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Topic: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Here we are in JUNE, this month`s FSOTM is ROCK.  Anything ROCK!

Sorry about the delay getting this month’s FSOTM up, Chordie had a problem and was not up and running properly but is now, whew!

So, some songs that have been suggested for this month of JUNE are listed below:

ROCK N ROLL IS WHERE I HIDE – Dave Graney n the Coral Snakes

Also some songs that have been suggested and performed already by members for this MONTH of JUNE for ROCK are listed below:

SUPERNAUT – Black Sabbath
Grah1     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_D96fIvUA4
STRAIGHT UP – Paula Abdul
Grah1     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCROcRQjls
HERE COMES THE RAIN – Annie Lennox and David A Stewart
neophytte  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHNZ8ZPgCnA

Looking forward to hearing any ROCK songs that you may like, love and want to perform for us.  There are so many ROCK songs to choose from out there.  Also, you may have written an ORIGINAL ROCK song that you would like to perform for us or want someone else to try and perform.
 
Feel free to perform any of the suggested or already preformed songs above.

READY, SET, GO!!! 

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Putting this here ...

TIGLJK wrote:

I wanted to comment on Richards performance - thought it was his best one I have heard- really enjoyed here comes the rain !

Richard

your voicing on this  song is awesome  - fits you perfectly !

https://youtu.be/AHNZ8ZPgCnA   

I hope others give it a listen

Jim

Thanks!! I thought it was better than the last time I did it, but still see some room for improvement!

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Probably   my  favourite  rock  song  ever  Another  Girl Another  Planet  originaly  by  the  Only  Ones  .This  was   the Kendal  festival  about  9  yrs  ago  , I'd just  survived  a serious  opperation    and  this  was  my  first  gig   after  I'd  recovered .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo     

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Grah1 wrote:

Probably   my  favourite  rock  song  ever  Another  Girl Another  Planet  originaly  by  the  Only  Ones  .This  was   the Kendal  festival  about  9  yrs  ago  , I'd just  survived  a serious  opperation    and  this  was  my  first  gig   after  I'd  recovered .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

Nice!!

This is a Deep Purple song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2NpVyEAm9Y

and a rock song I wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSImkGNB9Ls

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Good  stuff  Richard  ,the  band  sound  great .Do  you  ever   get  together  now ?     

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Grah1 wrote:

Probably   my  favourite  rock  song  ever  Another  Girl Another  Planet  originaly  by  the  Only  Ones  .This  was   the Kendal  festival  about  9  yrs  ago  , I'd just  survived  a serious  opperation    and  this  was  my  first  gig   after  I'd  recovered .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

Really good performance Grah, nicely done.     

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

neophytte, the cover of ~One More Rainy Day~ was really good, you covered with well with your own style, enjoyed it.

~Fiction Love~, you and the band totally performed your song like a Rock band should and it was great to watch and listen.  I did struggle to hear the lyrics though but maybe that my hearing lol.     

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Grah1 wrote:

Good  stuff  Richard  ,the  band  sound  great .Do  you  ever   get  together  now ?

No, there was talk of a "reunion", but it never eventuated. I still keep in contact with the guitarist (mostly) and have chatted with the drummer on FB, and probably the keyboardist at some stage, all three are still quite heavily involved in the local music scene, more so than me!

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neophytte, the cover of ~One More Rainy Day~ was really good, you covered with well with your own style, enjoyed it.

~Fiction Love~, you and the band totally performed your song like a Rock band should and it was great to watch and listen.  I did struggle to hear the lyrics though but maybe that my hearing lol.

Thanks - trying to use the two cameras again to get a bit of motion happening, rather than just the single camera I've been using.

The song Fiction Love was recorded on a hand-held digi-cam of the 90's - the pub atmosphere isn't really conducive to getting a good recording, I was just happy that we got some of our performances on video as we played quite a few places, including some country gigs. I was also happy that it was the whole song, as the video operator was the guitarists wife, and she tended to record snippets of songs before going back to drinking and/or dancing.

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Fiction Love sounded real good. I agree w Jan though, voice was not heard that great - maybe that's because its ROCK !!
What was the guitar that you were playing - real interesting and unique shape.
Keyboard player was excellent.  Drummer was not visible too much, but hit the skins just fine!
Congrats on a very cool performance!
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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Graham
Another Girl Another Planet
What a wonderful cover of that song.
Voice and guitar playing were superb !
I could tell you really loved playing it - your body language and ease gave it away.

