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Piano Man by Billy Joel     

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Did this song (Steamrollar) a few days ago:

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

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Richard     

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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!!!

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Richard     

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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 ..

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Richard     

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Mr Tamborine Man ...     

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

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

at the music club.

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Richard     

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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

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Richard

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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     

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9 Reply by neophytte

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Wild Thing by the Troggs ...     

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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!!

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Richard     

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

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Richard     

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Nice!

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Richard     

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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     

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Jandle wrote:

Really good Richard, all round.  Great performance.  Did you have a portable power pack for the microphone?  And how did you manage to have a moving video whilst you were performing? I liked the wooded surroundings too.

Thanks .. yes, I've bought a variable converter adapter for my tool batteries (Ozito) which powers the desk (18v battery -> 12v input), and that does all the audio, the video is set a fair distance back and I crop it in iMovie and apply a Ken Burns effect to do the heavy lifting between two iPhones on tripods. The set-up / take-down timing varies, but it's about 15-20 minutes each end - when I did the session at Perry's Paddock it took about an hour and a half to arrive, set up, record multiple versions of three songs, and take down again ... I was timing it as I had to get my washing on the line and it's about a 20 min drive from our place.

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Richard

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Grah1 wrote:

Sounds  great Richard

Thank you!!

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Richard     

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Well, this song I recorded has a "good times" vibe about it; this was one of the songs i wrote in 2024 for my album, but performed live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwhFPwo5vr4

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Richard     

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Jandle wrote:

Anyway, Richard thoroughly enjoyed your entry.  I hadn't heard that one before (showing my ignorance once again on musicians).  I will actually go listen to the original of this to compare but without having heard the original and just from listening to your version of it, you did a great job.  I liked your performance all round and think you did a great job.

Thanks, and welcome back!!

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Richard     

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Looking for SUGGESTIONS in MARCH for SONGS about Marching, Military, and anything realted

Once again SUGGESTIONS can be for a COVER or you can write an ORIGINAL.

You know the drill by now.

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There was only one suggestion for a song relating to the theme of Surfing, Skiing and Good Times ... so anything along those lines is acceptable. Write a song, do a cover, what ever yo feel like.

OK, let's see what you all come up with.

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I would (arguably) say that the vocals are the most important instrument of the group; if the songs you are performing are more comfortable in another key, then I'd be talking with the other members and suggest moving key ... as long as you don't need to retrain the drummer!!

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Richard     

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TIGLJK wrote:

Here a recording of a song I wrote a while ago Called Ghost Town  ( Used to be Ghost Town Heart)

https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … ghost-town

Nice tune, but that doesn't sound like your voice??

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Richard     

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I did a version of "Red Pony" by the Triffids, which was a song from their first album "Treeless Plain":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpFp7fwHEaA

Wiki page on the album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeless_Plain

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Richard     

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That was pretty good, is that a Sunos song?

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Richard     

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Sidewalk Surfing ... I think it was Jan and Dean that did that song     

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Happy new year to all!!     

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