waltertore
163 posts
Feb 11, 2010
2:32 PM
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Hi All: I recorded these this afternoon. Walter
I'm really in love
long distance woman blues
people have quit caring about right and wrong
my sweet judy b
the cure for the deep blues
when your blue come by here
a blast from the past- austin, tx 1984
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
my music
my videos
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Hobostubs Ashlock
445 posts
Feb 11, 2010
2:51 PM
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i listened to the Twisting time thing song im not sure if thats the one you have mentioned on the thread but i like it,you have a quick hit bouncy flow of your harmonica i like it,adds a rythem of its own to the music,its a sound i havent heard alot of players doing,but it sure works good with your work
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waltertore
164 posts
Feb 11, 2010
3:35 PM
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thanks for listening Hobostubs! I think playing all the instruments at once has created that thing you are talking about. I appreciate you commenting on that. When you play different, most pass it by. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
my music
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 11, 2010 3:37 PM
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LeonStagg
122 posts
Feb 11, 2010
6:05 PM
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Glad to see you back Walter!
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Hobostubs Ashlock
447 posts
Feb 11, 2010
7:17 PM
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yea i really like how it adds allmost a percussive like rythem to the other instruments,i was wondering if you developed that from playing everything at once.
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waltertore
166 posts
Feb 12, 2010
6:03 AM
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Thanks Leon. I enjoy this forum and I enjoy sharing the way I learned from the old bluesmen. A local teenager emailed me yesterday asking if he could come by and play. He said he wants to get better on harp. I responded:
"thanks for the note! I don't really know anything about music. I learned from the old bluesmen. I lived with them or would visit them. They played and i listened and it progressed from there. Sometimes I ended up in their band and other times I just sat and listened on their couches. It all was a great experience. It is an old school apprentice like way of learning that they learned by and passed on to me. That is pretty much how I do things. If you want to come by and hang out some and go from there you are more than welcome. Let me know."
I will be curious to see if he responds because this is a different way of learning than what I generally see today
Hobostubs: I think being around sonny terry had a huge subconcious impact on this way of playing. He filled up a ton of space with his sounds and rhytmic playing. I never have tried to sound like him, and believe I don't sound like him at all, but he was a huge influence.
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
my music
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 12, 2010 6:07 AM
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saregapadanisa
138 posts
Feb 12, 2010
7:21 AM
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Hi Walter, I am a now rather frequent visitor to your soundclick site, and still have to find something bad from your incredible musical output.
As a musician and avid listener, I'm not easily impressed, but, sad to say : I AM impressed, both by your music and by your creativity.
Keep posting your links on this forum.
And for those who haven't checked Walter's music yet : go for it.
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waltertore
169 posts
Feb 12, 2010
3:45 PM
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thanks so much for listening and asking others to check out my music! Making up music as you go along is easy when you follow your dreams. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
my music
my videos
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waltertore
170 posts
Feb 12, 2010
3:45 PM
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
my music
my videos
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shanester
102 posts
Feb 13, 2010
8:45 AM
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Hey Walter, that's way cool, I've been enjoying your stuff and congratulations on your new success with the tv thing!
That photo makes me nostalgic for sure! I was in high school in '84 just starting to have my mind blown as I got exposed to all the great, eclectic home grown music around town back then!
Austin is still absolutely a musical crossroads, now more than ever, but it is a much slicker and faster pace place these days. I get nostalgic for the slacker days...it didn't take much to get by, plenty of time to hang out, jam, good cheap food! I didn't have any interest in the pop charts back then, it all sucked, everthing great was in town and live!
I still love this town with all my heart, wouldn't call any place else home!
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waltertore
174 posts
Feb 13, 2010
8:57 AM
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hi shanester: I miss austin. It was home from 85-96. Do you remember the original black cat lounge on 6th street? It only held about 80 people. I played there for 8 years. It was the wildest club in town. the hole in the wall, continental club, outhouse, flying circus, liberty lunch, antones, stubbs, and alot of other clubs I played there. When we moved to Ca in 96, the austin I knew was long dead. The rents went up, the clubs closed, and the heyday was gone. Back then things were more like one big musical family. Will/charlie Sexton took me under their wing when I hit town (heck they were still in their teens) and brought me right up to the top floor of the music scene. If you see either of them around tell them hi. Say hi to these guys too if you see them- mike vernon, speedy sparks, teddy roddy, rick broussard, dave sanger, frosty, montey warden, rich minus, tex thomas, and everyone else from that era. I would have to make a list a couple hundred long. I miss barton springs in the summer! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuos streaming - 200 of my music
my videos
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shanester
103 posts
Feb 13, 2010
9:17 AM
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I absolutely remember the black cat!. Of course hole in the wall, stubbs, antones and the continental are still here and thriving.
