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https://soundcloud.com/mojo01/merry-chr … the-family
ok had a few minutes this evening so i banged out a REK Christmas song. ahh Christmas in the south
Nice work!!
A good Christmas song you wrote EB. I also like the photo of the Pohutukawa tree in flower with your song. For those who don't know what a Pohutukawa trees is. The Pohutukawa tree with its crimson flower has become an established part of the New Zealand Christmas tradition. It only flowers on or around Christmas and New Years.
Nice!! We get the WA Christmas tree, Nuytsia floribunda - which looks like this:
Full details (wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuytsia
And our little Christmas spider, I haven't seen one yet this year (but we had a long, wet, winter):
Another Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austracantha
And here is an entertaining piece written by an American scientist, which explains the situation here quite well: http://aussieshed.blogspot.com.au/2011/ … -year.html
Enjoy!!
my contribution for CSOM.
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/kiwi-christmas
I give it two thumbs up!! Nice bouncy tune ....
My life has been conspiring against me making music; but I'll get my contributions in soon!!!
Cheers
Richard
Cool - that opening reminded me so much of the Triffids song "Bright lights, big city": https://soundcloud.com/the-triffids/bri … s-big-city
Cheers
Richard
I'm still pretty new around here, but in answer to #2, you'll want to follow the chord pro format specifications, which are here:
http://www.chordpro.org/chordpro/index.html
[edit]And just found this post, which covers your topic: http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4613
Cheers
Richard
Nice work!!!
I usually use "Mr Sheen" every time I change my strings (around 6 months, but I think the current set are about 2 years old, 'cause I've been slack), but every now and then I'll use the PRS polish (on electrics, my acoustic is a matt finish):
http://www.mr-sheen.co.uk/products.php
https://www.amazon.com/PRS-PS-ACC-3130- … B004XLH3PW
Not sure if it's the same as wax, but the PRS stuff is pretty good (and usually add lemon oil on the fretboard, depending how dry it feels)
Fantastic beautiful city Neo. Here is a tourist promo video of Wellington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZSbrSX-Do
Well, now we know why your videos are so good - you come from the "City of cool"!!! 
Thanks!!
Thanks - that's a good video!!
I'm going to cheat (kinda) and show this video of Perth an the surrounds - it was made by a guy I used to work with, and we both had an interest in photography, he's gone on to become quite well respected, and has some of his photography in the local newspaper (frequently) and features on the Tourism WA website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFq5PrFSGcE
He was testing out his (newish) drone at the time ...
This is a copy of the demo tape one of my bands (Sideshow) had, it's recorded straight from the desk, so it's not brilliant quality, but in 1996 it was passable
http://neophytte.mine.nu/audio/mp3/1996 … w-demo.mp3
Cheers
Richard
Neo I am enjoying what everyone is adding to the thread. More the merrier keep it going. I havent been to Perth but everyone I know who goes there tells me it's a beautiful city. My wife visited Fremantle on a ship she was on and loved the place. A young guy who use to do a bit of guitar for me loves playing music in the bars around Fremantle and also in Perth itself. My friend's son use to work out of Perth driving trucks from Perth to Port Headland. Another friend of mine son lived there and life was going good until his other half murdered their 22month old son at Hillarys Boat Harbour. She had claimed at the time that the boy unfastened himself from his stroller while her back was turned but when police reviewed CCTV footage her story did not add up. Thats my two bobs worth on Perth.
Gosh - all I have on NZ is that my Mum went there (think it was her honeymoon), and loved it - she wanted to go back, but unfortunately the cancer came back instead and she passed in 2006.
I grew up very close to the Hillarys boat harbour, and used to go fishing there as a kid (before it was a harbour!), think I played some gigs there (at the old pub, not the new one), definitely played gigs some in Freo, and a few in Perth, never been as far North as Port Hedland, but they get to 50 degrees centigrade up there!!!
Cheers
what does chorus and phrasing mean ?
There are some good audio examples on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorus_effect
Which is probably easier than trying to explain it
Crikey, that's a lot of guitars!!! I'm somewhere around the 10 - 15 mark and thinking I need to sell a few 
I've been thinking seriously about a uke.
My wife just bought herself a new uke that arrived today - I'll grab a pic and some details as to where she got it ... it's puuurrrrty ....
My oldest stepson emigrated to Oz about 10 years ago and we've visited twice. He was living in a suburb of Perth called Mandurah, which is around 60 miles away...
I'm at the other end - about 40km's North of the CBD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joondalup
[sorry to hijack the thread, Peatle!!]
neophytte wrote:I forgot my wife and I recorded this a while (years) ago - "Santa Baby", until the child interrupts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayq38hihA5k
Enjoy!!
Cheers
That was fun. I'm sure your child was just fine after all.
Thank you - yes, I seem to recall the "emergency" was turning the TV channel ... 
BTW, that was when you oldest one was young, now I do duo's with him (occasionally)
Cheers
Richard
[edit] Oops, removed the non-Christmas song[/edit]
Neo
Great performance.
Your wife has an outstanding voice!
I too liked the children in the background - it made the song feel quite "Christmasy"
Thanks - and Merry Xmas to you too!!
Neo you and your fantastic guitar and your wife cool vocals make you two a beautiful duo. The kids backing vocal adds to the videos warm family vibe,
Thanks!!!
neophytte wrote:beamer wrote:- Neo depending on how old it is you may want to consider the tube upgrade also, In the words of one of the Roy Blankenship (famous amp customizer' in N. Hollywood,) "Just cause its old it does not mean is valuable or good, parts get old and NEED to be replaced" this is a great vid, you may want to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz3XDNmiIvo&t=512sIt's this one: http://hughes-and-kettner.com/products/ … r-18-head/
Not sure of the age, I got it second hand a couple of years ago now, but I haven't really been using it that much ...
watching that vid is still a great lesson in why things work
I'm watching it right now
:thumbsup:
Neo your a very talented music man. I enjoy your videos and your warm family setting.
Thanks
I know macs and and pc's that one has to be the oldest working mac I have seen in a long time. If memory serves correctly this one had only large floppies.
The Mac in the first pic is a Mac Plus, this one came standard with a 3.5" drive, but I had a secondary (external) drive, plus a massive HD20, 20 Megabyte external hard disk ...
The Mac with the 8 track connected to it (and the fellow from South Park on the monitor) is a 6200, which has a 3.5" drive, and an internal 600Mb drive - it's had a variety of external HD's attached over the years as backups. The photo of this one was actually the last time it worked, the day after this, it wouldn't turn on, probably leaky capacitors in the PSU, as was common for those era Macs - I was donated a 7200 by a friend and managed to transfer the rest of the files over ...
I also bought a Mac Cube, because I've always liked them, and retro-fitted it with a G4 Stealth card, there is a modern day one being sold here: http://alexhixon.com/projects/jamport/index.html
Cheers
Richard
I'm still seeing a few spam topics, but not as many as I have seen i the past ... !!!
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