Eerr, what? No, I should though. My son uses it on drums. It's not every day I'm pumping the volume up.
452 2018-11-21 02:14:47
Topic: S&P 500 / Heroes 2 Human (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
I just decided to call us that for fun. Scott and Paul, with Cory.
453 2018-11-21 02:06:21
Re: HEROES TO HUMAN (Scott Sailer/Paul Hylla/Jeff Gilpen ) (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I will reserve my opinion until I hear the recording it's hard to fathom by the chords and a few verses I do get the drift just want to hear it
here ya go, its a phone recording and we didnt have the 4th verse by Jets at the time. ist day of work on it so im pretty happy.
454 2018-11-20 16:25:44
Re: HEROES TO HUMAN (Scott Sailer/Paul Hylla/Jeff Gilpen ) (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I have conflicting thoughts about this...good ones, don't worry! I feel it's about servicemen returning home from conflict and struggling to find their way back to normality. So deep.
Server about to get a trio recording? I'd love to hear it.
As most writers will say "its open for your own thoughts."
When I wrote the initial song title that sparked the idea, it was the time frame when it seemed like all the childhood heroes we had (music film etc..) were dying off or killing themselves. All in about 3 months we lost Chris Cornell, Robin Williams and seems like 4 or 5 others. Not to mention a fall from grace, IE Bill Cosby and some of the others.
So when this got put down it was about the ones you looked to to make you feel better, and have as a role model. The ones we put on the pedestal, and then we found out they were fallible and as imperfect as anyone else. That unsung hero you could reach out for, that shoulder to cry on.
I must give my new friend, running buddy and vocalist Paul his credit, and of course my writing partner JETS.
This song has been unfinished since about 2012. I came up with the hook and the 2 verses. Then it just sat. I met Paul and he was "All In" on working it, and he wrote the 3rd verse. At the same, time I wrote Jets, and told him what we were doing and asked him to write a verse also if he could. I figured between the two, we could get 1. Both were great. Jets tied it all up with his 4th verse,
BTW the TRIO wont have Jets in it as location and lack of editing skills. It will be myself, Paul and my son Cory on drums. We would love to find a bass and lead guitarist.If I can get a bit of a multi track, maybe I can send it to Jerome to add bass. Or just get him to haul his butt up to my house! lololol
455 2018-11-20 16:09:11
Re: NGD (29 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Phill Williams wrote:neophytte wrote:Thanks!
Richard. It is a beautiful guitar but the post is a prelude to spam, I think. I may be wrong? You may want to buy a fire squirty thing from Spain, I don't know. But be assured, if and when they return to add spam they'll be gone!
Hope you're enjoying that beauty?I thought it might be, but was giving them the benefit of doubt ... Yes, the guitar is my 'go to' when I'm in the study (which was previously a red Ibanez Artcore) - keep thinking I have to do a "blues by candlelight" like Beamer(?) did ...
Cheers
Richard
Yep Blues by Candlelight is very relaxing, thanks for the compliment.
456 2018-11-20 16:05:50
Re: NCD (New Cabinet Day) (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
Thanks guys,
moving the 2x12 behind the drums has really helped my son and me lock in. I just need to make sure the ohms are set correct so I don't damage the amp. That stuff is still foreign to me. I think I have it set correct, and running in Mono.
457 2018-11-19 21:22:11
Re: HEROES TO HUMAN (Scott Sailer/Paul Hylla/Jeff Gilpen ) (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I will fix formatting soon
458 2018-11-19 15:22:40
Topic: HEROES TO HUMAN (Scott Sailer/Paul Hylla/Jeff Gilpen ) (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
HEROES TO HUMAN
Scott Sailer / Paul Hylla / Jeff Gilpen 11-17-2018
D5 D9sus4 D5 D9sus4 Bb4 A6/B Bb4 A6/B
Where do you run when you need to hide? Where do you sleep so you won't die?
D5 D9sus4 D5 D9sus4 Bb4 A6/B Bb4 A6/B
Where do you turn when you need to cry? Who do you reach for when your tears are dry?
A E F#m Slide to G5 on 10th fret
Chorus: x2
A E
WHEN YOUR HEROES BECOME HUMAN
F#m
WHAT’S THE LESSONS THEY
Slide to G5 on 10th fret
HAVE BEEN TEACHING YOU
D5 D9sus4 D5 D9sus4 Bb4 A6/B Bb4 A6/B
They kept you company when you were all alone. They gave you courage when you faced the unknown.
D5 D9sus4 D5 D9sus4 Bb4 A6/B Bb4 A6/B
They gave you hope when you had none. Were they bulletproof or did they use a gun?
A E F#m Slide to G5 on 10th fret
Chorus: x2
A E
WHEN YOUR HEROES BECOME HUMAN
F#m
WHAT’S THE LESSONS THEY
Slide to G5 on 10th fret
HAVE BEEN TEACHING YOU
Speak to me again, Make me feel alive Just to hear your voice, Brings me out of this dive
Come back to me from wherever you are Hit the stage and strum the strings of my heart
Where will you be as the night closes in?
