Charlie Parker (the bird) sly mongoose...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9pBI_3kSKc

And Django with Stephan...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOt_v67 … 7QpKFCJ-zv

If only...

I never heard of April Wine before... but I've heard the saying so many times, If You See Kay! never knew what it was about. Thank you.

I hardly slept last night reminiscing the old days... but I'm happy about it.

Eric Johnson I saw with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai (G3), brilliance, gold brilliance!

I first saw JS on his surfing... tour, with Stu Hamm. The drummer was fantastic too.

Joe went to give away one of his black strat-killers (Ibanez) guitars, but the security was so intense here back then, if you got up out of your chair, you were leaving or going to the rest room. And they were throwing people out for arguing with them. That was Queensland politics back then, a police state (Joe Bijelky Peterson, I don't care how he spelt his name, glad he's dead). My girlfriend and I were in the third row, If I jumped up to get the guitar, I would have missed the rest of the concert and probably got beaten up and the guitar smashed as well. Those were the days. Nobody took the guitar, Joe was stunned!

Wish I could play and understand music like those guys. Thank you for the memories and new music. I only just discovered Rust and Journmey in the last couple of years, lol. I must have been stoned or something.

The Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Wine_discography

1982 Power Play Album - Music Video - If You See Kay
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjmxUSsL-qk
(if you have time, the comments are worth a quick glance as well)

priceless

Jim plays piano

That vid of Triumph was amazing, 1984 was a great year for Rock music, imo.

One of the songs, and vocalist reminded me of Chickenfoot. :-)  (the way they sound...)

thanks. :-)

I've never attempted learning "Sister Golden Hair". That band is amazing!!!

You have my utmost respect for playing it!

Yeah, bragbook is a farce!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=032W5-qn5wk

WATCH THE WHOLE THING when you have time!!! Then look up specific songs on YouTube.

I wrote a song (finger picking), and I was approached to make a record. The dude wanted just me...not the whole band. It felt sleazy. That was the closest I ever got to a recording contract, and I turned it down. I don't regret it.

Now, I play for myself, my wife, and friends.

My favorite thing is to be asked to play the guitar in a crowd. So, I pick up the guitar and "attempt" to play "Pop Goes the Weasel"...but I mess it up on purpose.

So, I "try" again...and mess it up on purpose again...to see the frowns on people's faces.

Hahaha!

Then, I play some classical guitar piece, and I watch their faces turn from frowns to smiles.

I just like having fun now...life is too short.

There's a special kind of bliss I experience when engaged in playing music, and singing (and whistling too).
In a world of Tech I have that escape.

Currently I'm teaching myself some finger picking, Dust in the Wind, by Kansas... and Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It excites my brain. ;-)

When it comes to playback quallity, I rip my cd's to flac and really don't have change any eq settings. But I do have mp3's for in the car... it's so noisy it dosen't really matter, it seems my memory of the tunes fills in the gaps. Getting a constant volume level across all tracks and albums is the hardest part I feel.

I hope you had a good vacation, a break from work is a necessity these days more and more for our mental health.

Thank you for your replies, you put a smile on my face and lighten my moods this time of a morning (here in Australia).

(Off-topic, Off-topic)
My biggest concern now-a-days is securing my system from being hacked, facebook I think...(and maybe forums like this one LQ) I'm saving that for another post here... to help others and maybe get some advice as well, but it seems that when I ask, something is knocking on the doors... testing me. Like all my fans shut off yesterday just after I refused a so called friend of a friend a senseless conversation, that I think was meant to enable them/it to distract me while they mined my account and system. My cpu overheated and auto shutdown was initiated, thankfully that was immediate, but when I rebooted the bios reported overheating... and all the fansettings were OFF!. I'm not sure how to ask or how to compose the statement/question appropriately. anyhow, I'll get to that soon.

aluma, what was/is the name of your pop group? I have some demos I put up on Jamendo.

These recording were mostly done to test equipment, and are not even demo quality, but just hard and fast recordings some of the songs I have written.

I can only find one song up there now, but here it is...
https://www.jamendo.com/track/570749/reita

ps, here's the rest... some were done with friends. https://www.jamendo.com/album/65893/no-edits
all the best, Regards Glenn