"guitar w.beatbox 01" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	lately (mid-2003) i have become very disillusioned with the turntables. not the wonderful things you can do with them, but the realization that when most people see turntables they think 'background music for my idiot conversation.' or 'now it's time to go up and request 50 Cent.' so i've been going back to my roots of playing guitar, and have started to teach myself to freestyle, sing, and beatbox while playing guitar. when a person is standing there with just a guitar and a mic, the masses understand that this is a musical performance and not a 'person playing records'. i started beatboxing from playing with Jase Mason and Taylor McFerrin, both very accomplished beatboxers. this made me want to beatbox as well and add that to my 'arsenal' and 'one-man-band' type show. i guess i started to play guitar and beatbox at the same time in an attempt have my own personal 'thing' with beatboxing, since there is no way i can compete (yet) with people who have been beatboxing for years. the beatboxing while playing guitar is pretty unique, and i think it is one of the things i will become associated with. i really love the sound: it creates this simple sort of beat. what will they call this? FOLK-HOP? who the hell knows? anyway, this piece here is an improvised jam in E (i always seem to end up in E). i set up one mic on the acoustic guitar and one mic for the beatbox, recording them live into Pro Tools, where i then added some slight reverb and EQing. as i practice more and more, this technique will get tighter and tighter. i would say that in a year or so, i will be a virtuoso at the guitar/beatbox combo, but even in this raw, early form i think this has a feeling and personality that can't be denied.
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