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my wife is glued to the TV screen watching the "royal wedding" yuk.... so i guess i'm like many other abondoned husbands and "men" in general who would rather be on-line with my Chordie mates.
just as a matter of interest; how many females are on-line now rather than watching "the wedding?" not many i bet!
phill
hey joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? change that to, guitar in your hand....
me personally, i love a good story line, well written, well sung.
i also enjoy a good ripping solo, or if it fits, a sensitive musical interlude. (dont need to be a guitar solo)
then again, a good catchy tune, a hell of a good hook (chorus) leading to a crashing finale!
to sum up; a cracking song with a catchy tune played by competant musicians. and of-course, i must be able to hear the words, which dont repeat themselves over and over. and to end my diatribe of the modern pop song...more than just one note!!!!
phill
hi tony,
yep feeling a lot better now, though i'm still having probs with my PC. it must have missed me so much when i was in kangaroo land it fell on it's own sword, then left me the pieces to put back together again...still struggling!
now back to the new one, yes, short and sweet, i like the title, it fits nicely. images are strong as i'd expect from you, in fact well worth another listen or two.
NB. for the last few months, My space has been a nightmare for me as music and video was freezing up, so now with my hard drive almost empty, i can listen from start to finnish without interuption!
again, triff tune, are you entering it in any comps?
phill
(pass me the cement, will ya?)
hi ark,
loved it. the riff is great and the way you've mixed the guitar and pan pipes is great. i could picture the title by the way, moving on, moving on...etc
and short for you....
phill
hi steelstrings,
i agree with everything written above.
my own method goes like this;
1) i may be practicing and a chord progression comes to my fingers followed by some words, they may not be sensible words but that matters very little at this point, as words can be re-written later.
i try not to think of a subject before hand, as that gets in the way quite often.
2) at work, i sometimes have a minute and a line or a fraze my come to mind, so i write it down (it's always handy to have pen and paper handy!). if you have a mobile phone with a recording fascility you can capture any tune on that for later reference.
3) keep a note pad and pen beside the bed. i get a lot of songs popping into my head as i wake in the mornings.
4) i allow the song to dictate the flow and/or story line. a song may seem to be heading in one direction in the first line, but by the 2nd verse it may be taking you somewhere far more exciting.
finally, dont concentrate on love songs or driving songs. or heart-ache or beer! a song can be about any subject you choose, so dont worry too much if it comes out as a story about your
sunday lunch.
most of all enjoy the experience
phill
ps, no-one gets it right first time
thanks to you both, i'm happy that these humble words can mean something to others. my dad passed away from a heart attack a few years back now. i still remember the phone call, the race to get to his house and my utter devistation when i saw him lying there.
he lives on in my memory
by the way bob, my dad was in the royal navy during ww2, comrades in arms?
phill
i'm sorry, this doesnt rhyme and the verses are unequal. this is about my dad and me, but it'd dedicated to a friend
the first thing i remember is his garden,
how i hated all the digging and the planting.
eating peas fresh from the pod, was so amazing
beans right off the vines, raw and nice.
he was tall and had a wicked sense of humour.
when i was small and grown-ups were so big.
as i aged and he spoke to me as an adult
he saw me play and said he loved the gig.
that meant more than the cash at the end
than all the hand shakes the "well done lads"
to think that night i actually made him proud!
i still beam at the way he smiled.
i thought he was a pain as i was growing
he most likely thought the same thing of me!
i couldnt wait to get away, to get out from his gaze
now i wish i'd had more time with him
my dad now lays in the garden
his ashes mingled there with my mam's
my sisters my brother and i still visit every now and then
they are in my heart, they're never very far away.
sleep tight, dont let the bed-bugs bite.....
hi robert, i like this one too, deep by name deep by nature huh?
keep em coming
phill
ps sorry i've been away awhile, visiting my son in oz
hi flybye
so sad that you have to answer your own poem!
it's a nice piece of work, and i identify with it wholeheartedly as most of my stuff revolves around my wife too, 30 years in may....
(married not her age ha ha)
phill
Enigma. By Phill Williams.
I drink when I'm not thirsty.
Eat because it's time.
Sleep when I should be waking.
