Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 26 Don Truesdail - 12-6-2008 1 - "Motherless Child"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAEcV87kuM
Operation 365 continues to celebrate the life of Don Truesdail with its "12 Days of Truesdail." For the rest of the week, we will be doing so by presenting Don's set from Jefferson Jay's 12 Hours of Free Music on December 6, 2008, one song at a time. Don kicked off the show that day. It was our buddy Blowski's birthday, another terrific day in the delight that was 2008 for our circle here in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California. Here, Don opens his set with "Motherless Child" after wishing Blowski a happy birthday with his adaptation of the traditional song, "Motherless Child."
For more information on Don and his music, please visit www.truesdailstudio.com
NOTE: Still wondering what youtube hopes to accomplishing by suggesting I keep adding "christianity" to the tags on these vids. I keep doing it, just cause I figure, that "it's their website and they know how it works better then I do. Maybe it'll get me more hits," but for some reason I think there's something else to it. ?????
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay (with Barbara Tolbert) - Originals - 26 "The Greens of Mind"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBnb-_9z5sc
Initially, I thought Barbara had indicated to me she didn't want me to use these tracks, but after I posted "What's Lost in The Words That We Don't Say"...
found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAU_2ZF1fcg
...she let me know that she liked it, so what the hey, here's more of Barbara and I practicing for an upcoming gig we had with our side project The Greens of Mind, named after this song long before Operation 365 was even hatched as an idea. Barbara's main gig is a group called "Charbra" with fellow Green Charlotte James. They are swell and you should check them out. I will posting some of their jams as Operation 365 progresses. I like this tune a lot. Wrote it with Justin Mills at the outset of The Greens of Mind project which began in 2008 and still continues in spirit and then some today.
This song is about how the world is changing and how people need to take personal responsibility to make the changes in their own lives that they wish to see in the world around them. The first line is "time is ramping like a bouncing ball," as in things are speeding up. On this version I sing your mind is ramping like a bouncing ball"... You get the idea.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 26 "How Deep Is Your Love" by The Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUL_MtOrzqs
I think "How Deep Is Your Love" is one of the most beautiful songs ever. Nice work Bee Gees! I played a bunch of times, something I don't always do for 365, but this tune is so sweet I had to get it a good one. I noticed I've been cropping my head off in a lot of these videos and I think I just learned how not to do that. Hallelujah! It's raining here today. Maybe that's why I picked this song. I think of The Bee Gees and The Beach Boys as musically related somehow so I will let the latter answer, "God Only Knows."
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OK, so Operation 365... Take 1
So I've got tons of material (and a screenplay, two master's theses, 4 albums and a movie, but that is neither here nor there) that I've been wanting to share for a long time but havent; know how to do it. I thought a bunch about what would be the best way to do it so it was interesting and appealed to people in the most compelling manner possible. I talked to people. I asked friends. I decided for awhile I was going to make a website/network and try to share from my massive archive of original material, but "how would I get people to that site?" was always a question I knew I would have to answer eventually and I had no idea on that one.
I asked my good pal Dylan Avery, an accomplished video manipulator in his own right, what he thought the first step should be for me in this pursuit. He said rip all your tapes. SO I did. That is just the type of job that a multi-tasking, occasionally procrastinating, archivist who doesn't' know what to do with his material can sink his teeth into and I did.
So I ripped. And I ripped. And I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and eventually it was all in there. Great. I still didn't know what to do. In the meantime, months passed and little changed (well a lot changed, but...) my content (tons of videos, hundreds of original songs specifically) still remained unshared and I didn't have much going on creatively and I decided.
I was going to share. I had realized since January 2009 when a little birdie whispered to me in the shower that I needed to "put it out there". Now was finally time. I wasn't going to worry about the best possible presentation. I was just going to put it out now. Dylan and my other friend Wes Davis made a cool movie which will come out next year called "Buzzkill". I saw an early version and what I got from it personally was that if you do something today and then again tomorrow and the next day, it radically improves the likelihood that you will do that thing the next day after that and so on. I liked that idea and wanted to put that thought into motion for myself and like my friends in "Buzzkill", wait and see what would result.
Saying you're going to do stuff is scary so I didn't say much to anyone at first, but it's been a few days now, so I figured I'd catch the world up on what I'm up to.
