https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:30:32 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369024 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:57:26 +0000 On another note (pun intended) I had a feeling the sight of the black flag would cause some reaction of the green and gold variety :lol:

cheers

Paul]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369024 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369023 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:40:50 +0000
It's about your turn to sing them isn't it??? :wink: :wink:

Chris

]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369023 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369018 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:35:51 +0000 New Zealand is about to host the Rugby World Cup in a couple of weeks and teams and supporters from different countries have started to arrive. This will be the biggest international event we've hosted so as you'd expect the media is full of anticipation and excitement. My idea would be a song that builds on anticipation and either closes just before the event (leave em wanting more) or even after the event with the inevitable let down or feeling of loss coupled with satisfaction occurs, a bit like coming home from a holiday I guess. ]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-369018 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368996 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:29:16 +0000
Interesting idea about the notion of what makes people what they are. It's something that I've had cause to ponder from a number of angles. I've worked a lot with intellectually disabled people over the last few years and what makes them what they are can be profoundly different from us, and from each other. We also had the experience of seeing Vicki's mother slowly unravel and then totally disappear, due to the effects of Alzheimer's. So what ultimately makes "you" is certainly pretty slippery. Is there a real core, or just a collection of machinery and experiences?

It came up again recently when a good friend (and long time smoker) died from throat cancer. A tremendous fighter, he stayed lucid and impressive until almost the end. But even he had to eventually let go of the bonds that kept everything together and slid away from the outer world and into an apparently almost randomly churning inner one, then a coma, and finally switched off. Another friend who also died earlier this year was a very religious man, so his view of dying was different again. The first man saw it as completely letting go of whatever "being human" had meant, whereas Tim's view was closer to the "I'm just stepping into another room" idea. Both men bowed out with impressive dignity though, and remained true to their ideals and character.

I hope that you do get a song out of your own angles on it all.

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368996 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368991 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:59:50 +0000
Maybe you're on your way to a concept album!

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368991 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368989 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:28:59 +0000 I was reading an Asimov book the other day and the one of the themes was when is an entity a person or not. You can cut off limbs or replace body parts with mechanical substitutes and still be considered a human being, the question is at what point do you cease to be human an become something else. In the book this issue was resolved by the idea that if you can die then your not a machine. I wonder if there is scope for a song around what makes someone who they are? ]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368989 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368968 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:38:59 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368968 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368961 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:43:17 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-368961 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-41741 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:49:37 +0000 Fear is in the eyes of the beholder

Tuesday
I saw it on a T shirt

Wednesday
I was reading an Asimov book the other day and the one of the themes was when is an entity a person or not. You can cut off limbs or replace body parts with mechanical substitutes and still be considered a human being, the question is at what point do you cease to be human an become something else. In the book this issue was resolved by the idea that if you can die then your not a machine. I wonder if there is scope for a song around what makes someone who they are?

Thursday
New Zealand is about to host the Rugby World Cup in a couple of weeks and teams and supporters from different countries have started to arrive. This will be the biggest international event we've hosted so as you'd expect the media is full of anticipation and excitement. My idea would be a song that builds on anticipation and either closes just before the event (leave em wanting more) or even after the event with the inevitable let down or feeling of loss coupled with satisfaction occurs, a bit like coming home from a holiday I guess. ]]> Sunday Songwriters Group pbee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg9-week-44-pbees-ideas-log/#post-41741