2,626

(5 replies, posted in Poems)

hi TF,

it was obvious (to me anyway) been there, done that! i play every weekend but don't do any of my own songs. i record backing tracks for other peoples songs and play them each time, some more than others, but the thought of belting out one of my own tunes puts the fear of god into me.

i think that people that read the poems/songs that we put up here think that it's so easy just to chuck them up. so they just look through without realizing how we're baring our souls by doing so for the entertainment and edification of others. they need to realize that if it wasn't for people like us there would be no music, no poetry, no art....nothing and all our lives would be so much sadder.

anyway, sermon over. as you can see your poem struck a chord with me, and as you've laid it out like a song i suspect you may record it? if so i'd love to hear it.

well done.

phill

2,627

(23 replies, posted in Poems)

hey jim nice to hear from you. they cant jail this AH as he did the decent thing and killed himself in a car accident, unfortunately his new girlfriend was also in the car with a broken arm he gave her...she died with him. sad for her.

2,628

(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

touching words. it's such a shame that those people that risked their lives and came home missing limbs or just wounded in one way or another are not worshipped as the heros they deserve to be.

i know your song is about US vets, but we have much the same stuff happening here. we have druggies and alcoholics getting money thrown at them by the government and our vets have to fight for every penny. good work enjoyed the recording.

2,629

(23 replies, posted in Poems)

hi TF, ditto. my old man liked a drink or two on occasion, but never raised a hand to my mam with that same litany; men don't hit women ringing in my ears.

so when i separated from the witch (my ex) i met several young ladies that had been through the violence and to be honest i just couldn't believe their stories, same as my wifes.

when my oldest son told his story of seeing his birth father (as he calls him, amongst other things) hammering his mother it made a great impression on me which is probably why this came about.

hi grah, i cant imagine how much seeing things like that affected your wife. i get the feeling that sometimes third parties feel the pain more and the effects longer.

2,630

(23 replies, posted in Poems)

My wife's ex was a wife beater and she got punished regularly. Our 2 oldest kids (my step sons) saw all that happened and idolise me as I (in their words) treat her and them so well. this is about him in part and some from stories I've heard and some just fiction, but it's a subject I feel strongly about.

My Fate.         Phill Williams.

She takes off my shoes, massages my feet.
She runs my hot bath, prepares my late meal.
She lays out my clothes, all clean and well pressed.
I'm off to the pub. "I might be quite late".

She asks “can I come?” I say “yeah, to drop me off.
I'll give you a ring when I'm right to come home.”
She's there right on time `cos she knows if she's late.
There'll be trouble again if she makes me wait.

Suspicions maybe; bruises she hides.
She's ashamed of the fact that her husband's a swine.
I'm good with my hands on her arms and her legs.
Her back and her ribs but never her face.

Why do I do it? Yes I've asked it myself.
This wonderful woman I've put her through hell.
But she takes all the beatings, the verbal abuse.
And I blame it on her.
She deserves more than this.

She's an old fashioned woman, it's how she grew up.
Her mother got beaten, her father was tough.
And I saw the same Friday night after pay.
When the old man came home drunk with fists flying free.

Haven't I learned after all that I've seen?
My mother died young with a clot in her brain.
They locked up my father, it happened too late.
Why can't I stop the cycle? Or will this be my fate?

2,631

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

i thought it was a song and i got the same impression as bill with the slow down and speak the first 2 lines of each verse. i've got 4 grown up kids so i know your dilemma so all i can say is; they all raise a smile, some as they come in and some as they go out...nuff said i think. want to hear how you musicise it

2,632

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

sounds natural to me....

2,633

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

i agree with TF as i read it as a song. sounds like every woman i've ever known

2,634

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

dino48 wrote:
Phill Williams wrote:

KEEP

Keep, not often people get a title!

i've had a few but none i could repeat here due to swearing rules which i support and maintain.

i had no time to think up and write a witty retort but now i have, so.....


                                    lay back and take it like a man. cool

not very witty but it's the best i could come up with on short notice

2,635

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

KEEP

2,636

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

if you can make it to wales you'll be very welcome

2,637

(11 replies, posted in About Chordie)

don't you dare shut your gob as we say over here. if there isnt someone willing and able to ask or answer questions, this forum dies and none of us want that.

we've all done stuff we regret. angels are just a figment of someones imagination like fairies and good politicians. it's not what you've done it's what you do.

