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About 50 years ago when I played in a band I sometimes got into arguments with another member, as you do!, being me, I used to pout and wouldn't sing harmony to him until about the 3rd song when the hwyl (joy) would get to me and all would be well. Yes music lifts the spirit.     

So beautiful and shows how much love and respect there was between them both. Bill has been missed over the last few years and I regret now not separating the posts which I named spam. I hope Bill is well physically at least as there's no coming back from dementia. Life is fragile. Cherish it and respect it. As has been said many times; you'll never get out of it alive. Let's hope there's something better on the other side.     

Pedr, everything you write is interesting and an exercise for the mind as with Brian opening pictures in the brain as you very often see and explain things in a very different way, maybe it's because being on the south side of the world makes your imaginations look at life upside downwards? (I was going to say "to normal people" but I wont.he he he)

I watched that Rick Beato blog too and I came to the conclusion that even though I've slowed down in my 70's and in my writings maybe just one song in two or three weeks instead of a song a day the quality of my songs (in my opinion) is better now than 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Not every song but a greater percentage. Unfortunately my music does not conform to today's taste and conversely today's music does not conform to my taste and never the twain will meet. Rick is a very talented musician and producer but I think he is feeling left behind as A.I. endlessly squeezes musos who've done their apprenticeships out of the mainstream. Sermon over     

Good for you Grah, I wont even watch Youtube vids if I can see the performers are miming.
Is there anything better than turning to the other guys and saying "one more verse boys" or giving a nod to say your guitar solo is coming to an end. Playing with backing tracks needs discipline and a good memory for words and arrangements. Must be honest I miss it     

Pedr, it's happening all over even now. the rolling stones, pink floyd even u2 have been using backing singers keyboards and stand in drummers (like the eagles) and numerous others. some bands even use backing tracks to fill in their sound. can you blame them? not really. the who played with backing tracks back in the 70's, each time Kieth Moon put on headphones you knew what was happening. I used backing tracks which I recorded myself at home, they weren't as good as professionally made tracks but I liked them as they were my arrangement and in my key. I've seen acts struggle with songs in the wrong key for them. I laugh at that, maybe I'm cruel? maybe realistic     

Hi Neo. Yes, the way I've done it in the past is to "jump to forum" there you'll have a choice of which forum you want to look at. eg: song writing, Bands and artists etc, go to the bottom of the page and there'll be a choice of how many pages you want to go back to, I once went back to the date I joined Chordie so it is possible. That's the simple way there's probably a clever dickie way of doing it but someone else will have to explain that to you. I hope that's what you're looking for?     

I may be a snob but this is not for me. Each line of Grahs song is most likely taken from millions of lines from other songs programmed into a computer. Not for me...yuck     

Another cracker Jim. It came over as a pop/rock song in my mind, i guess it could work as a country rocker too. If I get time later I'll try it on my guitar both ways. Great hook and it reads as if it all came out of your pencil without having to struggle for the next line, I love it when that happens. Nice song to wake up to on a Saturday morning     

It reads like diary entries.maybe you could expand on what you've written, don't force a poetic lilt just write down what you see around you as you have done, what you feel at the time. You have the talent,  let it flow. I'm only offering advice as you've mentioned you are struggling to write new stuff. Good luck.     

A view on life around you at the time. Great poem but I had to remove the swear word as we don't allow bad language on Chordie. Thanks for posting