NEWS! BENDEGOS CD NOW FREE FOR ALL TDPRI'ers

With the economy as bad as it is, myself, Tim and Matt have decided to give away the Bendegos CD free, as a digital download... complete with artwork!

We are players, TDPRI'ers, and most of all, humanitarians, I hope more of my guitar pickin compadres follow suit. We live in the free world, and some things just gotta be free. We want everybody to hear the music, so follow the link.

http://www.Bendegos.com it's all yours, free of charge... Love everybody (I got that part from Big Kenny)

Pass it on! I'm not sure how long I can get away with it!

Forrest Lee Jr

(signed off by: Matt Rae, Tim Wallis)

Wow, I really appreciate the generosity and the great music you guys put out. Thanks!

Hey - thank you! Very generous, and you know you have an appreciative audience here - Mr. Bad Example

Thanks, now I have new toe-tapping music to get me through staining the timber on the porch tomorrow.

Thanks!

downloaded to my MP3. I'll have a listen at work today.

I always look forwrd to new music.

"Bandwidth exceeded" shame... :cry:

Same response "Bandwidth Exceeded" will try another time....

Same response "Bandwidth Exceeded" will try another time....

+1

ditto

"Bandwidth exceeded" error message still showing this AM.
The things I miss when I don't sign on at night!

Are you familiar with Rapidshare.com? It's free

Upon uploading, the user is supplied with a unique download URL which enables anyone, with whom the uploader shares it, to download the file. No user is allowed to search the server for content; all files have to be downloaded by following a given URL.

RapidShare stated in April 2008 that it had 240 gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 5.4 petabytes of storage for users.[4]

Non-paying users are required to wait 30 to 134 seconds, depending on the filesize, before the download starts and their download-speed is limited from 25 KB/s up to 250 KB/s (depending on the server-load). In October 2008, Rapidshare extended the waiting time to 15 minutes between each download.

Ok, it worked for me. also, did you read the biographies?

Worked here a charm, MANY thanks FL Jr, i'm loving your version of Shenendoah !!, thats mighty !!

Wow! Some really good stuff here. So kind of you to share it with us. I have my copy burned to CD already. Thank you very much from a relatively new poster.

What a great thing to do, especially in these times.

I've been out of work for 6 months so I have to be extremely thrifty with purchases that aren't food or bills. I don't get to spend money on artist's music that is "new" to me. From the couple of clips of your stuff I've tracked down I think I'd like it.

Alas, I'm getting the "bandwidth error" message, too. I'll keep trying.

I bought a digital copy when it came out. I would like to get the art when the site comes back up. Great stuff, btw. :)

Just downloaded and I'm already loving it. Anything with the title "Swamp Ass" is great in my book!

Seriously, thanks for the music!

Got it! This is great, thanks! Really fun stuff and good playing too.

wowowow! you guys are a real hat band! i will try to download your stuff, it´s excellent! thanks for sharing your music. that will get you a lot of good karma in return, which is a good thing! eddie

Thank you very much for the free music!!:razz:

This kind of tele/chicken-pickin-shredding is very hard to find here in sweden!:neutral:

I bought a digital copy when it came out. I would like to get the art when the site comes back up. Great stuff, btw. :)

Got the art. Thanks Forrest, Matt, & Tim (and Sol and John too :cool:)!

Thanks Forrest, Matt and Tim much appreciated, great playing love it...

Like Big John I also liked the version of Shenandoah which prompted me to have another look at Tony Rice playing this tune...

Whilst its not on a Telecaster you have to admit it is truly wonderful playing by in my opinion the greatest Flatpicker ever, amazing player, so much feel, technique, speed, cleanness and imagination...

If you have not seen this before I hope you enjoy it as much as I.....:wink:

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BigMike

Very cool! Thanks!!

Thank you very much!

Thanks!!!

your record saved my day. i had to clean the house from a maggot-invasion and the good tunes held my spirits up high. that is an awesome record. you guys can play so much stuff, makes me wanna pack in..... i heard some great, great picking with a drumtrain underneath, some campilongoish twangalishions and even some hellecaster-heavy-meanderings and fragments from stairways. incredible album.

Thank you, amigo. To be honest, I don't really have much music in this vein, but you guys are turning me on to it!

Worked here a charm, MANY thanks FL Jr, i'm loving your version of Shenendoah !!, thats mighty !!

That Tim Wallis and his Twangy Guitar! Tim makes that Timara bender do bends I've never heard before...

I fixed all the bandwidth issues. Tell everybody ya know... free CD... I'm hoping to get a million downloads!

And Shenandoah was submitted for a Grammy... so ya never know.

I just came across some of Matt's playing, all I can say is WOW.

UnTOMPw6GGs

With the economy as bad as it is, myself, Tim and Matt have decided to give away the Bendegos CD free

Forrest Lee Jr

(signed off by: Matt Rae, Tim Wallis)

So when did you guys record this?

It was tracked during much of 2008, Though some tracks were started a couple years prior, and finished for this record.
Tim recorded his parts in Peoria or somewhere in IL. Matt tracked his parts in CT. Sol laid down his solos on Telecasting The Blues, while he was still in the UK, John did his parts in Nashville, and I tracked all my parts in my studio in Waverly, TN, and put is all together here.
It took at least 6 months to get it all together. And it was a labor of love as we all love Bender music. I wanted to go beyond the typical twang bender licks and show what you can pull off with Metal riffs, Blues and beyond.
Matt and I had talked about doing Top Loader several years ago, and we just couldn't make it happen... until this record.
I did pair up Matt, Redd and myself on the Telethon CD a few years ago... It took Tim Wallis to kick the idea into gear... get it started, and then wouldn't ya know, I had to wait for Tim's parts so I could finish it.
Well I hope ya'll like something we recorded, there's a little bit of everything on it. except vocals...

Thanks Forrest...really great stuff and a very nice thing to do.

Thank you very much Forrest! I have your Telethon cd and I just bought Matt's Tele-Pathic not too long ago. This is a really cool thing for you guys to do!

:cool:

I just came across some of Matt's playing, all I can say is WOW.

UnTOMPw6GGs
does anyone know, how to play that run down the neck ( second 22-25)that that he chicken- picks so cool?

your record saved my day. i had to clean the house from a maggot-invasion and the good tunes held my spirits up high. that is an awesome record. you guys can play so much stuff, makes me wanna pack in..... i heard some great, great picking with a drumtrain underneath, some campilongoish twangalishions and even some hellecaster-heavy-meanderings and fragments from stairways. incredible album.

I've got to ask...maggot invasion?

Thanks for the free tunes, very good stuff. Now I'm off to burn all my guitars and amps...so this free music cost me big time!

Seriously though, incredible chops. What amps and fx are you using? Very nice tones.

I've got to ask...maggot invasion?
yes, a maggot invasion. all over the place. i pulled out the bag of our trashbin, and there where thousands of maggots. and they all jumped off the bag while i was under maggot-shock. they where crawling highspeed into all the corners. all that because our neighbour had placed meat into hisgarbage and went on vacation. that caused a chain reaction somehow. a maggot invasion is no fun! eddie

Fabulous! Thank you!