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in defense of postmen, our local guys are all really friendly and will give a nod or smile and say hello.

there is a lot of ageism as TV seems to be aimed at the under 30's.

having said that your song rings true. well written and observed, nice one graham...

hi artie, there's no thrill like playing with other musos. i always tell youngsters that say they want to become "pop stars" get into a band of some kind and learn your trade before going on X factor and expecting to be the next big thing.

i found getting music books and learning scales then listening to recorded music and listening to how the song was recorded, strumming patterns etc helped me to a great extent. all i can say is try a lesson or two before committing yourself to a whole course of tuition that you may regret after a while, you may just be picking-up the instructors style when you really want to develope your own.

you obviously have a talent or you wouldn't have been asked in the first place...and don't worry about taking a long time to learn parts, i tend to forget whole lines of songs that i've been performing for 40 years, and it's almost impossible to learn new songs. but i keep trying

a big thanks to all that commented on this song, must say that i'd forgotten that i'd put it up so it was a surprise when i saw a new comment.

thanks again.

phill

congratulations and welcome to ella, chordies youngest member?

FYI Mr Zurf, there are no X,Z,K,J,Q or V's in the Welsh alphabet, but close

but you will find Dd which sounds like a hard th. Ll, is totally unexplainable, Ch, which is good for clearing your phlegm and Ff which sounds like F as F sounds like V. it may sound complicated, but it's my first language

history lesson coming up;

Christianity was well established in Britain long before the English (Vikings) or the Roman catholic church came along. St David, who is buried in the cathedral in the city that bears his name on the west coast of Wales was kicking evil's backside just after the Romans left and died in the 6th century.

another piece of trivia for you, i once wrote a song called "magie coulter" about a homeless lady that died on her pilgrimage to the city of St Davids...seems like a long time ago....

well done and congratulations, girls are always special.

phill

p.s. having read jimmy's post below, i have 3 boys and just 1 girl (and the wife) but from the moment gemma (my daughter) was born we boys had no chance. GIRL POWER!

i had to post a second time on this one.

my fav bob dylan has to be "tweeter and the monkey man" from the travelling wilberys.

as for others not quite hitting the notes; i've often had to accompany punters that want to come up and give a song, very often singing each verse in a different key.

i had one guy that sounded exactly like tom jones, pitch perfect, beautiful tonal quality, but he had no idea of timing so kept coming in before the beat or changing the rhythm midway through a verse, totally oblivious to what he was doing. he came 2nd in a tom jones sound alike competition...if he could keep time he might have won...who knows?

the 2nd post in this thread was deleted, it was totally off topic and the poster was waiting for an opportunity to enter spam. i can wait no more....banned and gone.

phill

hi the pathetics, sorry no one  has replied to your query.

if you want to get guitar effects (FX) the best way to go is an FX pedal such as Boss ME range. i have an ME 50 which gives me all the FX i need with built in phaze, chorus, many different grades of distortion or fuzz, reverb and echo. i can only suggest that you go to your nearest music shop and try a few out, go through all the different stages and decide if it's what you want.

another way to go would be "stomp box" with these you can decide what you want and buy just what you require, eg just fuzz, or you can add a chorus pedal and or compressor, echo the list is almost endless. but try them first if you can, don't go by other people playing them cos they can always make them sound wonderful but when you get them home they may not sound so good.

hi brian and welcome to the forums. i was also using chordie for quite a while till i found that i could hang out here. even so, during my rock years in the 70's you DJ's were the enemy as you were taking our gigs from us, but were all friends now

your real name brian sidwell sounds very familiar to me where did you/do you ply (your evil) trade?

there was no point moving the spam to mods so i just deleted.

as an aside, the rapier in TF's pic was the one that got me drooling at a shop window back in the 60's. i must have been around 12 at the time and after it had been sold i told my mother about it and she said she'd gone in to price it for me but they wanted a whole 12 pounds! which i guess was a lot of money in those days...so say lavvie. i've got a wilson bass though, and still play it. it's previous owner must have been one of those heavy metal guys with the big cross hanging round his neck as the ruts are still there...ha, ha

ed, that's brilliant, and i mean that. the metre is perfect, the metaphors run sweet, and i hate to say it...it's all the things that my poem isnt. i tried to wax lyrical but having read yours there is still a ton of work to do on it.

so good, i could visualise my-self shooting the rapids then heading west on one of those old western trains.

thanks for sharing.

phill