Buddy speed picking practice without an amp

[Bo Borland]

I'm late to this dance but how cool to listen to E shedding.

And his quote "reminds me of the interest and intensity I had in playing at the time."

That says it all.. we miss you Boss , but enjoy your retirement

[Quentin Hickey]

I asked Buddy if he though that him practicing without an amp pushed him to playing each string a little harder?

To which he replied: "No; that's a natural response I have when trying to make the notes come out of the amp shaking their fist at the listener."

Nice!!

[Bill Quinn]

Went back and listened to this

[Kerry Johnson]

If I may shed some light on the recording, it’s one of what I call “chop checking” tapes I used to run once in a while. First of all, if it sounded like Paul, it was supposed to. There was a lick Paul played that I liked, so I played it to check my style of blocking against his pick blocking technique to see if it made a difference in speed or sound, which in this case it didn’t.

There were other spots that featured pedal steel, but many of the licks were played with a tuning I had put on a non-pedal lap top practice guitar Sierra made for me without a pickup. I still have the guitar but the tuning is long gone. I also thank Chris for posting the tape. It was made some time in the early eighties and reminds me of the interest and intensity I had in playing at the time.

I'm Resurrecting this old Thread in hopes that somebody may still have this Recording in a current App.

~Kerry Johnson
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[scott murray]

here's a link to download the mp3
https://www.mediafire.com/file/w0zf3tn1 ... e.mp3/file

a real fly-on-the-wall experience! amazing stuff

[Joe Krumel]

Thanks Scott. My first time hearing this! He was smooth as silk. He influenced all of us,and it continues to this day! Thanks again for re-posting.

[Chris Templeton]

The Picosong site has gone away. I will be posting some stuff on Soundcloud when I'm not so busy.