Happy Birthday Bill you Capricorns are obviously born under a good star. Amy writing about dancing reminded me of Maree and I walking around Courtney Place here in Wellington. This Transvestite Taller and bigger than me I am 6 Foot 2inches suddenly appeared in front of me and started dancing with me on the footpath. Me being a good sport did some dance moves before gracefully or discracefully moving on. To make it worse wasn't Maree laughing but a cafe full of people photographing me with their cellphones. The transvestite had a microphone in her hand and was using me a passer by as part of her act.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/cat-wont
2,551 2017-01-02 02:39:52
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! (26 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
2,552 2017-01-01 20:10:49
Re: For Bill (Opie) (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy New Year Bill andd Dondra
Thank you for your E card I enjoyed it. I have attached a message for you below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Z9UtAGOls
2,553 2017-01-01 09:30:43
Re: New Year (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy NewYear Dino and all Chordies from New Zealand. A message attached for Strummer Bill and all of the wonderful Chordie Verse citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Z9UtAGOls
2,554 2016-12-30 20:07:30
Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! (26 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy Birthday Amy . Birthdays are good for you. The more you have the longer you live. As you slide down the bannister of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.
2,555 2016-12-25 21:38:38
Re: For My Aussie And Kiwi Friends (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Merry Christmas Bill and Dondra
I thought I would send you a list of things on a video that are known to people from New Zealand but maybe not known to those not from here. Some of those items would be cooked in a hangi a Maori way of cooking. Hope everyone's Christmas went well and Happy New Year. The culinery side is tastier than it looks but not in common use by most Kiwi's. Kumura one of the items shown is my favourite sweet potatoe to eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs09QvAOyw
2,556 2016-12-24 20:56:00
Re: Don't Want No (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you Keepitreal glad you liked it. EB though it is nice to get a few listen,s I am always interested to get people's comments. TIGLJK when I get time i might try it out with a band. Or maybe I will get lucky someone will cover it with a full backing line up. It is real good to get all your coments thank you..
Merry Christmas
2,557 2016-12-24 20:47:19
Re: Rick Parfit RIP (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That is sad news Status Quo has always put on a good show every time I have been at one of their concerts. I have seen them live many times over the years. The first time was at Te Rapa down here in NZ it was 1973 when I went to see them along with other top groups. Ever since that concert I have been a fan. The Te Rapa concert also introduced me to the music of Fairport Convention and Slade who were also on the Bill. The last time I saw Status Quo was in 1986 at Wembly Stadium, Maree and I were at the now famous Queen Concert and Status Quo were one of the support acts. They got the huge crowd rocking. It is sad to think of the three Bands that played at that concert three of the lead singers are not with us anymore. Freddie Mercury, Michael Hutchence of INXS and now Rick. I love the way Status Quo could get a crowd going with their rocky guitars and those distinctive duo vocals.
2,558 2016-12-24 20:24:06
Re: merry Christmas to every one (20 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you Mojo and Merry Christmas to all of you reading this. I hope that 2017 will be a good year for you all.
2,559 2016-12-23 23:41:32
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Merry Christmas badeye great choice. I love the piano on that track. I tell you funny thing about myself my mothers nick name for me is Induna Mata which translated into English is Eel Eye.
Eel Eye sometimes blues man.
2,560 2016-12-23 21:52:33
Topic: Don't Want No (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I wrote this song," Dont Want No' when I was a young man a long time ago. It came about when a girlfiend I had at the time. was obsessed with Radio, Television , and Newspapers asked me what do you want from me when you visit. She would have a TV or a radio turned up loud all the time and was an avid Newspaper reader. She was not much of a conversationalist and was always concerned that people didn't get her jokes or understand her quirky humour. One day after asking her if she could just turn of the radio and TV and have a conversation without all the distraction she asked me. "What do you want from me when you visit"? A few days later in answer to that question I wrote this song Don't Want No. I put it up on soundcloud a while back I didn't really get much feed back about it as a song. I would be interested to hear if anyone has any thoughts on it as it is been around for many years ? Attachment below.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/dont-want-no
2,561 2016-12-23 21:25:29
Re: couple of covers of my songs (9 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Love those covers Jim of your excellent songwriting.
