Phill your excellent poem captures some of my day dreams as a kid. It was amazing the number of times my push bike turned into a horse when I became a cowboy for the day. When I did ride friends horses, I was never me, always someone out of cowboy movie. The number of times the hair brush turned into a microphone and I became Elvis or another pop singer wasn’t funny. The small rock bank about 12 foot high at my Grandparents house turned into Mount Everest on many occasions . The tree’s we climbed sometimes became sailing ship masts. Ahoy me hearties we sailed the world in those trees.
Oscar Wilde once said with his usual wit: Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
1,726 2018-10-23 04:18:37
Re: anyone but me (20 replies, posted in Poems)
1,727 2018-10-22 10:34:07
Re: It Takes Two - written by TIGLJK (5 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Wow Jandle I love the way you covered Jim song by capturing the essence of it through a great vocal performance.with the multi added voice sounds. Great demo to send out.
1,728 2018-10-22 10:01:15
Re: Brauns Lullaby (6 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
CG hearing you playing this takes me back to when I was a child listening to it playing on my Nans wind up music box. As a little child every time Nan would open the lid of the box and it started playing it felt like magic to me. My mother had a windup music box that use to play a short part of the The Blue Danube Waltz which I loved also as a kid. Thank you CG for bringing back some beautiful childhood memories and this big kid loved it.
1,729 2018-10-22 00:59:49
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Cheers Neo Playing music for me at the moment is a bit of a trail due to my health and also other factors. Despite the music thing I am living a good life and are happy just incase it sounds like my world is terrible. Further down the track I will hopefully get back on the horse again. So you wont see much of me doing my own music on here for a while. Instead of me playing, for now I will leave you a clip of a Kiwi bands take on rhythm and blues, which I enjoy listening too. A bit about the band. Netherworld Dancing Toys was a New Zealand band from Dunedin formed in 1982. In 1985, their single "For Today" reached No3 in the New Zealand singles chart. Nick Sampson wrote 'For Today' during a summer spent working at a Taranaki freezing works. His love song has become a classic here in NZ aided in no small part by Annie Crummer's soaring vocal. The now defunct Netherworld Dancing Toys reformed again to do this one of performance at this years APRA Silver Scroll awards in NZ.. Unfortunately as it was only a small venue you dont get to hear the crowd singing along, but when I have heard crowds singing the chorus line at big Rugby games it sounds great,. "For Today I will remember your smile." is the chorus short and sweet and easy for people to remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gceLjREO_i8
1,730 2018-10-22 00:36:37
Re: Jamming with 2nd son (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Neo I enjoyed that thank you for giving me a glimpse in to your family life. Excellent you for starting him young he will grow up to understand about the essential language of music. To me music making is part of what makes humans human. Kids who have early musical training do develop areas of their brain related to language and reasoning. Just like playing sports, children can develop motor skills when playing music which. can improve their hand-eye coordination. With encouragement from mum and dad a kid playing a musical instrument builds pride and confidence in themselves. In years to come your family band will not only be a source of pride it will sound great.
Cheers
Pete
1,731 2018-10-22 00:33:55
Re: Is this Per that runs our chordie ? (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That Per plays nice guitar.
1,732 2018-10-22 00:32:07
Re: Happy Birthday, Doug! (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy Birthday Doug.
1,733 2018-10-21 00:38:20
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Thank you Jan glad you liked it.
1,734 2018-10-21 00:35:13
Re: my song- When it ends (6 replies, posted in Poems)
Welcome to Chordie Tonny great lyrics hope we get to see more of you on here.
1,735 2018-10-21 00:32:42
Re: Happy (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff I love the message and the story in your song. Your emotional connection with nature and the importance for all of us to find that happy place in our minds. For me when I have gone through a dark moment recalling places where I was happy from my past uplift me. It was a good listen on soundcloud for me excellent.
1,736 2018-10-21 00:24:03
Re: New Postings On Sound Coud (25 replies, posted in My local band and me)
CG I would love to hear more of your excellent playing. My wife was trained as a classical piano player and her first love is classical music. Me I love all types of music but also realise to play like you do takes dedication and talent.
1,737 2018-10-20 01:58:58
Re: Seeds To Sow (4 replies, posted in Poems)
EB, Vamp you very much.it was just a rush of blood from the jugular the venous drainage for the contents of my weird skull.The best laid poems of mice and men. Robert Burns in 1785 according to Miss Quoted. Hopefully not all in vein. From one New Zeppeliner to another I am thinking people are thinking what the fish and chips is this.all about. No need for weird music or one handed applause. Just a quiet grin and a question what would John lennon think of this.???
1,738 2018-10-20 01:57:17
Re: New Postings On Sound Coud (25 replies, posted in My local band and me)
CG your playing is just magic to listen to. While waiting for my wife who is getting ready to go out and me already to go I had a quiet space to myself for half an hour. Listening to your playing has been a highlight of my Saturday so far.
THANK YOU
Pete
1,739 2018-10-18 20:05:15
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Cheers Bill, Jim Doak is a bluegrass player of some renown in NZ and OZ. He lives in Nelson, New Zealand where as Steve now lives in Cooran Queensland Australia. Once in a while Jim and Steve will join together to tour and make music often with other musos. They usually call themselves Dirt Floor Alliance on these tours it would be good if they made an album..
