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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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Hey all, I hope you're all doing well.

I mixed up an instrumental rocker this week. Fueled by undesired pain pills and evening news.

I call it My French (soundcloud.com)

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It sounds different than a lot of your work, fuzzy is the term I'm gonna use.

Pain pills should always be desired!

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I need to be sober (for decision-making purposes) but I can't right now. And I hate not having the choice.

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Hmm...

If it helps, I'm where I am and some of my biggest decisions were made while completely fucked up.

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Desire causes you pain, things you can't attain.

What?

That sounded cool as hell man!

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That's some friggin' deep shit right there!

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I enjoy going off the deep end!

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Maybe because Buddha played a Fleetwood Mac song but the drum patterns sound a lot like Mick Fleetwoods playing and the song sounds like something the Peter Green version would have done.

Pain pills are medicine, damnit. I'd be in a lot of unnecessary suffering lately if not for them. It does help to not have any responsibilities to take care of and addiction isn't a concern. Hope you get better as soon as possible.

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Hello everybody.

Earlier this week my buddy Chris stopped over to jam for a few hours. He had left his acoustic guitar at someone else's house so he brought along a banjo instead. Neither of us really know how to play the banjo and he was playing the banjo along with me on acoustic guitar and it wasn't working out right. So I gave him my acoustic guitar and took the banjo from him and said, we've got to play a banjo song. We got a banjo! Better Paddle Faster (soundcloud.com).

I don't really know how to play banjo but there it is!

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I really, really don't want to lie to you.

So, I'll just say, "Well, that was something."

;-)

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LoL It's a banjo song!

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It is! It's Dueling Banjos from Deliverance - though I'm pretty sure it was a song before the movie and I'm pretty sure it was played with two banjos. Pretty sure - but not positive.

Don't worry, I can't play a banjo either. I can kinda fake it, 'cause I've had practice and it's a stringed instrument.

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That's one of the few banjo hit songs. Great instrumental. I never get tired of that one. The fit in Yankee Doodle went to town really cool.

Sweet City Woman by the Stampeders was a big hit with a banjo. Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter by the Herman's Hermits sure does sound like a banjo but I guess it ain't.

Rainbow Connection is a good banjo song. Kermit the Frog.

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Im going to have to check out all those songs!

Thanks!

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Well garsh, that sure was purdy. I think you did great on an instrument that seems difficult to play. That laugh at the end was right in character.

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I think that's how it would actually sound with inbred retards playing it LoL

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That was originally done back in the '50's and Buddha was right, it was 2 banjo's (hence the name). Of course, the actors in the movie didn't play it, it was done by some bluegrass players.

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Hello and welcome to another FNGT! Like normaly, we'll go ahead and get you started.

We were particularly lazy again, much like we have been all summer. That's okay, you get to hear the band live again. So, there's something good about us being lazy! This week's track is from that same 4th of July weekend, but is from the 3rd. Without further ado, let's link it:

BDE - Rhiannon (07.03.21) (share.fngt.gq)

Now... You might think you don't hear Ol' Buddha singing in that, but you do! Listen carefully and I'm the fairly obvious falsetto in the backup vocals. You hear Biff in all these tracks. She was in sound. Without that, we'd sound like shit.

Rock on, Poalr Bears! Rock on!

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Beautiful job on the harmonies.

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Thanks! Glad ya liked it. We're still being lazy and sharing stuff recorded earlier this year.

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Damn! I'd have thought that was a live track from back in the day by the originals!

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LOL We're a pretty skilled band and it's stuff like this that lets us get top billing and demand a good salary.

There's probably close to 100 years (combined) of experience on the stage, even though most of them are just barely pushing their 30s.

Glad ya liked it! We work hard to make it work onstage.

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Thanks for all these guitar / music threads, I always say I will make the guitar thread some night but I keep missing it, I'm sure these virus lockdowns suck for some but this guitar place is great. I'm glad to see some of the old freaks made it from voat and the other alt websites, I didnt think anyone would survive that place when it went full crazy TheBuddha, and respect to COFfer, Sound_Flames, Crazy ...crazyeyes from voat? MrHR, COF for keeping this place upbeat and smooth and doing all the mod work here, Sorry to hear of the passing of PMYB2 (aka Boobs) I know he was a big fan of rock and blues and folk tunes, he started a 'Learn Guitar' sub here but it never really got going full speed I might post a few vids there to keep it in his memory, I know he liked the arts, liked his flag his people, he liked his 'draw mohammed' toons, his freedom, liked his film and movies and one of the more genuine and grounded guys here. Thanks for archiving everything, its been a blast listening back to some of these tunes.

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I've always liked Lindsey's style of playing. It flows so nicely, like pouring a fine liquor. You captured that feeling well. Micks drumming has also been a big reason for their success, in my opinion, and your drummer nailed it. Is that J or the other lady singing? Whoever, what a great job. Stevie is unique and she sounds a lot like her, including the build up at the end. Very well done.

I'll go ahead and bug Biff again and say she, and J, should treat us with a song or two again sometime soon. Together and apart they each are so good and it's been a long time since we've heard from them.

