1,926 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(7 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Cocktailsfor2 wrote:

This.

"Preview" is your friend.

Always.

.

I am SO SORRY to hear of this! sad

After previewing this post, I hit submit, but then I changed my mind about the word "hear" and wanted to go back and change it, due to syntax being incorrect. (One doesn't hear writing). So I brought the text back and changed it in "edit":

I am SO SORRY to learn of this! sad

Long story short, I forget things. That's my "job" these days: to forget stuff, and sometimes stuff just gets by me before I have the chance to think to correct it.

Google is my friend as well, I believe.

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,927 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(7 replies, posted in About Chordie)

Roger Guppy wrote:

Bill, if I might make a suggestion. Instead of writing your post and then pressing 'Submit' press the 'Preview' instead. You will then be able to see how your post will appear and make any corrections before you 'Submit' it.

I always do this. It gives me chance to see whether I have any spelling mistakes or typo's and, if I am posting a photo, I can see a/ whether I have got the URL right and b/ check whether the photo is the right size for the page,

Roger

I 'Preview'ed this and corrected my punctuation smile

Thank you, Roger. I will try to remember. smile

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,928 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(7 replies, posted in About Chordie)

But how about while the changes are made, Roger?

It is already posted when you see your mistakes, then you choose edit and make the changes. While you're doing that, can people read the original which has already been posted?

Sorry if I'm missing something. "If I only had a brain!" ---- The Tin Man?

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,929 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

I think I'm going back to W7. 10 is just too messed up to deal with all the fixes it still needs.

For example, e-mailing: I can be typing merrily along, but when I look at the screen, the letters either aren't there or they appear "late".

Is this happening to you?

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,930 Topic by Strummerboy Bill

(7 replies, posted in About Chordie)

When one writes a post and then rereads it, clicks the edit button to fix the mistakes, is the reader (you) still able to read the original, messed-up post?

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,931 Topic by Strummerboy Bill

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

And a big thank you to Roger for fixing it again.

Also, and I didn't want to bring it up, but I am beginning to lose days as well. I'm doing things which are done on certain days and I live my life as if it were that day. For example, thinking it was Friday I got up Thursday morning at 5 to fix my wife's coffee. I woke her up, wondering why she wasn't already awake. She wasn't supposed to work until Friday ---- that kinda stuff. There are a few more examples, but I'll spare you.

Anyway, I'm back, and as I told RickyJack. This is only one of three sites I go to daily and when I miss a day here (whatever day it is), it really makes for an empty day.

Thanks

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,932 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(33 replies, posted in About Chordie)

It's in the guidelines for posting here, that no swear words be used. I myself have been guilty of "pushing the envelope" a time or two using asterisks and, (as Yankees Catcher Yogi Berra once misappropriately said) "insinuendos". smile smile

But I "signed" the agreement and I am bound by it.

I'm still in.

Bill

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,933 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(33 replies, posted in About Chordie)

This is awesome!

Let's have some more input from mods, admins, etc.

What do you see as the medium, 'Tails?  I know direct download streaming is the way to go logically and economically speaking, right?

I'm working on getting an old drummer friend of mine onboard. Not to drum, but to produce/engineer everyone's final copy. He could probably be enticed in return for production/enginering credits. Also if y'all would be so inclined as to leave a "space" for him, he could add drums. His list of credits are impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Huey.

VERY IMPORTANT: I want to make perfectly clear that I'm not saying that y'all can't mix/engineer your own stuff, okay? Just that he'd be there if needed. And I also won't make any moves in that direction until we get a unanimous yes from the leadership commitee (or whatever it will be called).

My charities would be: The Alzheimer's Association and/or The American Humane Society.

My contribution(s): Assist with PR. I can't be counted on to do my own song, but I can write press releases if needed.

Thanks, 'Tails for getting this thing moving. I would be proud to do what little I can to help this project in any way needed. I would like to reiterate, however, that all of us need to agree on the project before we start. I'm good at having ideas; not so good at facilitating them, however. smile

Thanks

Bill

Go to forum: About Chordie

1,934 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

I found a $5 dollar bill once. wink

Dayum, Joe! That's a gorgeous piece of work, sure enough and I am so happy for you! It's not often one sees such a fine example of synchronicity (or is it serendipity?), but there ya go.

What a great thing to happen to one of my buds!

