I am listening to “Plastic Beach” by Gorillaz. @SoItGoes thank you so much. It is such a beautiful sound world. Such talent. I am on day two of stopping smoking and again window shopping at musician’s friend all the time. I’m torn between a deluxe Squier stratocaster guitar or a Taylor twelve string guitar. Angie had to quit her job because the rest of the crew she worked with quit. The physical strain on her back because of the labor intensive jobs she did at the church camp helped her decide, she’s in a lot of pain in her back right now, but swears it’s nothing. She is beautiful like that.
Anyways, the staff over Angie at her old job were such pious self righteous. They make around $100,000 a year but tell the workers that the minimum wage (a bit above minimum) they make is really just serving the Lord and if you were there to be paid then you probably shouldn’t work there…ha…hypocrits. that’s why I’m ashamed I’m a christian because that makes them the same as me. but they aren’t christians. and I know Jesus sees that. can’t serve God and mammon (money) anyways.
Glad to hear you’re in good spirits, chum…
I’ve got a Fender Strat electric and a Sigma Martin six string. I love hammering out little ditties on both and I’m just now starting to record and pitch my song ideas for commercial purposes.
Think this is going to be a fun year!
That is incredible. I wrote a song one time when I was about 20 and my brother got really pissed at me because I heard that we should just go and play it for John Cougar. we knew the town he lived in. It’s still a pretty good song about a runaway I dated for a while when I was in high school. her dad was the chief of police of Oklahoma City. kind of a dangerous girl.
Great story…I’d love to hear the tune.
"It was a holiday weekend in the prime of July, I was just talkin’ with a friend and flying high. but there wasn’t anything to do and the crowd was gone, but after a while the silence grew too strong. and he said, “oh, have you heard about Kathy today?” her daddy’s got a posse on her trail they say. he’s the chief of police and she’s a runaway, oh Kathy, come home, today. Next day driving round just talking down town, I was asking where’d she been and how she could be found. All I got was wrong numbers and some bad directions. oh Kathy, come home today. Have you seen a chick hangin’ down by Reno? she’s got her hair chopped short and drives a red Torino. Kathy, you don’t gotta’ run when your right, cause you’re not just a runaway.
I met her finally on a hot august night she said “I heard you been talkin’? and I think you’re all right.” but before she kissed me somebody turned on the lights. her daddy stepped out and started reading the rights. I said, “mister, you don’t gotta really be that smart , to know that little girl of yours is just breaking her heart. don’t pass up this chance, don’t tear it apart. or I think you’ll have hell to pay, because she’s not just a runaway.”
I think this was my masterpiece. I wrote it when I was 19…ideally for Bryan Adams to sing. (sigh)…I can always dream. Just click the arrow on the top right of the box to read the full song which I posted before…
That’s wild! Way to go, jukebox!! A fine piece of writing fer sure!
nah it’s too wordy, too many words that is. I like to play it for friend’s and they like it. that’s enough for me. that’s why I’m called jukebox because I know almost anything from the seventies on guitar. haha…
It’s funny, juke. I wrote that song when I was 19 years old…and then finalized it when I was about 23. So it really was about an off and on process of around 4 years.
But other songs I’ve penned in 10 minutes.Weird, huh? The craft of songwriting I mean.
I never got into serious originals, I wrote a handful of instrumentals. Mood for a Day kind of thing. I liked what you wrote, you’re definitely good. good luck.
Interesting. I’ve written some instrumental shtuff on piano only as well. Sounds like the two of us are kinda cut from the same stone…
Patrick, you’re a strange one.
Yeah. I AM strange…and Schizophrenic too.
But my music and my sense of humour are the only two weapons I have against this beast of an affliction. So I’ll keep throwing those two grenades at my nemesis until one of us wins.