So heart warming, well done Roger. I think the Mr Nice Guy title 2016 should go to.......
2,401 2016-04-07 18:44:22
Re: EXTRA! EXTRA! Roger Calls My Wife And Doesn't Ask To Speak To ME!!! :) (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
2,402 2016-04-05 18:52:11
Re: Dear Chordie Family (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi Bill, so glad to hear Dondra is doing better, condolences for the cat. Best wishes to you both from the Welsh connection.
2,403 2016-04-05 18:44:24
Re: Electric guitar plug-in tuner for an electric (9 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
i have a tuner named "qwick tuner" that i find good and has in and out plugs, but i wouldn't advise it for stage work. i prefer to use a pedal (they all seem to come with built in tuners these days) which is a boss ME 50. i have a digitech vocalist 2 which also has a tuner and i use this one on stage. i recently bought a clip on tuner which cost just £5 including postage which i use mainly for my acoustics but also works fine for tuning after string changes on my telecaster and bass guitar.
2,404 2016-04-03 15:52:36
Re: Radio Broadcast (16 replies, posted in My local band and me)
hi grah, as i didn't see this till sunday i missed the broadcast! enjoyed the track and hope it does well for you and the band
2,405 2016-04-03 15:45:40
Re: Video of my song { Faith In Love } (12 replies, posted in My local band and me)
hi jim, very touching performance and so professional. they sing so well together. but it's also to do with how the song is written and IMHO you are one of the best writers on chordie. very well done, thanks for sharing and keep on doing what you do so well.
2,406 2016-04-03 15:42:04
Re: Amazing Freddy Mercury (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Agree 100%. He was brilliant.
On a lighter note http://youtu.be/nwN6dPNXklg
just goes to prove anyone can sing....but singing in tune is reserved for the truly talented
2,407 2016-04-03 15:39:16
Re: Amazing Freddy Mercury (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
it's great to see how proper musicians and writers do it and the process by which they got together to arrange and record their songs. i'd watch stuff like this all day long. big thanks.
2,408 2016-03-31 19:43:41
Re: Under The Bridge (7 replies, posted in Poems)
as i read i envisioned a high bridge with iron work so the graphite ist could have a platform to work from. then after thinking about it for a while i thought it might be a low bridge? so he could work from ground level.
very deep and very sad and most of all, well observed
2,409 2016-03-29 18:50:39
Re: Pics from the last show (10 replies, posted in My local band and me)
GREAT PICS. i used to have a poopyface till the wife kept laughing at me, that was when we were still courting, she doesn't come to gigs anymore so who knows i may still be poopy facing?
just had a giggle at the spellcheck, it allows "poopyface," but not "poopyfacing"....go figure?
2,410 2016-03-28 19:30:48
Re: Girlfriends (41 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi jim. wow another hard hitting social song. you've put the whole thing together and into an entertaining piece of music.
grah's take on it is also great so well done to you both. love the bluesy feel, grah.
2,411 2016-03-28 19:12:20
Re: What has happened? (18 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
since i joined...well a while ago, the one thing i have noticed is that weekends from friday, seem to get very few posts. i guess that means that people are busier on fridays?
my daughter is on FB and some other sites and her phone is peeping every couple of seconds! what i'd like to know is why do people think the rest of the world need to know when they've gone to the shop for a loaf of bread? (that's not what i was going to put here but it is cleaner
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2,412 2016-03-28 19:01:45
Re: Betty is dressed out (11 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)
beautiful artwork, sound to match?
2,413 2016-03-28 18:59:18
Re: Guitar first for me. (12 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
nice one rog, i had a go at two in swansea last year, the black and white (lennon) and same as you've got there, which is the one i preferred, but it had probs with the jack switch which crackled. i told them about it but i lost interest so i didn't go back. i almost bought a violin bass (mccartney) in liverpool at the beatles museum, it was £1000, the wife said have it (it was my 60th birthday) but sanity prevailed. they are a players guitar.
ps, they were all lefties!
2,414 2016-03-24 20:08:16
Re: reunion (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
very touching mojo, please keep safe. TF makes a good point; why not use both? great recording too, your voice and guitar go well together. like all great songs; it reminds you of something but you cant place it....well done.
condolences for your friend, that's the second one this week on chordie, and three people that i know locally.
2,415 2016-03-22 20:00:26
Re: Hey Mum (12 replies, posted in Poems)
hey Jandle, such a tearjerking thought that you've made into a poem. it's such a sad subject but i know scientists are working to find a cure, maybe it will come but too late for your mum, and for that i am so sorry.
i know the feeling; you had thoughts running around your head and like a true composer you wrote them down.
well done and thanks for sharing.
phill
2,416 2016-03-21 20:28:12
Re: new song : MY WORLD (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi jim, this is a lovely song. i played it through before listening to your recording and i wasn't that far out. if you don't mind i will send you a couple of chord changes (which you can throw out) just to give you an idea of how i hear it.
great song ji, you just keep getting better
phill
2,417 2016-03-21 20:16:41
Re: Problem Cure (6 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i showed that to my wife and she said if i hit her with my guitar i wont have another one! so i just say "yes dear" problem solved!
2,418 2016-03-21 20:10:05
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks TF, i also love all the above, it's just fitting them in....
2,419 2016-03-21 20:08:33
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi peatle. thanks for the listen and comments.
the williams family funerals tend to go;
stage 1, all sombre, crying etc.
stage 2, back to a family members house for tea and sarnies.
stage 3, someone breaks out the wobblypops and then the funny stories of the deceased's life, the jokes and celebration begins.
stage 4, cant remember..... ![]()
2,420 2016-03-18 23:24:56
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
the thing that erks me about reggae is the crap recording and the "do as you please" attitude on them. this is so good which i suppose is the exception that proves the rule. thanks russ
2,421 2016-03-18 21:32:46
Re: 30 Years Of Tears (12 replies, posted in My local band and me)
loving the raunchy voice there Russ. i've never heard of this one before either, i have come back and listened a few times and i'm getting to like it. are you playing all the instruments cos i can hear a slide and keyboards and a great sound on the acoustic. looking forward to your new track when it's done.
phill
2,422 2016-03-18 21:14:43
Re: brothers of the PUI (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
just listened to the song and watched the vid, looks like a lot of fun, are we to take it that there was a rollover accident? hope everything is OK.
2,423 2016-03-18 21:07:14
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hi Russ, how you diddling my old mate? It's funny how others hear things in your songs that you cant see or hear yourself? Reggae never occurred to me. I'm sorry I've never heard of Lucky Dooby, sounds like something someone dropped outside a wacky backy shop in Amsterdam ![]()
2,424 2016-03-18 21:03:13
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hi Jim. The first line was in my head for a few days before the chord sequence struck me. I was thinking of Maggie May kind of rhythm and a song called If I Could See The Rhondda Once Again by David Alexander which is about a Welshman who lives in Australia and wants to go back home before he dies. And yes the shadow of the reaper seems to be creeping ever closer.
2,425 2016-03-18 20:55:17
Re: Take Me Back Home (19 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Dino, I had a gig this afternoon and I was keeping my voice, hence no multi tracking or harmonies