Get Together

Its been a productive musical month in the Bass household, recently recording two new videos with the Flip camcorder (overcoming my technophobia to learn how to use it), available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/mrmallow3/videos   (video versions of Quinn the Eskimo and Going Up the Country, previously only available as audio versions!). I'm looking forward to working on a video for the old Youngbloods tune Get Together this week, written by Chet Powers, and also recorded by the Jefferson Airplane. There is also a recorded version by Chet Powers too. Always loved the yearning quality of the song, especially the recording by The Youngbloods, and really liked the chime like guitar and the sitar-like guitar solo. Recently heard a version of the song on YouTube, as performed by Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills, Nash and John Sebastian which inspired me to rework the song much differently than how I used to play it almost 40 years ago (did I really play this song that long ago........).

Getting together with my current musical partner Mark Huslage this week in preparation for an open mike on March 17th at Perry Hall Folk Music Night, as part of the continuing worldwide almost famous folksinger tour :-)  (web site: http://www.perryhallumc.org/FolkMusicNight/ ). Hope to see you there.


In the meantime, if you are not already a member of the almost famous folksinger song of the month club, please send your name and address to almostfamousfolksinger@mail.com so I can notify you when a new video makes its appearance. Operators are standing by.......

Peace,

Gary Kenneth Bass