Topic: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Anything goes month, so anything goes!!! We had an extensive list of suggestions over in the suggestions topic, you can do any of those, or anything you desire.

I'm personally looking forward to @Grah1 doing "Another girl, another planet", but you can do anything ... so tighten those strings back into tune, give a burst of air to your tuning pipes, and let's get cracking:

Ready, set ... GO!! 

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Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

To get things going, here are a couple of my songs some friends and I worked on:

Spider in a tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7lwfmfNFM

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrtarwVX1c

Enjoy

Richard     

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Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

well you said anything goes ,so here it is.
ive made heaps of mistakes on purpose so know one will think its Ai.
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/370-govt-man     

The King Of Audio Torture

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

neophytte wrote:

To get things going, here are a couple of my songs some friends and I worked on:

Spider in a tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7lwfmfNFM

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrtarwVX1c

Enjoy

Richard

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

easybeat,  good lyrics in this song and very true, not everyone is cut out to be a Govt man, pencil pusher.   Thankfully we have people on the tools as well smile     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

As for me I am out of action for a while, broke my arm last Thursday, so in a cast for 6 weeks.  So will have to sit back and enjoy listening to your performances and comment (type) with my non writing hand.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

easybeat wrote:

well you said anything goes ,so here it is.
ive made heaps of mistakes on purpose so know one will think its Ai.
https://soundcloud.com/rough-as-gut/370-govt-man

That was pretty good, in a lot of places your guitar playing seems to me to be better than I remember .. more confident and solid!

Cheers

Richard     

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Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
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Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:

To get things going, here are a couple of my songs some friends and I worked on:

Spider in a tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7lwfmfNFM

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrtarwVX1c

Enjoy

Richard

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.

Thanks!! A while ago I traded my Zoom R24 recorder up to a Zoom L-12 recorder (you can see it on the desk in front of me in a few songs), which allows me to record tracks individually - so the guitar is on one track, the vocals on one track, the keyboards on one track - then I run it through Logic and tweak each track and balance everything out. It's a bit of a process, but something I enjoy playing around with ...
https://zoomcorp.com/media/original_images/L12_top.png.768x0_q60.png

For the video, I've just got two iPhones on stands; when I've completed the audio as above, I drop that and the two iPhone videos into iMovie and use some Ken Burns effects and cross blur and things like that ... it's another thing that you get better at the more you use it. 

Cheers

Richard     

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
YouTube         https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMortimerMusic

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Grah1 wrote:

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

The newer one was pretty good (had a good sound for what looks like a phone only video), but the pub looks pretty empty ...

For the older one, were you using backing tapes or a looper??

I was chatting with someone the other day and I'd forgotten I'd put this up a while ago from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVnirXS … ;index=108

Cheers

Richard     

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
YouTube         https://www.youtube.com/@RichardMortimerMusic

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

JAN

OH NO !!!

Hope your arm recovers quickly and you are not in much pain.
Glad you will be still checking in, always enjoy your feedback !

Jim     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

richard  the  old  vid   was using  prerecorded  loops  into  a boss  rc3 and  the  second  one   is  on a  zoom   camera  ,The  pub  is  a  huge   building   and  the  the  area    we  were  in  makes  a  great   stage    it  was  acually  quite  busy    but  it  was  a  lunch  time  gig  so  not  packed     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Grah1 wrote:

richard  the  old  vid   was using  prerecorded  loops  into  a boss  rc3

I wish I was that imaginative, I just did solo guitar strumming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIy4B2SPLvM

Grah1 wrote:

  the  second  one   is  on a  zoom   camera  ,The  pub  is  a  huge   building   and  the  the  area    we  were  in  makes  a  great   stage    it  was  acually  quite  busy    but  it  was  a  lunch  time  gig  so  not  packed

Cool - camera illusion ...

Cheers

Richard     

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Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
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Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

your  solo  strumming  sounds  great  Richard     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Grah1 wrote:

your  solo  strumming  sounds  great  Richard

Thanks - that was long ago!

Cheers

Richard     

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Discogs          https://www.discogs.com/release/29065579
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Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

neophytte wrote:
Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:

To get things going, here are a couple of my songs some friends and I worked on:

Spider in a tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7lwfmfNFM

Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrtarwVX1c

Enjoy

Richard

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.

Thanks!! A while ago I traded my Zoom R24 recorder up to a Zoom L-12 recorder (you can see it on the desk in front of me in a few songs), which allows me to record tracks individually - so the guitar is on one track, the vocals on one track, the keyboards on one track - then I run it through Logic and tweak each track and balance everything out. It's a bit of a process, but something I enjoy playing around with ...
https://zoomcorp.com/media/original_images/L12_top.png.768x0_q60.png

For the video, I've just got two iPhones on stands; when I've completed the audio as above, I drop that and the two iPhone videos into iMovie and use some Ken Burns effects and cross blur and things like that ... it's another thing that you get better at the more you use it. 

Cheers

Richard

Oh how I wish I lived closer to you neophytte, to learn about all this stuff from you.  I am such a novice with all this stuff.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Grah1 wrote:

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo


Nice Grah, partculary liked the one with your mates in Lancaster.     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

neophytte wrote:
Grah1 wrote:

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

The newer one was pretty good (had a good sound for what looks like a phone only video), but the pub looks pretty empty ...

For the older one, were you using backing tapes or a looper??

I was chatting with someone the other day and I'd forgotten I'd put this up a while ago from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVnirXS … ;index=108

Cheers

Richard

neophytte, sound quality was of the era, but I totally got the vibe smile  Wish I had gotten into music when I was younger rather than in my more mature years lol, wonder where it would have led .......     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

TIGLJK wrote:

JAN

OH NO !!!

