I truly believe that Cat Stevens ( known today as Yusuf Islam) is THE most talented singer of that era -- and I will leave it at that.
Nah. He was just part of the great "folk music scare" (phew! that crap almost caught on) of the early 70's, along with Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, and Don McClean. That stuff was pretty much interchangeable.
Arlo Guthrie and "Alice's Restaurant" is still on the top of my list
I saw Alice's Restaurant at Proctors when I was 13. It was quite the influence, and I had the "group W" KILL speech down pat, and used to entertain my friends in Catholic school with it. I had the album, and even the sheet music for guitar, but his later stuff just didn't do much for me.
Hmmm... you don't still have that sheet music, do ya? That'd be cool
I'm cleaning out the garage in a few days, I'll get back to you. It's a book, and if I still have it, it's yours. It's the charts for the entire album.
I did find a bunch of other stuff in there already. 10 years or so of Guitar Player, Keyboard Player, and National Lampoon. A couple of newsletters from the Moog synth company called "Imoogination", in which Bob Moog himself explains what a synthesizer is, how it works, and why you need one. It's worth some money I guess. I have quite a bit of sheet music from that time, as it was before I discovered what a "fake book" was. I spent months with the charts from "Tommy" until I knew how to play every note on every instrument (except drums, and french horn) on the album.
Nah. He was just part of the great "folk music scare" (phew! that crap almost caught on) of the early 70's, along with Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, and Don McClean. That stuff was pretty much interchangeable.
Jim Croce was a little too commercial for my taste although he was a good songwriter. Harry Chapin could have hung on a while. Don Mcclean, IMHO, was just plain lucky. He wrote a great song at the perfect time.
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I'm cleaning out the garage in a few days, I'll get back to you. It's a book, and if I still have it, it's yours. It's the charts for the entire album.
I did find a bunch of other stuff in there already. 10 years or so of Guitar Player, Keyboard Player, and National Lampoon. A couple of newsletters from the Moog synth company called "Imoogination", in which Bob Moog himself explains what a synthesizer is, how it works, and why you need one. It's worth some money I guess. I have quite a bit of sheet music from that time, as it was before I discovered what a "fake book" was. I spent months with the charts from "Tommy" until I knew how to play every note on every instrument (except drums, and french horn) on the album.
Man, I'm just getting started learning how to play (again) .. I'd love to see whatever you've got for a newbie. That sheet music would be awesome to work towards.
Man, I'm just getting started learning how to play (again) .. I'd love to see whatever you've got for a newbie. That sheet music would be awesome to work towards.
I'm just starting to play a little again myself. I did pro sound (the real thing, globally) and tech with some of yer favorite players, but I didn't get to play much. I got a few impromptu late night while drinking guitar lessons from Roy Buchanan, Johnny Winter, and others though. I might as well put some of that to use. However, I'm really not big on going out and playing small clubs, I out-grew that 30 years ago. I've seen thousands of shows over the years, and still refuse to watch one from the audience, unless I'm surrounded by gear, and controlling the thing.
Right now, I'm gradually putting together a small project studio just to do voice overs, audio for video, ads, and bed music. It's expensive as hell though. A real microphone is running around $800 on up, and a decent set of monitors costs more than I've spent on some cars I've had. I just got a set of AKG K702 headphones, the priciest set of cans I've ever owned, but they work well in lieu of monitors, and $350, is a lot less than $3k. I forgot how much this stuff costs, because I was always spending somebody else's dime.
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