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Re the NRA and the gun lobby---and Steves post

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this is true aural art IMO

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we met this guy at McCabes-- a blues/Roots legend

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other hobbies

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THE ROAD TO THE SEA (a fairy tale)

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Time out!

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Ship wreck off NZ coast--environmental disaster pending!!!!

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the art of mime--some light relief

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Musicians help earthquake victims in Haiti

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wild boar hunting

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Amy AMY-oh no!

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2 more huge aftershocks--- 5.5 and 6.0

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Adds on IAC--- big improvement

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Nigel Savage---anyone know where he is???

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back to the 80s

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Small Towns and Ballgowns tour

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We visit our Hometown (Christchurch)

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Lets talk accoustic guitars!!!!

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totally chuffed

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Daily Plays Log

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New Members

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MY HOMETOWN

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Earthquake in New Zealand

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World Music---the zoo

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the Nobodies curse !

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Boring---- but probably true

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persistence---!!

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welcome back

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life goes on---

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Demo DVD for new Blues tune

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IAC Conference pics!

12/1/2010 4:28:30 PM
lLightning does strike twice!

11/8/2010 11:32:52 PM
farmers market gig

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we are back

10/4/2010 1:52:11 PM
Guerilla Busking

9/18/2010 5:26:40 PM
Milestones

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earthquake in New Zealand

8/30/2010 4:56:19 PM
our trip to Conference on National Radio New Zealand !

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sold # MP3S

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Can you drive a car?

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lonely?

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Come together 10/10/10

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oil

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aFFORDABLE mASTERING (wav files)

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BP oil disaster ---thanks to Bushco!

5/24/2010 3:39:25 PM
aRT OF THE IMAGINATION

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Long Shadows (dark lyrics)

5/2/2010 11:03:14 PM
Locutus

4/25/2010 3:11:56 AM
elephant

4/8/2010 7:44:41 PM
Young IAC Artist hospitalised---

3/16/2010 3:41:31 PM
new header---what d'ya think?

2/28/2010 2:48:06 PM
taking a break---

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for Frater (Never Never band)

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vids / dvds gone!

1/27/2010 6:18:35 PM
to the stationmasters here!!

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LYRICAL CONTENT?

1/17/2010 2:38:19 PM
This is weird!

1/8/2010 8:03:29 PM
a damn good day!

12/1/2009 9:48:21 PM
the Future of Music? the eigenharp

11/16/2009 5:10:42 PM
EVERYWHERE THE MUSIC PLAYS

10/22/2009 4:57:28 PM
---lets all hold hands--

9/29/2009 2:30:37 AM
WOODSTOCK ANNIVERSARY / WESTFEST (San francisco)

9/25/2009 6:13:37 AM
' Membrane Over Liquid Dreaming'

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creative energy

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I got so mad I ripped off his arms-

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VIP Gig

8/16/2009 10:39:27 PM
trojan warning

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Hecka rush of blood

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a poem

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horror storyin 2009!!!

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pop ups

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how many sites?

6/7/2009 11:00:08 PM
looking up!

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IN STEREO -do your speakers rattle?

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the true "Spirit of Indie"

5/7/2009 12:38:30 AM
New Zealand Music Month! 10 FREE SONGS!

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Melody Gardot on my radio!

4/28/2009 12:25:33 AM
169,354 seems a big jump!

4/11/2009 11:59:11 PM
Recording at Big Totara!

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Comedy Charts-Man in a Shack #1

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April Fools Day!

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IAC Cash Stream-

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Can ewe handle this--extreme sheep!!!!

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recession causing 'net closures

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singing through a megaphone-

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tHE gREAT dIVIDE -(aPOlogies To PhlEGm)

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Mother of all funk chords---9th?

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POETRY AND PROSE

2/27/2009 11:31:50 PM
OUTDOOR ARENAS

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remember -- Jackson Brown?

2/18/2009 10:44:17 PM
What's in a name?

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STARJAM

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Got a Sad Song?

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Australian bushfires!

2/4/2009 1:57:59 PM
$500,000 limit?

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Plays per month and $2.00 song

1/22/2009 1:09:18 PM
Boatshed studio finished!!

