1,876

(10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Topdown I loved their version of YMCA ,

1,877

(3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hi Dondra and Bill.
The gift of  love you have for each other and your faith will keep you strong. The way you care for each other is worth more than money. Bill your a lucky man  having a Billion Dollar hairstylist.keeping you looking good.
Hugs to you both
Love Pete and Maree

1,878

(10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Here is a bit of fun with well known songs to brighten up a monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nEfJuR5n0

1,879

(3 replies, posted in Poems)

Beamer I like the way you can say alot in a few words excellent.

1,880

(8 replies, posted in Poems)

Beamer you words are gold.

1,881

(8 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Donna welcome, just by  playing a little bit each day  eventually that guitar will reward you with a tune you can enjoy.

1,882

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Tig the rewrite perfect. A cracker song which I am sure Phill will do brilliantly.

1,883

(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

TIg I can' t quiet get my head around the F word for some daft reason to me it didn't seem you. This is not critisism of that but yeah its is a song I can imagine been worthy of a good cover. Your prolific gift for songwriting always amazes me.

1,884

(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

There is  well-documented evidence to the use of teeth for identification began during 66 AD with Agrippina and Lollia Pauline case. Agrippina after her marriage with Claudius, emperor of Rome, Agrippina tries to secure her position. She feared about rich divorcee Lollia Paulina may still be a rival for her husband. She decided that it would be safer if Lollia Paulina was dead. She instructed her soldier to kill Lollia Paulina and further instructed to bring the head back. She was satisfied by Lollia Paulina death by the identification of dental alignments and certain distinctive characteristics. It was the first use of dental identification where there is a record.
The first forensic identification in India started in 1193 were Jai Chand, a great Indian monarchy was destroyed by Muhammad's army and Jai Chand, Raja of Kanauji was murdered and he was identified by his false teeth.
Peter Halket was killed in 1758 during French and Indian wars in a battle near Fort Duquesne. Halket son identified his father's skeleton by an artificial tooth.
At the battle for Breed's Hill in Boston, Dr. Joseph Waren was killed in the year 1776. His face was not able to identify as he suffered from a fatal head wound. A dentist, Paul Revere, identified Dr.Warren, dead body by a small denture that he had fabricated for him. The identification made by Paul Revere made it possible to burry Dr. Warren on April 8th, 1776 with a full military honour.
Breed's Hill is a glacial drumlin located in the Charlestown section of Boston, Massachusetts. It is best known as the location where in 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, most of the fighting in the Battle of Bunker Hill took place.

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(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

CG I guess going to dentist in George Washingtons days was a bit of a risky venture .  I have read Paul Revere best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, dabbled in dentistry. He was a Silversmith but when times were hard to help make ends meet he  took up dentistry, a skill set he was taught by a practicing surgeon who lodged at a friend's house. How much training Paul got I wonder. Imagine doing that, thinking times are tough I  will get a friend to teach me  dentistry and I will have a go at  fixing some teeth for those who can afford my services. Paul  Revere's friend and compatriot Joseph Warren was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Because soldiers killed in battle were often buried in mass graves without ceremony, Warren's grave was unmarked. On March 21, 1776, several days after the British army left Boston, Revere, Warren's brothers, and a few friends went to the battlefield and found a grave containing two bodies. After being buried for nine months, Warren's face was unrecognizable, but Revere was able to identify Warren's body because he had placed a false tooth in Warren's mouth, and recognized the wire he had used for fastening it. Warren was given a proper funeral and reburied in a marked grave

1,886

(474 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

TF that young man is magic.to watch and listen to.

1,887

(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Cheer TF first time I have seen a  Jim Unger Herman comic strip I enjoyed that it reminded me of Gary Larson The  Far Side Cartoons.

1,888

(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hi Phill and CG I will attach a short youtube Doco on George Washington teeth.

