"guitar-project" & Concert!

Slowly, way to slowly the guitar DIY projects are reaching "the final countdown". After all problems with it´s electronic circuit the whole guitar was once again dismantled. This time to get a nice spraypaint. 

What colour should I use? The answer to this question was solve in an easy way by just opening the colour cabinet door where a couple of spray cannisters was stored.

White - NO, Red metallic - hmm, No. How about painting the guitar in BRG? Brittish Racing Green, a nice Jaguar colour that because of the three spraycans gave the answer to me dilemma. Two slightly different BRG cans was tested and  finally I started off, by using the lighter colour to start with, the backside and the outer facia of the guitar will then be painted with the darker colour.

Hopefully this will make me  satisfied with the guitar. As soon as this green-ish paintjob is dry the guitarbody  will be painted  with a couple of coats with Clearpaint in hope to make it shine.

With a bit och luck and some hard work I will have the possibility to show the guitar in it´s finished stage with in a couple of days.

"SARAH MACDOUGALL CONCERT"

Finally S MD arrived to Sweden and on the 14th of january she and her f reinds will be performing in Malmö. dont miss this rare opportunity to listen to a truly great Swedish / Canadian artist. 

the 17th of january you can see - hear her perform in Gothenburg

I think that We, all of her fans are waiting for yet another album from her. Her albums "across the atlantic" and "the greatest one alive" was both truly exellent. 

Natuarly there was nothing that could stop me. so as soon as the last clearcoat of paiant was dry, all the parts of the guitar came together. Still remaining is to solder all cables and contacts, but at this moment I have to admit that I do like this "dare-Burns Vibraslim Clone" that i was able to build. I think it looks great!

drying in the kitchen!!

 At last all parts set up, the guitar almost ready for action

 not to bad?

In the cllection of guitar.

Burns Bison-62, Burns Marquee, dare-Burns Bison Clone,

Pasadena 12-string, dare-Burns Vibraslim-5 clone.

more born to be alive

 "pbp-band"

There is almost a magic feeling when you start a project like forming a band. In my case not a new band, thou Im trying to give new life into an old project. A project that always starts with an almost insane dream. A dream of once again entering a stage and entertaining the crowd.

A way to bring life into your bag full of songs that has been written-composed.

A one man band may be a hit in the street corner, but thats not apart of my dream. So I started my search for wannabee members in this project band for oldtimers.

And as you all could read in my last blog I found "mrs amimna" a talented woman with a grat voice. During the time of me last blog contact was establish´d with a man who actually could play the drums. 

So I was invited to a rehersal in Haninge south of Stockholm and there I met with this wonder man. 

The rehersal proofed that he is the right man for my project band. So instead of beeing just a guitarplayer with a load full of music and a female singer the "pbp-band" project was suddenly a building project that showed some kinde of future. "Builder Bob" showed in every way that he 

wanted to be a part of the band.

A three man band was on its way, when I discovered that the bands former lead vocalist "Mrs Paddington" showed some kind of interesst. Checking the YouTube-Facebook I found out that she had made a link to our earlier songs. 

Could it be that she was interessting in once again be a part of the band? As far as i knew she was fully occupied living on a small Swedish island. Still its almost 20 years that have passed since the band made its last performance.

A young talented bassplayer is known by me, and its about time for me to ask him if he might be interessted in this project. With a bit of luck the band will be at least a 5 man band.

So if things seams to work out my way with this mad bandproject. A female singer who also know how to play keyboard would be great. Then the chanses of bringing life in "pbp-band" could be a reality.

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This morning gave me the opportunity to listen to web-radio. Followed a link on Facebook and there, suddenly i was listening to CKUA radio network i Canada. Clearly to me a very different radiostation and maybe one responsible for Sarah Macdougalls sucess all over the world. Latest news tells that She now is on Top-5 list in Roots-Country in Canada with her album "the greatest one alive".  Sometimes You loose-sometimes you win. 

Shes the best import from Sweden since ABBA says many musiccritics who heard her album. A dear freind of mine fell desperatly in love with her music and ordered both her albums. He keep them in his Audi TT and plays them round the clock where ever he is...

