Excellent Phill your lyrics have got me feeling all nostalgic. That is the sort of song that people would enjoy after a few bears and wanting a sing along.
1,627 2019-02-06 10:30:27
Re: Tuesday's Flying Fingers (474 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
There is a real nice friendly vibe happening there on that video and the guitar playing is excellent. Thank you TF
1,628 2019-02-06 10:24:11
Topic: Where Do We Want To Go. (11 replies, posted in Poems)
I met a man I went to school with in the Library this week who I last saw when we were both eleven year olds this tells the story of that meeting..
Where Do We Want To Go.
In the library here again to learn.
A place I come to widen my horizons.
I see you. You see me.
You seem familiar.
I seem familiar to you.
Something in the back of the mind is calling to me.
I say to you did we go to school together.
You say is that you.
I say is that you
1966 last time we spoke.
Two school boys.
Hey what happened to your fiery red hair.
Your next words on talking to me.
The picture comes into my head of a boy.
Not the bald man shaking my hand with warmth.
You were a boy with dark black locks of hair.
We both liked art .
You were a natural .
I had to work at it..
Your Mum passed away.
Leaving your dad lost.
He sent you away up north to live with an aunt.
All these years have past.
Now all these years of over half a century a short gap
Thoughts from over fifty plus years ago not thought about again till now..
Here we are two eleven year old boys.
In a moment no longer old men.
Just excited about being kids.
Wondering about life and where we want to go.
How can we be adults those years are to long.
It is easier to be kids in those couple of short years we knew each other,
The moment comes to the inevitable.
The spirit of childhood robbed by a moment called now.
Somehow those years after eleven till now are not what we want to bring up.
Adult detail and those stories seem uncomfortable.
Travelling faster then the speed of light we hit a wall.
Brought to a crashing stop we say goodbye,
Best mates boys bonding before we become old men.
A couple of strangers.
No longer prepared to play cowboys and Lone Rangers.
All we can do is shake hands and wish each other well.
Thankful for those eleven year old boys that once were us.
1,629 2019-02-06 10:19:15
Re: HOMEPORT (6 replies, posted in Poems)
I love the way you use the sea to paint the emotions and tell the story of a love lost.
1,630 2019-02-04 04:21:01
Re: How to write a song (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hi Jeff I like your songs and also the way you approach writting them..
Neo that is one cool looking bass. Back in my younger days I use to like Scotch Whisky or a Canadian Club. Now days I enjoy a pint or two of either Pilsners or Indian Pale Ales,a few beers is my alcoholic beverage now days.
1,631 2019-02-04 03:59:44
Re: Thank Christ for the bomb (3 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
A good cover of a good song Grah
1,632 2019-02-02 01:15:43
Re: How to write a song (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I like that photo Neo and the Amber Nector on the table to help with the music making. Looking at the neck of your instrument what is it???
EB I think his part 2worked better but part one very informative.
I will attach video of his I like it is a long song. called Touching Heads and Feeling
The song tells the story of his great-grandparents, Mariano and Elizabeth Vella, who were shipwrecked on the SS Wairapa in 1894 on their honeymoon as they travelled to New Zealand from old Dalmatia. It's now called Croatia.
1,633 2019-02-02 01:11:54
Re: Mountains To Sea (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Thank youTF for you kind words and taking time to watch my video. These are some words by Chris Burkmenn “Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
1,634 2019-02-02 00:49:06
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Cheers badeye I love da blues played like that man does with his long fingers making guitar magic. Made our summer day here in the NZ nice and cool.
Thank you
Pete
1,635 2019-01-31 04:36:57
Re: A Video I made with My Neighbour A Party Animal (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Cool neo love the fur colour. We had one for fourteen years but after he passed away we missed him so much we never got around to replacing him mainly because we use to spend alot of time away from home.
1,636 2019-01-31 04:23:06
Re: Prog Rock Wednesdays (580 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Excellent TF gave me goosebumps listening to it brilliant use of string section.
1,637 2019-01-31 04:08:36
Re: Mountains To Sea (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Thank you everyone for your kind comments and taking in my experiments with video making on my cellphone. I am lucky to live in a beautiful area where we have the sea and nice natural places all around while still close to all things like shops and other entertainment that a city can provide.
1,638 2019-01-31 04:00:10
Re: A Video I made with My Neighbour A Party Animal (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Neo she was a cool cat who has now left our neighbourhood. Good with kids.
1,639 2019-01-31 03:56:30
Re: The Scheming Chattel (12 replies, posted in My local band and me)
It had a nice ye olde Knights and Ladies feel to it would be good music for a movie track.
1,640 2019-01-28 00:03:00
Re: Icons and Inspirations (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you DE the "Foothill Folk Society" concert was a wonderful watch and made the start to my week a good one.
1,641 2019-01-19 06:41:41
Re: 70"s (17 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Good one badeye whenever I think about Three Dog Night and the 70's another band that always comes into my mind as soon as I reminisce with friends about that decade is Chicago.
