Guitars and Guns,..... Guitars and Power Tools and Guns

    If you're like me, you've been walking around for a couple of days singing the words to Russ`  new song,  Guitars, Power Tools and Guns. One of the three he played on Monday night at the meeting.

     As it turns out, we had a bit of camera trouble, and ended up using a web cam.  So now you can see three clips of this weeks meeting.  Russ, as if cut from an excerpt of the Pete Seager Show,  Scot Hamilton in true 70`s singer songwriter form and yours truly looking sort of like the cover of  Frampton Comes Alive. On the upside,  the sound recording system is infinitely better (direct from the board).

     Be advised, there is NO CLUB ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT, me and Alf have to stay home to scare unwary children. Our next meeting will feature a set from Emma Rush. We`re all pretty pumped.

Catch You next Month,
Markis

Scot Hamilton

Mark, Hamilton Blues in Montreal

Mon. Oct. 17 , HGA... Sofga meeting

1. Hga...SOFGA  meeting
   

Mon. Oct. 17 ,  at the good ol Pheasent  Plucker, 20 Augusta Street, Hamilton

             7:30 sign in, show starts at 8:00

Hey everyone,

Due to a sudden illness, the feature performers  scheduled for this week were forced to postpone to a later date. We all hope that John H. feels better chop chop , (without having to do any sort of chop chop)

For this meeting we'll continue to do some extended sets for open mic and post tapes of our favorite parts of the night. Make sure to bring a memory stick to download a full version of your previous performances.

Check out the link for this weeks episode of the Randy Bachman show, vinyl tap on CBC, it's a great couple of hours of exploration into the use of acoustic guitar in popular music.

I'd like to be able to post upcoming shows that we might be interested in, so be sure to forward me your dates and times in advance of the bi-weekly news letter.

In the last couple of weeks our website/blog has gotten over 500 views. (and I,m pretty sure it,s not all me) . I could  use some suggestions for Member Vid of the month, (a cool recording not done at the club)


See you tomorrow,
Mark

Alfie on banjo

Oct. 3 ,2011, One leg in the nylons, followed by banjo music kinda night

      We had a great musical open mic night with some extra songs from a few of the usual suspects. This was our first club with videography. (Thanks to Mackenzie for doing the taping.)

     You can see two clips this week. Emma Rush's  second number (below),  a Spanish piece and  a new song from recent member, Stephan Guschewski, entitled Let it Bloom. Both of these play excellently and are much better looking than many of our members. (who are a rather funny lookin bunch on the by and large)

     At the next meeting you can view last meeting's recordings, so bring a memory stick to tote yours home in full glory.

Emma Rush Oct. 3, 2011