376 Reply by neophytte

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Grah1 wrote:

This   one  has the  word brake  in one  verse  .It  is  based  on true  events  from the  late  60s  .I  wrote  it  after  I  lost  a  friend  .Riverside  cafe   closed  around  1970 and  was  demolished  ,A modern motel now  stands  on the  site .     
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1_oR4YZFSM   Riverside  Cafe .
This  go's  out  to  Glen RIP .

That's a good song - I take it that it was pretty new to the band at the time, hope you get to record it. Doing dumb things when we were young ... I guess we've all been there ...

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Richard     

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377 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

Good to hear the audience joining in with you in your first song Richard.  Always satisfying when the crowd does that, makes it all worthwhile.   Nice to hear your originals too.   That last song you definitely were getting into it, well done smile

Thanks for having a listen ... I'm hoping to do some longer gigs this year, but it's already October and I haven't yet ... still time, I guess smile

Cheers

Richard     

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378 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Many of the new ways people use words to describe things sometimes gets me confused such as when someone says that's real sick meaning it is real good

A couple of years ago I was working at a place with a load of 20-somethings and their word was "dope". I was confused why they kept referring to drugs in the workplace until I figured out they were saying it was "good" or "well done" ...

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Richard     

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379 Reply by neophytte

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Sounds good ... I don't know how you write so many songs, whenever I get on "a roll" all my songs sound the same (and use the same words and phrasing, etc) ...

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Richard     

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380 Reply by neophytte

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Nice tune - I agree with what Jim said, I can imagine this being a cowboy looking after his herd in the nighttime, next to a fire...

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Richard     

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381 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Good one Richard was that the audience singing along on Light My Fire that I could hear on the video or was it an echo in the hall??? Your two originals very strong songs rhythmically and lyrically also.

Hi Peatle,

Thanks for having a listen; they were singing along (it's a pretty common practice for well known songs there!).

Cheers

Richard     

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382 Reply by neophytte

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They were pretty good - was it two different gigs (I saw you had a change of clothes and the bass player lost his mic on the last video) or two different sets?

I must say I love the band name too!

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Richard     

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383 Reply by neophytte

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This video is one of the gigs I did at Wanneroo Folk club, and starts with "Light my Fire" - which has the words "funeral pyre" in the second verse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1V5ZMa9CAQ

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Richard     

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384 Reply by neophytte

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I bought one of these second hand, but, whilst I liked the sound coming out initially, it really messed up my video recordings (mostly because I was adding echo to the video recording, and echo on echo doesn't work) - so I sold it about 6 months after. I still have the magnetic brace inside my main Maton.

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Richard     

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385 Reply by neophytte

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Russell_Harding wrote:

Mystic
Logistic
mourning
adorning

Well done getting them all to rhyme!! smile

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Richard     

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386 Reply by neophytte

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I got these four:

fairy
crack
main
property

Hmmmnm, the main fairy had a crack in her property ... smile

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Richard     

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387 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

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     

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388 Topic by neophytte

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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!

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389 Reply by neophytte

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Thanks for the suggestions ... October is now live!     

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390 Topic by neophytte

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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 smile ).

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!!!

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391 Reply by neophytte

(5 replies, posted in Poems)

Haha, nice!!

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Richard     

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392 Reply by neophytte

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Great tune; observant and entertaining, and truthful at the same time ...

Cheers

Richard     

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393 Reply by neophytte

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I got:

donor
bedroom
brake
citizen

Still a few days for others to enter!!!

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Richard     

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394 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

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

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395 Reply by neophytte

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Jandle wrote:

The cat very chilled listening to you on the couch smile

You mean the now famous cat - I think he's getting abig head about being in the video wink

Jandle wrote:

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     

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396 Reply by neophytte

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easybeat wrote:
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 ...

Cheers

Richard     

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397 Reply by neophytte

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I usually read your songs and poems, but don't usually reply - but ... this one is good!!

Cheers

Richard     

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398 Reply by neophytte

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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 big_smile

Cheers

Richard     

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399 Reply by neophytte

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TIGLJK wrote:

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!

Cheers

Richard     

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400 Reply by neophytte

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Peatle Jville wrote:

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.

Cheers

Richard     

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