it's nice to read a positive poem. this gives hope in such a well written and thought out manner. well done
phill
3,777 2011-01-25 10:58:46
Re: FAVORITE SONG LINES (68 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
there are some really great lines here. here's one from a band you might not have heard of ...
she wakes up. she makes up. she takes her time and doesn't feel she has to hurry, she no longer needs you. pm
yeah, a kick in the teeth 
phill
3,778 2011-01-25 10:43:34
Re: American Strat or Mexican Strat? (35 replies, posted in Electric)
i bought my mim in 1972. from the outset i wasnt completely happy with it....but i didnt know then that there were different standards!
the paint work is cracked (i put that down to constant gigging) and by the time i stopped using it, the fret board was worn behind the neck frets. and some of the frets themselves were worn. i never liked the sound i got, unless it was cranked right up through a marshall amp...which i hate cos they can only play dirty, i like to play clean occasionally!
i do like the shape of the neck though.
having said all that, i resisted buying a new fender for more than 10 years, using a crafter, that lost it's tune so easily, and just didnt feel right. eventually after searching for years, a telecaster was put in my hands, i decided i was in love before even strumming it. it was reassuringly heavy, the neck was a dream, it played like an angel and gave me that sound i've been looking for, for 30 years.
happiness is tele shaped.
i'm thinking now of getting a new neck put on my strat....any thoughts?
phill
3,779 2011-01-23 18:47:41
Topic: FAVORITE SONG LINES (68 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i have got many favorite lines from songs, i was just wondering if other members had their favs too, such as:
ten thousand holes in blackburn, lancashire. now they know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall!
isnt that a brilliant line from "a day in the life" lennon at his best.
phill
3,780 2011-01-19 19:36:18
Re: Norwegian wood (10 replies, posted in Recording)
hi russ,
boy have i got a headache just reading that. sorry i couldnt listen to the track (norwegian wood is also one of my favs) as i seem to have developed a middle ear infection, and i'm suffering, headache and nausia with vertigo thrown in for good measure.... aaawwwe poor phill. so no music for me for a while. talk soon buddy
phill
3,781 2011-01-19 19:26:28
Re: Cigar Box Guitar (15 replies, posted in Other string instruments)
THIS IS TO BIKEWER,
thank you for taking part in the chordie forum, but i'm afraid references to sites selling anything is not permitted, therefore i have removed the link you posted.
if you have any queries please check the chordie guide lines on the main menu.
again sorry, advertising is not allowed without permission from per the administrator.
phill williams (moderator)
3,782 2011-01-17 12:51:14
Re: Record Pad (2 replies, posted in Recording)
there is one hang-up to this soft ware as russ and i have discussed, the freeware only seems to do mono. as i have not laid out any of my hard earned to try the full version, i cant say if you get stereo sound with it. i've started using audacity myself now, mainly to convert WAV to MP3 by way of a programme called "switch" as i couldnt get lame to work!
phill
3,783 2011-01-17 12:43:53
Re: New Software test (8 replies, posted in Recording)
nice one russ, how did i get in there? lol looks like your getting into the new software pretty quick.
ps....what is the significance of the piper?
phill
3,784 2011-01-01 16:59:20
Re: t:title"cold as ice" 326 (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi daddy,
i wondered if it was similar to the old foreiner track, dont worry i think your safe enough.
judging by your other material, this is a little deviation in subject matter. so i'm guessing it's fiction?
nice one, i like it
rock on
phill
3,785 2011-01-01 16:53:41
Re: They Dont Know Me (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi robert,
glad you liked the song, but i think you listened to the wrong track! they dont know me is a medium paced country song. i think the one you listened to is called "lime green pick-up truck" and is about an american military family and also quite fast. it sounds like a line dancing song to me....though i cant dance, not even waltz!!!. i shall put up pick-up shortly.
hi ark, always happy to hear your comments....
phill
3,786 2010-12-30 20:29:02
Re: They Dont Know Me (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi kenny,
right on all counts. it is a fast-ish country/rock eagles style (maybe too eagles style?) so i'm hoping if it does sound too much of a steal. if you guys can tell me so i can pull it.
by the way, it's about what we brits call a wide boy, a thug and all round bad boy! steals cars and eventually graduates to robbing a bank, but ends up target practise for the cops. no loss there then!
more info if required.
it will be put up on my-space ASAP.
phill
3,787 2010-12-29 19:08:35
Topic: They Dont Know Me (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
They Don't Know Me.Undefined
[G] Hey, the motors running there's gas in the tank.
