The moment I found my sound was when I could hear something that I recorded and not believe that it is actually me. I forcibly wrote music for years, imposing my ideals and words on the notes and what would come out was just plain old songs, and some dude singing them. I believe that there is music in the air, when I hear a good song I usually feel some type of emotion on par with someone domesticating a rare animal and giving it a proper name. It feels like I have been playing guitar for a few days, but it has been about 13 years.Īnd as far as finding my "sound" it really came down to letting in the ghost. Its amazingly fun and enabling to play, Ive been working on the design ever since, reinforcing it with fiberglass and changing my kick pedals.īut im looking forward to Shakey kick drum 2.0 Ever since then standing in front of it has been the way to go.its been rather evolutionary.
It is designed with a seat and originally I sat down when I played butĪfter a margarita disaster I ended up standing during a show and my energy doubled. Here is a picture of me outside of the railroad revival tour in 2011: He whipped that thing up in like two hours and it has been in my act ever since
#Shakey graves story of my life download portable
I had already been working on the one man band deal and really wanted to be able to do it in a portable way, so I asked my craftiest friend Sir William Wolfe if he could fashion me a device to my specifications. In 2011 A friend of mine got a job working as the official blogger for the Mumford & Sons/Edward Sharpe/Old Crow Railroad revival tour, apparently at every show they would ask a local musician to busk outside of the front gate to set the scene and get the hobo juices flowing and she asked if Id like to fill the position. Originally I was doing the one man band with a kick drum and a high hat which was a pain in the ass to carry around and would wear out my legs in no time. That's the story of the great subreddit and the great artist that put everything back together for my wife and I. He replied with very kind words and let us know how happy he was for us.
I emailed Alejandro and told him our story and his part in it. 3 months after that, we got our first glimpse of our little newb. I emailed her and told her i liked her taste in music. Now this either meant that this was an amazing coincidence -or- that she was stalking my page too. So, imagine my surprise when i stalked my exgf's facebook page (yeah, i creeped) and found she had posted the same exact video about an hour after I had posted it. Now it's important to know that at the time, Roll the Bones only had about 1,000 views on youtube, safe to say that not a lot of people had heard it yet. We hadn't spoken a word to each other until one day in March 2012 when I was browsing /r/listentothis and found Roll the Bones, and posted it to my facebook wall. We're making a baby :)ġ0 years ago, my girlfriend and I ended our relationship of 5 years.
#Shakey graves story of my life download update
Just an update for you, we went in for an ultrasound yesterday. You might remember me emailing you and tellin' ya how you and your song "Roll the Bones" brought me and my long lost love back together which led to our happy marriage.