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Richard Scotti
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12/9/2024 4:45:25 PM
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Your fav song(s) you’ve written
Of all the songs you’ve written, which one is your favorite and why? (You can name a second song of yours in a very different style than the first one) What messages or emotions were you trying to convey in these songs? What inspired these songs?
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Psyche's Muse
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12/9/2024 10:26:52 PM
FAT LADY
(written in homage to the material world)
This is our favorite improv... a magical moment where the words and music came together so beautifully. This inspired us to continue with our unorthodox musical approach.
PHOENIX
("Phoenix" is "Truth")
THIS is the "First Time EVER" that "my words" had a "song" as their intended purpose. William had moved to South Dakota and at the time I hadn’t any clue whether or not He would “EVER” be returning home here in Louisiana. So, I sent these "lyrics" to him in the mail. He calls me up one day and when I answer the phone he places his phone on the table beside him and just starts singing this to me while playing his classical guitar. This was in late 1990/early 1991. He moved back home here in 1992, so this was recorded by 1993. After he came back is when I got an electric keyboard, a 4 track recorder, mixing board, etc.
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Lars Mars
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12/11/2024 7:38:46 AM
Yes Mortimer, I think Fat Lady is my favorite of yours too.
And similarly my favorite is the first one I wrote. As terrible as it was (and it was), I realized that I could write a song. That confidence spurred me to continue and improve and grow.
And when the band liked my songs and joined in, improving them with their (often better) ideas, I was completely rapt.
Then we played them for other people who had never heard them and they not only got it, but liked it. Dancing along, eventually singing along, requesting their favorites.. very heady stuff for a 16 year old.
Thanks for asking Richard.
Glenn
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Lars Mars
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12/11/2024 7:45:28 AM
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Oops. Double post
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Gregg-Sterling30
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12/11/2024 8:39:27 AM
"Billy Don't Go"
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11644351
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Gregg-Sterling30
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12/11/2024 9:02:51 AM
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This one is a little different... There's a movie script here if you visualize the lyrics..
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=2867239
"Private Jeremiah"
Private Jeremaih, got some news for you today,
it's the final order you'll obey,
You're going back to Gatlin,
there are fields that need be cleared,
and your mama can't do it on her own,
all alone,
Private Jeremaih,
don't you look at me that way,
for you this war is over now obey,
The horse that stands a-waitin,
was your Daddy's finest steed,
he'll give you all his strenght to get you home,
now you be gone...
There's a barn that needs a fixin,
and fences to repair,
and tommorrow General Lee,
ain't runnin nowhere,
Private Jeremaih,
you're a better man than me,
even though you're barely 17,
the men you see around you,
who's lives will surely end,
you'll hear their voices call you once again,
in the end...
You'll see them on the hillsides,
Where the Blue now lies in wait,
Cause in your children's children,
They'll live again..,
Private Jeremaih
there is no more time to waste,
you've got your final order now obey,
The Union Army's ready and so is General Lee,
and you won't be among the gallant men,
Who'll die today...
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negative tendencies
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12/11/2024 10:26:29 AM
This is our magnum opus.
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Gregg-Sterling30
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12/12/2024 9:09:00 AM
I didn't care much for this but my singer Daphne was really taken by it thinking it would be a very inspirational song for her AA community. I think the lyrics are a bit weak bur Daphne and Guitar Ray rescued it with her voice and his great solos.. If we had ever gone live this would have been the long guitar solo part of the show. I did do the guitar intro and exit on the song though, that's really the limits of my capabilities.., Oh well.
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Tom O'Brien
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12/14/2024 2:12:00 AM
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Great topic, Richard. It's fun hearing songs that are so personal to people.