Where will you be when I need a friend?
When I still hear the music inside my head,
Will you walk along the Path where I’m led?
REPEAT 1st VERSE
REPEAT CHORUS 3x
D5 = X577XX D9SUS4 = X55555
Bb4 = X233XX A6/B = X22222
459 2018-11-19 15:02:23
Re: NCD (New Cabinet Day) (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
I have not pulled the back off yet to find out, I am assuming they are the Bugera, by the age and lack of the Turbosound tag on the front, that's what I am guessing. I'm thinking of swapping the two TS speakers from the 2x12 into the 4x12 cab on the lower two positions
Jamming out with my son this weekend, he liked having the 2x12 behind him. Now I defiantly can hear myself over the drums.
Here is the try at the attempted stack
And this is what I settled on:
460 2018-11-16 17:39:01
Topic: NCD (New Cabinet Day) (10 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
The demon music store got me yesterday.
They have had a used 200W 4x12 Bugera top cab sitting in the store for about 6+ months or so. well I said give me a free cable and ill take it off your hands. So $80 for the cab and 20 for cable and OTD for 100. I also got another music stand because Paul ( his new name at work is Paul Prime since we just got another Paul! LOLOL)
So now its a 3/4 stack. I tried making a tower but it was too unsteady, so the 2x12 cab is now behind the drums. Cory has had a hard time hearing me of er his drums so that is like a monitor now, but im running the cabs at 4 ohms and in mono.
ill edit in a picture in a bit.
461 2018-11-15 05:43:58
Re: Chips. (18 replies, posted in Poems)
Very cool poem,. I like it. We needed some fun ones to make up for all my emotional darkness
462 2018-11-15 03:21:30
Topic: Pyre (0 replies, posted in Poems)
Starting this life with unrealistic expectations
even through my past transgressions,
Never forgiven and all this time away we have been driven,
Setting the bar that I never seemed to reach,
I grew tired, no more words to preach.
Repeating a vicious cycle and now our love is no longer a burning fire.
Just Cold ashes in a funeral pyre.
463 2018-11-14 15:12:08
Topic: D*** The Pain (3 replies, posted in Poems)
Written yesterday.
Tuning will be B standard, will record hopefully this weekend.
The offending words have been altered to meet guidelines.
D___ THE PAIN
11/13/2018
SEEKING A NEW LIFE
GREENER GRASS, LESS STRIFE
I CAN TELL YOU IT'S NOT THAT WAY
IT'S HARD TO LIVE THIS LIFE
GHORUS :
BLAME IT ALL ON ME,
IF THAT IS HOW YOU SEE IT
BLAME IT ON THE RAIN BLAME IT ON THE PAIN
Forget ALL THIS AND Forget ALL THAT AND…... Forget THE PAIN
FORCING YOUR FREEDOM IN MY FACE
DAMN THE TORPEDOES,
PUTTING ME IN MY PLACE
ALL YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE
HINDSIGHT IS 20/20
THANK YOU GOD , ITS NOT FUNNY!
SPEND THE TIME ALONE AT NIGHT
HUGGING A PILLOW THE FUTURE’ A FRIGHT!
GHORUS :
BLAME IT ALL ON ME,
IF THAT IS HOW YOU HAVE TO SEE IT
BLAME IT ON THE RAIN BLAME IT ON THE PAIN
Forger ALL THIS AND Forget ALL THAT AND…... Forget THE PAIN
FULL SPEED AHEAD, Dismissed MY APOLOGIES
TOSS OUT ALL I HAVE SAID,
LIVE YOUR FANTASY IN YOUR HEAD!
YET ALL I KNOW IS... TRUST WHAT I HAVE SAID!
WHEN THE SKY COMES CRASHING DOWN,
WILL I STILL BE AROUND
FORCED TO FIND A NEW LIFE
WELCOME TO THE STRIFE!
GHORUS : X2
BLAME IT ALL ON ME,
IF THAT IS HOW YOU HAVE TO SEE IT
BLAME IT ON THE RAIN BLAME IT ON THE PAIN
Forget ALL THIS AND forget ALL THAT AND…... Forget THE PAIN
464 2018-11-06 14:54:53
Topic: THE LOOK (2 replies, posted in Poems)
You asked about the look I gave,
Not believing what I say,
Told me I should not be mad,
Do you think I’m feeling glad?
I can’t control my feelings for you
Yes, we both felt taken for granted
Used and abused and slanted
Yet you did unlock what you now don’t want to have
We sit and fill out the papers that will lead to an end,
The death inside me, creeps to to the skin.
Caught in this cycle, yet holding back what I always want to say
Because it drives you further and further away.
Looking at you I feel the longing inside
And the more I try to show you,
The deeper you hide.
