Actually, my tastes are quite eclectic and roams all over the place depending upon my mood.

Gordon Lightfoot, Mary McCaslin, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Beatles, Phil Ochs, Henson Cargill, etc.

Ah, great memories ! The Specials were.

I was at a UB40 reunion gig earlier this year - dancing in the body of the hall for the first time in centuries - and dance we did ; best aerobic exercise ever.

For anyone interested, I recently read a book by Mr Horace Panter, the Specials bassist, about the Specials called "Ska'd for Life", It's a good read.

http://www.amazon.com/Skad-Life-Persona … amp;sr=1-1

I have published a collection of songs we like to sing at our family reunions. Easy to paly and most people love to sing along. I've corrected some of the lyrics & chords. I send the family members a link to the song book and I also 'print the songbook' out to an html file - makes it easy to use when you dont have an internet connection.

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … gid=158997

Let me know what you all think.

Scenics

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … ngid=87291
http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … gid=106866

Some mixed stuff in here mainly simple but some more challenging (especially to me) and some that I aspire to but haven't the talent... YET!

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … &sort=

johncross21 wrote:

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … ngid=66007

I post this with some trepidation as to whether I have mastered James' instructions 

lots of rock and pop here - mainly easy sequences

as I play unaccompanied I usually play rythym parts - I have lots of fun from playing different rythym grooves, whether laid back reggae, funk, ska, blues shuffles, straight ahead power chords or gentle arpeggios.

Hey man, I was really surprised to see "Rudi, a message to you" by The Specials in your songbook! I love this band and very few people (at least in my part of the world) know who they are. It's a great song though and loads of fun to play. I posted a link to the vid for it about 6 months ago here on chordie to spread the word. Are they well known in London still?

I think people do remember the Specials if they were were into music at the time. However, it was the start of the 80's when that number came out in the UK. The thing I like about that song is that it is about the most straight ahead ska number you can imagine. it has the right chords for a ska number - and the right rythm part - and as you said there's an excellent vid on You tube.  The specials have reformed with various  line ups in the 90's but have never attracted much main stream attention. Perhaps they will reform ?

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … ngid=66007

I post this with some trepidation as to whether I have mastered James' instructions 

lots of rock and pop here - mainly easy sequences

as I play unaccompanied I usually play rythym parts - I have lots of fun from playing different rythym grooves, whether laid back reggae, funk, ska, blues shuffles, straight ahead power chords or gentle arpeggios.

Hey man, I was really surprised to see "Rudi, a message to you" by The Specials in your songbook! I love this band and very few people (at least in my part of the world) know who they are. It's a great song though and loads of fun to play. I posted a link to the vid for it about 6 months ago here on chordie to spread the word. Are they well known in London still?

I post this with some trepidation as to whether I have mastered James' instructions 

lots of rock and pop here - mainly easy sequences

as I play unaccompanied I usually play rythym parts - I have lots of fun from playing different rythym grooves, whether laid back reggae, funk, ska, blues shuffles, straight ahead power chords or gentle arpeggios.

Here is how to get a good link that will take people to your song book(s) via the Public Books listings (must be logged in):
  Go to the 'Public books' tab.
    Scroll down and right below all the categories is a search box.
      Put your username into the search box, hit search.
        A list of all the song books you have published will appear.
  Now, copy the whole url from your browser's address bar.  This is the link that will work.

last_rebel and upyerkilt, I took the liberty of doing this already for your postings in this thread.
Hope you don't mind - James

p.s. - I stumbled upon this solution - - - please don't assume that I can explain why it works.

I published it, then went to public songbooks and searched on "Zurf" and posted the link it brought up for my songbook.  I hope that works.  If not, search on "Zurf" in the public songbooks and you'll find it.

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … gid=102931

I play none of these like covers.  For instance, I play the classic rock piano song "Crocodile Rock" in a fingerpick bluegrass style.  The Johnny Cash songs I stay somewhat true to form because it's tough to do Johnny Cash any better than Mr. Cash (God rest his soul) did.  I'm still working on that boom-chicka-boom sound.   

- Zurf

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php? … &sort=

Ken

I've log out cleared the cookies etc and signed back in and both last rebels and UYK links go to my songbook.
Is just me.
Is there an answer does anyone care....

Ark