Good one DE that style of music is popular down here in New Zealand. Your man Paul Brown plays a good banjo plus the rest of his band play their parts well. One of mine and Easy Beats mates is now doing some work with musicians who play that style of music and is finding it a fun style to play plus it keeps him on his toes.
1,151 2020-12-02 20:19:22
Re: Crossing Genres - Death by Banjo (1 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
1,152 2020-11-26 19:41:25
Re: Political Road (1 replies, posted in Poems)
EB, show how weird my mind works at times when I hear politicians talk about road infrastructure Neil Diamonds voice comes into my head singing.
The road is long
With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
Sometimes I also get that Canned Heat song playing in my head On The Road Again or even better Willie Nelson doing his On The Road Again.
Maybe the Beatles summed it up best when they sung about the number of holes in the road in Lancashire.
1,153 2020-11-24 22:25:47
Topic: Easy Beat Poems (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
On Sunday 29 November 2020 there is launch of a new book, Somewhere a cleaner, poems by Kiwi cleaners, in the Grand Hall at Parliament. Parliament is where New Zealand government runs the country. In this book Somewhere A Cleaner are couple of poems by Chordies very own Easybeat.
1,154 2020-11-24 22:19:40
Re: Kings Pleasure (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hear ye hear ye Easy Beat you and Mr Shakespeare have a fine way with words.
1,155 2020-11-24 05:59:47
Re: Beartooth (4 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
I really liked the first song.
1,156 2020-11-24 05:52:28
Re: Keep Dancing (5 replies, posted in Poems)
I agree Beamer trimming the fat out of stories and turning them into songs is hard. I'm still trying to find the right lyrics for this song and also I am stuck on how to make it flow.
1,157 2020-11-24 05:47:02
Re: For Beamer - Small Medium at Large (4 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
DE that is funny a very entertaining watch.
1,158 2020-11-24 05:44:35
Re: lies. (3 replies, posted in Poems)
Love the humor Phill gave me a good chuckle.
1,159 2020-11-24 05:43:13
Re: Don't touch the gun (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Beamer great lyrics I like that verse
Walking zombie
What can you say?
Go on auto-pilot
Get through your day
All the verses are good but this one keeps playing in my head.
1,160 2020-11-22 23:53:29
Re: Saints and Sinners - by TIGLJK (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Excellent lyrics Jim. Here is some of my thought on social circles and people feeling bruised. Losers , winners, Saints and sinners and the path they choose. Looking at the news sometimes I can see to have conversations with those with different points of view is impossible.
Price To Pay
In a way of land there is a man who many think is their Messiah.
There are also many of those who don’t.
His words are gospel to some and to other's just half truths and no truths.
Is he sent by the Devil or sent by the lord?
Some say ,“ propaganda and slander.”
Some have thoughts they are frighten to express.
Fear that those they love dear are unable to hear thoughts they hold sincere.
They can’t even agree on what they believe or see with a disease called Covid.
Apart from maybe knowing some will get over it.
People have free will over who they put on the top of the hill.
Their decisions maybe wise or they can divide.
Be it right or be it a sin the majority will always win.
I suppose for many today arrogance of a leader isn’t a sin.
I can still hear my Sunday school teacher from when I was a kid reading that bible verse,
‘Whoever wants to be a leader among you must also be your servant.”
Enough of what’s happening out in the big somewhere.
I will just sit here and enjoy my garden and hope my Roses will bloom.
While my neighbor over the fence talks to his friends on zoom.
For those who read this who have been profoundly affected.
Please don’t think that I have been completely disaffected.
I guess it is true many with strong views end up going in circles.
Spinning the spin and never giving in.
There is always a price to pay.
1,161 2020-11-22 23:37:25
Re: searchin` (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Phill I won a scholarship years ago to go to Art school after three months I gave them their money back and dropped out of it and I went back to my normal job. I had enough of all the pretentious yuppies that end up in Art School circles.
1,164 2020-11-21 23:28:12
Re: searchin` (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Good one Phill as the old saying goes “We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.”. I like that line of yours, " low flying high brows think they know it all". My Maree is a classical girl that likes ballet. Often she tells me the annoying thing about some people who go to watch ballet and classical music is they think their superior to lesser beings like me who love good old rock and roll. and folk music.
1,165 2020-11-21 04:13:45
Re: Keep Dancing (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Thanks for your feedback Brian it was all about a few minute encounter with a street lady.