1/20/2009 1:04:19 PM
congratulations America!!!

1/19/2009 1:43:52 PM
adding backing vocals to a song !

1/18/2009 12:56:14 PM
COMEDY GENRE

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Loris vocals!

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first #1 for 2009!! Comedy!!!

12/23/2008 6:25:23 PM
To the staff and managment at IAC

12/16/2008 6:08:19 PM
MERLIN-Represents independent labels -wins award

12/14/2008 4:25:04 PM
50 cents all mp3s

12/6/2008 2:19:55 PM
Secrets of Station Success!!

11/27/2008 1:05:00 PM
For those that think-

11/20/2008 3:04:26 PM
SAD SONGS

11/12/2008 1:58:03 PM
"Trolls" What are they? can they drive away listeners?

10/28/2008 6:19:26 PM
DO I ?

10/18/2008 3:12:42 PM
Raymond Porter interviews Silverwood!

10/8/2008 2:56:44 PM
-with a little help from my friends!!

9/26/2008 4:14:22 PM
station change

9/25/2008 3:10:52 PM
The White House 2010??

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are you a US taxpayer?

9/20/2008 3:46:52 PM
first #1 in 2008

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Smoke on the WaterJapan!

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Wall street crashes?

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aussies and kiwis lost IAC

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the FLOOD!

8/29/2008 4:24:06 AM
what would you do?

8/13/2008 1:49:45 PM
Lace #1 in Classic / Prog Charts

8/7/2008 4:32:59 PM
nothing really changes ?

8/4/2008 4:02:37 PM
SUCCESS IN STATION CHARTS--ARE YOU-?

7/26/2008 4:46:16 PM
Billy the Kid

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-first lamb spring?

7/22/2008 2:56:28 PM
this is quite funny (I think)

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Robert Johnson!

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city /country divide

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Organic Sounds?

7/3/2008 4:12:06 PM
rebuilding boatshed studio

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robot band-future of music?

6/17/2008 3:17:24 PM
ethics or morals in tunes!

6/13/2008 7:47:59 PM
-hard to get back into it!!

5/29/2008 7:27:28 PM
last day!

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renee goes prime!!

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introducing my friend "Katus"

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interview at local paper today----

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HOLLOW VICTORY (the antidote)

5/4/2008 9:56:00 PM
Flight of Conchords-- Site Here at IAC---Debut at No # 3 in US album charts!!

4/29/2008 3:37:29 PM
SILVERWOOD MUSIC *** HALF PRICE*** 8 days left!!!

4/23/2008 8:28:13 PM
New Zealand in 3 mins!

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Station Charts------ Argy Bargy!!

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Good News (prime)

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those songs that no one else seems to love--THE BLACK SHEEP STATION

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Silverwooders on the road---- West Coast New Zealand

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"Destiny"

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the Elephant in the Room!

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Advertising commissions/accidents

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FANS

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Multi -Tasking!

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Marlborough Wine Festival!

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true love

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selling MP3s online

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how many genres?

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Update; International Artists CD.

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New outrageous Irish music from the Preludes!

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wow 17th Jan!!

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what happens when you can't find your smokes?

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Mt. Everest conquerer dies---

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--------musical commissions-------

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----back very soon----

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Big Names---

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buying Mp3s for xmas CD promo!!

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the new "Hairdressers"

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Australian election

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Meet Garbageman!

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Weddings are Amazing----------!

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what is the best 2 chord song (not 3) in your opinion?

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--------To America?

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The most rewarding Music------!!!

10/25/2007 5:18:35 PM
---is there a Tipping point?

10/22/2007 5:17:36 PM
we just sold------

10/21/2007 7:52:32 PM
World Genre!

10/17/2007 6:16:36 PM
white is turning black-----

10/14/2007 10:14:09 PM
all genres charts-----27,950 songs

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"Nobody" is back!

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57,719--------577,190

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Tradgedy!!

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GONDWANA No1 in "World"

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new artist---Renee from "WAR CHILD"

9/23/2007 11:52:05 PM
guitar tunings----and capos!

9/19/2007 7:35:01 PM
does chart success increase plays?

