@Grape Ape .. You K.O'd this out of the park. You definately captured some of that Shinohara work ethic, the art of threading the needle to focus one's attention on the artwork at hand. Playing your instruments literally puts skin in the game and which I find much more revealing of intent than using samples. I'm still trying to figure out how you did that trill picking to create that sound! Great changes and a fantastic outpouring of how you describe...how "important the process of creation is in regards to existing in the world. when you can release some of what you experience in the world in a song or whatever, and make something youre proud of, its a very empowering and cleansing thing". Well done!! Also, using Bruce Lee as a narrator is really cool!

@macros mk2 .. Becoming "the Japanese dude" and using cultural correct instruments added gravitas, combat sounds realism and the new distortion device well put to good use in portraying the absolutely felt impact of a punch to the gut. Nice work!

 

so basically, you know like surf guitar; yo idk what the name is for it…but its that type of fast strumming, except on an acoustic guitar and on one string. they do it with like classical and spanish guitar a lot but its usually over a chord. im positive you would know it as long as youve been playing, its that plus sliding at parts

i found a vinyl 45 of this on tour in Nashville this summer that i bought, its become my favorite version of this song. but yo the mandolin is doing exactly what im talking about/did

 

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Of course, I do it all the time, l play fast on a single string, though for whatever reason it doesn't sound like the guitar that you're playing but more like an eastern string instrument. The resonance seems to change.

I've always enjoyed The Kentucky Colonels ever since I was a little kid. A one time member was Clarence White. He and his brothers Eric and Roland were on on The Andy Griffith Show and as a pipsqueak was mesmerized by what they all played. Clarence was amazing.

After Clarence died another of my favorite guitarists, Tony Rice got a hold of Clarence's guitar and played it until he too died.

The first video is the performance on television that I mentioned and the second one of my all time favorite live performances ever, of the greatest bluegrass musicians of the day playing with Tony.

 

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@Grape Ape @Lois Lane Nashville is a magic place. I drove both Checker and Yellow until they kicked me out. Crazy times.

 

Am I due up to post a picture? I was TOLD when I converted id have more time. That was a lie. Still busy as fuck. But I can probably conjur a picture up and post it if no one else wants to or can. Tonight though posting this from a very wet seattle mail truck

 

This iteration's deadline is on 1-14-2025, but after this is chapter is over it's all your's.

I bet you're stoked that Christmas is a thing of the past...for now at least!

 

Sweet! Things will have died down by then I bet. Good timing. Thanks!