[mattsz]

Hey while we're on both subjects.........

Mattz - Do you have any recordings of your music?  Being a musician myself, I love hearing anything "local" and underground regardless of genre.   

Scottie J

Scottie - since you asked...

My "professional" music career was short-lived - I met my wife, who was making a living as a folk musician, and began playing music with her.  We've recorded some stuff together.  Her site is

http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/ADodson/

and a list of her recordings is here:

http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/ADodson/recordings.htm

Near the top of this page, there is a song sample of us singing an old traditional song with one of my hurdy-gurdies.

My hurdy-gurdy interest has always been primarily the French traditional style; I don't have any "proper" recordings, but you can hear some basic home sample recordings of some of my tunes here:

http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/

Look for the sound samples button on the left.  Yes, I know, it hasn't been updated in years.  This is folk music, guys, so don't go looking for any hurdy-gurdy head-banging!

Parkinson's disease has all but ended her performing career, but she still teaches beginning guitar and dulcimer, and she can, in my opinion, still give most singers a run for their money!  The ferry helps pay the medical bills, and my B5 helps me keep my sanity! 

[scoTTy]

monday nite late nite...  Mattz is a Hurdy Gurdy Man..  thank You Mattz for your thoughts and Beams of Strength for your wife from me..  donovan for you..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pS3x9yZ8g8

[scoTTy]

and a favorite of mind..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV81mdj1ic

[scoTTy]

one heck of a solo from JiMi  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6meMBtTgKQ

[Arizoni]

And coming from New York's Central Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VOzAAK3x5Y

[singhg5]

Scottie - since you asked...

My "professional" music career was short-lived - I met my wife, who was making a living as a folk musician, and began playing music with her. 

My hurdy-gurdy interest has always been primarily the French traditional style; I don't have any "proper" recordings, but you can hear some basic home sample recordings of some of my tunes here:

Matt with his Hurdy-Gurdy -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c68B2Ww9YY

and singing with his group -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7e4wAvvg5M

[mattsz]

ScoTTy - thank you.  I mean it.

Singhg5 - ohhh, boy, those old videos - these things never go away, do they?  Long hair, and no gray!  The hurdy-gurdy one has been a long-running disappointment to me, as the camera recording the trio stopped working just before it got good!  A fun, fast musette-style waltz... think Django Reinhardt meets Hot Club du France - well, never mind, it was great fun, but nobody gets to hear it (And no, I'm not comparing any of us to Django!  Trust me!).

The other one is me and my wife, and a few other local friends - not "my group" by any definition, but folk music is generally inclusive rather than exclusive...

[High On Octane]

is always on// make it your own  .. dR hOo went out mudding today..  what do you think he had on his Radio..?

This version?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Kvv522yjA

or this one ?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwSZ1IRb-A

Sorry it took so long to respond back to this, I've had a nasty head cold kicking my ass the last 3 days.  feeling much better this morning.

So the answer?!.......  I was jamming Johnny Cash - Greatest Hits!  Though, if I was to choose one of the songs you posted scoTTy it would definitely be Iggy Pop's version of Wild One.

Let's Keep It Going!

Golden Earring - When The Bullet Hits The Bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZi18VR31M

Scottie J

[mattsz]

Scottie, and all - here's a link to an artsy-fartsy arrangement of a French 3-beat bourree (a type of dance).  It's two different hurdy-gurdies I made; I played one part and overdubbed the second.  I think it might give you a pretty good idea of why noisy bands might like the hurdy-gurdy - put on your headphones and turn it up!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvrmiwbccyy3wfr/Champagnac.mp3

Can you spot the nod to an old favorite classic rock group?  It's obscure...

Sorry about the dropbox download hassle, but it's not my composition, and I don't have permission to post it publicly to the world...

[scoTTy]

how did it get Friday so quick,,,, Friday, primary date night...  when we wore a younger man's clothes..  RE Radio is on...  and such a good feel and so much good muse..  the hour is late... your DJ is tired.... but that's ok....  just a song which you might enjoy... may all have a pleasant evevnig..  try me..  maybe I alreaday played this... but you all know how radio stations can be...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owl9LZn_RGI

[DanB]

Im a Uke fan and player (among few other stringed instruments).

This is one of my favourites.  Classic Rolling Stones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzn-p7QEjko&feature=share&list=FLL_pnP45dUKwIMjQ7NoiC-g&index=14

It IS friday night.

[scoTTy]

scoTy 's heading out an leave you with this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rCd5uGaM8s

[scoTTy]

Dan That  is cool   thanks

  good nite People

[mattsz]

Im a Uke fan and player (among few other stringed instruments).

This is one of my favourites.  Classic Rolling Stones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzn-p7QEjko&feature=share&list=FLL_pnP45dUKwIMjQ7NoiC-g&index=14

Not just any Uke - a Banjo-uke!  I've got me Grandad's mandolin-banjo - I don't play it, though - it's LOUD (as it was meant to be), and it has a pretty bad sound.  Also, I think it was a pretty cheap instrument 90 years ago, and it hasn't aged too well...

[DanB]

Not just any Uke - a Banjo-uke!  I've got me Grandad's mandolin-banjo - I don't play it, though - it's LOUD (as it was meant to be), and it has a pretty bad sound.  Also, I think it was a pretty cheap instrument 90 years ago, and it hasn't aged too well...

a banjo-uke or banjolele? banjolin?

I love those things. Loud and annoying. Love them!  60-70 years ago they were very common place.