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I can't help you with your questions, but I want to commend you on
playing nursing/assisted living homes. My husband is a nurse and those
activities are some of the best things the residents get to do.
-K
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:38:04 -0800 Michael S Springer
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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
