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An impromptu recording of Over the Rainbow on my 1997 from a few weeks ago. Pardon my ugly nob.

I really did enjoy that Noel.Lovely.

That's Scotty. It's a bit ragged, but not completely awful. I adore the song and would like to give it the proper works soon (even if Les Paul sort of raised the bar).

Nowt wrong with being rough round the edges sometimes polished can be blinding.....Oh nice geetar btw.

Nice job, Noel! If I heard that in the subway, I'D toss you a buck!

I'm missing the "ugly nob" reference, though.

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Thanks. I'd like to blame the pretty guitar for making me look ugly -but it was just God's will.

I'm not familiar with the Les Paul version, but your take on it is 1,000 times better than that recent cover that has gotten so popular with the overbearing male vocals. I think I heard that same song at three separate parties last year... DJs are crazy.

Keep working on it! I like where you're aiming. I am still trying to do a decent cover of Bill Evans' "Nardis" on my fretless bass (in fact I submitted my very first, within-five-minutes-of-owning-my-fretless clip of it here), but I still suck. I notice that it often takes me one or two years to complete an ambitious project like that, but when I finally have it feels like quite an accomplishment, and of course a lot of lessons are learned along the way. Don't give up!

Thanks Josh! I need to do a multi-track version with an acoustic rhythm so the Ric doesn't sound quite as naked. Truth is I got excited about my camera recording sound and wanted to do something Rickenbacker based.

Good luck with 'Nardis'.