RockinRobin

Ok, maybe Johnny might put the sheet music for “You never can tell” in the repertoire section. Mike plays it right and so does Bruce Springsteen and his sax player plays a solo.

Sounds great Mike. I’ve been trying to learn “You never can tell” since hace mucho tempo”.It’s a keeper.

Sound was a dud today. I went through all my mouthpieces and reeds and ligatures. Still a dud. I put my teeth on the mouthpieces etc just like Johnny shows in his educational video. I finally ended with a Van Gogh lig and carbon fat boy mouthpiece and medium soft oxycarbon and all the wind I could muster. Every three notes I had to take in more…[Read more]

Thanks Saxomonica. I guess The Kingston Trio could hang the Midnight Special with “The Tijuana Jail”

You bet. I’ll keep those mediums on hand. I’ve been blowing ‘Wave’ and Sinatra’s “Fly Me To The Moon” and Herb Alpert’s “Spanish Flea” among other things. Cheers

Sounds great Mike. Fantastic band. You rock!

Thanks Johnny for Lucille. Great 12 bar blues.

Thanks Walley. Ya, it’s a Martin 12 stringer. I’m on the tenor sax 99.9 per cent of the time. I used to accompany my sax with the guitar. Now I just blow a naked sax.

Thought I’d Join Walley with a tune on my 12 stringer.

One of my Christmas songs on my 12 stringer https://soundcloud.com/user-772494730/01-pretty-paper-guitar

Hi Gary
Great sound. I too use a medium carbon onyx reed; sometimes I have to use a carbon onyx medium soft. Your timing is perfect, better than mine. Keep blowing, Cheers

Yesterday I was doing some growling while playing “The Wanderer”; so today I’ll do some more growls and I used the one note method for the solo and then 2 notes. I usually loose my place in the song while soloing; just wandering around

I use my Mac iTunes library. Mac has good play backs

Solo Is the best

Hi Pete,
About backing tracks. I don’t favor backing tracks because I have to back the backing track. I try to use backing tracks. They sound good and add to the lead horn but in the final analysis I end up backing the backing track