You might want to know that Will Sexton has had a minor stroke. Here's a link:
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/12/10/give_will_sexton_a_hand.html
I'll say hi for you when I see them!
Shane
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shanester
104 posts
Feb 13, 2010
9:31 AM
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Will was interviewed last week on kut, having a bit of difficulty choosing his words, he's starting to get at playing music, but has to use lyric sheets and other notes to deliver the music. They do expect full recovery.
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waltertore
176 posts
Feb 13, 2010
9:47 AM
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that is shocking news on Will. He is so young. I will pray he makes a full recovery. He was very close to Judy and me. He needed guardians because he was underaged. He wanted us to be his. The record company would rent us a big house and pay the bills. We had to say no because our lifestyle was not as wild as Will's at the time. Will was very kind to us. Maybe we met at the black cat? I had that caddy parked in front and was always dressed in outfits like in the picture. Remeber Dino Lee? He and I use to compare threads. I had the wife of an east austins preacher make all my suits. I was given the black cat mojo guitar by paul sessoms when we left austin. Will and Charlie put together a bunch of sunday goodbye shows at stubbs. Paul gave me the guitar and the watercolor portrait that hung in the club. Do you remember those paintings? Anyway, the guitar was made for me by a mojo man. Paul was so excited to give it to me. I was so excited to play it! But it wouldn't work and Charlie said to just hang it on the wall for decoration. Paul was pissed. We moved to Ca and a couple years later the phone rang and I was told Paul had died in a wreck. I pulled the guitar out and it played perfect and was in perfect tune! Then, the day I opened a website for my smiling with hope foundation (to create meaningful work and living situations for developmentally delayed people) I got another call that the black cat lounge burned down. Now if you knew Paul, he was about the most musically loving driven man ever born, and now all that is left of his musical legacy is that portrait and the black cat mojo guitar. It has predicted my studio, creating meaningful work for the developmentally delayed population. When he gave me this guitar, and I read the spell on it, I thought he was nuts. I always thought him nuts but in a good way! We argued all the time. He told me over and over to fire my band, put a mic under my foot and do it all myself. He also told me over and over again that I was way too hung up with the audience. He was right on both counts. I realized that years later. He was a huge part of me finding me musically. Here is a clip of a song with the black cat mojo guitar. It only plays when it wants. I calls me. No lie. The action is real high like a lap steel. I use my palm on the bass strings and a lap steel slide to make the notes an chords. Here is the guitar:
songs with the black cat mojo guitar
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8264277
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=3558618
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuos streaming - 200 of my music
my videos
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shanester
105 posts
Feb 13, 2010
10:19 AM
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These tales tap into the core of my spine! Those kind of mojos given with love and respect to recipient are truly precious and powerful, thanks for sharing that!
I've received some myself in my musical path. I've got Brian from Glass Eye's, guitar, Leanne Atherton's harmonica, master tapes and a drawing by Daniel Johnston (he colored it, too!)
I definitely remember Dino Lee, king of white trash! He had reinvented himself as more of an upscale big band thing recently, don't know if he's still doing it, but it was fun, heard it on kut.
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waltertore
177 posts
Feb 13, 2010
10:36 AM
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shanester: I am sorry we didn't get to know each other in austin. I remember daniel. I hope he has found some peace. A lot of people viewed his mental illness as selling point. I stayed away from it all. I have had countless things like this happen during my life with the old bluesmen, guys like Paul, you, and lots of loving dogs! Eat some good bbq for me. I learned from stubbs and have a smoker in my yard, but right now it is burried in 2 feet of snow! Do you remember Niles Fuller? He is the photographer that took that picture on my first post. He took portrait shots of everybody who was anybody during the 80's austin scene. They are now in the texas music library- or something like that, in austin. It would be worth spending an aftenoon looking through them. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuos streaming - 200 of my music
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 13, 2010 10:38 AM
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shanester
106 posts
Feb 13, 2010
11:14 AM
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Daniel has had a resurgence. He has art showings that are i think fairly lucrative and they made a documentary about him and he has a recent album. I don't have any personal contact with him at this point but I think surely he must have found some peace for getting recognized as an institution of sorts.
When I first heard his stuff I thought it was some of the most beautiful and naked music expressing the frailty of what it is to be human. I still do.
If ME Television has an online presence you should find it. They show a lot of great music video from many periods of austin music. You will probably see yourself. Their office is in that old porno theater on South Congress. I will look myself but right now I got to go fix a friends telephone! See ya!
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http://www.youtube.com/1shanester
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