So this whole filling Facebook up with music thing has been nice. The ice bucket challenge was fun and for a good cause, but music will always trump charity in my book. One post has jumped out above all to me. Mutha Hubbard (Ray Wylie's wife) posted this when she was given the letter "H". It's pure Wylie magic.
Thanks KUTX for capturing this magic moment!
Shining a light on the live music culture in New Braunfels and beyond.
Showing posts with label wylieisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wylieisms. Show all posts
Redneck Mother: The Backstory
A few years ago when YouTube was in its infancy and songwriting had already been a thing for a long time, I looked up one of my favorite songwriters and this was the first Ray Wylie video I ever saw on YouTube. This isn't what made me a fan, but it sure didn't hurt!
Wylieisms: The Guy and Townes Story
This was plucked from the Facebook garden of goodness posted by Ray Wylie Hubbard... I love all of it, you get an occasional excerpt here:
links:
Ray Wylie's Facebook
i thought i told the guy and townes story..anyhow if you missed it here it is again.. i went to see guy and townes at the 3 tear drops tavern in dallas do a song swap..place was packed. i was standing at the bar and and didn't even know they knew i was there. they got on stage and had played about 45 minutes when townes said ''hey, there's ray wylie hubbard at the bar..lets get him up to do a song.'' i walked up to the stage to a smattering of applause, townes handed me his guitar and he and guy walked off stage. i forgot what i played but was about half way through it, maybe 2 minutes or so when i look up and the front door of the club swings open and i see guy and townes get into a cab. i finished the song and i think i said, ''there's gonna be a short break here for a while..guy and townes just left in a cab..i'm pretty sure they'll be back.'' the audience just laughed and kind of whooped and applauded and about a half an hour later guy and townes walked in, got on stage and played a couple of hours.. poets are like that.
i consider guy and townes and billy joe the high holy and sacred songwriting trinity.. and if you were to cut their words..they would bleed. hey i got a bunch of other stuff to lay on you this week.
practice..read..listen..watch..
yours truly,
rwh
links:
Ray Wylie's Facebook
Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Disclaimers
This is from Ray's twitter feed @raywylie and I thought it was high time I added more of his bits of wisdom.
#1: i am not responsible for any songs written by those i showed how to make an E chord without the 3rd or a fingerpicking patternIf there are more, I'll add them!
#2: i did not authorize any of those photographs taken where i look goofy
#3: i am not kin to l. ron hubbard; any hubbards in professional wrestling, running guns, faith healing or doing time..well, sure
#4: don't blame me for all this 'redneck' hoopla. 40 years ago i was a hippie..it was meant sarcastically
#5: i never actually sold my soul to the devil..i did lease it to him when i was in my twenties for a while..
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Sideman Hints
I love anything that Ray Wylie Hubbard writes, that includes his 140s of wisdom, advice or humor. When he goes into a theme, I feel the need to blog it. I hope he doesn't mind, it's what I do!
Sideman Hints:
Sideman Hints:
- @raywylie: sideman hint #1: on stage if you don't have a microphone..don't mouth the words to the song the singer's singing. kinna show offie & creepy
- @raywylie: sideman hint #2: don't play while the singer's singing. they don't like that. the reason mickey rafael has had his job for decades.
- @raywylie: sideman hint#3: no matter how many times you've heard the patter between songs when the singer says the punchline..you laugh your ass off.
- @raywylie: sideman hint#4: if there's another guitar player in the band, don't ever walk over & turn his volume down during a song. there will be blood
- @raywylie: forget sideman hint #4..if the other guitar player is too loud, feel free to go turn his amp down. In fact I insist..he'll thank you.
Ray's response to some guys' response to...
