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Holly Spradling's avatar

Nice boogie woogie. Congrats to oreo! Looking forward to installments.

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Janet Johnson-Mertz's avatar

That was great!

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Paul Street's avatar

Thanks. Just pure fun. Early rock and roll: three chord blues speeded way up!

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Paul Street's avatar

A lady wrote and said she couldn't hear a word. It's all loud and clear on my PC and on my phone. I think we all have different sound set ups for hearing Substack audio.

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M. St. Mitchels's avatar

You channeled The Killer on that solo part. Nicely done! Oreo appears peaceful, fit and ready for the revolution.

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Paul Street's avatar

She's ready to rock and is apparently no antivaxxer...took her rabies shot with no complaints. 😂

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Paul Street's avatar

I'm really a one handed player for the most part. My left had just does fixed patterns in changing chords. The right hand goes off a bit in different scales. One of these days I'll do some lessons with a pro.

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M. St. Mitchels's avatar

A wise musician once said, "It's not the notes you <i>play</i>.... it's the notes you <i>don't</i> play." 😎 If it sounds good, it IS good.

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John Woodford's avatar

"Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On" was one of the first 5 or so 45s I bought in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in '57, (bought Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" first two years earlier), so on the strength of your homage, I'm going to have to up my ante and subscribe.

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Paul Street's avatar

Thanks. Lot of piano pounding in that early rock. More work for piano tuners!

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Paul Street's avatar

Lots of the Sixties can be seen germinating in the 50s. David Halbererstram's (sp) big book on the Fifties was really good on taking down the stereotyped notion of the grey flannel Fifties vs. the technicolor Sixties.

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John Woodford's avatar

The Fifties were mighty fine culturally if one had mind, eyes and ears open.

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