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• Surrogate Valentine Chords

  Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 4:37PM / Standard Entry

  From time to time I get requests for tabs/chords for my tunes. Here’s a nice email I got from a guy in England (and my response:)

  Hi Goh,

  Found your music on late night youtube session! Your melodies are immense! I was thinking of covering your Surrogate Valentine and ive worked most of it out its just the second bit of the chorus that goes with “brings me to my knees” that im unsure of. I was wondering if you could possibly let me know which chords you use in the chorus?

  Cheers mate.

  Blaine Molloy

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  What’s up Blaine, Thanks so much for the message. I’m happy and flattered you want to cover my song- pretty cool!

  You’re in luck, somebody asked me the same thing about a year ago, so I wrote it out the best I could.

  I’m a guitar teacher by day, I need to tab out my own songs and sell it as a songbook!

  Hope this helps, Let me know if you record or video it.

  Cheers from California,

  Goh

  p.s. do you mind if I post this (including your message) on my website?
  ******
  you’ll need a capo at the 7th fret.

  the chord shapes are:

  Verse:

  Dmajor to Eminor7 / G

  Chorus:

  Dmajor/ D major 7 / D7 / Gmajor

  D major/ D Maj7/ D7 /

  “Brings me”
  C#min7 flat5 (tab= 11 12 11 12 on the A through B strings)

  “to my”
  F#7

  “knees and I” “Will”
  Bmin7 (3 beats) Bflat min 7 (4th beat)

  “run away, reluctantly…”
  Amin7 / Dmaj

  Gmajor/ G minor

  back to verse riff

  bridge “you can be the magnet…” : Bmin7 Em7/ Gmajor

  Good luck!

  G

  
  

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• Trophy! and Mr. Sadman 7 song EP (very limited edition)

  Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 6:35PM / Standard Entry

  

  You Want Fries With That?

  I was joking around after I won the SF Weekly Award (I was in Belgium at the time of the awards night) and
  was wondering if they gave out trophies… well, lo and behold, a few weeks later they emailed me telling me
  that they had a trophy available for me. Thanks to everyone for voting, I wasn’t expecting this at all.
  *****
  In other news, I’ve been meaning to put out a limited edition EP for a long time, and this is a great occasion for it.
  I just signed, numbered, and burned 23 CDs with 7 songs- all unreleased versions until now.
  They’ll be available at the opening night screening (Nov 20th in Los Angeles) of my friend Patrick Epino’s film “Mr. Sadman”, which
  features 3 of my songs (Track 1 being written specifically for one scene) I’ll be playing a 45 minute set before the film, so I hope you can come out!

  Here’s the track list:

  1. Mr. Sadman
  2. Section of Sky #6 (Mr. Sadman end credits)
  3. Hangman (unreleased version)
  4. Somewhere (unreleased version)
  5. Daylight Savings 5/2007 (unreleased version)
  6. Flowers (Live at Cafe Du Nord)
  7. White on Rice

  Here’s info about the Screening/performance!

  “Mr. Sadman” is now available as a download for purchase at http://mrsadman.com. We’re donating a dollar from every download to Oxfam’s typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines and other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. And for those of you in Los Angeles, we will be doing a week-long theatrical run (Nov. 20 – Nov. 26) at the Downtown Independent Theater. Please join us on Friday, November 20th for the launch party and screening!

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  EVENT DETAILS
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  7:00 PM – Doors open, reception with open bar (beer and wine).
  8:15 PM – Live music from Goh Nakamura (http://gohnakamura.com).
  9:00 PM – Screening.
  11:00 PM – Rooftop party, no-host bar (cash or credit cards accepted), and live music from C.J. Pizarro (http://www.myspace.com/mistacookiejar).

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  PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE HERE
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  $5 Pre-sale tickets online until midnight Tuesday 11/17.
  $10 after 11/17 online and at the door.
  Discounts are available at the door if you plan to skate, ride your bike, take public transportation or walk to the theater. Email us at info@mrsadman.com to find out more.

  Theater Info:
  http://downtownindependent.com/

  Mr. Sadman’s Fan Page

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  ABOUT THE FILM
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  Genre: Dark Comedy

  Runtime: 85 minutes

  Written and Directed by Patrick Epino

  Starring: Al No’mani, Scoot McNairy, Rudy Ramos, Tim Kang, Amanda Fuller & Cameron Bender

  Synopsis: In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, Mounir learns the truth about the Iraqi dictator and vows to shed his Saddam persona forever. Unfortunately, he doesn’t know how to be anyone else.

  Support for “Mr. Sadman” provided by IFP and the IFP Narrative Labs (http://labs.ifp.org). Love you guys.

  Thanks to our community partner FilAm ARTS (http://www.filamarts.org) for their all-around help with these screenings. Love you guys too.

  
  

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• Thanks for voting in the SF Weekly 2009 Readers Poll!

  Friday, Nov 6, 2009 4:49PM / Standard Entry

  Yours truly in the “alt-country/folk/singer/songwriter” category!

  

  
  

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• Giant Robot 10/24 and Cafe Du Nord 10/26

  Saturday, Oct 24, 2009 3:41AM / Standard Entry

  Hey All,

  Fresh off the plane from Belgium and Paris, I’m heading down to L.A. to play the Giant Robot Bienalle tomorrow night, then back up to SF for a wonderful Cafe Du Nord show with youtube sensation Gabe Bondoc and Yea-Ming Chen of the fantastic band Dreamdate!

  Saturday, October 24, 2009, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
  Giant Robot Biennale 2: 15 Years

  Japanese American National Museum
  369 East First Street
  Los Angeles, CA 90012
  janm.org
  ********

  Monday, October 26th

  @ Cafe Du Nord w/ Gabe Bondoc and Yea-Ming Chen of Dreamdate!

  Doors: 7pm
  $10
  All ages/Seated!

  Advance tickets: http://tiny.cc/idanI

  www.youtube.com/gabebondoc
  www.myspace.com/dreamdater

  Cafe Du Nord
  2174 Market St
  San Francisco, CA

  ****

  Stay tuned for a recap of Europe and the American Jet Blue Tour… so much
  to say and show and sing… the past 2 months have been magical to say the least!

  Hope to see you soon,

  Goh

  
  

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• Last Legs of the tour NYC

  Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 7:54AM / Standard Entry

  Ok, in a few hours I’m going to board a red eye flight with Sadie to NYC to complete the last part of our “All You Can Fly” Jet Blue Pass tour, which we named Follow Your Whim

  I’m feeling a bit under the weather, as the last 3 weeks have started to catch up to me, but I’m excited to go to the east coast again. It’s been about a year since I was there last.

  About a week after I return from NYC, I’m off to Belgium for 4 days for the Ghent film festival. I have the huge honor of playing with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra for 8 minutes for a special concert at the the World Soundtrack Awards They honored Composer Marc Streitenfeld with a Discovery Award Last year for his work on the American Gangster score, which I had the good fortune to work on too! It’ll be my first time in Europe, so it’s a dream come true for me. Wish me Luck. More updates to come…

  Goh

  
  

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