Is it slow or whut...

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 10:33 AM

Come on you guys post something interesting.

**sunvalleylaw** · August 2nd, 2007, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by tone2thebone

Come on you guys post something interesting.

Ok, let's talk about Don McClean's "Bye Bye, Miss American Pie" which I learned to play with a friend at our family camp vacation. It has been sung around the campfire there for years. I don't know, that might not be that interesting though.

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 10:46 AM

Ok let's talk about the psychohistorical significance of his lyrics as it pertains to the killing off of rock n roll....or something like that.

What are the chord progressions Steve tell us about that. What kind of acoustic are you playing it on. What gauge strings? What's the neck relief on that guitar?

**Tim** · August 2nd, 2007, 10:56 AM

Find it all right here boys: http://tafkac.org/songs/american_pie...retations.html

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Tim

Find it all right here boys: http://tafkac.org/songs/american_pie...retations.html

Alright what I wanna know is what the heck is rye? The drink not the bread.

Reading that website kinda reminded me of watching Pop Up Video.

marnold*** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by tone2thebone

Alright what I wanna know is what the heck is rye? The drink not the bread.

It's whiskey made from at least 51% rye. So basically they were drinking whiskey and . . . whiskey.

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by marnold

It's whiskey made from at least 51% rye. So basically they were drinking whiskey and . . . whiskey.

That's convenient.

**Tim** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by tone2thebone

Alright what I wanna know is what the heck is rye? The drink not the bread.

Reading that website kinda reminded me of watching Pop Up Video.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye. Look under "uses".

**Justaguyin_nc** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Tim

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye. Look under "uses".

Or this might be better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_whiskey

**Tim** · August 2nd, 2007, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Justaguyin_nc

Or this might be better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_whiskey

OH YEA! That's the good stuff I was talking about. Good find there Justa.

**sunvalleylaw** · August 2nd, 2007, 01:15 PM

Ok, chord progression and guitar details coming. At least what we played for after dinner sing along with our 5 guitar combo.

Tim, I found that and some others. Wiki had this summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie

**Tim** · August 2nd, 2007, 01:27 PM

Thanks! More good stuff.

**Bloozcat** · August 2nd, 2007, 01:46 PM

Rye whiskey like Crown Royal (my favorite), Canadian club, VO, Black Velvet, Canadian mist - your basic Canadian whiskeys. (I like rye whiskey if you can't tell

).

Don't feel bad about not knowing what rye whiskey is. In England, they don't know either - at least not in the bars in London. Whenever I'd ask for Crown Royal, I'd just get a blank look. After explaining what rye is, still no recognition. I even asked them how it was that they knew nothing about one of the great whiskeys of the world, and from one of their Commonwealth countries to boot!

Strange, if you ask me....

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Bloozcat

Rye whiskey like Crown Royal (my favorite), Canadian club, VO, Black Velvet, Canadian mist - your basic Canadian whiskeys. (I like rye whiskey if you can't tell

).

Don't feel bad about not knowing what rye whiskey is. In England, they don't know either - at least not in the bars in London. Whenever I'd ask for Crown Royal, I'd just get a blank look. After explaining what rye is, still no recognition. I even asked them how it was that they knew nothing about one of the great whiskeys of the world, and from one of their Commonwealth countries to boot!

Strange, if you ask me....

Ahhh this explains your avatar as it is applicable to this situation Blooz.

**Bloozcat** · August 2nd, 2007, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by tone2thebone

Ahhh this explains your avatar as it is applicable to this situation Blooz.

**sunvalleylaw** · August 2nd, 2007, 02:44 PM

Ok, attached is a PDF showing the lyrics and the chord progression we played. My friend Dave who has played this song for years adds all sorts of cool right and left hand flourishes I can't do yet that sound great on his old beat up Washburn he plays.

In answer to Tone's queries, I was playing my Joshua dreadnought with Martin light strings, which currently has fret buzzing issues and fret issues (High E string and B string) where the neck joins the body. I increased the relief during the trip to clean up some buzz, but it still needs some luthier work. Five of us played it at the big group dinner at this family camp and most everyone sang along. The guitars included the two mentioned above, a Gibson (maybe a hummingbird shape?), a green S101, and a new $199 Fender one of my friends had just picked up. All acoustic. I think everyone had fun! It is a non-denominational church related family camp so I was a little concerned that some might be offended by references in the lyrics. But it seems to be all symbolic, and even then, well intended.

The chord progression attached is my recollection only of what we played and is only for study purposes.

**sunvalleylaw** · August 2nd, 2007, 03:52 PM

Oops, my attachment had disappeared. It is there now.

**Tone2TheBone** · August 2nd, 2007, 03:53 PM

Great read Sun. The pdf doesn't show up though on my end...you know why...

duhvoodooman*** · August 2nd, 2007, 04:07 PM

Pardon the blasphemy, but I hate that freakin' song....

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