Hi Scott, just letting you know that I managed to catch up on your mails and PM's.
Welcome to FTS.
Sidsnotwasere
Yo man,a hope yer a Celtic fan cos if yer no,it's war,ok,war !!!!
Sidsnotwasere
Aw nawww,a bet yer wanny they goody two shoes,sheeesh.
eloise
Hello and welcome on board
blind neep
I hope Scott doesn't mind me posting this again as it identifies him a wee bit, but I think it's worth repeating. And for his sister who's now a member too, she'll identify herself if she likes and maybe even tell the story...Jim Goudie was their dad.
I posted this on a thread here about youtube.........
"You asked about tuning, Xcotty.
I love telling this story
In November 1961 a guy that played with my dad's band came to our house. I'd been faffing about with musical instruments for a while, viiolin, accordion, guitar, all the usual stuff that my dad would bring home on occasion.
This night turned out special.
Jim Goudie was the first guy in Klmarnock to have a zoot suit. he was a teddy boy in the fifties and had the sideboards and the brothel creepers and had an acoustic guitar when he came back with my dad after a gig.
He played in open tuning, concert pitch to E, with the first string dropped to E7th. I didn't know anything then about the technicalities though. I remember like yesterday he played " Apple Blossom Time"
He played a couple of other things with my dad on our piano then asked me for a key. Not a musical key. A door key.
remember the big black back door keys you used to get? hollow things weighing as much as a can of beer?
I got our back door key and Jim used it to play slide guitar.
I'd never heard anything like it. I was 12 years old and instantly became a bluesman and have been ever since. I've been a slide guitar fan ever since. In the 40 or so years in backing Jim after that, the over riding memory is of his tuning. He couldn't read music, wasn't particularly literate or knowledgeable in so many ways, yet, I've never -played with anybody that had such a feel for music and especially for " following singers". You'll know about that xcotty, trying to find a key and make a duff singer sound good when they get up to sing as " guest".
I've played with a few famous names, modesty forbids that I should drop Gerry Rafferty's name or Gallagher and Lyle's names.... Ahem....... but without doubt, Jim Goudie had a better ear than any of them.
Jim Goudie was a Railway porter at Kilmarnock station in the early sixties. He worked beside a guy that i'll call Sam McGee.
Sam was Louis Armstring's ( Satchmo) guitarist in the forties and had succumbed to the drink. He finished up as a railway porter with nothing but his guitar and the bottle he happened to be drinking from. Jim Goudie heard that Satchmo was playing a gig in Glasgow ( this would be around 1964) so Jim organised a whip round and got Sam a suit and shave and haircut and got him on the train to see his old pal, Louis Armstrong in Glasgow.
I posted this story a couple of years ago on a Beeb message board. A wee while after, I got a mail from Lexie. Turns out Lexie had been faffing on the PC one night and had Googled her dad's name ( Jim Goudie) and it had turned up my posting. She was chuffed that somebody had remebered her dad wth fondness.
well how could ye no be fond of a guy that could play slide guitar with a back door key.
Bluemoon
blind neep wrote:
I love telling this story
I love hearing it
Sidsnotwasere
well how could ye no be fond of a guy that could play slide guitar with a back door key.
Aye but wizzy as good as Jimi Hendrix maaaaaaaaaaan.
Xcotty
I'm just chuffed you found each other Mr Neep.
I love that story too pal, and re read it again.
