Operation 365... Blog 64

Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 70 Ocean Beach Road Show Pt. 2 - 2-28-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN2Y1WUfyzg

Here is another clip of the initial performance of The Ocean Beach Road Show. In yesterday's clip I was playing sitar with some of my nearest and dearest amigos. Today I am playing gu zheng. After my friend Don Truesdail, who was a musical jack of all trades, passed away, I had a calling to pick up many different instruments. This inspiration led me in the direction of the banjo, the drum set and later the sitar and the gu zheng. I'm not gonna lie. craigslist.org helped.

The Ocean Beach Road Show is a great opportunity for me to play different instruments and do different things depending on what is needed in the group fro tune to tune. I am very happy that I can contribute on many instruments at this point in my life. Last night, a bunch of my friends and i had a really fin jam at Blowski's abode. I got to just sing lead and make up some words on some of the jams and that was great. That is where I started from musically and if I'd had my way, perhaps it's all I'd have ver done. It is still howe I'm most comfortable, holding a mic and singing. I wound up playing a little bass later with my sweet lady Leanne throwing down some drums. She has natural talents there. In other news, we may be getting a puppy named Nigel real soon. Peace

Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 70 "Ooooh Nigel"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9C7L7IITG0

I don't know if this is a record or anything, but this song only took me three minutes to write, the three minutes (exactly) that I spent recording the tune. I guess I was inspired. I'd tell you what the song's about, but I think it lays it out real clear. Well, I think we're getting a puppy named Nigel and this is the first song he's inspired so far. Pictures forthcoming. I hit record and put ut out there and this is what you see. "Oh Nigel, we're gonna make it on through the night." - my new song.

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Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 70 "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppr8uU2wc_k

Funny story. Yes, this life's full of 'em it seems. So I was thinking I should do an Angel song or a doggy song to stay with the theme and perhaps share some love with my veteran Poocherella, the one and only Angellica. So I started with Joy To The World, which yes, I know technically has nothing to do with dogs. I then made my way to the Hendrix tune "Angel" that my sweet flizeppo (that's Angel) was named after. Too hard. So I bent it a little bit and jumped to "Centerfold," a song I've always liked and never played on guitar, because it mentions Angel in the lyrics a couple times. Granted, tis song is talking some schoolgirl who poses in a nudie magazine and I am tam talking about my pooch but... details.

This is nice because it leads to an insidious problem in this world that few people are discussing. Yeah it's not revolt in Egypt, but the omnipresence of incorrect chords on the interent has gone too far and truly, this blight on society must be stopped. Yes, the interent is full of false facts, I belive one could even argue that it's deliberate and the War of Facts is right there with The War and Physics and The War on Nature that quietly followed The War on Drugs right through our world. Enough digression. I looked up Centerfold and IU played it as it was written here.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/j/j_geils_band/centerfold_crd.htm
Well, all was well and good more or less til this part came to town and made me look like I don't know what I'm doing. God forbid.

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And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in-between

Well, I played it and I knew it was wrong and you could probably hear it was wrong, but what was I to do... Stop the song, stop the recording, listen to the tune, learn it right, record it right, and publish a correct version to the internet thereby solving 0.000001% of the problem with lying chords on the interent. Of course not. I'm not gonna lie. I don't have time to do that. I don't even have time to do this. Well, if you can't do something about something personally (or are unwilling to), the least you can do is complain about or blame someone else and hope that they maybe get around to doing something about later. This is not George Washington's America, is it? It's not Martin Luther King Jr.'s either. 8 years of George W. Bush and I doubt things will ever be the same. At least we can still dream. I'm pretty sure that's still allowed.

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