Texas Tornado Coming

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scary times in Texas

Yeah, know what ya mean about those Tornado warnings fer sure! Mic's clipped to your hat? Hey it sounds pretty decent Walter. And you make all this up as you go along? Words and everything? Pretty awesome cat! I seen where you had jammed with the likes of David Holt and Grissom? I've heard and met those guy's before, awesome player's! Have you ever jammed with the singer "Malford Milligan"? He's one of my favorite singers..and a very down to earth kinda guy too. What year is that "Fender Jazz" I see you with on your page? I used to have a Lake placid blue jazz..1960 something can't remember, wished i had it back:( . great stuff Walter Tore..

David
 
David: Hi and thanks for checking my tune and bio. Yes I do make everything up as I go along, record it, and press it. I never jammed with Malford, but hung in the same circles he did. Holt and Grissom use to jam with my band at the Black Cat Lounge in Austin, TX. They would often pull Eric Johnson and Charlie Sexton along too. They were some very special days indeed. I was the most simpleminded guitarist in Austin. After several gigs with them up front jabbing each other, laughing, and pointing at me, I confronted them. I thought those guys were just hanging out to make fun of me. I told them to hit it, or I'd kick all their asses, and Austin wouldn't have any guitar heroes left( excuse my bad manners, I'm originally fron NJ). They said they were laughing because they dug my minimal style. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I apologized and we became friends.
The jazzmaster came to me via a pawn shop, via John Reed, a very cool Texas guitarist. I was playing at the Hole In The Wall, and this guy came right up in my face and demanded to know where I got the guitar. I told him I bought it in a pawn shop in town the other day. He said he gave it to his manager for a cash loan, and the guy must have pawned it on him. I told him I would give it back to him. He said no, he liked the way I played it, but if I ever sell it, he wanted it back. He then told me he got it from SRV, who got it from Lonnie Mack. It is a late 50's - early 60's, been repainted yellow over the original red. It is a great guitar. I use it on all the band cuts in the album section, except the slide tune - Coming Home. We are releasing that album this week (you won't see it in any stores, only through me). The music buiz won't touch me. That's ok. We can do it all on our own nowadays. Take it easy. Do you live in Austin? Walter
 
Singing to the choir

Good piano sound, the bass sounds really 'seperated' and distant from the mids and top, I guess that's the mics seperating things.

Your voice is much smoother and more peaceful when singing with the piano. Even thought the subject matter is quite ... energetic. That's your wisdom again, you are 'resigned' and 'in submission' to the tornado, and maybe that is the 'tornado of life' ... yes ?

I'm hearing your 'grand metaphor', I like, I like ...

I wrote a song about Hurricaines ... as I had to evacuate from my house here in Jennings, Louisiana twice last hurricaine season. One of those times I had to take my mom to Shreveport for cancer surgery, and she's doing real well now, because the Hospital she was scheduled at got closed down, and they transferred their operations up to Shreveport, my hometown anyway, so we went up there.

We almost had to stay at the Louisiana State University in Shreveport gymnasium which the Red Cross had outfitted for refugees. But an old family friend got us a hotel room and I thank the Red Cross for that very much.

When I got back to where my house is, I saw folks in town working together to repair the damage, and a scene of a group of carpenters working on a carport really set me off. They all had their arms raised above their heads, and they were stretching to get at the underside of the carport awning to hammer and do this and that under there.

So this hook, this tagline popped into my head ... 'raising the house of Jesus' ... yes

And I thought of my yoga practice and how that had given me great soloce and internal strength during the evacuation, and dealing with mom's recent cancer diagnosis, and having to run away to shreveport from the hurricaine, and the lonliness of being on the road, and then in your home town ... not really knowing anybody anymore ...

In yoga, one of the 'exercises' or 'postures' is to raise the arms above the head and stretch and breath ... reach to the heavens so to speak, much like the congregation in a church raises their arms in the throes of the passion of praise.

So I wrote this song, 'Oh Hurricaine Blow'. I'm going to work it up, the piano you are playing just happens to be a churchy sounding kind of piano ya know, that 'standard' upright you find in the choir loft and in the practice room. And the subject matter, and your faith, they remind me of this song that I haven't done justice to.

' Matress pulled over and tied over my head !!! LOL !!! '

that was a very nice performance, the piano you played it very 'ominously' as if the storm is approaching ... I'm trying to capture that feeling for 'Oh Hurricaine Blow', and then the piano and instruments change to represent the storm having arrived, and then they eye of the storm ... then the back-edge ... and then both the repair of the community, the fabric of the community, and the repair of ... the self and the internal spirt. It's a trinity theme in a way.

I'll post this song one day, we'll all get into it. I really need a lot of voices for the chorus, it really needs a church choir on it.

And there is a lot of room in this for blues fiddle.

It's a keeper, as long as it doesn't blow away my hard drive !
 
Do you live in Austin?

No, Mississippi. Was thinking of moving there about twenty four yr's ago but married my home town sweet heart...and i'm still here. I can still here those old pick-up's in my old jazz...damn they were great. It's hanging on the wall in a popular music store in Jackson right now (been there a long time) should have a sign below it reading..."this guitar was traded in by an "idiot":( Keep'a rockin Walter!
 
Let's write a song for collab

There's a guitar on a wall in a pawn shop,
there's a sign hangin' underneath,
it says traded for liquor and cigarettes
by and idiot on the internet.

------ need a chorus now -----

and we all played that guitar,
in one song, or another.
We all cherished a melody or chord,
or just a bit or byte that sounded neat

and the idiot that traded that guitar away
is savin' the pennies from sweat
so he can get to that pawn shop and recover that dream
the memory's of ebony and frets

... please continue ... modify ... re-write or BONE IT UP DUDE !!!
 
BONE IT UP DUDE !!!

I got ya bone. I wished that muther was in a goddamn pawn shop, it'd be in my hands right now;)

sorry about that Walter:cool:
 
studioviols: Put some fiddle to it and post in on nowhereradio so I can hear it. Thanks for sharing your story. I look forward to hearing the song.

Freshears: Buy it back. There is no shame in that.

Walter
 
OK,

Well, as far as performance goes--the piano still needs work.

I do like the tune though. If you can keep that same voice and work with the guitar.
 
sloop: Are telling me I am not ready to replace Ray Charles yet (HA)! I love to tinker on the piano, I never would call myself a player. Take it easy. Walter
 
LOL

Walter Tore said:
sloop: Are telling me I am not ready to replace Ray Charles yet (HA)! I love to tinker on the piano, I never would call myself a player. Take it easy. Walter
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as always you're keeping it cool :D
 
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