Okay, so unless I decide to post more, this is the last post I'll make about the Ray Wylie Hubbard "Hey you kids get off my lawn" series. I saw Ray's humor in his original posts on Twitter which I started to catalog here. I stumbled onto a "response" to Ray's posts in a publicly posted note on Facebook, so I put in my 2 cents and posted the original, unedited text of the note in another blog post which has now been edited slightly to mask out the guy's name because even though he made a bad choice he doesn't deserve to continue to get lambasted, blasted or copied and pasted (heh) any more. I'm sure Mr. H is a good guy that just happened to criticize one of our favorite people and he *might* even wish he hadn't done it. That's just me making an assumption, and I usually try to let umption look however he is going to look on his own. Anyway, Ray was kind enough to give me some props in post #9 of 9 so far, and I hope he'll continue them, but if he doesn't he'll hopefully continue to write great songs, sing them, let others sing them, tour around the world singing them, do his Roots and Branches of Americana radio show on 92.1fm KNBT for MANY years to come while the rest of us stand by and watch in awe. Below is Ray's latest response to the whole situation, as well as some thoughts about recent and upcoming shows. I'll try to format this one better so it is clear it's somebody else's words and not mine, I hope nobody ever even for a moment thought those responses to Ray were mine! :)
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Just for grins, here is a blog I posted after interviewing Ray back in March before his Grit N Groove Fest in April. -Read it here
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whew. got to try to tweet the second thing that comes into my mind..i appreciate all the responses to my 'hey kids get off my lawn'. i got to realize that not everyone sees humor in what i say and there are those who don't have have a sense of humor at all or maybe just don't get mine.
i'm sure the road manager who wrote the response to the music of new braunfels article is a professional hard working dude who takes care of whatever band it is that employs him. i haven't figured out who that is..the truth is i haven't tried. i got other things to do than try to figure who he works for and it doesn't matter to me anyway and ain't gonna change nothing.
what matters is i got a road manager by the name of kayla who raises bulls for the bad company rodeo livestock company and takes care of me and kyle and lucas like a mama lion protecting her cubs, plans our tours like patton wearing lipstick and has a great sense of humor..worth repeating.. great sense of humor.. first thing judy taught her when she went to work for us was to smile when you're getting the money..we ain't been stiffed yet.
maybe ma hub should tweet her 10 rules of prosperity in getting a 66 year old dead thumb finger picking blues singing half ass poet who never has made the country charts or even the tx music charts a career that some have said they envy.
its still a struggle and as i've mentioned before there are years in the past that on my income tax return i have been just above hobby status.. i am probably repeating myself as i don't read these thing once i post them and i don't recall if i posted these things or just thought them.
san angelo was an off night. couldn't seem to connect. i told kyle that it was like playing for a photograph of an audience. just kidding...i mean i said it..but was just sorta kidding.
i am kinna sorry the marines down front who were just great heard me ask kayla how long we still had to play and when she said 50 minutes left i said 'go get paid now..i may quit at any time.' 5 minutes later she rubbed her thumb and fore finger together. patted her right boot and mouthed ' i got it.'
i didn't quit and played the full hour and a half. first time in a long time i didn't do an encore.
i did enjoy meeting those marines and taking a picture with them.
'to err is human, to forgive is divine..neither of which is marine corp policy." thank you guys for all you have done for this country. hope you dig the song 'red badge of courage'
kayla will give our military guys and gals a cd or a koozie ever so often cause she knows judy's pop was a marine.
okay roscoe tx and midland...here we come..gonna bring lucas and his vox ac 30..listen to choctaw bingo between now and then cause i'm gonna ask you to sing the verse about ruth ann and lynn and them cut off britches . it will be a time, i promise..well, then again.. you should know i am thinking about starting a movement called 'promise breakers.'
rwh
Thanks Ray!what matters is i got a road manager by the name of kayla who raises bulls for the bad company rodeo livestock company and takes care of me and kyle and lucas like a mama lion protecting her cubs, plans our tours like patton wearing lipstick and has a great sense of humor..worth repeating.. great sense of humor.. first thing judy taught her when she went to work for us was to smile when you're getting the money..we ain't been stiffed yet.