2,562 2016-12-23 21:23:39
Re: I'd Like To Play This One With You.... (2 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Thank you Bill I enjoyed that video. It took me back to when I was a boy at school it was one of the songs that New Zealand kids use to learned to sing as part of our music education. Sometimes I would sing it with my family.
2,563 2016-12-20 06:19:49
Re: lurking in the shadows (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Greetings Butch I like your attitude to playing guitar and life.
2,564 2016-12-20 06:14:48
Re: Melancholy Christmas (3 replies, posted in Poems)
I like the way your poem can fit into all sorts of differant background stories. That sort of feeling people get when someone close or a person who you would like to spend more time with can't be with you at Christmas.
2,565 2016-12-17 20:19:17
Re: That 'Ol Guitar (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
TIG you capture people's experience of life real good with your words which I like. I was wondering what the word's cowboy chords mean?
2,566 2016-12-17 19:46:16
Topic: George Frideric Handel Well known Tunes Of Today. (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
This might interest chordies classical music influence on songs we all know.
Songs that have elements of Handel which are used in many a well known modern song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HuSx3z0E6g
2,567 2016-12-14 05:04:27
Re: FOR BILL; Again this Christmas (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Nice one Phill
2,568 2016-12-14 05:02:35
Re: Look What I Got *MY* Hands On Today!!!!! (50 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That is a beautiful guitar can't wait to hear Bill playing and singing with it.
2,569 2016-12-14 04:52:27
Re: A Song (11 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you Phill glad you like what I do. I appreciate you taking the time to have a listen.
2,570 2016-12-13 07:20:39
Re: A Song (11 replies, posted in Poems)
Brilliant video Bill you are onto my humour.
2,571 2016-12-13 06:15:24
Re: A Song (11 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you EB. My visiting friend from the UK tells me our interpretation of the word knockers has a differant meaning to the people in the UK. The word knockers to them talks about a piece of female anatomy while we are talking about being put down. I think all criticism is valid but it shouldn't stop people from people doing what they enjoy. Talking singing is cool with the right delivery. I think E B you have got a great way of doing it in a Kiwi way.
2,572 2016-12-13 00:04:59
Re: SO IT'S CHRISTMAS (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I like your differant take on Christmas Phill not everyone gets to have a family Christmas. It seems to me your song is writen from the perspective of a person having Christmas alone.????
2,573 2016-12-12 23:51:36
Re: A Song (11 replies, posted in Poems)
Phill ,That happen's to me often just when I get a idea I like, I have to do something else. Later on I can't remember how it went.
Bill great to hear from you I will attach a link of me doing the poem with just me and piano. Not one of my better performances.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/a-song
2,574 2016-12-12 07:36:20
Topic: A Song (11 replies, posted in Poems)
This poem is me a unsuccessful songwriter thinking about songs and what work's.
A SONG
People ask me, how do you write a song?
I don't write the song's they write themselves.
If I try and write a song it won't work.
I can't go to a song the song has to come to me.
Yeah you know a song can have it's own feet.
It doesn't need me, but I need the song.
It has to come to me.
I don't know when a song comes.
Usually it comes at inappropriate times.
When I am having a conversation.
And suddenly this song will come to me.
And I got to sort of go home and write it down.
Pick up a guitar or put it on piano.
That's what happen's to me.
A song will alway's come to me.
I will never go to a song.
If I try hard it won't work.
If I take it easy and just relax.
That's when it come's out.
You got to have a clear head at time's to write a song.
Don't want to over think it.
And you want to let it sort of take it's own course
Yes a good song has it's own feet.
It doesn't need you.
A song has a life of it's own.
Yeah a song is it's own beast, it's own identity.
It has a life after your life.
If it's a good song.
Yeah a good song can travel further than youll ever travel and be around lot longer than you.
Yeah a song writes' itself.
2,575 2016-12-11 20:34:04
Re: Tears In Our Eyes (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Phill you didn't mutilate Tigs song you just took it to where it should be a wonderful Transatlantic performance.