2,751

(26 replies, posted in Poems)

thanks to everyone else for your kind comments. i had no plans to make it into a song, but if anyone wants to take it on please do.

phill

2,752

(26 replies, posted in Poems)

hi bill, everything i describe has actually happened to me, but i was thinking about you as i wrote it, obviously not saying this is you as i don't know you personally except on chordie.

also as my mother-in-law died last year and she suffered with dementia for the last couple of years of her life (she was in her 90's) i could see her frustration and pain. i can, as most have shown here, see the funny side of some of the stuff that we do and hope that it wont happen to me, like us all.

so i'm dedicating this poem to Bill, i just wish it could make some money to help fight this awful thing. wink

2,753

(26 replies, posted in Poems)

Grah1 wrote:

Ditto all above Phill great observations and interpretations ,will it become a song or have you forgot the chords ..lol

hiya grah.

of all the comments above, yours is the one i'm most happy to see, no offense to all you other guys. hope you're getting better. and thank your mate for keeping us up-dated and to keep posting for himself.

thanks again phill

2,754

(26 replies, posted in Poems)

dino48 wrote:
arkady wrote:

Ah the bleakness of old age can't wait I think...

When you get there you can do bad things,dress lousy no exercise act crazy pick on young people and get away with it all. That's the up side too it.

tried that dino, it doesn't work with my family, my daughter usually just tells me to "get a grip, dad"

2,755

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

of late i've come up with a line or two and maybe a bit of a tune. i may return later that day or next day with a different tune or rhythm. i find that doing one verse today and the chorus tomorrow stops the song being the same thing all the way through. i then try and stick to 3 verses a chorus repeated several times and if i can think of one a bridge or middle 8 as we used to call it. digging bits of failed songs from my scrap book helps when i get stuck.

2,756

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks tony, i'm getting back into my rock roots. it feels like i've been stuck in a country cycle for the last couple of years, nice to get a bit of grunge guitar going.

2,757

(26 replies, posted in Poems)

I'm afraid this is about me.


Old Age.           Phill Williams.

She comes home from the market.
Her hands full of bags.
I jump to my feet and get more from the car.
I see the look on her face and I know I've forgot.
Things I should do, but I know I have not.

The floor that needs sweeping.
The clothes to the wash.
The sink full of dishes.
My memory's gone!

Conversations I recall. Thirty years old.
Conversations yesterday, I'm afraid I don't know.
A face stands before me it smiles and says “hi”.
I smile back to her, but I don't know just why?
We met just last week, we spoke and discussed.
To me you're a stranger, I'm really not nuts.

Her voice is accusing.
Her eyes go all red.
I just get distracted.
My mind is a mess.

Some songs I've been singing since 1963.
Have gone line by line from my failing memory.
New songs? Forget it, they wont stay in place.
The one thing I remember is....
I'm becoming “old age”.

2,758

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

just a few comments;

we have a tremendous local brewery and beer of varying strengths called Felinfoel (pronounced VELIN VOIL) i tend to avoid it as it tends, even in it's weakest forms, to be a little strong for me, hence fosters. i also like the taste. FYI, it says on the can that it's brewed in europe by heiniken!

and the fly added some protein lol

2,759

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

i don't normally drink on a monday, but all the family came around and so i've drank 5 cans of fosters lager and 1 can of guinness, and the joys have hit me so i'm feeling very happy.

but a couple of things occurred to me just now;

alcohol will kill you as proven by the fly that's floating around my glass

and the more you drink the less you care.

soooo cheers smile

2,760

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks russ, appreciate the listen

2,761

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks for the listen and comment dino.

2,762

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi TF, glad you like it, i've seen a lot of this happening it was bound to come out one way or another.:/

2,763

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

hi easybeat, i've never actually stopped writing, i just haven't posted any of my newer song, maybe their not good enough in my mind. it's a strange one for me as it's only 2 and a half minutes long! so a quickie lol

2,764

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks jim, i kept this one as simple as possible recording and writing wise, just 3 chords with an added F#m in the solo. and a lead guitar and rhythm and bass and drums and 1 vocal in the recording. perfect 10? thanks for that wink

2,765

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

thanks H&S, i didn't realise it was a toe tapper cool

by the by, it's not a slide guitar, i just slid my finger up the fretboard, trade secrets? ho ho ho

2,766

(12 replies, posted in Electric)

hi nela, i showed my wife your post and she said " get me her phone number and I'll put her straight" don't worry i didn't. she didn't realise that's how i got my new drums...Ha ha

2,767

(14 replies, posted in Songwriting)

here's a new song done in a rock/blues style. it has no religious connotations, just a threat to the fella that stole his identity. total fiction by the way. you can find the recording here;

  https://soundcloud.com/iphillfine/make- … e-with-god

2,768

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

get well soon grah, as jim says above, KEEP ROCKIN.

and thanks again kev for keeping us updated.

phill

2,769

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

just wanted to add my shock to the list and hope for a fast and full recovery.

also thanks to kev for letting us know.

phill

hi tig, glad you managed to sort out the chopro. as you say a sad but uplifting song and if you get around to committing it to the ether let us know so we can give it a listen.

another good one.

phill

2,771

(2 replies, posted in Poems)

brilliant poem TF, respect.

governments and countries are run by the money men, bankers, billionaires, industrialists. regardless of how much say we the common people are told we have, at the end of the day (and i hate that saying) it's the guys (and gals) that sign the cheques that call the shots. whether it's lending money to fund a war or refusing to grant a mortgage because you're in the wrong profession!

if the people that had all the billions gave just a quarter of it, world debt could be a thing of the past. and poverty in what is laughingly termed the "developed countries" could be eliminated. but they'd rather blow it on private jets, ferraris and private islands. it suits them to keep the poor....poor.

ask one question, who are those nuclear bunkers for? not us, we're cannon fodder. it's for the governments and billionaires that will (?) start the new world.

sorry if you've had to read this, but it's off my chest now and i feel better.

2,772

(57 replies, posted in Songwriting)

i was just listening to russ hardings fat old man making up stuff and a couple of lines popped into my head

so first line;

1. moved on down where the hot cars racing. (sung to what russ's playing)

big dirty engines throwing up smoke.



next please

2,773

(25 replies, posted in Poems)

thanks for that TF, i bought the stormwatch album as soon as it came out on vinyl then more recently on CD and is a regular part of my play list (in the car to and from gigs). i just remembered something, when i bought the album i was playing in a duo with a girl, i played her the album and she hated it....she didn't last long!

2,774

(57 replies, posted in Songwriting)

great idea tig, (i wonder if that name will stick?) unfortunately my mind has gone blank, i've got nothing, nada, zero, dim! but i'll come back if something should leap into my (MT) head. if anyone else has an idea that might help.

FYI, we've been called chordians for several years now and there are lists of members happy and willing to help with info or adding an instrument or even completing a whole song if asked. we are a really friendly bunch, just like MASONS???? smile

2,775

(25 replies, posted in Poems)

i am also a big JT fan, but those words are not familiar to me, like to enlighten me? smile

here's a JT lyric can you identify the song or give the next line;

"a concert of kings as the white sea snaps..."

marvelous. what a wordsmith