Introductions: Who are we??

acoustica1 · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

lee_UK wrote:

This is our bands first posting on youtube

I hope it won't be the last post....excellent!

shakedown_04092 · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for listening, 1b. My buddy Toby who plays drums on that track did that drum intro - totally spontaneous and not how we've ever done it before (or after, for that matter), but I love it. My brother is playing bass, and I really like how he plays bass on that song. Our friend Paul Johnson is on lead guitar - a fantastic guitarist. This particular track is a little fast, to be honest, but worthy of being online I think. The vocals aren't very loud either, but this version was recorded live on a Zoom MSR1266 DRS in a basement of a friend's house while jamming one night, so fwiw, it's not all that bad, I guess.

FYI - the 2nd & 4th songs were recorded live last August at a party we throw each year in a field in Scarborough, Maine, with a band that unfortunately no longer exists.

The 3rd song, probably my favorite, was also recorded live around the same time Fire Back was recorded (somewhere between March & June of 2004) and with the same group of folks.

acoustica1 · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject:

shakedown_04092 wrote:

Well, my turn, I guess.

Anyways, I am 27, have been playing for almost 7 years, and playing lead for about a year and a half.uote]

I didn't see the myspace link.
Good music and excellent playing!!

Play 24 hours a day and enjoy your instruments, before it's too late.
....Life is so strange sometimes...you are 27, I am 45 and I must quit music , maybe definitely due to the last "friend" I met two weeks ago => "polyarthrisis" ; It took time to write this reply because I am unable to move the fingers of my right hand.
You can trust me I'll never forget that term for the rest of my life!

shakedown_04092 · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

acoustica1 wrote:

shakedown_04092 wrote:

Well, my turn, I guess.

Anyways, I am 27, have been playing for almost 7 years, and playing lead for about a year and a half.uote]

I didn't see the myspace link.
Good music and excellent playing!!

Play 24 hours a day and enjoy your instruments, before it's too late.
....Life is so strange sometimes...you are 27, I am 45 and I must quit music , maybe definitely due to the last "friend" I met two weeks ago => "polyarthrisis" ; It took time to write this reply because I am unable to move the fingers of my right hand.
You can trust me I'll never forget that term for the rest of my life!

Thank you for sharing, and also taking the time to listen & write back; I am sorry to hear about that...I haven't heard of it before but I assume it's a form of arthritis? Keep your chin up - there will be something that you will find that will take the place of your love for playing. Smile

1bassleft · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject:

I enjoy listening to many clips but, Guy, are you seriously saying you have an injury that may prevent you playing? That would be a tragedy both for you as a player and me as a listener. Your style and compositions are first-rate. I hope you have a good prognosis.

acoustica1 · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:31 am Post subject:

Thanks my friends
Well...about the right hand, I have lost 40 percent of the speed.

So I try with the others 60 percent to write musics for tv-series......I am not sure that it could be of interest for anyone Very Happy

=>
http://guitarlover.free.fr/tv-series.mp3

....sample dedicated to UK members!! Wink

Tim · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

Hey Acoustica, really sad news. Hopefully you'll be able to find ways to adapt your style. Are you a righty or lefty? I assume it's your picking hand. Is it stabalised at 40%?
Sorry to hear about this, hope you find a way to work with it.

Tim

lee_UK · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject:

I had no idea from your playing that you had lost some ability in your hand, certainly doesn't show in your recordings, hope you work something out, you have a great talent.

acoustica1 · Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:12 am Post subject:

1bassleft wrote:

I hope you have a good prognosis.

I had a MRI 2 days ago, so I know exactly what is wrong :
http://www.allaboutarthritis.com/AllAboutArthritis/layoutTemplates/html/en/contentdisplay/document.jsp?docID=condition/arthritis/clinicalArticle/cervical_arthritis.xml

(Starts between 40 and 50 years of age......as we are used to say in france: "that's the beginning of the end")

No pain at all in the neck (I would have preferred!!!) , just numbness in the fingers of the right hand (i'm righty).I can use a pick but I am not a big fan.

So, I am waiting for a treatment of steroid epidural injected into the neck.That should work.

Thanks again for your friendly replies.I really appreciate.
I'll be back anyway (even if it takes 10 years to become a virtuose of the flatpicking), just because I didn't record yet all my ideas !!

Anyone knows a good chinese guitar website? My "olympic games theme" is for sale.....I hope they won't tell me that sounds celtic!!! Very Happy

http://guitarlover.free.fr/Pekin2008.mp3

1bassleft · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:39 am Post subject:

Well, Guy. Cervical arthritis is certainly unpleasant. If it is any consolation, you are fortunate to be French. In Britain it would probably take one million years to be diagnosed; from your fossil records. MRI scans are more limited over here. An epidural steroid is probably the quickest "shock therapy" and, although I hate to say it, you need to help yourself by limiting activities such as hunching over a keyboard typing messages.

Instead, you should be drinking red wine, sat in a warm Jacuzzi having your neck gently squeezed by the thumbs of a bikini-clad cutie. Even if the health benefits take a while to work, it's a heck of a good prescription.

Keep sending short messages with nice acoustic clips to let us know how you're progressing Smile

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