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song: When Will I
artist: Monte Montgomery
album: Mirror
released: 1999length: 7:26
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When will I?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back and laugh?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back at life,
When will I look back and laugh?

Yesterday, when my love was far away
In the arms of another man, oh
Don't you know it made my heart beat slow?
In the past, I had a love made my heart beat fast
She made me feel good, good, good
She left me right where I stood

When will I?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back and laugh?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back at life,
When will I look back and laugh?

Once upon a time when my heart was strong
I was younger and I didn't much care
I said no one could hurt me there
Now that I've been broken in four or five


I decided I was wrong, wrong, wrong
Hope I didn't wait too long

When will I?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back and laugh?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back at life,
When will I look back and laugh?

A long time ago
I left a woman 'cause she couldn't let go
I was putting on my walking shoes
She was crying out some genuine blues
Well I've lived a life, full of troubles and lovers and strife
I'm trying to understand what went wrong
While I'm standing here singing this song

When will I?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back and laugh?
When will I?
When will I?
When will I look back at life,
When will I look back and laugh?
Monte Montgomery

Monte Patrick Montgomery (born August 11, 1966) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Comments ( 208 )
Posted 5 years ago by macadavy:
fraserji wrote:

Seeing as I PSD Dave Matthews and Blues Traveler when they are played, it's only fitting that I PSD this. 
 
Keep it up - you can PSD your way right out of RP!
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Posted 6 years ago by ziakut:
tasty and melodic guitar!
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Posted 6 years ago by SuperWeh:
fatcatjb wrote:
I live acoustic guitar, though I find this tedious...any decent guitar player can play fast (but does it sound good?)

 
taste is subjective, but with respect to technique; he not only plays fast but also very clean, it's not easy at all, especially on an acoustic guitar.
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Posted 6 years ago by lizardking:
adavey wrote:
32 times he says "When will I"
blech.
  
I'm guessing you'd prefer him to sing "When Will I NOT" ;-) 
I'm digging this, has a nice feel to it and I like the clean acoustic guitar sound.  Repetitive lyrics are OK too, something about the theme of "when will I" being repeated over and over that makes sense to me....I'm bumping my 7 to an 8....Long Live RP!! 
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Posted 6 years ago by bluematrix:
cc_rider wrote:

He's been around awhile. I used to go see him at The Saxon Pub, when he played mostly covers. He could play 'Sultans of Swing' faster and cleaner than Mark Knopfler. On an acoustic.

 
Saxon Pub in Austin, what a great place with really talented musicians. The Resentments play there regularly, good stuff!
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Posted 7 years ago by jasoneuringer14490:
how many guitar players does it take to screw in a light bulb? 100, 1 to do it and the other 99 to say they could have done it cleaner/more tastefully :)
guy can play.. and i bet hes great live :) tough to compare him to neil young tho..

a better comparison would be Steve Morse/ Eric johnson..
Tim renolds Sp..


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Posted 9 years ago by MrThreader:
This guy's an amazing guitar player, and songwriter, and yes singer.  It's an acquired taste I suppose.  This entire album is incredible and I highly recommend it.   Seriously badass - all acoustic guitar.  Album title is Mirror.   
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Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama:
Shimmer wrote:
God, that show-off solo is so lame. Pointless and thin sounding.
Go see him play sometime. It might open your mind a little. There are not too many people that can do this stuff on an acoustic. Can you?
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Posted 1 year ago by scrubbrush:
Blues Traveler x Dave Matthews + Phish ÷ John Mayer = Monte Montgomery
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Posted 6 years ago by jacopo777:
Hoosfoos wrote:
Awful.
 
Well the crowd is digging it
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Posted 6 years ago by mistermerp:
cc_rider wrote:

He's been around awhile. I used to go see him at The Saxon Pub, when he played mostly covers. He could play 'Sultans of Swing' faster and cleaner than Mark Knopfler. On an acoustic.

 
I used to see him at the Saxon Pub 25 years ago too. I think he also used to play Romeo & Juliet. Do the people listening to this know this is a live recording? Pretty clean for live (especially acoustic). His voice isn't the best, but I'd rather listen to his voice than Neil Young's any day.
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Posted 7 years ago by cc_rider:
dragon1952 wrote:
Dave Matthews/Blues Traveler wannabe :^ /

 
He's been around awhile. I used to go see him at The Saxon Pub, when he played mostly covers. He could play 'Sultans of Swing' faster and cleaner than Mark Knopfler. On an acoustic.
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Posted 8 years ago by MrThreader:
Monte is just awesome.  This was a fantastic album.  Such a great talent.
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Posted 8 years ago by :
WonderLizard wrote:
Smokin' {#Devil_pimp}!

 
Right you are sir !! Putting down some tasty guitar licks .
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Posted 8 years ago by Highlowsel:
This is a great tune...can't deny the energy coming thru it.  To paraphrase someone who posts here....everybody in my ever lovin' office be air-guitaring this one all while wiggling the hips and moving all over the place.  Stay out of the way!  {#Bananajam}

Highlow
American Net'Zen
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Posted 8 years ago by masteroflife:
This guy can play!
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Posted 9 years ago by Baby_M:
The Decembrists, "Why Would I Now?"
Monte Montgomery, "When Will I?"

I see what you did there. {#Wink}
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Posted 9 years ago by WonderLizard:
Smokin' {#Devil_pimp}!
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Posted 16 years ago by gabbadar:
chudd wrote:
Started at a 5 but then when the guitar solo took off, so did the score. Wow.  (...)



I was wondering why I rated this an 8, bumped it down to 6.. it's back to an 8 now.

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Posted 16 years ago by maxmox:
Atlantis wrote:
I love this song!
Love his chops!! We have Dave Mann here in Oz to reply to the groove.
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