Craig Wilson = Wilson cigar clarion wigs
1,576 2008-01-02 19:31:26
Re: :lol: :lol: :lol: How many funny things we haven' got. ANAGRAM (22 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
1,577 2008-01-02 19:06:02
Re: :lol: :lol: :lol: How many funny things we haven' got. ANAGRAM (22 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
UPYERKILT = TURKEY LIP
PARIS HILTON = NITRO LIP ASH
BAD EYE = DAY BEE
BOOTLEGER = GET BOLERO
SOUTHPAW = WHAT SOUP
1,578 2008-01-02 19:00:03
Topic: BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUMS (32 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
ABOUT LIVE ALBUMS.
I don't agree, not about the album, but the ranking.
1) Live and Dangerous THIN LIZZY
2) STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT UFO ( one of the Schenkers, the other's band is the Scorpions)
3) Made In Japan DEEP PURPLE & my number one
4) If You Want Blood AC/DC
5) How the West Was Won LED ZEPPELIN & shared number one with Deep Purple.
6) Live At Leeds THE WHO
7) Unleashed In The East JUDAS PRIEST
8) Space Ritual HAWKWIND
9) Exit Stage Left RUSH
10) Irish Tour RORY GALLAGHER
My top 5 would be
- MADE IN JAPAN
- How The West Was Won
- Irish tour
- WOODSTOCK I
- WOODSTOCK II
1,579 2008-01-02 18:47:51
Re: best selling soundtracks all time (29 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
wlbaye, you are 100% correct. If Forest Gump is in that list, we need to add as written R Williams.
- Ennio Moriconi collaborating with Sergio Leone.
- The soundtrack of Brother where art thu is genial, but I read somewhere that they used a song, only written 10 years later compared to that movie (I believe it was: you are my sunshine, lallalalala, great song, as a man with constant sorrow is also a highlight.
Russell and Arkady, you inspire me to add also
- GOOD MORNING VIETNAM.
- PULP FICTION probably too, that fantastic DICK DALE song, who I discovered after seeing the movie.
Lion King, Grease...
NO MUSICALS, like SINGING IN THE RAIN, raketaktaktakrak (feet). Imagine you standing in the rain, and you start singing this combined with tap dance, they lock you up.
1,580 2008-01-02 18:38:13
Re: the funeral classics (30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Already thanks to all my beloved (everyone) chordians.
Charlotte, remarkable, it is on the list too, also the song John Prines' "Please Don't Bury Me", like Southpaw wrote, together with "When The Saints Go Marching In." Actually, I saw it with my own eyes, sitting very lazy somewhere in New Orleans on a balcony. One hour later I had the honour to see Hillary Clinton (1992, September) followed by a lot of "jazz bands", I was witness of the BIG ELECTION SHOW. THAT: you won't find in Europe. The funeral, Afro-American with the closest family dancing, it is really strange. I don't know nothing about this culture, but I start to understand more and more thanks to you all. ELECTION TIME, throwing with mud, trying to look if a candidate has smoked a joint, this is probably the most difficult thing to understand. Especially the elections, and the Florida connection, where G.W's brother should give a big, big statue to his brother. I don't have a clue (maybe a little) how the elections are in the USA. There is a council who votes, and the winner takes it all, about that council or the "donations".
go rest high on that mountain' by vince gill is unknown to me.
AMAZING GRACE, is this song on a lot of funerals, or when a police officer dies, I don't know, except when watching a movie. I once had all papers AND a place to start as MD in South-Africa, with to opportunity to start where ever I wanted later, because it is part of the British Commonwealth. In between 2 trips, I met that nurse, killing me by being EGOCENTRIC, she even hated my daughter, afrauid that I would neglect her.
So to answer on your posts, I am more self assured, more "black" humour, Chordie, DVD, and my days are passing very fast. I JUST HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY BODY, but sometimes there is no possibility to listen.
1,581 2008-01-02 11:07:33
Topic: what is the secret to become big (2 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
There are thousands of bands, playing real good. I was 5 years ago in a professional studio, in the basement of a good friend, once a member of a YUGOSLAVIAN band SMAK. I found his adress, in fact the whole information about that friend when the name of his band "popped up." In fact this band was HUGE in ex-Yugoslavia, performing together, not as first act, but main act with, the at that time still the original members, DEEP PURPLE. I recorded 2-3 songs, he told me that I could play very easy with most mainstream American bands. This is far the nicest compliment you can get.
