ALL THINGS BIG AND SMALL 2.0

The Jersey Devil of the Pine Barrens: Survivor of the Jurassic age or result of an unholy union with the Devil? Guitar players learning how to flat-pick at Albert Hall, near Waretown Aerial view of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey A concert in Albert Hall A big fat cat belonging to the owner of the General Store in Chatsworth A house in Chatsworth The General Store in Chatsworth A music store in Mount Holly that sells folk music instruments Think New Jersey, and most outsiders think of ugly oil refineries, the derelict bridges and pot-holed roads that connect it to New York, and crime-ridden towns like Trenton and Camden, all in all a not too flattering image of the State that calls itself "The Garden State". Some parts of New Jersey such as the sea-side resort town of Cape May in the South,the rolling hills of Vernon near the border with New York, and towns like Lambertville and Frenchtown along the Delaware river bordering Pennsylvania still retain their charms; but by ...

1972 Gibson Es-175D, Acoustic Image Clarus 2R with Raezers-Edge Stealth 12, Acoustic Image Coda Plus, and in the background ZT Lunchbox Amp with extension cab The previous post [below] which has a virtual MP3 player plays some sound files of my guitar playing. This post is the content since I didn't know how to combine the MP3 player's HTML coding with Blogger's WYSIWYG editing. The accompaniment to my amateurish playing was by Band-In-Box software:a fantastic sotware just listen to the acoustic bass, the drums and that great piano playing. However the files further down the list from song 5 or so downwards were recorded with earlier versions of Band-In-A-Box, and in these the accompaniment is MIDI unlike the real sampled sounds of the later songs. All guitar players yearn for that awesome tone, which for electric guitars is the result of the combination of guitar, amplifier and the player's touch. And yet, the final tone that comes out of the speaker is the result o...