Welcome Richard to the land of Chordie. As a person who has always been really curious about music and slightly confused by the world, I find this is an excellent place to check out and share ideas.
2,152 2017-09-29 06:16:26
Re: When do your lyric inspirations hit? (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Beamer after a few beers if nothing happens I always sleep well.
2,153 2017-09-29 00:18:37
Re: When do your lyric inspirations hit? (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I tend to get creative when I am tired and bored. People also can feel creative after a few drinks. According to what I had to study about the brain when I use to work with drug addicts and alcholics it has alot to do with our frontal cortex. Our frontal cortex is our major dopamine hub. Our creative response at night has nothing to do with the time of day, but everything to do with our energy cycle.
You get tired at night? Your frontal lobe is missing some vital energy signals, and therefore you’re going to end up being slightly more creative than regular.
Not surprisingly: the same creative response your brain has to getting tired is the exact same as when you drink alcohol.
Alcohol inhibits the frontal cortex, almost identically to how pure exhaustion does. If you want to reproduce the effect of exhaustion on your creativity all you need to do is have a few drinks.
Not too many, of course, because the more you drink the less other critical thinking functions have to keep going. If you are a drinker the trick is to drink just the right amount of alcohol. If your a drinker or not a drinker, keep a paper and pen handy so when your brain is tired and exhausted, and you come up with a great idea you can write it down. Another way is to hit record it on your cell phone and save the idea that way. Some of my best ideas come in the shower.Research shows you’re more likely to have a creative epiphany when you’re doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering. Since these routines don’t require much thought, you flip to autopilot. This frees up your unconscious to work on something else. Your mind goes wandering, leaving your brain to quietly play a no-holds-barred game of free association.
This kind of daydreaming relaxes the prefrontal cortex—the brain’s command center for decisions, goals, and behavior. It also switches on the rest of your brain’s “default mode network” (DMN) clearing the pathways that connect different regions of your noggin. With your cortex loosened up and your DMN switched on, you can make new, creative connections that your conscious mind would have dismissed. So for me creativity comes when I am not trying to be creative. If I try to write a song or poem it doesn't happen usually. Good ideas hit usually at inapropriate times for me.
2,154 2017-09-27 09:53:21
Re: The one song (15 replies, posted in Songwriting)
That is a hard question to answer. Each bay, has its own wind and to force a song onto someone feels a bit like leading a horse to water and expecting it to drink. On the. basis of exposing someone to a song I would choose Blowin In The Wind by Bob Dylan.
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
2,155 2017-09-26 11:00:47
Re: My Fate (about wife beating) (23 replies, posted in Poems)
PhillJust read this poem for the first time and it tells it well.. A few days back a young man told me about how his girlfriend had a previous relationship with a bloke who behind doors was violent to her... . He showed me a private poem about her bad time. One of the scars she still has is not been able to share her experience with all of the world. She had given him permision to show me the poem.. The words from that poem made me feel angry that these people are out there . I still remember this small part of the poem talking about after a beating from him .
Covering his tracks.
Before resuming work as a man.
No survellance no remorse.
When I read this part of your poem below it made me think of the words above.
Suspicions maybe; bruises she hides.
She's ashamed of the fact that her husband's a swine.
I'm good with my hands on her arms and her legs.
Her back and her ribs but never her face
2,156 2017-09-25 23:22:59
Re: Tuesday's Flying Fingers (474 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
TF makes me want to get back to Greece again Eva Atimatzidou is fantastic. φανταστικός (fantastikós)
2,157 2017-09-25 23:15:42
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Jandle your voice makes any band sound good. I will try to get Maree to play more she thanks you for your nice comment, She has a great skill but doesn't enjoy playing.
2,158 2017-09-25 23:09:43
Re: Happy Anniversary, Badeye! (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Badeye you have introduced me to some great music. To keep it going like you have is a great achievement. Thank you.
2,159 2017-09-25 22:48:27
Re: Be Careful Who You Choose (8 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you for your feed back Phill and TF. Maree and I have true love we disagree about many things but the main thing is we never get sick of each others company and work things out. Our time together is never boring. . She knows all my flaws, mistakes, and weaknesses and still she loves me.after 36 years of marriage. My Nann and Grandpah were married at 17 and their love and lifetime together with respect for each other was a good example for me.
2,160 2017-09-24 23:30:17
Re: Be Careful Who You Choose (8 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you for the feed back TIG and EB. This poem doesnt quiet work on most younger teenagers. Most life lessons are learnt when you are able to look back a bit and study what didn't work out. Putting old heads on young shoulders doesn't always work.