I think the favorite song I've written is always the next one I'm working on! But, looking back, I have many favorites for different reasons. But I think my overall favorite is a song called "Funny How." I'd been playing a lot of standards from The Real Book and noticing how sometimes a beautiful melodic line would go on for 12 or 13 chords, as if they're not in any hurry to get anywhere, and they want to enjoy the scenery. There are so many 4 chord songs these days. I wanted to write a song that would fit easily in a set of standards. It's a slow, sentimental song, a little old-fashioned, and it's peppered up with clarinet. It might not be as good as the standards, but that's what I had in mind. And what makes this song extra special to me is that a nice gentleman added it to his station, saying that it's the kind of song he wished he had written for his wife of 57 years! He was effusive in his praise and I could tell that what I felt in writing it, he felt in listening to it. I felt like I had finally written something that mattered to someone.
https://indiemusicpeople.com/songs.aspx?SongID=119012&ArtistID=128691
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Lars Mars
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12/14/2024 7:08:44 AM
Here you go Tom, thanks.
Funny How
Glenn
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The Rhythm Kings
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12/17/2024 10:51:01 AM
I feel this on is my Best. For my dear wife Karen when we first met.
Brucer
http://indiemusicpeople.com/iac_test2_dev/index3.html?ID=A158053&SongID=115208&Source=ArtistID=158053_Single
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Tom O'Brien
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12/18/2024 12:55:23 AM
I"I Want to Know You by Heart" is a great song - really heartfelt, and well produced.
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Yours Truly
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12/18/2024 4:57:48 AM
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How do we add YouTubes to the pipeline?
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Lars Mars
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12/18/2024 5:37:16 AM
Here you go Bruce
I Want to Know You By Heart"
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Lars Mars
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12/18/2024 6:57:13 AM
Hi Jilliane, gooda c ya.
Key point: it's much easier on a desktop device.
On the video page you will find a share button. It generates a link so you can pass it on. To add them to the pipeline, you click EMBED in the SHARE options. Copy that entire bit of html and paste it here.
There are other options that appear before you copy it.
***** FORGET EVERYTHING I JUST SAID !!! ****
I just tried it using my phone (Android) and the regular phone share menu appears.
That only works for desktops (which is simple using the instructions above). This really is silly, because Google created YouTube, Android and Chrome, yet the only method I see involves using a desktop display on your phone.
Here's a video that demonstrates, though the menu it refers to goes by very fast. It's the browser menu which may not appear, so you need to be able to find the address bar and it will be the three vertical dots next to the share icon.
I just tried to follow the instructions using my phone, but it was tedious. They essentially make you view it in desktop mode, so it would be easier just to use a desktop device.
There may be a simpler way using an iPhone, but my wife is using hers. I am going to switch to my laptop to finish this.
I thought that using the YouTube app it might be simpler, but no.
shortest how to I could find
It's not you, it's Google.
Glenn
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Yours Truly
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12/18/2024 7:23:42 AM
Hi Glenn, I really appreciate the length you went to to help me. I can put a video on my page but all I can do on the Pipeline is copy the URL or the embed code but they don't make a proper link. I used to know what to do but I've been away from IMP for a long while and it's all lost in my head :) Not to worry, I'm so low tech, I don't even have a phone, probably the only person in the world now haha!
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Lars Mars
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12/18/2024 7:50:36 AM
Then the embed code should work.
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Gregg-Sterling30
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12/21/2024 9:41:59 AM
This was one of the first songs released on the old mp3.com and it actually hit #2 while still in it's original demo form. Needs some electric and violin but I doubt that'll ever happen now.. Oh well.
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=2866497
"Guilty"
(C) 1997
I saw a man today,
Put on trial for what he didn't do,
Convicted be evidence,
Of the crimes committed against him,
And all the people watching,
They could surely see,
They all agreed upon it,
So easily,
And though the truth was there,
They refused to see..
They all said guilty,
They all said guilty,
They all said guilty,
But me..
I saw a photograph,
Of the prettiest girl that you could imagine,
But standing next to me,
She doesn't look anything like that,
What was supposed to cure her,
Was now the disease,
In spite of the evidence,
No one else could see,
They all agreed upon it,
Naturally,
They all said guilty,
They all said guilty,
They all said guilty,
But me..
I saw the news today,
About the latest ceremony,
Proclaiming the innocence,
Of everyone who was attending,
And as the night proceeded,
So typically,
So well attired were,
All the liars and thieves,
And though the truth was clear,
No one else could see..
That they all were guilty,
They all were guilty,
They all were guilty,
But me..
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