Jimmy "Flim" Johnson

[tubeperson]

It is always a two-way lesson between Teacher and Student, Jimmy!  But you already know that of course.  Ah Grasshopper!  I agree about Mr. Haslip, a terrific player and easy to talk to at concert venues as long as there are pretty women around!

[physics_doc]

Do you ever do club appearances in the Nashville area? I've seen Keith Carlock at 3rd & Lindsley, and wondered if you've ever gigged with him outside of a JT tour.
 
BTW, absolutely love Tricycle and This is A Recording (BB's).

[JimmyJ]

Hey Doctor Bill,
 
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the nice comments.  
 
I sometimes tour with Allan Holdsworth and there was a time when we could travel across the country playing clubs - but that's no longer a viable business model.  Now it only works to do a short east coast run or a short west coast run.  So the last time I played a club in Nashville would have been with him many years ago.  Though I did play Bridgestone Arena just last Thursday with JT, a nice intimate setting...  HA!
 
I think Keith might live in Nashville now, or maybe part of the time?  The tour he did with James was the only chance I've had to play with him so far and it was a treat.  Great cat too.
 
Jimmy J

[gbulfon]

Hi JJ,
with Franco and the band, we're thinking to work on Lanyard Loop, I was hoping if you can point me to any transcription, or I'll have to do the work myself...and you know pianist grapes of notes are not beloved by guitarists...
 
 thanx for any help  
Gabriele.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Well, my buddy Norm, who does the sound at Ravinia, says he can get us in for JT Friday - but now I started a crappy new job & am on night shift.  Oh, well - have fun Jimmy; wish I could see you!
 
Peter

[gbulfon]

Well, JJ, I did it myself, I will post it if you allow me...but.....my god.........timing is unpredictable!!!....almost got it, but sometime it just has no scheduling! LOL

[gbulfon]

...anyway, JJ...there's something uncomprehensible when you and allan and chad play together....no band of allan I've listened to ever spread the uncomprehensible perfectness of you three together....my god......you never know what's going to happen, and when is chaos, it's perfect chaos......you three just fit together!
 

Gabriele

[gbulfon]

Anyone interested, here some of my public transcriptions on Scribd, including Lanyard Loop, both piano and guitar tab versions  
 
http://www.scribd.com/gabriele_bulfon

[JimmyJ]

Hey Peter,
Sorry you can't make it but working is the best reason.  Good luck with the new job.
 
Gabrielle,
You picked a difficult tune!  Some of the rhythms in this song are just played by feel - almost like the group speaking words together.  I can assure you that none of us ever wrote the whole thing out so I have nothing to compare your transcription to.  My bass chart is the usual shorthand scribble, I don't remember Husband writing it out, Allan's chart on this one is amazing and looks like Martian cave writing, and I don't think Chad wrote it out either.  So you may be the first!  I can't really tell by looking at it if your notes and harmonies are correct, I'm not even sure of the rhythmic mathematics...  This is one of his crazier compositions.
 
The track was originally recorded with Husband and I in 2000 but that version has yet to be released.  So the one you're listening to with Chad (live in Japan?) is already a reinterpretation of the original.  Very similar, but not exactly the same because of what I say above - some of it is just felt, and different guys feel it in different ways.
 
For example, the 1/8 note at the end of the 5/4 bars is often part of a triplet, OR maybe just a stretched 1/8 note, OR somewhere in between.  And where you write 3:5 or 3 across 5 and 5:9, well, that may be correct but I can't really say.  I'm sure Chad could but I can't.
 
I do know the tempo change is some sort of metric modulation.  The two tempos are related somehow but I don't know the formula.
 
I'm glad you guys are having fun trying to figure these tunes out.  It's certainly good ear training.  Carry on!
 
Jimmy J

[gbulfon]

JJ,
 
yes I realized all that unwritable stuff was the result of your interplay, but that was the only way I found to write it down on Sibelius!  
And the fun part is that if you try to tap and don't be confused by your playing, it will happen to fall at a perfect beat at the end!
 Aliens  
 
I would really love to have a look at one of Allan's Martian cave writing, one day or another. Would be interesting!
 
And....btw.....I'm quite used to be transgendered by Americans, but.....  I'm a man! With one L!
 
Gabriele.

[JimmyJ]

Gabriee,
(I've deleted the L this time because I was ahead by one, sorry about that.)
 
Some day I hope Allan will release Husband's version too so you can hear the variation.  It's pretty interesting.
 
Allan's own charts are only for the solo sections.  And as you probably know his notation references the scales more so than the chords.  He hand writes them but once we did a computer graphics version for laughs and below is a glimpse of the beginning of the solo section for this tune - which only makes sense to him...
 
Enjoy!
 
Jimmy J

[gbulfon]

Wow!!!!! I still don't have written down the solo section, so I can't compare at the moment....but........I'll do it asap! It'll be soooooo interesting!!!!
 
Thanks Jimmy!!

[afrankie]

Wow thanx JJ, fantastic :-)

[rustyg61]

Looks like the formula for transparent aluminum! (from Star Trek - The Voyage Home!)

[gbulfon]

Do you mean Lanyard Loop solo section with this tune, or are you inviting me to solve the mistery?