Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic)

Why are you in this forum? You should be on the road with Tommy Emmanuel or something. That was too good for words so I'll stop trying. That's what music is all about.

This was recorded several years ago. I've traveled for years with some Oktava MK012 mics for acoustic work, so those are probably what was used. Another guitar player by the name of Buster Jones recorded the video, or turned the cam off and on anyway. We both played at the Carbondale Bluegrass and Folk Festival that year and he stayed at my place for a couple of days and was kind enough to run the camcorder for me when I recorded this at home. I just did some zooming and panning in Premier and added some compression and reverb. Not much to it. I thought it came out pretty good for standard def. Buster took home a DVD copy I ran out so he could learn the arrangement. I know he played it at least a few times before he died the following year, but he never had a chance to record it, which is a shame because I know he would have done something awesome with it. He was a really good guitar player and friend.

Great freeking playing dood!!! I love the intro you did on this.

Hey some people finally noticed! Thanks all. Man, I worked my butt off on this one. (But somehow it's still fat--go figure. )

I tried to play a friend's 5-string bass at a band rehearsal once where the bass player couldn't make it. Man that 5th string completely threw me off. If I had an 8-string guitar I'd probably be playing Martian music without trying.

I'm so accustomed the low E string being the closest string to me that I kept hitting notes on the 5th string where they would normally be on the 4th string of a regular bass, and of course they'd be the wrong notes. No way I was going to adapt to that extra string in one night. That 5th string must take a lot of getting used to. I mostly just play bass on recordings anyway.

Thanks Doug.

Thanks Walt. I hope to be out again, playing all over creation by next winter. Lord knows playing live is the only way we can make any money these days. Ain't nobody buying records anymore, that's for sure.

Nice of you to say Amicus. You're a terrific composer, and your opinion is important to me.

That was really great.  My mom used to play that tune on piano when i was a kid.  It never occurred to me that it could be done on guitar.  Well played!

Oh very nice playing mate. And the sound was great!!