{"id":143,"date":"2010-11-29T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-11-29T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:41:14","slug":"happy-2nd-birthday-bgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/happy-2nd-birthday-bgu\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2nd Birthday BGU!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This November has been kind of a landmark month &#8211; Blues Guitar Unleashed turned 2, the BGU forum turned 2 also, and I have been playing the guitar for 30 years now!<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I picked up my first guitar Thanksgiving weekend 30 years ago. My dad&#8217;s brother and his family were in town visiting us for the holiday. He is an accomplished musician as well and I was interested in guitar so he helped us pick one out. The rest&#8230; is history.<\/p>\n<p>But the big news is really about the Blues Guitar Unleashed birthday! The course itself actually turned 2 on Halloween&#8230; but the forum&#8217;s official start date is November 30th. And the forum is where all the fun really happens \ud83d\ude42<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So in celebration, our very own moderators Chuck and John have written and recorded a song &#8211; &#8220;These Old BGU Boys&#8221; and provided the TAB and lyrics. Also, Chuck put together a great slide show video with some great shots from some of the BGU gatherings over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>John is playing drums, bass, and rhythm guitar, and that&#8217;s Chuck on vocals and the lead. Any of you who have gone through as far as solo 3 will recognize that Chuck dropped solo 3 right in perfectly over this tune. To my knowledge Chuck had pretty much never done a solo before in his life when he started with BGU. So I think this is a great demonstration of how it&#8217;s supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy the video, and I&#8217;ll put the downloads below and be sure to leave your comments below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QC3S9NRTGI\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/These-Old-BGU-Boys-TAB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">TAB <\/a>(right click to save)<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/audio\/These_Old_BGU_Boys.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">MP3 <\/a>if you want to listen on your ipod or play along \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This November has been kind of a landmark month &#8211; Blues Guitar Unleashed turned 2, the BGU forum turned 2 also, and I have been playing the guitar for 30 years now! Yep, I picked up my first guitar Thanksgiving weekend 30 years ago. My dad&#8217;s brother and his family were in town visiting us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}