learn about the man who's teaching you're considering exploring. I don't see VPW as purposefully holding back anything. I sat with him in literally 100's of hours of his teaching, sharing and discussion of his own history where he talked a great deal about his background. It was what it was. Gene Scott's was what it was. VPW chose how he wanted to teach, Gene Scott chose how he wanted to teach. When VPW taught he didn't use the same methods, didn't drag out a 100 notes on a whiteboard like Scott. But - that's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to the subjects and areas that Scott brought into his teaching to present what I consider (IMO) a more complete and richer presentation of God's Word. He was able to wrap many references around each other and bring together to compare their differences and similarities. In that way he could show a listener different ways to understand what's in the bible, challenge the listener to think and consider it in different ways, instead of simply saying "this is what it says, this is what it means" and then offering mnemonic methods to remember it, stories to illustrate it, examples, etc. His techniques never "wowed" me, like gee, this is so much better than VPW. What they did was instill curiousity and interest and offer more information to consider and weigh. It was intellectually challenging, to me. It's more than the technique, it's the content. But I agree with you - I would state it as - everyone has their place, their contribution, what they can do. And what they can't or won't do. VPW, Scott, whoever. And not everyone is going to end up in a chair in the BRC, or the WOW Auditorium, in L.A. or in a class in somebody's living room. PFAL contained a lot, IMO, but it wasn't all there is, or the only way to offer it. And I think you hit the nail squarely with this - The problem TWI ran into I believe is, a whole lot of that speudo HASTE was made without first laying a sound biblical FOUNDATION. Of course, in the process of speudo we ended up thinking we were laying a sound biblical foundation. But we all know what happens to a foundation that is built soley on haste, right? That laying of foundation, mixed with the time each person individually requires to being to realize their relationship with Christ, is essential. And yo yo yo! I'd like to hear more from Invisible Dan's experience with the Lamsa O.T. translation and Scotts contribution, too!

I did, Chas. He was doing the Princely thing pretty well! Those are nice tunes, A la. Thanks. Yah. Way back when, I was hot on following Harvey Mandel. There was a guy I knew back then, great musician named Steve Abella (Kit knew Steve, others here too maybe) and he and I were friends and hooked up and played in a couple bands together, he sang, played guitar and wrote songs, some great tunes. Anyhoo, he got me in this band he'd just joined and we played around a lot, this was maybe 68/69 or so. I usually played in a couple bands at the same time, and this one was a really interesting band of dudes. We gigged a fari amount and did a couple gigs at a club named the Matrix, in San Francisco, weeknight gigs when new bands could play a couple sets, and maybe get hooked onto a weekend billing. We would be like-10th billing, even if there were only 3 bands on. So we're down in the back of the Matrix and Harvey Mandel is the with his band there, and it's kind of a jam night thing for him. He was a very quiet guy. Very laid back, between us you probably had enough physical energy conducting to power half a watch. And there's a guy down there offering free goodies and a couple people are getting cooked - IE smack, tying off to ride the White Horse. And Harvey's in a very gray daze, but functional. I didn't put any needles in my body, too weird, and I kind of realized I hadn't seen what Harvey had been doing but he seemed to be in a very special place. So there's things going on. and finally we played and that went pretty well. We stayed for his set and it was - phenomenal. He was playing a Gibson, think a 335, and he was just completely into his sustained distorted sound, and it was SO good. He did a version of one of his signature tunes "Lights Out" that was exceptional that still remember. Quite a night!

I wasn't talking about a cigar, WTH. And the differences I'm talking about were some that (I think) separate Scott from VPW. They're not of the same essence, IMO, although on the surface there are similarities. His "enemies" - sigh. So that's where this is going? I wondered. Scott's been around for many, many years. If you've just found him WTH, you're sure to enjoy his work. I have. :) There have been a couple threads on him over the years, the last was at the time of his death I think. Scott isn't the enemy nor the people who note his obvious failings. The simple truth IMO is that the person can't be separated from their ministry, they both go hand in hand. This was something VPW knew and taught, himself. Scott's wasn't a total wash, by any stretch of the imagination IMO. His work stands for itself. Exposure from a distance by TV, tape or print is a lot different than hooking up with him and his church. By broadcasting the teaching he wanted to do, and his tapes and articles, he made it available to people without that restriction, too. The original topic was the research quality and how it stacked up to the Way's. IMO Scott's was better than VPW's. I'm not basing that on WHAT he taught, rather what he brought to it and put into it seems to me to be much more extensive and dynmaic. M.O.

Yeah, that Muddy Waters video is great. I can see what you're saying about his role in developing musicians waysider. That's a really interesting observation and would be fun to track the development of those people over the years, and as others came along into their paths. Canned Heat - they're quite a story A la. The guy in the back is actually the primary singer/harp player, but not this tune or performance. The presence of Harvey Mandel is interesting as he worked with them for awhile. If I think real hard I can probably name their respective drugs of choice, based on their body language alone. Odd sidenote - I've been mistaken for two well known names in music a couple three times in the past - Al Dimeola when he was younger, and Al Wilson, when he wore his black horn rims. He's the guy singing on that video. Weird.

