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Jandle wrote:NIce one Peatle, you seen to be playing your guitar with better movement, you were playing up and down the fret board and looked pain free? Good topic, I think we all have those times and I for one, love to walk by the sea, go to the beach or go off walking in the woods. Good soul food.
Cheers Jan, it is wonderful to see you back on chordie. It is good to be pain free when playing the guitar. Now I don't have the dexterity I use to have in my fingers I have been working on different ways of playing the guitar. I agree walking by the sea or in the forest is good soul food. On clear nights checking out the sky always fills me with awe.
Cheers Richard, When I brought the guitar brand new. I had the shop set it up for me. I think that maybe I should get it checked out by a luthier and see if the action needs lowering. I am not that technical also I am not sure how or where the truss rod is on my Ibanez. I will have to over summer sometime take my guitar into the shop for a bit of TLC.
Good one EB you hit the nail on the head with this one.
Here is a song I wrote about relaxing and enjoying myself by the sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDv6Go9hgK8
Jim, your lyrics tell it good and many will feel they are about their own relationship breakdown. The sleepiness and that feeling bout half past dead.
Richard it is good to have you put another song on here from you. You cover a wide range of genres it's good to see that you don't limit yourself to one style. .
Grah, I like the way that you can take music and play it in all different sort of settings that people wouldn’t necessarily expect to see a person performing. Playing shoe songs in a shoe shop and obviously all the puns that can go with it like on a shoestring budget and so on. Having to go to the hospital in recent times one of the things that helped lift my spirits on a couple of visits was musicians playing music in the entrance foyer.
Grah1 wrote:This one has the word brake in one verse .It is based on true events from the late 60s .I wrote it after I lost a friend .Riverside cafe closed around 1970 and was demolished ,A modern motel now stands on the site .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_oR4YZFSM Riverside Cafe .
This go's out to Glen RIP .
Grah, that is a good song. It takes me back to the days here in NZ when many young Kiwis rode British bikes.
If you owned a Norton Commando here back then you had a much sort after bike due to them costing a bit more than other bikes. Milk-bar cowboys or bodgies who owned motorbikes was the name many of the young rebellious ones were known as here.
Jandle wrote:I liked that one Peatle, very much how many of us were feeling re voting this year and who for this time around. I could relate to your lyrics in this song. I like how you put your thoughts to song. Nicely done 
Thank you, Jan. As I get older my cynicism grows every time I hear a politician speak. I often wonder is the real truth being fed to us or is it being obscured by irrelevant or misleading information. How much is truth how much is propaganda.
Cheers Jan, I love your poem on words. Many of the new ways people use words to describe things sometimes gets me confused such as when someone says that's real sick meaning it is real good. Since I'm on about words here is a rundown on some Kiwi slang attached https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mwczj4s20&t=312s
Cheers everyone thanks for your comments I think Caz has a good future in music. I showed Caz your comments and he appreciated your feedback.
Cheers Jan and Jim I see it often people out and about concentrating on their phones and the people around then just an outside noise. I learnt a new word yesterday nomophobia the fear of being without your phone. The art of healthy social interaction is being destroyed for many by their addiction to their smartphones.
Good to see you getting out a lot and playing Grah.
Good one Richard was that the audience singing along on Light My Fire that I could hear on the video or was it an echo in the hall??? Your two originals very strong songs rhythmically and lyrically also.
Cheers Piri, apparently a lot of modern sayings come from Shakespear. I was at a Catholic funeral and I remember the Priest saying a lazy way to deliver a good sermon is to quote the bible and something that Malcom Mugrage said or wrote about Christianity. Many of the young ones at the funeral wouldn't have known who Malcom was but people like me knew of him because he use to be interviewed a lot on TV here. One thing I like about the internet is when reading history books in the old days I would have to refer to a dictionary to find out what some words meant but now I can just look them up on the internet.
Verbose Overdose
Is it pernicious or insidious
What about indigenous or autochthonous
It is all a sea of words
Thrown at me by scholars
Making big dollars
Are they logophiles or lexophiles
Is it a genetic adversity to big words?
That keep people like me away from university
Like a dolphin dives in and out of the sea
I dive in and out of books
Finding new words that were previously a mystery to me
Thank you, Richard, for taking the time to have a listen and give me some feedback. I hope some more people have a go at this month's FSOTM.
When I started playing guitar again about eight years back after a break of thirty years of not playing it took weeks for my fingers to harden up. I heard Paul Simon say in an interview that he tries to play guitar every day for at least an hour and a half. He then said he found that the more you play your guitar the more it gives back or rewards you.
Thank you Richard your doing a real good job here. The four words that came up when I did the word generator this time are.
legend
Coincidence
Ritual
Broken
To get the ball rolling for this month here is a song I wrote Different Layers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqpFCzrLOw
Jim I like the imagery of the lonesome pines and the train in the valley rolling down the track and the love that's lost and slipped through a crack. Clever lyrics.
Keep up the good work Grah
Richard, thank you for your kind comments. I tried to write and play this song in the tradition of good folk songs.
Piri, diolch yn fawr iawn brawd I think Wales are playing better than the All Blacks in this World Cup tournament. The sad thing about driving and using mobile phones is it has killed and injured many. In the Halls of justice if someone gets killed because of someone texting or using their mobile device instead of concentrating on the road I think it is worth a harsh penalty.
Brians, Ham poem for kids made me think of Arnold Ziffel and also that old nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy Went To Market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0K_INetpzM
Cheers Piri
It was on the news the other day more people here in New Zealand were walking into trees, tripping over and falling down curbs while on their mobile phones. I know I have had people walk into me while on their phones when I have been out and about. The numbers of these sort of accidents are rising every year in New Zealand. I was in a coffee shop when I heard an older lady on a table next to me scold a younger woman sitting with her for focusing on her phone instead of talking to her. A comment she made was something along the line of, I might as well be on the moon when your on the phone because you certainly aren’t aware that I’m sitting next to you here. That comment got me thinking about distance being so close and yet so far away when someone your with or near is on their mobile phone. From that and watching people everywhere on their phones came the song “ I Am Here”. BTW I’m impressed by the way your Welsh rugby team is playing at the moment in the World Cup.
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