Here is me trying a Irvine Berlin Christmas tune with Robert Anonymous on Guitar and my not so good vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5yy3EcwPo
1,976 2017-12-11 03:58:30
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
1,977 2017-12-11 03:34:44
Re: DECEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHRISTMAS SONGS (57 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
A good Christmas song you wrote EB. I also like the photo of the Pohutukawa tree in flower with your song. For those who don't know what a Pohutukawa trees is. The Pohutukawa tree with its crimson flower has become an established part of the New Zealand Christmas tradition. It only flowers on or around Christmas and New Years.
1,978 2017-12-09 20:42:51
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Badeye great thread I check it out regularly. Here is a Kiwi Country Blues Group. they are good but I must say they need more of a traditional blues feel instead of their smooth flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0SvCUAaJLw
1,979 2017-12-09 20:23:47
Re: A Christmas Office Party (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you Neo I like the idea of people drawing cartoons to tell every day stories. The thing is is with cartoons you don't have to be a great artist. It also can be another way of doodling.
1,980 2017-12-09 20:10:14
Re: My Fate (about wife beating) (23 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you clippath. At the time when Jandal put that up on soundcloud I got some very good feed back from people. It was wonderful how Jandal made the song work.
I was pleased to read Phills excellent poem on this same subject that tackles a problem for many woman around the world.
1,981 2017-12-09 19:51:16
Re: "SONGS FOR CHORDIE CD'S" (13 replies, posted in Recording)
That was a great idea for a cd Did it happen ?
1,982 2017-12-09 19:43:32
Re: Let Go ( of what you cannot change) (12 replies, posted in Songwriting)
TIG I like the way your song reveals hard times are good in their own way.. For me as I see life, the only way most people achieve true happiness is after they have experienced true sadness. You are a very talented songwriter.
1,983 2017-12-08 06:44:20
Topic: A Christmas Office Party (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
This is my way of making a cartoon of a office Christmas party. I tried to make it look like an exaggerated snap shot of three people at a party by doing a simple pen drawing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTUpINzXMg&t=14s
1,984 2017-12-07 19:06:41
Re: Dear Santa ... (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you Tig I should thank Irving Berlin for the tune. My guitarist who wants to be called Robert Anonymous for his playing.
"White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 100 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 150 million copies. Here is me with my version with the lyrics Guitar Christmas selling no copies worldwide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5yy3EcwPo
1,985 2017-12-07 03:48:05
Re: Christmas time is here (5 replies, posted in My local band and me)
A nice reggae Christmas vibe ctech,
1,986 2017-12-07 03:42:23
Re: Dear Santa ... (19 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
This is my Santa wish attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm5yy3EcwPo
1,987 2017-12-07 03:39:16
Re: December Letter To My Chordie Friends (24 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
In winter it is even more cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPs1KOcugj8
1,988 2017-12-06 18:32:17
Re: Merry Christmas Video of Song I wrote (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Love the video TIG . I will attach a short 40 second video of me drawing a Christmas Cartoon while listening to Vivaldi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPs1KOcugj8
1,989 2017-12-06 10:11:08
Re: Eskimo Joe - an original song (2 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Interesting Guitar and vocals.
1,990 2017-12-06 10:04:11
Re: December Letter To My Chordie Friends (24 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Fantastic beautiful city Neo. Here is a tourist promo video of Wellington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZSbrSX-Do
1,991 2017-12-06 04:23:00
Topic: Marketing Music And Getting A Financial Return (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I meet up with a group of friends including Easy Beat usually once a week and one of the things we have debated about is the fickle bussiness of copyright and publishing music. I thought I better look into it more. The origin of copyright law began with efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control the output of printers. I have learnt that many artist have received a pittance in royalties simply because they signed away their copyright. This is called assigning your copyright to a third party. Music must be one of the most over-hyped and unregulated industry of all time. The great publishing houses of the 1940's were active in one thing exploitation of the work of songwriters who wrote to order. to meet the demands of popular singers and Broadway musicals of the big band era. Many songwriter were on salaries. Writers started to realise the enormous capacity of their work to mesmerise a nation and catapult the recording artist to fame.
