Richard, thank you for having a listen and watch. I wish I had the skills to add a bit of bass and some drum fills to it as that would lift it to another level maybe. The bird at the end is a local native to New Zealand a Tui. I hope we see a few more give this a shot this month.
326 2023-09-04 11:14:52
Re: September 2023 FSOTM: Hailstorms, Lightning, Stormy Monday, Spring (21 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
327 2023-09-02 11:37:04
Re: September 2023 FSOTM: Hailstorms, Lightning, Stormy Monday, Spring (21 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
To get the ball rolling here is my song "Lightening Doesn't Strike Twice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__qh2aC_yo
328 2023-09-01 23:43:23
Re: Suggestions: October 2023 - random words from a site (5 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
electron
delicate
layers
funeral
329 2023-09-01 23:42:12
Re: Rambling Boy (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff reading your lyrics made me think of Mark Twains, 'The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" why my mind went there I don't know. I could imagine you singing that song to a group of people and doing it as a sing along.
330 2023-08-31 20:47:04
Topic: A Kiwi Song About September (0 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band was a popular novelty New Zealand band back in the early 1970's and here is one of their songs attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKgq_4RfFoc
331 2023-08-30 11:45:11
Re: Keep Rolling On (3 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Thank you, Jim, that Guy Clark video was brilliant. One of the things with my family getting older it is getting harder to get everyone together but I love it when we do. My mum turns 103 in September so hopefully we will get a few family members together for that.
Pete
Here is a kiwi song about Mums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vfp8D5i6i8
332 2023-08-30 11:38:51
Re: Glass Recycle Man Video with Phill Williams Music (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Richard, sometimes I make the video and take pictures to go with the music or song and other times I dig into my file of videos and pictures. It all started when I got a phone that took photos and videos. So for about the last 8 years I have been playing around with making videos trying to utilize whatever is around me by coming at it with different angles.
Part of the thing with me is what we see as everyday today might not be there in 20 years' time. So part of my purpose quiet often is to have a record of the present time knowing that things can change very quickly and be gone before you know it.
333 2023-08-30 11:23:25
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
neophytte wrote:
Here's one I did in January for that FSOTM (which also had the word 'wine', from memory):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBY4BgA9yg
Cheers
Richard
Richard you made that song your own and it came out good.
334 2023-08-30 11:20:38
Re: Stormy Morning (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff Stormy morning might be an idea for the September CSOTM. if you suggest the word Stormy . Look forward to hearing it played and sung.
335 2023-08-30 11:15:56
Re: a memory and a photograph (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Class performance and lyrically spot on.
336 2023-08-24 20:58:55
Topic: Keep Rolling On (3 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Dropped in things look quiet on here so I thought I would put up a Kiwi Folk Song by Luke Thompson.
337 2023-08-15 10:39:41
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Grah1 wrote:
Peatle your song has great content .It holds your ear all the way through
Thank you Grah for your kind comment and taking the the time to have a listen.
338 2023-08-14 05:14:36
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Grah and Richard you both picked good songs to put up. Richard having Al on autoharp playing and singing is the sort of thing I could imagine Jerry Garcia doing if he was still around.
339 2023-08-14 05:03:05
Re: Glistenbury festival for Manorlands Hospice (3 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Grah you and boys hold that song together good.
340 2023-08-13 08:00:29
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Carpe diem ( Latin for either seize the day or seize the moment) EB I like this tune and it is something of value worth listening too. Its good to hear or see that your not hiding your talent but letting it be available for all to hear.
341 2023-08-12 05:16:42
Re: Suggestions: September 2023 – Words to do with the weather (11 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Lightening
342 2023-08-11 09:33:39
Re: Billy Playing Blues Guitar (7 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you, Jim and Brian, for your kind comment. Sitting on the bus today surrounded as usual by commuters on smartphones. The lady next to me a stranger disengages from her phone and speaks to me. Are you going answer that phone in your jacket because its annoying me hearing it make that sound she said to me. It was then I became aware that my phone in my pocket had Robert ringing me. I like your poem Brian.
