You Gangsta!

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:04]Good morning, gang.

[00:00:07]I just returned from New York.

[00:00:10]This was yesterday.

[00:00:12]I subbed for Frank Vignola on uh guitar night at Birdland.

[00:00:18]Ooh, I played with Dave Stryker.

[00:00:20]Guitar, great guitar player.

[00:00:23]And two new uh guys that I met, which is beautiful players. Uh Stephen Johns on drums and Marcus uh McLaren on bass.

[00:00:38]Scottish name.

[00:00:41]And [music] uh I'm going to try and include the link if you want to watch it.

[00:00:49]And I will see my Zoom guys today uh at uh noon.

[00:01:00]>> [music] >> New York time, Eastern Standard Time.

[00:01:12]Some of the things we're going to talk about are uh target notes.

[00:01:18]Um going to make sure that uh make sure that everybody is practicing the correct way.

[00:01:26]How to make a little practice schedule.

[00:01:29]>> [music] >> We're going to learn a tune.

[00:01:33]And it's uh Girl from Ipanema. I'll play a little bit of it for you.

[00:01:39]If I can, I don't know if what I'm going to work.

[00:01:42]It works better on Zoom than it does here.

[00:01:50]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> A little preview of that. We're going to talk about what I'm thinking about there.

[00:03:05]Which pitch collection?

[00:03:06]>> [music] >> Which fingering?

[00:03:11]Good to be back home. As much as I like New York, I love New York.

[00:03:21]>> [music] >> This is a D'Angelico guitar that I haven't played in a while.

[00:03:29]16-in one. I I used the uh uh Gibson 175 at Birdland.

[00:03:38]I played through Frank Vignola's uh What is it? A Fender Princeton. Love that amp, a tube amp.

[00:03:45]Good amp. Right now, I have the playing through a Henriksen Bud with a 10-in speaker.

[00:03:52]Surely hard to tell the difference sometimes. I just love Henriksen stuff.

[00:03:57]>> [music] >> And there you have it.

[00:04:02]Uh So, for the Zoom guys, I'll see you at noon.

[00:04:08]For the rest of you, I'll see you soon.

[00:04:13]There is a difference between an augmented 11th and a flat five.

[00:04:19]And I'll leave you with that. Wait, I didn't curse. Oh, man. Geez.

[00:04:26]Well, you know, it was a woman that came up to me at the end of uh the performance at Birdland. And uh she she she I get this a lot.

[00:04:40]She says uh she said, "You know, you talked on the mic. I expected you to curse like the YouTube channel." I says, "Well, I can't do it here. The owner would shoot me."

[00:04:50]And she says, "Oh, come on. Let me let me hear you curse." I says, "I go [ __ ] yourself, you old bag." And she laughed. It's so bizarre. Now, this YouTube found this thing, you know.

[00:05:02]>> [music] >> And the show was sold out, believe it or not.

[00:05:09]>> [music] >> And I actually did like my playing. How about that?

[00:05:17]Never usually [music] never do.

[00:05:22]Played a little bit of little solo guitar.

[00:05:26]So, Dave he played some beautiful piece that uh the tune I don't know.

[00:05:32]And it's sung by Bread.

[00:05:36]It was so good. I really enjoyed listening to him play and and uh and the drummer and the bass player were just so good. I could listen to those guys play all night.

[00:05:47]And I'll leave you with that. And for you guys who like me to curse, [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] Piss.

[00:05:58]Everybody happy? Hey, you like my hat?

[00:06:00]You know, I went to pick up Chinese food the other day.

[00:06:03]And uh I noticed uh this lady that's been working there for oh god, she was always there. Been here 27 years, she says.

[00:06:13]And her friend says, "Boy, were you were you gangster? You gangster?"

[00:06:17]Because I had the hat and a black shirt.

[00:06:20]All right.

[00:06:21]Stay tuned.