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hi grah. loved your words, made me smile, nice use of chords too. personally, i like your voice.

phill

British weather is a little hit and miss, but when we get a good one we get a good `un. Case in point is last summer which was super-duper

PS, I listened to your song and was very impressed, very blues-y. I enjoyed it. Well done

when my PA went kaput, i searched the web for a cheap but good replacement, now i get emails from all those on-line music shops with bargains and sales. funny how they always turn up when your not desperate for new gear?

1. the publisher makes the most
2. the artiste/writer gets a bit
3. the arranger gets some, but i think his cut comes from the show producers, who get their money from the sponsors who make their money from people buying their goods.

i think there is also a fee paid by the broadcaster to the writer, publisher etc. and if they use the original recording, to the record company, now that's what i call stretching a buck.

i read somewhere that paul mccartney makes around £25,000,000 a year in royalties. a dirty job, but someone has to do it, paul, i don't mind helping, just a couple of grand would do me!

saturday; i've had this virus (on me not the PC) since new year, so i only did 1 show this year so far, till saturday when the agent guilted me into playing, so much as i wanted to go to my local club and get lubricated, i headed down to milford haven, which is right on the irish sea. it wasn't just raining it was chucking it down, the wind was gale force, so i got soaked and froze with the cold. but being the trouper i am, i soldiered on, and by the end of the night i felt much better, till i had to face the storm again....roll on summer 

I have my own little Beatles story, I may have put it up before, if so sorry.

Any way, I was around 11 and due to spring tides and a flooded road, my father had to take the long way home, we had radio Luxembourg on in the car when this rock and roll track came on and made my hair stand on end, it was "My Bonnie" the only time it was played on the radio. Many years later after reading The Beatles biography, that somewhere in Liverpool one George Harrison was also listening, so to me that instance gave me a feeling of brotherhood with George, God rest and bless him.

The following year when the Beatles became "main stream" I became a fan again and I have all their records in vinyl, cassette and CD! I say "again" because I found a record in 1968 of recordings made while they played in Hamburg and "My Bonnie" was included on the disc.

PS, I've had to listen to "New" by Paul 3 times to get into it, but now I'm glad I took the time, it's brilliant though not as good as "Memory almost full"

i hardly ever sit down to (force) out a song any more. i used to, and went through several years of trash. when i joined chordie i thought i needed to write songs that had meaning and or a story.

these days i only write when something is itching to get out; i was in the shower and an opening line came to me, so while i was washing my bits i was developing the words and tune (they usually come together) so after drying off, i scurry down to my studio and pop the words down and look for the chords. if i have something good then i need to record it right away as if i don't by the time i get back to it, it's gone, so i leave it in my slush pile, and when i have a tune but no words i'll go back and see if they fit, maybe years later!

other times i've been strumming away or tinkling on the piano, when a chord sequence or a riff or tune comes out, soon a few words will come along whether i'm trying to write a song or not. in all cases the first few lines dictate the theme/story of the song, and what may start out as a rock song may end up as a ballad!

hi EB, there are one or two others, but in the main it's true. what people don't realize is that when your song (or poem) appears here it's just like publishing them as it's appeared in print and so if some unscrupulous person plagiarizes the song then you have your first basis for legal action. i'm probably well off base here, but i dare say someone will put us straight.

thanks for the comment.

phill

don't forget we (mostly) all got into music listening to mindless pop. and it's not the fans that put him where he is, it's the music moguls, the fat cats, the simon cowells of this world that wind them up and then mindlessly let them go. the show biz ethos is:- no publicity is bad publicity.

not to say that bieber doesn't deserve a good slapping or a few years in jail. money talks i guess. what the hell was a 19 year old doing in a Ferrari anyway? and i believe it was drink and drugs.

just before the globe type bulbs were stopped over here, Tesco were selling pigtails (as you call them) for 50 pence each, so we bought a shed load of them. now they sell at around £5 a pop! i like them as they are something like 9 watts a bulb giving off 50 watts equivalent. they also give a better light for taking photo's and video i found . i have seen the old style for sale but they are very expensive now £9 +

i like the reference to "your brain". i have a pal who likes to say he has 3 brain cells and if 2 agree then whatever he was thinking comes out of his mouth. not always a good thing!

you poem made me think and remember, so it did it's job. well done.