Always a pleasure young man. How are things in the land of canuke?

hi robert, thanks for the review, the sound does seem a little distorted, how is the collaberation with jeff coming on?

hi tony, i was just messing at the piano when fairwinds came, it took all of 10 minutes and about half an hour to record. the guitar came later. nothing planned. it took longer to think of the title!

hello russel, the riff for 10% has been around for a couple of months, words and a melody just wern't coming. then it all came together in a flash.
it's an all live recording, guitars drums the works. thanks for the review.

talk soon ?

if i read your post right, i think you are being side-lined, they get you in, then decide they dont want you cos you dont fit? you then form another band, with a female vocalist....great, suddenly your in demand again. what's gonna happen when the singer gets her feet under the table, are you gonna be dumped again?

jump before your pushed my friend, put all your energies into your own band.

phill

what a beautiful tale. well written and shows us our predjudices and hang-ups, with a little hint of fun and irony.

best regards to you sister

phill

nice work.

i've just come off internet banking with the wife giving me instructions, while kissing my neck...(but you dont want to hear about that!) and writing birthday cards. birthday cards? yes. this put me in mind of an accountant sending his other half a romantic (birthday?) card.

ticks all the boxes

phill

thanks geo, i try

phill

benidorm was hot the first week then cold and wet the second! just like the beer, so not a total loss.....:cool:

did a bit of karaoke, just to keep the tonsils in form.

any plans to update "so hard"?

phill

i always think that good guitar players just know more tricks than bad or fair ones.

i played "albatross" last week and a guy asked me to play at his birthday bash (for money) as long as i played it at least 4 times....

whether i'm good or bad depends on my mood, how much plactise i've got in lately and if my fingers are tired, or stiff (i'm getting old). i played "black magic woman" one night and got compared to santana! next night i played it like a cat walking across piano strings! go figure?

i bought my first guitar when i was 15, i'm now almost 60, so i've picked up a few tricks. i think i'm a very good rhythm player, and a fair to middling lead player....i get my moments!

phill

i played in a band with a "real" drummer, i was on bass, and kept getting my fingers rapped during a song for roaming too much and going out of time! he never missed a beat while he was bruising my fingers though...little *%¬><#@!!!!

i dont use a metronome for practise or writing, but mostly for recording my own stuff. trouble is you cant hide your roamings and out of times when you use one. and you cant use half notes for dramatic effect as the M/N keeps constant time so you tend to come back in off beat!

phill

hi robert,

rock-on mate.... does this have the same rythm as "apache" by the shads?

phill

thanks to you all, the piano version was put up last year or the year before, i think? roger did a version which took it to another level for me with a fuller sound.

i am a big beatles fan, but it never occurred to me that it was beatlesk!!! (if that's the correct spelling) it was just a childhood memory of me getting into trouble and my older cousin helping me out of it! it's strange that it came out as a girl song, i used to use my sisters dolls as target practice for my darts!

thanks again for listening

phill