I love it Jim,,keep the Dylan songs coming.

Hi Jim. You were channeling Dylan there man. If I closed my eyes your voice sounded pretty Dylanesque to me. You obviously love the Dylan stuff.

Thanks to all for watching & commenting!

Hi Daryl - good advice on the strumming - I will keep working on it. I did upgrade my recording setup to a low cost dynamic mic and 4 channel mixer both from radio shack and recommended a while ago by dan/wrench. And I have a pickup for my gs-mini. I will try it with various volume levels on the mix.

Marc - good suggestion - I never think to play along with the record. I'll try it.

Willem - I actually took a couple of dylan workshops from a local guitar teacher and have arrangements for 20 dylan songs. For this song, I have an arrangement for a lead guitar also. So, yes, I will be posting more dylan songs.

Tony - I do love the dylan songs and have listened to them so much it's easier for me to remember the lyrics and phrasings! And your video of the Church song was great - Sorry for not commenting on it

Agree with Daryl here....and nice job on channelling that Dylan voice Jim!

Jim, I think you started out a bit rushed so at first the voice and strumming were not in synch. Then you relaxed a bit and things settled in to make a better match between the two. May I suggest you try to vary your attack on the strings, not hitting all of them on each strum ?
I appreciate Dylan greatly, good thing for you to sing it. It's a pleasure to see you coming along with this type of tune !

Pierre

Chris - thanks for watching

Pierre - good comments - I did feel like I relaxed as I went on, perhaps i should start with an intro. good comment on hitting less strings - I will try that also.

Hey Jim. Nice to see a new video form you. Is that a pick you're using now. Good job expanding your attack.

You really DO sound like Dylan. You've got his intonation down and everything.

Keep them coming.

Michele

Hey michele - thanks for the comment! Yes, I am trying to use a pick these days, except for the uke where I can attack with the index finger. I noticed your uke party has been quiet lately

Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice"

Returning after a long hiatus with several uploads today. All of these were recorded directly from the camera mic in one take without any post-processing. That's the only way I seem able to make time for this.

I first learned Chet Atkins' arrangement of this song, but don't play it that way any more. This song is about a guitar accompanying pain and not about virtuousity, in my opinion.

Pardon the pyjamas.



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That was fabulous Stuart, Welcome back! What a great performance and so well sung... that Cat Stevens in you is pushing unmistakably through again. I really enjoyed that. Just the song to be sung alone in a man cave with pyjamas on .

PS: Just out of curiosity are your strings , shall we say, a little "vintage"? Not being rude, just checking my ears and perception.

Stuart what a beautiful interpretation. I loved it. Especially the "talking" lines: "you coulda done better....I don't mind". Well done. And very well picked.

Stuart,,really fantastic,,how fantastic?? I tell you I had almost ''kippevel''..Chris knows this word too and stole it from me and he forgot to use it here..

FANTASTIC,

willem.

Stuart,
Great job on Don't Think Twice! Good to see you back at it!
Jim

Yes I did.... and I should have used it here .

willem wrote:
Stuart,,really fantastic,,how fantastic?? I tell you I had almost ''kippevel''..Chris knows this word too and stole it from me and he forgot to use it here..
willem.

Thanks so much for listening.

Chris: Yes, the strings are getting a bit cruddy and need to be changed. But changing strings, digging out a proper microphone, setting up the audio interface, going through the whole Sonar workflow rigmarole, then synching with a video were part of what had been keeping me from posting for such a long time. So I just decided to turn on the camcorder and go for it. I did at least tune up first, though.

Daryl: Glad you liked it. I cringe a bit watching "you coulda done better....I don't mind."

Willem: You had me running for a Dutch/English dictionary, but I guess you knew you would. Now I'm going to have to start using this word.

Jim: Likewise enjoyed seeing your recent post. I'll let you know when I'm next in San Jose -- likely in late March.

Stuart,
Great job on one of my favorite Dylan songs! Your fingerpicking sounded great. You sang the song with a lot of emotion...as if you've been there! If so, sorry. If not, you had me fooled!

Craig

Hi Craig,

Yeah, having a vast reservoir of pain makes it a lot easier to sing these Dylan songs. In my case, it's fortunately very far in the past. So it's not an act, but there's no need to be sorry.

-Stuart

Craig wrote:
Stuart,
Great job on one of my favorite Dylan songs! Your fingerpicking sounded great. You sang the song with a lot of emotion...as if you've been there! If so, sorry. If not, you had me fooled!

Craig

Lay Lady Lay

I was not a finalist on The Voice. But what the heck.



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Well done Wally. Again, great sound all around. Did you have reverb on your vocals? What mic are you using?

Glad we have a Dylan song again,,well done Wally,,,,and what was that long pipe mike???

Willem