Brian,
Graham is right get a mixer. There's plenty available either new or used, your Roland amp should manage well, just make sure you balance the guitar and vocal before turning the amp volume up. My advice; turn the volume off and increase it slowly so you don't blow your speaker...yes experience talking!
51 2025-08-02 09:25:29
Re: guitar and mic (9 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
52 2025-07-23 19:47:45
Re: RIP Ozzy (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
yeah Ozzy was a legend. Paranoid was one of the songs on my group's first gig. Forgot the last verse so we just played the riff for 5 minutes.
53 2025-07-22 09:24:19
Re: Settle Station event . (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Good sound coming through that small amp Grah, 2 guitars and vocals. I like the tent, so how did your old band manage to fit in there?
54 2025-07-22 09:18:36
Re: Health isues and how it affects playing (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
You have my sympathy Graham. At 74 myself I've got aches and pains in places I never knew I had places! For about 10 years while I was still working and gigging I was suffering with knee pains in my left leg. I put it down to badminton and using my left leg to hold me up while using my pedals. Also realising now I played football in my 20s and when I was in my teens I gave that knee a hell of a knock with a sledgehammer. Anyway it all contributed to me giving up the gigs and so I have to take out my angst by writing and recording songs. There's no feeling like the buzz you get when an audience gets behind you and that's what I miss most of all apart from realising I can't hit that top C anymore.
55 2025-07-02 19:22:52
Re: Comedic Blues (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
happy blues? surely a contradiction in terms? I don't care it was good fun. Talking of fun; fun fact; the lady played the trumpet so they had to play in A flat as that is easier for trumpeters to play in that key, that also explains why he sounded slightly uncomfortable singing. Not a criticism as both sounded fab, wish I could sing as good.
56 2025-06-26 18:44:51
Topic: nails (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I've just come to a realisation that the nails on one hand grow faster and stronger than the other hand. I had to put it that way because I play left handed so my fingering hand is my right, most guitarists would notice on their left hand?
I also have to trim my nails every week or they wear out the finger board.
I'd like to know I'm not alone in this.
57 2025-06-26 10:10:31
Re: Narrow Boat Sessions (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thanks for posting that Pedr, I could actually see them singing this time!
Piri
58 2025-06-26 10:06:55
Re: NOT THE WEEKEND YET (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Wow Brian, that sounds like a personal message to Colin it sounds like? You performed that really well same genre as deck of cards, it's the type of spoken song I like. Really good with a message and story. Yes folks, we're all getting older so get your fingers to do the walking and post before it's too late.
Phill
59 2025-06-25 19:44:14
Topic: NOT THE WEEKEND YET (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I thought the weekend had come early as nobody seems to post at weekends!
When I joined Chordie during the age of enlightenment, I or anyone else would find lots of posts from lots of members. I've seen posters drop since that time and I'm beginning to take it as a mass walk out, a protest to me. I'll try not to take it personally, but I would dearly love to see more people posting regularly about anything really; your new song, a song you've heard on the radio, a group/band you've seen playing live. Anything really to get people taking part and chatting. Wouldn't it be awful if Per decided it wasn't worth keeping the forum going? FB and X don't do it for me they are owned and run by multi millionaires, I wouldn't trust my choice of toilet paper on those scandal sheets. Musos unite
60 2025-04-30 19:57:37
Re: Live from Ilkley Band stand (9 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Why can I never find bargains like that? As I've retired now I have a load of gear to sell...according to my wife
61 2025-04-29 20:11:37
Re: Live from Ilkley Band stand (9 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Enjoyed that, good sound for just two of you. First thing I noticed was the mini speakers, so I'll say it again good sound. I've never heard that played live before, well done.
62 2025-04-28 10:04:34
Re: Just saying Hi. Updating myself. (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Welcome back Joey good to know you're still playing. At 73, I only play to amuse myself these days as I gave up gigging after covid. I know how you feel about old age slowing you down, I can only do DIY jobs for a couple of hours then crash out for the rest of the day.
65 2025-04-16 10:23:43
Re: Horse (2 replies, posted in Poems)
Very dr zeus Brian.
The clever people say that birds are dinosaurs
I believe it
The clever people say that dogs are wolves
I believe that too
When clever people say that rich people are always right
Nah that's just going too far
66 2025-04-15 10:25:07
Topic: another day (6 replies, posted in Poems)
All about the curse of old age and the effect of waking to empty ones bladder.
Another Day
Sleep eludes me though I close my eyes.
Thoughts wont leave me and thoughts surprise.
Silence broken by a solitary owl.
Silent flight. Hunting mice.
I turn and pull the blankets higher.
Clear my mind but still the fire.
The fire of imagination.
