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Friday, October 02, 2009

SLOW MOTHERFUCKIN' TRAIN COMIN'

That is all

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Crazy dream, and the beginnings of a new song.

Current mood: curious

Normally I think my dreams aren't going to be cool enough to post here, but this one is important. I had this dreaming I was flipping through the songs on my iPod and I came across 2 songs I didn't know, for some reason they had purple text saying the artist, album, and song name, one was a John Lennon, but I've forgotten the name, melody and lyrics. The next one though I still remember though, it was an SRV song, with the album art being the most epic picture of him ever and no that photo doesn't actually exsist, called Ice Cold Shuffle. It was a lot like Dirty Pool, a slow 12-bar where he sang a line then did some mind-blowing lick. I don't remember any of the words except for the first 2 lines so I will work with them until I have a finished product, but the first 2 lines were something like,

Don't you touch me babe, you know I'm ice cold

I said don't you touch me, you know I'm ice cold

Now just imagine that with the best licks ever, a slow 12-bar form with the bassist and drummer so groovy and chilled you would think they played in a Cool Jazz band, and SRV singing.

So what do you few people reading this think, is it any good, should I toss it, should I just keep the dream in my mind until I have inspiration, or are John Lennon and SRV contacting me from beyond the grave so I can record the songs they've been writing up in heaven.

*bum bum bum* Kind of makes you wonder how the music scene is going up in heaven, if there is a heaven. *bum bum bum*

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Went to the best show ever last night.

I saw Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women last night. You probably haven't heard of them but he's an incredible guitarist, great singer and has great stage presence, his jokes are also pretty great to. The band is pretty tight to and works amazingly well for people who have been playing for a little less than a year. The band is Cindy Cashdollar on slide, she's played with all kinds of people like Van Morrison and Rod Stewart, Christy McWilson, a great singer, Amy Farris, the best fiddler I've ever heard of the very few I've heard and know the names of, Sarah Brown, who as Dave put it has her own page in the book of Blues For Dummies, and Lisa Pranketz, who did a solo with Cindy that was amazing and I thought her drum kit was going to explode from the awesome and sheer force hitting it as hard as she could. If you haven't heard of Dave Alvin you're missing out, he's amazing check out The Blasters, his old band, and some of his solo stuff. And the warm up act was a great to it's a local band call Rex & The Misery Boys, I thought I wouldn't like them because they were country but I really loved them.

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Saturday, July 04, 2009

My newest song.

Hi I've decided to blog it whenever I write a song because A) I don't want to clutter the Song Writing forum and B) I don't want it to get buried in the Song Writing forum. So here's my new song and the other is the finished version of the song I wrote a few months ago, posted in those forums and never updated. Keep in mind this one isn't finished and I've only been working on it for half an hour and this is all I have so far.

That Man in the Mirror

It was a dreary friday night back in 1999

You thought it would be nice to go for a drive

So you went to a bar down around 18th and Vine

You and a few friends were having a great time

But then some jerk came up to try to ruin it all

He wasn't any fun he ran around, he drank and he bawled

So when you were pushed the edge couldn't take him much more

You whipped out a knife and started a fight

That was the first time that you took a life

And even though they never found you

After all these lonley years

You're in a cell that's drowned you

With all your lonley tears

And it doesn't matter what you think

If you're wrong or if you're right

You still can't stand that man in the mirror

You couldn't stand it much longer the guilt would eat you alive

You felt you'd either tell somebody or you'd die

But you decided to tell your lovely young wife

Who couldn't keep a secret if it depended on her life

And when she told her best friend that was the end of it all

And even though the guilt would haunt the rest of your knife

There were two more blood stains on the end of your knife

And even though they've never found you

After all these long long years

You're in a cell that's drowned you

In all your lonely tears

And it doesn't matter what your thinking

Were you wrong or were you right

Because still you can't stand seeing

That ugly man in the mirror

I have no idea where I got the idea for the song I just woke up and I had the chorus in my head and I knew it was about a man who killed some one. The third verse is a work in progress but I hope that will be posted by the end of the day. Any (constructive) criticisms? I'm not a fan of how there was no build up to him killing the first guy, well there was but there wasn't much. Of course there isn't build up to many bar fights, they just happen. Anyways on to the first song I ever wrote. Like I said before I posted this in the Song Writing forum and forgot about it. It's a slow 12 bar blues.

Do You Gotta Leave

Do you gotta leave tonight girl

Can't you stay just one more day

Say you gotta leave tonight girl

Can't you stay just one more day

If you gotta leave tonight girl

It'll be mind that's going away

It's been so long since I seen my baby

Wonder where she might be

Been oh so long since I seen my lady

Wonder where she could be

I've got a bad bad feeling

My little girl is leaving me

Heard my baby early this morning

Say she was movin' out

Finally heard my little girl this morning

She say she's movin' out

She got an aparment so far away

She can't hear me shout

Tried to talk to her this morning

Tried to get her back

I tried to talk her this morning

Just tryin' to get her back

She gave the phone to her new man

And that was the end of that

Believe it or not this song was inspired by my dog. She was laying on my bed and when she got up to leave for something the "Do you gotta leave tonight girl" came to me and it evolved from there. I think that one is finished but any criticisms are welcome, keep in mind my sense of grammar disappears when I sing the blues and I just typed it how I sang it.

10:03 am - 6 comments - 2 Kudos

Sunday, February 08, 2009

I needed to make a blog so it would stop saying i

I'm hungry

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