Felix - A homeless guitar player I met on the street

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I met Felix yesterday while playing on the street. He was a very moving person. All he was into was guitars. He was a walking encyclopedia on them. He said he learned it as a kid and read a lot in prison. He touched my soul. Walter

You can find it under the singles section. I am going to use this one on my cd that will deal with mental disabilities.


http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/discography.php?aid=3118
 
Now that I am listening to you in Lo-Fi only, I have the opportunity to give you some feedback on the mix in this format.

The vocal in Lo-Fi takes on more sibilance, the s's and t's and b's ... get a little fuzzy ... so if you are using reverb it takes on more prominence at Lo-Fi.

But your mix is fine, the words are easily understandable the first listen ... and the guitar maintains a robustness. You got a good thing going and it transfers fairly well to Lo-Fi.

I think Lo-Fi is about like old 8-Track tape playing over a Sanyo reciever with 20 watt speakers ... I dunno ...

$226 in 1940 !!! LOL !!!

At Lo-Fi the guitar takes on a lot more bass, looses a lot, a lot of it's highs, those typical piiiyaaaannggggs you get on the upper notes and double stops are somewhat lost, but ... Lo-Fi provides for a more subtle accompaniement for your vocal.

The mids and the 'voicing' you do in the mids comes through more at Lo-Fi, you don't really notice that as much in the Hi-Fi. You are carrying on conversations all over that thang man !

I know the frusteration you feel as you finish one of the songs, these narrations, and we hear that at the end of this song as you smash into that last chord, ... don't do that Walter ... please, be aware of that, it is rarely appropriate ... IMHO.

You can leave us, mouth hanging slightly open in 'retrospection' as we compare his pain, with ours, as we compare our joys with those he might not have, and that is where your mastery lies, you aren't afraid of these 'dark dungeons', and you don't shame us for it, you 'allow' us to listen to these really scary stories, universal tearjerkers about the human condition.

A lot of us dress these kinds of fears up in fancy words, I know I do, you lay it out like a dirty rag blowin' on the street, so that last chord you stab, that jerks us out of the whole reverie, that reflection that you push us into, that last chord, could have been just that guitar ringing, and ringing ... and us thinking.

You are a channel, your songs are very spiritual, and the really good ones, that really get me listening, you almost always leave so effortlessly ... and I get to thinking ... and that's the key

Thanks for sharing your gifts.
 
studioviols: Thanks again. You are a very good writer. I will work on that ending. I spent a lot of time around Lightning Hopkins and his style really infuenced me. That ending is right out of his book. Felix is a gentle soul. I wanted to take him home feed him, and give him the back room in our garage. He was very respectful. It seems his whole world is guitars, and he liked mine and my playing, so we hit it off. I pray that someday soon, I will open my bakery. Felix will have a job as noontime entertainment. He can play all that complicated finger picking stuff. Maybe I will record him on the street and post a tune. I look forward to you new song. I will get some laughing on md. Walter
 
Well Walter, I went to take a listen to the first two singles on your Nowhere site in the singles section and I got "file not found" so I couldn't listen.


I will however give you props for your "Bowling for Columbine" approach to this by doing various things like taking improptu recordings of street people and giving your songs socially concious names like "Another Pregnant Disabled Teen"


As they say on Rodeo Drive "Zach De La Rocha ain't got nothin on you!"
 
Khompewtur: Thanks for aknowledging what I do. I just checked the site and it works fine. Try again if you like. Walter
 
Sorry Walter, i tried again but i got the same error. It launched Windows Media Player, the title of your song appeared in the playback window but then the song never launched and a critical error window popped up saying file not found.
 
I'm getting that too

I just updated to WMP 9..............
I wonder if thats why?
 
Very cool man. Very cool.

You're doing some good things. Keep it going!
 
SLuiCe: Thanks!


Khompewtur & Hevy: Sorry you guys are having trouble getting to the tunes. I am not putting the songs up for download anymore, and this seems to have messed things up. I tried a couple of suggestions about changing the mp3 encoding, but couldn't do it on my machine. The good news is I have posted Metal on Metal on my website. You can hear samples their. Thanks for trying so hard! Walter



http://www.spontobeat.com/
 
Enjoyed Felix. I've heard several of yours. You were made to sing the blues. I mean if anybody ever found the right style for themselves... it is you. You got the sound dead on and I really liked it.
 
kjam22: Thanks for checking out my songs. Walter

My curser and even typing is acting wierd on this forum today. It is like my cursor is out of control. I move it a little and the screen contiues to scroll. It is making me kind of seasick. Is anyone else having trouble? Walter
 
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