Wow! That's awesome dmiller. Thanks, great background on that song. She is a killah. I was just overwhelmed with glee watching her rockin' on in that video. Jubilee shows here locally after Austin City Limits, so when I catch the one, I check the other. Some of it isn't my thing, but they frequently have some serious players on there. She can sing too, reminded me of Skeeter Davis, only younger. Very sweet pure voice.

M. Scott was in the - what's the polite word for it? - adult movie industry. Gene Scott was married 3 times according to public bio's. I haven't checked, how she got from "there" to "here". Tutoring with Scott, no doubt, possibly more study, etc. of her own. She can handle the whiteboard the same, 'pears. I'd never have gotten too involved with his church, because of what highway 29 said. Seeing that kind of stuff - on TV - said he was more impressed with himself than uh, a person needs to be. Some of it was fascinating in the most bizarre way - like, when is this old coot going to come up for air? But he did do a lot of good work, fascinating stuff. The methodogy, background, I enjoyed that. It's not that anyone else can't do similar work, either. The language studies, history, cultural stuff. More than anything that part, the "gestalt" as he called it, inspired me some to keep at it. Read, think, listen, learn, discuss, enjoy.

This made me smile - a great way to tube it - Mike Bloomfield's "Don't Think About It Baby".... Muddy Waters and Paul Oscher on harp - WHOA! Canned Heat - with Harvey "The Snake" Mandel! "On the Road Again"

Yes, Gene Scott died last year, WTH. His wife, Melissa Scott is pastoring the church in L.A. and continuing in much the same format as he did, teaching. I first caught him on TV back in the 80's, and kept light contact with his group in L.A. for a couple years, got a few publications and have studied some of his stuff. There's a lot of stuff on the website you can get, listen to, etc. I wrote him back around '86 and it took awhile to get a response. I don't think he ever crossed paths with VPW, though, and I'm not sure the response I did get came from him directly. Once you start checking on him you'll find some things about his lifestyle that were similar to VPW's. But there are some major differences I think, a little deeper. I'll leave it to you to evaluate how that shakes out. :) IMO the research part is much broader and deeper than the Way's or VPW's. VPW bascally hit a point and stopped really expanding his biblical knowledge. He did some in later years, but he didn't really have the intense academic background Scott had or the experience working with denominational organizations. VPW was a pastor of a small church. Scott's resume was a lot longer. He did come to the same conclusions about denominations though. But from what I've read even his critics and those who question his conclusions on some things speak highly of his intelligence, knowledge and academic standards. He was good TV, too. I remember seeing Burt Reynolds once on the Johnny Carson show back then, and they were talking about what they watched on TV when they had time. They were kicking programs back and forth and Reynolds said "And Gene Scott. Love his show". Carson nodded, oh yeah, quite a guy. And then Reynolds leaned back and put his hand up to his mouth like he was smoking and said something like "That cigar - I like the way he puffs that cigar", and gave a couple puffs. It was funny. Yeah, he was fun to watch, hooting and hollering. There's some videos of him on Youtube, too, or were a few months ago. The comments to them are funny! You should check them out - just search his name and see if they're still there. .

Hey dmiller - here's someone you must know about - Sierra Hull. Just saw her on "Jubilee" tonight, and her band (?) Highway 111. So found this on Youtube - Sierra Hull with Sam Bush playing Lonesome Fiddle Blues. No guitars here, but this is DEFinitely worth a listen, y'all. You'll be glad you did. Listen through the introduction and then give it a listen - Sierra Hull and Sam Bush doing Lonesome Fiddle Blues, two mandolins

Thanks dmiller. Now I know, didn't before. bliss, hope that adds to the discussion. I PM'd you back, so how's it go - "check your PM's" :) If we're talking about the Horny One, Satan, still - I think a lot of the Judeo/ Christian image and ideas might have gotten picked up from other religions, like the Egyptian mythologies. There was a thread a ways back, can't remember when, I commented on the ancient god "Set" and another poster had a bunch of stuff tht hit on a lot of different influences. My memory's sputtering today, sorry. Not to say that what's in the bible isn't true, but that the whole image and impression that's popular in some Christian circles of Satan may just be a mixed bag of "gods", different religions way of interpreting. The Egyptian religion had a god named "Set" who represented rebellion and chaos. He was the "evil" one,. Set is often called "the Prince of Darkness", and some "pagan" thought today sees Set as the god, real or not, that represents a higher pursuit of thought and achievement for humanity. Set sounds a lot like Satan in some ways, and the images of Set look like popular images of "devils" that are used today. That chaos and rebellion against gods of light is like Satan's rebellion against God. People today that invoke that god's influence seem to see it as a higher road to personal enlightenment, where the individual's personal interests are given the highest priority. Which - again - from a certain view would seem to the way to go. If you want to truly disengage from all accepted moral and ethical influences and reinvent the world to your own making, a Setian energized religion would suit you well. It's a little scarey though, even without the horns and weird heads. People that invoke those kinds of gods and pursue that train of thought are better left alone and to their own devices, IMO. The bible's big generic message is IMO "good will win out over bad". And good is clearly choosing God, the creator, the Father of Jesus Christ, and doing our best to emulate that Son, Jesus Christ. He laid clear the way, truth and the light of how to conduct our lives. With Jesus, the physical activities of Satan were controllable and dealt with. In Jesus's world, Satan went about his business and Jesus His. In the end what was achieved wasn't what Satan probably thought at that time.

