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Allan in NE

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Talk about embarrassing!

I'm getting together a few tunes to do at a jam session tomorrow that is being help up the road.

Anyhoo, stumbled across an old recording of this Chet Atkins song.

Hey Homer! I've been playing this sucker wrong for the past 40 years or so...... :>(

Not only was I in the wrong key, but I was totally leaving out 2/3 of the bridge. So much fer playing by ear. :>(

Just went out to the garage, corrected it and hit the record button to share with you folks. Hope to heck this sounds a little better.

Oh, and by the way, it's gettin' harder and harder to make these fat old fingers move that fast anymore. :>)

Allan

<a href="http://65.108.44.183/Yakety Axe.mp3">Chicken Cluckin' song</a>

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Thanks for the memory!

Wasn't that also Benny Hill's theme song played on a sax?
 
Way Cool!! You must have been one heck of a ear corn shucker in your day?? How about we get an old I.H. running gear and make it into a traveling band show and pick up back up players along the way. Sure would be a place for you to play at our annual 4 day show her in August and you and wife could stay at my place for free. Whatcha think?? Migraine
 
Darned if I know. I learned the thing from listening to other pickers over the years.

Just finally heard ol' Chet play it fer the first time and think I like the way he did it better. :>)

Allan
 
Unless you want very lean stringy beef, keep the windows closed when you play or those animiles will be dancin. Very pleasant interlude, Good pickin. Jim
 
Hey Allan, SOUNDS GREAT I may still have the Video of when Chet played that on Austin City Limits on PBS TV with a group called "The Cluster Pluckers" He also played "The Next Time Im in Town" which was on his album with Mark Knofler I think......And he sings the song he wrote about missing his dad, a tear jerker..

I have Chet and Hank Snow picking Under the Double Eagle, Hank flat picks and Chet finger picks woooooooo hooooooooo

If you want the video (if I find it and can put on a DVD) and/or a CD drop me an e mail with your mailing address.

John T E Mail [email protected]
 
According to the Chad-Rad thingy, it's gonna be in the Eagles club at 1 o'clock.

Haven't been in that place in years, so thought I'd come over to your town fer a change. :>)

Allan
 
Tried to play that many times and my fingers trip so bad all I can get right is the " Shave and a haircut tow bits " great job as always Allan !
Even harder to change from the habit you used to play to the right way. copied and in my play lists ---Thanks !
 
very very good allan, ive heard this song quite a few times but only played live once and it was nowhere near this good , great job on a great song
 
Is that a Fender Stratus? It looks just like the one we bought for my son a year ago. He really loves to play. Started him with a Johnson clasical acoustic. BTW, great song, sounded great.
 
Fender Strat.

Yeah, it's kinda funny how that works, as no two instruments will ever sound the same.

You have this "sound" in your head and you spend your whole life chasing arouned trying to find a guitar that will produce that particular tone.

Thanks for the kind words,

Allan
 
I've only been around a little over half the time you've been playing that wrong and I have to say those fat old fingers sound pretty darn good to me! It's a darn sight better than most of what passes for music these days. Thanks, Sam
 
Love the sound of a good Strat with .07's or .08's on it, but a Tele with good .08's or .09's has that melted butter sound. You boil your strings before putting them on just before that first stretch? Hot out of then pan, wipe it down, put it on, tune it quick, next string? Does that really make a difference? I'm not sure, but I tried to make it a practice and it took the maintenance time up there, and you've gotta wipe down the stove afterwards too. I don't know if it really made a difference or not. Once you start bending them things, the'll always need to be retuned, and retuned, and retuned until...pop at the most inopportune moment to have to cause one to improvise. I don't remember whose idea boiling the strings was...Roy Clark...Ron Woods...Alex Lifeson? I forget, but pretty sure it wasn't Ernie Ball, and am pretty sure that Keith Richards was never sober enough to think of that or much else.

When I was stationed in Germany, I remember giving a friend a '57 mohogany Les Paul because he had a wife and daughter over there with him and another on the way, so he couldn't afford one, and played it better than me. He deserved it as a gift, and besides, I had more axes setting off in the wings. Would like to have that one back, but what is...is. Made all parties involved happy at the time, and I guess that's what counts. Unplugged from an amp he played Nancy Wilson's "Silverheels" as good as she did with her worn out acoustic that had a huge hole in it, and I guess that was the deciding factor of..."Keep it Rich, its yours now". Made his expecting wife cry...in a good way, I hope. I left Germany, and don't know what happened to them or that Les Paul. Grin.

Mark
 
Mr Chet Atkins could PLAY ! Im a rock and roll animal but chet, Wow not too many out there that can make sounds like him.my friends and I play a bit in a buddys garage but the dog doesnt even like it!
 
Boy, I dunno Mark,

Like I tell folks, "The damned thing seemed to be in tune when I bought it." :>)

Guess I must be doing something wrong. Last string I broke was in 1968. Remember it well; Ted's Steak House, N 30th St., Omaha, NE.

That was the night I changed over to the claw way of pickin' and haven't broken one since. :>)

Allan
 
Boy, I dunno Mark,

Like I tell folks, "The damned thing seemed to be in tune when I bought it." :>)

Guess I must be doing something wrong. Last string I broke was in 1968. Remember it well; Ted's Steak House, N 30th St., Omaha, NE.

That was the night I changed over to the claw way of pickin' and haven't broken one since. :>)

Allan
 
Allan,

I rememeber buying that Les Paul downtown Mannheim when I was there. Think the place was simply called Muzik or something like that. Was back in '85 and paid something like $700 when the exchange rate was 4 DM to a Dollar, so something like $2,800 DM. That was pretty much the better part of a whole months pay. Probably my favorite axe too, but was one of them things. Rich was playing it one night and I just stopped playing and watching and listening to him. He just became part of that guitar and it became part of him like nothing or no one else existed. I hope he used it well, and I hope his pick wore its way through the guard into and maybe even through the mohagany. At the time I was thinking about refitting it with new EMI pickups, but I guess that it did just fine as it was.

Good place to pickup a good axe reasonably priced that maybe needed some tender love and care like a dog from the pound were pawn shops. Lot of broken dreams and hearts in them, but new beginnings too.

Thanks for the memories Allan.

Mark
 
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