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Tomorrow "dare-studios" once again move´s to Orust meaning that the car will be filled with instruments. My old Galson-Fender Jazzbass is still going to be sold, and as far as i can see it I will get pay´d for it in a way that makes it possible to buy the Burns Shadow bass. I would have prefered a Bison bass, but they are at the moment sold out.

This great Burns Shadows Bass will fit perfectly in me collection of Burns Guitars.

           

"across the atlantic"

Rewritten /

As lots of other guitarplayers I started learning how to play the guitar with a dream in mind. A dream of the day when I was listening to the approvals from an audience after playing me tunes for them on stage. A dream that did include to become a pro-musician.

I been on stage listening to the cheers of the audience but was never near the stage where I could actually live on making music. Something that a hundred years ago led me in to become a guitar teacher at evening classes. Today I can with ease tell that Im proud to have taught more then a hundred people to enjoy their musicskills in playing the guitar.

Some of my pupils gave me a good laugh during that time. As the married couple at app 35-40 whom I asked about their homepractice. The woman replied that He takes a chair and plays the homelessons while I do the dishes! Natuarly I told Him to do the dishes instead.

A group of (think it was 10) housewifes became their own group and wondered if I could teach em, and how much will they learn?

My answer was that if they did their best they could learn a couple of tunes and maybe they could learn how to play a 2-guitar version of Stanley Meyers - Cavatina! To be frank they didnt belive me at that moment.

In the pollowing spring their guitar skills was real good and maybe with the help of some beer, whine or something similar they brought their guitars on a trip to well known street Ströget in Copenhagen. As many other street musicians they performed in the street that sunny saturday with possibly 10 different tunes. In the evening they realised that they made a profit of more then 200,oo£!

Going back to the title of this blogg, it wasnt about those ladies that I wanted to write. Rather about the record shown below and the artist behind it.

A new series of classes was about to start. There I was in front of a group of wannabee guitar players, main part of em was adults. Only a few was teenagers when a sharp lookin man arrived with his the app 11-12 year old shye daughter. She was to be one of my pupils.

Could I teach Her to play the guitar? Before class even started the man dissapered and His daughter picked up a really shitty old plywood guitar from a gigbag. They guitar as such worth anything up to a maximum of 10,oo£.

It was really project impossible to teach her anything with such a shitty guitar so She had to loan another one during that class. Class was over and by then I knew that Her father was a golf-pro. He arrived back and at this moment nothing could stop Me from telling Him a few facts in a very harse manner. A bit mad I tild Him that He could afford to buy Her daughter a proper guitar if He wanted Her to learn how to play.

At the next lesson a week later Sarah arrived and seamed very happy. From a case she picked up a brand new 200,oo£ plus Yamaha and looked very proud.

A couple of years later my role as Her guitar teacher was changed. Now I was rather Her musicmentor and we enjoy´d playing together as often as we could. A young girl and a much older man, both of em trying to inpove their music skills. I told Her to start writing Her own music and She did. Soon we was palying Her songs where I could help Her telling what I thought about Her music.

Unfortinutly We did lost contact and the next time we met. She seam not to feel to well whe She asked me to drive Her to a palce in Malmoe (Skåne - flat state of Sweden) during the trip She told me a little about Her life, that She mowed to Canada and that She had made Her first album. An album that She gave me. Unfortinutly I lost that record somewhere but a couple of the songs is somewhere in my computer. One of the Im prety sure She wrote with me in mind.

Often Ive been wondering what happened to Her, the suddenly today I was sent a link from a freind. I found Her, there She was at least on the net, and the fact that She is at Her Second World Tour with Her band, playing Her music!

A quick search at You Tube and there She was with many different songs, You can find a link below.

Im so satisfied and proud that everything went well for Her and that Her fame already seam to be written in stars. She deserve thats for sure.

So take a look at the link and meet Sarah MacDougall, check out the other YouTube links and enjoy. Listen to Her lyrics more then once, they always have something to tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88hc4wC9ddU

natuarly You can find all her YouTube clips if you just write Her name in the search.