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I am not sure what to put here. Am I supposed to describe myself, my playing...what? (Although, if it's my playing and the music I make, I would say it's an interesting, quasi-amateurish fusion of multiple genres, with a focus mainly on jazz, blues, swing and jazz blues or jump blues. Of course, it hasn't always been that way, but over the course of the past year, I've expanded my playing and gotten better than I ever have at playing the guitar.
- Screen name:
- douglas1162509
- Member since:
- Oct 26 2016
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Moderately Committed
- Years playing music:
- 15
- Gigs played:
- Under 10
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
Influences
Charlie Christian, Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson, George Barnes, George Van Eps, Robbie Basho, Steve Howe, Carl Kress, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Garcia, John Fogarty, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Django Reinhardt, Augustin De Barrios, Pentangle/Bert Jansch, Jorge Santana, Eddie Hazel, Tony Guttuso, Leo Kottke, Larry Carlton, John Cali, Elmore James, Tony Mottola, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Eddie Cochran, Allan Reuss, Dick McDonough
Instrument experience:
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Advanced
- Vocalist:
- Intermediate
- Lead Guitar:
- Intermediate
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Intermediate
- Bass Guitar:
- Intermediate
- Keyboard:
- Intermediate
- Harmonica:
- Intermediate
- Ukulele:
- Intermediate
- Mandolin:
- Beginner
EQUIPMENT
1 1942 SS Stewart Archtop acoustic
1 1954 Eko 100 Archtop Acoustic
1 1975 First Act/Harmony FG-127
1 2017 Firefly JSN
1 1956 Emenee Gene Autry
1 1940 Oahu 100
1 1949 Kay Tenor Banjo
1 1950 Harmony Roy Smeck Ukulele
1 1999 Rogue Resonator
1 2005 Orange Amplifier
1 Glarry Mandolin
2 Electric Guitars: Fender Squier Stratocaster and An Ibanez RG175
2 Amplifiers
1 Harmonica
1 Set of Bongo Drums
MUSIC
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Eatin Salted Peanuts At The Clownish Carnival
Eatin Salted Peanuts At The Clownish Carnival Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
The following very countrified/jazzy track, which was largely inspired by and is an homage to the guitar stylings of great Country-Jazz, Western Swing and Rockabilly guitarists like Jimmy Bryant and Junior Barnard and George Barnes, was entirely played on my Yamaha C-40 classical acoustic guitar.
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Gentle Austral Rain
Gentle Austral Rain Track number: 2 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
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Spanish Reptilian Rock
Spanish Reptilian Rock Track number: 4 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
Unlike the first three songs on this album, which were recorded using my Yamaha C-40 classical guitar, this and the next four songs to follow, were all recorded using my Yamaha FG-75 steel-stringed acoustic guitar, and in some cases, a steel slide was also employed. Enjoy "Spanish Reptilian Rock".
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Rufous Granitic Rock Jazz-Blues
Rufous Granitic Rock Jazz-Blues Track number: 5 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Acoustic
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Muggy Mississipian Afternoon (Swing-Blues)
Muggy Mississipian Afternoon (Swing-Blues) Track number: 6 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Blues
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Lovely Hawaiian Rain Blues
Lovely Hawaiian Rain Blues Track number: 7 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: World
Despite the fact that, in addition to a plethoric panoply of instruments that I play, I also sing and am accounted a decent vocalist, this and ALL the other songs on this album, both before and after it, are strictly instrumental.
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A Scarred And Sorry Hawaiian Jazz-Blues
A Scarred And Sorry Hawaiian Jazz-Blues Track number: 8 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
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Just A Gentle Austral Walk
Just A Gentle Austral Walk Track number: 9 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
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Pluvial Plectrum (The Rain Song)
Pluvial Plectrum (The Rain Song) Track number: 10 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Acoustic
Unlike tracks 4-8, which were recorded using my Yamaha FG-75 steel-stringed guitar, this, like tracks 1-3 and 9, was recorded using my Yamaha C-40 classical, nylon-stringed acoustic guitar.
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Requiem For The Alhambra (And The Austrian Coin Found Thereat)
Requiem For The Alhambra (And The Austrian Coin Found Thereat) Track number: 11 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Classical
This a very AMATEURISH, inchoate, inadequate, crude but somewhat passably accurate rendition of Classical music, played naturally on a classical guitar, and being very highly eclectic and seguing to and incorporating all manner of other, and highly diverse, musics.
