DESCRIPTION: One of my favourite records is an album of jazz duos from the 1930s and '40s called "Pioneers of Jazz Guitar", and my favourite track on that album is "Satan Takes A Holiday" by John Cali and Tony Guttuso. It's a barnstorming version - which I can't emulate, so I've taken it more towards the speed of the original 1937 recording by the composer, Larry Clinton. It's basically a little chromatic bass run down from the minor key of your choice - in my case, Am - with a simple middle eight and a cunning little lead line . I put down a swing drum loop in Garageband, and then played the acoustic bass line. I then added the lead melody with my 1961 Otwin Harmony electric archtop (going through a Line6 Pod) and topped it off with some quiet backing chords on my acoustic parlour guitar. Four choruses - with the main melody starting and finishing it, plus two of me noodling gallantly away in the middle! No guitars were harmed in the making of this video - and all good clean fun... :-)