Your Bro Pete
1,740 2018-10-18 20:01:18
Re: Yesterday, a letter. (8 replies, posted in Poems)
Man I can feel your pain well written.
1,741 2018-10-18 19:59:35
Re: SUGGESTIONS: NOVEMBER 2018 FEATURED SONG OF THE MONTH (12 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Classical you are brilliant. That has started my Friday morning up nicely for the day. I am about to head into our city I will hear Classical Gas playing in my head love it.
1,742 2018-10-18 06:36:50
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Cheers Neo Steve is good..
1,743 2018-10-18 06:33:35
Re: Seeds To Sow (4 replies, posted in Poems)
A nod to Easy Beat a poem by me using his Warm coat in Transylvania line.
The nectar of What will Bee will Bee.
Spring pollination just gone.
Robert Plant breeding words out of a neighbours speaker.
Our summer.
Transylvania winter.
On a good Doris Day.
The wicked ways of humans and livestock.
Farm animals regarded as an asset
Shimmer in the light and die,
A healthy Kiwi man full grown.
Weeps over shorn sheep.
Good old ewe he crys out..
Onions welling tears in his eyes.
Water for stew and lamb pie..
A good strong brew.
Lamb leg at Christmas.
Harvesting veg in summer
Warm coat in Transylvania
Doris on a good day singing.
What wool be wool be.
1,744 2018-10-17 10:39:10
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Bill my Bro thank you for the compliment putting me up there with Howlin Wolf and John Lee Hooker. Harry Chapin is another artist I admire. The good thing about the blues we can get away with and do simple things, which are borrowed from others. As Steve here will say about the blues on a clip which I will attach by two Kiwi blues guys Steve Apirana and Jm Doak for you to eye and ear. Thank you Bill for your support .
Your Kiwi Bro
Pete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrLOHQT9lkE
1,745 2018-10-17 10:24:09
Re: OCTOBER 2018 FSOTM – CHALLENGE MONTH (45 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Neo your a good man. I love the way you give all songs a go great work. I just heard on the radio that Youtube went down world wide today good see it is all working again.
1,746 2018-10-16 10:08:49
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Cheers TF you and I think alike. Canada is a blessed country. My sister is a free-lance travel/food and wine writer.and loves Canada so much that she has lived in Canada since 1965. Though she is based in Vancouver she loves getting out to the wide open spaces you have in your country.
1,747 2018-10-16 09:23:19
Re: without you (19 replies, posted in Poems)
Cheers Phill she would soon know it wasn't me. Maree just asked me before what I was looking at on my laptop so I read her your poem. Her reaction is what a lucky lady your Ann is to have her man write something as beautiful as that.
1,748 2018-10-16 09:08:39
Re: Jamming with son (6 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Neo your son plays nice piano and it is real cool to see and hear you two playing music together.
1,749 2018-10-16 08:55:07
Re: Recording Onto SoundCloud: Do I Have To Pay? (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Brother Bill I am looking forward to hearing you on soundcloud.
Love to you and Dondra
Pete
1,750 2018-10-16 08:50:38
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Thank you everyone for taking time to have a listen and give me some feedback. TF you are right Africa has big potential to grow food but poor management and corruption has ruined many farms over there. Around the world because of industrialization leading to loss of agricultural land, population growth, and the demand for more meat instead of grain as China’s incomes rise. China is projected to need to import 240 million tons of food annually by the year 2030. Yet, total world agricultural trade is currently just 200 million tons of grain or grain equivalent, and that amount is decreasing as the exporting countries consume more and more of their own food products. Water tables on every continent are falling, as water is pumped out at far greater rates than rainwater can replenish in order to provide irrigation for agriculture. I think food producers in the future will benifit financially from the Chinese market only if there is a balance of trade.
Most economies need exports or foreign currency in order make their countries have a standard of living.
It is claimed that 78% of children who are malnourished under 5 years of age live in countries with food surpluses. Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half of all food produced.
Prices paid for food are determined globally while the cost of food is determined locally.
Since the World Trade Organisation was established, world hunger has increased Export crop production has become the focus in many agricultural societies.
International corporations control food resources. In the past as well as today developing countries are used to supply more affluent nations with CHEAP resources and agricultural products.
The majority of large scale tobacco, coffee, production is done in countries that we would consider to be developing.
Countries with high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and poor health care.
Countries where agricultural lands would be better used to grow food rather than cash crops to be exported to wealthier nations.
The problem we have faced from economic globalization is the intensifying unequal distribution of employment and income.
The World Bank states that the world food supply in 1994 could have fed 6.4 billion people so hunger stems not necessarily from lack of food, but also for economic and political reasons. The world produces enough grain to feed every person at least 3,500 calories a day yet 800 million people in the world are hungry. Three fourths of people who are hungry live in Asia, Africa, or Latin America
Back on my mother's family and tribal Island of Ovalau in Fiji most of the people who live on that island don’t have much money but are rich. The reason is because no one goes hungry or homeless and there is fresh water and good education and the health care is ok. People fish and grow food, money and posession are not a big part of the culture there. Visitors sometimes see them as poor but the people there consider themselves wealthy. Sorry about my long rave, but I think the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations has made things worse for most countries..
Having written all that my song is just me putting these two tourists comments I heard talking about their town the other day into a simple Blues form.
Thank you for your time and encouragement my friends.