No water drench my minds creation.
And so the night drags on.
O beautiful, silent night.
It is morning yet still the night.
The sky is clear no clouds in sight
Stars still twinkle the moon still glows.
Warmer now no frost or snows.
Yes, spring bounds forth, chick's in nests.
Too soon to feed, born from eggs.
Too dark at 4 am it appears.
To find those sleepy meals that crawl and slither.
Their cries and squawks and whistled tunes
To greet the dawn they know it soon
Will light the day, will reveal their pray.
And I will rise to begin... another day.
67 2025-04-13 10:44:33
Re: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (10 replies, posted in Poems)
I've just realised that I hadn't replied to Jan's reply. Thank you Jan, it was written on the spur of the moment as most of my scribblings are. Ann, due to our fickle weather up here often puts socks on the radiators to dry when the weather is wet. So they fall behind the rad and get discovered a long time later.
68 2025-04-13 10:35:33
Re: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (10 replies, posted in Poems)
Thanks Brian. I'd forgotten about it myself. It all came about by the fact I was fascinated by the name Chackrobarthi. I may have made it up I don't know.
69 2025-04-12 19:31:03
Re: Mr. Chackrobarthi and the lost socks (10 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you Miabella and welcome to Chordie. People that join a thread that's a year or more old are usually spammers, I hope you are not one of those. Enjoy our friendship and resources
70 2025-04-09 09:54:35
Re: APRIL 2025 FSOTM – BLUES (35 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Brian tried to leave a message on soundcloud but I think I failed. Anyway, you lifted my spirits this early in the mid morning...well I'm retired I can lay in bed till 10? Yep coffee is not my cup of tea as it gives me palpitations but this song gave me a very happy feeling. Nice one buddy.
71 2025-04-02 10:16:18
Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK (11 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
In my 20s a friend invited me to watch a touring folk group at our local YMCA. As he was a super guitarist he was their supporting act which is why I went. The stand out song he played was Bob Dylans tambourine man. The folk group came on later and their stand out was the song about a thresher which was quite dirty probably why I liked it! Also about 10 years ago I played an evening gig at a pub in Pembroke the afternoon act was a folk group, which I enjoyed but would never pull me back from the dark side of rock music.
72 2025-03-28 23:31:19
Re: MARCH 2025 FSOTM – COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK (24 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
hi Grah, yes but it's 5.30 long. It's a rock track with (I think) country undertones. I would like to get other peoples impression of it so I may put it up shortly. Thanks for the review.
73 2025-03-28 20:24:59
Re: MARCH 2025 FSOTM – COUNTRY, FOLK, ROCK (24 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
I have been asked to enter this song into FSOTM so here it is
Self DestructUndefined
INTRO; [A-D-A| A-E-A]
[A] She got behind the wheel of a [D] car she'd never drove [A] before.
[A] She drove a hundred miles with her [D] foot flat down to the [A] floor.
She didn't [E] stop to fill the [Dbm] tank or turn for [F#m] home. [F#7]
She tried to [A] self destruct `cos [E] she was on her [A] own.
[A] Who could know the the [D] pain this girl was [A] in.
[A] The story's long she [D] wouldn't know where to [A] begin.
With the [E] cops trying to slow her [Dbm] down any way they [F#m] can. [F#7]
She tried to [A] self destruct all [E] because of that [A] man.
(CHORUS)
There was a [D] row of cops behind her lights [E] a-glow.
[D] Sirens wailing loud oh what a [E] show. [E7]
She was [A] crying hard with [D] grief and tears of [E] woe.
Just a [D] matter of time [E] before a tyre would [A] blow.
[A] Back in the church the [D] bride was all in [A] white.
[A] The wedding car [D] outside was lost from [A] sight.
It was [E] speeding down the [Dbm] road with cops [F#m] behind. [F#7]
And the [A] preacher stood there [E] waiting for a [A] sign.
She had her [F#m] music turned up loud.
Recalled the [A] church bells called the crowd.
She had to [D] get away [E] before the preacher [A] prayed.
[A] Well it was nine o'clock and the [D] sky was getting [D] dark.
[A] She was getting tired so she [D] crashed out in some [A] park.
The [E] cops pulled out their [Dbm] guns and aimed to [F#m] kill. [F#7]
Time to [A] self destruct she [E] lost the will to [A] live.
(SOLO > CHORUS > SOLO END)
Words & Music by Phill Williams.
74 2025-03-28 10:53:19
Re: Another great afternoon at the Goats Head (9 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Nice one Grah. Kurt can bend them like Beckham must have fingers of steel to bend acoustic strings!
75 2025-03-26 10:17:04
Re: finally book is ready (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thanks again Richard, I've removed the post.