Jan 04 2009
Blog 1
This is my first time ever blogging. I plan on keeping this mostly as a journal. My Sunday was fairly typical. I woke up and watched Meet the Press. I read a little bit of from a James Agee and Norman Mailer book. I watched football, played guitar, drank beer, and started a fire. I will eventually create more of a point with my blogs, but for my first one I will just tell a little bit about my current state of affairs.
I will be getting married to my fiance Rose in a couple months out here in Austin. Im originally from Northern California and have been out here for a years. I play in a band out here with Amber Lucille. I play slide guitar. I also write songs and record songs which you can hear at www.myspace.com/tomasijohnmontana. So my blog should be full of stories from playing in a band in Austin, TX, drinking escapades, politics, literature, and getting married.
My main focus today was working on a new tuning I developed on guitar. I play it like like 5-string open G, (open G is the tuning Keith Richards learned from Ry Cooder and used heavily through out the seventies. His famous quote about it is something like, “all it takes is 5 strings, 3 fingers, and one asshole to play it.” Its like a banjo tuning.} but I leave the high E. so its EBGDG from high to low. I like it because I can solo and play chords like in standard tuning, but also all the strings except the high E is an open G. So it is good for slide and blues riffs. Today I tried to figure it out playing along with the Rolling Stones and Son Volt. This blog is probably more musically technical then I will ever be again.