1,642 2019-01-18 20:54:34
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Badeye, Cream doing the Blues real good excellent.
1,643 2019-01-18 20:48:32
Re: Leaving on a jet plane (5 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
First time I have heard of them BGD excellent I enjoyed hearing them.
1,644 2019-01-18 20:43:55
Re: SCORE! (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good one Zurf great way also to keep alive the good music from past years. My dad died back in 1967 and my Mum kept his big record collection for years. She then passed them onto me when she moved from her house to a small apartment, as my brothers and sister's weren't interested. Most of them are 78's and also alot of EPs. Many he brought were got of seaman who would pickup records for him that we couldnt get here in NZ. Others were ones he brought with him from the UK when he moved here. A couple of my nephews loved those recordings so as my health hasn't been the best in last few years I have passed the collection onto them with the proviso that they offer them to the museum first if they don't want them any more. The local museum is very keen to have some of them in their collection mostly the rare copies of recordings by forgotten Kiwi entertainers and some the old American Jazz and Blues.plus Old American country music. Many of the ones you have mentioned above are the sort of thing I like to listen too very cool..
1,645 2019-01-17 05:39:16
Re: Time Speed (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Cheers thank you everyone for your comments. When I think of time and how it moves The Steve Miller Band song,"Fly Like An Eagle" opening two lines always jumps into my mind
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future.
Many a time when I was younger working I would wish it could just be Friday already,' or, 'Once I get through this week I'll feel better. When I was a child I use to say things to my nan like “ if only I was older” she would say, “you’ll get there before you know it”. I use to think shame she is old and doesn’t know what she is saying This kind of thinking is something most of us had when we were younger wanting or trying to move time faster when things weren’t going to plan. I am guessing every generation at a young age want to believe that once we move time forward and jump the hurdles directly in front of us, the clock will start moving forward faster instead of taking an eternity to pass. The song I Don't Like Mondays" a song by Irish group The Boomtown Rats is an extreme example of not wanting to go through one day Monday. Another song that comes to mind is The Mamas & Papas "Monday, Monday". .I quess now I have retired everyday is a Friday. I love that saying hard to put a old head on young shoulders. Another saying If I knew what I knew now I would have done things differantly. I use to hate it when my mother use to say,”time goes quicker every year I get older. ” Now I say that myself. A friend of mine from a big family was brought up on a farm. He went to his brothers 70th birthday recently. He told me while there, talking around a table to all his brothers and sisters they all wished they could turn back the clock and be back in the good old days. The thing they all had in common when they were younger is they couldn’t wait to get older leave the farm and go to the city. Time changes us and how we remember or perceive things. When the Beatles Sgt.Pepper's Album came out I remember listening to When Im 64 and thinking that is an old age and it will take forever to get there. Now Im Sixty Four it doesn’t seem that old.
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1,646 2019-01-16 06:04:44
Topic: Time Speed (6 replies, posted in Poems)
A twenty nine year old on his birthday made a comment to me, about how quick time has moved since he turned twenty one, got me writing this. It was playing in my head as a song so got home and played it as a song. Link to video I made of it attached. I think it most probably works better as a song instead of a poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8cCOJifLs
Time Speed
There are times when your waiting for things to happen.
Time seems to move real slow.
When your on the go where does time go.
One minute young.
Next minute old.
You see a little flower.
You see something small.
You think how long is it going to take before it grows.
Then before you know it’s fully grown.
Where does time go.
One minute young.
Next minute old.
You see a little flower.
You see something small.
You think how long is it going to take before it grows.
Then before you know it’s fully grown.
Time sometimes slows.
Sometimes speeds up.
But before you know it’s gone.
Make the most of time that your got.
1,647 2019-01-14 08:42:28
Re: Waiting on the Snow to Fall (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Wow Jeff you did everything perfect on that song.
1,648 2019-01-12 04:40:12
Re: Sherlock (3 replies, posted in Poems)
Yep Beamer grab that guitar and blast the blues away. I went through a bad relationship break up years a go. I found my Drum Kitt and having a doodle on my guitar helped get stuff out of my system way back then. Life has been good after that and a marriage to my wife of the last thirty seven years has put that in the past.
1,649 2019-01-12 04:36:00
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Badeye I love that line in that song “ A lip to chew” is it a saying used by folk in your part of the world? I guess it means the same as “Chewing the brezze”? I have heard my sister who has lived over on the other coast of Canada ( Vancouver} since1965 say ' Im spitting in the wind" when she thinks people are not listening to what she is saying.
1,650 2019-01-11 07:53:20
Re: 70"s (17 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Thank you that has brought back memories, Badeye down here in New Zealand we use to get the Casey Kasem American Top 40 on the radio.. Most probably when I saw the movie here in NZ, -American Graffiti - is when I became aware of Wolfman Jack. I never got to hear Wolfman on the radio down here in the South Pacific.. Guess Who - Clap For The Wolfman- got regular airtime on the radio when it came out here but it was only because of Casey Kasem and American Graffiti that it eventually caught on here in the record charts.