A movement began towards songwriters sharing the copywrite royalties. Why not publish yourself? The better known companies have the ability to market and make more money from your writing than you can do yourself. Another advantage of a big label or music publisher is they will collect- vigorously- every cent owed to you. So how does it work for the publisher or record company? The copyright payment is deducted immediately from the amount paid by the retailer or what business buys your song. It is then paid to the publisher- the owner of the copyright or held in a seperate account until claimed by the rightful owner.
What you get depends on what your percentage agreement is with your publisher. Anyone can be a publisher. You just need an address a computer and a standard contract. and the ability to convince the writer it is a good idea for you to exploit their work for the life of the copyright. Which now also means up to after fifty years after the death of the writer. Many songwriters have been taken to the cleaners through signing bad contracts,
When the person on the street buy's 'someone else's music it does not provide the rights to use this music in a commercial or public setting. Music is sold for private/domestic use, so any use of this music by a business or organisation is a public performance that requires licensing. The same rule applies whether you have purchased a physical CD, bought a digital download or stream music through a subscription service.
Modern day International copyright can be traced back to the British Statute of Anne 1710.. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books. Copyright now covers a wide range of works, including maps, performances, paintings, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures and computer programes..
Today national copyright laws have been standardised to some extent through international and regional agreements such as the Berne Convention and the European copyright directives. Although there are consistencies among nations' copyright laws, each jurisdiction has separate and distinct laws and regulations about copyright. Some jurisdictions also recognize moral rights of creators, such as the right to be credited for the work.
1,992 2017-12-06 04:04:51
Re: December Letter To My Chordie Friends (24 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Cheers Neo it is 24c today or 75 f here in Wellington today. Your Mum was a good lady it is sad the cancer got in the way, Here is a short videos I made of around our city Wellington today .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULFSD_AH02Q
1,993 2017-12-05 19:11:57
Re: I'll never fall for that (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I with you ctech the simple home made things are better then all the mass produced things and the madness of the city.. I am not self sufficient but I can see the benifits of that way of life.
Here is a little video of a song I did on life with my friend. Robert Hall He had trouble with the soundmix when we did the vocals so they only come through on one channel.
1,994 2017-12-05 18:47:42
Re: December Letter To My Chordie Friends (24 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Neo I am enjoying what everyone is adding to the thread. More the merrier keep it going. I havent been to Perth but everyone I know who goes there tells me it's a beautiful city. My wife visited Fremantle on a ship she was on and loved the place. A young guy who use to do a bit of guitar for me loves playing music in the bars around Fremantle and also in Perth itself. My friend's son use to work out of Perth driving trucks from Perth to Port Headland. Another friend of mine son lived there and life was going good until his other half murdered their 22month old son at Hillarys Boat Harbour. She had claimed at the time that the boy unfastened himself from his stroller while her back was turned but when police reviewed CCTV footage her story did not add up. Thats my two bobs worth on Perth.
1,995 2017-12-05 10:24:04
Re: I'll never fall for that (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Your style of singing and playing get the anger behind the lyrics out real good. I like the how your song tells it in a confident way, "don't you dare think I am stupid"
You think you’ve got me,
Caught in your trap,
I’m not stupid
I’ll never fall for that,,
Great lyrics
1,996 2017-12-05 10:16:43
Re: Take me away ,a song i wrote when inside (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Ctech I can feel pain coming through in your song, man you put it together good.
1,997 2017-12-05 10:09:59
Re: I cant feel the sunshine anymore (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
TF Your words hit home to me about how oppresive the news can be and how it's a struggle some days to not drown in all of the sadness we're having crammed into our ears.
Ctech the world is more connected but the truth is it's a big disconnection out there for many. I am with you TF when you write "Our thoughts need to be constantly focused on what is true, good, precious, and important". Good lyrics ctech
1,998 2017-12-05 09:46:17
Re: No Sob Story. (20 replies, posted in Poems)
That is an excellent quote from Frank at time's he could put together clever thoughts and words.. Strange how sometimes words come into ones vocabulary I became aware of the word Bromhidrosis.after listening to Frank Zappa song Stinkfoot.
1,999 2017-12-05 09:20:37
Re: Woodstock version (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
For me I prefer the Joni mitchell and Mathew Southern Comfort version's with the original chorus.
We are stardust.
We are golden.
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Crosby Stills version and their changed chorus didnt work for me.
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.
2,000 2017-12-04 19:37:02
Re: NOVEMBER 2017 FSOTM - CHALLENGE THEME (94 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Neo your a very talented music man. I enjoy your videos and your warm family setting.