Thanks for the feedback - there was a post on FB which I replied to, the guy said they had filled their spots ... I subsequently forgot about it, and he got in touch a month later and we arranged it, there was only a few days between when he messaged me and the actual gig.

Yes, I understand what you mean - I printed the minimum number of copies I could, as I know selling CD's is hard in this day and age, with the thought that I could potentially make profit from it, but was happy to concede a "break even" point. I was planning this over a year period, and so far I'm about 30% of the way to the the BE - but it's always mapped looking like a decaying scale, so the peak is at the beginning (new CD, etc) and the trail is the hard sell ....

Thanks - there were actually two guys there; the one I spoke to on the radio and another guy who was silently twiddling the knobs. He only brielfly spoke to me saying that one mic was for guitar and one was for voice. The interview was not pre-planned, so was flying by the seat of my pants. But that's sometimes how these things go. My youngest son also came into the studio and took the photos.

Cheers

Richard     

Hi Phil,

Sorry I missed your comment ... hmmm, don't be harsh on yourself - sometimes songs take time to grab your attention. Thanks for the well wishes, I'm selling enough to keep it going, but wouldn't complain if I sold more ...  but you do need to sell yourself as a product ...

Cheers

Richard     

Thanks!

hah, I also did that with my 12 string guitar; take off 3 strings to make it a 9 string ...

Cheers

Richard     

I'm waiting for a cover of dueling banjo's      

Thank you, this is an original which has the line:

I'm feeling something completely new

https://youtu.be/TsWe96u0dS8

Cheers

Richard     

That guitar in the video was my first acoustic guitar - but my first guitar was actually an electric.

I remember the day, but not the date, I think I was about 20 when I was working for a company where I drove around and fixed up computer terminals in service stations - I fixed them too efficiently and my boss used to tell me to drive about for 1 or 2 hours to build up the km's on the car (company tax reasons) and I'd often go to music stores. There was a particular store in Booragoon that I used to like - the shop owner was a disheveled guy who didn't use his antiquated til, and one day he'd charge you one price for something, then another time he'd quote you something different. He had wanted over $au200 for the new ones, and I got him on a good day (or maybe I bugged him too much?) and he charged my $au175 for a brand new black "Torch". Similar to this one:

Mine was all black, and sat mostly unused for about a year - I then moved into a new share flat and my housemate commented about the guitar and said a friend of his played, who visited sometime thereafter. We nutted out songs and sounded terrible, but we were making (kinda) music. Later my housemate left and I didn't think I'd see his friend again, but he came over a couple of weeks later, and we had others join us, which became the "Wednesday night jams" - my gf at the time had art classes on that day, and it ended up being a bit of a booze-up excuse. I think it was about a year after that, the same friend mentioned he knew another guy with a band, so we went to jam with them - and they asked me to join and do their first gig - a party on the next weekend. Their skill levels were on par with mine, and we got booed and had food thrown at us; but we persisted and got other gigs. That lead to me getting my first acoustic (I think it was to play Stairway to heaven) which is the one in the video.

I recently (2021!) caught up with that old band and we have some videos of that in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnUekJ … iuVdTHxkhT - although the singer didn't turn up ...

Cheers

Richard     

I'm going to drag up an old one I did - Rock and Roll (I gave you the best years of my life):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nh7cJEoiGk

I believe it was originally by the Kevin Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Johnson_(singer)

Cheers

Richard     

Happy new year all, I've been pretty busy promoting my new album, playing a few gigs.

Hope everyone is well!

Cheers

Richard     

I use OnSong in the iPad - https://onsongapp.com/ - if you can find it, OnSong 2020 is still a purchasable product, the new product (OnSong 2023) is subscription only.

Cheers

Richard     

I started to write this song for this months FSOTM, but not sure I'll have time to finish it before the big day (the chords are there as I needed to add at least two, but I haven't written the actual music yet):

Two in the afternoon (unfinished)Richard Mortimer

There will be people who look at you and say the same - and you already have 100% of your own talent ... use it the best way you can ...

Cheers

Richard     

This reminds me of a video I took when I was working in the CBD, this busker played a similar style, I think I bought his CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzWbocQb-mY

Cheers

Richard