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Since this is the gear forum I'll start off with what guitars I have. My acoustic is a Martin D18 golden era made in 1995. Nice valentines day gift from the wife. At least she doesn't get mad at me for playing at odd hours. My electric is a Fender American Standard Stratocaster. For about the last 9 months I've been getting together with a group of about 6 regulars every week. We go through a list of songs and are slowly geting better. I think lol. We meet in the upstairs of a local wine shop which is convienient. So what songs am I working on.

Ripple

Friend of the devil

Blue on Black

Dock of the Bay

Sloop John B

Can't you see

Heart of Gold

Most of my tabs are from www.ultimate-guitar.com. There are also a lot of lessons on youtube. I'd like to hear what other folks are working on. Thank you Ed for sending me the Dead tabs.

peace

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hey, this is a great site, if you don't already know about it..

http://www.jdarks.com/

of course, rukind.com is good for some chords...

Songs I am playing regularly as of late...

Crazy Fingers

The Maker

Let It Grow

Reuben & Cherise

Run For The Roses

Bertha

Broken Arrow

Eyes

Jack Straw

Easy To Love You

Visions of Johanna

Black Muddy River

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Here's the tab off of rukind.org

Mission In The Rain

Reflections

(Garcia/Hunter)

Last Updated 09/07/04

General Rules On Chord Charts

Intro

F#m Bm C# F#m

F#m C# Em G

I turn and walk away then I come 'round again

D A C# F#m

It looks as though tomorrow I'll do pretty much the same.

I must turn down your offer but I'd like to ask a break

You know I'm ready to give everything for anything I take.

F# Bm C# D * No F on the High E

SN Bass D C# D C# A

A (Chord)

SN Bass A G# F#

E D

Someone called my name you know I

A D A

Turned around to see

Bm E

It was midnight in the Mission

A D E

And the bells were not for me.

E D E Bm C#m D A

Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain,

G D Bm C#m D A

Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain,

Ten years ago, I walked this street

My dreams were riding tall

Tonight I would be thankful Lord,

For any dream at all.

Some folks would be happy

Just to have one dream come true

But everything you gather

Is just more that you can lose.

Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain,

Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain,

All the things I planned to do

I only did half way

Tomorrow will be Sunday

Born of rainy Saturday.

There's some satisfaction

In the San Francisco rain

No matter what comes down

The Mission always looks the same.

Come again, walking along in the Mission in the rain.

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Intro

(^) Slide Up (\) Slide Down (h) Hammer On (p) Pull Off (B) Bend

MP3 Tab Support Audio (31K)

MIDI Tab Support Audio (mission.mid)

F#m Bm C# F#m

E--9----------------13--14--13---17--13--14-----------------

B----12--10--10^12------------------------------------------

G-----------------------------------------------------------

D-----------------------------------------------------------

A-----------------------------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------------------------

E-16--------------------------------------------------------

B-------10--------------------------------------------------

G-----------10--11------------------------------------------

D-------------------10--11--9-------------------------------

A-----------------------------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------------------------

Return To Base

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After about a 30-year hiatus, I recently picked up a 6-string again (Nothing fancy... a Lucida LG-520 that I got C-H-E-A-P)..and have started to re-learn everything I've forgotten... which, after all those years, is everything...

The last 2-years have been a whirlwind... and MUCH has fallen by the wayside... but not my desire to learn to play again. Then, a recent thread on the DH forums got me started back again. So, yesterday I got a 9V for my tuner... dusted off my case... tuned her up... and played around with the opening of CR & S some...

MAN! Do I need to practice! :rolleyes:

Back when I was playing before... there where no tabs (at least I never saw them)... and I wasn't into the same music I am now...

So, this gives me new motivation...

And, I must agree with the YouTube mention... there is a TON of good stuff for both guitar AND Mando (I recently inherited a Fender FM-53S when my Dad passed away)...

Great idea for a thread BTW!

PEACE!

Your Brother (the guitar HACK),

Andrew

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Here's one for the Indie Rock fans. My Son turned me on to this one. Real easy to strum and a great song to get people to sing along with.

