Venice: a Voice Memo
(this week i turn 50)
Note: Play It Like It’s Music is growing back into itself, and I thank you for listening. The “show” part of the show will be diversifying as we go along, but next week there’s no episode since I’ll be on vacation celebrating my 50th birthday.
We’ll catch back up the following Wednesday.
Greetings. Today I’m mostly just going to play for you, so click “Play” to hear some music.
It’s a casual hang, I’m just sitting in the open air living room with the squeals of the neighbors kid and birds included, just as if you’re visiting me at home.
It’s a sweet sendoff, since we depart Venice Beach for our long trip to the east coast on Friday.
Fear not:
It may seem to you that I’m just taking up space in your inbox without providing much in the way of content. In the coming weeks I’ll be bringing back some conversations with musicians and other characters about stuff we all love, so thanks for bearing with me! It’s been an eventful season in Play It Like It’s Music land.
Today’s musical selections from my living room:
J.S. Bach Prelude to Suite for Unaccompanied Cello in G Major. Played on telecaster with perhaps a bit too much tremolo. Guitarists usually transpose this to another key, but I like it in the original key, obviously.
Trevor Exter: “Mexico”. This is a tune I’ve done previously with John Kimock (listen to the original here. I’m bringing it into the current set, along with a dozen or so brand new tunes which I can’t wait to share with you in person.
John and I will be playing together on October 6th, 7th and 8th. Big reunion, it’s gonna be great! More specific info soon.
Some recs for this week:
Listening: Joe Cocker, “Stingray” LP (1976). Run don’t walk!
Watching: “Broadcast News” (1987) dir. James L. Brooks. The place near the thing we went to that time.
Reading: “"The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll" (2019) by Ian S. Port. A pretty good book about electric guitars.
On Substack: A most eloquent short rant about recording music is no longer a viable business model by the legend himself, Nelson George.
I appreciate you very much, thanks. See you again after my big birthday burger in the desert.
As always, big love to your ears.
Trevor
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