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Rugby World Cup Showdown!

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daily plays----

9/7/2007 6:10:33 PM
round the campfire in our grass skirts--------!

9/6/2007 10:22:34 PM
thanks for George!

8/26/2007 8:14:43 PM
Guitar strings?

8/24/2007 6:30:28 PM
14 weeks at # 1 !

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welcome "Flight of The Concords"

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----remember Firefly??

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Dylan concert here last night!

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lookin' for Bob Dylan

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Flight of the Concords take New York!

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"Hairdressers"11 weeks at #1

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deleting links---------

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Boar hunting song--------

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one week--------

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recording---back soon---

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Hairdressers (live genre)

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Gig stopped by fire brigade!

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Murphys Law!

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The Nobody hits no.1

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WAR CHILD SENSATIONAL SUCCESS!!!!!!

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display ART!

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pass the smelling salts!

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"the Nobody" 3050 unique plays in May!

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NZ music month!

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1300 plays this month

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the art gallery

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Nobody will survive!

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first no.1

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"hairdressers' need help!

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Better than Music?

5/2/2007 7:34:01 PM
get your music heard!

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teaching IHC students

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Didgereedoo sound 4000 years old!

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stations!!!

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feedback?

3/27/2007 8:07:40 PM
help!

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UGLY & ANGRY!

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Bob Dylan rising!!

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How many Sites?

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All along the Watchtower!

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Bob Dylan Tribute

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Coastline

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Aussies, Kiwis, Pacifica!

2/19/2007 4:22:30 PM
only 2 hits!

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Organic Sounds eg Didgereedoo

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Accidently deleted "the Nobody"

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LAID BACK LIFE

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Ruled by a Baboon?

2/8/2007 4:00:41 PM
Top 50 stations

2/6/2007 4:46:59 PM
Is rock becoming middle class?

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Prime

1/28/2007 3:59:39 PM
we need 8 songs!

1/25/2007 10:38:05 PM
Scary Stations

1/12/2007 5:38:34 AM
Left Handed Musicians

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Left Handed Musicians

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PROTEST MUSIC

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Home recording!

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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

1/12/2007 5:38:34 AM ---- Updated 4/4/2010 6:53:36 PM

Left Handed Musicians
How many of us are there here?

Should We have our own station?

I had this idea in 2006---flashback------!


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Dr T T BOL

1/13/2007 1:49:08 PM


Yeah I'm left handed
started by playing left-handed upside down that became irritating and was limiting, so switched strings around, but, on a guitar built for a righty, the set up is all wrong for a lefty, and the angle of the bridge and sizes of space for strings in the nut are all wrong so it is a real hassle. Also, not being able to play on other people's guitars is a pity. I saw a guy once who had learnt to play left-handed but then with the strings upside down, he played everything but it must have been an awful job to master playing that way. I tried that same way at first but it seemed impossible to me.
That guitarist from King Crimson said he used to get people to unlearn everything they'd learned, because learning standard ways was a limitation, according to him, so he advised playing in new ways, all of the time, so, using different tunings, approaching the neck like in a new and fresh way, each and every time.
A left-handed player has far less choice of good instruments, the only way being left-handed can be an adbvantage is if a person is, or becomes, abidextrous.
Ever seen a left-handed piano? They do exist.

I often wish I was right-handed, I missed the chance of having a go on some great guitars that came across my path, and were just lying around here there and everywhere,, at friend's homes, etcetera.
Alwayshave to take my instrument with me, I take it, nothing happens, I leave it behind, and it turns out that night would have been perfect if I had have had my guitar with me
Dr Terry T


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Dr T T BOL

1/13/2007 6:13:43 PM


That was advantage* and ambidextrous*

never will get a job as a typist

Terry


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Huminuh

1/13/2007 7:47:59 PM


Yup I'm a leftie too. Although my claim to fame isn't music. I do pick a little on the guitar and play a little fiddle...I play as if I was a righty.


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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

1/13/2007 7:55:34 PM


Excellent , and informative Dr TT and Laree.

