a friend got a lot of viruses spyware and spam, but he looks at and downloads a lot of pawn, so keep away from that and you should be OK.
phill
3,752 2011-08-15 10:40:51
Re: what is with this site? (14 replies, posted in About Chordie)
i used firefox for a couple of years till a recent update did all kinds of funny stuff to my computer. so naturally, i dumped firefox and now use ie and google chrome, it can still be slow but at least it works....eventually. having said that, it has been a lot faster lately.
phill
3,753 2011-08-14 15:43:14
Topic: They Play Indoors. (8 replies, posted in Poems)
After all the troubles lately in London and other English cities, this came to me this morning when I saw a young lad, no more than 18, accelerating down my street with a drink in one hand and changing gear with the other. It's a narrow street and we sometimes have a few kids playing outside, luckily not today, they play indoors...
They Play Indoors. Phill Williams
When my kids were young.
They played on the street.
They had clothes on their backs.
They had shoes on their feet.
Now my kids have kids of their own.
They play indoors.
There's kids walking `round.
Sky high on drugs.
Can's of strong lager.
Left where they've fallen, litter the ground.
They wear hoodies and scarves to hide who they are.
They fight in the street, smash up your car.
Mayhem precedes them.
Destruction in their wake.
Gang warfare, knives and shootings.
Addiction and death is their fate.
And my kids now have kids of their own.
They play indoors....safe?
3,754 2011-08-11 19:09:42
Re: was your first time ok? (24 replies, posted in Acoustic)
my first public "outing" was in a local working mens club. i played with a drummer and organist. the organist went hell for leather at the free beer, and at the start of each song i'd never played before i'd ask what key were we in? a reasonable request if we expected to start in the same key? by the 5th or 6th pint of buckleys best bitter ale, i'd get answers like "monkey, doorkey, ohkey-dohkey!" i learned to pick out the key by the bass pedals he was playing. and i learned many a standard song! it was a steep learning curve, and i got to play backing to many artistes, and how to please an audience...sort of!
ah the good old days....
phill
3,755 2011-08-10 10:01:36
Re: I'm Mr Big. (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
yep, sorry about that russ, i spent ages on my-space yesterday sorting the song out and uploading my liverpool photos, tagging etc, hopefully it's sorted now.
thanks dino, it's a bit of a wierd song for me, we all have to stretch the boundaries some times!
phill
3,756 2011-08-09 16:24:53
Re: I'm Mr Big. (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
just finnished up-loading this to My-Space...click left
3,757 2011-08-09 09:47:02
Re: Another Surprise Gig (5 replies, posted in My local band and me)
sounds like the ideal gig, i'm jealous
phill
3,758 2011-08-08 15:55:42
Re: is 60 past it? (6 replies, posted in Poems)
well, thanks for all the support guys. i've been gigging for close to 40 years now and was thinking of "retiring" after new years eve. but the closer i get to the date the less i feel like hanging up my telecaster!
i'm still writing songs and poems and i do believe the stuff i've written since joining chordie is some of the best i've ever done (so you can imagine how rubbish my older stuff is lol)
i also feel my "live" voice is better than ever and my guitaring is still improving, slightly!
once again thanks for the great words of support
phill
3,759 2011-08-06 18:16:15
Re: Rugby World Cup. (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i suppose wales scotland and ireland are not invited? we speak the same language and play the same game, and inhabit the same block of rock that protrudes from the north atlantic! my tip....watch out for scotland this year!
3,760 2011-08-06 11:43:21
Re: I'm Mr Big. (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
a certain ex ozzy paper magnet maybe, or computer tsar, or any number of others, make your own mind up
3,761 2011-08-06 09:29:01
Re: I want to record some covers (50 replies, posted in Recording)
hi guys, just a quick pop in here.
the problem i find with web cams and camcorders come to that, is that the sound will never be what you want. if you get too close you'll get distortion. too far away and it'll sound like the addams family!
best results will be if you jack a mike and guitar into a mixer that can plug into the mic input on your computer, then you should (with a little experimentation) get the sound and picture quality you want.
phill
3,762 2011-08-06 09:04:21
Topic: I'm Mr Big. (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jets wrote a song which caused me to make a big political rant about how we poor folk have to pay the way for the rich who make a mess which we also have to pay for. So Jets said that there was enough angst for a song or two. No music yet, so it's consigned to Poems till I or any one who fancies giving it a go can come up with something.
I'm Mr Big.Undefined
[Em] They call me Mr Big.
[Cmj7] In the world of big, I'm the [Am] biggest you can get.
[Cmaj7] I'm so big I'm [Am] everywhere it's true.
[Cmaj7] I'm so big, I [Am] can't be seen by you.
[Fmaj7] I'm so big, you [G6] can't touch me.
[Fmaj7] You know who I am, [G6] but you'll never know my [Em] face.
Let's go down to the alley.
As we walk along we see the fat cats.
I'm the biggest fat cat in the alley.
I lift my claw and all the fat cats run.
I'm the leanest, meanest fat cat in the alley.
If I want your milk, I'll take it- so walk away.
[A] What are Kings and [F] presidents?
[Em] When I walk in, they [F] bow their heads.-[G]
I'm Mr [Em] Big.
I could buy the Moon.
I already own the Earth and Mars.
When all the gold and oil has gone.
When you melt in rain and freeze in sun.
When it cost too much to let you breathe.
I'll move on, I'm Mr Big.
What are Kings and Presidents?
When I walk out, they'll hold their heads.
I'm Mr Big.
I never talk of money.
The Bank of England's just petty cash.
I spend Fort Knox on a week-end bash.
My suit cost more than the 3rd world debt.
I don't pay tax, I live in a jet.
My bank is lost in cyber space.
I'm Mr Big, you don't see my face.
