July 3rd, 2023

Homeskoolin’ Bonus “Firth Of Fourth Of July”

Chapters
00:00 - Keyboard song


Notes
Happy 4th friends!!

June 29th, 2023

Homeskoolin’ Bonus Jam, “Sequential Circus”

Chapters
00:00 - Keyboard playing


Notes
There have indeed been some exciting changes in my little retro analog living room keyboard set up lately….
First off…
I am having an absolute BLAST with this new Mellotron Micro keyboard that just showed up.

My God, this thing is sooooo cool. It was basically love at first sight for me when I tried one of these for the first time on a session recently. It’s really all you need…I highly recommend these to anyone out there who digs Mellotrons…you can get these on EBay for about a grand.

And secondly, I traded my old mid 70’s round top Rhodes Suitcase 73 for a later square top Suitcase 73 model from 1980. I have always preferred the cleaner brighter sound of the later Rhodes models personally, although most players seem to prefer the older ones.

My pal David Crutcher (who you guys met on some of my earlier vids explaining the intricacies of the old Hammond B3) completely refurbished this Rhodes I just bought.
He rebuilt the action and voiced it. It feels WONDERFUL and the thing just sounds incredible. I couldn’t be happier with it.

The one that I traded him is up for grabs now if anyone out there is looking.
David can sell it to you as is (in need of some work) for somewhere in the 2K range, OR, you can have him refurbish it for you and make it primo…which I HIGHLY recommend for somewhere in the 3K range (which is still way under the insane prices people are asking for old Rhodes pianos on the internet).

If anyone is interested I can hook you up with him….just lemme know.

June 27th, 2023

Homeskoolin’ Session Update, “Division Street”

Chapters
00:00 - Session and talk with Russ Pahl
02:55 - Tour of Omni
04:30 - Little keyboard playing


Notes
THE BIRTHDAY CONCERT VID IS OFFICIALLY LIVE ....go to thesessionman.com if you wanna check it out!

Uncle Larry was busy as usual today kids….he did two sessions in two different studios that were waaaay across town from each other.

This little clip is from the morning session where I led a demo session (four songs in 3 hours) for my old buddy Dan Friszell at an old studio downtown called Omnisound on Division Street.

The band was
Russ Pahl: pedal steel
Evan Hutchings: drums
Mark Hill: bass
Jenee Fleenor: fiddle
John D Willis: acoustic
David Crutcher: keys
Uncle Larry: electronic guitar

When I say i “led” the session that means I wrote the charts and got twice as much dough as the rest of the guys for doing so. By the long-standing rules of the Nashville Musicians Union AFM branch 257, every session must have an assigned “leader”, who makes twice the dough of the other cats, in return for going through the trouble of making all the charts beforehand. Also, historically, whoever is the leader of the session gets to boss people around a little more than usual on that day, People kind of treat you like it's your birthday when you are the "session leader".

This video stars the legendary Russ Pahl, who has played pedal steel and guitar on A LOT of records…he has played with Vince Gill, Dan Auerbach and Bob Plant to name a few. Russ makes some really nice guitars under the brand name of “RP Guitars” (mostly Fender Tele and Strats with a few twists and turns) and he hand winds his own custom pickups. He is the living definition and pure embodiment of the phrase "tinkerer". Contact me for his email if you would like to investigate his work further.

And…if you can name the tune that i play on the piano at the end of this video, then I KNOW that you are a cool person