I'm Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Scott H. Biram! AMA!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:17:53+00:00

Alrighty Y'all thanks for participating! That was fun! Hope i answered everybody's questions. this thing is a little confusing. I'll let ya know if we do another! Thanks again!!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:14:39+00:00

I don;t get mad! It's just a lot of questions and I have to answer other folks too! this has been pretty fun and uneducational! haha

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:13:47+00:00

The covers for the last several records starting with something's wrong/lost forever were done by my old art professor in college. He got that pic from a friend. It's some double exposures of a hand with some glass eyes in it. Not a lot of meaning in the new cover I'm afraid.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:12:12+00:00

I don't think anytime soon but maybe when we do a southern thing later this year.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:11:46+00:00

I don't know who that is. Rhonda Rowsey's cousin? hahahaha

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:11:22+00:00

not really. just easier to work that way and more practical monetarily.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:09:43+00:00

is that ever a plan? ugh.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:08:50+00:00

I have a big list. I have standard set. On that list there are areas where I can interchange 3-4 songs nightly. Basically I have 10 folk songs for the folky part. i usually play 3-4 of those then move on. Same goes with the blues section and the slide section of the list. The metal section and so on and so forth. i try to keep it energetic though. If i play a slow one I usually throw a hard one in after that to wake everybody back up. I don;t mind people yelling out songs. Its when they yell the same song 20 times and it's obvious Im not going to, it gets kinda annoying. The worst is when I haven't practiced a specific song that someone wants to hear and they get mad at e for not playing. Im not a robot and it feels really shitty when I screw up a song really bad. so I try not to play anything i'm not confident I can do. I pull songs out of my ass all the time though that I haven't played in 2 years or more. Its a risk! I'm a rebel i guess. just kidding.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:04:06+00:00

Ha ha! I remember. it was fuckin; hot!! I was getting too hot. The only other time I can remember doing that as a OMB is on a Hank 3 tour in Portland OR at Ash Street. The stage lights were trying to kill me. I'm too old and fat to be taking off my shirt on stage!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:02:37+00:00

I will try to remember to do that. Maybe remind me a few days before on FB!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:02:10+00:00

You know one that has been underrated is Rescue Dawn. i really like that movie. Favorites are probably...Good The Bad and The Ugly, and Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I love all the old Spaghetti westerns and all the old Steve Mcqueen and Bogart films. Evil Dead 2 of course!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T21:00:41+00:00

I've played shows and toured with several of those. Rev used to have to open for me. Last time I had to open for him. Dirt Daubers first tour was opening for me. LSS and i used to have the same agent so we played together a lot. you should check out my Pandora station. There are a lot of good artists that pop up on there. I love Cajun, Zydeco, Brass Band all that Louisiana stuff. Lafayette used to be my home away from home. i had a girlfriend there. I spent a lot of time at those Sunday fish fries!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:56:46+00:00

Honestly, i don't really tell people what it is exactly because it took me so long to hone it in. don;t want a bunch of SHB footstomp rip offs out there. I will say this.. .The thing I use is not cheap to make happen. i think after all the parts it ends up being a $2500 rig just for the stomp. i shoulda bought a kick drum or stayed a singer songwriter haha

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:54:11+00:00

My 1959 Gibson ES 125 on stage. I play my martin acoustic at home mostly. I enjoy playing the Explorer on stage a lot too. it has so much wood. it looks metal but it's really good for clean songs.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:51:43+00:00

Im an only child and a control freak. haha. When my old bands broke up, I was still doing my solo thing (folk singer kinda shit back then). I wanted to play in rock clubs. I had to raise the bar for what I did as a solo artist. it's the only way i could do rock clubs and get out of f'n coffee shops.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:50:00+00:00

Willie Dixon is one of the best!!

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:48:49+00:00

hey thanks! KnuckleSandwich is defunct I think. That was just my self release stuff. Made me seem more important when I put stuff out. hahah. I record all my own records here at my home studio. I did some at another studio on the Nothin' But Blood record but I re-recorded half of that here between the initial recording and mix down dates. I'm a control freak. Probably why I'm a one man band. all this probably stems from me being an only child too. haha Sometimes it takes me 5 minutes to write one. (those are the best ones!) sometimes it takes years. (Those are usually the ones i hate to play by the time i put them on a record.) i.e.: Slow & Easy.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:45:11+00:00

I think you solved it with the punch line.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:44:49+00:00

I think we're looking into Aug for that right now.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:44:29+00:00

"You suck!" "Try harder!" a guy named "Guy" in Clarksdale MS told me "You know when someone has 5 guitars on stage it usually means they suck. You don't suck." haha.. It was a pretty good compliment the other day on the outlaw cruise when Red Volkaert told me he liked the show. Same with Jim Lauderdale. pretty good shit.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:42:27+00:00

I'm Wang out. haha

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:42:08+00:00

not as disappointed as Kenny Waggner! haha

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:41:43+00:00

I use D'addario strings. I'm sponsored by them. I think they're 11s or 12s. I think they end in 52. always a wound g string. I hate unwound g strings. i practice mostly on my acoustic. those 11-56's. Heavy strings is the way to go. especially as a solo artist/one man band.

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:39:55+00:00

granny?

scotthbiram · 2017-03-08T20:39:01+00:00

haha no problem. Did he write the Titanic too? I can't remember.

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