12/18/20 Webconcert 25 (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 01) Drive The Cold Winter Away 02 Good King Wenceslas (Classical Guitar) 03) Nicklausabend (Electric 12 String Guitar) 04) Boar's Head Carol 05) Seven Hundred Elves 06) Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas (debut) (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 07) Six Snowflakes (original) (Banjo) 08) Marvelous Toy (request) 09) The Times They Are A-Changin' (request) 10) Deck The Halls (Tenor Ukelele) 11) Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 12) Soon (Electric 12 String Guitar) 13) 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (request) 14) Lawyers Guns And Money (request for Warren Zevon) 15) Wild World (request for Cat Stevens) 16) Folsom Prison Blues (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 17) The Gambler (request) 18) Back Home Again (Electric 12 String Guitar) 19) Mister Tambourine Man (request) 20) Hey, Mister Spaceman 21) The Joker (Classical Guitar) 22) By Request (A Free Bird) (request) (Acoustic 12 String Guitar) 23) I Believe In Father Christmas So, this was my "Yuletide" set for this year. I managed to get in some old favourites and some new to me favourites, re-tooled some things I've done before and got in a LOT of isntrument changes. Speaking thereunto; I debuted in performance my new tenor ukelele. It started life as a child-sized guitar, but instrument necromancy has reassigned it's purpose and configuration. I also not quite so coincidentally debuted the first full song I learned to play on it. Yes, the uke now has a name! At the last concert one of the listeners won the right to name this instrument, which was at the time, *almost* ready to debut. Her new name is (drum roll)... Sita. Sita is a totally badass Hindu Goddess. I like the name. So there was one of the many instrument changes. I noted that this time I accompanied myself and performed on five different instruments, but someone corrected me that I played substantially more instruments than that. If you count the *stringed* instruments, there are five. If you count the harmonicas and the tambourine that adds two more. And on my rendition of "Marvelous Toy", I added a siren whistle and a vibro slap! Nine. (more if you want to differentiate between harmonicas). I don't know if this is a record, but it's definitely a lot of music made in a lot of different ways. Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Happy Holidays and a Merry New Year To you. Yes, the next one will be on the night of Jan 1st (New Years Day) same time and place. And it still being "The Season" I will not be averse to playing more seasonal fare. That also means that if you *missed* this show, (there was SO MUCH going on!) feel free to request any of these songs on Jan 1st.
