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Hi all,
Just signed up.
I've been playing guitar since I was 14 back in '66.
I went through an electric phase in high school,
but then went acoustic, both steel and nylon string,
until about 5 years ago, I heard B.B. King doing an ALL
laundry detergent commercial (You won't lose them blues...
A-L-L- All!) and fell in love with it, got a cheap pawnshop stratoid,
and started working and noodling on my pentatonic scales again.
<BUT> occasionally I play whatever I remember of "Pipeline",
and the really lame band I was in in high school did "Wipeout" too,
and that was the tune that taught me the 12- bar blues pattern.
Recently, I stopped at a music store in a nearby town.
The owner-operator is really into '60s stuff, and
was playing a recording of him and a friend doing "Walk Don't Run"...
and it just grabbed me... made me want to learn to play it, never did
as a kid.
Also,
I sing and entertain in two convalescent hospitals and an assisted living
home.
In two of them I use mostly my nylon string to accompany hymns.
But in one, the activities director wants me to do more secular stuff.
I know a fair number of folk songs and campfire songs,
but those are getting old...
I brought my Strats and a Blues JamTrax CD in,
and played along with a couple of cuts...
they liked it....
but how many of those could I do in a row?
I need something to break it up with.
And then I realized that guitar instrumentals,
whether "surf" or otherwise, are some of the most
recognizable tunes from the 60's.
So, here I am-
I downloaded a bunch of MIDI files from a site run by a guy named
Don Johnson, I believe. I'm going through them... I really like Bulldog.
As you might guess, I really like the ones that have a slight bluesy
element
to them.
What do you think the "core" surf repertoire is-
beyond Wipeout, Pipeline, and Walk, Don't Run?
I really want stuff that is recognizable by the non-musicians I'm playing
for.
Also, is there a surf equivalent of JamTrax? A lot of them absolutely
need
at least another guitar, and preferably drums and bass- it's an ensemble
style, after all.
Thanks,
Michael