Cheers Phill I was just writing this about this encounter in a observational sort of way as it all happened over a few minutes but it didn't drag me down just got me thinking. She was dancing around me and talking at the same time. She knows my face from my last job and I know her. My last job before I retired put me in contact with many street people so they tend to engage with me when they see me in town. The druggies and those sleeping rough don't try and ask me for money because they know all they will get of me at best is some food. The money most of them get goes on drugs. Lying and cheating is all part of what druggies and alkies do for them it is all about getting the next fix or high. Many years back when Maree and I use to be involved with the Salvation Army drug rehab center many would eventually after going through rehab would end up back on drugs and alcohol. I am thankful that I can enjoy a beer or whatever but for some people it is a slippery down hill slope. I have friends who work with street people and most of the long term street people here are quiet happy living on the streets. When we were in lockdown and there was no one around town they all accepted accommodation. Once the lockdown ended most of them decided they wanted to be back on the street again. We are always going to have people on the margins it is just the way life is. The few that do break out of that lifestyle quiet often go on to do wonderful things. Here in New Zealand a big percentage our prison inmates have drug and alcohol abuse problems. One of Easybeats and my Sunday pub seshin buddies is an ex prison warden he tells us lots stories of prisoners trying to get drugs smuggled in. .I will attach a rough Idea of what I was trying to achieve it needs more work and any feedback welcome. Just recorded on my laptop as usual and the quality not the best but hopefully it will have some entertainment value.
1,166 2020-11-21 03:39:18
Re: folk song (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
EB good lyrics about the treachery of the sea at times..
1,167 2020-11-19 19:53:59
Re: Song on Soundcloud - If I were The Wind (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Excellent Ed very moving song about the hardship of life when mother nature hits. A sad story told well in song.
1,168 2020-11-19 19:49:08
Re: Hi everyone (20 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Welcome to Chordie Aradii I wish I had learnt classical when I was younger. It gives you skills to play all sorts of music.
1,169 2020-11-19 19:44:35
Re: complicated (12 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Phill Williams wrote:
Pete, something tells me there's a story you're not telling us?
Cheers Phill
Some of my back story is like the title of your song complicated. Maree who has known me since I was 17 has seen the roller coaster ride of my life I had to break a few chains along the road to get to where I am now.. Maree surprisingly accepted me despite some of my past..
1,170 2020-11-19 02:52:14
Topic: Keep Dancing (5 replies, posted in Poems)
I wrote this a while back it felt like the right time now to put it on chordie. I would like to rewrite it but I cant figure out how to do it. Anyone want to have a go at rearranging it changing words or whatever feel free to do that. I tried to make it into a song but I couldn’t get it together. Usually I think it is sad that people who are living rough on the street who have mental health issues choose that lifestyle .It is in most cases a choice in New Zealand for addicted people.. If their weird behavior at times makes some of them happy at times it cant always be that bad??? I met this lady in a subway with her plastic glue bag as I was walking through and this I wrote on the bus soon afterwards about her talking to me. She was doing little jigs while dancing in circles around me as I walked through. At first she made me feel very uncomfortable but after a few seconds her behavior didn’t worry me. As I got to the escalator to take me up to the bus stop she asked me of my name?. I told her it is Pete she gave me her name. As I went up on the escalator I felt like someone out of the bible when she yelled up at me , “ Apotoro Pete I no longer feel mamae.” The first time in my life I have been called Apostle Pete and it felt good that she wasn’t feeling sad. It felt right that I could understand something of her by burying it in a box any judgements of her I had in my head. In a few short minutes I had put my judgemental thoughts in some imaginary deep hole not to be dug up again. Later that day as I was sitting on a bus I looked out the window there were these people sniffing glue out of plastic bags. I felt like yelling out to them throw away your glue and plastic bags and start dancing.
Keep Dancing
I was walking through the subway.
There was a crazy little lady trying to dance a jig by herself.
She looked at me, she said, “I got a few problems with mental health.”
I looked at her and I said,” lady as long as you dance you can’t be crazy”.
Keep on dancing little lady its not crazy.
If that makes you happy.
Keep on dancing little lady.
If that makes you happy.
You got to move that’s fine with me.
She said,” people in the city don’t see me when I’m dancing on the street.”
I said lady, “ they do they just don’t know how to handle you.”
“Just do what you do.”
“Your not hurting anyone.”
Keep on dancing little lady its not crazy.
If that makes you happy.
Keep on dancing little lady.
If that makes you happy.
I cant see what the problem is.
You are just doing your thing.
Its aint a sin.
Just keep dancing.
1,171 2020-11-19 02:46:25
Re: Sin city revisited again with electricity (7 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Grah got me foot taping and I felt like doing a bit old style rocking to that one.
1,172 2020-11-19 02:43:50
Re: complicated (12 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Phill reminds me of some of the hard vicious ladies I have met in times gone by.
1,173 2020-11-14 02:46:36
Re: Home For The Holidays (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
A powerful piece of song writing DE and nothing wrong with your recording sounded good to me.
1,174 2020-11-10 09:50:13
Re: White Noise, Silent Thunder (1 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Beamer, I guess out there in the world there are many who are feeling deranged with the crazy things going on around them?
1,175 2020-11-10 09:43:57
Re: Better Quit Now (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Good One Jets. When I have had days like that and get that I want to quit thought I hear in my head the voice of my father and grandpa who died many years ago saying you will get through this..