1 (edited by Peatle Jville 2018-10-15 07:57:24)

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I wrote this song after hearing two tourists talking about the town  where they come from.
I made a rough copy of it for a friend mine who asked me to write something with a blues feel.
As I play by feel and dont write music this is how I do it. It needs work but I thought I would put it up for a short time  to see if I could get some feed back. I dont play much music now as I find it hard with my health issues in recent times. As usual all done  with my cellphone and a bit on my laptop camera. I keep it simple as I am no good with technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbcWwolf7NQ

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Great to see you doing new stuff Peatle     

The King Of Audio Torture

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Nice!!!     

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Keep it up Pete, nice vid too.     

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Peatle - well done
I agree with the song and I agree with Richard's comment he left on Soundcloud!
Jim     

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Great song, Peatle ... and your style / voice suits it perfectly. I read somewhere last year that the African continental ecosystem alone can comfortably produce enough food annually to feed 14.8 billion people, i.e., twice the world's population.     

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Thank you everyone for taking time to have a listen and give me some feedback.  TF you are right  Africa has big potential to grow food but poor management and corruption has ruined many farms over there.  Around the world because of industrialization leading to loss of agricultural land, population growth, and the demand for more meat instead of grain as China’s incomes rise. China is projected to need to import 240 million tons of food annually by the year 2030. Yet, total world agricultural trade is currently just 200 million tons of grain or grain equivalent, and that amount is decreasing as the exporting countries consume more and more of their own food products. Water tables on every continent are falling, as water is pumped out at far greater rates than rainwater can replenish in order to provide irrigation for agriculture.  I think food producers in the future will benifit financially from the Chinese market only if there is a balance of trade.
Most economies need exports or foreign currency  in order make their countries have a standard of living.

It is claimed that 78% of children who are malnourished under 5 years of age live in countries with food surpluses. Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half  of all food produced.

Prices paid for food are determined globally while the cost of food is determined locally.
Since the World Trade Organisation was established, world hunger has increased Export crop production has become the focus in many agricultural societies.
International corporations control food resources. In the past as well as today developing countries are used to supply more affluent nations with CHEAP resources and agricultural products.
The majority of large scale tobacco, coffee,  production is done in countries that we would consider to be developing.
Countries with high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and poor health care.
Countries where agricultural lands would be better used to grow food rather than cash crops to be exported to wealthier nations.

The problem we have faced from economic globalization is the intensifying unequal distribution of employment and income.



The World Bank states that the world food supply in 1994 could have fed 6.4 billion people so hunger stems not necessarily from lack of food, but also for economic and political reasons. The world produces enough grain to feed every person at least 3,500 calories a day yet 800 million people in the world are hungry. Three fourths of people who are hungry live in Asia, Africa, or Latin America
Back on my mother's  family  and tribal Island of  Ovalau  in Fiji most of the people who live on that island don’t have much money but are rich. The reason is because no one goes hungry or homeless and there is fresh water and good education and the  health care is ok. People fish and grow food, money and posession are not a big part of the culture there. Visitors sometimes see them as poor but the people there consider themselves wealthy. Sorry about my long  rave, but  I think the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations  has made things worse for most countries..
Having written all that my song is  just me  putting these two tourists comments I heard talking  about their town the other day into a simple Blues form.
Thank you for your time and encouragement my friends.     

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Well said, Peatle ... hear, hear!!!

I'll add two more global plagues to the WTO and UN, and those would be the Commodities Exchange and the Stock Exchange. Both are mechanisms which use artificial means of establishing value to products and publicly-traded companies, and thereby control demand / costs by unnatural means. With so many entities in between the farm and the kitchen table, it's no wonder food prices and food distribution are so unbalanced.

My wife and I count it a blessing (every day!) that we can buy almost all of our food from farms which raise / grow it locally, or fisheries which are nearby. And we're also grateful to live in a country with a population density of only 4 people / sq. kilometer. Lots of elbow room! big_smile

Aside of all this, that's a terrific song you've written, and I love the way you've performed it.     