Have fun with your Dreadnaught, joe

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,935 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

rickyjack wrote:

Hey Bill.
I usually keep them in their cases on shelves I made. I have several hundred so I have to keep them in alphabetical order or I would be lost big time.
My wife is wanting to redecorate that room so right now they are in boxes in the spare room. I get to alphabetize all over again. Being retired, it gives me something to do.

For something else to do, I highly recommend rearranging your sock drawer, rickyjack. You will be AMAZED at the number of  shades of navy blue you will find! big_smile big_smile big_smile

Bill

PS: I also am still at work slipping the now alphabetized cd's into their respective sleeves.

I discovered by looking at the stacks that there are more cd's with the letter S than any other letter, so playing a hunch, I grabbed the phone book, and Holy Hanna!, there are more S's there than any other letter! And the name all those S's belong to? Well, I thought you'd never ask!!! SMITH. yikes

Why in the world have y'all not informed me of this???? smile

I'm kidding of course. Just a little satire using myself as the  "victim"

Have a great day, kids!

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,936 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in My local band and me)

rickyjack,

I have thought about craigslist, but it has this reputation as such an unsavory place, you know? Maybe I will.

My wife just reminded me that we also tried a couple of local newspapers to no avail, but since this is not to be w "working" band right off the bat, or some folks may not even read the papers, I struck out there as well other than a little guy who never showed up.

My other problem is psycho-neurological: Brain doesn't always engage long enough to "follow through".

By that I mean I find it hard to focus and stay focused on one task or another. For example, I'll head to the music room to play guitar or drums for a while, but by the time I get there, I will already have changed my mind.

My docs want me to take ECT, but the nearest place which offers that treatment is a long distance and I would have to be seen once a day for a week to get zapped.

I guess we'll see.

Thanks for getting in touch and don't be such a stranger, rickyjack.

Bill

Go to forum: My local band and me

1,937 Topic by Strummerboy Bill

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

I have mine in one of those large cd wallets which can be found at Wal-Mart for about $10 bucks.

They're in alphabetical order....... Now.

Before, during my hard drinking days they could be found any which way pretty much in the order in which they were bought.

Over the last weekend and ending today, I alphabetized them and by the time I finished, my back was screaming at me.

As I write, all of them are stacked on my bed topped by an index card with the letter of the alphabet which will represent the artists' last name, group name (foregoing the "The" of course) and, in the case of collections, the first letter of the collection's title. If there are "liner notes" available, they go into one of the empty sleeves of one of the  4 segments which make up a page.

Just a tad OCD, am I. wink

Gotta get 'em off the bed before bed time or it's the couch for the "German Boy" tonight.

Just curious; how do y'all store your cd's?

Thanks

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,938 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Tenement Funster wrote:

I have some memories from the distant past that echo your lines. At least I think they're memories ... can't seem to recall.

big_smile big_smile I love it! big_smile big_smile

Bill

Go to forum: Songwriting

1,939 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in My local band and me)

Well, we pretty much have the "Let's be buds" part  out of the way, fellas. So it's a damn shame that the folks I am buds with live so far away!

Thanks you two. I appreciate the spirit of wanting to be in a band with me very much!

smile

Bill

Go to forum: My local band and me

1,940 Topic by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in My local band and me)

Everyone needed except for a drummer (and I can double on simple rhythm guitar.

A Strat, keyboard, several (up to and including two) amps and 2 basses. No sound system, but one very good mic - a Shure.

Been a while since you've played? Not a problem! Place to play/rehearse? Not a problem! Bad credit? Not a problem! Charged with a felony or recreational drug use? Problem.

Let's just give it a shot and see what happens, okay?

E-mail me at the address shown under my profile picture. smile

Thanks!

Bill

Go to forum: My local band and me

1,941 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

Amy,

That sounds great (the live streaming), but if it has to be SKYPE, I would not be averse to being assigned a certain time to call. In short, I'd do anything short of dating Whoopi Goldberg to "be" with my Chordie Family. big_smile big_smile big_smile

I'm getting as excited as y'all are and I won't even be there in person!  <3.

Thanks

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,942 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(13 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Not going to link you to it, because it could possibly be spam, but there's a move to petition the world's major airlines to stop the transportation of game "trophies", thereby blocking game hunting.

Make of this what you will, but the countries which use safaris as tourist income won't take this petition lying down (so to speak).

