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I thought I liked "Rap" when I first heard The Sugarhill Gang : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQObWW06VAM

THEN I thought I liked "Rap" when I heard this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ZIf2H9S0E

And lastly, I laughed and rode my bicycle to the cadence of these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

I never knew it was going to be turned into a "Protest Art Form" featuring lyrics my wife would divorce me over. Also, it is my belief that here is one example of words which can kill.

If you listened to any of my above examples, did you catch the "common thread" running through them?

Right: Funny, musical and ....... SATIRICAL.

I majored in Satirical English Lit in college, so I like to think I know whereof I speak. Matter of fact, I majored in everything lit in college.:)

So, that's my story about the rap "genre" and why I grew not to like it.

Well, I lost your cell number, Doug. Wrote you an e-mail, so maybe you will see it.

Sorry, but if ever you need something to be done or go wrong, just hand it over to me and I'll take care of it!

Bill     

I will give you a call later on this evening, Doug.

Thanks

Bill

PS: I will also hunt up that "web-cam".     

You left off the part about having "to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle", Phill

Bill     

Here's a little tune from the Colonies, Phill to cheer us up a little. It's okay to smile and shed a "happiness tear". I did.

Love you my brothers and sisters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TV_ypjxEB8

Jan,

So much of what we write is self-centered. It's about what happens to us, not what happens to others. This poem of yours offers the rest of us an insight we might not otherwise experience, even if we were to meet face-to-face. Your words have given me a new hope that people will care about us if we tell them it's okay to do that.

Thank you, Jan, and Jim we send our sincere condolences to you and yours on the passing of your brother. If and when you are moved to do so, maybe you will favor us with a song in which you write about him.

Your friend

Bill     

Yes, BGD, i do have Skype on my machine here, and I should also have a video camera, though I have not used it in a few years.

Do you have something on YouTube which shows how y'all set this up? It sounds like fun and I would like to participate, I just need the "Idiot's Guide" to how this is done.

Thanks

Bill     

Oh my. I just recently checked the Meola level in my blood and noticed it was low, TF, and this really charged it back up. Your presentations always seem to fill a void in my musical life, my friend. Whether it's this or someone I've never heard before, once your contributions make it here, I will then seek out more by whomever it ios you are featuring.

Thank you, my friend, for this one as well!

Bill     

You're good for my ego, Jim!!

Just thinking of all the fun I'm having and all the stuff which goes with it:

1. It makes me want to practice when y'all kick in your comments

2. Forming them callouses is a secondary benefit

3. At some point, I'll have to make those B7's, B's and Bm's!

4. Got me some friends that will listen to what I sing and play without having to threaten them at gunpoint!

And there are more, I'm sure. Just haven't occurred to me yet.

Thanks my friend and thanks, family. It's like the sun just started shining.

Bill

I will add stuff as I can, my friends.

Thanks very much for the encouragement and advice as I work my way through songs I find easiest to chord thus becoming more comfortable with the recording process.

At some point, I would like to try adding in Audacity utilizing some of its features, but it's going to need to be a "layering" process, utilizing what that site offers a bit at the time.

Also, I need to work something out here in the room to make me feel less "crowded" - sitting directly in front of the keyboard with the mic in its stand in front of the monitor. This gets in the way of the "sheet music" which is displayed on that monitor.

I will post a pic later, but it's a very "claustrophobic" setting which makes it uncomfortable to sing and play the guitar. I need to relax more.

Again, I will work it out somehow and hopefully will see and hear improvement as I fix the environment.

Thanks

Bill

I think my addled brain just stumbled upon a (for me) profound thought: These lyrics are a prime example why - for some people - music is necessary in creating such a work.

By themselves the words are just so much confusing (IMO) drivel. aren't they*? Even in the comment section, one person has decided the lyrics are about porn. Me, I don't interpret it that way and, as of this writing, haven't really decided what they "mean". But then, I'm just a lowly drummer - one third of a rhythm section - and I don't dwell on such things.

To borrow (and destroy) from Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat "The sometimes misfiring brain synapses, and having synapsed moves on."

In other words, with KC - for me it's always been about the music.

Bill

*rhetorical

Okay. Thank you, Sir!

Thanks to all for the comments.

Bill