2,826 Reply by Phill Williams

(1 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

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.

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2,827 Reply by Phill Williams

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

not a problem young william,

the guy was in trouble because as women have this jealous and suspicious mind they immediately jump to the conclusion that her man is having an affair. ergo; between a rock and a hard place, damned if you do. damned if you don't. it was a joke of course as the guys wife was sitting beside him and laughing too.

maybe it's a British sense of humour thing? must have got wet crossing the pond big_smile

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2,828 Reply by Phill Williams

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

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 smile

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

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2,829 Reply by Phill Williams

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

as yesterday was valentines, i pretended to mix valentines and halloween, saying it was because both were horrors! i asked if any of the guys had bought flowers for their wife? a guy answered and i asked him; what have you been up to then?" he got a nudge
and dirty look from his misses...good enough for the suck-up

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2,830 Reply by Phill Williams

(12 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

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

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2,831 Reply by Phill Williams

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

We've discussed books before and they weren't even music books. So yeah, if we can discuss sports I can't see why we can't discuss books.

Well done to your friend.

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2,832 Reply by Phill Williams

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

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

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2,833 Reply by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Poems)

TF thanks for reading it and replying.

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2,834 Reply by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Poems)

thanks jim, deep answer my friend. i never thought of all the people that have come and gone from my life. i worked with a guy only for a year or two that had worked in the factory for  50 years from when he left school. he was made to retire though he didn't want to, and kept saying that if needed he would drop everything and be back to help if needed. the place carried on without him much to his surprize and he died within a year. after that i found a slogan;

                                                                 work to live. don't live to work.

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2,835 Reply by Phill Williams

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

i have 7, 2x 6 string elec, both fenders. 2x 6 string acoustic. 1x 12 string acoustic. 1 crappy elec (which should be boxed or sold or burnt as firewood, but i have a gas boiler) and 1x 4 string bass.

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2,836 Reply by Phill Williams

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

my thoughts and love go with you and your wife my friend

phill

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2,837 Reply by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Poems)

hi bill, no need to pussyfoot around me my friend i've got a hide like an elephant's rear section.;)

the part...the old must die to make way for the reborn... is meant as nature intends, a tree falls and life springs from the dying bark, your garden veg grow with the help of fertilizer which comes from cows droppings and cut grass mixed  with who knows what, but they grow and we eat them, then we make more ....you get the idea? smile

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2,838 Reply by Phill Williams

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

i use ableton as a DAW, each time i go to record a new track i have to go to the track input and select where the sound is coming from eg mic or your interface and also which inputs they are coming from eg 1- 2. 3-4 etc. i think it should be the same or similar in reaper or audacity. give it a try unless you've already tried and failed in which case....sorry

phill

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2,839 Reply by Phill Williams

(10 replies, posted in Poems)

Tenement Funster wrote:

Perhaps Chordie is a forum best left for music, and not the comparing / bashing of issues of faith and belief. These matters are intensely personal and meaningful to each person, and stating one side can inevitably be taken as a challenge to someone holding a different view.

Just saying ... to be truly respectful.

you are right of-course TF, it is an unwritten law no religion and no politics but i will only step in if people begin arguing or going totally over the top. i don't believe scott has infringed either. if you feel differently then i will remove the offending poems/songs as it is, i cant see any offense taken or meant.

phill

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2,840 Reply by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Poems)

thanks grah, slate does fit better so i've changed it. now i'm not happy with the last line....

thanks bill as grah said above; change blackboard to slate.

to me this was so depressing with all the death references, so i had to work at it to get reborn in there. fact is; i don't like the last line on both of the last two verses...any suggestions?

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2,841 Topic by Phill Williams

(17 replies, posted in Poems)

Children.                    Phill Williams.

The sound of daybreak, crystal clear.
Silent darkness lingers near.
Sol creeps quiet traverse the blue.
And rise, majestic, over roof.

The world stirs, live, with daylight friends.
As night time beasts retire to bed.
Goodnight. Good day. As moon descends.
Your way to work you will wend.

When we are gone, to dust or flame.
The sun will rise, each day the same.
And clouds will rain, and as they do.
Wash clean this Earth of me and you.

For this is how through time, years countless.
This world evolves, the species numberless.
This Earth creates then cleans the slate.
The old must die to make way for the newborn.

And so the sun falls past horizon.
A day must die for the night of passion.
New life with the break of dawn.
Goodnight. Good day. Hello sweet children.

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2,842 Reply by Phill Williams

(10 replies, posted in Poems)

i like the last line a lot...lol

2 semi-religious poems in a day, i guess it is sunday!  this one sounds like a rock song that hasn't yet got rocking?

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2,843 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in Poems)

i agree with bill there, very deep. nice write.

phill

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2,844 Reply by Phill Williams

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

no, sorry bill the guitar is on a stand as used by steve howe. looks like they're well into what their playing though?

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2,845 Reply by Phill Williams

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

i was a big beatles fan in the 60's (still am) and at the time of "glad all over" i began to fear that the dave clark 5 would take over, but they didn't...phew tongue

they had some great singles but unlike the beatles never worked too hard on their LP's.

did you ever see their film "catch us if you can"? i saw it when it came out but i haven't heard anything about it since.

i believe dave clark became a big record producer. i didn't know about the 3 that are no longer with us. RIP to them.

PS, sorry cant help with any biographies sad

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2,846 Reply by Phill Williams

(6 replies, posted in About Chordie)

i'm sorry james but more info needed. are you printing from one of the forums? or from a song book? or one of the songs in the index?

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2,847 Reply by Phill Williams

(9 replies, posted in Acoustic)

hi vic,

been there done that...i'm a solo and i've quite often found what works great in one pub to fab response seems to die a death in the next. i've often thought "i'm going to get paid off" only to find the landlord gushing that i've kept the crowd as they usually drift away (nice song that).

as someone once said "don't sweat the small stuff" and that is small stuff. in some places if you can walk out without getting beaten up or your gear getting smashed-up, you can say...yep, that was a good night! smile

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2,848 Reply by Phill Williams

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

here in wales we have those bumpy things called hills and valleys. the valleys are having some rain and sunny periods while the hills are catching a bit of snow. nothing like what the north of england and scotland are getting or north east of the us.

i love to see snow....on tv tongue

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2,849 Reply by Phill Williams

(35 replies, posted in Electric)

nice one bill, from my experience we welsh don't mind being mistaken for scots (jocks) smile but not english  hmm

i saw  chap use one of those clips in tenerife. he also had a couple of beautiful guitars, must pay well lol

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2,850 Reply by Phill Williams

(35 replies, posted in Electric)

like tyson i have around 5 hours of songs that i can call upon if needed. trouble is over the years i've got lazy and do mainly the same songs each gig. i have to vary them for different audiences of course. my wife keeps telling me i should learn new songs! but i cant seem to remember the words like i used to. so a music stand would be a god send i suppose, but my eyes are failing too and wearing bifocals is a road i don't want to travel down if i can help it. i know of a lot of acts around south wales who do use stands, i've got one for my studio.

one question bill, do they sit down to play as well? that would be the big sin for me, sitting down reading dots from a music sheet. it would remind me of those dance bands you used to get in ballrooms. showing my age now.....:)

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