"Aloha Kaua`i" slack key style

[Fran Guidry]

Wow, we're getting a lot of action here in "Show and Tell" - thanks to all the folks putting their stuff up.

It's been too cold here to spend time upstairs in the studio (we're too cheap to heat the upstairs in the winter) so here's one from the living room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLPdBM2srGU

Fran

Beautiful playing! Nice little gem of a tune

[Bern]

Perhaps the living room is not a bad place...
Great to listen to your music as always, Fran.

[quiltingshirley]

I enjoyed that so much. Brought me back to Kau'ai, my favorite of the islands. Thanks for sharing.

[Bob1131]

It is always a pleasure to hear your playing, Fran. I enjoyed listening!

[bbrown]

Nice all around production Fran.

Maybe I do need to upgrade to the Zoom H6 after all

--Bill

[tbeltrans]

Very nice, Fran. Also appreciate your site with all that recording knowledge. Maybe I need to start using my H6.

Tony

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by Danny Clayburn

Beautiful playing! Nice little gem of a tune

Thank you, Danny. I'm sure you know that the National resonator guitars were originally created for Hawaiian music. Are you hip to Kalama's Quartet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVNiei7JPdE They have been a huge inspiration to me, even though I don't play slide or do much uptempo stuff.

Fran

[delaorden9]

Very nice indeed....I enjoyed it !

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by Bern

Perhaps the living room is not a bad place...
Great to listen to your music as always, Fran.

Thanks for listening. Lynn has taken the house very much in a Hawaiiana direction and I've tried to capture some of that in the past, but I've never been happy with the results. Having someone to move a camera really opened up the possibilities.

Fran

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by quiltingshirley

I enjoyed that so much. Brought me back to Kau'ai, my favorite of the islands. Thanks for sharing.

I've only been to the Garden Isle once, we never got to Koke`e because Lynn got car-sick on the road up to Waimea Canyon. But we got just far enough to begin to see the magnificent canyon view. It seems like lots of the tunes I do are related to Kaua`i though, it has inspired lots of poetry over the years.

Thanks for watching.

Fran

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by Bob1131

It is always a pleasure to hear your playing, Fran. I enjoyed listening!

Thanks, Bob. Hey, I can't get to the Hobo Troubadours Soundcloud page in your sig. Is it a problem on my end (I had a problem with another Soundcloud page today), a Soundcloud problem, or an obsolete link?

Edit: The link in your sig still doesn't work but once I got my spelling bug figured out I got to the artist page. Cool.

Fran

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by bbrown

Nice all around production Fran.

Maybe I do need to upgrade to the Zoom H6 after all

--Bill

Bill, you're hilarious! You've been putting up great sounding stuff for years, the only person who hears any problems with your tracks is _you_ (grin).

Fran

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by tbeltrans

Very nice, Fran. Also appreciate your site with all that recording knowledge. Maybe I need to start using my H6.

Tony

Thanks, Tony, I embarrass myself often over there on Homebrewed Music, but I keep trying to figure things out.

As far as using the H6, I think you're right, it will probably make better recordings if it's turned on and sitting in front of a musician (grin).

Seriously though, I'm surprised at how much easier recording is after doing it a few hundred times. Less red light fever, less trouble finding a good mic location, quicker and easier post production moves too.

Still can't stand to hear my singing, though (grin).

Fran

[Fran Guidry]

Originally Posted by delaorden9

Very nice indeed....I enjoyed it !

Thanks for watching.

We're pet sitting a dog that speaks Portuguese, her owners are from Brasil. Since we have no knowledge of the language we're lucky she's such an easy going pup. I think she may be bilingual (grin).

Fran