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Thanks, glad ya liked it. We figured you would. That's J on vocals that time, I'm pretty sure. I'm like 99% sure that it's J, but she's otherwise occupied tonight.

We've been too busy, or at least too busy with other things, to do anything new lately. Biff says she'll see what she can do, so there's that! We've all been otherwise engaged and not really making anything new. Hell, we've only jammed together once all week.

It's an audience pleaser of a song. Even younger audiences know and like the song. So, it's in our set lists fairly often.

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I knew J's playing, on all the instruments she plays, was outstanding but I don't remember hearing her vocals. She's also very gifted with her voice, I'm not surprised. I mention her and Biff doing some tunes as they're there together for a while and the clock is ticking. The Two Young Ladies Band is kinda like Hot Tuna, a breakout duo from the band.

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Sounds great. I am sure the ladies are going to love that one when they get back home

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LOL If you listen carefully, and know what falsetto is, you can hear me in the background vocals - but it's otherwise not all that interesting a song from my perspective on the stage. It's a pretty easy song to play, so it's just passing time and hoping I hit my falsetto notes properly.

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That one you pretty much let the girl singing it take center stage I would think

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Also, Poal bitched at me by saying a link in the text had already been posted. Of fucking course it has been posted before. It gets posted every goddamned week!

Fortunately, I wasn't forced to change it. I just had to press the button again.

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I never get that issue when I open the thread

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I think it's new. It's the first time I 'member seeing it.

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Here is another song that me and my friend Chris played with the banjo the other day. Copperhead Road (soundcloud.com) We'd done this before with guitars

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That is better than the other one. Thanks!

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Cool. When we were trying to think of banjo songs we could not skip this one!

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The first one just kinda descended into madness.

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That is the better of the 2. Good job.

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mastery of the solo:

https://youtu.be/nTDGGvF2Mds

I don't know who posted this video of me defaming my character but the finger work and genius tier levels I am displaying are not "terrible". I think an ex groupie or bandmate did this out of jealousy.

I am trying to get YouTube to fix the title but to no avail.

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No, that's pretty terrible. They missed more strings than they hit.

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I've got another song to share with you that we did on guitars, our version of the Band's Cripple Creek (soundcloud.com)

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Heh... We cover that song once in a blue moon. It's likely to pop up in a set that's gone long or when we're just jamming on our time.

I think COF may have a write-up for it.

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That's my job. I sent it to him as a reply.

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Sweet! I thought I recalled you having a write-up about the song. If my memory is correct, there's an MFU article about it - but don't rely too heavily on my memory.

And, yes, I am still awake.

I think I forgot to take my sleep meds.

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I never knew the words to this song until just the other day.

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Of course I have a snippet:

"Up on Cripple Creek" was written by Band guitarist and principal songwriter Robbie Robertson, with drummer Levon Helm singing lead vocal.

Drawing upon the Band's musical roots—the American South, American rock and roll, and bluegrass/country—the song is sung from the point of view of a truck driver who goes to Lake Charles, Louisiana, to stay with a local girl, Bessie, with whom he has a history. In the song, he gambles, drinks, listens to music, and spends time with "little Bessie," who takes an active role in the goings-on, while expressing her opinions, further endearing herself to the narrator. At the end of the song, after exhausting himself on the road, he talks about going home to his woman, "big mama," but is tempted to return to Bessie again. Or he may not be cheating. Truckers also use the term "Big Mama" to refer to their dispatcher over the CB radio. Concerns about the weather in other parts of the country and the line "this life of living on the road" suggest over-the-road trucking. At the start of the song he's hauling logs off a mountain and at the end he may be weighing options: "rolling in" to home base for a new cargo or seeing his Bessie again.

Robertson has said of the song: "We're not dealing with people at the top of the ladder, we're saying what about that house out there in the middle of that field? What does this guy think, with that one light on upstairs, and that truck parked out there? That's who I'm curious about. What is going on in there? And just following the story of this person, and he just drives these trucks across the whole country, and he knows these characters that he drops in on, on his travels. Just following him with a camera is really what this song's all about."

That funky sound on "Up On Cripple Creek" was created by keyboardist Garth Hudson, who played a Hohner Clavinet D6 through a Vox Wah Wah pedal. The Band recorded most of the album "The Band" (their second) in Sammy Davis Jr.'s Hollywood house, which they rented out. "Up On Cripple Creek" was one of three songs they recorded at the Hit Factory studios in New York City.

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I'm not sure how you made it through life this long without knowing. That's kinda odd.

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Here is a song that Chris and I played this past week without the banjo. He came over twice this week to jam. This song is one that I doubt most of you have heard, but all the women in my life know it and love it and requested that we learn it and play it, so here we go.

It's a song by Tones & I, (Who? That I is not referring to me) called Dance Monkey (soundcloud.com)

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That's better than the banjo, though the song is completely unknown to me. It has a vague sense of familiarity, like I may have heard it before.

I think I may have heard it as a background track on someone's video. That's the vague sense of familiarity that I have.

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From what I understand, that song was fairly ubiquitous on pop music radio this summer. I don't listen to that but that's what I been told

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Hmm... Maybe? I'm pretty sure it was like a cat video or something that I heard it from.