"Goatgal you win most favorite DB post of the weekend!"
YAY!!!! Glad I was able to brighten your day!
Quote from GG: "H has been down on my Ukulele/Vocal thing since the beginning for whatever reason.
Yeah. I'm not really sure what his deal was with the Ukes. I've been playing guitar, seriously, since I was in rompers. He always supported that. We were both playing when we met. (He is/was a bass player.)
The uke thing started three years ago now. And he seemed resentful. Originally, he said it was the money, but I didn't spend any more money on that than he did on his hobbies (when he still had them) and I don't spend on hair/nails/fashion... I think it was because he saw me being really happy with it, while he was feeling more and more miserable. But I really don't know. He did threaten one time to "throw them out the window" and when I asked him about it later, he couldn't explain this statement.
rayzzz: "Plus you sing AND play uke? Now that is a major turn on.... cause I uke (its on the cover of my cd) and I have a honkey tonk cigarbox ukulele like paw paw had in the 1920s. =D"
Hey!!! Another ukulele fan! So good to know. What kind of music do you play? The cigar-box is a clue! I have cigar box guitar--just a cheap one. There is a festival in our town each year, so far, it's pretty small, but fun. I'd love to hear the CD.
I consider myself "Hard Core". I'm not one of those one-finger strummers at the BBQ ("not that there's anything wrong with that!" )
I play fingerstyle traditional jazz/blues, do all my own arrangements, standards mostly, plus some originals in the same vein. It's Django to Sidney Bechet--to Mildred Bailey, Alberta Hunter...the timeline for material stops about 1940. My arrangements diverge quite a bit from the originals---but as the immortal Billie Holiday once said: "I never sing a song straight." Well, me either. There is a lot of improvisation vocally and instrumentally.
But I love me some HOT JAZZ! (You can keep that cool, easy listening or BeBop jazz. Because you can't dance to it!)
The vocals are along the lines of the early blues/jazz vocalists as well, with a bit of a modern flair a la Bonnie Raitt/Etta James.... I also love singing the great big band standards (take your pick from the list of "girl singers", probably Ella/Billie would top that list.)
I am very serious about it, been playing for dancers solo, and I'm hoping to do more singing with the big bands that play the dance events I attend as a dancer/instructor/DJ.
But enough about me. How about we talk about me????
Hahaha! Happy to bring a little happiness to Batman. It's so dark in that Bat Cave.
---GG
PS: "Lust for Life" has been my "theme song" for years! I'm going to work out a cool Uke version and keep you posted!
Me 54 Him 63 M 23 T 29 0 Kids Funny Farm of Rescues 12/12 OW-- 5/13 ILYBINILWY: A denied 9/13 Proof OW: ENDED 2/14 Got D papers on my BD I kicked him out for my sanity 9/14 He wants to "talk"?
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