This is a song written by Easy Beat, Phill Williams and myself. I hope the video does the song justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdwJ-cC8JA
676 2022-02-17 09:20:05
Topic: Alright By Me (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
677 2022-02-12 03:44:03
Re: Today (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Congratulations Jim. I am sure you would have impacted many students over the years in good and positive ways. Now your teaching and coaching river has run its course an ocean of new possibilities is opening up to you. No doubt in time, some of those past reflections in the mirror of calm waters ahead will help you create some real good songs.
678 2022-02-07 19:42:48
Re: Rex's Blues (14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Zurf that guitar of yours has got a beautiful tone and you sing and play Rexs Blues real good. I liked your spoken intro, introducing the song also.
679 2022-02-06 23:44:13
Re: It Takes a Lot to Love a Good Woman (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff that's got a good flow to it and lyrically bang on.
680 2022-02-04 07:41:57
Re: Taking My Time (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
TIGLJK wrote:
Paul McCartney or John Entwistle, of course.
Cheers Jim
I think John Entwistle is busy making music with Doctor John and Stevie Ray Vaughn all who are not answering their phones at the moment so we might have to make do with Paul McCartney. It will be wonderful to see Paul working with Ringo again. Now I am wondering would a band called Wanted Dead Or Alive be an appropriate name for Phills new group.????
682 2022-02-03 08:01:56
Re: Taking My Time (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thank you Jim for taking the time to comment and have a watch and listen. It would be a real good rockn the blues band with Phill Williams, Stevie Ray Vaughan and maybe Billy Gibbons on guitars. Though it might be hard getting Stevie there due to the helicopter accident, We would also need another tricky person to get in, on piano considering where he is now that person is Doctor John. To give the sound a different edge maybe Ringo on drums. Maybe Booker T , Jones on Organ. Who do we get to play bass that could be tricky.????????????
683 2022-02-01 19:42:26
Topic: Taking My Time (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Here is Phill Williams rockn the blues on a song we wrote together called Taking My Time. Its an absolute privilege to have Phill share his considerable talents with me on this one. I just hope the video does the song justice. Phill's vocals and guitar on this are superb with the bass and organ plus the drums pushing it along nicely. Love to hear your comments on this good or bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqL7Fgsq6i8
685 2022-01-31 21:50:08
Re: 12 TAKES LATER - The love that we lose (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Good one Beamer interesting version.
686 2022-01-30 21:28:41
Re: hippy girl (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hippy girls that takes me back a few decades crazy wild girls living in broken down houses or squats partying. I knew many who are settled down old ladies now living conventional life's. Never went out with any as a boyfriend but had some wild times I tended more towards the conventional type of gal.
687 2022-01-30 21:20:10
Re: Love that we lose - on soundcloud (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I enjoyed that Jim.
688 2022-01-30 08:14:07
Re: Posting pictures on Chordie (28 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Riversdale lets rock on, Here is Phill doing an accordion sound on a song..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHHcYdko8A
689 2022-01-29 22:00:11
Re: Pick Out a Little Tune (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff I like these words in your song very clever.
Why does it seem
Some strings like to
Stray a little out
Kind of like me
690 2022-01-29 08:59:12
Re: Two Or Three Minute Song. (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Phill
There is a lot of music out there. Fighting my way through all those different genres means I can’t really nowadays call myself a folky a rocker or whatever. One genre I can’t get into when I am at home is disco. There have been times when my brain has been at half mast after a few strong beverages that I have hit the dance floor. Now that is not a pretty sight me dancing even worse is I have been spotted partying and dancing to disco music.
EB
I think people writing songs who are chasing a hit on popular outlets like radio rely too much on tried and true formulas or get stuck in the trendy commercial thing decided by marketers. That is why I don’t listen to radio much in recent times.
691 2022-01-28 20:44:05
Topic: Two Or Three Minute Song. (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Recently in conversation about music people have been talking about the length of songs many saying two to three minutes should be the max. To me that's like saying I've got a short attention span and can't take any more. I really think that songs length doesn't matter as long as it fits with what it's trying to say. Recently I listened to Bob Dylan's , Murder Most Fowl which I think is a brilliant epilogue to President Kennedys assassination. Many say it is a silly rant that takes too long but to me it tells it well and the length is appropriate. I suppose with Bob you either hate or love him. What do you think. For me Bobs song Murder Most Fowl is more than just a song about the killing of President Kennedy, To me it is also a 17 minute piece about the passing of an era and a time in history that many around my age grew up in.
692 2022-01-24 06:32:31
Re: The Way You Do (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff your song got a lot going for it and you play guitar and sing better than I can. There is a lot of love for a special lady and a special home environment that's what makes your song give of the warm fuzzy's of joy and love in the family nest..
693 2022-01-21 21:19:14
Re: Posting pictures on Chordie (28 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good photos Jim and Graham I have never been able to figure out how to post photos on chordie modern tech is beyond me.. 
694 2022-01-16 22:20:25
Re: have you noticed? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I was thinking or is that finking , finger and thumb could be good rhyming slang for strum.
I was finking about grabbing my arf a dozen string machine and having a finger and thumb. That might confuse things the change of language when ordering a finger and thumb ( Rum) at the bar.
695 2022-01-15 20:58:17
Re: Ghost Train (4 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Jai did an awesome job playing piano and the combination of you two worked perfectly on an excellent song.
696 2022-01-15 20:55:40
Re: Feels like heaven (18 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Richard that house party had a nice atmosphere to perform in.
697 2022-01-12 05:33:23
Re: have you noticed? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Whenever I start talking about Olives and Olive Oil with some of my friends who are my age or older the conversation has often ended up going to Popeye and Olive Oyl his girlfriend. People then start talking about tins of Spinach something that Popeye ate to give him strength. I have eaten spinach but I have never seen it in a tin.
698 2022-01-11 05:41:47
Re: have you noticed? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you Piri and may you also have many more adventures.
699 2022-01-09 22:53:20
Re: have you noticed? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Annwyl brawd Piri you are right warm olive oil helps. My in-laws introduced me to it. The olive itself is rich in vitamin B6 which contribute to the proper function of the nervous system and boost the metabolism. Olives also contain vitamins C, A, and E which all help a variety of functions throughout the body. When I was in Greece staying with my in-laws it took me a while to develop a taste for olives as there are so many different kinds. After a while I found the ones that suited my pallet. Maree’s parents had olive trees and made their own olive oil at home. They also made their own cheese from the milk of goats kept by her step mothers brother in-law. Another thing I liked was they grew their own eating grapes. It was really communal the making of alot of the homemade cooking things. Over summer Maree’s parents kitchen would be full of woman gathering together to make cheese and oil and other things for the whole extended family.
Iechyd da!
Pedr
700 2022-01-08 21:35:11
Re: have you noticed? (17 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Both of my thumbs are the same size. What I have noticed as a right hander is the Osteoarthritis in my left guitar chord changing hand fingers gives me more pain and grief and less pain in my right hand strumming and finger picking movements.