Hi Jim. I've just run through your song a couple of times....oh dear! I loved your words....but with the chords you put on it the rhythm and tune I gave it woosh!!! Fabuloso!!! I hope to get a few moments tomorrow to do a scratch recording which I'll send you if it's okay.
1,152 2019-07-14 11:02:00
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Many thanks UJB, great praise indeed. I was a little worried that the words might have been a little too deep or personal but judging by the response I needn't have worried.
1,153 2019-07-13 18:36:22
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Peatle and Neo, I will post it on SoundCloud if it's good enough. The back story is in the reply to TF. I may expand on it at a later date.
1,154 2019-07-13 18:33:14
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Quite a chilling story Phill can we learn more about this song please and hear a recording soon ?
It's the dark side of my mind, Grah
! Have a look at my reply to TF I think that explains my mindset at the time.
1,155 2019-07-13 18:29:40
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Brian. I've been quite busy writing new songs, but they don't reach the standard I want to project on Chordie.
1,156 2019-07-13 18:27:28
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thanks Jim. I've started the recording but it will have to wait a few days till I can do the drums and vocals.
1,157 2019-07-13 18:25:53
Re: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Very nicely done, Phill ... I especially like the metaphor about time being a cave, with no end in sight. This is probably the best description of hopeless despair I've ever read, and unfortunately it resonates within. The chord structure is very David Gilmour-ish.
I'd been listening to "wish you were here" and I'm afraid I might have stolen a bit? Namely the riff and some of the chord structure.
As usual with me the first line sparked off the rest of the words. I was trying to be poetic and paint verbal pictures....no that's coblers...I just tried to express the feelings I had when my first marriage fell apart, how she expected me to jump when she called and demanded money!
I think we've all been close to despair, I just wanted her to feel it, because she was the human (almost) of a bovine animal that chews grass and lives in a field.
1,158 2019-07-13 18:13:12
Re: Any Road Up (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Hi Jim. It was me, by the way. Any road up is a phrase I heard on TV on one of our rural soaps or even by George Formby, it's an exclamation as is "well I'll go to the back of our house!" It's nicer than swearing!
As for the song you've written, I have to say I love it. You've made the phrase your own by giving it another meaning. And I love the way the whole thing fits together.
1,159 2019-07-12 14:32:54
Topic: Memories Fade (14 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I haven't posted a new song for ages so here's one I've just finished writing but not yet recorded.
Memories Fade.Undefined
1,160 2019-07-07 14:24:29
Re: Beaching (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
tremendous wording and meter, gave me visions of every line i could almost taste the salt water, see the marine life and feel the sun on my skin. beautiful.
1,161 2019-07-07 14:19:28
Re: Gutter (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hits home hard. some really gritty northern sentiments there, eg: kick you in the goolies and say; " you should learn from that!" this falls neatly into the category of "streets of london" or "another day in paradise" you should be proud my friend.
1,162 2019-07-07 14:12:55
Re: The Pub Band (8 replies, posted in Poems)
the punters are the audience or people that "pay" for a show, or maybe don't pay to see the show? i used to be in a band that called them "jack'n'apes" a name i wasn't comfy with, but there you go...
1,163 2019-07-07 08:46:37
Re: The Pub Band (8 replies, posted in Poems)
Graham is so right as is the poem. It can be soul destroying playing to punters that just sit and talk loudly while your playing your heart out, giving it large and they don't even clap! I've just got to the point where I switch off and please myself. Usually at the end of the night the landlord comes up with a big smile and says "they loved you, when can you comeback?" What???
Any road up, great observation and writing. True life is a totally confusing thing.
1,164 2019-07-05 08:47:46
Re: FLATUATION (13 replies, posted in Poems)
I remember sometime ago the report that there was a big hole in the ozone layer above Australia, partly due to live stock partly due to alcohol "breath" passed by larger drinkers!
1,165 2019-07-05 08:40:42
Re: The Last Great American Love Song (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Great work Jeff. I like the way you've expanded Bill's one line then your first draught to an entertaining and humourous song.
1,166 2019-07-05 08:35:12
Re: White Lady (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
It's great the way you've taken a bit of history and made it into a brilliant piece of music and song. Well done.
1,167 2019-07-05 08:30:44
Re: Super hero (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Nice recording, great song, great hook. I never feel like a super hero but I do seem to have acquired the title of "Grampa will fix it"
You call this a demo, do you plan a full band recording? I'd love to hear that.
1,168 2019-07-03 10:41:26
Re: FLATUATION (13 replies, posted in Poems)
Made me laugh especially the reference to the beans segment in Blazing Sadles! I got a little off topic on the last verse though???
1,169 2019-07-03 10:36:10
Re: Can't Do Anything With These (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Inspiration is the writers bread and butter. Well done Jeff. When I read Bill's tag lines absolutely nothing came to mind. All you need now is an equally great melody line.
1,170 2019-06-28 18:43:39
Re: SWIPE (5 replies, posted in Poems)
a nice easy read which shows optimism for the future. are you going to work on it as a song? i think it would make a cracking rock ballad
1,171 2019-06-28 18:41:03
Re: Same Street (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i hate predictive text, it should have read; fingerpicking style not fingerprint!!!! i was wondering about the house...lol
1,172 2019-06-27 09:22:45
Re: Amazing Amp Test Drive (6 replies, posted in Electric)
One comment, it looks very retro in you pic? Reminds me of a PA amp I came across in a club I was at recently.it was from the early 50s, had that vintage smell and as I was told, was still in use even though only three valves were still working! Let us know if your dream becomes a reality?
1,173 2019-06-27 09:15:43
Re: Same Street (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Inspiration? As if you need it...lol
How about one about spammers, lining them all up against a wall and shooting them with a ball of their own excrement? You may be able to tell I've been wielding the ban hammer this morning?
Good song I love your fingerprint style.
1,174 2019-06-23 11:03:58
Re: Our band raising cash for charity (7 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Well done Roger and what a fabulous amount you helped raise. I enjoy doing charities myself as the audience appreciate what you do more than your standard crowd! I never charge either except maybe petrol if I have to travel more than a few miles.
Any video or audio of the concert? Why did they tuck you way over in the corner? Next to the blond vocalist I notice......
1,175 2019-06-21 20:07:58
Re: can't go to some letters (C, I, V ) for example for songs and nothing (8 replies, posted in About Chordie)
this is weird, the alphabet is back on PC at least, either Per's fixed it or it could be a tablet/laptop problem?