Touch of Grey Bass Cover

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I’m really not sure what the story behind the whole “420” thing is, but I hope that everyone who celebrates it is having a good one.

While perusing my covers for something relevant to the “holiday”, this was as close as anything came - “Touch of Grey” by The Grateful Dead off their album, “In the Dark” which came out in 1987 and features Phil Lesh on bass.

I put this cover in the “Learned For Live” playlist. The following paragraph describes what that playlist is about (except for the “one take” thing, I recorded a few takes of this one) -

“The songs in this playlist are songs I've learned for a live situation. I take a different approach for learning songs to play live than I do for my normal cover videos. For my videos I normally agonize over the correctness of every note but I'm not quite so demanding of myself for live material. I tend to pick and choose my favorite licks that I consider to be important and signature to the song, as well as the licks that I think I'll be able to play most comfortably and most consistently. I also take a "live" approach when recording these videos as well - one take, just like a live performance.”

I’m playing the short-scale, single-pickup, Korean-made, Guild Starfire bass.

Here’s something odd and amusing. When Lynn and I first met, she told my sister, Christine (with whom she was friends with), that I reminded her of Jerry Garcia. I’ve still never gotten a proper explanation of what she meant by that.