Comment

Comment by frank tennyson on September 24, 2012 at 1:28am

Its morning. Afraid I am not a morning person; actually all my family and friends know not to try engaging me till I've been up for a while. I'm still tired. Can dreams make you tired?

Starting to dream of building CBGs - OMG. I have ordered amp parts from a company in Thialand - Yes, Thialand. They are dirt cheap but take two weeks to ten days for the order to arrive. And I am waiting on the order.

My plans are, if the amp build turns out good [that is successful], to start building amps fpr sale. I'm still to inexperienced to put out a good enough CBG for sale. Will need to give many as gifts before that happens.

Back to my dreaming; last night I dreamed that I built an amp and after puttinh it in the box I had for it decided it was small enough to go inside the guitar. Problem is I already have two amps. Not bad since I can;t even play yet. Anyway I did put the amp inside the guitar - sounded great. But I wanted to also be able to plug the GUitar into a "real amp" (meaning on external amp in a box of its own).Ater much deliberation I settled on a switch. It worked - so - in true CBG fashion I took out that switch and installed a three way switcch.

Decided to post  video of how the three way switch worked in CB Nation. Had to learn how to make a video - record - using my Logitech cam. Had to learn how to upload the vid.

I'm very successful in my dreams, aren't we all. I know I never dream of failing. Falling yes, failing no. So just had to upload it to FB.- make the most use you can out of what you have - -right>! Why not YouTube? Yeah, uploading again.

Thats a lot of work for one night. No wonder I am groggy and grumpy in the mornings if I work that hard every night! Glad I can go to work and rest! Not really - d@#$ it.Work is like being a slave on a gallion. Those pesky jerks with whipps always coming by and wanting more.  Cannot think that way; I may dream of being the one with the whip - sounds like a very naughty and fun dream. I know I'd wake up tired.

So, so long for now; will leave you to your own dreams  -  or nightmares.

Comment by frank tennyson on September 22, 2012 at 4:24am

Have been trying to learn "Amazing Grace" via way of instructional videos from "Night OWl" bless her heart - and I sincerely mean that! Found my memory is lousy.  I tried and tried to get the sequence of notes right. Must have lisened to the videos at least 25 times and spent afour hours a day for three weeks trying to learn. Man, I;m a slow learner. Blaming it on my age ----- but. Leave it at that.

Anyway, Finally figured out tabs after many additional hours web surfing. Most are for ukes, never would have thought a uke was that popular? And  the rest leaned toward twelve string. But by thinking and thinking and writing page after page pf notes I finally figured it out. My big problem is I learned music for trumpet which is note by note on a music score.

So, I wroted down the tabs for Night Owl's "Amazing Grace" and things got better. However, I still have not got to a point I consistently remember the tabs. Seems I remember maybe one out of twenty tries. But that is progress! I'll take what I can get.

Afraid I am driving the "Boss" crazy. She commented on my amps that my guitar was plenty loud as it was and could get really loud without an amp. The amp is not for amplification for me but to get the right sound - grungy and sustaining so it is like a salid all mixed together - like ral Delta Blues (ie. Robert Johnson sound)

Oh after buying a soldering gun - found one I already had. I inherited tools from my parents, mostly hand tools, and stored them in different places in my shop. Some are in a storage shed or even in boxes in the attic. But - to get back on course, found the iron in a drawer on my table top saw base.

I have half a basement, a tight squeeze one car garage space that will barely fit a car with space to walk around it. It also cpntains the HVAC unit, an old freezer we rarely use anymore [use to keep foster kids and needed that extra freezer]. Now ---- well.

Besides that it holds sheet rock I have yet to put up. But that is not all. One display case, one oversixe desk (my computer sits there - yes I am exiled to my shop in the basement). Two metal shelf units and a full size carving horse. Yeah, I piddle in carving, making wine racks, and walking canes.

Anyway, then there is the saw table and a really to wobbly work bench I made but haven't yet took apart and rebuilt so it is more stable.  However, the coupe de grace is a corner full of boxes the Boss has stored down here!

You tell me how much room I have to fit in a guitar neck without knocking something over or off plus an amp. I have to sit kinda side ways just to use the computer. So looking at the screen while holding and playing a CBG is a learned skill.

My point, I did not realize learning CBG 3-string would be such a problematic thing. They are loud, do need space, and space for additional equipment, and the chronic repitition [not to mention bad notes and such] wear on your relationship,  even if you have been married 30 something years like me and the Boss.

Guess all this is good. Blues needs woes and adversity, oppression and even heartache. BUilding and learning to play CBGs definitely supply these things in aces!

Comment by Clock The Wolf on September 21, 2012 at 6:23pm

!