But what is the secret to become big.
A stupid remark, I start playing with UYK, Guitarpix, James, Southpaw, Russel, Old doll, guitarpix, a dream I posted already, the love and joy to have a big chordian meeting.
This is just hypothetical, we all try to play and to give and share our musical aspirations.
So we have a band and what comes next?
Some great songs, are blown away by another band playing the same style, but they come from ZERO to HERO.
Southpaw has maybe the answer.
EXAMPLE: 5 bands, same level, good performers, same song, but 1 band gets famous.
- is it chemistry
- the looks
- equipment
- WHY are some bands so big?
This question follows me since years, after my Canadian holiday.
There are a lot of bands, playing bad, because the guitar player knows only a few chords, and a lot more.
What is the receipt to see a band, with less potential, playing only 2 years, becoming BIG, while another, having skilled players, stay low profile.
1,582 2008-01-02 10:00:10
Re: A LOVELY TUNE (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Roger & Doll, I tried it again to play, and it looks more complicated than it is.
The sequence Am D G , most above mama, I continue singing the word MAMA, starting Am and NON STOP to G.
It is possible I change some lyrics, just because I am not 100% satisfied.
IT IS REALLY TIME to start using my BOSS BR 600.
1,583 2008-01-01 16:14:17
Re: top wedding songs (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
PIX, this is still one of my less glorious moments in life. I lived like a king, could have every girl I wanted, but that's great when you are 25 years old.
Now= you DON'T MARRY TO DIVORCE, which happened to me. Who is responsible, me and she.
CAUSED, like it is almost always: COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN. I really hope you STAY together, the grass might be greener on the other side, but once you are there, it can be muddy, and worse.
So, congratulations. I am no longer ashamed but the truth is, it is failure. I am grateful that we became closer after the divorce, and I can still count on her, but living together is impossible.
I am living alone now, since 2,5 years, and I am not longer working since 3 years, you get the picture? It will be difficult, I think, you start, and certainly in my case, due to my accident, to live
in "time-periods"and this causes a problem because I am too used to be alone.
1,584 2008-01-01 16:03:23
Re: LISTEN TO THIS PLEASE (17 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
I will try to translate it, if I find the lyrics.
MY OPINION: It's a CATCHY TUNE, once you listened to the music, it stays in your head. STYLE, you can say that there is some comparision possible, but it's more melodic.
THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT SONG, go to youtube, look for TC MATIC, and the song is Oh LaLaLa.
This song is timeless, and almost everyone who listens to this, don't understand that this song wasn't a MILLIONSELLER.
The performer, singer is ARNO, look for this name too, and listen to DANS LES YEUX DE MA MERE.
(= In my mother's eyes) The guy who plays the riff is a great player. He learned me how to play the riff, but that's 20 years ago. I am also "guilty" because I was able to block their contract, being a doc, on festivals and knowing all the famous artists here 20-25 years ago. Now it's different. I know at this moment 0 artists. Where is that glorious time. The riff looks difficult, but it is easier than it looks, but sorry, I would love to play it, but it's gone.
Maybe one of the chordians is able to analyse it and to put it in "songwriting". I would appreciate this a lot, because honest, it's a brilliant riff.
1,585 2008-01-01 15:51:13
Re: the funeral classics (30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Nice question, I WISH IT WAS TRUE
1,586 2008-01-01 15:40:40
Topic: top wedding songs (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Top Ten Wedding Songs
1. Nothing Compares To You. Sinead O’Connor
2. Close To You. Maxi Priest
3. Power of Love. Jennifer Rush
4. Love Me Tender. Elvis Presley
5. I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You. Elvis Presley
6. Just the Way You Are. Billy Joel
7. When You Say Nothing At All. Ronan Keating
8. From This Moment On. Shania Twain
9. You Made Me Love You. Al Jolson
10. How Deep is your Love Beegees
1,587 2008-01-01 15:37:13
Topic: best selling soundtracks all time (29 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
1) The Bodyguard
2) Saturday Night Fever
3) Purple Rain
4) Forest Gump
5) Dirty Dancing & Titanic
These are the top five records, ranking: platinum/gold records
1,588 2008-01-01 15:34:02
Topic: the funeral classics (30 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
10 classic songs, used on a funeral. Of course the list is longer and depends of the country.
