"Neil Young and his music, for me sum up the very late Sixties and early Seventies, he is my "default" singer/songwriter, every time I pick up one of my guitars,-its one of Neil's songs I warm-up my fingers with,ever since, 'after…"
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Gil's Discussions
A great Video Sharing site by Musicians For Musicians
Started Sep 7, 2012
Gil and Jim play "Can't Find My Way Home"
Started Jun 24, 2012
Need Your Opinions on which Version of song is better.
6 Replies
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dave Waldenmaier Mar 27, 2012.
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Iain Brennan replied to Gil's discussion Neil Young: Not enough focus on the muse in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ...
Jud Hair replied to Gil's discussion A Live Performance of Ambulance Blues in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ..."Thanks for sharing this. You do NY very well ... also getting great sound from that Dean Markley pickup ... are you using a separate pre-amp?"
"Good performance. I was surprised how good my ProMag sounded through the Loudbox mini, too. "
Jud Hair replied to Gil's discussion A Live Performance of Ambulance Blues in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ..."Sounds like a lot of the places I play ... Getting good sound out of that Dean Markley Promag (it looks like) ."
Jud Hair replied to Gil's discussion Neil Young: Not enough focus on the muse in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ..."Great video. Fun to see him kid around in a self-effacing manner. Loved reading "Waging Heavy Peace" ... such an inside look into NY's psyche. "
Jud Hair replied to Gil's discussion When playing Neil Young no practice is best in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ..."You have "the touch" ... love the hammer on the G chord."
Jud Hair replied to Gil's discussion Neil at the printing press watching Harvest artwork printing in the group Sugar Mountain: The Neil Young Group ..."Cool time capsule!! Album artwork ... something that has just about become extinct. First it's miniaturized on 8-tracks, cassettes and CDs and nowadays, it's almost non-existent. Even way back then, you can tell that NY is…"
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Acoustic Fusion CD "Touching Souls" & Gil's Solo CD "Where Is Your Soul?"
Acoustic Fusion is a musical partnership between BMI songwriter and award winning lyricist Howard C. Holbert and Gil Garcia. In this partnership Howard does the writing of the lyrics for a song idea then Gil composes the music for the lyrics sometimes adding or refining them along the way. Gil then performs each song solo acoustic. The exception here is Bailout Blues which is words & music by Gil
Gil's Solo CD Where Is Your Soul?
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Why I Strongly Recommend BandCamp for Independent Artists
I have become involved in recruiting Independent Artists with Original Material for a radio blog called "Open The Door Spotlight". Produced by Virgina Dupew this show "Spotlights" the artists own original songs for one week and gets them out to new listeners. We are requiring…
Posted on April 4, 2013 at 11:30am
Something Happening Here: New "Open The Door Spotlight" (updated weekly!)
A wonderful Grass Roots effort has started to promote and feature lesser known singer/songwriters who fly under the radar and don't get heard much.
Many of these artists make music for the Love of it and others are struggling to gain exposure to have a career in music.…
ContinuePosted on April 3, 2013 at 4:00pm
"Open The Door" Spotlight artist of the week (ongoing)
Updated: 3-31-13
Have a listen to Cinder Jean. She is super talented and thought some of you might want to hear her great acoustic music. She is this week's featured artist on "Open The Door Spotlight"
Posted on March 25, 2013 at 4:30pm
Putting Together a set of 1980s Songs
A collection of acoustic renditions and interpretations of songs popular in the 1980s. Includes songs by The Cure, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Modern English, Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Peter Gabriel and R.E.M.
This is a video playlist and you can easily skip forward to the next song to quickly get to one you are curious to hear or if you have the time and want to hear all play the first video and the rest will follow.
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ContinuePosted on January 3, 2012 at 12:00pm
Santa Cruz Guitars makes front page headline news
I opened up my morning paper the other day to see a full blown front page cover story about Santa Cruz Guitars. I looked it up online to share with you all and even better...it has 21 photos to look at....tip: hit the "captions" button below to see a description for each photo.:
http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_18501636?IADID
http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_18501636?IADID
Posted on July 22, 2011 at 12:31pm — 1 Comment
Profile Information
- Which one of the following describes your involvement in music? (Check all that apply)
- Amateur or recreational musician
- How many years have you been playing guitar?
- 20-30 years
- Which of these instruments do you own or play?
- Flattop steel-string acoustic guitar
- The make and model of your guitar(s) and/or other instruments and gear.
- 1997 Martin HD28-VR
1977 Guild D35-SB
- What is your website address?
- http://www.myspace.com/gilacousticmusic
- What type of music do you like to play?
- Acoustic Rock
- Do you subscribe to or regularly read Acoustic Guitar?
- I purchase copies at newsstands/bookstores
Comment Wall (31 comments)
- At 4:52pm on April 4, 2013,
Bill Wagner said… Gil,
I like your effort to help other musicians! Here is some of my music. Comments welcome ...
http://fandalism.com/wacissa
- At 6:33pm on October 19, 2012,
mark bower said… Great album btw,,i like drill baby drill,get a a crazy horse band and do this song
- At 5:44pm on October 19, 2012, mark bower said…
Nice channel and your take on Pardon My Heart,love the martin sound ,what is that hd 28?
- At 6:29pm on September 3, 2011,
Kevin Moran said… - Very nice song, Gil!
- At 7:51pm on August 27, 2011,
Edward Sparks said… - Just found this and thought you might enjoy it! Edward
Neil Young on Songwriting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwK6VhGTOw&feature=player_embedded
- At 2:22pm on August 6, 2011,
PaDuff said… - Hey Gil, after the song I checked out your site and you are into some cool stuff. I'm going to check out some more! paduff
- At 12:21pm on May 1, 2011,
Michael D Krampitz said… - Hi Gil Fallin Fallin sounded great.it's the HD28-VR my MartinD41 had the same sound.people go out and spend thousands of dollars on D40,D41,D42.D45,sure they are beautiful and sound fantastic.But you could save a couple of thousand and get a HD28-VR and your going to get pretty much the exact same sound.My next guitar will either be a HD28-VR or a HD35,or I'll go back to my old D41,or even a J40 anice jumbo with all the extras of a jumbo on top.Take care of yourself how old is your son?
- At 5:56pm on April 20, 2011,
James P. Royle said… - Good job on a River runs through sorrow Gil. Thanks very much for your effort, Jim
- At 5:07pm on April 14, 2011,
Patrick Michael Alaggio said… Great job on the new version of "Drill. Baby Drill!" Gil. I like the way you found your angry voice and left Neil in the dust. Whoever created that vid did a great job too and I am going to share it with a very politically astute group here at AGC by the name of "Lyrics Analysis". Please join us and add a true patriotic voice that needs to be heard! My hat is off to you Sir!
Your friend,
Pat Alaggio
- At 4:30pm on March 10, 2011,
Kirk Mathew Gatzka said… Gil,
Thank you for taking the time to listen and comment! Glad you enjoyed "Close to Perfect." I really enjoy your videos and we have Neil Young in common as an influence! That's cool. I like "Falling in Love," it's a very good tune.
Keep writing and performing!
Kirk
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