George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qTWsh9OW3E

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(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hello Mojo the thing that  interests me about paying for a dentist here in New Zealand is health insurance and  dentist cover are two seperate things,  I always think of my teeth as part of my health not a seperate thing.
TIG and Phill this is what I have just found out about George Washington and his teeth after reading your comments.
George Washington (1732–1799) suffered from problems with his teeth throughout his life, and historians have tracked his experiences in great detail.  He lost his first adult tooth when he was twenty-two and had only one left by the time he became president. John Adams says he lost them because he used them to crack Brazil nuts but modern historians suggest the mercury oxide, which he was given to treat illnesses such as smallpox and malaria, probably contributed to the loss. He had several sets of false teeth made, four of them by a dentist named John Greenwood. None of the sets, contrary to popular belief, was made from wood or contained any wood. The set made when he became president was carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs. Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones he purchased from "several unnamed Negroes, presumably Mount Vernon slaves" in 1784. Washington's dental problems left him in constant pain, for which he took laudanum.

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(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Cheers TIG, EB and Phill great to have your input on teeth. I would be interested to hear other peoples stories about teeth also. I was thinking about maybe putting this under poems but then thought it wasn't really a poem so I put it up as a chat.  Here is something I recently read about teeth that interested me. The Battle of Waterloo (1815) saw about 43,500 men killed, most of who were buried in mass graves. Generally young and healthy, their teeth were pulled as part of the interment process. Barrels of teeth flooded the market and were shipped all over the world. British soldiers were expected to care for their teeth because they needed to be able to bite their cartridges open; every second soldier was issued with a toothbrushed to be shared with one other.    In 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.

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(18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Ask For Better Music.
"Hell oh great to see you."
"Grab a seat the Dentist will see you soon ".
"He is running a bit late."
Any doubts I have had about me having an eternity now removed.
A half hour is more than an eternity right now.
A happy smiling person appears out of the dentist room and pays the receptionist.
"Come in sorry about the delay".
A young dental assistant calls out to me.
For many years this use to be a bussiness owned by the same dentist.
It is now owned by a business corporation
"What sort of music would you like to hear?"
In a moment of weakness I say, "anything I'm easy".
Within a few seconds a very annoying tune starts playing softly in the background.
The TV screen on the ceiling with fish floating around not much more comfort.
The word idiot floats into my head you deserve this.
Very grumpy looking man introduces himself as my dentist for today.
Already I can feel the big extraction of funds from my bank account.
Words of my Welsh friend circulating in my head," back home NHS would have paid for this".
The pretty assistant starts singing softly in a not so pretty voice.
Mr Grumpy my name for the dentists asks me questions that I can't answer due to things put in my mouth.
A voice only heard by me in my head yelling hurry up.
"Everything alright."?
I lie and say." yes".
Once again my doubts about eternity removed.
Half an hour in this dentist chair an eternity.
"There is a bit more work to be done please arrange another visit with the receptionist while paying your bill".
A sum of money I don't want to hear comes out of the receptionist mouth and my bank.
I arrange a time for my next appointment thinking next time I will ask for some better music.

1,892

(12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Aliceinwonder, I am not much of a singer or guitar player here is a song I wrote about the frustration of getting the guitar to play. My friend Darcy is playing the guitar. Keep playing you will get there. I hope you keep us all posted on your progress and maybe we will have the priviledge oneday  of hearing your singing and playing on here.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/come-on-guitar

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up. Eric Clapton.

1,893

(42 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Roger you do a great version you should be proud of it .

1,894

(6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Hello Bill great to see you back on here.

1,895

(14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I would love to see more people post on here.

1,896

(6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Miley and the band knocks that one out of the ball park excellent. Another modern artist that has suprised me is Pink singing Me and Bobby Mcgee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmUMvhy-lY

1,897

(5 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Jim I was very close to my father's parents and though many years have past since they died I still feel their presence in my heart. Your song is  beautiful and while reading your lyrics I had this picture in my head of them singing to me your song.

1,898

(10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I was watching Chet Atkins on youtube a while back playing and talking about guitar. He said he loved playing guitar like he did but always wished he had the talent and technique to play in other styles.

1,899

(42 replies, posted in Songwriting)

I like the way your second version rocks. I still think the first one on soundcloud is an excellent track.  To my ears the second one didnt quiet come up to the first one but still a top song.

CSOM great to hear all your covers.