Bill and Dondra Wishing you all the best it wont be long before you are in your new place with your love for each it will become a beautiful home. You cant build a home with hammer and nails, bricks, mortar , and stone , it takes love to make a house a home.
God bless
Pete and Maree
2,176 2017-09-18 01:42:20
Re: Update On The Move (4 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
2,177 2017-09-17 00:12:12
Re: What Inspired your Chordie Nickname? (34 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Words in one language when said in another language can be offensive swear words. Whakarewarewa (reduced version of Te Whakarewarewatanga O Te Ope Taua A Wahiao, meaning The gathering place for the war parties of Wahiao, is often abbreviated to Whaka by locals. This place Whakarewarewa is a tourist destination in Rotorua. English speaking tourist often find it amusing to hear the word Whaka. The letters WH part of WHaka in Maori is pronounce as an f, So when you speak the name Whaka in Maori it sounds like Far Car to english speaking ears. The aka part of the name is pronounced Uck Car. Of course with Wh sounding F in front of the ucker makes it in english a swear word to untrained ears. I supose it is a bit like when the Irish say Whale Oil Beef Hooked.
Phill Maori have a form of twirking with their naked butts known as the act of whakapohane (baring of buttocks, a traditional Māori insult)
This was done to visiting Royalty by Anti Government protesters against the Crown as the Royal Party drove past them. One Newspaper Headline reported it as a Twenty One Bum Salute.
2,178 2017-09-16 10:56:58
Re: friday's blues fix (1,560 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Badeye great choice. I love the way they use Organ, Piano, Harmonica in the arrangement.
2,179 2017-09-16 03:52:53
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Zurf, Gordon Lightfoot's baritone voice is hard to cover. You got a style which I call, Zurfing USA your music works for me. If I tried to cover Sundown it would be something that only deaf people could enjoy. My mother in a few days time will have her 97th Birthday when I asked her about music all she could say now I am deaf all music is good.The use of the Tamborine on Knocking On Heavens Door worked good. Maree was trained as classical pianist by local Catholic Nuns even though she was brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church. Because she has a sharp ear for music and can also play by ear any mistakes mess with her nerves. So as a result she doesnt like playing piano much. It was while I was staying over in Greece with her father that I found out she could play piano. At that time I had known her for over fourteen years. My attempts at music are not pleasing to her ear which I can understand.. When she does play piano I love it but it doesnt happen very often. Thank you for your feed back.
Jandle l if you get to read this I hope your leg is healing good. Broken bones can be a bit of long journey but eventually it all works out. So I guess having you represent Chordie Land at Skiing in the Winter Olympics might be out of the question for now ?
2,180 2017-09-13 04:47:12
Re: Politicians Promise. (5 replies, posted in Poems)
TF we could face the same problem here. Hopefully whoever gets in to power here works out a fair tax system that can be sustained and not hinder the ability to maintain a good lifestyle for everyone. Big overseas multi billion dollar Corporations at present can avoid tax while local businesses and the working public pay their fair share.
Our present tax system lacks coherence, integrity and fairness: Differences in tax rates and the treatment of entities provide opportunities to divert income and reduce tax liability.
If it stays the same our demographic change, together with the rising cost of financing higher public debt, will place higher demands on the tax revenue base while simultaneously placing greater tax pressure on a smaller proportion of the population.
2,181 2017-09-13 02:11:36
Re: Politicians Promise. (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Cheers Phill and Jandal thank you for your feedback
i wrote the poem in reply to a good poem sent to me asking a question about the dilemma of who to vote for by Easybeat. I think worldwide politically people are looking for new and better ways of political leadership and government. Though New Zealand is often lauded overseas as an egalitarian society, in the decades from 1985 onwards, New Zealand had the biggest increase in income gaps of any developed country. Incomes for the richest Kiwis doubled, while those of the poorest stagnated. Middle income earners didn’t do too well, either. Infrastructure and immigration has divided New Zealand for years, but the divisive questions usually involve its impact on government deficits, local wages, the environment, and whether immigrants are really needed to do the jobs that Kiwis can do. Auckland our biggest city has a problem where people like Nurses, Teachers, Police cant afford to live there due to high rentals and property values. A property bubble and rampant speculation following the 2008 financial crisis has contributed to soaring income inequality along with sustained attacks on the wage levels and basic social rights of ordinary people, including access to accommodation. Auckland’s housing market is now only slightly cheaper than London but less affordable than Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Perth, Brisbane and Boston Over the rest of the country it is now harder in most areas for people to get into good housing than it was a couple of decades back. The other issue here is education and health . With education there is issues around are we teaching our children the necessary skills to make it in the real world. With health system is the issue of are we providing first world care.