I don’t want to say good bye
This need to be on your own,
To have someone else
To forsake what we have grown
Yes, now we both will face the unknown.
As bad as I have ever shown,
I love you still
And I tell you now.
Knowing it does no good, its too late anyhow.
You won’t unlock your door or
Drop the walls,
or give us a one-time more.
All of this was in that look...
I really do not like the story in this book.
465 2018-11-05 20:24:55
Topic: Carnal Congress (0 replies, posted in Poems)
Young when we met,
We started gently, as new lovers do,
Building our trust
expanding our lust,
For all else that Was failed,
Maximum pleasure prevailed.
Im taking selfish pride,
Carnal Congress never died
While your love for me embed away
And no longer remains
I send with you the pleasures wholeheartedly given,
Pleasures never before attained.
Young when we met,
Now older,
Expectations shattered
And and pretend none of it matters.
466 2018-11-05 00:50:44
Re: Close Your Eyes (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I left you a note on SoundCloud. My God man, this hits so close to home and mirrors what I'm going through and I've almost said these exact words the last 3 months to try and find out if there was any hope of saving my marriage and the woman I love and treated wrong.
So thank you so much for saying something I very much want to say. I like Jets version also this is just an amazing song.
I'm trying it tonight also!
467 2018-10-29 04:38:35
Re: SHADOWS (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Somehow that double copied but in reading it the repeat works.
468 2018-10-29 04:27:52
Re: PASSION (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you so much. Your encouragement means a lot to me. That was written when I first met my wife and I just updated it to include current events .
469 2018-10-28 23:19:35
Topic: SHADOWS (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Went to the tool box to find a zip tie, seems they wanted to hide.
Alone in one of the doors, the manila envelope lay,
Peaked inside to see what old stories would say.
I see two old poems, written back in the better days
I read them now and I decide to replay,
minus some stuff and add something new to say
============================================
Staring into darkness, my mind sitting and waiting
For something to appear.
The shadow comes in line, a silhouette,
It grabs my mind.
Eyes follow after, I must catch her.
She is leading me on a chase,
a mystery that’s out of place
Went to the tool box to find a zip tie, seems they wanted to hide.
Alone in one of the doors, the manila envelope lay,
Peaked inside to see what old stories would say.
I see two old poems, written back in the better days
I read them now and I decide to replay,
minus some stuff and add something new to say
Staring into darkness, my mind sitting and waiting
For something to appear.
The shadow comes in line, a silhouette,
It grabs my mind.
Eyes follow after, I must catch her.
She is leading me on a chase,
Like a page from literature,
a mystery that’s out of place.
470 2018-10-28 23:14:15
Topic: PASSION (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Hot passion,
Sweet sweat
Warm sounds about the room,
Hidden knowledge in the eyes
As the candle reflects ,
The passionate cry.
This was not supposed to become complicated
My heart will not become placated,
Together we lay, dreaming of the future days
Neither of us seeing what was to come
The loss of trust and heartbreak,
The years gone by and all the mistakes.
Still I have to say, the desire for you
Is not contrived, it still aches
Yet i must remember that,
This too shall pass.
Yet, there is no comfort in that.
Hot passion,
Sweet sweat
Warm sounds about the room,
Hidden knowledge in the eyes
As the candle reflects ,
Hear The passionate cry.
471 2018-10-23 17:24:52
Re: anyone but me (20 replies, posted in Poems)
I like it also. My bike was always a chips police bike! and darn if I didnt buy a police bike 16 yrs ago! its gone now, but it was really fun!
472 2018-10-22 18:32:12
Topic: ICE COLD (0 replies, posted in Poems)
Having to live day by day,
So many words I wish to say.
Nothing new,
Just a repeat of what I say to you.
My words fall flat,
As they hit and go splat.
To the floor,
They turn to ice once more.
No longer do you feel.
Zero emotional ties,
Nothing left,
No tiers do you cry.
No time for me,
As if there ever was,
No time to save us
Because,
The yard on the other side
Looks greener,
No ones yard is clean.
Some just pick up the poop
Better it seems.
No more room in the heart.
A new and better start.
That’s what you tell me,
And I hope it is true.
I just was hoping it could be you.
473 2018-10-22 15:23:57
Re: my song- When it ends (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Hello Tony, if you have read through the poem list, you will see many recently by me, Your poem runs along the same line.
I wish luck to you in your relationship, for mine is at an end. I hope that you will walk hand in hand once again.
474 2018-10-22 15:20:06
Re: Happy (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff,
thank you so much for this. the words and concern you have been sending me are invaluable. For two guys who have never met in the same room, you have become a very great friend indeed. I write this for all in CHORDIE. to see because family comes in all forms.
475 2018-10-22 15:16:35
Re: It Takes Two (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Gotcha - It actually sounds good for me too. I tried to look it up but couldn't fine a name for it either. From now on I gonna call this chord: Btig
It sounds just like the chord from riding the storm out, and the one I use in a song Jerome and me have. ill look it up.