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Swinging Bluesy Uptown Strolling Spanish Stomp In Dee Miner
Swinging Bluesy Uptown Strolling Spanish Stomp In Dee Miner Track number: 12 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Jazz
Despite having recorded probably something on the order of about 45 songs this year already (and that's only since May, so like two months), this is my first album of the year. The first of many, hopefully... especially considering I tend to record about 7-25 songs a week. Regardless, though, this is the first time I've gathered them all together and presented them, these most recent recordings, as an album; and furthermore, despite playing nearly all the time, 1-9 hours a day, everyday, I haven't made nor recorded an actual album since April or May of 2016, so this is actually my first album, ironically, in two years! First of many, like I said; and from 2000-2016, I recorded something like 50-100 albums, hopefully that I'll be able to upload hereon and elsewhere someday, even if 90% of them were recorded to and are still on audiocasette tape(s)!
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Trash-Hauling Country Blues
Trash-Hauling Country Blues Track number: 13 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Country
Like most of my music, this is really a blend of perhaps 20 different genres: Arabic, Bebop, Bluegrass, Blues, Boogaloo, Boogie/Boogie-Woogie, Bossa Nova, Classical, Country, Country-Jazz, Country-Rock, Dixieland, Folk, Funk, Greek, Gypsy-Jazz, Hawaiian, Indian, Jazz, Jazz-Blues, Jazz-Rock, Latin, Manouche, Mediaeval, Old-Time, Ragtime, R&B, Rockabilly, Rock, Swing, Swing-Blues and/or Western Swing. Of course, this is a very highly AMATEURISH, dissonant, inchoate, crude, harsh, but somewhat passably accurate rendition of those and other musics.
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Walking Swing 34
Walking Swing 34 Track number: 14 Year: 2018 Album: I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out! Genre: Other
The final song of my "epic" 14 track album: the first such one in more than two YEARS, "I Wes Jazz Thinking: Merle's A Pearl And Chet This Out!"
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By Less Than The Gentlest Of Waves Is This Ship Rocked
By Less Than The Gentlest Of Waves Is This Ship Rocked Track number: 1 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other
This is my second album thus far of 2018. And, ironically, it is being freighted with songs that are, in fact, older and earlier-recorded than those which surfeited the first album, which I just finished uploading. It's equally eclectic. That's what I and my guitaristic/ukuleleistic music are all about: Diversity, eclecticism, encapsulation and inclusion of almost all music; comprehending (that is, comprising, embracing, encompassing) almost all music. All good music, of which there are at least 26 genres.
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Mine Classical Chateaux
Mine Classical Chateaux Track number: 2 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other
The eponymous, prenominate, putative, TITULAR song, "Mine Classical Chateaux"; the very thing that endows to it its title.
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Depressive Encompassment (1930's Swinging Bluesy Blues)
Depressive Encompassment (1930's Swinging Bluesy Blues) Track number: 3 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Other
Many of my guitaristic and ukuleleistic recordings are of great lenght, and this, I believe, is no exception.
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Impressions Of Time Wes
Impressions Of Time Wes Track number: 5 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: Jazz
Being, as my music is or at least strives and struggles to be, very highly eclectic, this song is not truly representative of the presentation and encompassment of truest Jazz, but as the title clearly intimates, this is an homage to and an experiment in attempting to replicate the guitar stylings of Wes Montgomery (among others), albeit fashioned and played exclusively on my Yamaha C-40 classical acoustic guitar. Beyond that, I really don't know what else to say.
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On The Hottest Days All You Require Is A Refreshing Hint Of Indian Lime
On The Hottest Days All You Require Is A Refreshing Hint Of Indian Lime Track number: 7 Year: 2018 Album: Mine Classical Country Chateau Swing Genre: World
In the fact of being, or at least of attempting to emulate the sundry aggregated intricacies and minutiae governing the sound and proper playing of Soul/Soul-Jazz, this is, in that one way alone, an example of Rhythm And Blues, as Soul, Funk and Disco used to be presented and categorized/classified under the umbrella/aegis of R&B.