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Kev

Please give Graham my very best wishes for a quick and complete recovery.  My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. Thanks for notifying us, many prayers have great results! When you speak to him or Pam give him our best from all us Chordians.  This just further exemplifies the last song I wrote and posted.  Enjoy every day !  I am praying Graham and Pam have thousands of days to enjoy after he recovers.
Jim

Roger,   I thought the experiment went pretty good - some good ideas and lyrics.  Not nearly as serious or well done as your original, but it was fun to anticipate the forthcoming lines. Although I tried to stay out of it, I really enjoyed following it as well. The mini size really caught everyone off guard, what a great perspective .  Everyone loves an underdog, unless of course you are President Snow from the Hunger games !     Chordie community is the best      regards, Jim

Any of you moderators --- I cannot figure out how to change the post title ---  I included the word little and I want it out.  I wanted the post to say   Forever Might Only Be For A While ( Sad, but uplifting)   If you can change it , please do so so it matches the title .  Thanks, and I hope you liked it.

I also agree - do it for yourself and if others appreciate it, then you  are an artiste and artist - you paint the pictures that mean something to you, you tell the story of the picture (from your perspective) through the music and lyrics. It's why we all gravitate to songwriting on chordie - we share our stories.

This is a site of an interview by Butch Walker - talking about his song entitled    21+over   It is an awesome song - but his explanation in the interview before he plays it is awesome - just what many of you were saying here.

the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MHDNmtK6w8

He has a new album called afraid of ghosts - its really good.

that one guitar felt good in his hands - Foreigner - Juke Box Hero

thanks

Thanks Brian

I feel so blessed to have discovered Chordie - so many great people here!

I listened to your song Life of Reilly - very impressive !!  I liked it very much. ( I have some Irish DNA in my family)
I see you are from New Zealand - and ironically one of my good friends just flew there  for a animal expedition / environmental study - he works for New York State Dept of Conservation.

I like to play and enjoy the time so much, but really - my singing is really bad - so I am vocally dependent of covers by good men like Phill and Graham. ( and Phill is super good at playing- what a bonus)  I also enjoy all the conversations, so interesting, knowledgeable and topically diverse.  My time on Chordie increases every day!

Thanks again !!
Jim

it so much reminds me of the old Steve MArtin Comedy routine - which I still use routinely when there are things I don't understand -   anyone remember this?
“Ok, I don’t like to gear my material to the audience but I’d like to make an exception because I was told that there is a convention of plumbers in San Francisco this week – I understand about 30 of them came down to the show tonight – so before I came out I worked-up a joke especially for the plumbers. Those of you who aren’t plumbers probably won’t get this and won’t think it’s funny, but I think those of you who are plumbers will really enjoy this…

“This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ gangly wrench. Just then, this little apprentice leaned over and said, “You can’t work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom 7″ wrench.” Well this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, “The Langstrom 7″ wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.” Just then, the little apprentice leaned over and said, “It says sprocket not socket!”

“Were these plumbers supposed to be here this show…?”

Phill,
Dithering is the process of intentionally adding noise to the signal prior to its quantization. Dithering turns quantization distortion all the way down by randomizing quantization errors.
Dithering is mostly used when down-converting from the higher resolution bit-depths - such as 24-bit or 32-bit - down to 16-bit, the actual standard for distributing digital audio files. Dithering is also used during the analog-to-digital conversion and inside A/D converters, although noise inherent in the analog signal often serves as a natural source of dither in these cases.

I really have no idea what that means, I have enough trouble playing f's and bm chords!

With that said,   my mama used to tell me that if I dithered to much I'd go blind, so I just did it til I needed glasses ! 

Hope you had a great day Phill - with or without dithering!

Jim

That is awesome, man !   

Those are terrific lyrics.  Great message. 

As a teacher of  and coach of 40 years, I have seen schools do the same thing to long time educators that have devoted their lives to so many students. All of a sudden they get the hits end of the schedules and worse scenarios to handle - in an effort to encourage  them to retire so it will save the district $$$$$$.

Your message is somewhat different because it's by choice to leave - and for all the right reasons. 

It doesn't get any better than to be able to live in  peace at " home" , with someone you love, surrounded by the beauty of nature.  If you have those, and your health,  you have it all, no billions can buy it. For me it's being with my wife and my daughters during  Springtime in the great hills and valleys of central NY and the beaches of Topsail Island of NC - it totally rejuvinates my soul.

Thanks to both Tenement Funster and D Ed for sharing such valuable words - it made my morning.

ps Ed - are you going to post with chords on songwriting ? I would love to hear how this goes.

Excellent Graham, very nicely done