Bill Mize plays “Spring Fever” 03/06/93

Описание: Bill Mize plays “Spring Fever”. Video Credits: Nick Stasinos 03/06/93

I shot this video at his concert at The Shade Tree on March 6, 1993 when I was compiling material to transcribe the “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” (1994).

The “Spring Fever” transcription can be found in the collection “Winfield Winner’s: National Fingerpicking Champions 1979-1994 ” book. Watching how he plays it here can greatly help your chances of success!

Bill frequently tours with Ed Gerhard and plays duets with him.

Originally, I video taped and transcribed the song “The Silverplume Waltz” for the “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” book, but due to a legal dispute with the composer at the time, it was cut from the book. I did send the transcription to Bill Mize to promote interest in transcribing his “Sugarlands” CD, but no word from him ever. Later on, I discovered my transcription in the book “Pierre Bensusan’s Presents DADGAD Guitar”, an idea I pitched to Pierre back in 1989. When I first saw book, you could vividly read the thought bubble forming above my head, “OMG! There's the book I pitched to Pierre in San Rafael at the National Guitar Summer Workshop in 1989, where I asked him if he would write a preface for me. AND, there's my transcription of "The Silverplume Waltz" which I did for the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler Book and sent to Bill Mize, but I never got paid for it, not even a kill fee.” The music school of hard knocks, the lessons I learned all too well!