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(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

If they enjoy your song - let them, the chances are that they will ignore your request anyway being able to sing is a talent  - use it.

Hey Lockdown sir i'm a picky eater as i don 't eat meat or fish or chicken or eggs and i am a happy person who has a liberal attitude to most things so does this mean i am no longer on your Xmas card list.  I will be very unhappy if i am not.

And lets not forget rugby the national religion and passion of South Africa we do happen to be the world champs right now. Off to your local sports shop you go Jerome to buy yourself a pair of rugby boots - i do know that rugby is played in parts of the USA. Just my two cents worth. dig dig dig

Hey Sanguine it is very obvious that you are still a sprog [kid] because if you had been a teenager in the 60's man o man the liberal atmosphere of the day would have definitely been toooooo much for you. It was the liberal attitudes of the baby boomers that changed many of the old orders way of thinking and going with the flow fixatedness - this is especially true of music. Maybe you should hire the Woodstock dvd and see what being liberal really meant. Did you know that sanguine also means mellow

hey Zurf talking of MagnaCarta do you remember the group of that name who recorded an album called Lord of The Rings - they seemed to have vanished,

Hey Nadine accolades to you on the hunting - for some person to stand hundreds of metres away and then move their finger maybe a millimetre to slaughter some animal is truly pathetic. the laws of cause and effect ie karma never cease to work in other words for the hunters action their will be a reaction to them. Apart from hating hunting the rest of my peeves are shallow and insincere people taxes people being late rap howling wind as in CapeTown's SouthEaster and taxi drivers [uniquely South African] and it goes without saying ANY form of animal cruelty.

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(22 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

Food  pizza   medicine beer wonderful medicinal properties   music i would try to resurrect Elvis and persuade him to come along so that he could sing on demand. If the Elvis thing didn't work out i would take a nylon strung acoustic  the strings tend to last longer. -just in case the island thing lasts longer than expected. To choose only one cd or tape or lp would be impossible too many artists would be offended.

The only improvement on a Beatles song ever was Cocky Joe's version of With A Little Help From MyFriends. The cat is now firmly amongst the pigeons.

I listened  to the times they are a changing a few days ago - prophetic or what. Senor and Forever Young are without a doubt two of the best songs EVER  written .Dylan must rate as the most prophetic and prolific writer/poet of all time. Mr Young is not too shabby either. That's my two cents worth for what it is worth.

A great storey but from a long time ago as both of the Adamsons have been deceased for many years. It is truly sad to see the conditions in which the parent lions live. Hopefully that excuse for a zoo has passed off into history and been shut down. My wife and i have both been VERY close to wild lions on a three day  walk in the  Kruger National Park and also in Botswana sleeping in an unfenced totally open camp this is where one can truly appreciate their magnificence and know that the only place where they belong is in the wild. Well done Roger  it was a ''good for the soul storey.''

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(15 replies, posted in Music theory)

A bit more birthday trivia. My mother her sister and my birthday are all on the 2nd of June. Happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday it gets confusing.

hey dino green onions is a definite MAXvolume tune. Did you know that it is based on a blues song called Help Me by Sonny Boy Williamson-gotta go SWAMBO is calling.

it's  only rock and roll  sympathy for the devil stones  whole lotta luv stairway led zep  hey joe purple haze hendrix  twist and shout beatles  forever young dylan  my generation the who  child in time deep purple to be played at MAXvolume  i'm in love with my car queen  freebird skynyrd  iron man sabbath  holy mother clapton and last but not least APACHE by the shadows so i'm giving my age away but my favourite instrumental of all time. Let's not forget Move It by cliff [richard] The comment about wives and volume is definitely a universal problem and claiming to be hearing impaired [surfers ear] doesn't get much sympathy.

Aged Rockstars. A few months ago Jethro Tull toured South Africa. At the Cape Town concert Ian Anderson stopped the band during the intro to a song and told the audience to stop whisteling and stomping as it hurt his ears. the audience was dumbstruck. Halfway thru the next song he threw a total wobbly and stormed off stage. The band did'nt know what to do and after the bewilderment left - so did they. Their next concert in Durban was cancelled - due to poor ticket sales and at the following concert in Johannesburg Anderson came on first to tell the audience that he wanted no clapping, or noise at all. This arrogant washed up old pensioner should be in an old age home - I wonder if anyone else has ever experienced anything like this. Two weeks later foreigner played the same venue and brought the house down - the way it should be done.

I am 61 and make a noise in my music room at home every once in a while we live on a farm in Philadelphia just outside  Cape Town. Iam self taught and like electric and acoustic -my fan base sadly consists only of my 8 dogs. Musically i listen to everything except trance house and rap - just not my cup of tea. One of the highlightes of my travels was going to the Bath festival in 1970 and seeing the most all time far out and groovy rock groups ever. Peter Green with John Mayall and Pink Floyd were incredible. Led Zep were the main act - so to the cat who says he shreds like Jimmy Page - Iwonder? Keep on rocking and remember that animals feel pain too.

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(43 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

hey Roger are you SURE that you were born in 1947 didn;t your Mama ever tell you that flame throwers are DANGEROUS. I am glad to hear that you are OK tho' it's taken me quite a while to stop larfing. It sounds like a MontyPython skit.As for your hair long short thick or thin at 61 who cares. Keep on rocking. and remember that animals feel pain too.

Greetings to all especially Longboarder and the good Doctor Phil it would seem that we are all water babes of a fashion my surfing started in 1965-how'sthat for being keen or crazy depending on your point of view. To roger guppy 1947 was indeed a good year. I am sure that something monumental must have happened  other than our grand arrival. But enuff waffling on a far more serious note i must say that i really enjoy the site and find it MOST helpfull especially to someone who has one finger and nine thumbs. And remember animals feel pain too.

Hi all i have just turned 61 and celebrated by going to Jeffreys Bay, for 2 weeks of surfing by day and much finger blistering by night. two mates, 3 guitars and many frosties. With that useless bit of information i'll say cheers. Keep on rockin'. Buvvy Cape Town, South Africa.