maybe ma hub should tweet her 10 rules of prosperity in getting a 66 year old dead thumb finger picking blues singing half ass poet who never has made the country charts or even the tx music charts a career that some have said they envy.
its still a struggle and as i've mentioned before there are years in the past that on my income tax return i have been just above hobby status.. i am probably repeating myself as i don't read these thing once i post them and i don't recall if i posted these things or just thought them.
san angelo was an off night. couldn't seem to connect. i told kyle that it was like playing for a photograph of an audience. just kidding...i mean i said it..but was just sorta kidding.
i am kinna sorry the marines down front who were just great heard me ask kayla how long we still had to play and when she said 50 minutes left i said 'go get paid now..i may quit at any time.' 5 minutes later she rubbed her thumb and fore finger together. patted her right boot and mouthed ' i got it.'
i didn't quit and played the full hour and a half. first time in a long time i didn't do an encore.
i did enjoy meeting those marines and taking a picture with them.
'to err is human, to forgive is divine..neither of which is marine corp policy." thank you guys for all you have done for this country. hope you dig the song 'red badge of courage'
kayla will give our military guys and gals a cd or a koozie ever so often cause she knows judy's pop was a marine.
okay roscoe tx and midland...here we come..gonna bring lucas and his vox ac 30..listen to choctaw bingo between now and then cause i'm gonna ask you to sing the verse about ruth ann and lynn and them cut off britches . it will be a time, i promise..well, then again.. you should know i am thinking about starting a movement called 'promise breakers.'
rwh
Just for grins, here is a blog I posted after interviewing Ray back in March before his Grit N Groove Fest in April. -Read it here
Some guy's response to "Hey you kids get off my lawn"
Sometimes people amaze me. Ray Wylie Hubbard has paid his dues 10 fold and has tons of valuable knowledge that people would pay good money for, but he's a good guy and chooses to dump the goods on us through free social media.
Below is the original text and the response below each one from the tour manager from a Texas band that I have found myself enjoying in the past...
NOTE: THE TEXT BELOW IS NOT MINE, it was copied from somebody's public Facebook note
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In Response to Ray Wylie Hubbard
By P###### H####
Below is the original text and the response below each one from the tour manager from a Texas band that I have found myself enjoying in the past...
NOTE: THE TEXT BELOW IS NOT MINE, it was copied from somebody's public Facebook note
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In Response to Ray Wylie Hubbard
By P###### H####
I just read this post that a couple of my friends reposted:
I'd like to respond.
#1: hey young bands, don't use in/ear monitors at a club. it looks stupid. quit it. you ain't bon jovi.
This doesn't make any sense to me at all. Especially when you incorporate it with Ray's #7. Are looks important only when the musician is wearing IEMs? Or only when they buy a guitar? Does it make sense to have in ear monitors because you want consistent, isolated, quality sound for every gig no matter it being in a club, a studio, or a stadium? As many of you know, there aren't many qualified sound engineers running monitors and many clubs these days. PLUS: IEMs can SAVE your hearing.
#2. ok especially txreddirt bands..if you gonna steal a riff and write a song, don't make it as obvious as 'stranglehold.' jeez.
I'm not sure to whom RWH is referring, but I strongly believe that from each song that is written, another evolves. Over and over. It's ok to be influenced by great music, songs, and performers. Take what's theirs and morph it into what you believe is another brilliant idea. Musicians, to me, are some of the smartest people I know. So artistic. So creative. Sensitive, emotional, hard, driven....I could go on. Musical evolution isn't something that is new or something that will ever go away.
#3. don't say your influence is townes and then write metaphor deficient mid tempo trite singalongs..leave that to me.
Why not? Who are you, RWH, to tell a musician what they can and cannot write? Who made you the musical composition ambassador to the world? Are you policing musical creativity? Why are there all of a sudden music writing restrictions? WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THIS??