Oh yeah. A la. That's right. Guitars. Johnny Lingo! THIS LINK might give some pricing - scroll down - adjust for conditon...? The Reference page, has a link at the bottom, HTML format, came right up, where you can scroll to the 1528. The year will have a lot to do with it - I read that these aren't made anymore, which could be a factor - ebay had one selling for under 300 bucks though, so ebay would be a good place to check the going price. That could be due to several causes - - height of the bridge saddle on the body - where the string rests, should be lowered. That itself isn't hard. Online it looked in the pics like the saddle is a one piece deal - can you tell if it is? Like one piece of white plastic or composite? - height of the headstock saddle, at the end of the neck. That can be lowered too if needed, but has to be done carefully, a little goes a long way on that one. - strings - if they're heavy gauge, "stiff" strings, they're pulling more on the neck, bowing it and making the playing action higher off the neck. - the neck itself. This is really where you have to start - hold the body to your body and the neck away from you and look down the side edge of the neck straight away from you. Simple test - do you see big bow, where the neck in the middle of the fret area droops down? That's a bad sign - worse is if the bow on both sides don't match, which means there's also a warp in the neck. That's probably not fixable - but might be. You'd have to get it looked at by someone who knows and has experience with Ovations. If it's fairly straight but the strings are just high it's probably just needing the saddles taken down. It should have a little bow in it, so a little is fine for most guitars. Then just lay it down and press the low E string down on the neck at the 12 th fret and see how much space there is between the string and the frets at about the 6-7th fret - is there a lot? If there's a big bow in the neck you'll see it right off. Adjusting a neck involves turning a metal rod that's inside the neck, using a small wrench that usually comes with the guitar. Turning that rod moves it against the inside, pushing against it or releasing pressure, and that changes the bow, and how flat the neck is from 1st to last fret. It can be tricky on an older guitar, when you don't know what's happened to it. Someone might have gotten on it and twisted it this way and that, and you have to know the kind of bar that's inside and how it's turning, and "feel" your way through it. OR - just put on a new set of strings, light gauge, like a set that has an ".010" for the first string. Just get an acoustic set, light gauge and put them on and see what the neck does. It might settle down a bit with new strings. The saddle adjustments aren't that hard to do. Might be a good deal, if the action is fixable. Ovations are nice sounding guitars!

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Class delightful! I like it. Thanks. Well... Buchanan - an interview done with Ted Green by Jim Carlton contains the following quotes about Roy Buchanan: JC: Roy Buchanan was great as well. TG: I love Roy’s playing. Did you ever hear him with Bobby Gregg and Friends, in the early Sixties? They had a fairly popular hit, and Guitar Player even interviewed Roy in the very early Seventies, long before they put him on the cover. And in the interview, he mentions the cut, which is called “The Jam.” He said, “The Jam” in ‘62, but because of his thick Southern accent they printed, “The Jail Men” in ’62.” JC: Oh, that’s funny. TG: Yeah, he was playing a Tele and getting the best sound that I had heard to that date, and maybe still, for that kind of sound, I don’t know how he did it. JC: Ever see that video tape of him playing “Misty,” where he was being produced by Mundell Lowe? I think I saw it on NET. TG: Yeah, that’s a fairly famous piece of tape from the early Seventies. He was getting a great jazz sound on that Tele too, but I’ll bet I haven’t seen that in 30 years. Did you know that the Stones asked him to join their band? JC: Yeah, I remember hearing that. TG: He and Danny (Gatton) were cut from the same cloth in many ways. JC: They were cross-town friendly rivals back in D.C. TG: When Roy was on break, he’d call a bartender friend at the club where Danny was playing and ask him to leave the phone off the hook so he could listen to his solos. But they both influenced each other. There’s no doubt about it. Interesting...Ted Green was a force of nature when it came to working music, voicings on the guitar, harmony theory and sounds. He played a Telecaster himself a great deal of the time. Roy played a lot of stuff that never got on his earlier recordings, and shows up on videos like those on Youtube. While many musicians craft a style and do it well applying it to various styles of music, Buchanan had his own style and played others as eloquently.