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Post by woodensaint on Dec 20, 2009 11:24:15 GMT -5
I almost never write lyrics or poetry in a single sitting. Often times I am lying in bed staring at the ceiling and a line or two comes into my head. I will get up jot it down and usually hum it for a bit before falling to sleep. I keep a notepad with all these musings next to my bed and occasionally I will pick a few lines and ask myself ok, how do I get from this line to that one. After I fill in the blanks and can hum a tune to it, then I dig out the guitar and try to make it all work together. I often find the middle of the night my most creative time, but I have a day job and though it is easy for me to get obsessed with an idea acting on it often destroys me for the next day.
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 16, 2009 14:46:01 GMT -5
If I were a rich man (I am thinking fiddler on the roof there), I would drive around the country in a portable recording studio and catch as much of America's real music as possible.
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 16, 2009 14:27:43 GMT -5
Jonathan Coulton is a geek musician icon. I really like his song RE: Your Brains.
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 16, 2009 14:23:37 GMT -5
I really like John Prine found him by accident when i was looking for a Gordon Lightfoot song. The only real problem is trying to find him on purpose. No one I know has ever heard of him so until I saw Mojo"s posts on Youtube I thought I was alone.
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 16, 2009 14:12:16 GMT -5
I have been learning a bit here and there for years on my own and the progress has been very slow. Thanks to Youtube and posters like Mojo, I feel like I am actually making progress and having fun doing it.
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Post by woodensaint on Dec 16, 2009 14:05:45 GMT -5
Every time I hear sedated I can't help thinking of the Ramones classic "I Wanna be Sedated", pulse like bass lines and maybe the most mainstream the band ever got.
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