Belated Merry Christmas to you all on Chordie and I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2023.
602 2022-11-24 08:33:03
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Good one Richard preforming live for the people. It was also good that your video catches the crowd applause which shows your skills are coming across good.
603 2022-11-19 01:44:43
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jan and Richard thank you for your encouraging words and advice,
Richard your guitar and backing vocal worked good with the lady lead vocal.
604 2022-11-17 19:55:55
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Thank you Piri, Grah and Brian, in the short term I won't be playing music but I'm hoping with help from the medical people that we will find a way to start playing again but it looks like that might take a while.
605 2022-11-17 03:40:38
Re: Old Mc Ronald and the Beasts of the Fields (5 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Grah I enjoyed the lighthearted sarcasm of that song. Farmers all around the world are getting a bad deal from the world powers who run everything.
No need to apologies about the reference to NZ lamb your Supermarket's do alright out of NZ lamb but your farmers and our farmers and the shoppers are missing out due to the way it is all controlled. Around 95 percent of New Zealand's sheep meat and 87 percent of beef is exported, and what's left behind for locals here in NZ is being sold at an inflated rate. I do know your farmers and our farmers don’t get the payouts that the middle people get. In the murky world of international trade over in Britain the NZ lamb is cheaper than what we can buy it here in Kiwi land.
606 2022-11-17 03:02:37
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jan , Jim, Jeff the three J's and Piri and Richard here today in NZ is a gentle rainy 20c Spring day . I have enjoyed doing a catch up reading and hearing everyone entries for this month. Thank you everyone it is good to see chordie getting some life back to it again. Due to ganglion cysts and other issues with my hands making it too painful and hard to play guitar and piano I will most probably have to be a observer instead of being a participant for a while. Keep up the good work everyone.
607 2022-11-09 06:19:37
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
EB, your genetic condition most probably helped fertilize and water a few shrubs until you were diagnosed and got the right meds. My grandad at nighttime use to under the cover of darkness use his bladder to fertilize and water his Lemon trees claiming it was good for them. My Nan was never sold on Grandpas gardening technique.
RIP, Boiled Water you will be mist.
608 2022-11-09 06:08:58
Re: How old is chordie? (19 replies, posted in About Chordie)
I joined on March 7, 2006, and can you believe this is my 1st post? Dang I guess better late then never
Bin 2500 I take it you are a person of a few words but like or play music????
609 2022-11-08 07:10:44
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Pete
good to see you still at it.
I have to break some bad news to you though.
that stuff you drink isnt water,water is clear,not brown with a creamy head.
Cheers Brian,
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Did you know if you say beer can with an English accent, it comes out as bacon in a Jamaican accent. Go on, try it. Maybe I could write a reggae song titled “No Beer Can I Cry.”
610 2022-11-08 07:09:30
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Nice one Brian. Pedr, short and sweet.
Thank you Piri, after a week of trying to write lyrics about water and a war vet with PTSD those few lyrics were all I could come up with. Then when I turned on the phone camera and picked up the guitar my mind went blank again and I struggled to remember what little I had written. So, I thought something is better than nothing, so I went with it over dubbing the extra vocal recorded on my phone.
For my soul.
If you know what I mean.
I drank all sorts of things.
I’ve had my fair share of stings.
But I tell ya tell ya that water water.
Is the thing for me.
I had also written these lyrics to go with it but they didn't sing well
I left the military ten years ago.
A messed-up head and medals to show.
The bad war memories come back when I try to sleep.
My midnight screaming got me thrown out on the street.
In amongst all the civvies and their brightness.
All I see is my doom and gloom.
I swapped my family for the bottle.
611 2022-11-07 04:45:18
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Here is my short contribution for this month song as my arthritic fingers struggle to move when I play guitar nowadays. Just poorly recorded on my cellphone but hopefully it entertains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWr-E3-1rxQ
612 2022-11-07 01:38:37
Re: NOVEMBER 2022 FSOTM – ANYTHING TO DO WITH WATER (46 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Another mth another song
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/boy … last-night
That song has come out good Brian.
