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Strawberry Fields Forever

Credit to:	George Harrison
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2MVoXWLq8

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'sup dawg.

here we go again.

I'm a little stiff, I know; but hey- @ my age that's considered a good thing.

Tuning: DADGAD
Guitar: Larrivee OM-50TSB

Posted: 07-11-2010, 01:07 AM

Queequeg

Credit to:	written by Banjo Patterson; arr by Larry Pattis
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dit9gkBP6hM

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Larrivee 00-03MT hogtop Forum Guitar [#1/29].
Tuning: DADGAD

Posted: 03-14-2010, 07:42 AM

Queequeg

When You Wish Upon a Star

Credit to:	Lennon/McCartney
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXw3P37P1Ko

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Glenn, best wishes & hope you are feeling much better very soon.

Strawberry Fields Forever by Lennon/McCartney

(keeping the fab 4 flame alive here on the vom while tbryson takes a break this month in order to share one of his great originals. very nice indeed, by the way.)
The photos I slugged in here are Savannah, GA visiting my son Alex who is finishing up his phd there. He's a huge Beatles fan, too. We spent two days touring this beautiful city on bicycles.

Posted: 02-14-2010, 01:16 AM

Queequeg

Credit to:	Ned Washington and Leigh Harline
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7-R5dsFcBY

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'When You Wish upon a Star' was introduced in the 1940 Disney movie Pinocchio, and sung by Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket) over the opening credits & in the final scene of the film. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
Played on an Eastman AR810CE archtop guitar

Posted: 01-10-2010, 02:25 PM

The Girl From Ipanema

Queequeg

Credit to:	Antonio Carlos Jobim
URL is:	http://vom.infocusreviews.com/index.php?p=play&id=Queequeg/GirlFromIpanema.mp3

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The Girl From Ipanema

... is a well-known bossa nova song, a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s that won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Posted: 12-20-2009, 01:12 AM

Queequeg

Credit to:	public Domain
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydfP5V0E06M

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Experimenting with natural and artificial harmonics for the first time here.
Played on a Larrivee Parlor guitar.

Posted: 11-08-2009, 02:40 PM

Queequeg

Credit to:	The Mamas & the Papas
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Wftg6tCJE

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All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray. I wonder what I should submit for today's VOM.
Too bad John Phillips had to get some posthumous bad press recently. Well, I dig this tune anyway with all of its call-and-response chorusing, even if he did have an incestuous relationship with his daughter. He was never a serious candidate for model citizen of the year award even before these latest revelations.

And on that cheery note, I give you...
California Dreaming

Posted: 04-12-2009, 10:27 PM

Queequeg

Credit to:	Jorma Kaukonen
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1U5UW639Ec

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Hi Joe-

All the best, Buddy. Hope to see you back here real soon now, ya hear?

Posted: 03-08-2009, 01:02 AM

Queequeg

Credit to:	George Harrison
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5Mfnh1ci0

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Written in 1968 at the home of Harrison's friend, Eric Clapton out in the garden on one of Clapton's acoustics. Included on the Abbey Road album, Lennon was not involved on that historic recording.
Performed here on a Larrivee OM-50TSB in the key of A, capoed @ the 7th fret.
Fun to play. Not too hard.
(So why the clams, you ask?)
-that's how you know it's me.

Posted: 02-08-2009, 04:26 PM

Europa

#10

Queequeg

Credit to:	Gato Barbiere
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4k8QgkShE

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Since the theme this month is Europa, I did a cover of the tune, Europa by Gato Barbiere, popularized by 'The Carlos' under the name Europa.

So, here it is; Europa.

Posted: 01-11-2009, 01:22 PM

Here, There & Everywhere

#11

Queequeg

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Credit to:	Lennon/McCartney
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNImhB4hX78

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I recorded this the other morning before work while I was still in my jammies.

a little rough around the edges.

glad I didn't have to play this for Segovia (or Helen Keller).

Posted: 12-14-2008, 10:39 AM

#12

Queequeg

Credit to:	Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61p8g9B6LwQ

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Here's an old tune written by Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin in 1943. It was the middle of WW II. Loved ones were separated. People were dying. Everything was rationed. Those were some hard times. It is a forlornly melancholy song, and yet it holds out hope that next Christmas perhaps things will be brighter. A bit like now, I should think.

Posted: 11-09-2008, 12:45 PM

In My Life

#13

Queequeg

Credit to:	Beatles
URL is:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3q8HIv8iD8

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(I'm actually much better looking than this, esp. @ night)

Posted: 10-12-2008, 09:46 AM

The Fisherman

#14

Queequeg

Credit to:	Leo Kottke
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/The-Fisherman

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The title is The Fisherman

written by Leo Kottke

Larrivee OM-50tsb on an H2 Zoom

Posted: 09-14-2008, 11:30 AM

Sailors Hornpipe

#15

Queequeg

Credit to:	Traditional
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/SailorsHornpipe-68

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Sailors Hornpipe [traditional] recorded on a 00-60 Larrivee. I once read that anyone who grew up in the 1950s or '60s and can listen to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (which incidentally, had nothing whatever to do with the fledgling US post-revolutionary spat with Britain; rather it was Napoleon's invasion of Russia) without being reminded of The Lone Ranger is a musical snob.

In learning to play Sailor's Hornpipe, I find it impossible to hear this ancient tune without images of Popeye the Sailor Man, Olive Oyl and spinach cans effervescing in my head. I yam what I yam.

Posted: 08-10-2008, 01:06 PM

Blue Moon

#16

Queequeg

Credit to:	written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/Blue-Moon-on-the-Baritone

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now that I *think* I understand how this goes, I have re-recorded Blue Moon @ Studio Q. Apologies for the aural assaults.

Posted: 07-13-2008, 01:16 PM

Nitpickin

#17

Queequeg

Medley of old patriotic tunes

Credit to:	Mike Dowling
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/Nitpickin

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Here's one I've been working on for a couple of weeks now, and recorded this afternoon.

Nitpickin' by Mike Dowling, incorporates two-against-three syncopation in the right hand, because the 1/8 note melody is grouped in threes against the 1/4 note bass line.

I have to keep reminding myself not to rush.

Posted: 05-11-2008, 11:32 AM

#18

Queequeg

Credit to:	Various Artists
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/Memorial-Day-Medley

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This is my Memorial Day offering; a medley of old patriotic tunes strung together into a single performance on a Larrivee Traditional SD-50 TSB slope-shouldered 12-fret slot-head.

Lots of credits listed in the original thread.

Posted: 04-13-2008, 04:46 PM

Riviera Paradise

#19

Queequeg

Credit to:	SRV Cover
URL is:	http://media.putfile.com/Riviera-Paradise-44

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Recorded moments ago. I actually used a plectrum on this which I almost never touch any more. SRV's Riviera Paradise on a CA GX Performer; unplugged.

Posted: 03-09-2008, 10:28 AM

Avalon

#20

Queequeg