2,161 2017-09-24 23:29:03
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Often sold at sports events and food markets, there will be what is known as a Sausage Sizzle here in NZ. Sports clubs and charities use them to raise money. Most weekends there are are sausage sizzle fundraisers outside Supermarkets and Wharehouses . For clubs the easiest thing to do is to cook. sausages, onions, on a barbecue. Usually for a two dollar coin you get a sausage. You then choose to have it on fresh white bread or brown bread with the choice of tomato sauce or mustard.. What we call Hotdogs here is a saveloy on a stick or without a stick covered in batter and fried in oil. What we call American Hotdogs is a boiled saveloy in a bread roll with a choice of cheese, onion with mustard or tomato sauce.
A saveloy is a type of highly seasoned sausage, with a bright red skin , normally boiled. They are also available in fish and chips shops, fried in batter.
If a kiwi says to you "give us a fair suck of the Sav " ( Saveloy ) it actually means they want to be given a fair go and not be left out.
We have also in NZ Sausage Rolls. The basic composition of a sausage roll is sheets of puff pastry formed into tubes around sausage meat and glazed with egg or milk before being baked.
2,162 2017-09-24 07:30:44
Topic: Be Careful Who You Choose (8 replies, posted in Poems)
This is a poem I wrote after I was asked to write a poem about love from the perspective of a person of my years,
It is more about the advice I would give a teenager.
Be Careful Who You Choose.
Love can make fools out of all us.
Love can be right can be wrong.
Sentiments written in silly songs.
Trying to avoid it would be wrong.
Before you were born and after your gone.
Love from the heart in millions of songs
Love sort after then unjustly refused.
To those who have been abandoned and abused.
It can be hard at times to know who to choose.
So be careful who you choose.
Yeah be careful who you choose.
Lust of the flesh can tear you apart.
Lust on its own is not made of the heart .
It turns to dust and tears you apart.
So be careful who you choose.
Yeah be careful who you choose.
Counterfeit love is made of greed and posssession.
It leads to loss and depression
So be careful who you choose.
Yeah be careful who you choose
2,163 2017-09-24 00:06:38
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
CG I love that song played and sung with depth and emotion.
2,164 2017-09-23 23:55:15
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Doug I think what you called a Welsh Pasty is known here as Cornish Pasty Here in NZ a Cornish pasty is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking. When I was growing up a bakery was our local form of takeout and they would sell items such as Pasty's , Meat pies and Apple turnovers . Apple turnovers is a sweet apple filling made with a puff pastry.
We didnt have McDonalds or Kentucky Fries in those days. Fish and Chips were our other popular takeout in those days,
2,165 2017-09-22 23:36:21
Re: Tribute acts love em or hate em? (14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
The other night I went on to youtube and came across a young guy doing Cat Steven songs he was brilliant. I then decided to watch Cat Stevens doing the same songs. I was dissapointed to discover the tribute artist was better live. I might have to revise my opinion's on tribute acts.
The METALIZER. ILL BE ROCKING IN MY WHEELCHAIR, Beamer I with you on that one.
2,166 2017-09-22 23:12:02
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Phill on my fathers side my Grandparents were from the Uk. They would call melted Cheese on toast Welsh Rabbit. My Maree was telling me her Welsh friends called it Welsh Rarebit. . My UK Grandparents if they said to me lets have a Rabbit and Pork it meant they wanted to have a talk. If they asked you is that a Pork Pie they were saying is that a lie.
Tripe was something my father liked to eat. As a kid I had to eat it but now I wouldnt go near it. For those not familiar with Tripe it was a popular nutritious and cheap dish for the British working classes from Victorian times until the latter half of the 20th century. It is made from sheep or cow's stomachs. The stomachs are cleaned and the fat trimmed off. It is then boiled and bleached, giving it, it's white colour when sold at the Butchers.
Or yes and back to my Nann and Grandpah from the UK if they said, "lets have a Butchers Hook" that meant lets have a look.
2,167 2017-09-22 09:27:42
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
TF I bet you never thought your humour would end up with the discussion taking a segway like it has ?
2,168 2017-09-22 09:15:49
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Phill over in Fiji the Muslim people wouldn't eat meat unless it is known as halal meat. They wouldn't eat tin bully beef Their food had to come from a supplier that uses halal practices which is a prescribed method of slaughter for all meat sources, excluding fish and other sea-life, per Islamic law. This method of slaughtering animals consists of using a well-sharpened knife to make a swift, deep incision that cuts the front of the throat, the carotid artery, trachea, and jugular veins.The head of an animal that is slaughtered using halal methods is aligned in the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca. In addition to the direction, permitted animals should be slaughtered upon utterance of a Islamic prayer 'Bismillah' The slaughter had to be performed by a Muslim and blood must be drained from the veins. So I thought maybe in the Middle East none halal meat could have been an issue.
