The year was 1976 when I got my first guitar, a Honer acoustic. I was 15 years old. I was lousy at playing and had only learned two or three chords. I couldn't seem to figure out any rock songs I liked. The was before the internet, folks. One day I was trying to figure out Band On The Run, and I learned that the chord in the short acoustic break, right before the "Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash" part, was a C chord! Then I figured out the next chord could be played by sort of moving up your second & third fingers. I was SO HAPPY. I must've played that part back 1,000 times and played along with it, LOL! So proud of myself.
@allguitar33493 жыл бұрын
Right on. Those moments were pivotal. Cool story dude
@GaryBook5 жыл бұрын
The Farrah Fawcett shirt, fun touch.
@MyButtsBeenWiped5 жыл бұрын
Love That Farrah Fawcett Shirt ! Excellent Rendition ! Thanks, For All That You Do, James !
@alexo19985 жыл бұрын
James, you are indispensable to the Guitar community...keep up the GREAT contribution
@tfdharley13605 жыл бұрын
There is no way I can concentrate on the chord changes with ❤️Farrah❤️ in the room. Always loved the tune too!
@randymarsh5088 Жыл бұрын
Miss this channel .
@kevinmalone89034 ай бұрын
Did he stop ? I guess, I haven't had any notifications in awhile. Do you know why ?
@tkplg215 жыл бұрын
I waited that for years... This is amazing 👌🏻
@dave321735 жыл бұрын
I think Farrah was at the height of her career when this song came out. Thanks for taking me back to the summer time of my childhood James.
@Chief19875 жыл бұрын
G'day JJ, mmm great track selection mate. I remember being around 10 years old and The Wings Greatest Hits was one of the many cassette's Dad and I use to listen to.. fast forward 18 years and I ended up with the same cd. When ever I want to play Another Day and Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey I jam along with your video's. Now I can add Band on The Run. Hope you're well, and much appreciated for sharing. Cheers and have a great week Sir.
@anthonyward85875 жыл бұрын
nice sound from the 335..all the best from Australia..keep rockin man.
@kevinbutler7055 Жыл бұрын
Nice job.. love the song never tried to play it.. now I'm gonna figure it out.. nice tutorial.. think I can follow this
@atissu3655 жыл бұрын
i love this song
@GeoZero5 жыл бұрын
Excellent as always.
@MrKellyak475 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager, I had that picture of Farrah on a poster, in my room.
@suprakitkhwanyune59375 жыл бұрын
Love 🎸💕
@AC-gw4qu5 жыл бұрын
Killer. Thanks (again).
@paolosantovito2598Ай бұрын
Bravo!
@zthde5 жыл бұрын
Wish oh wish I could do this 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@johnklein45585 жыл бұрын
Always loved this song. Thanks for this video. Hey how’ve you been feeling? You haven’t really said anything about your health since your surgery. Hope all is well.
@wilbertcook50765 жыл бұрын
Great lesson my brother. Love the guitar and shirt had the poster when I was younger Farrah and Linda Ronstadt posters had a thing for both of them back in the 70’s . I was like 8 or 10 years old already had good taste in women.....lol
@geraldbrown28755 жыл бұрын
I remember when every guy in the mid 70’s had that Farrah Fawcett red swim suit poster on their wall!👍🇨🇦🎸
@PreacherAtArrakeen5 жыл бұрын
And stained sheets.
@raysom27405 жыл бұрын
love the way you do your chord voicing...very nice!
@Mark09ish14 жыл бұрын
ATTENTION All Viewers - I hope this may help us all in our playing.......Here's a tip sequence to help figure out the chords, notes and positions that our favorite #1 guitar teacher James James shows us in hundreds of instructional videos; how to slow down the SPEED of your video view: 1. Go to a video. 2. Hover over the player and click Settings . (Cog Wheel Symbol) 3. Click Speed. 4. Select the speed at which you'd like the video to play.
@scottsharrer9745 жыл бұрын
Very well played!
@TILTHENEXTTIME5 жыл бұрын
Nice tune, nice guitar, nice T-shirt!
@cavykahn5 жыл бұрын
Awesome man!!! ❤👍🙂
@fluffydelberg5 жыл бұрын
beautiful guitar!'
