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Day Two Hundred Sixty Five (Year Two)

I remembered something as I was getting ready for work today.  Not only do I have a Guitar World transcription of "Red House," and the version of it from the Signature Licks book, I also have the Guitar Recorded Versions tab book for Are You Experienced? which has "Red House" in it.

And, as luck would have it, that version of the tab has fingerings and upstroke/downstroke marks written in from lessons I took with Chuck Worm in Kaukauana, Wisconsin almost (gasp!) ten years ago now.  The whole thing isn't laid out for me, mind you, but in glancing at it quickly before dashing off to work today, it seems that I've got everything up to the solo, so that's cool.  From there, I ought to be able to figure out the rest of it with a bit of study and debate. 

The way I see it, between the three transcriptions, I ought to be able to figure something out that works.

This whole thing feels like it's falling into place for me right now.  All of the resources are coming forward.  I know full well that I've wanted to learn that song for more years than I'd care to admit (at least 9), but now that things are getting better for me playing-wise, I finally feel like that can happen.

Also of note tonight, R. sent me an article saying that the people behind the closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics in London contacted the manager of The Who to see if Keith Moon would want to play at said ceremonies...  Yes, the same Keith Moon that's been dead for 34 years now.  Well played guys, well played.  Here's the link to the Yahoo! story, in case anyone was curious.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/keith-moon-drummer-died-1978-invited-play-olympics-173439598.html 

As the writer says in the piece, if you're going to do that sort of thing, why not bring back John & George, and just go for a Beatles reunion?

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