There's a [C] map on the dash, guitar's in the back.
I'm [G] going down south where it's not so cold.
Where the [C] music is loud and the bars are full.
And [D] little old ladies get helped cross the road.
And my [C] reputation is yet to unfold.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
[G] Just today I took a seven tonne truck.
[C] Drove it through the window of the Pizza Hut.
[G] They wouldn't serve me `cos I didn't pay.
For the [C] food I had there yesterday.
Well they [D] should have known what I would do.
Cos my [C] reputation is about to come true.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
[CHORUS)
[D] Pretty girl serving gave me “goo goo�eyes.
Don you [Em] know who I am? You don't give me no lies.
Two big [C] cops put the Tazer on me.
But I [D] gave them the slip and now I am free.
Don't they [G] know me? Don't they [C] know me?
Don't they [G] know me? Don't they [C] know me?
(SOLO OVER CHORUS)
And the [G] motors running while I'm hitting this bank.
Got a [C] gun in my pocket and I ain't paying tax.
But the [G] clerk hits the button and there's cops all around.
[C] Siren's and bullets make a god awful sound.
And [D] little old ladies look and point at my blood.
As [C] I'm laying there dying just like Bonnie and Clyde.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
They don't [G] know me. They don't [C] know me.
(SOLO OVER CHORUS)
3,788 2010-12-29 18:08:05
Re: D-O-G (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi kenny, you seem to be cooking on gas (pun) lately. so when are we going to hear (and see) the results, as you've got this new camera? come on, get em up on (your) my-space.
phill
3,789 2010-12-21 00:17:23
Re: Blue Balloon/She Moves through the fair. (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi ark,
nice renderings my friend, i particularly like "she moves the fair" puts me in mind of 2 pieces i'm familiar with, 1 beatles and 1 jethro tull. i love the eastern drums.
well done
phill
3,790 2010-12-10 14:19:29
Re: Molly Don't Go (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi kenny,
sorry i didnt comment on this before, the subject matter is a little too close to home, ann, my wife went though a year of worry which ended in a major operation, and though she was clear of cancer (thank god) it has left it's mark in the form of her confidence has all but gone! but i still have her, and she will still be here with me for at least the next 40 + years...
as i say, the song is brilliantly written and evokes the memory of fear and joy, for me. well done canuk.
phill
3,791 2010-12-03 19:08:13
Re: Stop the X Factor (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
this is such a boring and annoying subject. it was getting up my nose when they started putting rival tracks up for people to buy rather than have an X factor no1...it's all a money making con. by simon cowel and the people who want to rival X factor!
here's a cheaper word of advice to those that might be gullible enough to spend their hard earned cash on this nonsense....
IF YOU DONT LIKE THE X FACTOR...DONT WATCH IT!
IF YOU DONT LIKE WHAT'S IN THE CHARTS...DONT BUY THEM!
BE A HERO AND SHOW YOUR INDEPENDENCE, repeat after me.....I AM NOT A FOLLOWER, I AM A LEADER
i have not watched x factor for about 4 years, and i dont miss it. or big brother, or i'm a celebrity get me out of here, or any of those other "reality" shows! it's easy to do; change the channel! there are lots of other tv channels that broadcast a wide variety of programmes, try one.
3,792 2010-11-30 19:53:54
Re: Your Faults (9 replies, posted in Poems)
well thanks, i think... actually it's written by me about me from my wife's point of view, only she's not as humorous as i am...lol. oh and by the way this guy (that i used to be) is out of my life. admittedly i do forget the toilet seat now and then. but my hygiene is much improved! so is it ok if i stay?
phill
3,793 2010-11-28 11:27:41
Re: Golden Dreams (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi russ and members,
i just had a little listen on my lap top speakers, and the backing vocals sound awful! in my defense though, i do have a sore throat.
this is my favourite song, russ's voice suits it down to the ground, and as mentioned, the harmonica really works. it takes me way back to my mother who used to sing lullabyes to all the kids, and to me, which is most likely why i love singing...i just wish i could!
phill
3,794 2010-11-21 23:19:19
Re: Golden Dreams (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi russ,
that's the trouble with us older guys, we can remember something that happened years ago better than something that happened yesterday!
this is a lovely song the words are so full of love and caring and (may i say) sung sweetly?