@nfldesdecero4 жыл бұрын
very nice job !! congrats
@RonSharpsDeluxeTV5 жыл бұрын
Perfect
@scottsharrer9745 жыл бұрын
Also Your gold pick ups on you red 335....a tribute to Chuck? love it!
@jamesjames92755 жыл бұрын
345
@yestoES3555 жыл бұрын
Scott Sharrer 345 and 355s have gold hardware.
@ZPX9455 жыл бұрын
Really nice guitar playing.!
@GaryBook5 жыл бұрын
They recorded Band on the Run in Lagos, Nigeria. Two members of Wings quit, so Paul played many parts. They were robbed one night and were lucky they didn’t get killed. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_on_the_Run
@roadmanrudi69764 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@Valerifon15 жыл бұрын
Well done and great song choice! What model 335 is that with the split fret markers like that? Definitely on my list to own some day! Thanks for the great demo! 😎👍 Cheers - Luther
@Gtown17775 жыл бұрын
ES 345
@basketburger2 жыл бұрын
Great cover
@vdbdg5 жыл бұрын
Come for the song, stay for the t-shirt.
@leebreadman3 жыл бұрын
Ya... like the shirt
@Borat_Kazakh5 жыл бұрын
Great demo! Huzzahs!!!
@MrAdamJoel4 жыл бұрын
Nice geetar. And playing. Farrah gets a nod. And of course ...Macca
@alonmo95 жыл бұрын
New guitar? Great playing as always btw
@charliedk5 жыл бұрын
I have a 355 too. What are your fav pedals for this guitar? Like the one you use on this!
@jamesjames92755 жыл бұрын
No pedals on this one, I just plugged into the Peavey.
@JamesJones-of8hl5 жыл бұрын
Cool...love the Wings stuff...
@niccoriv4 жыл бұрын
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@thepaulmacfarlane5 жыл бұрын
nice couple of peeks at you. ; )
@paulmoore77685 жыл бұрын
All some
@truckerkevthepaidtourist5 жыл бұрын
😎😎🎶🎸 fantastic.. by any chance know when you do the lessondo you know how to do that little feel that comes in after they say Band on the Run..I noticed on the play along you were growing the chords pretty much through the whole thing on the neck pickup there was sounded good easy to play along.. I wasn't too sure if that electric fills that come in the middle of the song during the bridge on the Band on the Run original were played with a slide or not..
@jamesjames92755 жыл бұрын
That’s done with a slide.
@truckerkevthepaidtourist5 жыл бұрын
@@jamesjames9275 thanks James I wondered about that.. reason I say that is sometimes when you listen to Eric Clapton sometimes it sounds like he was using a slide when he actually wasn't.. just slide this fingers up and down the strings like on promises and wonderful tonight add peaches and Diesel which I always thought was a slide until I started playing it and was able to slide my fingers up the frets on that🤔
@quarter_moon_and_a_guitar4 жыл бұрын
Farrah 'nough
@jamesjames92754 жыл бұрын
Nicely done.
@wallyb552325 жыл бұрын
It’s a 345 fellas
@stephenpinder95675 жыл бұрын
Farrah Nuff
@backtoshallabal66625 жыл бұрын
I believe this was one of the songs that were gonna be on the Beatles next album before they broke up.
@jamesjames92755 жыл бұрын
Uh...no.
@SergeantPancake5 жыл бұрын
Paul had already released several albums of solo material by the time this bad boy came out.
@Skelterz5 жыл бұрын
Hey it could be possible it’s very reminiscent of the abbey road medley in its own way and also he didn’t really have a “group” like wings for a little while after the break up Paul thrived quite honestly in a group maybe if this song was even partially written he was saving it for a band type situation.
@jamesjames92755 жыл бұрын
Band on the Run was Paul's fifth post-Beatles album. I doubt he would have held onto a song with such obvious commercial appeal for that long before releasing it. Beyond that, listen to the lyrics. It's about Wings' current situation in 1973, with band members quitting and Paul/Denny/Linda flying off to Africa to record the album. As for the medley thing, he did that on Ram, too.