2,638

(18 replies, posted in Poems)

oooh, now that's a hard one tongue

when your fingers get stiff you have to give up playing....you can guess the rest, right?

i wouldn't want to give up either. i'll probably be buried with with my dear wife Ann but which guitar? i'll have to die first so she can decide lol

2,639

(6 replies, posted in Poems)

when i was around 6 or 7, we used to play a game called "best falling dead" ridiculous now when i think about it, but i guess it had to do with all the cowboy/war/gangster movies we used to watch. it was harmless because you'd see a fella die in one film then there he was in another film!

this has nothing to do with IS al-qaida or any of those other murderous, power hungry, megalomaniacs and their so easily duped  followers. i just cant imagine looking at this beautiful world from 6 feet up then suddenly the last thing i see is the same thing from ground level just before the lights go out permanently.

i have to ask myself how the human race is still here after the likes of hitler, pol pot, the romans, the spanish inquisition, and all the massacres of prehistory.

if there is a God (and i'm sorry i find it harder to believe there is one) i hope that those sub-humans burn in hell and not enjoying paradise and all those virgins like they're promised.

by the way, very good work ark and you've done a good piece of work too grah

2,640

(11 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Bill, I've been reading this and the other threads above and I have to say that I have such great admiration for you. Dealing with your problems and having such a colourful past, kudos with knobs on. I love chocolate and it tastes so much better than bat guano. big_smile

iechyd dda a pob hwyl. (Welsh for; good health and every happiness)

Phill

2,641

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

ooops! incase anyones wondering, my last message was posted from my tablet which apparently has the password from the time russ and i were writing together. i hope russ doesn't mind too much?

2,642

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

Amy. I was checking out the post and then something stuck out like a sore thumb .....white socks? 😨

Seriously though thanks. It still seems very complicated but I shall give it a try shortly.

Thanks again

Phill

2,643

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

Zurf wrote:
Phill Williams wrote:
Zurf wrote:

Happy NPD.  I was a little nervous about that one, especially with the picture requirement, but figured it was Chordie so it must be OK.

sorry zurf no compredee...what picture requirement? but i'll recomend it. i've never been able to get that "fender" sound but with a few tweeks it was there...bliss. till i forgot to save it...wotadik

There's a picture requirement for NGD's.  Obligation really.  I think the rule is less clear with U, or P, or B.

i see said the blind man who couldn't see at all cool

i shall make an attempt or as mr guppy says; do or do not, there is no try


tried-failed, anyone like to enlighten me as to how one posts a picture on here? i would be eternally grateful big_smile

2,644

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

thanks dino, the power pack came today so that'll save me a fortune on batteries

2,645

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

Zurf wrote:

Happy NPD.  I was a little nervous about that one, especially with the picture requirement, but figured it was Chordie so it must be OK.

sorry zurf no compredee...what picture requirement? but i'll recomend it. i've never been able to get that "fender" sound but with a few tweeks it was there...bliss. till i forgot to save it...wotadik

2,646

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

Grah1 wrote:

Phil I  modified  mine  with  an external foot switch  for  the  drum machine  so  I  could  easily  switch  it on and  off  when playing live  Its  simple just  a  two  core  lead  from the  back  of  the  switch  to  a  push  to  make foot switch   from maplin  ,cost  a  couple  of  pounds

hi grah. i never thought of that so i checked and it must be the "control" socket you're referring to?

as i said i'm only using it for recording, i have a boss ME50 for live, but the foot switch is a good idea, i've got one around here somewhere....

2,647

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

hi amy. it's so simple even i played it right away. it's a simple plug and play, push a button and it does what it says on the tin and it has an acoustic section too.

having said all that, i tweeked until i got a great sound, but when i went back to it a couple of hours later it had gone....i hadn't hit the store button yikes

2,648

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

for safety you'd need a biggie, 32 gig at least and that wont last very long if you back-up regularly. best thing i've found is an external HD or expansion drive. i bought a Seagate 1 gig which was quite cheap, they're coming down in price. and seeing as my PC is only a 500gig, i've got treble my storage capacity, i think. i expect someone smarter will come along and tell me i'm wrong, so i'll just say it works for me.

phill

2,649

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

hey bill. i had a catastrophic crash last year with win7 and had to re-install it....in doing so lost almost everything including at least 10 years of family photos. luckily a lot were backed up to the cloud so i got them back, but everything else including my songs, stories and lots of files and programs were kaput.

i must be honest i saw your post and almost wrote warning you of the consequences, but i saw you had advice from cleverer people than me so i thought there was a work around.

just a thought; i keep a book beside my PC with passwords site names addresses etc as my memory aint winning any prizes.

best of luck and sorry for not giving the heads up

phill

2,650

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

hi guys. everyone seems to be having a "new guitar day" lately, but there's no chance of the wife putting her hand into my pocket and letting me have a new axe, so as i was depressed with the sound i was getting on my recordings i decided to lash out on a new FX pedal namely a Digitech RP55. after reading the rave reviews i bought it from Amazon for only £25. a bargain as other on-line shops wanted almost double! i ordered it on friday and it arrived on monday free post! WOW. anyway noodled with it monday and wrote a song (something i haven't been able to do for a while) then read the instructions properly today (tuesday) and wrote another song...amazing. one rock one country.

it has a tuner, 40 factory presets and 40 editable user sounds. a full house of sounds; amps, cabs, and all the usual guitar FX and an amazing sounding drum rhythm section. it's nice for getting the beat for writing but i'm still doing my drums live after recording the basic track. i'm only using it for recording though not live work as it's too fidley for that. just thought i'd let you know.