Of course I am a leftie, started out trying to play right handed----------then restrung and played like that for a while.
I soon realised it was hopeless, as all the chord manuals and stuff was for righties and it was like translating to a foriegn language-----so I retaught myself to play right handed, and learned keyboards at the same time! I'd love to see a left handed keyboard , but it's too late for me now .
Also, approximately 10% of all people are lefties, but I suspect more than 10% of musos & artists are left handed ? Why?
Right brain --left handedness= artistic & creative skills abound!!!!


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Spank Momma

1/14/2007 11:25:15 AM


Ever see that spanish dood with no arms play with his feet, now that is something.
I could be wrong and I'm sure someone will tell me but I don't think Jimi had his strings upside down.


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Dr Terribol

1/14/2007 4:12:11 PM


Hi u all,

hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle and the cow that jumped over the moon.
Huminuh did you mean you play it in the right-handed?

About Jimi, no he did'nt play with the strings upside down but Jimi (if I am not wrong could play left and right-handed. When I see Jimi or Mc Cartney I always wondered whether they had the same troubles adjusting guitars, mostly, I saw they used to play on righ-handed guitars switched around, seeing as there are so few left-handed guitars there are also not that many good ones amongst those ones that are present.

I


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Huminuh

1/14/2007 4:33:55 PM


Hmmm.. Let me clarify here. With both the fiddle and the guitar I play with the neck in my left hand and in the right is my bow or struming of the strings going on.


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Dr Terribol

1/14/2007 5:55:28 PM


Hi Huminuh

Thanks I thought you meant that, I get ya.
Imagine some of those Siamese twins, they might play left and right at the same time!
Thing is, as a small kid (like learning how to hold a knife and fork age) I remember how I became aware of being right or left-handed, it was my sister who said at the dinner table that I was left-handed, up until then I didn't know that people were one way or the other, as it was enough trouble learning to get food into the mouth with those metal utensils. Then, because she said I was left-handed, I immediately wanted to know what that meant and then, to do exactly the opposite, as I didn't want to be the same as the rest, it led to me in the end becoming a right-handed eater, fork in the left hand.
Everything else I did, I did left-handed.
What I am thinking is that the whole thing is mixed up because me as a lefty, play chords and stuff on the fretboard with my right hand and, in a way, am doing a lot more with the right hand, stuff I can't do with the left hand.


If I could master chords with the left hand I think I'd manage the strumming with the right.
I never did see someone playing with their feet, incredible idea!
Have seen people doing a whole lot with their feet though, because of disability of hands and arms, that was unbelievable to see too.




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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

1/14/2007 7:20:07 PM


It's true according to wikipedia jimi played a restrung right handed stat!

All these years I thought his distinctive sound came from hitting the treble strings first b4 the bass strings.

lesson : never assume!


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Dr Terribol

1/14/2007 8:07:22 PM


Right on

good wiki eh!!

Yup, but playing an electric upside down did give jimi a distinctive sound in that it gave him a different technique to an ordinary set-up
Thewhammy bar for one thing was upside instead of down under, it took a different technique but it was said uit afforded him easier reach in a way, maybe to another person it would've been experienced as a hindrance or nuisance.
his dials/knobs/switches whatever you wanna call em, were also upside but they could have also accidentally been hit if one was careless but jimi was least of all CARELESS, I've watched Jim and it looked like he was doing nothing whilst all of that incredible tone was welling up and coming out, amazing, that is a sound that will never age, wonderful, long live Jimi, can't say that enough can we what with the plastification in the music industry, I mean the big fake-up where any poser can become some kind of overnnight star if they are set up by others that way, I hate all that, I like newness and change though, it's just that fakeness that kills the spirit that I dislike and I like to criticize that negative element.
Seems to me a lot of people these days just start out not with a lovre of music really but love of hype and image and fame, but real talent came to fame and it was just a long the way, as far as I can see, I think the best stuff has come from people who have the music living in them and live that joy out, just like Jimi running around his garden in a cape on with a broomstick pretending to play guitar, it must have been his destiny, but he is not the only one.
The industry even wore Jimi down having to play the same stuff stuff he loved but anyone can tire of a thing if it is not kept fluid and creative and motive, that is what Jimi was saying too, he wanted to keep bringing fresh stuff and he needed it too as a musician of heart and soul, with a big big spirit.


