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(6 replies, posted in About Chordie)

bensonp wrote:

I have been using Linkesoft for years and I love it. It is well worth the money. Then you will always have your dongs with you

I always have my dong with me - but I only have just the one. I am intrigued by the possibility of having a spare or two or three…

(Yes, yes - horribly juvenile response to an honest typo, but sometimes one just cannot resist, y'know?)  http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_0857.gif

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(580 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

Tenement Funster wrote:

Camel    "Lunar Sea"    London, 1976

Somehow I missed this last week; great track, great album, great band! i was lucky enough to see them in a little club (appx. 250 capacity) in San Francisco in the late 70's... oh, my! What a terrific show!

TF, I wonder if you're also into groups like Can, Eloy, Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Curved Air, PFM, Triumvirat, Gong, Starcastle, Dixie Dregs, U.K.,  Jane, Art Bears, Soft Machine, Caravan, Strawbs, Happy the Man...?

153

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

Phill Williams wrote:

...alcohol will kill you as proven by the fly that's floating around my glass

soooo cheers smile

Puts me in mind of the old story of the preacher lecturing a Sunday School class of children on the "evils of alcohol."

The preacher poured a glass of water, produced a worm from a box on the desk, and dropped the worm into the glass. The worm, of course, wriggled about the glass, unaffected by the water.

The preacher then filled a second glass with whiskey, took the worm from the glass of water and dropped it into the glass of whiskey. The worm, of course, died almost instantly.

Looking around at the class, the preacher said, "Now, children, what does this teach us?"

In the back of the room, a young boy raised his hand and said, "If you drink whiskey, you won't get worms?"

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(6 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Very nice!

Quite a bright, happy, fun tune - was it inspired by thoughts of your daughter / were you thinking of her when you wrote it & played it? It sounds very personal. In a good way.

IMO, it's most certainly worth redoing on the Taylor, though the sound quality of what you've linked sounds just dandy on my iPad.

155

(15 replies, posted in Acoustic)

Your excuse is as good as any, and better than some.

156

(8 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Well said.

157

(60 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Grah1 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fmv6If … e=youtu.be

This vid  of  me playing  my  own song  Stone  at  the  Kendal  arts  festival

Nicely done, sir.

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(1 replies, posted in Song requests)

ang591dco wrote:

I have been looking for weeks and can't find chords to the song "Cara let the Moon" by Blues Traveller anywhere! If anybody has a good ear for music or know a site that has them please let me know!

Here's a site with a version where you can even play along with the song:
https://play.riffstation.com/?v=GizT43CPlY0

Hope this helps cool

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(1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)

badeye wrote:

Hello Friday....    get muddy..



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyMeA8CfnGo



badeye cool

Great stuff there, badeye!

...and here is the 'baby' he's talking about in the song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0

(YEAH, man! cool )

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(11 replies, posted in Songwriting)

I don't have a specific reason or method - sometimes it's because something jumps out at me, but really, I've gone through most of the forum topics - even a great many of the older ones - because it's a very good site...

I haven't posted on all that many threads, because - with the exception of one topic - it seems that I an pretty much a threadkiller.

161

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

I make a list of things each night to do the following day..

I try doing that, but the things that remain undone pile up to the next day, and the next... Then I get frustrated and collapse in a heap. Maybe by the time I hit 73, I'll get it right, like you do... wink

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

Congratulations!

It's so gratifying, such a wonderful feeling to be able to acquire something one has had one's eyes on (and one's heart set on) for any length of time.

...I am going to have to rearrange all the amps and speakers but that is a labor of love smile

Something tells me you'll make short work of that! wink
Enjoy!

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(11 replies, posted in Other string instruments)

Levin is a monster on the Stick!

I was fortunate enough to see the American leg of this tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre in '79 (or '80?) - oh, my goodness...what a show!! You'll see his work on Stick as well as electric bass in this vid. Hope you get a chance to watch the whole show sometime, it's phenomenal!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=amxDkP_0gxs
Enjoy.

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(60 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Well, it appears I could've bought the Trio instead of a Simmons drum kit & Ibanez acoustic/electric bass (especially since I cannot play either, really), and had my "backup band" all in one effect box... sigh.

Oh, well, live and learn, eh?
(...learn to play drums and bass, that is!)

165

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

Can a newb to the site send good juju your way?

While I may be a stranger to chordie dot com, I'm no stranger to surgery  (I'll be having my 3rd spinal operation in August), and though yours seems to be fairly routine as far as these things go, it's always a comfort (to me, anyway) to know there are good thoughts makin' their way around the universe...

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(7 replies, posted in Songwriting)

I quite enjoyed it, but I have a coupla qualms/nitpicks/critiques about some of the lyrics:

like a specter returned from the grave
fads[sic] away like the things that you crave

IMO, "returning" sounds better than "returned" both meter-wise and descripitvely, and

in my experience, the things that I crave don't fade away for a long time - indeed, they get stronger before they get weaker...

I know you're fitting words into a space, and it's never easy to get things to flow as smoothly as we hear them in our head... I hope you won't take this as a dis of the song itself (it's not - I like the song, it's just that that phrase jumped out at me on first listen. It's entirely possible that if I weren't reading the lyrics while listening that I wouldn't have noticed it, but I was reading along, so...

The other one I noticed was

were blown away I did not hear your plea

...since you have been speaking of water and tides, perhaps "washed away" would fit better than "blown away"?

You post made me sad and happy...

Sad because it reminded me that I missed seeing U2, happy because your boy did a dynamite job on the song - he actually got the kids to quiet down - and then clap along!

No small feat getting an audience of kids to simmer down and pay attention...

168

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

It is a Marshall AVT 20 I got it on Ebay for 200 + free shipping it will sound nice with all my effects I may put in a newer speaker or two I dont know till after I play thru it. This was sitting in a Pawn shop in Texas and the seller has done business with Ebay many times and has a good rating from people who purchased items from him in the past. It has a 10"speaker but I can easily put in a nice 12" and it puts out 20w dirty and clean channels I plan on using it with my Epiphone amp for a miked stereo effect for both recording and performance which will sound cool with delay and stereo chorus effect not to mention my Electro Harmonix C9 I'm going for sound not power.

Sounds like you've got a plan in place!

I particularly liked in your original post where you said

I wanted this so I got it today...

- it sounded like you had the proverbial "wild hair up your a$$" and saw it/bought it. I was in my local Guitar Center recently (I know, I know... "big-box store - hiss, boo!" but I happened to be in there because there was a ridiculous sale on a Simmons drum kit - $199!), and while wandering through the acoustic guitar room saw a used acoustic electric bass for $89, so though I really didn't need it, I got a "wild hair up my azz" and put a deposit on it. I get to pick it up tomorrow (it's on their version of consignment, the seller has 30 days to change their mind about selling it), which is fine since I'm going for a cortisone shot in my right forearm today and won't be playing for a day or so, anyway...

169

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

Coolness!

Description?

170

(12 replies, posted in Recording)

Audacity is a recording/mixing program - you'll need to either

[A] Record the drum pattern yourself (via something like Garageband, or an electronic kit or drum machine [I just bought a Simmons kit for $199 so that I can do just what you're trying to do] - nowadays, you can get a drum machine pretty cheap on Amazon or the like) , or

[B] Use a pre-recorded drum pattern, and convert the mp3 to an Audacity file (open a new window in Audacity, then drag and drop the mp3 file into it), then once it's an Audacity file, copy/paste/mix it into your music.

Good luck - keep makin' music!

P.S. If I can be of any help, please feel free to email me. cool