I want to post 3 videos each day for a whole year. I will be posting them on youtube at my page jeffersonjaydotcom.
http://www.youtube.com/jeffersonjaydotcom
One of me playing one of my tunes. One of me playing a cover tune, which is a tune written by somebody other than me for those who don't know the lingo. And one clip form my archives which will usually spotlight one or more of my friends but may include me as well depending on how I feel that day. I am not going for greatness, but I am certainly not aiming to embarrass myself either of course (well not too much) I am not going for anything at all in particular beyond the goals I've already stated. I have no idea what will happen or what I hope will come of this but I figure something will and I am interested in seeing what that will be.
Challenges ahead: The clearest challenge is obviously doing something every single day. It's quite a commitment and I am am even a bit sheepish myself about it as we speak but hey, what the hey. The other biggest challenge I can see ahead is... I've only written about 200-250 songs at the most I think. So even if/when I get that far, I'm going to have to figure out a way to have a new song each day when I'm out of tunes. My archive is extensive so I will easily have enough material for that one and well, there are plenty of tunes out there to cover and I'm sure I can play 365 of them so that shouldn't be too hard either.
I may have some guests sometimes but it will mostly be me I believe and I'm going to try to blog about it all a lot because that just seems like a thing one should be doing with a project like this. SO i hope you enjoy my songs, my verbiage and getting to know me as Operation 365 marches on.
P.S. I wrote a new tune in 5 minutes or so yesterday while on of the vids was bouncing so that's #251 (about) and here I come. Hope to see ya all some time.
Peace
I asked my good pal Dylan Avery, an accomplished video manipulator in his own right, what he thought the first step should be for me in this pursuit. He said rip all your tapes. SO I did. That is just the type of job that a multi-tasking, occasionally procrastinating, archivist who doesn't' know what to do with his material can sink his teeth into and I did.
So I ripped. And I ripped. And I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and I ripped and eventually it was all in there. Great. I still didn't know what to do. In the meantime, months passed and little changed (well a lot changed, but...) my content (tons of videos, hundreds of original songs specifically) still remained unshared and I didn't have much going on creatively and I decided.
I was going to share. I had realized since January 2009 when a little birdie whispered to me in the shower that I needed to "put it out there". Now was finally time. I wasn't going to worry about the best possible presentation. I was just going to put it out now. Dylan and my other friend Wes Davis made a cool movie which will come out next year called "Buzzkill". I saw an early version and what I got from it personally was that if you do something today and then again tomorrow and the next day, it radically improves the likelihood that you will do that thing the next day after that and so on. I liked that idea and wanted to put that thought into motion for myself and like my friends in "Buzzkill", wait and see what would result.
Saying you're going to do stuff is scary so I didn't say much to anyone at first, but it's been a few days now, so I figured I'd catch the world up on what I'm up to.
I want to post 3 videos each day for a whole year. I will be posting them on youtube at my page jeffersonjaydotcom.
http://www.youtube.com/jeffersonjaydotcom
One of me playing one of my tunes. One of me playing a cover tune, which is a tune written by somebody other than me for those who don't know the lingo. And one clip form my archives which will usually spotlight one or more of my friends but may include me as well depending on how I feel that day. I am not going for greatness, but I am certainly not aiming to embarrass myself either of course (well not too much) I am not going for anything at all in particular beyond the goals I've already stated. I have no idea what will happen or what I hope will come of this but I figure something will and I am interested in seeing what that will be.
Challenges ahead: The clearest challenge is obviously doing something every single day. It's quite a commitment and I am am even a bit sheepish myself about it as we speak but hey, what the hey. The other biggest challenge I can see ahead is... I've only written about 200-250 songs at the most I think. So even if/when I get that far, I'm going to have to figure out a way to have a new song each day when I'm out of tunes. My archive is extensive so I will easily have enough material for that one and well, there are plenty of tunes out there to cover and I'm sure I can play 365 of them so that shouldn't be too hard either.
I may have some guests sometimes but it will mostly be me I believe and I'm going to try to blog about it all a lot because that just seems like a thing one should be doing with a project like this. SO i hope you enjoy my songs, my verbiage and getting to know me as Operation 365 marches on.
P.S. I wrote a new tune in 5 minutes or so yesterday while on of the vids was bouncing so that's #251 (about) and here I come. Hope to see ya all some time.
Peace
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