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"THE BUSHBILLY BASTARD" version of "THE devil CAME DOWN TO KRAMBACH"
for Charlie Daniels, Johnny Zarb and Pauly Priest and Crazy Sadie! and Greg Alexander and Cale and Lily and my dearest Lesley Ammann who I love a very lot!and a long list of others.... visit the myspace link for more of who its for!!!
Most of all the devil can stick his pick right up his arse as sure as if I were playing for his fiddle I would make that fit as well... HA HA !! You loose.. GOOD ALWAYS OUTWEIGHS EVIL!!!!
"THE devil CAME DOWN TO KRAMBACH"
THE WEST TAMWORTH LEAGUES CLUB
To my old mate Rod Laing thanks for giving us the opportunity way back when we did that show with the Charlie Daniel's band in BLAZES and got our arse smacked by the big fella all the way back to Queensland.. It made me want to play his tune what a song.. Many years, flat picks and miles. But thanks Rod I will see you in TAMWORTH 2009
I am the BELLIGERANT CONVICT!! who wont lie down!! I love my independance!! I love my indie friends!! I love the ABC and Margeret Throsby. I love Spicks and Specks..
Stay in the light be kind to as many people as you can..Learn from your mistakes and lessons in life as I do everyday I look in the mirror!!!
I am three marraiges down with a wore out MATON guitar and happy with the road I have travelled to this day.. I am a better man having lived this life and would do it all the same knowing it would lead me to here..
I have seen both sides.. Met the devil himself! Ugly mongrel really..
But in knowing both sides I am a servant to the GOD that lives in me and asks me to play for the people as I have always been a minstral. Not any record comany!!!
I LOVE JESUS BUDDHA TOO! HARI KRISHNA and all of the above COEXIST is SAY Jesus is my hero!!What would Jesus do they ask? Same as Buddha!!!
I love Steve Irwin.. I play to play guitar like he chased a crock.. I am out to bite the stingrays tail and when the stingray bite's my "White Bushbilly Arse"..I know I did it as best I could!! Go Stevie Irwin old mate we miss you here!!...
I love JOHNNY WILLIAMSON dont we all!!
A special thankyou to MARK KNOPFLER from Dire Straits. For sending lots of his fans to my site through his myspace page.Please take the link through my front page myspace friends and drop in and say HI to him and dont miss TROY CASSAR DALEY on your way through befriend him and listen to him play and sing.. Thankyou brother Troy.. KAFINTY
And my mate Nick Dallas. Thanks for being my best mate through thick and thin.
I love the God that put me here to play this music..I am going to marry again because I believe in marraige.. I never had lots of girlfriends.. A nerd like that YEP!!! I like that but the three marraiges I have had I thank Rose, Maria and Danielle for the time in loving me enough to marry me.They are three wonderful mothers!!. All our kids we love you..
The story ends now with my news that I will marry my oldest dearest friend LESLEY AMMANN.. And that makes me happy to type..
VOYAGES BRAMPTON ISLAND
Let me start by thanking my dear friends Tony and Fiona Barradale and Pauly Rantall and Nattie Stevenson..My friends I am here still because you all helped me alot.
The next person I would like to thank is John Johansen our current general manager of both Brampton Island and Heron.I love both these islands and they are certainly safe with John at the helm.The hardest working dude in the company I rekon..An inspiration to say the least. Thanks John for coming to the island and keeping it the way you do!! Jonesy for all the mucking around I can do with gigs and planes the holding of the fort when Johhny's down at Heron...and my dear friend Angie we do craft together..My old mate Franky/Uncle Lele.Pete and Mon!!. My good friend on this island..Love your work!!
One more !! Penny Chandler from head office for the website help!!
I would like to thank the company for thier total support of all my creative idea's..Thankyou VOYAGES!!!
Thankyou all at AUSJET for the fun fun flying..
LATEST SUNDAY NEWS BELOW
SUNDAY IS SUNDAY Brampton Island 24/8/2008
Amazing grace on a harmonica at the jetty at Bramtpon Island
*CLICK ON THE MYSPACE LINK FOR FREE DOWNLOADS OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE TUNES!!!!!!!
NEWS read about FESS my favorite bassist and cosmos dude Rick Cecil he will always be missed. He played here on Brampton once and tripped out at the stars and loved Australia ..A great man and songwriter....
Please read on the news about his song.
FOUR STAGES
TRAIN TRACKS AND my PICKING ROCK!!!!
Here's the Bushbilly Bastard version of Mason Williams CLASSICAL GAS
Thanks Mason for the tune we all like to play!!!
*PLEASE TAKE A TRIP TO BRAMPTON ISLAND THROUGH THE FRONT PAGE LINK BELOW AND SEE WHERE I LIVE AND PLAY..
If you get a crazy idea to come and stay you can contact the office though this link and come and see this place...I have spent near three years of my life in parts here and love the island always will.....
"GOING HOME TO MAGGIE MAGPIE"
Below is a brand new tune dedicated to one of my favorite thumpicking
genius singer/songwriters the great Mark Knopfler..Its also dedicated to my mother.
It has two parts the other part is a description of my mums magpie's that visit her everyday and the little bit in the middle is just a prayer for the day..
I love my Mum her name is EULALIE
I love to say her name...
"Guitarist Extraordinaire!"
-The Reporter, Independence, Kansas
To see a live performance of a Matt Zarb show, is as eventful as the trip from Timbucktoo to Sydney, as surreal as the Australian Outback, and as energetic as Popeye on his Spinach.
SUMMER RAIN/AMAZING GRACE
Summer Rain is a tune I learned from my favorite Dobro player Matt DeSpain. Matt is from Hodgenville Kentucky. This version of it I dedicate to him..It sounds much better when he picks along..
Amazing Grace is just the most beautiful tune and I play it everyday on one intstrument or another....
I dedicate this version to my favorite guitarist, Tommy Emmanuel.
Thankyou Tommy for your music...
"Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky"
"Matt Zarb has garnered the admiration and respect of his peers, listeners and fellow members of the music industry by virtue of his immense talent, his unrelenting drive to succeed and his dedication to maintaining both his personal integrity and cultural heritage through his music…"
ZARB TAKES STAGE AS MASTER IN HIS OWN RIGHT!!!! Eddie Mattingly
It's Matt Zarb's love of music and his ability to combine guitar playing styles to get what Eddie Mattingly (founder and host of "Acoustic Guitar Masters Series") calls the "Zarbanizing" effect that makes him a unique but fitting addition to the collection of world-renowned guitar players he brings to Hardin County. To find guitarists at that level, Mattingly said he attends two major music festivals, the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Convention in Nashville and the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan., where thousands of guitar players flock each year. "There are about 30 in the world that are this good," Mattingly said. "I've brought 19 here — the other 11 have called."
-The News Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Matt Zarb strictly uses Elixir strings.
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Matt plays "Maton" guitars and Graham Bird guitars.
"SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE HALL" for Ron and Janine Ive's
FOR EDDIE MATTINGLY and CAROL REESOR
This is the way to get to a gig!!!
Flying back to Brampton with just enough time to jump on the stage and get picking...
Thankyou Andrew and Ausjet my friends!!!