2,182 2017-09-13 01:18:04
Re: Bill & Dondra Went Moving (3 replies, posted in Poems)
I don't understand why people don't follow my advice.
Surely people can see I am nice.
Bill keep marching to the beat of your drum.
When you get to where your going,
If you cant sing hum. .
Sit down on your drum stool.
Pick up the guitar and give it a strum,
With one foot play the high hat.
With the other the bass drum.
If Dondra doesnt want that..
Put down the guitar and have a quick chat.
No need to sit in a corner strumming guitar.
Entertain your new neighbours.
They will have no reason to get mad.
Just play your drums.
All day and all of the night,
Below is a song for Bill and Dondra by the Kinks.
2,183 2017-09-13 00:07:51
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Zurf I managed to con my Maree into giving the piano a quick play so we did an easy one to cover hopefully Knocking On Heavens Door. Hope its not painful on the ears.
Mojo your cover is done real good. I am not brave enough to cover that.
2,184 2017-09-12 09:49:56
Re: new song (5 replies, posted in My local band and me)
EB Not only have you got the guitar working great your voice is bang on.
2,185 2017-09-12 08:49:25
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Cheers Jandle hope your leg is healing good. I should learn to play the Ukulele my Mum use to play nice Ukulele tunes when I was a kid.
2,186 2017-09-12 08:29:23
Re: Tribute acts love em or hate em? (14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Grah I am not a fan of tribute acts. Having said that I ended up one night at a club that was hosting a Evis impersonator competition. One of the impersonators even had expensive surgery done to get an Elvis look. That night was really entertaining purely for the comedy though I suspect I was in the minority of those who saw the funny side. A friend of mine and Easy Beat's does cabaret style shows with an Evis impersonater his stage stories about the gigs always give me a laugh. Today it is claimed there are around 250,000 Elvis impersonators, imagine if they all lived in the same town. I think that would be a fun place to visit.
2,187 2017-09-12 07:52:10
Topic: Politicians Promise. (5 replies, posted in Poems)
Here in NZ it is election time here is a poem I wrote about promise and delivery by Politicians..
Politicians Promise.
A politicians promise made is sometimers a debt unpaid.
Charasmatic promises eventually twisted into differant shapes,
Magical clever deceptions spoken words made on a stage.
Party spokesperson describing a sought after garment seductively covering a promising body.
Once the garment is removed and all is revealed what comes to some is a shock
A beautiful garment all along covering a broken down skeleton with no heart.
2,188 2017-09-11 23:38:46
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Thank you Zurf. I got a medical condition which is making it hard to play instruments at the moment. Thought better to put something up rather than nothing. I am sure with the talent on here someone should be able to knock out a better version. So far yours is the best. My music is like photography before it went digital and we needed film. I am still studying my negatives looking for positives that could be developed into an enjoyable musical experience.
