In Concert
November 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
Our church, Open Door, had a sort of mini concert on last night, that I went to. It was a guy called John de Jong.
He was a brilliant acoustic guitar player, and singer actually. He sang a lot of Christian song, mostly his own, but also did some covers too. He played some older lesser known classics from Eric Clapton and James Taylor, good listening!
He had a style that I have longed for for some time. He’s the kind of guitar player that seems to have limitless flexibility with his finger joints, and a continuous flow of uninterrupted chord changes from the top of the frets right down to the bottom!
Effortless in a way.
It’s that kind of playing that makes you want to do one of two things -
1) Give up playing immediately
Or
2) pick up your guitar straight away and just play, with no ideas or boundaries. Certainly no remembrance of just how crap you can play.
I had the feeling of the latter. Thus, the first opportunity I get, I am restringing my guitar, pulling out the tuner and just picking away.
My aim needs to be to put out an album at some point next year. A sort of ‘achievement’ album. To prove to myself if nobody else that I can play and can produce good songs.
That’s the hope anyway. I think I need to gig a bit more too. Well, I say a bit more. What I really mean is ‘I need to gig’ period.
We’ll see what happens anyway.
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J