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Cheers TF you and I think alike. Canada is a blessed country. My sister is a free-lance travel/food and wine writer.and loves Canada so much that she has lived in Canada since 1965. Though she is based in Vancouver she loves getting out to the wide open spaces you have in your country.     

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I knew there was more to my friend Pete than meets the eye - or in this case - ear. I left some comments on your video, but I'll say right here and now, when you turn loose of that anger and frustration and put it in the words of a song, you rank right up there with a Howlin' Wolf or John Lee Hooker. That growl of yours puts just the right amount of exasperartion needed to make the blues personal.

Thanks also for the lore you added here, my friend! The late Harry Chapin supported World Hunger Relief, and he too would have liked this song, I know.

Your Bro

Bill     

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Bill my Bro thank you for the compliment putting me up there with Howlin Wolf  and John Lee Hooker. Harry Chapin is another artist I admire. The good thing about the blues we can get away with and  do simple things, which are borrowed from others.  As Steve here will say about  the blues on a clip which I will attach by two Kiwi blues guys Steve Apirana and Jm Doak for you to eye and ear. Thank you Bill for your support .
Your Kiwi Bro
Pete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrLOHQT9lkE

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That was a great song, that kiwi has a good voice!!     

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Cheers Neo Steve is good..     

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Sorry, Pete I meant to comment on this last night, but literally fell asleep at the keyboard - been doing that a lot lately. I agree with neo - Steve just continually  amazes me with those clean blues of his, but this time it's Jim I wanted to compliment. He's right ON with those fast downstrokes, isn't he? Don't know much about Mr. Doakes - is he a "guest" on Steve's shows? The two complement each other very well! Thanks for including it!

Bill     

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Rogue Beatle Bass
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Cheers Bill, Jim Doak is a  bluegrass player of some renown in NZ and OZ. He lives in Nelson, New Zealand where as Steve now lives in Cooran Queensland Australia. Once in a while Jim and Steve will join together to tour and make music often with other musos. They usually  call themselves Dirt Floor Alliance on these tours it would be good if they made an album..

Your Bro Pete

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Brillant Peatle, you nailed it with this song.  Liked the lyrics, liked the blues and vocals, and guitar work suited it.  Nicely put together with the visual on You Tube as well.  Well done Peatle all round smile     

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Thank you Jan glad you liked it.     

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Does it mean we'll be hearing more Peatle originals ... ??     

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19 (edited by Peatle Jville 2018-10-22 01:12:13)

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Cheers Neo Playing music for me at the moment is a bit of a trail due to my health and also other factors. Despite the music thing I am living a good life and are happy just incase it sounds like my world is terrible. Further down the track I will hopefully get  back on the horse again.   So you wont see much of me doing my own music on here for a while.  Instead of me playing, for now I will leave you a clip of a Kiwi bands take on rhythm and blues,  which I enjoy listening too.    A bit about the band.  Netherworld Dancing Toys was a New Zealand band from Dunedin formed in 1982.  In 1985, their single "For Today" reached No3 in the New Zealand singles chart. Nick Sampson wrote 'For Today' during a summer spent working at a Taranaki freezing works. His love song has become a classic  here in NZ aided in no small part by Annie Crummer's soaring vocal. The now defunct Netherworld Dancing Toys reformed again to do this one of performance at this years APRA Silver Scroll awards in NZ.. Unfortunately as it was only a small venue you dont get to hear the crowd  singing along, but when I have heard crowds singing the chorus line at big Rugby games it sounds great,. "For Today I will remember your smile." is the chorus short and sweet and easy for people to remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gceLjREO_i8

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Peatle Jville wrote:

Cheers Neo Playing music for me at the moment is a bit of a trail due to my health and also other factors. Despite the music thing I am living a good life and are happy just incase it sounds like my world is terrible.

Well, happy to hear you are living the good life smile Hope everything that needs to get healed, gets healed ....

Cheers

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