Lemon? could be lime.
I drive when I could be walking.
Dream when I'm wide awake.
Speak when I should be silent.
I am real when you are fake.
I've strayed away from nature.
That's what evolution does.
We should eat and sleep when we need to.
Crawl and walk and run.
If we lived on little islands.
No conventions, schools or jobs.
Then the smarmy robbing bureaucrats.
Would have no hold on us.
We could build our little houses.
Pull apples from the tree.
Grow veggies in the garden.
No wars, no tax. Be free.
9th February 2011.
i get the impression that this would make a great country song.
it's not really long, if you put two lines into one and doubled up the verses it would only be half as long on the page.
if this is a true story, stop kicking your self and learn the lesson for next time.
nice write, i'll say it again, make a good song
phill
it's nice to read a positive poem. this gives hope in such a well written and thought out manner. well done
phill
there are some really great lines here. here's one from a band you might not have heard of ...
she wakes up. she makes up. she takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry, she no longer needs you. pm
yeah, a kick in the teeth 
phill
i bought my mim in 1972. from the outset i wasnt completely happy with it....but i didnt know then that there were different standards!
the paint work is cracked (i put that down to constant gigging) and by the time i stopped using it, the fret board was worn behind the neck frets. and some of the frets themselves were worn. i never liked the sound i got, unless it was cranked right up through a marshall amp...which i hate cos they can only play dirty, i like to play clean occasionally!
i do like the shape of the neck though.
having said all that, i resisted buying a new fender for more than 10 years, using a crafter, that lost it's tune so easily, and just didnt feel right. eventually after searching for years, a telecaster was put in my hands, i decided i was in love before even strumming it. it was reassuringly heavy, the neck was a dream, it played like an angel and gave me that sound i've been looking for, for 30 years.
happiness is tele shaped.
i'm thinking now of getting a new neck put on my strat....any thoughts?
phill
i have got many favorite lines from songs, i was just wondering if other members had their favs too, such as:
ten thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire. now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall!
isnt that a brilliant line from "a day in the life" lennon at his best.
phill
hi russ,
boy have i got a headache just reading that. sorry i couldnt listen to the track (norwegian wood is also one of my favs) as i seem to have developed a middle ear infection, and i'm suffering, headache and nausia with vertigo thrown in for good measure.... aaawwwe poor phill. so no music for me for a while. talk soon buddy
phill
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there is one hang-up to this soft ware as russ and i have discussed, the freeware only seems to do mono. as i have not laid out any of my hard earned to try the full version, i cant say if you get stereo sound with it. i've started using audacity myself now, mainly to convert WAV to MP3 by way of a programme called "switch" as i couldnt get lame to work!
phill
nice one russ, how did i get in there? lol looks like your getting into the new software pretty quick.
ps....what is the significance of the piper?
phill
hi daddy,
i wondered if it was similar to the old foreiner track, dont worry i think your safe enough.
judging by your other material, this is a little deviation in subject matter. so i'm guessing it's fiction?
nice one, i like it
rock on
phill
hi robert,
glad you liked the song, but i think you listened to the wrong track! they dont know me is a medium paced country song. i think the one you listened to is called "lime green pick-up truck" and is about an american military family and also quite fast. it sounds like a line dancing song to me....though i cant dance, not even waltz!!!. i shall put up pick-up shortly.
hi ark, always happy to hear your comments....
phill
hi kenny,
right on all counts. it is a fast-ish country/rock eagles style (maybe too eagles style?) so i'm hoping if it does sound too much of a steal. if you guys can tell me so i can pull it.
by the way, it's about what we brits call a wide boy, a thug and all round bad boy! steals cars and eventually graduates to robbing a bank, but ends up target practise for the cops. no loss there then!
more info if required.
it will be put up on my-space ASAP.
phill
hi kenny, you seem to be cooking on gas (pun) lately. so when are we going to hear (and see) the results, as you've got this new camera? come on, get em up on (your) my-space.
phill
hi ark,
nice renderings my friend, i particularly like "she moves the fair" puts me in mind of 2 pieces i'm familiar with, 1 beatles and 1 jethro tull. i love the eastern drums.
well done
phill
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