Hope your arm recovers quickly and you are not in much pain.
Glad you will be still checking in, always enjoy your feedback !

Jim

Thanks TIGLJK, thankfully no surgery required (which at one stage the Drs were talking about).  So halfway to recovery and cast taken off.  Then the hand technician (as they call them these days) to help with recovery.  I am missing playing but this too shall pass and I hopefully will be back with a vengence smile     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Grah1 wrote:

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much

Thanks Grah, cracked ribs are worse than the broken bones in my arm.  But thankfully, ribs are on the mend.  I can now get in and out of bed without pain!     

Laugh Lots ... Forgive Much ...  Love one another     smile
Covers and some Originals found over there    ------- >    https://soundcloud.com/ukulelejan

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Cracked  ribs   are  awful  I  have experienced  them twice  so  I  understand , take it  easy  and  get  well .     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Jandle wrote:
Grah1 wrote:

jan  get  well   soon    hope  it  doesnt  hurt  too  much

Thanks Grah, cracked ribs are worse than the broken bones in my arm.  But thankfully, ribs are on the mend.  I can now get in and out of bed without pain!

Wishing you a quick recovery Jan.     

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:
Jandle wrote:

I loved both of these neophytte.  You nailed them both.  The spider one we have heard b4 and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time, probably more.  In both, the visual ambience added to them.   What were you using on the second song to change the vocals?  What camera are you using to film as it scans around the room?  Very affective and adds to the total performance.

Thanks!! A while ago I traded my Zoom R24 recorder up to a Zoom L-12 recorder (you can see it on the desk in front of me in a few songs), which allows me to record tracks individually - so the guitar is on one track, the vocals on one track, the keyboards on one track - then I run it through Logic and tweak each track and balance everything out. It's a bit of a process, but something I enjoy playing around with ...

For the video, I've just got two iPhones on stands; when I've completed the audio as above, I drop that and the two iPhone videos into iMovie and use some Ken Burns effects and cross blur and things like that ... it's another thing that you get better at the more you use it. 

Cheers

Richard

Oh how I wish I lived closer to you neophytte, to learn about all this stuff from you.  I am such a novice with all this stuff.

YouTube is a great source of info these days, even when I had the R24 there was a bunch of "how to's" for it .. the rest is experimentation ...

Jandle wrote:
neophytte wrote:
Grah1 wrote:

Anything  go's heres  one    from todays  gig in Lancaster  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzM4ZV9fr8
and  one  from 10yrs  ago  for  Richard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkicwMwuCPo

The newer one was pretty good (had a good sound for what looks like a phone only video), but the pub looks pretty empty ...

For the older one, were you using backing tapes or a looper??

I was chatting with someone the other day and I'd forgotten I'd put this up a while ago from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVnirXS … ;index=108

Cheers

Richard

neophytte, sound quality was of the era, but I totally got the vibe smile  Wish I had gotten into music when I was younger rather than in my more mature years lol, wonder where it would have led .......

You'd be sucking back on your Pina Colada in your multi-million dollar mansion, of course!!

Cheers

Richard

-[ Musician, writer, guitarist, singer ]-
Bandcamp     https://richardmortimer.bandcamp.com/follow_me
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25 (edited by TIGLJK 2025-11-01 14:04:54)

Re: October 2025 - FSOTM - "Anything goes" ...

OK - sorry I missed October but here is a song I wrote. 
This pretty much is about my wife and I  smile
I am going to post under songwriting as well - I hope its ok.

Love’s Odyssey By Jim Kenyon


Verse 1:




[G]Hearts untamed and [D]wild with fire,


[Em] Promises whispered [C]through the night,


[G]Dreams as endless as a [D] heart’s desire.


[Em]Coming to life into the [C]morning light




.




Verse 2


.






[G]We fought and mended, [D]laughed and cried


[Em]Time can bruise the [C] strongest hearts,


[G]Through every tear we’ve [D]had in our eyes,


[Em]We found the spark where [C] healing starts.


.


Chorus


.


[G]Love is like an odyssey, [D]not always smooth or kind,


[C]But my heart’s always been yours, [G] and yours mine.


[Em]I got you, and you got me,[D] together on this ride,


[C]The winds, they may change, but we stand[D] side by side.


[G] After all these years, it’s still just[D] you and me,


[C]Forever bound together… [G] on love’s odyssey


.


Verse 3


.


[G]It wasn’t always easy, but it [D] was always right


[Em]Through every doubt, we [C]never wondered why


[G] With hearts entwined beneath[D] the starry night



[Em]we know after all this time, it’s still[C] just you and I


.


Chorus


.


[G]Love is like an odyssey, [D]not always smooth or kind,


[C]But my heart’s always been yours, [G] and yours mine.


[Em]I got you, and you got me,[D] together on this ride,


[C]The winds, they may change, but we stand[D] side by side.


[G] After all these years, it’s still just[D] you and me,


[C]Forever bound together… [G] on love’s odyssey


.


Bridge


.


[Em]Through every storm, we’ve [C] found our way


[G] Together, stronger, [D] each and every day


[Em] Through darkest nights and [C] the brightest skies


[G]Our love remains forever, [D] it will never die


.


Final Chorus


.


[G]Love is like an odyssey, [D]not always smooth or kind,


[C]But my heart’s always been yours, [G] and yours mine.


[Em]I got you, and you got me,[D] together on this ride,


[C]The winds, they may change, but we stand[D] side by side.


[G] After all these years, it’s still just[D] you and me,


[C]Forever bound together… [G] on love’s odyssey


.


.


[C]Forever bound together… [G] on love’s odyssey.


[C]Forever bound together… [G] on love’s odyssey.



The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke