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gj Michelob -> Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 5:38:41)

Awesome News, my wife likes my Music.

Out of nowhere, my wife called me last night –I am travelling- and asked me to send her the one piece I managed to record (I complained long enough here that an injury prevented my ambitious plan to record a CD last Christmas).

She later called and, for the first time, articulated the most touching praises about my little composition. It made me so happy. And wanted to share it with you guys. See, music means much more to me than the time I can dedicate to it would suggest, and inevitably my wife’s “cute” unimpressed reaction to it never settled well with me. I am getting old…

I uploaded that piece before, but in case it is here below (and by the way, I hesitated to mention this earlier, but it is dedicated to our Jim Opfer, whose youtube work infinitely inspired me to obsess over Flamenco, or Spanish guitar, or whatever this is that I like to play)

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duende -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 8:57:37)

sounds great to me.. My girlsfriend doesnt play anything (she knows D,A7 and Eminor on guitar)
And use to play recorder when she was a little kid but shes more musical than i am.
If she doesnt lika a falseta i toss it in the bin. And i hate that[:D] she can hear when im not good. small nuances and stuff that i dont think about.

bless her[:@]



Martin -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 9:20:00)

Mine was a bit disturbed that I didn't like Coldplay, I think it induces a vegetative state.



Ron.M -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 10:30:24)

I liked it gj!
Very contemplative and atmospheric and a very nice guitar sound.

My wife and daughter groan everytime I take the guitar out...
I'm mostly banished to practising in the garage while they watch the latest top of the pops on MTV etc...

cheers,

Ron



Doitsujin -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 11:16:24)

Realy good feeling. You are a romantic guy for sure. [;)]



Gummy -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 12:17:05)

Ron, you need to change that garage into a private guitar den with a bar and a lock on the door. My next house will have one...



Ricardo -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 18 2009 18:33:25)

My wife is the only person I can think of who once laughed out loud in front of everyone at a juerga once when i missed like one little note....[&:]...everyone looked at her like "what did he do???" [:D][:D]



michel -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 0:00:15)

Sounds beautiful gj [:)]
"colorfull" playing, very inspiring lines!
like a storyteller, great!



Arash -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 1:18:19)

Very nice sound and emotional playing Gj.

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My Wife, my daughter and my 2 sons always start to complain when i practice loud and ask me why i dont have a wife, a daughter and 2 sons [8D]



MarcChrys -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 1:28:42)

Aw, that's such a sweet story - beautiful music too. Always nice when your partner appreciates the music you make (they seem to love the fact that it's 'you' playing, admire your talent, and feel proud they're with someone who has musical passion in their soul).

I have written lots of songs (songs with words, that is) for my wife and though she loves me to sing them for her, I am unfortunately rather shy about playing them. With the guitar it's different - I'm more relaxed. Last night she said 'play that funny thing, you know that funny fast thing you do, it sounds really good' - by this, she means tremolo :) And this morning she declared 'you're really good, you know, you could be one of the best" !!!! I mumbled something to the effect of 'Hmm, maybe if I'd been born in Andalucia and started playing when I was 5' :) Isn't there an old saying to the effect that 'in the eyes of his dog, every man is a god' - NOT that I'm comparing my wife to a dog !:)



Ron.M -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 6:53:12)

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you need to change that garage into a private guitar den with a bar and a lock on the door. My next house will have one...


Wow!
That would be a great idea...and you could really go to town on it.

Could you imagine contacting an Andalucian building contractor and purchasing some of that old wooden panelling and tables and chairs etc that had been stripped out of an old Spanish bar that is being refurbed (and made into a Starbucks[:D]), and kitting it out with the dim lighting and all the authentic bottles and stuff, so it was just like you'd stepped into a different world?

Man that would be fantastic!

A proper Flamenco chill-out bolt hole! [:D]

Jim Opfer is an architect, I bet he could arrange all that stuff easily!

cheers,

Ron



Jim Opfer -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 8:24:43)

gj,

Good to read your news.
Regardless of what we play, it's always uplifting when someone close is moved to comment. I'm happy for you.

Cheers



Jim Opfer -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 8:29:28)

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Jim Opfer is an architect, I bet he could arrange all that stuff easily!


Ach...! the Architect stuff is easy.
Wallpaper and fluffy cushions is where the fights start.[;)]



Mark2 -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 9:45:28)

Very nice gj. Change the tuning and it's a nice rondena I think. My wife used to like my playing but after 25 years, I'm routinely sent downstairs. Which is fine because I've got a nice practice area and can play there as late as I want.



pacowannab -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 11:17:34)

Good news indeed, the indifference of a wife to one's own music can be devastating.

I really enjoyed your composition. Did you use your beloved "pseudo-brazilian-yet-striking-and-therefore-worth-the-price-paid" Conde negra? If so, what did you use to record it? (With great trepidation I suggest the acquisiton of a set of Ron's "gato negra" trebles made from the intestines of freshly "road-kill[ed]" cats for future recordings. They are purrr-fect for such projects.)

