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Richard that is genius how you found that site thank you. I think it will be safe to infer that December 8th, 2002, is the date chordie kicked into action or had people responding to it online and use that as its birthdate.

Thank you, Jan and Phill, for giving my rough recording a listen and comment. Here I am recording a song with a young talented guitar player who has no aspirations to be a professional musician doing an anti phone song recorded on a phone. Never thought I would use the word moderation when it comes to phones it reminds me of my mother saying to me drink alcohol in moderation  when I was young. Since my friends daughter has ended up in hospital due to her smartphone use I have become very aware of smartphone addiction in all age groups.     

Jandle, good choice of song. You do it good.
Grah, hope you get over Covid soon.  Good cover only thing lacking was a harmonica solo. Your guitar and voice and guitar worked good in the true Blues tradition.

Thank you, guys, for your info so far.  So our man from Bonnie Scotland upyerkilt (Ken) 'Unofficial king of Scotland' at the moment is on record as been the first known  to post on chordie. So if your out there I salute you upyerkilt and if you do read this please pop back and say hi. I see jets 60 joined in March of 2006 a little bit after  upyerkilt. If you have some memories of the first people to inhabit habit chordie that would be interesting. Looks like Phill and Roger came to chordie in its early days so both can claim to be here for a good part of its history. I’m thinking that it could probably be that chordie could date back maybe to somewhere in the first years of this century. BTW I came to chordie as a result of easybeat who joined chordie  in 2010 encouraging me  to check it out in 2015. At that time there was a bigger number of people posting from diverse backgrounds. Maybe the founder or founders can give us the start date??

A nice cold Heineken Lager Beer please. I'm going to buy some crisps next time I'm in the Supermarket as Phills sandwich combo sounds good to me.     Welcome back Joeyjoeyjoey.

Thank you, Jim. When Ryan offered to do the guitar for me on this song, I knew he would be good despite my vocal short comings, and he delivered with his good playing. The song came about after a sweet young girl I know has ended up in hospital due to problems around her smartphone addiction causing her to have an eating disorder.  It is also an observation of mine when out and about noticing young people in groups many are focused on their devices not communicating or talking to or with each other and not seeing what's going on around them. I will put the lyrics down below of my song.
 
                                   Put Down The Phone

I don’t need to be glued to a phone screen all day.

Maybe it‘s because I’m old and I‘ve  been brought up in a different way.

Hey kid can’t you see your glued to that screen all day.

It seems to me as though its taking your communication away.

I wish you could just put down the phone leave it alone for a minute or two.

Just take some time.

Just maybe have a talk or two.

Put down the phone and lets look around and roam.

Put down the phone.

There are other possibilities.

Put down the phone.

There’s lots more going on.

I know your anxious because your waiting for a call.

Your  life’s tied up on that screen.

But believe me there is more to life than stuck on that screen.

I wish you could learn to dream about other things.

And see the possibilities.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Leave it alone.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Leave it alone.

You got a lot more that you can do with your life.

There’s things out there  that you got to see.

I don’t need a phone maybe  cause its a fact of age.

But then look at me.

I’m happy.

Because I don’t need that technology.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

I know it seems easy because I’m older and I don’t need that machine.

But see that’s why I’m happy.

Happy baby because I don’t need that technology.

That’s why I’m happy.

I don’t need that technology.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Put down the phone.

Jim it is good to hear your rendition of your well written song. I would love to hear Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives do this song singing it with a country gospel style, that they use when performing some songs like they do with that song The Unseen Hand.

Beautiful sentiments Jeff.     

In the Maori language, The Queen is known as Kotuku, which means "the white heron", a cherished bird rarely seen in New Zealand. She was our head of state here in New Zealand a role she handled incredibly well. It is sad that our Queen has passed on it feels like losing a member of the family.  I wish Charles all the best as our King.     

Richard and Uncle Joesband great to see your videos on here. I have had to more of less stop playing guitar a health thing. So I will put up a song I wrote three years back, "Mountains To Sea."  I hope it makes sense as it's about the weird way songs come to me sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jua53gh04NY