AMAZING GRACE: What's the story behind this song? When I watch a movie, and there is a funeral, you will hear this song in 90% of the funerals. Where are the roots of this song: Scotland-Ireland?
1) My heart will go on Celine Dion
2) Candle in the Wind Elton John
3) The Wind Beneath My Wings Bette Middler
4) Search For The Hero M-People
5) My Way Frank Sinatra
6) You'll Never Walk Alone Rogers & Hammerstein
7) Please release me Englebert Humperdinck
8) Memory Elaine Page
9) Strangers in the Night Frank Sinatra
10) Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel
Some other songs
- Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel
- Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye) - Andrea Bocelli
- Let it Be The Beatles
- Bowin' in the Wind + Forever Young - Bob Dylan
- Funeral for a Friend - Elton John (this is a song you "chordians" can come to play when I'm gone)
- I'm Your Angel - R. Kelly (with Celine Dion)
A VERY BEAUTIFUL ONE IS: "Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd.
1,589 2008-01-01 12:21:01
Topic: WHAT ABOUT DISCONTINUED MODELS (0 replies, posted in Acoustic)
This is also an item you meet a lot when searching for a guitar.
WHY IS A MODEL DISCONTINUED?
- BAD model?
- a disappointing sale?
- Not popular?
Is ther a chordian who knows why?
1,590 2008-01-01 12:15:41
Topic: laminated versus non laminated (2 replies, posted in Acoustic)
If you surf on guitar sites, and you look closer, you can buy a BIG name, like Martin, using LAMINATED WOOD.
Question: IS THE SOUND a LOT DIFFERENT between 2 guitars, same brand, but one using laminated wood (lower price)?
1,591 2008-01-01 12:13:19
Topic: TOP 10 BEGINNER ACOUSTIC GUITARS (7 replies, posted in Acoustic)
You can find a lot of information on the internet, but I hope that this topic might help in your search.
Where it was possible I wrote the retail price.
1) Seagull S6 is considered as a very good guitar to start, even to continue, or performing.
2) Yamaha F-310
3) Takamine G-240, discontinued I saw, but high rated by customers and instrument for the serious student or hobbyist. There is still another Takamine (in fact there are a lot) a G-320 $289.00
4) Fender DG-7, also discontinued, but I think that the DG-8, is very close to it: $199.95 and list: $349.99
5) Epiphone DR-100 List Price: $165.00
6)Washburn D10S List Price: $429.90, and a comment that this is probably the best selling acoustic
7) Blueridge BR-40 List Price: $595.00 and can't be a bad guitar, you read more and more about BLUERIDGE
8)Ibanez AC100NT
9) Baby Taylor List Price: $398.00
10)Martin LXM List Price: $399.00
1,592 2008-01-01 10:59:22
Topic: About SIGMA SEAGUL and other guitars (8 replies, posted in Acoustic)
These guitars, weren't they made by MARTIN?
You can compare it probably with a Squier and a Fender.
Am I right writing that they are no longer produced?
They sound nice, and going to the top of sigma, I think that for the same amount, you are able to buy a better.
Sigma DR-41: Dreadnought Body, Solid Spruce Top, Laminated Rosewood Back and Sides.
Retail Price: $675
For that money, and an almost complete laminated guitar, except for the top, I would go for another. MY BIG QUESTION IS: is my conclusion wrong or not?
Seagull S6 Entourage Acoustic Guitar Features: PRICE 299,99$
* Top: Solid cedar
* Back: Wild Cherry laminate
* Sides: Wild Cherry laminate
This guitar is pretty similar to a sigma, they use WILD CHERRY laminated, where sigma uses laminated Rosewood.
If you pay $799.99, you are the owner of a MARTIN D-15, no laminated wood is used. I have the dark brown mahagony version.
>What is your opinion about these guitars.
Like seagul: I never played or tried one.
1,593 2008-01-01 10:57:24
Re: MARTINS, TAYLORS, COLLINGS, GIBSONS (5 replies, posted in Acoustic)
wlbaye, this is indeed a good site. I think EPINIONS is similar.
Strange is that I see a guitar returning a lot: MARTIN HD-28.