I respect that you prefer to play your own music (as does the source of your inspiration, Jim Opfer) in opposition to what my user name somewhat jokingly suggests. In short, I envy your creativity.



at_leo_87 -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 11:58:17)

wow!
i'm impressed by both, your composition AND how well you play it.
so when can we expect your debut cd? have you written all the songs you want to record?



gj Michelob -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 17:53:40)

Thank you, Everyone, for the kind words about my composition and for sharing your own on the sweetly cynic relation we have with wives and guitars.

I did record this piece with my beloved "pseudo-brazilian-yet-striking-and-therefore-worth-the-price-paid" Conde negra (well worded, pacowannabe –and thank you for your flattering lines).
At_Leo, your question is encouraging. Yes, I have 7 serenades and am now planning a break to record them. Thank you Ron, Arash and Doitsujin (I think you all felt the hard-to-die Italian in me betraying the depth of an inevitably romantic upbringing).
Michel, it is interesting you perceived my music as that of a “storyteller”. All I compose starts out as a song, with lyrics and a story to tell. But then just like MarkChris, I get shy about the singing, and let the guitar sing its stories.

Thank you, really.
gj



cathulu -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 20:40:22)

Nice work GJ, very lyrical... nice recording!



Black Sheep -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 22:44:43)

Michelob... Listening to it, I felt like I was intruding into something quite private and special.



Florian -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 23:23:36)

Thats great amigo [;)]


nothing beats having those close to you like what you do...i would have been more surrprised if she didnt



Florian -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 19 2009 23:26:42)

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My Wife, my daughter and my 2 sons always start to complain when i practice loud and ask me why i dont have a wife, a daughter and 2 sons



[:D][:D][:D]

and I thought you were the Persian Stalion...Miaooow [:D]



gj Michelob -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 20 2009 7:21:40)

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Michelob... Listening to it, I felt like I was intruding into something quite private and special.


Thank you Florian and Cathulu.
That was a line to remember, Blacksheep. At the risk of being forever marked and mocked as the incurably romantic, I will share the lyrics which I had written for that serenade. It speaks to my daughter Giulietta, whom I miss when business takes me far from her, back to New York for 2 weeks every month, to further my professional ambitions.

It is the last thing I play before I call it a night. Giulietta’s Italian-Chinese traits make her quite an exotic little beauty, a bit middle-eastern or andalucian looking. Of course, as many fathers, all I do I do for her… but it is hard for her to understand, yet.

Serenade n. 3

When you look up the sky/
From wherever you are/
Can you see the moon smile/
And know that however far/ I maybe/
I can see the same moon reflected in your eyes/

In your eyes/Sweet gambling dice
I see my fall and rise/ As I try to be someone in your eyes/

This Faraway night/
Restless with ambitions and dreams/
Conjures a candle-light like/ wavering image of me/
Confused gleams/ Like distant fireworks coloring your eyes/

In your eyes/ Shifting sea-tides/
My fortune comes and goes blind/
As I try to be someone in your eyes/

Good night my love/
Good night my love under a blanket of white clouds/
They hide the moon’s light/ like doubts/
And then she breaks free to roll about in her open skies/
As dark as the magic in your eyes/



Florian -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 20 2009 10:29:04)

Aww you are such a romantic [:)]

You are an absolutly genuine and beautiful person amigo..i am really glad to have meet you..

ok i am gonna go kick some soccer balls or punch some bags or something to restore some of my testostrone level [&o] its at an allarming low atm

I am not gay [8|]



gj Michelob -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 20 2009 12:04:16)

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ok i am gonna go kick some soccer balls or punch some bags or something to restore some of my testostrone level its at an allarming low atm

I am not gay


To put it with Seinfeld "not that there is anything wrong with it"....
but after this overdose of romance, disclaimers are in order LOL !!! [:D][:D][:D]

Neither am I... just very much Italian, i suppose.



HolyEvil -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 20 2009 16:51:42)

extremely beautiful music... very very muchly so.

thank you for sharing...



Francisco -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 21 2009 7:23:21)

beautiful........



gj Michelob -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 21 2009 8:40:05)

quote:

extremely beautiful music... very very muchly so.
thank you for sharing...


HolyEvil and Francisco, thank you for taking the time to post your comment to my music. I do not take for granted any of the encouraging and flattering words i unexpectedly received from all of you guys, as for those from my wife (which prompted this thread).

Thank you so very much.

[ps... i could not help noticing i am yet to recive any reply to any of my posts from the few (and therefore precious) ladies who honor us with their presence on this Forum. 'wonder why...(?) or may be i shouldn't ask...][8|]



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gj Michelob -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 23 2009 13:50:39)

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When I practise dancing, I get calls of "Can't you turn that noise down a bit!".


Thank you, Val. I am so pleased to receive the first direct reply by a flamencA.

I hear you on making noise. It seems inevitable though, that any activity involving any degree of “loudness” be met by the impatient response of those who aren’t involved.



DonS -> RE: Awesome News, my wife likes my Music. (Feb. 25 2009 20:52:11)

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

My wife is the only person I can think of who once laughed out loud in front of everyone at a juerga once when i missed like one little note....[&:]...everyone looked at her like "what did he do???" [:D][:D]


Thats some FUNNY $hit Ricardo hahaha...at least your wife still goes to your gigs...mine gave up a few years ago and shuts my room door when I'm practicing..oh well. [:D]

GJ, I like it man...you romantic guy yooo! [;)]



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