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Trying to nail a few (comparative) crowd pleasers for the old ‘you play guitar: play something we know’ moments, when all you’ve been doing is obscure Marc Ribot and Queens of the Stone Age licks...
So... since lock down I’ve just about thrashed out playable versions of ‘Valerie’ - The Zutons; ‘The Weight’ - The Band; ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’ - Simple Minds; and currently doing battle with the tortured mind of Johnny Marr: ‘This Charming Man’.
After putting it off for years, because it always looked too hard for my limited talent, and because I'm lazy when it comes to learning new songs, I've finally learnt This Charming Man by The Smiths. Some tricky chord positions, but I've pretty much got the whole thing nailed. I'm quite chuffed with myself.
The other three minutes or so was part of a demo for a singer/songwriter who's itching to get back in my studio to finish the work we started.
I've been very busy with music though, mainly with doing pop/dance stuff with one of our stand-in girl singers who's been sending me guide vocal tracks from home.
It's been really refreshing tbh to be able to put the guitar away and make music I like for a change, which almost never has any guitars on it.
So although I haven't achieved anything guitar wise, I've come to a crossroads where I need to decide whether I even want to go back to gigging all the time anyway, so in some ways the lockdown has been a valuable lesson.
I have been working on Paul Davids' arrangement of Autumn Leaves on the acoustic which is harder (for me) than I was expecting, and the solo from Back in Black, which is also way harder than I thought it would be and consequently, I have mastered neither of them!
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.