Goin’ for a stroll along Berkley Springs.
Oct 26, 2009 Bits and Pieces
Finally got around to getting some of the videos that were on me fathers’ camcorder onto my computer, and thus, have a first (of many, hopefully) video to grace my new youtube channel. The video is a cover of a song by an amazing local (but now not-so-local) fingerstyle guitarist Don Ross. The song is called Berkley Springs. I’ll admit to learning the first part of it with tab, but I had trouble finding good tabs for the whole song, so I learnt it by ear from about :50 seconds on.
YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MistaHugh
Go check it out if you can! Comment and rate.. scream.. eat pies. Whatever be your choice.
Hopefully I’ll have more of these videos up over the next couple weeks. One of my guitar requires minor surgeries, and until those are taken care of, I’ll probably hold off. But until then!…
Peace and Love,
Hugo
A wee bit o’ radio play.
Oct 17, 2009 Music stuffs
This past Wednesday, a pretty cool thing happened to me. Last weekend I sent a couple of songs from my EP to the big kahuna (ish) of the Conestoga Radio station. I got an email back saying it wasn’t quite the material they were looking for their main station programming, which is mostly new rock. My hopes were a bit dashed, but he said he sent it to a few other people who run different programs on the station. One of those programs, Pull the Plug, hosted by Carolyn, Shannon and Adam, is an all-acoustic show that airs Wednesday nights from 10pm-midnight. Wednesday night I got a message from Shannon saying that they had enjoyed the material I sent, and put it on air!
F**kin’ A! .. were the words, if maybe a bit calmer-spoken, that I said. I was, and am very stoked that some of my songs were deemed interesting enough to put on air, (and also well-mixed enough, thanks to Theo Posthumus).
There is a live steam of the show posted every Wednesday online. When it comes up I’ll be sure to post the link through facebook, or here, or what have you, so you can check out the programming. They seem like a bunch of pretty cool folk.. and you might hear one of my tunes at some point.
On November 4th, it would mean a hell of a lot to me if you would all tune in and listen to the live stream. I’ll be going in and spending a couple of hours with the hosts of Pull the Plug, to talk, have fun, and play 4 or 5 live songs. I hope to see some of you listening.. it should be good times had by all.
For those who haven’t listened to the new material from the upcoming EP, I’ve posted nearly all the songs that are already recorded and some mixed on Myspace @
www.myspace.com/hugorb
The songs will be there until the release of the album, to give you all a solid idea of what the general feel of the material is like, in case you might want to get a copy. (hint hint)
Peace and love,
HugoRB
Hello and welcome :)
Oct 16, 2009 Bits and Pieces
So here we are. My first venture in to the world of blogging.
I’m not 100% sure as to what this is going to be yet. A music blog? An art blog? A whatever-comes-to-mind-at-the-time blog?
Why not all of those things?
I don’t want to divulge too much here. But please feel free to peruse the area, add a comment.. say hello, say mean and incriminating things (only if they’re justified.), and just generally share the positive energies I know you all have.
Enjoy!
HugoRB