My recording of a Richard Lundmark Tutorial!

Hello All, 🙂

I’ll probably start a new thread regarding this/my latest idea, but here it is: I just found a recording/compilation of some Christmas-tunes I recorded/performed (mostly) on acoustic guitar from a few years back. Some of it is OK, but some of it I wish was better (story-of-my-life! – LOL!) Anyways, I’m thinking of sharing a few of the performances with y’all! (I’ll start a new thread and post a link as soon as I convert them to .mp3’s and upload them to my latest file-sharing/hosting “site-of-choice!”) 😉

This all said, DO NOT expect a level of quality associated with the likes of Rick Graham’s nylon/classical holiday-favorites! 😮 😮 My stuff is either simple steel-string solo-fingerstyle or multi-acoustic-guitar/overdub recordings!

Rick Graham/Eric Johnson/Tommy Emmanuel/Andy McKee I AM NOT!!! LOL! 😮 😮

Stay tuned (if interested…) 😉

Thanks for your time! 😎

~Bill Meehan~ 😀

@Richard Lundmark 10231 wrote:

hey Bill!
I’ll respond here instead of keeping it in the private mail.

Sorry about the long delay responding here!
Holidays, tons of gigs, new job (business administration, killing me with over-time atm).

Anyways bro, thanks for honoring me with your own version of this tune!!
Before going into your actual version, let me just reflect upon one thing.

I have had tunes of mine covered at times in the past as well, and I really love listening to such things,
Because it kind of takes me to a different place as a listener, rather than a player.
Hearing one’s own work, played by someone else’s hands, really makes me here everything in a different
light so to say. Things that as I’m playing them myself just seem to pass by me as sort of insignificant,
all of a sudden pops out at me like “man, that’s sounds really cool, I like that!”

Not sure I can really explain it better than that, but it’s sort of an out-of-body experience in a way,
makes you appreciate completely different things about your own playing, and specially you get a feeling of
how an audience must actually perceive your lines and ideas.

I sometimes get students that records covers of my tunes, but usually they are not on a level of maturity in their playing that I can appreciate their cover as a “Musical” interpretation of my work.

Your version certainly did though man. I loved the tone, and did not think it was overly distorted (as you mentioned in the mail), Strats just seem to be so much more dynamic when distorted, me like!
I liked how you re-phrased the tune a bit here and there, and made your “own” thing with it,
and BY ALL MEANS, please make your own song with it. If this little (so far anyways) snippet of a song can get your creative process geared up, that’s EXCATLY what the aim of the lesson was to begin with!
I’m looking forward to hearing where you might take this! And, don’t be surprised if I end up “stealing” some ideas from you for the final version hehehe

Hey Richard, 🙂

Wow, I am honored indeed! You’re definitely a straight-shooter/truthful, so I know that you’re NOT just saying these things to make me feel good, and instead you must really like what I did?!? 😮 That means SO MUCH to me dude! 😉 I have a lot of respect for your abilities and intellect, so needless to say, I am appreciative. 😎 However, this just tells me that I need to work even harder, because for one thing, I know that I can work harder, and secondly, I need to embrace each and every day I’m alive as an opportunity to “play/record/teach/listen-to” music as much as I can!!! 😉

Thanks again for taking the time to listen and offer your insights, and I’ll certainly let you know if I come up with anything else to add to your tune! 😉

P.S: Congratulations on your business pursuits too! 😎 I know that you’ve gone to university and worked hard towards those things, but it’s cool to hear that you are now “in-the-field,”so-to-speak.” My guess is that all those hours/days that your business work pulls you away from your music/guitar, the more you’ll eventually appreciate the music/guitar when you do have time for it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you write a bunch of new “great songs” and/or if you even just become a more accomplished player (not sure how much room there is for you to improve in THAT area though?!? You’re already a monster… – LOL!) Back in the day, (between 1985-1994) I was a computer engineer, and all I ever thought about while I was at my engineering job was what I was gonna do as soon as I got out of there that night with my music (whether it was band-practice, or recording, or even just woodshedding!) Don’t be surprised if you get those feelings after a while. I think it can be a good/healthy thing BTW! 😎

Best of luck bro! 😎

~Bill Meehan~ 😀