post a video of yourself

**fernmando** · May-20-2012, 6:12pm

Thanks, houseworker!!!!

**OldSausage** · May-21-2012, 9:38pm

That's some great singing and playing there fernmando, from both of you.

**Pipeous** · May-21-2012, 10:21pm

I may not respond to every video but am subscribed to this thread so I get an email and check every vid out.

thanks to all of you that post vids. I thoroughly enjoy each and every one

**fernmando** · May-21-2012, 11:12pm

Originally Posted by OldSausage

That's some great singing and playing there fernmando, from both of you.

Thanks, OldSausage!

**scottish rodger** · May-30-2012, 12:55pm

thought id be brave and post me messing about with my electric, ive only been playing for about a year and a half so go easy on me :p

still not entirely sure how to work all this forum business so if i post something peculiar its not intentional......

**brmichaelpaul** · May-30-2012, 1:50pm

Here is a song I submitted in the American Songwriter contest to win a new Gibson
we'll see what happens...

enjoy!

**Absaroke** · Jun-04-2012, 6:47pm

Originally Posted by scottish rodger

thought id be brave and post me messing about with my electric, ive only been playing for about a year and a half so go easy on me :p

still not entirely sure how to work all this forum business so if i post something peculiar its not intentional......

I liked it - looked like fun to me

**sgarrity** · Jun-08-2012, 12:26am

Fortunately my mandolin playing skills are ever so slightly better than my video editing skills!

**wildpikr** · Jun-08-2012, 12:00pm

Good picking Shaun.

**billkilpatrick** · Jun-08-2012, 1:43pm

here's an up-town, westside version of "southern flavor" - as opposed to shaun's excellent and more accurately orientated version:

**Janos** · Jun-08-2012, 2:33pm

Here's the song 'Matty' (M. Wijnands) by the band Ma Rain with me on mando...

**billkilpatrick** · Jun-08-2012, 4:04pm

janos - sounds fabulous!

**Dan Voight** · Jun-08-2012, 4:06pm

Good sounding group and nice playing Janos

**Charles E.** · Jun-08-2012, 8:16pm

I'll say. That is one funky groove!

**Ed Goist** · Jun-09-2012, 7:13am

Janos, I am loving' it!
Awesome song & performance...and your solos are totally off the hook!
Top shelf.

**Marc Woodward** · Jun-13-2012, 2:29am

Great stuff Janos, and well played! Enjoyed!
Cheers
Marc

**billkilpatrick** · Jun-24-2012, 5:56am

"watson's blues" - as bill monroe probably never played it:

**Ed Goist** · Jun-24-2012, 7:15am

Great job Bill.

**Nathan Sanders** · Jul-03-2012, 3:40pm

**Nathan Sanders** · Jul-05-2012, 10:14am

**journeybear** · Jul-05-2012, 10:25am

From yesterday's fairly impromptu gig:

**hank** · Jul-05-2012, 3:32pm

Alright Journeybear! You put the drama in quite nicely. Brings back memories of songs like Big John when I was very young. Nice tremolo.

**journeybear** · Jul-05-2012, 9:08pm

Thanks! It's really a very simple thing, holding the volume in check until just before the solo kicks in - good old tension and release, tried and true. Sometimes something that simple can be very effective. The most difficult thing here was keeping the beat - the PA speaker was right in my ear, the guitarist really kicked it hard, and on the backbeat, and I could hardly hear the bass over on the other side of the "stage" for the downbeat. I thought I lost it at the time, but seems I kept it together. This is why it pays to keep a mental image of the song running in your head.

BTW, I have mentioned my approach regarding stage presence - just stand there and play. This is it in spades.

Managed to rock or swivel a bit, a very little bit. Well, that stuff is the front man's job, I figure, not the side man's.

**billkilpatrick** · Jul-06-2012, 4:30am

nicely played - you remind me of someone ... a young w.c. fields perhaps? ... wallace beery?

**blueron** · Jul-06-2012, 5:28am

Originally Posted by scottish rodger

thought id be brave and post me messing about with my electric, ive only been playing for about a year and a half so go easy on me :p

still not entirely sure how to work all this forum business so if i post something peculiar its not intentional......

Hi Rodger,

If you haven't done before now, you should get yourself and mandolin over to the Tuesday night blues jam at the State Bar in Holland St, just off Sauchiehall. The guys there would make you welcome. It's one of the best (electric) blues jams I've ever been to, and I bet they don't often see a mandolin turn up.

ron