Billys Poncho

[Jif]

This a track I put together just before the corona invasion. Was just having a bit of fun, nothing too serious and it cheered me up at the time.

The percussion track was played on the pedal steel, I had my Fishman midi pickup installed and routed this to a percussion generator plugin. I played a set riff around the 1-4-5 chord progression and this gave the percussion. It also gave me a chance to experiment with recording my "new" double bass, bit of work still to do there but it's not too bad. Stuck in some cheesy marimba & mexican style trumpets and more or less improvised the pedal steel part, hence there are a few bum notes and mistakes.

Anyway, it was a lot of fun to do.

[Uncle Roy]

Si Senoe Geoff, very nice,

[Danny Mitchell]

I like it, Geoff. You could offset the cheeriness by doing your best Ry Cooder impression, and singing about the plight of our farmers, now that the European totty howkers have been unceremoniously despatched.

Strangely enough that's what it made me think about

[Jif]

I'll work on the lyrics Danny. Here's a start.

Was such a sorry tale, the consequence forgotten,
Now the tatties lie, in the unploughed fields all rotten,
No schoolies there to lift, or squads of willing pickers,
The folks fae overseas, they could lift them quicker,
No volunteers to do the job, as in unison they bellow,
Ahm no doing that dirty work, besides yer wellies are yellow

(based on a true story)

[Danny Mitchell]

Just the ticket!