Contemporary Praise & Worship with steel guitar

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 10 Sep 2012 4:31 pm

Here is a song we did not long before I quit playing in the band that I thought of a few days ago. It has a bit of steel on it. This was recorded directly off the front of house board during a service with no editing.

https://www.box.com/s/z1u81gf8tfvhd326z08i

Here's another song we did where I used a Line 6 Variax with a Sitar patch. When I'm not playing the Sitar sound, I'm playing a driving rhythm using a LP model. Our other guitar player played the guitar break. Neat song.

https://www.box.com/shared/8gdks8vogb

Here's another one we did that had a lot of steel on it. This was another fun song to play. The guitar player and I did some "twining" on this one. We had a really good band for about 10 years, then it kind of fell apart after we got a new music director a few years ago.

https://www.box.com/s/l9833qsq36j5svbg2okh

Tom Campbell · Post by **Tom Campbell** » 11 Sep 2012 4:24 pm

Great sounds Darvin. Fantastic sounding praise team!
Are you no longer playing with the team?

Lost my Sunday gig last week. Our husband/wife co-ministers informed us they were getting a divorce. She resigned immediately and went to Waco, and he went back to Alabama. We were a "senior" church, 65 yrs old...once 1,000 members...down to 30. We have suspended all service permanently. Sorry for the rant...I'm still smarting.

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 11 Sep 2012 5:34 pm

Hey Tom, thanks for the compliment. I haven't played with this group since last November. Things had been building up for a couple of years so I finally pulled the plug. I don't have much interest in playing at all anymore, so I'm getting rid of most of my large collection of musical stuff. The recording studio will be greatly downsized also. There comes a time when a person's interests change, and mine has.

Tom Campbell · Post by **Tom Campbell** » 11 Sep 2012 5:53 pm

Darvin,

I can understand your loss of interest, but I'm betting its going to be temporary. I know my interests wax and wain. Maybe a little time off will lead to a renewal. Something or an event will peak your interest again. You have a beautiful collection of MSA equipment...keep'em. Once bitten by the bug...its forever!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Sep 2012 5:53 pm

Wow! Love that sitar sound -- and the whole band sound. Great steel playing on the first tune too, Darvin! Hang in there; don't give up on it. Music never leaves your bones, it just goes dormant like chickenpox virus; then years later, it pops back out and says "HI! REMEMBER ME??" and then you start to itching again (and they call it 'Shingles'). Not a bad analogy, eh?

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 12 Sep 2012 5:01 am

I thought of another song we did that had a lot of steel in it, I added the link to the first post. Give it a listen.

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 12 Sep 2012 5:56 am

darvin,
great playing. keep your gear. and keep playing. went thru the same thing 8 years ago stop playin for 5 years then got back into it. by the way was that the white m.s.a classic on thoes tunes??

p.w

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 12 Sep 2012 6:22 am

I'm not sure Paul, I rotated steels at the church every couple of months, so it is possible. I still love playing that Classic, it plays nearly as good as my new MSA's and sounds great.

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 12 Sep 2012 9:57 am

Darvin
Keep your gear, I quit and sold everything and am now sorry I did. I am replenishing my equipment and lessons but wish I had much of my old stuff back.

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 12 Sep 2012 9:59 am

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Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 12 Sep 2012 5:49 pm

I'm not planning to totally quit playing, I'm sure I'll get the itch again some time. I just have a lot of other things going on right now. I'll be keeping my favorite "stuff" which is still a lot of "stuff".