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Pink Floyd Animals

I guess I must be on classic rock kick again. Been listening to Pink Floyd Animals and Rush 2112 for the last week or so. My favorite songs off those albums are Dogs and Passage to Bangkok respectively. When I was listening to the intro song "Pigs on a Wing I" yesterday afternoon, I was playing along on my acoustic and couldn't' quite get a couple of the chords right. Again my lack of skill and ear training just wouldn't let me "hear it" so I googled for some TAB. I ran across some TAB, he same on several sites that was clearly wrong: G7 and D7 my ass. Then I ran across this tab on the web site http://www.songsterr.com and it was as far as I can tell completely accurate. I checked out several other songs, Led Zepplin, AeroSmith, etc. Wow the accuracy is amazing. Some of the synth sounds were corny, but the chords and rhythms completely accurate, even I can tell. I'm almost considering signing up for this site.

Animals is a very interesting album ( and not just for the dope smokers ). I'm sure there are many interpretations of the Lyrics, here's one, but they are interesting to ponder. I don't know why, but I am often drawn to such dark and cynical lyrics. I find them entertaining, amusing and...accurate?

On The Hunt

YouTube video of guitar player doing a fair job of Lynyrd Skynrd's "On The Hunt.

Starting A Music Blog

What I'm Listening To

I'm starting a music blog. Don't know if it will go anywhere. If I will keep it up. Anyway....

Lately I've been listening to Papa Roach's latest album Metamorphosis and Rush Signals. Here's a link to the lyrics for the latter.

Garage Band?

Now that I'm back in town, not on the road for work anymore, I'm thinking about starting a garage band. I recently bought a drum kit for my son so it will be easy to attract other musicians, drummers in particular, to show up for jam sessions.

(Hint - click a month/year, then click a date.)