Tea-Totallers

December 3, 2007

Yannis replied to the Weekly Workshop on 12/2/07:

Hey Pats, Very sweet of you to thank me publicly for a bit of raki.

Two things though, my friends. Firstly, it is I who should be thanking you for all the help you’ve given me (and countless others) with your musical generosity. And I do, from the bottom of my heart.

Secondly, that is the most pathetic dent in a bottle of raki that I’ve ever seen! The old man down the lane drinks twice that before breakfast for goodness sake.

C’mon guys:

  1. Assume the right hand position for frailing and then rotate the hand so that the forefinger is extended forwards and the thumb is pointing up.
  2. Place shot glass full (or half full for girls) of clear liquid rocket fuel in between palm and ‘bottom’ three fingers .
  3. Wish your drinking buddies ‘good health’.
  4. Empty entire contents of glass down your throat.
  5. Feel the warmth rise up from your belly to the top of your head.

Repeat as necessary until all the world’s problems are solved 


 
Click on the above link if you want to have a good laugh. That’s me massacering your lovely blues licks. One take-warts n all

Thanks for everything,
Yannis

The drinking tips make for interesting reading, but Dear Old Dad and I are both tea-totallers. We don’t even own any shot glasses. Heck, we had to use Dixie Cups for Gunny Mike’s toast!

We just don’t drink.

The blues banjo is actually looking and sounding pretty good, Yannis.

I am hoping to find some way to get out to visit you someday. I’ll give you some pointers on the banjo and you can teach me how to drink raki!

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5 Responses to “Tea-Totallers”

  1. Yannis Says:

    December 4, 2007 at 2:35 am

    Playing banjo and drinking raki…now there’s two hobbies worth putting some time into. Heck, if the tune has a couple of measures of ‘G’ in it, Patrick, I’ll show you how to drink left-handed so you don’t even have to stop strumming in order to persue both simultaneously!

  2. Wolfgang Says:

    December 4, 2007 at 4:07 am

    Patrick, before you go to Crete give me a call. I´d like to join you! We would sit on a cliff high above the beach, look down to the Aegean Sea where Homer (NOT the Simpson-guy!) sang his songs about Troja and Odysseus, Yannis would play the banjo, you play your dobro and I take the greek bouzouki. Posting this on your blog would even top the bathroom-singers ;-)

    Thank your for your good work!
    Wolfgang

  3. Wolfgang Says:

    December 4, 2007 at 4:31 am

    By the way: They drink water too on Crete…

    Wolfgang

  4. David Steenken Says:

    December 4, 2007 at 5:46 am

    Yannis, I really like the groove you’ve got going there. There are any number of songs you could sing along with that, such as “Got My Mojo Working” by Muddy Waters, “Sloppy Drunk” by Jimmy Rogers, “Tell Me Mama” by Little Walter. The tunes I mentioned are/were played in an amplified full-band setting and are quite famous in the “Chicago Blues” world, but they would work for sure and can definitely be “countrified”. I mean they are just country blues in essence. One thing: You might not want to imply that V7 chord at the end of some choruses instead of hammering it. Just a thought.

  5. David Steenken Says:

    December 5, 2007 at 5:03 am

    Hope I don’t put you off by ropping those names of heavyweight Chicago blues players. Those are some of the guys I listened to when I started playing my first instrument, the harmonica, and those tunes just stick in my head all the time. The do make great banjo tunes.

    David


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