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To get the ball rolling for this month here is a song I wrote Different Layers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqpFCzrLOw
Your writing is getting very poignant ... I like it!!
Cheers
Richard
Hi all,
We have a dozen words to choose from this month as suggested by our members:
electron, delicate, layers, funeral, linen, exempt, kidney, do, donor, bedroom, brake, citizen
With these words, our members can write a poem, create a song or cover somebody else's song which include any or all of those words and remember to make a suggestion for the upcoming November FSOTM.
Go ahead and make some awesome music!! Looking forward to hearing it!
Thanks for the suggestions ... October is now live!
For this months suggestions, I'm going to do the same as last month because (a) it is less prone to repetitive words and (b) it's easy to add (and (c) Jandle asked me to set this up, and I didn't have any better ideas 
).
For Novembers suggestions you'll need to follow these steps:
1) Got to https://randomwordgenerator.com/
2) Generate 4 random words
3) Put those words in our topic here!
Note you don't need to pick the four in the first generation, any four will do!!
Look forward to reading what you all RANDOMLY SUGGEST.
READY ... SET ... GO!!!
Haha, nice!!
Cheers
Richard
Great tune; observant and entertaining, and truthful at the same time ...
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Richard
I got:
donor
bedroom
brake
citizen
Still a few days for others to enter!!!
Cheers
Richard
neophytte, nice little switch with the lyrics in that line in this song. It actually works better I thought swopping that line out (I went back and checked the original version). Well done, the song as I said previously on the original version suits you and works well. Nice one.
Thanks for that feedback - I'm glad I got to do it live instead of it becoming a shelf project ... I've been having fun exploring my old songs again, but always keen to start up something new, there are a few other songs in the pipelines, but they seem to get pushed into the 'distraction zone' and don't get finished (you know that line from Pink Floyd's Time: "... plans that either go to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines ..." )
Cheers
Richard
The cat very chilled listening to you on the couch
You mean the now famous cat - I think he's getting abig head about being in the video 
neophytte, my feedback was for California Dreamin. I didn't see Cheap wine so have just listened to that one. A nice cover, you did it well and it suited you vocally and as always, played well.
Thank you again!
Cheers
Richard
neophytte wrote:I usually read your songs and poems, but don't usually reply - but ... this one is good!!
Cheers
Richard
Neo
as you know a bit of feedback(good or bad) encourages us to keep posting.
for this reason i always comment to others contributions.
Good point; I'll add more comments ...
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Richard
I usually read your songs and poems, but don't usually reply - but ... this one is good!!
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Richard
http://www.wafolk.org.au/wanneroo-folk-club/
Just got a message back from the guy that runs the site and he said to thank everyone for their feedback - he really appreciated it ...
Now lets get back to FSOTM songs 
Cheers
Richard
Richard
i quite agree with Peatle on this - very impressive.Be cool to attend
Jim
Thanks - I'm sure you would all be welcome too!
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Richard
Richard, your Wanneroo Club website would have to be one of the best music club sites I have seen. Excellent photos and write ups
Thanks, I've sent that to the guy that does most (if not all!) of it. I'm sure he'll be happy to read some positive feedback! I know he puts a lot of effort in and, as it goes in these clubs, is often underappreciated.
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Richard
Richard that is a good song and I like its title "Prelude To Solitude".
Thanks, it was based on the song from the April 2023 FSOTM: https://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=38819
The Waneroo Club is that a regular place where you play??
Yes, they often have 'guest artist' appear, but have said recently that the 'come-all-ye' have been more popular (and are cheaper for the club to run) so have been doing more of those. They have a web site with a few of their performers here:
http://www.wafolk.org.au/wanneroo-folk-club/
Cheers
Richard
I just read when he is out door knocking with the Jehovah Witnesses people have told him he looks a lot like Hank Marvin.
He probably does
Cheers
Richard
Here's a song I wrote earlier this year Prelude to Solitude, which was unfinished for a previous FSOTM, but has now been modified to include the line a bolt of lightning, through my heart to be eligible for this months FSOTM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuy7y9zaJU
Enjoy!
Richard
Hi Richard. Apache was in my set and I've always been a fan of the Shadows. I thought it was more reminiscent of Guitar Tango! I think now that the tune came first, or riff? Then the chords Al la Apache, Am, Dm etc but not all of the tune. I was delighted when Peatle wanted to use it, but I would like to have done a more perfect recording as the mistakes stand out.
I think we always hear our own mistakes more than anyone else! As Peatle mentioned above, I didn't hear them ... but I guess we always have room for improvement .. (all of us!!)
I heard that Hank Marvin now lives in Perth Australia with his second wife Carole.
He has been living here for a while, I know when I was in a band, the guitarist (I was playing bass) had a quite rare guitar for sale - I don't remember what it was, but something like a Fender Mustang in baby blue with racing stripes. He didn't really want to sell it so had the price a bit higher, apparently Hank came down, played a few tunes, didn't argue the price and took it home. Unfortunately it happened about an hour or two before the jam, so I didn't get to meet him. That was in the 90's, probably in 1993, so he's been here for 30 odd years at least ...
Cheers
Richard
Hi Peatle,
Have you tried a tool like this? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/144996911182 - I'll also ask the folks at our music club, as a few are in a similar situation ...
HTH!
Cheers
Richard
neophytte, thats actually quite a hard song to sing, I know as I have tried to sing it in the past. It sounds a simple song but it's harder than you think because of how the song drops quite low in places. I think you did a good job overall but in places in the song, maybe the chords a bit too low for your vocals. I would be interested to hear you do this song in a different key for those low notes. Otherwise, you sang it well and of course played it well on guitar. Nice job.
Thanks - was that for California Dreamin' or Cheap Wine?
neophytte, i enjoyed watching and listening to that one with Al on the autoharp. Great to see you jamming with a fellow musician and what a smiling man Al is, obviously enjoying playing and singing this one with you. I actually have a autoharp that my father gave me. I have fiddled with it and can play it but I need to learn to play it without looking at the keys lol. Thanks for sharing that one.
Thanks for that - like I mentioned, it's Al's song, I just joined in - we were hoping to do a duo performance in the future, but can't seem to line up some rehearsal time. It's an interesting instrument - you kind of pluck at it, and deaden the non-relevant strings for that chord.
Cheers
Richard
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.
I've been messing around in Apple's Logic for the last couple of weeks, I find it incredible the stuff that it can do - overwhelmingly so!! There are a few PC programs that can also do this - Fruity Loops is one that my son used for a while, others like Cakewalk have been around for a while, nd even something like Audacity can help (although it doesn't have the built in drum loops to add) ... if you've got some time to invest, pick one and start playing around - you'll be surprised by the results you can get!!
The bird at the end is a local native to New Zealand a Tui.
Thanks! Found this on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%AB%C4%AB
Cheers
Richard
That's a pretty good first song; gave it a like and was going to leave a comment to reflect that, but comments are turned off ...
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Richard
Anyone else like to roll those (internet) dice ... ?
To get the ball rolling here is my song "Lightening Doesn't Strike Twice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__qh2aC_yo
Thanks for kicking off this month, Peatle, I really enjoyed the song, although I must admit at the pause(s) I was waiting for a big drum intro to kick in ...
Was that a black cockatoo at the end? I thought they were only in Australia ... !
Cheers
Richard
For this months Featured song of the month we've had a few suggested words including:
Jandle: hailstones
Peatle: Lightening
Grah1: Stormy Monday
neophytte: Spring
With these suggested words, our members can write a poem, create a song or cover somebody else's song which include any or all of those words.
Go ahead and make some awesome music!! Looking forward to hearing it!
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