2,169 2017-09-22 04:21:57
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
That was interesting Doug. I spent part of my childhood in Fiji. I remember a tin product called Bully Beef which most people would now know as Salt Beef or Corned Beef. It was very popular as many people in those days in Fijian villages didn't have fridges. I was wondering if tin corn beef was something they had in the Middle East.????
During the first world war the Australian and New Zealand armed forces were known as Anzac's. A hundred years ago our soldiers at Gallipoli, Turkey were issued as part of their rations bully beef. It came in cans every day for months and months. They had nothing much else but that and tough-as-rocks biscuits they called hard tack. Bully beef was the major source of protein for the Anzac troops.
Doug I love the way you wrote. If I looked around my larder, there just might be a can hiding in there somewhere, although I tend to lean towards the "Smoked" version, and it will usually make an appearance sometime during the camping season as it still does not need refrigeration, and has the "half-life" of Plutonium in an unopened tin
2,170 2017-09-21 22:49:58
Re: Andres Segovia place in guitar history. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Thank you guys for those links, you have taught me more and introduced me to some brilliant guitar music.
2,171 2017-09-21 22:46:26
Re: Dad brag moment! (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Nice Picture Beamer I think sport is a great way to help build character.
2,172 2017-09-21 22:42:24
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I was suprised to discover this morning cans of Spam availabe at our local supermarket. It made me wonder what this product is about as my only reference to it is Monty Python. I discoverd It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. the product was intended to increase the sale of pork shoulder which was not a very popular cut..The difficulty of delivering fresh meat to the front during World War II saw Spam become a ubiquitous part of the U.S. soldier's diet. It became variously referred to as "ham that didn't pass its physical", "meatloaf without basic training" and "Special Army Meat". Over 150 million pounds of Spam were purchased by the military before the war's end.
During World War II and the occupations which followed, Spam was introduced into Guam, Hawaii, Okinawa, the Philippines, and other islands in the Pacific. Immediately absorbed into native diets, it has become a unique part of the history and effects of U.S. influence in the Pacific.
As a consequence of World War II rationing, Spam also gained prominence in the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher later referred to it as a "wartime delicacy. At the time it was introduced, it was the only canned meat product on the market that needed no refrigeration. Spam gained a reputation in the United Kingdom and the United States as a poverty food. The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the Scottish colloquial term "Spam valley" to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels. Spam is celebrated in Austin, Minnesota, home to the Spam Museum. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam, and its place in world culture. After all that information on it I am not sure if I want to try it. I would be interested to hear Chordie members stories about Spam. I found TIGS story inspiring how a widow managed to bring him and his other nine sibblings up in hard times. Also how Spam kept him alive at college. More Spam stories if you got one please.
2,173 2017-09-21 02:20:07
Re: Seems Your Heart's Gone Cold - on Soundcloud (4 replies, posted in My local band and me)
TIG you and Phill do some great collaborations.
2,174 2017-09-21 02:13:24
Re: This Post is About SPAM (24 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Until Monty Python came along Spam was something most Kiwis didnt eat or know about. Now days we know it as a computer thing but as product to eat.not one sort after by Kiwi's. Great photo TF.
2,175 2017-09-21 02:08:00
Topic: Andres Segovia place in guitar history. (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Every week I try and learn about something new mostly to do with history. I regularly visit our local library as part of my weekly routine, This week I read about Andres Segovia someone I had never heard about.
Andrés Segovia was born in southern Spain and began playing the guitar as a child. In those days, it was considered little more than a folk instrument; serious composers and musicians didn’t respect it. But Segovia saw the potential for classical music on the guitar. He began studying the techniques of classical musicians who played the violin and cello. He then applied those techniques to his guitar playing, and developed other methods on his own. He adapted compositions of the old masters such as Bach, and learned to play them on his instrument. In 1909 Segovia made his debut at age sixteen. In 1919 he toured the world and won over the classical music establishment.
For the first time composers started writing classical music for the guitar, and a whole new musical genre was born. Over the course of eighty years, Segovia changed people’s perception of the instrument. And like many big dreams, his dream made an impact far beyond what he imagined. It could be argued that his efforts opened the door to the guitar in concert halls and jazz bands, which in turn led to the electronically amplified guitar. Today if you enjoy the music of the Beatles or Eric Clapton, and so on, thank Andrés Segovia. If it wasn’t for his dream, much of the music from the twentieth century may have gone in an entirely different direction.