"Mariner's Revenge Song" off Picaresque by the Decemberists

(Start with an Am intro, the strum is easy)

Am E

We are two Mariners, our ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a whale

E

It's ribs our ceiling beams, it's guts our carpeting, I guess we have some time

Am

to kill. You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of

E

eighteen. But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our histories

Am

interweave.

Fm Am Fm

At the time you were a rake and a rastabout. Spending all your money on the

E Fm E

whores and hounds. Oh-oh

Am

You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair, my widowed mother found so

E

sweet. And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him, now filled

Am

with filth and fowl disease.

Fm Am Fm

As time wore on you proved a debt-ridden drunken mess. Leaving my mother a

E Fm E

poor consumptive wretch. Oh-oh

Am

And then you disappeared. Your gambling arrears, the only thing you left

E

behind. And then the magistrate, reclaimed our small estate, and my poor

Am

mother lost her mind.

Fm Am Fm

Then one day in spring my dear, sweet mother died. But before she did I took

E Fm E

her hand as she dying cried, Oh-oh,

Fm Am

"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,

Fm

drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his

E Fm E

grave, oh-oh." (Little Am fill right here)

Am

It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears, among the urchins in the

E

street. And then a priory, took pity and hired me to keep their vestry nice

Am

and neat.

Fm (c-ish) Am(c-ish) Fm(c-ish)

But never once in the employ of these holy men, did I ever once turn my mind

E(c-ish) Fm E

from the thought of revenge. Oh-oh.

Am(harsh double strum for this part)

One night I overheard, the prior exchanging words with a penetant whaler from

E(smooth) E(harsh double strum)

the sea. The captain of his ship, who matched you toe to tip, was known for a

Am(smooth)

wanton cruelty.

Fm Am

The following day I shipped to sea with the privateer. And in the whistle of

E Fm E

the wind I could almost hear, oh-oh.

Fm Am

"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters,

Fm

drag him to a whole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his

E

grave.

C G C G Am

There is one thing I must say to you, as you sail across the sea. Always your

Em Fm E

mother will watch over you, as you avenge this wicked deed.

Middle section: Am-E-Fm-E

Am E

And then one fateful night, we had you in our sights, after 20 months at sea.

Your starboard flank abeam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this

Am

rumbling from beneath.

Fm(c-ish) Am(c-ish) Fm(c-ish)

The ocean shook, the sky went black and the captain quailed. And before us

E (candenza) Fm E

grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh

Am

Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped

E

between his teeth. But oh what providence, what divine intelligence, that you

Am

should survive as well as me.

Fm Am Fm

It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear. So lean in close

E Fm E

and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh-oh

(Solo at end,all on high E)

E--8--7--8--7--8-7-5-7-8-7-5-7x2

E--8--7--8--7--8-7-5-7-8-5-7-8--12(hold)-10-8-7-5-8-7

(repeat until end of song, get faster and faster each time)

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According to my vast :D setlist database ( http://anddave.com/setlists.html ), I have added these to my repertoire in the past year:

Sing Me Back Home

Run for the Roses

Turn Your Radio On (Brumley)

Cosmic Charley

Day Job

Drink Up and Go Home

Circus Comes to Town (Lobos)

For my most recent show I attempted my first-ever solo rendition of Gimme Some Lovin for which I have played bass and sung with various bands. It's not very cooperative as a solo piece but crowd enthusiasm helps a ton.

I really like playing Day Job. It's got a great lyrical ring to it for the garage band open mic scene.

I never worry too much about playing things precuisely correctly, and in many cases I totally retool the song to suit myself. Help on the Way is a good example. I play it in the wrong key with watered-down chords, and I totally hack my own cheesy slipknot rip-off that's really only 1/2 the outtro and none of the real jam. Nonetheless I like the way it plays out, and I'm lately doing Help > Sing Me which I like alot.

If you dare to risk your ears on my junk, there's plenty in the Listening Lab here: http://anddave.com/listeninglab.html

I'm as surprised as anyone, but there actually are a few of my fellow local hacks who learn songs from my example, so I'm always trying to get closer to the original, but Help is a lost cause!!