614 2022-11-07 01:30:50
Re: Xmas Carol (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Graham that is a powerful song.
615 2022-11-07 01:28:55
Re: Rustler's Moon Tonight (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff I can imagine sitting out on the prairie around a campfire at night after a day in the saddle rounding up cattle hearing you sing and play that song.. It works real good, lyrics and guitar.
616 2022-11-01 20:13:34
Topic: "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story" is out this Tuesday. (1 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi
I'm not sure if Bono and U2 are my cup of tea but I see Bono has put out a memoir "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story" which is out this Tuesday. My family wants to buy me a copy so I suppose it should be a good read.
Peatle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2j3xd4MII
617 2022-11-01 19:37:14
Re: OCTOBER 2022 FSOTM - DREAMING, PICTURE, ELECTRONIC, REMEMBER (33 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Sorry, only got to edit this video: The word is remember in the line I'll never remember my time with you, which I managed to fumble through in this video of "Drivers Seat" (originally by Sniif 'n' the tears): https://youtu.be/0LsLUSMF1PU
Enjoy!
Richard
Good one Richard and also a good round of applause from the crowd. It's good when the punters stop talking and take time to have a listen.
618 2022-10-30 01:00:09
Re: It Takes a Lot to Love a Good Woman (Recording) (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Good one Jeff a perfect song for a bluegrass band to play.
619 2022-10-30 00:57:15
Re: NBD NAD (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good one Zurf, Gold Tone have a beautiful tone to me just as good as a standup bass and less bulky to carry around. Though I often wonder why people would buy the 23 instead of the 25.
620 2022-10-28 08:34:01
Re: Number 10 Larry (12 replies, posted in Poems)
Piri no doubt that would be one of Larry's favorite instrumentals. I'm sure Larry not being a cat of money wouldn't care less about the new Prime Ministers billionaire status.
Will the new PM still be living at Number 10 this Christmas a week is a long time in politics nowadays.
Jan your right Larry deserves a medal. I see on youtube he has taken to chasing Foxes away . I hope it wasn't Basil Brush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvZZyoz9Gs8
621 2022-10-28 08:24:08
Re: OCTOBER 2022 FSOTM - DREAMING, PICTURE, ELECTRONIC, REMEMBER (33 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
OK FOLKS- here it is- my recording of the song I wrote.
I hope you like it. I had a lot of fun writing it.
Jim
Jim I could imagine that song being used in a movie scene with a man with a bad hangover getting up in the morning.
622 2022-10-26 23:48:49
Re: Rain. (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Piri, in the last few weeks two young ladies I worked with before I retired have had their life's cut short by cancer. Your lyrics for me capture how people are feeling at this time over the loss of these two. A brilliant piece of song writing in a good but not over complicated way. I look forward to hearing you do this song.
623 2022-10-26 07:37:59
Re: October 25th Chordies 20th Birthday (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you to you all on Chordie.
Who I have interacted with in my short seven years' time on Chordie.
You have taught me a lot everyone.
Before my time on here 2O years ago on October 25th.
The internet gave birth to chordie.
A time when many were flocking to online.
A new opportunity to share on how it can be done.
Quickly growing in numbers with a diverse bunch posting on how it is done or questions on how it could be done.
Strum or finger picking guitar information for everyone.
A new frontier town, Chordie, with many flocking in.
People from all around the world came here mining for musical gold.
Then after the musical gold rush many left town.
Now there is only a few of us around.
Hope those out there with guitars and other instruments.
Will find out that here is a place where the good people are.
So here I am raising a glass to the future and past.
Happy Birthday Chordie.
624 2022-10-23 22:43:33
Topic: October 25th Chordies 20th Birthday (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi
This Tuesday October 25th is Chordie's twentieth birthday.
625 2022-10-23 00:56:50
Re: My November song (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Well written Jim, I look forward to hearing it in November.