MLT Club Member Brian St. August
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Yes, David, I am inclined to agree with you. When I listen very carefully to it, I think I hear them start with the D# and then quickly slide it down to the D. It’s interesting that they don’t do it anywhere else on similar lines. Best, Brian.
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Jacki, a D# chord is a major sharped D chord. If you are playing a D chord on guitar, you slide it up a half step (one fret) to get a D# chord.
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Howard, I both copyrighted my music and registered it with BMI (I am a BMI affiliated writer) back when it was released originally in the early 60’s for performance royalties. On these compilation CD’s the group’s name is used but my writing credit is not noted on youtube unless I note it in comments. The users apparently did not make efforts to contact the original publisher – Beachcomber Music -BMI , and they have essentially not been paying any performance nor mechanical royalties. In the US, the primary performance rights companies are BMI, SESAC and ASCAP. I don’t know what arrangement the Twins have for their performance royalties and usage since they are a complex international entity.
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For what it is worth, sometimes we are not appreciated in the moment we preferred, but our music is eternal even if we lose the rights to it over time. In the 60’s I wrote, arranged, played and was the essential leader of a band called The Shoremen in the US. Our records at that time received only modest radio support. However, over the last 15 years they are finding their way onto MANY compilation discs throughout Europe. They are the copies of the original recordings and feature our name, but don’t give writing credits. I also receive no BMI’s nor mechanical royalties, but I try to focus on the fact that after all of these years, my music is still speaking to people and they are enjoying it. As an artist, that is pleasing … as a human ego, it is bittersweet … but so is life. Just letting you know that your art NEVER dies and may be discovered by others even if you don’t know about it. Hugs, Brian.
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Lisa, thank you so much for responding to my question in such a thorough manner. I really appreciate you making time to answer me during such a busy time. I want to direct you to a wonderful alternative tuning artist/songwriter that I truly love. His name is David Wilcox. One of his excellent songs is called “Rusty Old American Dream”. I included a copy of it for you here because it is in an open tuning, but David modulates in the third verse by sliding his capo up a full step during a quick rest. It’s not easy, but it is doable. LOL. Anyway, I thought you’d get a laugh out of modulating that way. Big hugs … Brian
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Mona, thanks so much for your very thoughtful response. I send both you and Lisa a big hug and wishes for a wonderful 2020!
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When I was playing, I used to have the sore fingers thing, of course, but then I developed a cramping in my fingers and wrists which did ultimately become carpal tunnel later in life. For me, the real self imposed pain though was smoking way too many cigarettes and slamming too many fan-bought tequila shots. Our gigs were four hours long with hardly any breaks because keeping people in the house was more important than resting. As a solo performer, that meant for some very long nights with your hands feeling like they were going to fall off and your voice so hoarse you couldn’t talk. Granted there was pleasure in that pain. But now the torn rotator cuff in my right arm makes playing my Washburn Jumbo a challenge. But I think Lisa was alluding to the fact that if you love it, you do it and when you are doing it you make the pain go away until tomorrow… but tomorrow always does come one day.
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Michael Rife, that was exactly my thinking when I suggested the Dave Clark 5 version to them. The DC5 version uses a lot of augmented chords that were not all that common on the tunes at that time, since these chords are a little jazzier. The Dave Clark 5 version of “Because” would be beautiful for the twins to cover for that very reason… plus it’s a melodic ballad with built in tensions.
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Yes, Jackie, the two most popular Fender solid bodies are the Stratocaster and the Telecaster, but the Jaguar was a really unique guitar with a shorter scale and that great filter switch that Lisa mentioned. If you were a fan at all of the 60’s surf music which directly paralleled the English Invasion – and both genres influenced the other significantly – I’m sure you loved the Jaguar sound even if you didn’t know that it was making that great unique expression.
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Lisa, thanks so much. That was exactly what I wanted to know and a little more. Best, Brian
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Welcome Jurgen. I really enjoyed your post and both your creativity and sense of humor. If a teacher ever really said that you had no talent, I think they missed a lot of who you are. It’s never too late to give that guitar a try and anything else that intrigues you, my friend. Best always … Brian
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Wow, how cool is that!
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Thank you for the courtesy of your response, my friend.
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David Herrick, that was beautiful, my friend …
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Thanks so much, Jackie …
