It’s not a great song if it can’t be played on an acoustic guitar – Live on ERRT Radio
In 1900, Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura was the first to officially transmit the human voice wirelessly.
On Christmas Eve 1906, North-American Reginald Fessenden used an AM radio for the first-ever radio program broadcast. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing “O Holy Night” on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.
When radio transmissions seriously started making an impact in the early 1920s, many predicted it would kill the record industry. Many record companies would not license their records to be played over the radio, and had their major stars sign agreements that they would not perform on radio broadcasts. Indeed, the music recording industry had a severe drop in profits after the introduction of the radio, but this was eventually solved by securing that the owners of the music were paid royalties for the public use of their properties.
The first Internet radio service was launched in 1993. Internet radio stations differ from traditional radio in that they are transmitted through the internet rather than wirelessy, and are usually accessible from anywhere in the world with an adequate internet connection. Internet radio has helped democratize radio as it is not subject to governmental regulatory bodies that would traditionally be issuing broadcast licenses to a select few.
Internet radio was pioneered by Carl Malamud. In 1993, Malamud launched “Internet Talk Radio”, which was the “first computer-radiotalk show, each week interviewing a computer expert”. The first internet concert was broadcast on June 24, 1993, by the band Severe Tire Damage. (Ref: Wikipedia)
It ain’t a great song if it can’t be played on an acoustic guitar…
ERRT Radio is an internet radio station run by Ronald Tolvtvar based out of Florida, USA. We are fortunate enough to have had our music featured on their channel many times. Recently we were contacted by Ronald asking us if we were interested in appearing live on his show and maybe playing a couple of songs live on the air.
Obviously, this sounded like a lot of fun, and something we’d be happy to do. Magnar and Solve were traveling at the moment, so it would have to be just Lars and me. ERRT Radio being an internet radio, all we needed to appear live on the show was a computer, a microphone and an internet connection. Luckily we have all that. We decided to set up the microphone in our rehearsal studio, where Lars and I will often be working on songs with just an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar connected to a small practice amp.
A musician friend of mine always used to say: “It ain’t a great song if it can’t be performed on an acoustic guitar and still sound great!”
True or not, here was our chance to try out a couple of songs from our recent album “You Are” in an acoustic guitar format.
Click the play button below to hear our live performances and the interview on ERRT Radio, Florida, USA.
We’d love to hear what you think!
Is an earmark of every great song whether or not it can be performed on an acoustic guitar?
Let us know what you think in the comments below…
yes, absolutely
I believe that an earmark of every great song is that it can be played on an acoustic guitar and still convey the intended emotions/feelings and still really rock & move you, always , and sometimes take on a whole new dimension/energy 🙂
Hi Mark, yes I think you are right. I have actually found that many times I have liked the acoustic version of a song better than the original studio recording. But what about electronic music, do you think it goes here as well?