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Michael Steele

1/16/2007 10:38:17 AM


i'm a southpaw(from the south).i've played that way from the beginning.
and i dont play backwards,meaning my guitar is strung the same way
as a right handed guitar.my high E string is on the bottom.and no,Jimi
didn't play backwards either.and yes it is very frustrating to walk into a
place that literaly has hundreds(even thousands)of guitars on the wall,
and being extremely lucky if one or two of 'em are left-handed.it the
equivalent of going to a showroom to buy a new car,but not being able
to test drive it.and don't even get me started on vintage left handed
guitars!the guitars that i do have,i will say i love.especialy my old
LesPaul Deluxe.i've had it since i was 16.i'll be 53 this year.it's my
best old friend.
Myke


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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

1/16/2007 3:36:50 PM


Hi Mike from the South!

I'm also from the south (island of New Zealand) in the south pacific>
I found my 1959 gibson es335 at a fishermans house in Stewart island (deep south), I paid $1000 back in 1980 and traded in my Gretch Tennessean (also red semi-accoustic) B4 that I had an accoustic, electric Hofner. Thats the one I restrung for a leftie.It was stolen at a gig, and I couln't be bothered with doing the same to the Gretch so went back to "normal" right handed.
-----------but a les Paul '77 ------------???? If I got the maths right!!


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satch

8/31/2007 3:51:12 AM


I'm left-handed - when I was a kid, pre-teen, I learnt to play on a borrowed acoustic guitar, strung right-handed, so I learnt to play upside-down - and I still play like that some 40 years later (that makes me soooo old!).


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8/31/2007 4:07:14 AM


‹So I have to type in this little inch. I truly don't understand why the forum has gone.


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Verity

8/31/2007 4:22:11 AM


Hey Crash TV, did you know this is a magic blog and an inch can become a mile.!!

Re left handed. At one time I was corresponding daily with 4 people who I got on really well with. One day the subject cropped up and I discovered that they were ALL left handed (3 played bass) I was pretty spooked by that. I'm right handed myself but obviously I'm searching for people who balance me up (and bass players haha!). Left handed people do have a slightly different way of seeing things I find - like if they look at maps or plans or try to describe layouts and diresctions it's always the opposite way to how I'd do it. There are a disproportionate amount of lefties in sports too don't you think?


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SqurlyMurly

8/31/2007 11:44:41 AM


My brother is left-handed but plays bass guitar right-handed. I'm right-handed but swing a baseball bat left-handed.


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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

8/31/2007 7:05:45 PM


I made a study of left handedness as a student , here are some interesting facts!

Researchers using ultrasound found that only 12 of 224 fetuses preferred to suck their left thumb.
Studies show the likelihood of being left handed doubles if one survived a stressed
birth or difficult pregnancy.
Only 5% of foetuses are lefties but up to 15% of children under 10 are left handed ---supporting the "stress" theory.
10% of the overall population are left handed!
Left handed people tend to live shorter lives than right handers-----the suggestion is that lefties face unique perils in a right handed world.
Left handed folk are 6 times more likely to die in accidents
Left handed children and adolescents are significantly more likely to be accidently injured than right handers------from a study of 759 chidren aged between 6---18
treated at the emergency dept of Arkansas Childrens Hospital.
Researchers also found that fewer left handers survive to old age----indicating that accidents may play a role in reduced longevity!!!!

But don't despair -----------being a lefty means you are "special" often with an artistic bent----able to adapt to all kinds of situations with original responses.

Left hand = Right brain!





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TENNESSEE LARUE

8/31/2007 8:38:00 PM


I be lefty also !!


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Loren DiGiorgi

8/31/2007 9:01:39 PM


I'm ambidextrous. But then I'm a keyboard player. :)


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SILVERWOODSTUDIO

9/1/2007 6:27:06 PM


---------and an excellent one !!!!

big wrap 4U Loren!


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tom lee

11/4/2008 1:33:58 PM


right handed, except at dinner when i seem to turn left handed (knife in left hand).


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