U-Guys - Really Seems Strange - Original Recording

What makes this song a classic? Is it the timeless lyrics? The driving guitar groove?  The off-beat drums? Or the slinky bass (that Rob added back at home on the Fostex 4-track ...analog baby!)?  It's all of the above.  This was a crowd pleaser, and believe you me it got crowded at the U-Guys gigs .. that happens when your New Years Eve show is from the kitchenette of a basement apartment.  Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!

 

Amy Winehouse Rehab Lyrics and Chords

What a tragedy Winehouse overdosed in her London home. She had such great talent that is now wasted.  Thinking about her and her family, and keeping her music alive, like with this:  Enjoy !

     C7

They try to make me go to rehab; I say no, no, no,

Yes I've been black but when I come back; you'll know, know, know.

G7                              F7

 I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine;

     C7                     F7             C7

He's tried to make me go to rehab; I won't go, go, go.

Verse 1:

Em                     Am

 I'd rather be at home with Ray,

F                    Ab

 I ain't got seventy days.

             Em                               Am

'Cos there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me,

     F                     Ab

That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway.

Bridge 1:

G7

 I didn't get a lot in class,

      F7

But I know it don't come in a shot glass.

Chorus 2:

     C7

They try to make me go to rehab; I say no, no, no,

Yes I've been black but when I come back; you'll know, know, know.

G7                              F7

 I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine;

     C7                     F7             C7

He's tried to make me go to rehab; I won't go, go, go.

Verse 2:

Em                   Am

 The man said why do you think you here?

F                 Ab

 I said; I got no idea.

Em                             Am

 I'm gonna, I'm gonna, lose my baby,

F                   Ab

 So I always keep a bottle near.

Bridge 2:

G7

 He said I just think you're depressed,

F7

 Yes me, yeah baby and the rest.

Chorus 3:

     C7

They try to make me go to rehab; I say no, no, no,

Yes I've been black but when I come back; you'll know, know, know.

Verse 3:

Em                    Am

 I don't ever want to drink again,

F                    Ab

 I just, ooh I just, need a friend.

Em                   Am

 I'm not gonna spend ten weeks,

    F                        Ab

And have everyone think I've gone mad.

Bridge 3:

G7

 And it's not just my pride;

F7

 It's just 'till these tears have dried.

Chorus 4:

     C7

They try to make me go to rehab; I say no, no, no,

Yes I've been black but when I come back; you'll know, know, know.

G7                              F7

 I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine;

     C7                     F7             C7

He's tried to make me go to rehab; I won't go, go, go.

CHORD DIAGRAMS:

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   C7      G7      F7      Em      Am      F       Ab

 EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE  EADGBE

 x32310  353433  131211  022000  x02210  133211  466544END

Bach Cello Suite Prelude in D - Hiss Cleaning Example with Roxio

Here is the story on this 'lil Bach cello diddy:  I took classical guitar lessons for a year when I was 19-ish in 1985 .. my only formal music training.  This Bach prelude was my crowning achievement and I played for anyone who would listen .. one guy up Pickering Street, Dave, really liked it and borrowed the sheet music - but never gave it back!  It had all my fingering notation on it and by the time I finished university without practicing it was lost except for the first bars.

Then along came - da da dah !!! - the internet, yes that world webbed infotainment highway !  So about 2008, 23 years later I look it up and there she was, tabbed in all her glory and a multitude of youtube versions (a lot better than mine!).  So I re-learned after forgetting it for more than 20 years.  Yay me !

The first version here has a lot of hiss coming into my HP Media Centre PC.  The second has the clean-up in Roxio.  What a difference - too bad it can fill in those missed and mucked-up notes and timing !

FYI - this is the same Darryl Williams handmade classical I originally learned this on.  Musical instruments are  such a great investment.

U-GUYS from the basement to the internet

If you're like me you have a bunch of old media around the house like cassette tapes, VHS tapes, etc. that you would love to post online to share with your family and friends.  This is the first batch of songs I archived from the mid-1990's U-GUYS band media, mostly cassette tapes .. yes, that means analog dudes!  Songs were originally recorded on a Fostex 260 4-track recorder-mixer that used a special head to record up to four tracks at the same time.  Just like the Beatles huh? Songs were then mastered, sometimes with a live overdub or solo, onto a home cassette deck.  To get them online I used a simple 1/8 inch audio line from the cassette player to my HP Media Centre PC audio card.  To get the best signal I used a KOSS brand cable with gold-plated connectors.  Fifteen years later and the master cassettes are still in good shape but there has always been hiss and hum on the tracks.  To clean them I used Roxio Sound Editor software that comes with the Roxio Easy VHS to DVD hardware - it has a great group of powerful tools including Clean and Equalizer.  I also used the Record Audio function in the software.  It has the essential recording level and optional track detection functions.  I elected to record a whole side of the cassette first and then splice it up, saving individual projects to edit the different songs.