[audacity4blind] Re: Another new member says hello!
- From: "Billy Littlejohn" <blittlejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:57:42 -0500
Hey, David!
Well, I will tell you a bit about my guitar preferences and influences,
but I would not be surprised if you had no clue who I was speaking about.
One of the largest influences would be Dana Key, formerly of "DeGarmo and
Key," who was a Christian rock band mainly from the late seventies and
eighties. Fortunately, or unfortunately, whichever way you want to look at
it, I did not emulate other professional guitarists, but rather, played the
things that I heard inside. The double edged sword was, that I was a unique
player to some extent, which was a good thing, but I was also horrible at
doing copy tunes, so I suffered in that regard. Being from Memphis, I was
practically born playing blues music, but as most anybody knows, that is not
difficult to do, if you have a hefty amount of raw emotion to deal with.
<smile>
Today, I hardly listen to music at all anymore, because of being tied up
with my business... it is hard to listen to a homeowner tell me why I should
buy their home, calculate the numbers on my talking calculator, and listen
to Jaws read out property data to me too... and everybody said, "Amen!"
<smile> With all of that said, when I do listen to music, it can be a wide
variety of genres, like Country, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Christian Contemporary,
Blues, Funk, and I am sure that I am leaving out a few, so the list is quite
long.
As for guitar, I mostly play electric. I have a Les Paul that I do not
play very much, but prefer a guitar that I have been playing since 1980, and
am still crazy about it. It is the Roland GR300 guitar synthesizer. The
guitar itself is a double cut away, neck thru body design, made by Ibanez,
and Roland electronics puts all of the synthesizer controller features
inside. It may have been the first truly polyphonic guitar synthesizer
units out at that time. The only other guitar that I would like to get my
hands on in the near future, would be a Steinberger headless guitar, or one
of the LSR Steinberger headless look a likes.
I have a fair amount of MIDI gear, including a bass machine, drum
machine, a few keyboards, and some of the digital reverb/delays that were
able to be MIDI controlled back then... God knows that they had to be MIDI
controlled, because they were a nightmare to try to program otherwise!
<smile>
Whew! I better get off of the stage, because I am sensing a large hook
coming to drag me away... take care!
Billy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Sky" <davidsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Another new member says hello!
Hi Billy,
What "style" of guitar do you like playing? Who do you like to listen to
or even emulate? Acoustic and/or electric?
David
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