Ramble On » Music http://www.dcooley.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:14:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2011 And My Guitar http://www.dcooley.com/2011-and-my-guitar/ http://www.dcooley.com/2011-and-my-guitar/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:07:39 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=522

Last year I posted that I was going to start playing the guitar. I never thought I would play so much, have so much fun, and get paid for it.

It was an awesome year for me and I want to thank my brother Mike Withrow. We started playing as a duo under the name Withrow Cooley in June and had a blast all year long. Looking forward to a full year in 2012 of playing and having fun!

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For probably the 5th time in the last 30 years I have decided to start playing the guitar again. Over the years I have played on and off without much passion. I even had the chance to play with some really good musicians when I was in Madison, Mississippi but I did not take advantage of that time.

Not sure what the change is. I now have a very large room that doubles as my office and TV room. The guitars are all located in this room and I find myself picking up one of them each day and playing at least a little.

My learning curve is strange. Seems things I tried to learn years ago now fall into focus and I feel like I am making some leaps in playing ability.

Of course it helps to have several members of my family also playing a lot and inspiring me. Thanks everyone!

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Rumors are that the Van Halen tour is being canceled due to Eddie Van Halen having issues. What a shame, I really thought this tour might help Eddie, especially with his son Wolfgang playing bass. I know when I saw them back in the late eighties it was Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth who had the issues, but back then Eddie was still spot on.

Hopefully Eddie can get the help he needs. It always makes you wonder “what if”.

What if Eddie could pull himself out of his problems and finish his career in the way Eric Clapton has?

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Like I needed something else to work on, we launched another blog last week. CybersDVDs.com is now up and running with news, reviews and ramblings about anything and everything on DVD.

CybersMusic has been very fun and successful for us (my brother and I) and we hope to do the same thing with CybersDVDs, so if your interested in DVD’s, stop by and check us out.

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Today, August 16th 2006 marks the 29th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death.

As time has passed the connection to this great artist has probably been diminished among the younger musicians out there. However, there is no doubt that Elvis helped usher in a new era of music that was and is Rock and Roll.

If you never had the oppurtunity to see Elvis live or on TV, check out the videos of his 1968 comeback special, it is one of his best.

God Bless ya Elvis, and thanks for all you did.

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Age is something that just keeps jumping up and biting me.

I remember the first day that MTV was on the air. Holy smoke. And that was 25 years ago !

It certainly isn’t the same as it was back then. MTV revolutionized music videos back then, and now they are struggling to survive. Just like everything else, the kids now have instant access to all their tunes and videos and do not have to sit around waiting for the premiere on MTV.

I guess I just add this to my repertoire.

….when I was a kid, we had to schedule our TV time to catch the new release of music videos…..

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I know, you probably remember it like this…

Mama’s got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
credit : The Who – 1976

Well, this is the new version

Daddy wants a squeeze box
He can listen anywhere
While sitting on the deck
Or lounging in his chair

This has to be the coolest big boy toy I have seen lately. The Squeezebox is an Internet appliance from Slim Devices that allows you to listen to streaming Internet radio or to your personal music collection from your computer. And if you really want, you can get a Terabyte, yeap, a Terabyte of space to put all those tunes on. And they partnered with Pandora, my personal favorite Internet listening system. Now how cool is that?

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Flying V UkuleleI hope all the Fathers out there had as much fun as I did on Fathers Day.

My 2 teenagers pitched in a bought me a Mahalo White Flying V Ukulele. I had been looking at the Ukulele as a potential new instrument since seeing the Jake Shimabukuro video of him playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps. If you have not seen it, check it out.

The kids gave me the Uke on Saturday so I could have fun all weekend, and that is exactly what I did.

What really impressed me was how much stuff is on the web for the Ukulele, you can get all the chord diagrams and tabs just like for the guitar, but, there are a lot of interactive lesson sites that play the song and show the chord diagram as the song plays. I wll post some of these links later.

Thanks girls !!

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Yeah I know, I have been missing for a month. Just got busy with all kinds of little projects and sleeping. I know I am getting older, I like a good nap and sometimes I can just crash out before 8pm and sleep all the way through the night. Of course the medicine I take for my heart keeps my blood pressure so low I am always just one eyelid away from being sound asleep.

Thought I would share some of my favorite music with everyone using Pandora.

Favorite Music – Pandora

Stop by and check it out, see how weird this old rednecks taste in tunes really is.

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Well I made it through Christmas. My Dad came from Florida and spent a couple days with us on his way to Texas. Always good to have him with us. I always realize how much like him I truly am. Like looking in a mirror.

I am working 2 days this week and then I will be off until next Tues. I would like to think I will relax and work on some of my pet projects, but, I am sure the “Honey Do’s” will capture a lot of my time.

Just a few of my computer projects I have going.

I am still working on CybersMusic with my brother Mike.

Started another site with a friend called Blog Snare

Working on my CAADD @ CyberCoded.net Blog

Trying to update my old CyberCoded.com website, and contemplating moving some of the code to PHP from ASP, which should be fun for me.

I really need to put a new hard drive in my home PC.

Yep, I got enough to keep me busy for a few days, along with picking up leaves, hanging pictures, changing oil, yadda yadda yadda…..

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All of my life I have had some involvement with music. As the youngest child I was taught to play the guitar by my brother so I could “sit in” with him and my sister. My sister is one of the best piano players I know. She has a God given talent, it justs flows from her fingers as naturally as anything I have ever seen.

For several years in the mid 80′s my brother and I were both working in the music industry. Him at WEA and myself working for a national music store retail chain. We had some interaction and enjoyed any time we got together.

Now we have finally embarked on a project together. We both still love music, and we are both involved in computers and the internet. So the obvious choice was to work on a website together.

And here it is…..CybersMusic , so stop by and say hi.

You can also visit his site at MikieSoft.com

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Would you like to be totally blown away by a unique musician ?

Visit this site and check out the free video and I guarantee Bill Clements will amaze you with his one handed virtusoity of the bass guitar.

The Music Group of Greater Kalamazoo: Bill Clements

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