What are Kings and Presidents?
If I raise my claw, their as good as dead.
I'm Mr Big.
3,763 2011-08-04 18:33:34
Re: Just saying helo... (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
shymae butty, nice to welcome a fellow welshman, i have tried to educate the other members that we welsh are not english and we dont like being called english, it's all good humoured banter. any time you need a chat give me a call.
ps. i hate tabs. mainly cos i cant work em out.
phill
3,764 2011-08-04 18:26:29
Re: C'est la Vie (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi jeff, food for thought my friend, i'll have to give it some consideration. but seeing as you sugested it, maybe we should make it a collaberation, i'm running out of ideas at the moment, words and music, but i'll see what i can do.
funny how you never see a chunky chinese, but lots of take-away eaters that are...shall we say carrying a few extra egg foo yongs!
phill
3,765 2011-08-03 12:05:22
Re: C'est la Vie (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
here's a thought....as rob says "if we get out of these conflicts it would stop the money draining away..." where does it drain to?
the govornments pay for the guns and bullets and tanks rockets etc etc, so the money doesnt just dissapear, it lands in somebody's bank...yes?
so logically (mr spock) someone must be getting richer than the governments, who? arms traders and manufacturers, microsoft, of course. but not us. we the poor only survive to cater to the needs of the rich and aristocratic, (of all nations) we work for them. we get a meagre pay for that work, from which we pay taxes, then we have to buy those same goods we make, and pay tax on them. when they mess up, as they so often do, they put up the price so they can make more profit. then they cut cost, so they can make more profit, by laying workers off. so the sales drop, so they put prices up again. and again...
sorry for the rant, i am not a communist, but then i'm not stupid either, if they reduced prices, we would buy more, wouldnt we? if they reduced taxes we'd have more to spend, wouldnt we? it's called the money go round. what you put in this side comes back out on the other.
if the rich fat cats thought about that instead of lining their own pockets, there would be less of a global crisis?
3,766 2011-08-02 23:00:23
Topic: is 60 past it? (6 replies, posted in Poems)
I was 60 last Saturday, and as a treat my wife took me to Liverpool as a surprise to visit all the Beatles places I'd like to have seen 40 years ago. This came to me as I was pondering those 3 days, and the fact that I can't now do all the things I would have liked to have done.
Is sixty past it? Phill Williams.
I have been every age, from naught to sixty.
I've felt my powers grow, and now I feel them fade.
I wasted my youth on many childish things.
On many stupid boyish things.
On things that make me close my eyes and shake my head.
I was never the wisest of my brood.
Never the smartest in my school.
Never the best at the things I was good.
Never that good at the things I was good.
So I sit here aching and wondering why...
I let all those opportunities pass me by?
“I'll get the next bus.
“Have my last Rollo.
“Take my seat I'll stand.
“Let me hold the door...
Please and thank-you were always my way.
Polite and courteous, stand back and smile, tote that barge, lift that bale.
I can only insult, if it sounds like a joke.
Why cant I be a pig like everyone I know?
So my best years are past.
I walk now, and creak.
I wobble when I stand.
And I sleep between pee's.
All the music I loved has been stacked wall to floor.
Someone came 'round and locked tight the door.
All the music is gone, is that boom-boom a tune?
Sixty's not past it, it's just old to you.
I'll be around a long time yet!
3,767 2011-08-02 20:35:55
Re: C'est la Vie (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
i like it jeff, humour with the irony of truth. i guess a lot of you colonials will be glad that the government stopped short of dragging you lot down the toilet then the rest of the world, leaving the world to the chinese....ooh, politics, muchos taboo. great song though
phill
3,768 2011-08-02 20:02:44
Re: Frustrated! Great melody lines that stick but no lyrics. Help (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi imdovester and welcome to chordie.
now you might want to go through the poem section to see if anything sparks your imagination. alternately you might like to post some of your work on say my space (which a lot of us do) then give us the link and invite some samples. we have had many collaberations in the past and i dare say there's many more to come.
so looking forward to hearing some neat tunes
phill
3,769 2011-08-01 12:29:05
Re: Art of Dying - You don't know me (5 replies, posted in Song requests)
have you checked the songs tab above? if art of dying is the band name, sorry. if it's george harrisons song then i can help. let me know
phill
3,770 2011-07-22 12:19:29
Re: Your the Last Thing. (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks for that young man, i shall experdite my recovery with all alactrity...!
as for this song "the last thing" you may now find it on MY-SPACE, click to your left.
i like this one my-self and also the story unfolds as the song goes along, with obligatory sad ending.
comments please
phill
3,771 2011-07-21 19:39:13
Re: i wish i'd never said that... (20 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
my mother had a cracker, she'd often tell me " you come home dead here and I'll kill you!"
all in the best possible taste, of course.
3,772 2011-07-21 19:32:36
Re: VERY beginner problem! (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
i'm sure i've added a couple of comments here?
any how, the best piece of advice i can give you is; dont write too many words cos you never know, you may be asked to sing your song one day, then you'll have to learn all the words! worse yet, they may ask you to mime it, then you've got to learn all the words in order....horror!
3,773 2011-07-21 19:28:54
Re: Your the Last Thing. (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
in the process, but i've had a few migraines, bad back and sondries on the ill health front this last week, so i'm taking it slow.
3,774 2011-07-21 19:25:05
Re: missing me some you- toby keith (5 replies, posted in Song requests)
nope....i think you can safely say no one got that?
hi 56jeff
would you like to try it again, and give us a little clue this time?
unless you happen to be a "jets/cap54" hybrid?
if not, then welcome to chordie.. if you are then mating succesful
phill
3,775 2011-07-19 13:17:09
Re: Screaming kids and barking dogs!! (33 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
PARDON?