love how this comes out & hits you in the face. Love a good bebop. Nice guitar playing too as always

Trying my Fuchs Valve Job II Pedal. 
Going into a Vintage Sound 35sc.

FUCHS Valve Job II Red Test

Just add colour! ‘Nuff said.

Bass - Hedges
Guitar - Norsa
Drums - Willy

Funk Jam

This one started as attempt to do some abstract pop. It evolved into a place somewhere between pop and jazz, at least to me. There was a time in the late sixties where the harmonic language I use here developed. Songs like Being Alive, by Sondheim, Wichita Lineman, by Jimmy Webb and others used a combination of 6th's 11th's 9's and suspended cords to create this floating feeling. It's basically some version of stacking 5th's, harmonically. I'm generally a thirds guy. A big third sounds so good on a bass, think "Walk On The Wild Side". Daphnis et Chloé Suite n°2, by Ravel, most of Jobin's work and Giant Steps, by Coltrane would be mastery of stacking thirds, in my opinion. In fact Daphnis et Chloé, Suite n°2 is one of my favorites and one that dazzles me still. It's funny though. Because this type of approach, the 5th's I mean, in popular music, was only prominent in the late sixties to mid seventies I tie it emotionally to childhood. I was born in 1968. I could go on but I think that's enough. Thanks for listening and indulging my thoughts.

Painted In Pastels

"John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf Junior at Roswell, New Mexico, the son of an air force pilot. As such, he led a peripatetic life from an early age, but would say later that for him, moving to Colorado was like coming home. He and his first wife Annie - the love of his life - bought some land at Starwood in Aspen
The Denver's moved to Starwood at Christmas 1970, at which time the area had been developed only minimally. They built a five bedroom eco-friendly house and a guest house on the 7.6 acre plot. This mushy, sentimental composition is John Denver's coming home song.
After his tragic death in a plane crash in October 1997, fans wanted to convert the Starwood property into a museum, but it was put on the market and sold for $3.68 million. "                   Songfacts

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Sergey Guk 

Starwood in Aspen-John Denver (Cover)

SteadFast

Signatures

I Wont Ask You To Stay

Flow Motion

Jam On It (2025)

I bid you Relax ... music lovers, 

and with an Open heart ... 

may you enJOY my latest heartfelt Piano improvisation.


Here's to  harmony, melody, and the rhythmic inflections make it all that wondrous thing we call... Music!

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2020
℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2025

Welcome Home *

My Frist Track for the new album. Mixing with my new high end equipment. A song of reflection about the early music festival scene near San Francisco  where I grew up.

Freedom Free Love Free To Be Heard by GLEN GRANTHEM
Play it like you use to play it when you were young
Tearing up a fret board until you reached number one
Spend those days on the green lost in the crowd
Shoulder to shoulder as the band rocks out
Singing songs about peace and love and Smoking grass as guitars strum

Day after day the music was life 
Turntables spin all through the night
One hand on a pipe carved out of stone
All your friends felt right at home
With both hands in the air and Every face wore long hair
Viet Nam was miles away  Every song had its place
Solo
The sixties were like no other time in our life
Draft cards ,Protests , Equal rights
We were coming of age to save the world
Freedom , Free Love , Free To Be Heard
Singing songs about peace and love Smoking grass as Guitars Strum
With Both hands in the air 
Singing Songs About Peace and Love.....

Freedom , Free Love , Free To Be Heard ( Original ) with Lyrics

Guitarist for Opus Soul.
https://opussoulband.com/
Hi, my name is Stephan Lipinski, or other wise known as "Pinner". I am a jazz/rock/fusion guitarist from New Jersey. I began playing back in the sixth grade and was fortunate to study with Jazz Great Vic Juris while in high school (http://vicjurisjazz.com/). My biggest and most direct influences include Robben Ford (www.robbenford.com/) Vic Juris (http://vicjurisjazz.com) Scott Lerner (http://www.scottlernermusic.com/) and Chuck D'Aloia (http://chuckdaloiamusic.com/) I have played in everyting from jazz to rock bands, and latest project was an acoustic duo called Kosmik Kow. Even though I am not in formal group now, I can been found at local jam sessions and sitting in with some friend's bands. My current gear includes a Collings i35lc, Collings City Limits, SVL 61 Reserve, Suhr S1 and a Mark Jenny Reliced Telecaster into a Fuchs Overdrive Supreme Bassman Mod (with some additional mods by Scott Lerner) into a Glaswerks 2x12 with Celestion G12-65's.I am a big fan of Dumble style amplifiers lol. I use Curt Mangan strings on all my guitars.

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