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Peatle Jville wrote:

Check this out is it a Bass Fish or a Bass Guitar?       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSY6mtqQDI

That was pretty good, but Mr Beato always is!

Cheers

Richard     

Peatle Jville wrote:

Jim and Richard good on you both for putting your talents out there.

Thanks!!

easybeat wrote:

Neo
thats the one i enjoyed most off your cd.

Thanks! That song has been around for a while, I think that was written in my second band, and has gone through a few different variations of people playing it, but it's stayed basically the same ... here's a version from 30 years ago (the audio is v. bad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAXaFVpKMs

Jandle wrote:

Good performance on both of those Richard, well done.  Nice easy listening.

Thank you for listening!!

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

Here are what came up for me on Random Word Generator.
Isolation
Disappointment
Hear
Aluminium

In isolation, I hear disappointment in Aluminium ... smile

My words were:

lump
impound
mushroom
sodium

Cheers

Richard     

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I believe you have to think about AI music in the context that it's written for, and the environment you're in. We, as musicians, listen to music in a different way to other people do, so - think about a crowded restaurant where there is lively conversation going on, and some background music ... you're not really thinking about the music, but it registers in the background and gives you the right vibes for eating and talking ... in those situations AI will do well, the music is not a focal point of the night - but, if you're going out to hear a band play, then you don't want to sit in front of a PC with other people and watch it make it's 0's and 1's into music ....

I remember back in the 80's or 90's when I first got into multi-tracking and a friend quipped some remark about how using the multi-track was 'cheating' as we couldn't reproduce the sounds live ... every new technology is a tool that we can use - the problem is the same with cameras. I studied photography in school with analog/film cameras - learning about composition and the rule of thirds etc, film wasn't cheap, so you had to use a roll of film to the best of your ability, now with a digital camera attached to the phone, anybody can take 100 different photos of the same thing and pick out the best of the 100 and throw out the rest. Law of averages says you will get one good photo from those 100 ... the same with AI music, there will be one good song in 100, but it's wading through all the 99 other songs to find the good one.

BTW I tried some AI "song -> video" website and they produced these two videos for my music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTECwT8uP4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuIGwP-1tVk

Cheers

Richard     

How about Tiny Dancer that talks about the piano man, and also she sings the sings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsBM8OOadE

And my song Gypsy Fair which has a line about the Gypsy's roving band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6rlN-6HQA

Cheers

Richard

Pretty much anything by Bob Dylan is a protest song, The times they are a changin' or Knocking on heavens door, and even Like a rolling stone

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

On a side note....  We (hubby and me) were watching something on You Tube the other night and your video came up on the side as it does with videos we have watched.  My hubby says to me, "hey I saw those signs the other day when I was in the city".  I laughed and told him, that you written and performed this song and would have photographed those signs when you were in the city because you do that and sometime that you interview different people in the streets of Wellington City and you must have used them for your song.

I've got to add that I enjoy Peatles videos as they give us a raw and honest look at some people and areas that we wouldn't always see ... hope that makes sense!

Cheers

Richard     

Peatle Jville wrote:

Cheers Richard, thanks for having a listen.  You picked a nice setting to perform Valarie and the sound was also good on it.

Thanks!

Cheers

Richard     

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Sounds like you are going through a rough time, hope things get better soon ...

Cheers

Richard     

Peatle Jville wrote:

I don't play my guitar much nowadays but in the spirit of helping to keep this platform going I dusted of my guitar and recorded this simple song I wrote in the hope it will encourage others to have a go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMUVFWJVhDM

That was pretty good Peatle ... quite enjoyed it!

I did "Valerie" at the Pines a couple of months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWc8UIoj6k

Cheers

Richard     

easybeat wrote:

https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/muffin-break-cafe
anything goes how about a coffee

That was pretty good, tried to leave a comment on SoundCloud and couldn't ... sounds somewhat like a jingle ....

Cheers

Richard     

TIGLJK wrote:

Richard

That was awesome !

Jim

Thanks, we also did All along the watchtower, but my microphone was recorded too high which causes distortion on the vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvC4DzDYKPM

Cheers

Richard     

Piano Man by Billy Joel     

Did this song (Steamrollar) a few days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Y7gOYX9BA

Cheers

Richard     

Grah1 wrote:

Hi  Richard
                    Ben our   bass  player records  every  gig  and  rehearsal  with  a  zoom   recorder/camera   . Basicaly  tosee  where  weve messed  up  LOL This  was  only  the  second  full gig  since    October  25  ,due  to  my  health  issues    we have   another  7  booked  so  far    plus  a couple  of   solo  ones   each   .   .Its  hard  to    book regular   gigs  at  the  moment   as   Jim our  drummer   is  touring  with  Gaelforce a  very  successful   uk  folk  rock band    for  most  of  the  year    and  is  allready   booked  into  27 . So  we  have  to  work  around  him .

Wow, that's going to be a lot of recordings to go through!!!

Cheers

Richard     

Grah1 wrote:

Heres  one  from   yesterdays  gig  the  band  stand  at  ilkley
Lou  Reeds  Wating for  the  man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKI7X3W … mp;index=1
A damp  day   but  fun all  the  same   . For best experience   please  turn everything   upto  max or  wear  head phones  and  then  turn every  thing  to  max

Left a comment on YouTube .. are you getting the audio from the phone too? it's quite good quality ..

Cheers

Richard     

Mr Tamborine Man ...     

I did one of my songs from my CD Prelude to Solitude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYalkrLDV4

at the music club.

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

Richard, good to see the difference in both your versions of Captain Kennedy, it's a neat song to perform isn't it.

Looking for a Hero song, well done to you all.  It would have been fun getting the band back together for you all, going down memory lane.  Great you had another song writer in the band as well.

Thanks - we got together one more time after this, as we had a female vocalist for some of the time, but the guy who did our sound and video couldn't make that one ... I got some audio, but the video was on a tripod and didn't get all of us ... anyway, yes, he wrote a few other tracks and helped write my song "Gypsy Fair" ...

TIGLJK wrote:

Can you post the lyrics ? there were a couple of lines that were hard to discern.

Sure: 

https://i.imgur.com/dQkr4NP.jpeg

Cheers

Richard

Also an original we did Looking for a Hero, Greg (the guy in the blue shirt) wrote this one .. and we were a bit out of practice ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9KAjFOjJB0

Enjoy!

Richard     

Wild Thing by the Troggs ...     

Here is an old version of Captain Kennedy that's pretty rough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4hW2sk490

Slightly different to your version @jandle ... mine was 8 years ago!!

Cheers

Richard     

We're still in March for anyone wanting to enter a song ... ?

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Richard     

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Nice!

Cheers

Richard     

Jandle wrote:

Some suggestions ....
Captain Kennedy - Neil Young

I did that one live at the music club a couple of years ago - I forgot (or broke?) my tripod and the phone is on the floor doing video ... I remember being relieved that no-one had accidentally kicked it while recording ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rgou0OTiM

Cheers

Richard