ARE YOU GETTIN` SOFT OR WHAT?
get well soon, i'm so looking forward to helping out with this song, it doesnt need a whole lot of overdubs. we'll keep it pure
dont let those nurses give you any nonsense...lol
phill
3,795 2010-11-12 21:02:47
Re: What inspired you to start playing guitar?? (62 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
as a big beatles fan since i heard "my bonny" on radio luxembourg in 1962 (i think) it was freddy and the dreamers that actually got me and my mate jeff davies, to pick up guitars and form our own noise, sorry, band. no i think i was right the first time, noise! but it was paul mccartney's influence that got me to play left hand! it was also lennon mccartney that got me to write songs.
i had to get myself a paper round to pay for my first guitar, which cost £5! and broke within a month... couldnt hold the strings down any way!i bought a book with my next guitar and learned a new key every day. no problems with Bm. but i couldnt get G for the life of me. it took me about a month to master G (the chord not the key).
phill...that's just about my life story. lol
3,796 2010-11-06 14:55:13
Re: t:title"making love" 325 (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi daddy,
you rockin' on with some horizontal mambo eh?
nice words...and nothing suggestive at all, in-fact, i was wondering what it was about?
a lot of minor chords in this one....you'll be using Bm soon.... 
phill
3,797 2010-11-06 14:50:01
Re: Ain't No Living Legends Anymore (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi bob,
i take it this song comes from the heart. it's a shame you feel country music has souled out (pun) but every form of music has to progress...then i ask why? why cant music just keep on when it's good enough? maybe it's because a new generation has to put it's own stamp on the "new" generation. usually killing the genre!
i watched a paul simon concert on tv the other day, he played some of his old songs "boxer" etc, but he'd sexed up the arrangements, killed the songs for me...maybe i'm a traditionalist?
i like your song, recording soon?
phill
3,798 2010-11-06 14:38:40
Re: Songs with reference to Science Fiction (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
One of my favorites is "arriving UFO" by Yes on the Tormato album...very sci-fi
Phill
3,799 2010-11-05 22:33:22
Topic: faery queen (2 replies, posted in Poems)
this is the third poem. a fairy tale for hallowen, i know it was last week...
For The Love Of The Faery Queen.
If I crossed the great divide.
From narrow mind to ocean wide.
Would I find a place to hide?
Would her love protect me?
Lightening streaks across the sky.
Ghostly horsemen searching wide.
For the thief whose heart did take.
The Lady of the faery glade.
Minutes pass they seem like years.
Hooded searchers, dread and fear.
Will their eyes befall my form?
And leave me dying in the storm.
I pray to he who sees and hears.
While raindrops fall like baby's tears.
Protect my soul, deliver me.
To the lands where life is free.
They travel on, I breathe again.
Though my body racks with pain.
A ghostly knife has shed my blood.
This sallow earth is turning red.
I lay beneath some hazel trees.
My life's blood running, freely bleed.
Soon the darkness, vision fades.
Ghostly riders claim their prize.
No angel's in a heavenly place.
Underworld behold my fate.
For though I hold the Lady's grace.
Forever damned in this unholy place.
Phill Williams. 5th November 2010.
3,800 2010-11-05 21:10:31
Topic: life lived free (3 replies, posted in Poems)
i wrote 3 poems today this is number 2
Life Lived Free.
Time flows like a lonely river.
And I am sealed within my fate.
As the universe around me.
Never slows and never waits.
And I am here within this vaccuum.
Sealed from liquid, air and sound.
I can see the world around me.
Never touching holy ground.
I must follow where life leads me.
Follow blindly, feel my way.
And if I stumble, lose the high ground.
Another plan must come to play.
Until I call you, sleep enfolds you.
Take good comfort in your rest.
For all the while I fight this battle.
When I am lost you do your best.
Here we stand the sad survivors.
Cast back memories of friends.
Heroes all; wounded, battered.
And those that met their bitter end.
And so each year we do remember.
We will recall each selfless deed.
The hero gave his life to save us.
One minutes silence, for a life lived free.
Phill Williams. 5th November 2010.