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(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Thank you folks for taking time to give it a watch.  I agree with you TF the subtile bits are actually very hard to do. Like Phill's comments about Rap. Incidently Brookes Dad was a famous All Black winger Bernie Fraser.  Glad Mekids enjoyed it, hard to know sometimes what local stuff of ours travel's well and what doesn't.

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(10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Bill that to me is what entertainment should be about. I love that drummer. In the 60s our local show bands would get up to similar antics. I will attach a short clip.        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HbE9pP3rc

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(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

The Five top songs of yours I like the best are.
One More Day.
No Name.
Broken Branch.
World Won't Stop.
Destiny.
You are a top song writer and performer. The main thing to do is play what you feel is right for you in the studio. The good thing  will be that the sound engineers can take out any bits you dont like and patch in the bits you have to  do over again.  Your end product will sound like one take and will be a real cool  listen.

2,604

(7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hi everyone again from South Chordie Verse.
I guess those who know me well know that I believe some of the best music doesnt need to be over complicated to be good. It has to be what hits the heart that matters.  A very talented Kiwi young lady,    Brooke Fraser  does that a lot with her music. So I have descided to post her doing this song of hers with just one other guitarist live to show an example of this.
I would be interested to get your feed back. Remember you don't have to like it  to offer an opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kvb-4ULaNo

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(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Thank  you Amy
For your  kind thoughts.
I guess the thing with nature it will eventually remind us in one form or another to respect it it. Sometimes we all take our safety for granted in the rush of life. Compared with motor accidents  nature has most probably in terms of life lost and life changing injuries done less damage. The big lessons down here in NZ around the earthquakes is modern enginering and construction hasn't deliverd on some structures like the experts thought it would. The older buildings in our city that  were waiting to either be demolished or earthquake strengthen because the engineers thought them unsafe came through Ok. Some of the modern so called  safe buildings didn't.

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(9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Maree and I came through the earthquake intact, thank you Bill and Dino for checking on us here down in the south end of the Chordie Verse. When it was happening it went for two minutes which felt like the longest two minutes ever. Apart from some flying ornaments our house and us are all good. The hardest thing has been today dealing with heavy rainfall and flooding around our part of NZ making some people I have to deal with a bit grumpy. With roads closed by flooding and rail lines closed  people trying to get from A to B have been getting a little frustrated. I am just grateful to be ok and also pleased to have good people in my life.
Thank you for your kind thoughts.
Pete and Maree

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hi Bill
Here in NZ the country had a bit of shake up with an earthquake just after midnight  which has created a few challenges  for locals today. Anyway I will attach a song I wrote about Maree a while back it was one of my usual me piano and cell phone moments. So the sound quality is not the greatest.
Your Friend Pete
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/maree-song

2,608

(15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I love Joe doing that song Bill. Joe Cocker was the one that made me realise that songs can  be covered and made your own. I have heard Joe  in concert  live four times.  I think two of the earlier ones I went to  he was out of it but once the band started he was away and a  brilliant preformer. Then the other two he was sober and completly straight he took it up another level. The first time I heard Joe on the Radio doing With A Little Help From My fFriends instantly made me a fan.  I hope Him and Mr Cohen are enjoying each others company now on the other side.

2,609

(12 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

You can never make natural conecting percussion out of robots or mechanical beats. To me a real drummer gives a song  its heart beat. Only humans can feel music machines don't do that.

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Maree and I have been very good friends since 1972. To cut a long story short we became more then friends in 1981 and our marriage has worked out. We are opposites that attract and have worked out. As a couple we have never got bored with each other. Even though we certainly are not perfect we are very much in love. I have two sons born in 1972 and 1974 to a differant lady. My son's mother was a good person but my relationship with her could  simply  be described as unusual and  not  a close one.
You and Dondra I am sure are now forever.
Your friend Pete

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(2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Love it that song takes me back in time in a good way.

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(15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I have just listened to Leonards last album today it is very dark in places an excellent listen. There are a couple of his latest tracks on youtube for those who want to give it a listen.

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

No need to apoligise I found it refreshing to get a honest opinion. I love it when people are true to themselves. I didn't take any offence. My Maree is a clasical  music girl and doesnt like a lot of the sort of music I like.  Maree describes much of what I like as Kay Wrap. But even though we differ alot on things of taste we are very much in love after 35 years of marriage. My Mother and Father were members of two opposing political party's when I was a kid. Our dinner table up until I was the  age of twelve when my father died was always entertaining, listening to my perants sometime very heated debates. Good on you for saying how you feel  that is what true friends do. No offence taken.
Pete

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

No need to be sorry Doug what is funny to one person is not always funny another.

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I get those sort of scam emails often on soundcloud. I suspect they are sent out by a automated computerised scam set up. I also received on soundcloud email computer  generated invites to deviant sort of  sex stuff.  I just disregard it.

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

To be a fake would be an impossible mission for you my dear friend.
Pete

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Cheers Bill
I like your criticism, That is what good friends should do is express themselves honestly. That is what I love about you is your not a fake.
Pete

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Glad you got the humour.

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(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Welcome  back to Chordie Land interesting to hear about your new chapter in life and music.

2,620

(15 replies, posted in My local band and me)

I like the way you did El Paso.

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(6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Mash that is was one of my all time favourite comedy series. It is a shame they don't make more ones like that now days. Even though it was set In korea it was a favourite of one of my Uncles. My cousin was in a later conflict, Vietnam, he was a medical doctor over there with the Australian Army. Sadly while working away in a Operating theatre on a wounded soldier he was killed by a stray missile. Anyway my Uncle told me Mash made him think back with laughter about his son's life every time he watched it. I hope that you Veterans out there are receiving, care and good reconition from the countries you are from.
Love to you and Dondra.
Pete and Maree

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(16 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hello  Chordies ,
With all the seriousness of the week I thought I would introduce you to a bit of Kiwi Humour a New Zealand folk comedy duo doing a song Jenny. I hope you find it funny.
https://youtu.be/oUk1nPqfJ3I

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(13 replies, posted in Poems)

Thank you for all your valuable insights on how the world still hasn't learnt to live in Peace. Folk music is a good genre to get people discussing all that afflicts humans.

2,624

(13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Thank you all of you for taking the time to give Derek a listen. Having people from outside NZ like his music would make him happy.

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(15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Farewell Leonard now you have crossed the river to join the other great  poets, and song writers in the Tower Of Song. Tom Jones doing his powerful cover of Leonards, Tower Of Song  came into my head on hearing the sad news. I have attached it below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWiPFT0v2c