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Cheers Piri and Jim for thank you your kind comments. That recording was made back around about 2009. Piri the guitarist he was real good player and so was his brother who played  the bass on there. I can't play the piano and keyboards like that now as I don't have dexterity in my fingers anymore. In hindsight I wish I had given the sax player a bit more to play but the trumpet player and drummer picked it up real good. The sound engineer was bang on and made it sound better than what it was. The painting of a beach was done by Nancy Doughty who was a teacher and artist who also was my Aunty. PJ  Shutlar is a local who I know very well it is the name I use do my art under.

Grah your band playing with just those two guitars and a Cajon with vocals sounded good. I guess doing it like that would be less gear to cart around to the gig easier setup and so on???     

Piri when I was a kid I use to do a bit of the Mamas and Papas California Dreaming in my head. By the time I had grown up and I had actually got to California those American girls were the last thing on my mind. Though I did go out with a Texas Gal for a little while many years back she was a bit of fun and also not what she appeared..  That was in Sydney in another time and part of another chapter in my life. When I met her and started going out for a little bit with her she omitted to tell me an important fact that she was married to a man in the USA. Without going into detail another Supertramp Song Lyric from Take The Long Way Home . Thank you for putting me onto  the Roger Hodgson videos 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWC5dGVvH4

There are times that you feel you're part of the scenery
All the greenery is comin' down, boy
And then your wife seems to think you're part of the furniture
Oh, it's peculiar, she used to be so nice

Jim, with all plastic inside fish now that and mercury we got think what’s in the fish we eat  from the sea or rivers. Where my 102 year old mum was brought up a little Island called Ovalau part of Fiji, fishing in our family village was very much a community affair.

Kiwi’s use to eat a lot takeaway British style fish and chip years ago but now they tend to eat other things. After the Fastfood invasion from overseas many of our local kids diets and health went downhill fast. Mac Donalds, Pizza Hutt , Kentucky Fried all over NZ now. The other things is Chinese and Indian plus Turkish Kebab style takeout food all over NZ, Many restaurants  here also do a big trade not in inhouse eating but Uber Eats.

For breakfast I usually have a cup of tea some fruit. I also have toasted Vogel toast bread a mixed grain bread sometimes with egg  or occasionally tomato for breakfast. Though if in a rush I will have the Vogel toast with  bit of vegetable margarine and marmite or maybe a nice spread of Marmalade on my vogels.

Richard  your folk club on video comes across  as having  a good loyal supportive crowd . Long live Folk music made  by real people like yourself.

Grah that sounded good looks like you have a good live active music scene happening in your part of the world. Was it easy to find your bass player and drummer or did it take sometime????  They are a good find and work in perfectly with you.     

Some good tucker running around there mate. I wonder if our mate Robert is getting into training for the next Chicken Roundup Comp.    Here is a quick training tip for you attached.

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

The Andy Griffith Show theme tune.     

Roger Miller     England Swings

Tom T Hall     Grandma Whistled

Cheers  Piri, I have recently watched two Bogart movies, Casablanca and also Key Largo. Casablanca was made and set in 1942 when then second world war was still on and Key  Largo was made and set in in 1948. They both have some great scenes with the actors doing some good dead pan acting playing very sinical criminal sharks of that era. Key Largo has some gangsters who made their money back in the American Prohibition that lasted from 1920 to 1933 now getting together to do some bad deeds in the late 1940/s.  I have read in books that it was the American Prohibition that made the Italian Mafia and some prominent family clans from other cultural heritage very rich. Jim would know more about that than I would. I know the Speakeasys of the day provided plenty of work for musicians of that era. Casablanca has crims doing their nefarious deeds in the shark tank of Casablanca during the second world war feeding of those escaping the dangers in Europe at the time. It's one of those movies where most the lead players have something to conceal. Since its winter down here in NZ I have taken some more time indoor to watch old movies.     

Grah you and your band are fitting together good like a hand in a glove with bass and drums falling perfectly into place in your musical pocket.     

Eb, what’s the point of staying invisible when you can be visible????? If you don’t plant seeds nothing will grow.

Thanks to you Jim, and everyone who has become part of the chordie community present and past for educating me through sharing their different outlooks on music. This is something that has helped me to see another aspect of humanity at its best. Not saying we are Saints on here but in the spirit of everyday people's guitar music I'm sure we are all sinners with a good heart. Rock on my friends.

Good one EB this one got me thinking about the old homemade one string Tea Chest bass that people use to play at grandparent's parties when I was a kid. There were other instruments that come into my memory also like the spoons and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y85SB0BJ1M