Having a D-45V, plays fantastic, but my favourite guitar is still the HD-28
1,594 2008-01-01 10:54:22
Re: word games (38 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Them and Righteous brothers, wrote nice tunes
1,595 2008-01-01 10:52:34
Re: Happy New Year. (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
WELL TO ALL OF YOU CHORDIANS, MAY YOUR DREAMS COME THROUGH. And to all musicians, and players here, I do hope that sooner or later you will have a "hit". There are a lot of opportunities with myspace and youtube.
Just enjoy playing.
AND MOST IMPORTANT: A SPECIAL THANKS TO YOU ALL, FOR SUPPORTING ME WHEN I WAS IN HOSPITAL. IT FELT SO GOOD, TO SEE AND KNOW PEOPLE CARING ABOUT ME, OR OTHERS.
A good health, in my case, enjoy every day. Have dreams, stay with both feet on the ground and LIVE.
1,596 2008-01-01 10:42:47
Topic: A LOVELY TUNE (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is a song, written on the start of a New Year, about a person, who will never let you down.
I heard several stories, where wounded soldiers, even being married cry for their mother.
When I had my crash, I just finished phoning my NOW ex-girlfriend, but right after the crash, I phoned 1 person: my mother.
Also is it proven that a man meeting a woman, likes to find a big part of his mother.
Hope you enjoy this. I still have more than 50 songs, only 10% is partial finished. You have to be in a "good mood", also at least 10 songs are "instant" songs, one minute songs. You take your guitar, and 5 minutes later you have an entire song.
G Em C D
I’m too sexy to be old mama
C D G Em Am D G
And not old to have erotic thoughts, mama, oh mama
G Em C D
I am living alone too long mama
C D G Em Am D G
And you’re the only one who will always loves me, mama, yes mama
C D C G
I just wrote this little lovely tune
Em Am D7 G
For all the mamas on this world
.
G Em C D
I’m so glad you are still here mama
C D G Em Am D G
You are so sweet, nice but often underestimated, mama, yes mama
G Em C D
When I ‘m looking for a girl mama
G D G Em Am D G
I want her to be like you, giving me that special love, mama
C D C G
I hope you like this silly tune mama
Em Am D7 G
For all the mamas on the world
I have more lyrics.
THIS IS TO SHOW MY RESPECT FOR WHAT MOTHERS DO. There are exceptions, but this is a regular situation.
Thanks, and I really appreciate critics, CONSTRUCTIVE, corrections, or comments how and what you would write
1,597 2007-12-31 18:30:08
Re: OPEN A LUXURY GUITAR STORE (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Friend PAW, that is a fantastic coincidence. Speaking about the "LOST EUROPEAN" in the USA, my, still today favourite country. I think I wrote once that I made 4 big tours in North-America.
I always rented a Mustang Convertible, also always in September, and avoiding Interstates. Without a roof, it looks as if you walk, smelling the forests, able to look in every direction, without bending to see something, and having the opportunity to drive through small to midsize towns, all having Motels, at least a McDonald's or Burgerking, but as European, spoiled by nice food, I also noticed that in only a few years, the food has improved a lot. My favourites: the all you can eat restaurants. I was shocked in one of these places, seeing a little fellow, maybe 10 years old, eating 5 FIVE, pizza's, and when finished, we were sitting next to that soft ice machine, he went 8 times to take soft ice, a huge portion, and about the Coke he drunk. For me being a Medical Doctor THIS IS A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE. That family was noisy, no discipline, it's an image burned in my brain or what's left of it. There are more and more of this places, you pay 10-15$, and you have salads, juicy steaks, "grilled to the perfection", sometimes a surf and turf. My favourite dining places are still the RED LOBSTER chain. Compared to Europe, we have only a few dining chains. And in the eat what you can, the steaks are sometimes not on the menu, or too much grilled. We are all the same, but there is definitely still a big difference. About dining, there are fantastic restaurants, and as European, having France as neighbour, New Orleans beats everything. But dining there is, even in Top restaurants, different. If you put your knife down, to scratch your back, well your plate has gone: rush, rush and rush.
- CANADA: Part 1 = Montreal-Quebec-Toronto & part 2: British Columbia, Alberta
- USA: from Seattle to Los Angeles, along the Westcoast, that's why I mentioned Carmel, the place
to be, a small, very sweet and lovely town, BUT quit expensive.