I wish I could time travel and go back to when all you guys on here were young and out playing in pubs - be real cool to see and have a beer with all of you!. Thanks for a glimpse!

Cheers,
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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Jim  I  still  play  in pubs  and  festivals   got  two   biggies  coming  up   Kendal  jun21 and Cockermouth july  6  then  one  of  my  favorites  the  Ilkley  live    on the12th     

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TIGLJK wrote:

Richard

Fiction Love sounded real good. I agree w Jan though, voice was not heard that great - maybe that's because its ROCK !!
What was the guitar that you were playing - real interesting and unique shape.
Keyboard player was excellent.  Drummer was not visible too much, but hit the skins just fine!
Congrats on a very cool performance!
Jim

Thanks - we did it quite a while ago, 90's tech with poor video recording, but we did lay down this track, which I remastered a couple of years ago here:

https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/track/fiction-love

I was on bass, it's a Honer B2A:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hohner+ … &udm=2

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Roxanne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkSNOCD7EI

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Here is that song I wrote  called face to face.

https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … -to-face-1     

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Jim  thats  a good  song  and  they  sang  it  well  Richard  your  version of  Roxanne  is  excellent    I  like  the  way  you  have  interpreted it .     

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TIGLJK wrote:

Here is that song I wrote  called face to face.

https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … -to-face-1

That's a pretty good song (and could possibly be used for the upcoming "Country" FSOTM, which I think is next month)!!

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Richard  your  version of  Roxanne  is  excellent    I  like  the  way  you  have  interpreted it .

Thank you!!

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Roxanne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkSNOCD7EI

Cheers

Richard

NIcely covered neophytte, you made it your own, nice ambience with the candle too.     

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TIGLJK wrote:

Here is that song I wrote  called face to face.

https://soundcloud.com/james-kenyon-997 … -to-face-1

Absolutely loved this one TIGLJK, your best yet.  The lyrics are great, the singers awesome and the music is fantastic with it.  Can't fault it.  It has both a Rock and Country sound.     

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Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:

Roxanne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkSNOCD7EI

Cheers

Richard

NIcely covered neophytte, you made it your own, nice ambience with the candle too.

Thanks!!

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Re: JUNE 2025 FSOTM – ROCK

Another rock song I wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBp8NRrThA

Or the non-video version is here:

https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/track/that-night

Bass, drums and guitar were recorded from a jam onto an 8 track analog recorder in the 90's sometime, with the song being chopped up and adding vocal and effects in 2023. My brother and I worked on this song a long time ago, it's changed a lot since the original deep synth version.

That Night - Richard Mortimer

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Sounds  great  Richard   shame  we are  9084 miles  apart  would  be  good  to  play  together .     

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Little farther for me - 9893 miles  smile     

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Another rock song I wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBp8NRrThA

Or the non-video version is here:

https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/track/that-night

Bass, drums and guitar were recorded from a jam onto an 8 track analog recorder in the 90's sometime, with the song being chopped up and adding vocal and effects in 2023. My brother and I worked on this song a long time ago, it's changed a lot since the original deep synth version.

That Night - Richard Mortimer

Cheers

Richard

Really good neophytte, the whole package put together is great.  Have you posted this previously? I feel like I have watched this one before?  Anyway, it was worth watching again if you have smile     

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Grah1 wrote:

Sounds  great  Richard   shame  we are  9084 miles  apart  would  be  good  to  play  together .

Thank you - yes, it would be, but I'm not sure you could hear my amp from that distance, even if I turned it up wink

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Richard
Little farther for me - 9893 miles  smile

I guess you definately wouldn't hear my amp smile

Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:

Another rock song I wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBp8NRrThA

Or the non-video version is here:

https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/track/that-night

Bass, drums and guitar were recorded from a jam onto an 8 track analog recorder in the 90's sometime, with the song being chopped up and adding vocal and effects in 2023. My brother and I worked on this song a long time ago, it's changed a lot since the original deep synth version.

That Night - Richard Mortimer

Cheers

Richard

Really good neophytte, the whole package put together is great.  Have you posted this previously? I feel like I have watched this one before?  Anyway, it was worth watching again if you have smile

Thanks - I think I may have, as I tend to post links multiple times ...

A different bands version of the same song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH4fNjQt8Cg

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Definitely the ROCK vibe going on in that one Richard, awesome.  Vocals were hard to hear though on this one.  Different band to the original? they performed well.     

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