Bill

Go to forum: Songwriting

1,943 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(1 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Glad you put music to those lyrics, Jim. Thanks for expressing so eloquently how we all must feel about this poor lion and the way he died. I'm sure there will be other songs written about Cecil, but yours will always be the first and best of them. Thanks so much for sharing it with all of us, my friend!

Bill

Go to forum: Songwriting

1,944 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

Amy,

I don't use Skype due to the fact it drags down my machine's performance, but I guess I can install it and then uninstall it for that one day. Right?

Thanks

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,945 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

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

In the words of Charlie Brown, "Good Grief!"

How did I miss this about your son. NELA???

I am so sorry to just now be replying, but I am glad there's finally light at the end of this tunnel.

Our very best wishes to both of you, and please ----- you supervise, okay ------- we don't need this whole thing to start all over again. With you or your son.

Bill

Go to forum: Chordie's Chat Corner

1,946 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(17 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

"Also, I will add the FP/C(wpc!)......." <<<<<<<

wink smile big_smile

The initials/abbreviations here were what I was referring to , Doug. Something to with the "full picture"? I even tried to google it, but get nothing.

Thanks

Bill (who must be having one of his brainless "days")
smile

Go to forum: Guitars and accessories

1,947 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(17 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Cocktailsfor2 wrote:
Baldguitardude wrote:

I knew what wntma meant before I clicked the link to this thread. LOL. Great minds.  Nice buy!

Also: Gotcha, Bill. It's all a-ok.

Oh, good! With that many no's, I was afraid a slap on the wrist from one of the nuns in my past was gonna be next! big_smile

Whatever all those abbreviations/letters mean, I hope you'll let us hear some of your work using that effect, 'Tails! smile

Bill

Go to forum: Guitars and accessories

1,948 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(17 replies, posted in Guitars and accessories)

Cocktailsfor2 wrote:

Oh, no no no no no no no, Bill - that video ain't me - it's just a review someone did.

I mean, I just picked the thing up today, it'd be pretty amazing for me to set up, make, edit, and post a review already, yeah? (Though if you were to ask Mrs. C42, I think she'd agree with the "amazing' bit ifyaknowwhutimean...)

.

Very bad sentence structure by this English/Journalism major, 'Tails, sorry.

Of course I meant "watch the video referred to in " 'Tails' post", not that you yourself produced and starred in it.

Sorry, man. I know better, but sometimes what starts correctly in the head doesn't make it to the page. It happens with the mouth too. big_smile, big_smile!

Your Pal

Bill

Go to forum: Guitars and accessories

1,949 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

Tenement Funster wrote:

Bill...

I certainly agree with your estimation of the talent within the Chordie family, and I'm sure that talent spans the whole range of skill levels. The common thing that bonds us is that we all love music and guitars, and this site celebrates that union in a non-competitive, inviting atmosphere. I think we can each recognize great work as it's posted, without making it a contest. In the end, it is the effort, creativity, and the love of song that 's being recognized and rewarded. If the writer enjoyed creating it, then it's mission accomplished.

Just my 2-cents worth.

Aha!! smile I believe the "penny" just dropped, TF! smile It is obviously a major part of the established Chordie philosophy, and of course I understand and may have been out of line to suggest such a thing. If so, then apologies are in order and are offered.

Thanks for understanding this was nothing more than a "I'm proud as hell of you guys and ladies, so here's an idea" - kinda thing. I just didn't think it through to its logical conclusion and I regret that. I don't know for sure, but perhaps I may have reached your conclusion on my own 10 years ago, my friend! big_smile

Jeez! When I look at it now, I can see it could have really caused a great deal of discomfort. Please understand; this is not what I had in mind.

Y'all enjoy the rest of your weekend, family! smile

Bill

Go to forum: Songwriting

1,950 Reply by Strummerboy Bill

(9 replies, posted in Songwriting)

BGD,

I totally understand and I'd like the rest of the forum to voice their support or objections. It may be a bad idea and if so, then so be it.

My point (not argument - too negative a term) of support or suggestion would be that if one didn't wish their work to be considered, it would be their choice not to enter the competition.

This is the kind of interaction I am after in discussing this -- especially from the mods -- as BGD has just done.

I'm just very fortunate to be among such brilliant writers/performers, but at the same time, I also recognize that more than just a few are very modest about your talents.

Please lets hear from the rest of you about this, okay?

Thanks very much!

Bill

Go to forum: Songwriting