2,651

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

sounds natural to me....

2,652

(4 replies, posted in Poems)

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

2,653

(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

2,654

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

KEEP

2,655

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

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

2,656

(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.

2,657

(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

2,658

(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

2,659

(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

2,660

(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?

2,661

(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

2,662

(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

2,663

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

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

2,664

(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

2,665

(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....

2,666

(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

2,667

(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

2,668

(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

2,669

(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.

2,670

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

russ, i wonder if you just got a bad copy or something? mine seems to be working well so far...touch wood. i had a little problem with my printer but after a few hours of poking and prodding (metaphorically speaking) it cleared itself.  i also had to re-download my recording program and it wont even look at audacity! to be fair though it's never worked right on my PC anyway...but good luck

sorry i guess i'd gone off on one.
i don't think they're odd at all. it's a story of a fella going off to work (i think he's not running on a full tank, if you know what i mean?) and the story tells of his day; picking up after others, looking at "glamour" photos in the daily paper etc. i think it's as good as elinor rigby in that it tells a tale and has a good melody. lets be fair, after nearly 60 years of song writing, he must be having difficulty finding new themes, musical and verbal.

as for paul simon; i bought one of his recent CDs and though the musicianship was top notch, the songs don't really hit the spot. i tried to find it but it'd buried deep amongst the other "also ran CDs"

easybeat wrote:

Does Paul simon have another Gracelands in him?
Great question.
I often wonder if  the greatest writer, Paul Mccartney
has got a great song left in him?
I`ve spent a lot of time thinking about this,the only answer i`ve
come up with, is many of his great songs were about every day subjects.
I think he now lives a less than humble life(& good on him he`s earned it)
also he does everything himself with out arrangers & song writing partner to bounce off.
So no i don`t think he`s got another great song coming.
Don`t know if this applies to Paul simon.
look forward to your opinion.

i have Pauls recent CD "New" on it is a track called "On my way to work" give it a listen i think it ranks up there with his best work...IMHO

2,673

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

i have 3 of those £1 shop stack-up racks, 2 of those drawer thingies and loose stacks. one of the racks holds my Beatles CD's and their solo's so i have a shed full of mccartney.

as keepitreal says, i seem to play the same dozen or so and the rest are what i thought i wanted at the time.

i must have bought the last car made with a CD player in along with the MP3. my son bought his car (same make) but his had an MP3 and sat-nav....i grew up on maps why should anyone want a sat-nav? or MP3 till i found how easy they are to use...

2,674

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

thanks amy, yeah i am enjoying W10 somewhat, somewhat because i haven't been able to try it out much...things, ya know?

any hoo, i had more or less decided after writing my last post (sounds ominous?) that i was going to keep vista, better the devil you know when you're fumbling around for the next track with 200 half-cut wedding guests waiting for the next dance?

i much appreciate the advice.

phill

2,675

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

talking of laptops....i've got win10 up and running on my PC and apart from having to look for everything (as you do with something new?) it's going great guns.

now i'm running VISTA on my laptop which i must admit i only use for gigging now (if i need a quick on-line thing i use my tablet) so can i update to W10 on my LT? and if i can is it worth it? i need help. thanks phill