I thought the backing sounded familiar. Then I clicked on one of her other pages and saw that, yep, it was you that did the backing. Nice work, man, musically and otherwise.
Is there any other gear she needs?
Hi XLR: Thanks for listening. Playing with Gwen is a great experience. We really communicate with the music, much more than she can with conversation. SHe is a true autistic savant, much like the Rainman. Her things are old movies, computers, tv, music. She writes her songs in about 20 seconds. When we get enough for a cd, we go in my studio and I play the one man band behind her - drums and guitar. I experimented with overdubbing on her newer stuff. The wild thing is, she never will rehearse a song, sings it once, and doesn't want to hear it back. She figured out my computer recording set up in less than an hour. as I type, Patti Sterling is overdubbing her voice on Gwen's latest cd. Patti is a killer singer, who mentored under Sara Vaughn. For Gwen's next one, It think I am going to stick to drums and rhythm guitar. There are alot of well known musicians that I turned on to Gwen, that want to play. Evan Johns is also doing an album of her songs with him singing and his band.
I got her a job making sack lunches in the school cafeteria. It took a lot of work to get her ready for the job. The work is no sweat for her. It is the workplace that is a challenge. She is naturally driven to take over any computer in her range of vision, and to go through any cds as well. She would literally knock people off their seats to get to these things. She worked the last couple of months and did great. It is sad and joyus. Joyus, because she has a job, and sad, because in her areas of genius, she makes einstien seem slow. Our culture doesn't cater to the Gwen types.
What gear does she need? She could always use blank cds and cd labels. She likes to buy mp3's on amazon and burn/label them to cd. Take care. Walter
here we are at her first public gig- the Byrn Du Mansion here in Granville, Ohio. It was an art show with works from mentally disabled artists. She stole the show and sold about $200 worth of her cds.