2,189 2017-09-11 06:01:40
Re: SEPTEMBER 2017 FSOTM -ANOTHER CHALLENGE MONTH! (41 replies, posted in Featured Song of the Month)
Zurf I gave it a quick go hope it is ok.
https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/chordie-sotm
2,190 2017-09-10 07:55:44
Re: Thank You (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
JJJ
Think excellent thoughts! What enters your mind repeatly ,occupies it,shapes, controls it and, in the end, expresses itself in what you do and what you become. I think togetherness is a very important ingredient . Here in New Zealand we have a word Aroha which in English translates to compassion, tenderness, sustaining love. Whānau is a Māori-language word for extended family, now increasingly entering New Zealand language also. We also have people who will call you cuzzy (cousin) even though your not their cousin. What they are saying to you is you are indentified as a person who will always be by your side, even in difficult times. Another word Kia ora is a Māori language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It means, literally, have life be well/healthy.
kia Ora JJJ cuzzy you are Chordie Whanau , Aroha to you. ( you are of great value, unique like each one of us)
2,191 2017-09-09 05:49:26
Re: Day Four Of Bill & Dondra's Move (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Hi Bill
Loved the way you added the funny bits.
Pete
2,192 2017-09-09 02:11:52
Re: What Inspired your Chordie Nickname? (34 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Badeye a friend of mine has a glass eye. Sometimes after he has had a few beers he will take his eye out and leave it on the table. He will then say something like I am leaving now but Ill keep an eye on you while Im gone. Another chap I knew didnt like wearing a glass eye so wore a Pirates patch everyone ended up, calling him Patch.
2,193 2017-09-09 02:03:36
Re: Irma (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Down here in NZ my prayers are for you all to keep safe up there in the USA.
2,194 2017-09-09 01:49:44
Re: Excellent Cover Bands (42 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Cheers TF." Girl From the North Country", is a play using Bob Dylan songs put together by Connor Mcpherson. Connor McPherson was approached in 2013 by Dylan’s manager, Jeff Rosen, to see if he would be interested in basing a theatre show around a collection of his music. The Irish playwright was hesitant at first, unsure how to use songs by a “great icon of the 20th century” without falling into cliché. Then he had the idea of setting the play inside a guesthouse in a pre-Dylan Duluth – freeing the tunes and lyrics from the historical shadow of the singer’s life, yet keeping them grounded in the town that produced him. The Plays Musical supervisor Simon Hale, who has arranged and orchestrated the play, was unafraid to take the songs in very different directions to the original recordings.
Here is one of the songs from the show which has been covered in a new and dynamic way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0grZUoUhn_k
2,195 2017-09-08 01:17:37
Re: Excellent Cover Bands (42 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
TF I love that cover of Thunderstruck. On the show A Prairie Home Companion I love a segiment that Chris Thile does every month honouring musician birthdays with short interpretation of thier songs. Here is one below from a few months back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjHiaUX5R-o
2,196 2017-09-07 07:53:47
Re: What Inspired your Chordie Nickname? (34 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Just incase people dont know what Jandles are they are Flip Flops. Here in NZ a name for a style of shoes that use to amuse me as a kid was Brothel Creepers. Brothel creepers (sometimes shortened to creepers) are a style of shoe which has thick crepe soles, often in combination with suede uppers. This style of footwear became fashionable in the years following World War II, seeing resurgences of popularity at various times ever since.
2,197 2017-09-06 01:39:06
Re: What Inspired your Chordie Nickname? (34 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
The Peatle part of my name is what some of my family call me. The Jville part is what people call Johnsonville the town I live in though nowdays it just a suburb of the city down the road.
2,198 2017-09-06 01:29:25
Re: Hello (14 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Greetings Oldbike
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 come and ask questions. The fact that I am not a great musician or clever isn't a handicap on Chordie. Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. Even though I don't have many clever words, chordies have always indulged my quirkiness with kindness. I don't have many right answers or good questions when it comes to how to play guitar but there is always some one on here with good ideas questions and answers. Welcome to this place.
2,199 2017-09-06 00:59:15
Re: Funny Tab Video (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Bald G D that is an excellent video it gave me a good laugh. Put my head in the right space to face up to the pain of my phsyio work out this afternoon. Have you any others to share ????
2,200 2017-09-05 02:22:46
Re: Searching For Name Of An Artist (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Bill
Estimates of the number of modern day slaves today range from around 21 million to 46 million. Cheap modern day products made available all around the world are often produced in sweat shops using slave labour. Many good jobs have been lost to slave labour. Progress seems to equal more slaves in the world than before.
Aroha to you.Bill and Dondra.
Pete