March 15th, 2023
ChaptersFun day today friends…getting close to finishing this little record i am making with Guthrie….it really should be illegal to have as much fun as we have been having the past few days.
A day of legends…getting to hear Paul Franklin burn it up on a little number i made up in my lonely kitchen is one for the memory books…
and then the Reverend came by for a bit this afternoon and we were all talking about potential names for this project GT and I are doing…which naturally turned into me asking him how he came up with that name you might have heard of called “ZZ Top” (partially captured here)
I also threw in a somewhat surreal moment from the drive in to work this morning
Thanks for watching guys
March 14th, 2023
ChaptersUncle Larry tries to put out several blazing hot VCB fires in one swell foop....whilst relying slightly less than usual on "the corporate eye"...
totally unrelated....this melody is so satisfying to me...it checks all the boxes of pleasing harmony and time in my brain...
March 14th, 2023
ChaptersYou gotta admit...people really knew how to name shit back in the 50's and 60's...
I mean..."super echo twin"...how bad ass is that???
Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster
Vibrolux and Tremolux
Think about what Ford was coming up with:
Ford Galaxie 500...Mustang...Falcon....Fairlane
and then there was
Chevy:
Camaro (which a lot of people don't realize is a little used Spanish word for "friend")
Impala....Corvette...Nomad....
AMC Rambler
Buick Skylark
Pontiac Tempest and GTO with fuckin' Tri-Power Ram Air
Plymouth Barracuda and Fury
Dodge Coronet with a goddamn Hemi Six Pack
I'm talking some bad ass names for some seriously awesome shit right here people.
Airstream
Chris Craft
You get what i'm saying.....
or maybe it was just that all the cool names weren't already taken back in those days.
Now we have "Veloster"..."Tiguan"...."Prius"..."Swift"
We are doomed
and totally unrelated...
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March 13th, 2023
ChaptersUncle Larry reminisces fondly about today's studio happenings and stuffs his arm way up inside the VCB pipe to remove some clogged comments.
Thanks for watching the show people...we got a pretty good thing going here.
...and speaking of good things, check out this bad boy
Steve Cox....a dear old friend from Cleveland,
He taught a young Uncle Larry some very valuable musical lessons back when Larry was just a mixed up kid living in some shit rental house with a carpeted kitchen in Antioch.
I owe Steve a lot.....i still use some of the things he showed me on a daily basis...and ol' Larry never forgets anyone who helped him anywhere along "the journey".
March 12th, 2023
ChaptersUncle Larry gets busy with a tweed big box Tremolux with the channels jumped by a high quality BTPA cable.
and totally unrelated....great example of what I'm always talking about in terms of getting on a cool part and STAYING WITH IT...if you ever deviate from it there better be a DAMN GOOD reason.
March 12th, 2023
ChaptersLarry shows the results of a little Sunday afternoon light organizing.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL PARENTS:
I encourage all of you out there with young children to keep a small boom box cd player in the bathroom so your kids can listen to records while they take their baths before bed.
It’s been a crucial part of the music learning experience for my boys.
I have noticed that they seem to listen more intently than usual when they are chillin’ in the tub.
If you haven’t tried it with your kid, give it a shot….ol’ Larry wouldn’t steer ya wrong people.
March 10th, 2023
ChaptersMarch 10th, 2023
ChaptersTaking you waaaaaay back to the chilly cold February of 2023....Larry was holed up for a few days in a home studio out by the airport to produce a few tracks for his dear old buddy Bobby "Gateweed" Gatewood from Cleveland Ohio. Bobby and Uncle Larry have been friends since the late 80's when Bobby originally hired Uncle Larry to play bass in his cover band called Calabash.
Every few years or so Bobby slips away from his cushy life as the mayor of Put-In-Bay Ohio and cruises down to Nashtown to make a record with the Nashville cats.
We are working at the legendary Headroom Studio in Donelson here and the engineer you are seeing here in this video is my dear old pal Rick "Sweet Ricky D" Delima. Rick's sweet wife Stacy helped out on the project as well with some lyrics and backing vox...and some delicious lunches.
Tasty live drums being provided by another fellow Clevelander, sweet Shawn Fichter....one of the sweetest human beings to ever inhabit this planet.
Bobby originally brought this tune in as an uptempo boogie woogie kinda thing...but i thought the sentiment of the song and the introspective lyric "all i was trying to do was find me" might possibly be better served by a wistful longing 60's hippie vibe, with some janglin' stoner guitars...so we proceeded down that path.
Then later on, after some group lyric re-writing and the addition of David "Bird Dog" Dorn's B-3 and bunch of tasty Haight-Ashbury guitars and some folky holllowbody bass, this track turned out fantastic.
When it's finished and mixed i will play it for ya.
totally unrelated:
Here's an old song from one of Bobby's earlier records (2007) that i produced when we were all very much younger...."Did We Try?"
This track has some bad ass cats on it....Joe Vitale on drums, Will Owsley on rhythm guitar. David Santos on bass, Mark T Jordan on keys, Troy Johnson on backing vox, Larry on lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8McGEgFAew&t=0s
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March 8th, 2023
ChaptersA sweet little tune from today’s session where Uncle overdubbed electrics on 7 songs at a home studio in Nashville…good songs and sweet people…and a nice Japanese themed lunch.
The singer?
Melissa Erin
The song? “Be The Sparrow”
The engineer? Chris “Gearhead” Condon
The bass player/producer? Phil Anthony
March 8th, 2023
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