Such a beautiful dreamy song! I love your precise and silky acoustic guitar! Wonderful chords and sound! Great composition!

That's a great acoustic geetar riff from the intro, the hand. The second one is the silk glove. You know and feel guitars better than most. The chorus to me has an early Kate Bush feel, but with LLW's super soft vocals. Wonderful work guy's.

What a great collaboration! Wonderful playing Jonathan and the beautiful vocals!

Gorgeous sound in this wonderful collaboration. Beautifully constructed mix of instrumentation and vocals.

pure magic, from another time, classic beckenstein's  soul crushing and hair raising performance. this is haunting....

Words and Music Dave Rose

Lead Guitar Paul Rose
Vocals Guitar and Bass etc, me

Trouble

Kerzenlicht (Apr. 2024)

This song is again recorded with my phone. (Next probably a DAW song!) Motörhead has a cover of "Johnny B. Goode", so I Iistened to the original from the 50s! Chuck Berry Rock ‘n Roll. The intro is great, there are more songs with similar intros. They are so cool that I wanted to learn them at the end of last year and did. In this song, I just use my version of it as the intro. I play it a little lower so it's appropriate for my song. The last chord of the intro is the 1st chord of my song, except I play it as a power chord instead of a major chord. Some of my intro version is pretty much like the original, some is my version. It's really fun to play with these Rock ’n Roll intros, I could do it for hours. In one of the covers of the songs with these intros, the one with Beethoven in the title, there's an orchestral version of Beethoven's famous symphony at the beginning. I wanted that too, but of course only on my guitar, so I made up a guitar version of it and put it in front of the Rock ‘n Roll intro. Only after that my own song begins. It's even more freely than my 1st song here. I know the chords and riffs and lyrics, but decide always when playing when to change the riff. So the recording is a way for me to learn to produce one special version and not play it differently each time. You will hear that it is played and sung very freely. So consider it as a song performance for friends, not really a well-structured and finished song. Furthermore, I play nearly everything as slides, so it is harder to play then it sounds. I wanted to play it a bit faster, but it was not possible, this is the fastest drum accompaniment my amplifier has, it doesn't go any faster. One the other hand, for some parts of the lyrics it would be really difficult to sing it any faster.
Since someone asked for the lyrics of my last song I provide it here:
Guitar Heros
Guitar heroes of the past, may be gone, their music will last.
Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix gave us all the great licks
Angus Young, so alive, plays day and night
Eternal guitar riffs sound so loud
Make Berry’s Rock’n’Roll proud

Guitar heroes of the past, may be gone, their music will last.
Eddie van Halen’s fire hand, Tony Iommi’s powerful band
And not forget all the women of Rock:
Lita Ford’s solos wild and bold
Joan Jett’s chords breaking the mold
From their style I find my own
Like from seeds they have sown
With their songs I find my way
Getting better every day
Discovering riffs old and new
Offers a lesson for me and you
For me and you, for me and you

Guitar Heros

The Glow

Crab Dinner At The Lighthouse

All You Need Apparently

Wait that wasn’t planned for today.

7 minute three piece improvisation.
No timing, no tuning,

I must be fucked up

Listen to it loud. Like until you ears bleed.

Just relieving some stress and fucking around with a new pedal.

Somebody, tell me you feel my pain!

Feel my pain

Put on your dancing shoes and get ready for The Arrythmic Dance Contest...
... or better still, sit down and marvel at the other dancers trying to keep up.
This, of course, is entirely bogus. This track is a combination of a variety of Soundpaint's Adastra strings, all trying not to play together.

The Arrythmic Dance Contest

Guitare 3 Mix Modifié 2024

Rubber And Chrome

I am happy that Little Lone Waltz agreed to make this together with me. You can visit her here: https://soundcloud.com/little-lone-waltz

Little Lone Waltz: vocal melody, words, voice, keyboard
Jonathan: music, guitars, bass, organ, synthesizer

Falling of Winds (with Little Lone Waltz)

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

Falling of Winds (with Little Lone Waltz)

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