Curt I like your country style. I have left comments on your youtube.
1,752 2018-10-27 04:07:58
Topic: Why Dont Girls Play Air Guitar. (13 replies, posted in Poems)
I wrote this a few weeks back a few days after a very clever nine year old asked me, " why don't girls play air guitar" ?
A nine year old boy asked me an important question.
Why dont girls play air guitar?
I guess it would make them more like blokes.
Maybe imaginery music stores are sexist.
They will only sell air guitars to blokes.
Or someone with male intentions.
Someone with whiskers on their face and other infections.
Sometimes I feel the need to adopt the Silly Me stance.
When asked important questions.
By those wiser than me with much better perceptions.
Why dont girls play air guitar?
To say they like the real thing would be far to easy.
Why doesn’t this kid ask me something easy,
While on his musical quest seeking answers from grand old folks.
Popular music and questions about things that happened before his time.
Those he talks to older ones who refer to Beatles as musicians.
Something any entomologist would dispute.
Or the Rolling Stones as the giants of rock.
Something any geologist would dispute.
This kid needs more than me.
Me allegedly someone with the right connections..
Not guilty your honour that girl did not steal that air guitar.
Check the evidence you will see this air has boys fingerprints all over it.
Unless you can prove otherwise air guitar are made for boys.
What more can a poor boy do but play air guitar.
Why dont girls play air guitar?
Don’t ask me my heads not pointing in the right direction.
My microscope is worn out and my eyes aren't as observant as yours.
Why dont girls play air guitar.?
Kid ask an astronomer.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.
What, your only nine and you now want to know why this metaphor has become part of popular culture.
Why don’t girls play air guitar?
1,753 2018-10-26 09:45:05
Re: Happy Birthday!! (8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Sweet Sixteen Happy Birthday Chordie.
1,754 2018-10-25 07:13:52
Re: anyone but me (20 replies, posted in Poems)
Phill are whirley birds those tree seeds attached to the end of a wing shaped extension which has a slight pitch, causing it to spin like a propeller when caught by the wind when dropping .from tree branches,?????
1,755 2018-10-23 04:28:02
Re: without you (19 replies, posted in Poems)
Laurin800 interesting reading about you on here and I am with you Phill's poem is a fantastic piece of writing.
1,756 2018-10-23 04:18:37
Re: anyone but me (20 replies, posted in Poems)
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.
1,757 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.
1,758 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.
1,759 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
1,760 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
1,761 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.
1,762 2018-10-22 00:32:07
Re: Happy Birthday, Doug! (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Happy Birthday Doug.
1,763 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.
1,764 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.
1,765 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.
1,766 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.
1,767 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.???
1,768 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
1,769 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
1,770 2018-10-18 20:01:18
Re: Yesterday, a letter. (8 replies, posted in Poems)
Man I can feel your pain well written.
1,771 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.
1,772 2018-10-18 06:36:50
Re: Too Many People (19 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Cheers Neo Steve is good..
1,773 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.
1,774 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
1,775 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.