Next time you pick up your Guild, what will you play?

[dayuhan]

We all have steel string acoustics, curious about what different people play...

For me, right now:

I'm messing a lot with Leo Kottke's Pamela Brown, slide-free of course. Just a song I always liked. I don't play like Leo (duh), but I sure do sing like him... "Goose farts on a muggy day", I think it was.

Tom Waits, Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You, just a nice simple story song with all kinds of space to make interesting.

Also Tom Waits, Cold Cold Ground, taking that as nothing but simple chords and seeing what I can do with the right hand. Gotta love the song.

Been just beginning to play with a Dave Matthews song, Two Step. Always liked it, but just popped on the Live at Luther College version and thought "damn, I wanna play that". It's gonna take a while, but worth it.


Like I said, curious to hear what others are doing with these guitars we talk so much about...

 

[cwcowell]

If I were totally, embarrassingly, honest I'd reveal that I'll play "Edelweiss" from Sound of Music to my 2-year old, since it's pretty much his favorite song.

But I don't have to be that honest, so I'll say John Prine's "Angel from Montgomery" instead.

 

[chicagowineguy]

Wilco--Jesus Etc
Van Morrison--Moondance
Me--If I Fall For You
Dylan--You're A Big Girl Now
Stones--Moonlight Mile (open D) capo at fifth

 

[Guildmark]

I'm messing a lot with Leo Kottke's Pamela Brown, slide-free of course. Just a song I always liked. I don't play like Leo (duh), but I sure do sing like him... "Goose farts on a muggy day", I think it was.

Ah! Someone else who likes Pamela Brown! I've been doing that one since the 70's. My girlfriend would leave the room whenever I played it. I thought it was 'cause of my own particular geese, but she just hated the song for some reason. If you click the link on my signature, then the Music link in the left column, scroll down a little bit and you can find what it was that repulsed her so.

Also, there is a thread here that's been going on a long time, answering sort of the same question.
:wink:

 

[marcellis]

I'm composing another new Bossa. I've been fooling around with the chord progression.
I think I've found the right one. Now I need to rehearse it & then arrange it with my
synths.

 

[dayuhan]

Ah! Someone else who likes Pamela Brown! I've been doing that one since the 70's. My girlfriend would leave the room whenever I played it. I thought it was 'cause of my own particular geese, but she just hated the song for some reason. If you click the link on my signature, then the Music link in the left column, scroll down a little bit and you can find what it was that repulsed her so.

Also, there is a thread here that's been going on a long time, answering sort of the same question.
:wink:

Kinda had a feeling that subject had come up before, but wasn't up to doing the thread archaeology. Always worth a rehash I guess.

Pamela Brown isn't the kind of song girlfriends like, I guess for kind of obvious reasons. Probably one reason I'm playing it now. I have personal reasons for liking it, aside from it being just a nice song... there's a Pamela Brown figure in my dim distant past, and plenty of good times and plenty of roaming around came of it. And between one thing and another I ended up driving kids to school in a pickup truck

 

[Wigginsplayer]

I will start off with "Father and Son" - Cat Stevens, followed by Oh! Suzanna, the James Taylor Version; followed by Over the Rainbow, the Clapton version. From there it is anyone's guess!

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

I have a bunch of John Denver songs that I still don't know.
I like to pick at a few of them each week plus play the ones that I have learned.
If I don't, I'll forget what I have already learned.
I hate this getting old stuff!!!

 

[drowlins]

Latley I've been learning songs off of Chris Hillmans' CD "The other side". "It doesn't matter", and "True he's gone".
To please my wife I'll play "Pancho and Lefty" and "Fox on the run".

 

[Metalman]

On my 10-string F-212, it will be the opening line from "Dance With Me", by Orleans.

Heck, may as well finish the song . . .

 

[bighouse]

At the top of my playlist at the moment:

Treetop Flyer - Stephen Stills
One Good Reason - Lucy Kaplansky
Wayfaring Stranger - trad.
Highway Song - Aztec Two-Step

so many songs, so little time ...


Bill

 

[FNG]

That's the Way by Zep in Open G.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUq9RinLB0

 

[Jahn]

no matter what, the first song i play on a guitar is always "the lion sleeps tonight" since my kid won't let me off the hook until i play it. after that, i'm free to noodle. these days i'm trying to work out the right pacing for a tune i'm putting together, and leaning towards using the F312 for it for some 12string jangle.

 

[zzrider]

no matter what, the first song i play on a guitar is always "the lion sleeps tonight" since my kid won't let me off the hook until i play it...

Funny - my kids always request "Secret Agent Man" and REM's "Driver 8" - thats fine cause I like those tunes too.

after that I'm off the hook - currently the old Sinatra hit - "Learnin' the Blues" and T. Waits "Shiver Me Timbers" and a couple of old stanley Bros. tunes off "The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet's greatest hits" am I square or what!

 

[Janpeter]

High, players of the Guilds;

I play my GF 50 nearly every day - and mostly playing and practising ballads: well, to answer the question:

Holly Williams: Sometimes
Joan Baez: Sir Gallahad
Pete Seeger: Hobo's Lullaby

and many others.

For lead and melody I am playing:

Jacques Stotzem: Sur Vesdre (superb!) and
various Variations of the baroque "Greenslieves" -

approving that the GF 50 modell is a very versatile one!!!

Jan-Peter

 

[Guildmark]

On my 10-string F-212, it will be the opening line from "Dance With Me", by Orleans.

Heck, may as well finish the song . . .

About 30 years ago I yoosta could play the ending. These days I'm happy to be able to open a pickle jar.
Come to Arlington and maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle.

 

[droach274]

That's the Way by Zep in Open G.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUq9RinLB0

Great version of a great song. I love playing "Bron-Yr-Ar" because it is just a beautiful piece of music, and also "Friends" because its in the same tuning.

I play all sorts of different music (mostly not very well, I might add) but if in doubt I always end up playing something by Neil Young - Out on the Weekend, Ambulance Blues, Cowgirl in the Sand (acoustic ver) etc. I never get tired of that stuff.

 

[jckgrms]

but if in doubt I always end up playing something by Neil Young - Out on the Weekend, Ambulance Blues, Cowgirl in the Sand (acoustic ver) etc. I never get tired of that stuff.

Wow - Out on The Weekend I'd Forgtten about that one. Boy I used to relate to that..

I'm trying to get that fingerpick on Lucinda Williams' song Jackson. The beginning, played by Steve Earle I believe, is hard for me. I swear my D40 sounds just like that. Or, would sound like that if Steve were to play it.

Jim

 

[danerectal]

a couple of old stanley Bros. tunes off "The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet's greatest hits" am I square or what!

Every year in my home town, there is a local production of Hee-Haw in which a good portion of my relatives participate. This occurs at none other than the "Horsefest."

As far as this thread goes, the next time I touch a Guild I'll be playing something by Greg Sage and the Wipers or something of my own...

 

[steverok]

I will play the same song I've been playing for three straight weeks now. "Oh, I don't know, I just like the sound of it".