Category: music

YOU & ME/lifehouse

This is my own arrangement, a combination of strumming and finger-picking. I play a lot of solo gigs and playing the exact arrangement from the recording is sometimes not full enough for one guitar, also they usually overdub several guitars, so my arrangements attempt to combine all the important elements so the song rings familiar. I also try to incorporate chords that work well with the melody line and add some color and my personal style. Here’s my rendition of Lifehouse’s “You & Me”, something I first worked up a few years ago with my full band, then adapted it for solo.
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TRUE/Ryan Cabrera

This is my own arrangement, a combination of strumming and finger-picking. I play a lot of solo gigs and playing the exact arrangement from the recording is sometimes not full enough for one guitar, also they usually overdub several guitars, so my arrangements attempt to combine all the important elements so the song rings familiar. I also try to incorporate chords that work well with the melody line and add some color and my personal style. Here’s my rendition of Ryan Cabrera’s “True”, something I first worked up in 2004.
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Fuck You

photograph taken by Michael Putland of Nilsson taken at George Harrison’s home, Friar Park

Just feel like this lately. Fits.
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Seven states now considering lowering the drinking age.

You can watch the stodgy video with crotchety MADD mothers inveighing against the evils of demon rum and waving statistics claiming that lowering the drinking age leads to more deaths from alcohol related driving deaths. And youth drinking advocates drunkenly asserting that yeah, the MADD mothers had a point, but on the other hand, fuck you. Underage girls drinking cannot be a bad thing.
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