#4. don't do walk/on music at a club gig. its hokey. cut the sound off for 3 minutes before you go on so the crowd can't compare you to other bands (that are better than you)
This is just dumb. Who's to say that the audience compares the performers to the previously played artist? What kind of gig, if not "club gig" is appropriate for this to take place? And where is the dos and don'ts musician's manual I can refer? A show, in my opinion, is an event. Something that a concert goer will get satisfaction from upon arrival and all the way until they leave. Popular music is just that, popular. I truly think it's ok for someone to listen to great music before a show. Even if they're better that the upcoming act. Or are we just going to decide this for our audiences also?
#5. right now maybe having tasty guitar chops isn't as important as being on the tx music chart but someday it might be all you have and will come in handy.
But this means bands should stop their song from reaching high placement on a chart? Can't an artist want/achieve both?
#6. even at some gigs if you think of me as an old whore still turning tricks..you need to know i ain't faking it.
Age has nothing to do with anything. You have stereotyped and labeled a group of musicians in almost everyone of your points. If you have beef with an artist, let em know. JUST KIDDING. Artists DO NOT NEED ANYONE'S APPROVAL to create, display, or perform their art, Mr. Ambassador.
#7. when in a music store and you want to try out a guitar, plug it into an amp..don't ask if they got a mirror.
I'm a 2 birds with 1 stone kind of guy. I suggest finding an amp in front of a mirror. And you do know that not everyone plays guitar, right?
Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Get off my lawn" series
Ray Wylie Hubbard (@raywylie) started posting these on Twitter, and I felt compelled to log them here. Ray is one of my favorite people in the business, and anything he does, did or ever will do is great. The sooner you learn that, the sooner you can improve your life by adding a daily dose of Hubbard to it! :)
hey you kids get off my lawn:
#1: hey young txreddirt bands. don't use in/ear monitors at a club.it looks stupid. quit it. you ain't bon jovi
#2: ok txreddirt bands..if you gonna steal a riff and write a song don't make it as obvious as 'stranglehold'. jeez
#3: don't say your influence is townes & then write metaphor deficient medium tempo trite singalongs. leave that to me
#4: don't do walk/on music at club gig. its hokey. cut the sound for 3 mins b4 u go on so crowd won't compare you to other bands
#5: maybe having tasty guitar chops isn't as important as being on tx music chart but someday it might be all you have & will come in handy.
#6: even at some gigs if you think of me as an old whore still turning tricks..you need to know i ain't faking it.
#7: when in a music store and you want to try out a guitar, plug it into an amp..don't ask if they got a mirror
#8: by the way, if i was a young band and wanted to have a bus and laminates i would probably not take my advice.
#9: you should find a road manager who is highly efficient yet has a sense of humor and doesn't piss off journalists.
note: I am honored Ray considers me a journalist! (:
HOPEFULLY more to come!
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my April, 2013 pre-Grit N Groove interview
hey you kids get off my lawn:
#1: hey young txreddirt bands. don't use in/ear monitors at a club.it looks stupid. quit it. you ain't bon jovi
#2: ok txreddirt bands..if you gonna steal a riff and write a song don't make it as obvious as 'stranglehold'. jeez
#3: don't say your influence is townes & then write metaphor deficient medium tempo trite singalongs. leave that to me
#4: don't do walk/on music at club gig. its hokey. cut the sound for 3 mins b4 u go on so crowd won't compare you to other bands
#5: maybe having tasty guitar chops isn't as important as being on tx music chart but someday it might be all you have & will come in handy.
#6: even at some gigs if you think of me as an old whore still turning tricks..you need to know i ain't faking it.
#7: when in a music store and you want to try out a guitar, plug it into an amp..don't ask if they got a mirror
#8: by the way, if i was a young band and wanted to have a bus and laminates i would probably not take my advice.
#9: you should find a road manager who is highly efficient yet has a sense of humor and doesn't piss off journalists.
note: I am honored Ray considers me a journalist! (:
HOPEFULLY more to come!
links:
website
my April, 2013 pre-Grit N Groove interview
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