- USA: Route 66 tour, I prefer the BLUES TOUR: starting in Chicago, over St Louis, and direction South, straight to Nashville, and to GRUHN, were I used that trick to bring that Martin D-45V, having two serial numbers, and a document from a friend that he sold me that guitar in Belgiuml. Of course we went to MEMPHIS, over New Orleans (4 days) and to Houston. In Canada, we also discovered the "famous pawnshops", to see that most of them start to know the prices.
- USA: Las Vegas - Reno - Salt Lake City - Colorado (Dinosaur + Aspen), taking the scenic route to Colorado Springs, and across New Mexico to Rosswell. From there, Tombstone - Mexico, just across the border, and back North through Arizona - Sedona - Hoover Dam. THERE I FELT REAL BAD, I WAS TIRED, BURNED OUT AND I DIDN'T WANT TO RETURN, HOOVER DAM is the place where I took the decision to stop working. So back to Vegas, and back home. The rest is history.
But asap, I love to come back, and I will. I love the people, big cities are different and don't stand for what the USA has to offer, so give me TENNESSEE.
Thanks for answering, because thinking about this, is still too painful, especially the HOOVER DAM
1,598 2007-12-31 16:37:31
Re: :lol: :lol: :lol: How many funny things we haven' got. ANAGRAM (22 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
- JOHNNIEBG= BEGIN JOHN or BEING JOHN.
- THE EAGLES = HE TELE GAS, THE SEAGEL
- STEVEN SEAGAL = SENEGAL VETS, LEGS AT SEVEN
1,599 2007-12-31 16:17:05
Topic: OPEN A LUXURY GUITAR STORE (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
In fact, this is a logical sequel, since I was discussing about expensive guitars.
The best way to compare this is with a "jewellery's store." A very close friend of me, designed, imported diamond rings, watches (Cartier, Patek Philippe, Rolex), and a ring with diamond with a price tag around 5000$, he told me that the store takes a 100% benefit. They don't sell every day jewels like this. If I showed him a picture, he was able to make an EXACT replica, without going from the manufacturer to the distributor and finally to the store, resulting in the same ring for a price between 1500-2000$. This looks unbelievable, but true.
So what if you open (having enough money) with very expensive guitars.
Of course it is almost impossible to sell and have 5 Martins D-45V in your store.
But you specialise, a more narrow choice, in acoustics able to offer your customers, (unfortunately, people having the big money) a choice between let's say 20 Martins, Gibsons, Taylor's, and some other brands. If you sell a Gibson SJ-200, you order another. My question was
- are there shops, selling exclusive guitars.
- you are a skilled salesman, and a pretty good guitar player with a great knowledge, will such a store succeed. Of course, these things depend on a lot of conditions, where, decoration, approach, I have 1 town in mind, where this store could "fit": CARMEL, at the West Coast.
THIS IS JUST AN HYPOTHETIC, FICTIVE SITUATION and PROBABLY EXCLUSIVE.
I just liked to know if a store like this can be realised.
1,600 2007-12-31 15:56:27
Re: MARTINS, TAYLORS, COLLINGS, GIBSONS (5 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Hello, wlbaye, first time we'll meet. It was a VERY, VERY difficult topic, because I am
- talking about the expensive guitars
- as you confirm, it is really difficult and hard to find, a store who sells those expensive guitars. If I should start a guitar store, it will cost me a fortune. Today, the only lightis the fact that here in Europe, US guitars are already expensive, and the fact that the $ versus the € is ABNORMAL.
It is really worth to fly to the USA from BRUSSELS (in my case) and use "tricks" to pass the customs. All you need is the type and brand + serial number, pay 50% in advance and they give you all the information, and you ask a friend a document that he sold you that guitar, some months before. I had a huge car crash, I can still walk, but I need a wheelchair, so they let me pass real easy. If yopu know the price of a MARTIN D-45V here (between 8000-10.000€) compared to the USA price (8000$ = 5200€) = a 4500$ cheaper, and you have the money to buy it, you will have your guitar AND an extra week a luxe holiday. The online companies like musician's friend don't ship to Europe, but even, paying import and taxes, you win a lot.
Brings me on an idea for a topic.
Thanks.