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Of the 27 songs on my Soundclick site (there are 28 altogether, but there are two versions of one song) all but a handful owe their existence to Guitarnoise, and most of them to the SSG:

Vigilante Man, Cindy Incidentally and Stay With Me ("Jam Session") are covers;

Mother Carey's Chickens was inspired by a backing track Smokindog posted in Jams & Collabs - I added slide in standard tuning.

Midlife Crisis Male Menopause Blues was a collab with Blueline, who added most of the lyrics, and Chris C - I did the music.

Blink Of An Eye was inspired by an MSN conversation with Dave C; Screw The Neighbours was inspired by an MSN conversation with Grunge Sunset.

The Chain Song was a collaboration with (mostly) SSG regulars

In Her Purse was an original idea of Pearlthekat's from the SSG, to which a few people contributed lyrics - I pulled it into shape and added music.

Theology 101 - lyrics by D Hodge, from an SSG assignment;

Accordion - lyrics by Straycat, from another SSG assignment;

Sha-la-la-la-la-la, Freedom's Song, Back On Track, That's All Right, The Art Of Conversation, Beauty Sleeping, Under Open Skies, Devil In The Boy, I Never Believed, Stars, If You Don't Tell Me, Constant Chameleon, Blood On Your Hands, Masquerade and Devil's On The Loose are ALL SSG topics I wrote about;

Nothing I Can Do is the only original on there that pre-dates my GN membership.

So, 15 originals and four collabs, all down to the SSG. Now I only have another 88 SSG songs still to record!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/5/#post-312139 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-312132 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:49:31 +0000
Sorry that I haven't been around much lately.
As I've stated in the 'why are you here' thread, I can be kinda moody at times....
and lately, it has been one of those times.

I'm going to attribute it to a severe lack of sunlight here in the changing of the seasons;
I think that has really got me in a down and overly sensitive mood.
My apologies for being so grouchy.

Also, I've acquired Harmony's old keyboard set and have been fooling with that a bit.
(In addition to now working with samples in my recordings, and trying to get a handle on 'producing' tracks)

I'm also working on some of my own songs.... and am about to take the next step in a specific style of 'lyricizing'.
So.... be ready for ever more bizarre things to come :twisted:

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-312132 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308262 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:59:47 +0000 I was telling him about the idea I had gotten that morning in the shower for week 44's assignment.

He revealed that all of his songs were autobiographical.

That got me to thinking that prior to taking on SSG assignments, all of MY songs were autobiographical as well.

And I remembered how much I grew to hate writing yet ANOTHER song about ME!

It was like living your life looking in the mirror ALL the time.
Now, that might be fascinating for a brief amount of time.... or under the influence of certain psychedelics :twisted:
though certainly no way to go thru life!

So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank David, if not for 'pushing' me to write about something other than myself,
at least as THE impetus of my new found creations:

THANK YOU David :D

Just going with the last four songs I have posted here;
I have one that was inspired by a scene from a German music video from a band that I had never heard of (thankx Anne :wink: ),
one where I take on the persona of a GIRL and her diary, one from the perspective of Pamela Courson, and this latest one.... from the mind of a voluntarily commited psych patient thru a letter to his wife.

Those are some pretty big stretches :D 8)
And I've been quite pleased with what I've come up with.
I really feel that I have grown much as a writer thankx to the SSG forum.

Again - Thank You David, for showing me a world filled with wonder; and thankx to all of YOU for your wonderful support :D

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308262 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308181 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:44:28 +0000
Oh well, back to the music!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308181 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308174 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:50:04 +0000
I love DADGAD, but it does take some getting used to. It may be because I use it in numerous songs already. Since you like open tunings, Vic, why not try out something like open D minor, or open G minor sometime? Or open Gmaj7 (tuning the G (third) string down to F#)? Might prove interesting.

In a way, it's kind of funny, because when the Sunday Composers' Group was in its formulative stage, it was this sort of assignment that I thought would tie in very well with the SSG assignments. My original idea (based solely on most of the feedback that was calling for the creation of the Composers Forum) was to work more on general songwriting via music tasks such as using an alternate tuning, or maybe everyone starting with the same bass line or drum track to come up with a song, things of that nature.

So maybe we'll use some of these ideas here and see what happens. My biggest concern with the SSG has always been that we concern ourselves with all the aspects of songwriting, which obviously means the music. This isn't easy, especially in how we've evolved over the past six years, but I think it's certainly within our grasp. Thoughts?

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308174 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308172 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:37:30 +0000
So I'm currently noodling around in said D5 tuning - and I must say, I do like the sound of it! There's a vaguely exotic drone to it, and it's fairly easy to play a melody over chords.....

I think I'm going to enjoy this assignment, nice one David!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-308172 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-307336 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:03:28 +0000
Funny one for us Europeans, this - we Brits are not going to have a coin in our pockets older than 1971.....that's when we changed from the old Pounds, Shillings and Pence to decimal currency, and all the pre-decimal coins are now out of circulation....

It's even worse for the Europeans - if Nuno(Spain) and Arjen(Netherlands) were SSG writers, the earliest date they'd be able to find would be about 2004 or so when most of mainland Europe changed to the Euro.....our own dear (and sadly, for the moment, missing!) Straycat would be struggling, too - no more Deutschmarks.....

BTW, just a little off-topic, but still on the subject of money - the Pound's taken a real hammering against the Dollar just lately, a few weeks back when Pearlthekat came to London, it was around £1 = $1.98.....now it's around $1.82 and falling by the day.....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-307336 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-302477 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:43:51 +0000
have a great time in Sweden

cheers
Paul]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-302477 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-302385 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:00:08 +0000 Otherwise, have a great August!

Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-302385 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-301459 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:25:00 +0000
I'll call (and PM) you on this, but probably not until we get back from Chicago...

Hope the suspense doesn't give you too much stress :wink:

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/comments-complaints-concerns-etc/paged/4/#post-301459