Very cool Dan!!!!! Much cleaner than a traditional guitar slide & much more natural sounding!!!! What made you decide to make your guitar fretless? Great idea!!!!

nice intonation on that fretless! you are a man who likes a new challenge.

Cool vibe and sound Dan... I tried playing some slide recently beyond the last frets...

Great sounds from your fretless guitar.  Interesting.

I recently bought a fretless guitar.  I have been experimenting with how to play this guitar in my songs.  I chose a fairly simple riff to highlight the note sliding of the fretless.  This song starts in the key of A Minor.  Then, in the middle, switches to B Minor.  The end is a series of half step moves back to an A Minor.

Fretless Guitar Magic

Lesaffair

.. and what will our centurions say when all the colors fade to gray where they used to run wild and free?
Put a fence around it.
You can charge admission then. 
If we raze it they will come. It's not "if" but "when".
And, all the money makers say God's beauty shouldn't be free.
Some see our perfect world: others opportunity.
Put a fence around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5zX60WCycU

Put A Fence Around It

The table shown in the picture belongs to a suite of pieces of furniture crafted in the early 1990s for the interior of the Kremlin by an Italian carpenter's workshop specialising in oak-design.

A big Thank You to The Neighbor for dropping in and playing a wonderful guitar.

Oak

1
Out of one single seed
With lots of nutrients to feed
Within the ground
Out of a natural striving
Heavenwardly
At least 5 centuries ago

Cut one morning
Somewhen in the eighties or seventies
Last century, supposedly in Italy
Your leaves were so green - and
Then you stopped to breathe
And were stored and dried for ys

ref 
300 ys to grow,
300 ys to bloom,
300 ys to die
That’s your „normal“ life

2
Skilled artistic carpenter hands have worked upon you 
After your death with devotion
Cutting, sanding and priming -
„Lying Flat“ on these three pillars
Born out of a single notion:

"A place to meet",
10 elliptical, oval square
Out of one single piece
Lacquered in white and
Adorned with gold leaf
Six meters long, 2.50 wide

ref 
300 rings to grow,
300 rings to bloom,
And then 300 rings to die
Oh, that’s your „normal“ life

3
Hard to believe that must be necessary
Something like you
Being so earthbound and stable
Was that already inscribed  
Somewhere in your fibres ?
Ending up as a „dissension-table“ ?

Next moment the mad imperator will receive an unwelcome guest and 
An oppressive breathless coldness spreads  
Just for an instant before the lightnings of the camera flashes begin 
And then all this weighs down on you.

ref 
300 rings to grow,
300 rings to bloom,
And then 300 rings to die
You would have outlived us many times

out
Now that you are an icon 
The outmost insane things
Happen at your long edges - and
What have you done to deserve that one ?

Oak (ft The Neighbor)

Written after the breakup of a friend's marriage, this is a musical portrait of someone going crazy. 

WATCH THE VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/jNGatMdU45M

AVAILABLE TO STREAM:
https://robertgray.hearnow.com/you-said-you-loved-me

MUSICIANS:
Robert Gray: vocals, guitars, bass
Troy Utz: harmony vocal
Laurent Cinus: violins (https://www.youtube.com/c/laurentcinus)
Lukas Dahle: drums

Mastered by Olav Christensen
Photo: Pexels.com (lisa_fotios)

You Said You Loved Me

I'm starting a new project inspired by the night. Must be the time of year!
The guitar is a PRS SE Custom.

The photographer for the cover art is Sarah Justine. 

All Rights Reserved 2022

Night Moves

Small Prelude

downtown

Allein - Rock Flexible
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some music
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Meine Zeit blieb steh’n
nur nächste Schritte geh’n
So schön wie’s war konnt’ ich am Anfang schon das Ende sehn.

Es war doch klar, dass ich 
auf Dauer verlier
In harter Zeit wollten wir 
nur unsere Egos polieren.
—

Du brauchst mich nicht
Was bringt es schon?
Ich brauch Dich nicht
Ich liebe Dich!

Du bist nun fort
Denn Du bist frei
Du bist nun fort
Ich brauch Dich!
—

Und ich fühl mich Scheiße so Allein
Wird jemand anders gerade bei Dir sein
Ja ich weiß ich hatte so viel Zeit 
Es ist vorbei - es tut mir leid!
—

Ich bin für mich Allein
Und fühl’ mich Allein
 —

Ich war von Zeit zu Zeit
für nichts was Wichtig war
Für mich ein Spiel, für Dich Tot-Ernst
Stand’st Alleine da.

Du musstest geh’n, 
ich versteh’n, Du sollst nun weiterzieh’n. 
Doch ich muss sagen, ich habe diesen Schmerz nicht kommen sehn. 

—
... let's get together
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c 2023 - rock flexible

Allein - Rock Flexible

DUALITY - the mask has two faces
Laughter and tears, comedy and tragedy
Illusion and reality - and layers of each.
There is an illusion of eternity
And an eternity of illusion
Wall of reality, a sky of illusion
A phenomenal sky of illusion
THE EIGHTH SKY

The Eighth Sky

Ice Cream Truck

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