Wow, what a change,m didn't expect that after the intro ;)

Beautiful from start to finish & she sang so lovely. Great job Jonathan 🙏🏽

Great song composition... beautiful guitar playing and great vocals! This picture is cute and nice.

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

Janine Levinson: lyrics, singing, vocal melodies, cover art. @janinelevinson

Jonathan Beckenstein: music, instruments, mixing.

I climbed to the top
thinking I would stop
and gaze upon the crystal view
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess I think I thought
that everything would start
and I would find my heart
or something quite extraordinary

but there’s no here here
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
this room is full of ordinary men

I worked very hard
To be a member of
a high and mighty club
but it turned out quite ordinary

I guess that I supposed
when every door was closed
the thing that was behind
would be something extraordinary

there was no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

oh there there, dear
there are no answers here.
oh there, there dear
go forth and multiply

older now I know
the bill of goods I sold
the little boy when he was
something quite extraordinary

that there’s a special kind
of gem that he will find
that only special people get to see

there is no there there
should have listened when they said
there is no there there
there there dear

but maybe there’s a green
that I have never seen
the emerald kind of grass
that’s on the far side of the hill

there is no there there
the room is full of ordinary men

Ordinary Men (with Janine Levinson)

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.

Ordinary Men (with Janine Levinson)

Jonathan Beckenstein

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