343 2023-08-11 09:26:45
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jim cool as the winter wind and all the other lyrics and chords its magic how you do that it is a special gift you have.
344 2023-08-10 21:00:20
Topic: Billy Playing Blues Guitar (7 replies, posted in Poems)
“ Harald Bluetooth was around before all this clever technology and he wouldn’t be impressed if he came back and saw the world today” so says my street friend Billy The Busker. It wasn’t until I looked up Harald Bluetooth on the internet that I found out he was a King Of Norway over a thousand years ago. Realizing that Billy The Busker has an eccentric humour about him I thought he was worth a poem. Billy is unlike many other buskers I know in that he has a good job but likes to busk every now and then just for pure enjoyment.
Billy Playing Blues Guitar
Why choose a cold winters day
To stand on a footpath and play
His strange choice makes my day
Billy playing blues guitar
It is a fun thing to see
Six strings and decent wood
A genre he says is misunderstood
Some say they need intoxicants
To play the Blues
He say’s to me that’s not true
That’s also is my point of view
My busker friend Billy
Is not silly no drugs or drink
Just loves playing his guitar
The young ins on the street around him
Many are heading to death with meth
Disconnected from nature
Land sea and fresh air
Their souls torn apart
And their ability to care
Billy playing blues guitar
Happy to be here
A man of today
No sedatives just love
No cigarettes or puff
It can be done and still be fun
Here I am on Cuba Street
Separated from my laptop out on a roam
My new affliction left back at home
To me its kind of intoxicating watching
Film noir
The lead actors all sucking on durries
When the world was in a different kind of hurry
Yet nothing changes bad guys are still a worry
Here I am now living in today on Cuba Mall watching Billy play.
In amongst some good old fashion buildings in a modern murk and slurry
People married to their smartphones
Now that’s a worry
Inside their cyber world oblivious all in a hurry
Smiling Billy on the sidewalk in amongst his own clever talk
Plays blues guitar beside an Indian bar
As the people inside drinking beer are enjoying a hot curry
Sometimes in a world that can feel broke
People like Billy shine like a beacon of hope
345 2023-08-10 20:41:19
Re: Just a Rumor (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Good to see you back on chordie Jeff with a good song.
346 2023-08-10 03:57:27
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Takes me back to a time when music and groups like the Mama@Papas were putting out great songs good choice Richard.
347 2023-08-08 08:33:52
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Cheers Richard thankyou for keeping this going and I hope someone else will give it a shot.
Jim thank you for taking the time to listen and comment. it is a one horse race at the moment so if there is a title I get first and last place. The song was me imagining a young guy besotted by a young lady wanting to marry her. In my mind he is not that confident that she feels the same about him as he does about her. Some of the idea came to me after a friend of mine who is 60 years old and single said to me about himself, “i’m a bumbling bee no one will marry me”.
348 2023-08-06 01:49:59
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Just to get the ball rolling here is a song with the word Picture in the lyrics called "Write You A song Honey"
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFEve-SAk4
349 2023-08-03 07:59:41
Re: August 2023 FSOTM: Ticket, Memory, Water, Winter, Wine, Picture (42 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Thank you Richard I hope everyone on chordie gives this a go. Even if their someone who has gone from Acid Rock to Acid Reflux or just starting out learning guitar or another instrument. It will be good to hear or read their contributions.
350 2023-08-02 05:09:40
Re: Alfie and Titus (9 replies, posted in Poems)
Lord Piri thou be great the one with judgment gavel
Please don’t throw me out into the rabble
Sir Jim our gallant knight from the realm of chordie.
If I could raise a titter or a smirk a happy Jester I would be
It’s not easy writing when locked up in collar and cuffs, cap noose and girdle
Down the Elizabethan trail we go another entertaining hurdle
Auld ways can still make my days
Forget Tv give me these word plays
To brighten up my days