Hi there

After a lot of huffing and puffing I finally managed to upload some songs onto Youtube.

Quite an experience for most of us. I kept wondering what conclusions other people had come to. Its not all common sense - its quite a learning curve.

I videoed myself four times in all. The first time I didn't amplify the guitar and the acoustic guitar was too quiet for the camcorder microphone to pick up.

The second time was at a gig. A mate of mine was shooting the camera - pointing it up at the stage. The picture was SO distorted. My bollocks were in the centre of the frame and they looked as wide as my guitar. Plus you could hear the camera man laughing at the jokes - even though he'd heard them all before!

The third time, just in my back room, but with a small acoustic AER amplifier on the guitar. Good result. But I did it all in one take, and it was the devils own job to use the editing tools to cut the take into individual songs. So in the end - we did it all in separate little takes. You can see it here:-
http://uk.youtube.com/user/bigalwhittle

The other thing was what to put. Even my worst enemies would say I'm not a bad guitarist, but Youtube is full of shit hot guitarists - you can't really compete with greatest in world. However nobody else write songs like the five I've put on there :George Joseph Smith; Trish; The Big Red Sausage; Aunty Nelly's Boogie and Buster the Line Dancing Dog. So sorry if the guitar playing seems a bit nothing.

I hope some of you give them a try, and hopefully like one or two of the songs, and that I make some old friends smile, and mett some new friends with Youtube.

All the best

Big Al Whittle