:D

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oh, and if you do visit the listening lab, look in the righthand column for "Right Rongly". The guitar player there is a contemporary of JK's from the same neighborhoods and stages way back in the old days before Hairball Willie even.

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Ive been to jdarks. grate site. are you trying to tell me you only want to talk about music that the grateful dead has performed?

not really, that was just a tip for everyone...but yes, I am *mostly* only interested in dead tunes....

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not really, that was just a tip for everyone...but yes, I am *mostly* only interested in dead tunes....

Cool. Did you have a chance to check out that youtube link. I never really had heard of Ronnie Lane till a buddy of mine whos a good guitar player turned me on to him. I think hes good. Unfortunately he passed away several yrs ago.

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I did check it out...honestly, not my style. But, to each his own.

Did you get the Mission chords I sent you?

Once I get my book un-packed in a week or so, I will send you a better representation of Mission In The Rain..

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Saw this and thought "What the hell, might as well throw in my two cents."

I have a couple of drums kits. One sits in drum cases in my closet. What a travesty, I know.

The drums in my closet are a vintage 1966 Rogers 3 piece kit with a 1966 Rogers snare. It hasn't been played in over 5 years. This was the kit I used at most of the gigs I played. Its original red sparkle wrap and is in mint condition. This one is going to one of my grandkids.

In my music room I have a 2000 DW Custom Collectors Series kit in wine sparkle I got in 2002. There were only 50 of these kits made and I bought this one from John Kay's (of Steppenwolf fame) son. For some reason I am spacing on his name but its stenciled all over the cases he included.

I played in a Grateful Dead cover band for many years with Kenny Winthrow ( guitar player Edie Brickel and the New Bohemians), Carter Albrecht ( Keyboard player and guitar for Edie and Paul Simon until he was shot and killed in a tragic accident. By far the most talented musician I have ever played with), Bob McConnell (bass player extraordinaire. One of the most under-rated bass players on the planet) Scott Johnston (the only bass player and lead singer I have ever seen pull off an entire 5 hour Dead show on 5 hits of blotter and never missed a word or fill) and Oleo Polyester (spacey guitar and all around great guy) and several hundred more. These guys are still going strong except with a slightly different lineup and are now called Forgotten Space. They have two drummers who quite honestly put me to shame. One of them, Jerry, won a Phil Lesh contest a couple years back and recorded and toured with Phil for a tour as the grand prize. He's that good. There are times I watch him play and just shake my head and think, "How does he make it look so easy and effortless." Some people are just born with it and he's one of them.

So, I rarely work on Dead songs. I've played most of them literally thousands of times......each one completely different every time. Sometimes I'll crank up the stereo and play along with Tangled up in Blue or some crazy live stuff off a Dicks Picks. But for the most part I jam along to stuff my wife will tolerate (don't get me wrong, the wife loves the Dead but she's heard me play it a thousand times) so its a little bit of everything.

Currently I've been playing around with early Cream tunes and really cut it loose on Let it Rain by Clapton. I'm also a huge fan of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. I've got most of Captain Beefheart down but Zappa is another matter alltogether. Jimmy Carl Black (He's the indian of the group) was just insane along with every other drummer who played with Frank. I don't think I'll ever get it in this lifetime.

I also play Widespread Panic. Sure Todd Nance isn't flashy but he can hold down a groove.

I've also been toying around with Family Groove Company's "The Charmer". Incredibly quick rolls. Also, Jam to Tye Dye Ed and ALO.

Finally, when it comes to drummers I worship at the alter of Gene Krupa. Sure Buddy Rich may have had faster hands but when it came to style, speed, flair and sound Gene wins hands down. I actually tried to buy Gene's old 3 piece Slingerland Kit at an auction a couple years back. I put in a bid of $7500. Sure I would have to whore out the wife to afford it but c'mon, Gene Krupa's actual kit! I got a nice note back telling me that wasn't even close to the opening bid. I think it went for over $50k.

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Speaking of jdarks

hearing his rendition of 5/26/77 's Deal made me really wanna learn it

the chords are quite simple, plus watching jerry play them gives you plenty of different ways to play them...

plus its a classic!

another song is Sahib Teri Bandi - by derek trucks

its quite a beautiful tune

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