Keep Our Water Clean is written as a message from the fish life to the people, reminding them of their responsibility.

Resilience

Keep Our Water Clean

Give me You

Give me You (Piano version)

It would have been easier to just lay down
to stay flat on the ground
looking up at the clouds...
on a rainy day...
puddles to drown me
rain all around me...a drop at a time
to drill a hole in my mind
yea
a lil water torture...cause ur methods' so fine...whoa whoa whoa yea yea
so fine
from here in these weeds...mud sucking me in...some kinda pull
shake me out in a sieve
but now I circle the drain..yea
puddles to drown me
in all this rain
It would have been easier to just lay down
to stay flat on the ground
looking up at the clouds...
on a rainy day...
puddles to drown me
rain all around me...a drop at a time
to drill a hole in my mind
to drill a hole in my mind

A Hole In My Mind

Quiet Storm

Outpost EP

Dragon Bounce

On this album is the greatest capturing of back-up singers I have ever achieved during these wonderful rustic settings for recoding music. Mitch Seekins, Suzie Ungerleider, Kelly Adams and Kevin Kloss stood to the side of the band and crouched under the low roof of the barn in front of a couple mics and sang their hearts out to most of the songs from these sessions. They can be heard at their lush best in “Never Intended”. 

This album is actually a collection of recordings done “in the barn’ (literally – it was a barn) with the first sessions taking place in, I think, 2010 and the second set of sessions in 2012. If you want to see some of the story of the first sessions, they are part of the documentary film I made called Off The Grid. Not only that, but I also threw on the final mix for this album the song “I Am Canadian” which I had recorded at some point with the Northern Pikes, but then we kept it off the EP we put together called “Long Walk Home” for some reason. Like the next album I would record “live off the floor” (“Off The Grid”), this is a fine selection of roots-acoustic tracks played by talented and skilled acoustic musicians. 

One big thrill for me was finally getting to do a duet with the extremely talented Oh Suzanna as she was called at the time (now Suzie Ungerleider): Another Glass Of Wine, which then doubled in thrill when she allowed me to cut her song “River Blue”. 
“Wonderful Things” were lyrics Kelly Adams emailed to me one day and for some reason they struck a chord, so to speak, and the song just flowed out as I sat in my bed one night. They are beautiful and powerful lyrics that touch your soul.

Wonderful Things

Cover of the BeeGee's How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? Originally written and recorded when Robin left the group for several months and came back.

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart

I wrote this song in 2002 about how sometimes we become haunted by the memory of a first love or someone special we have lost in our lives. Sharri sang this song beautifully way back in 2002. I had the pleasure of recording her singing some of my songs and she did an outstanding job on all of them. I wish I would have been a better musician with better equipment back then but I will be producing several more videos of her singing my songs in the future. I have like 8 or 9. The video is very spooky but artsy as well. I hope everyone remembers their first love. Is anyone still haunted by that love? If you are, come join me, down memory Lane!😱

https://youtu.be/uQDvuGWI0wo

“HAUNTED”

HAUNTED,
THAT’S WHAT I’VE BECOME,
SO HAUNTED,
FROM NOW ON,
EVER SINCE THE DAY I LAID EYES ON YOU,
I KNEW I’D NEVER SAY GOODBYE TO YOU,
IT’S PLAIN TO SEE,
I WILL ALWAYS BE,

SO HAUNTED,
AND UNDER YOUR SPELL,
I’M HAUNTED,
IT’S JUST AS WELL,
‘CAUSE I AM BUT A KINDRED SPIRIT WHO,
WILL ALWAYS BE IN LOVE WITH YOU,
AND FOREVERMORE BE HAUNTED TOO,      
     
[lead]

SO HAUNTED,
AND UNDER YOUR SPELL,
I’M HAUNTED,
IT’S JUST AS WELL,
‘CAUSE I AM BUT A KINDRED SPIRIT WHO,
WILL ALWAYS BE IN LOVE WITH YOU, 
AND FOREVERMORE BE HAUNTED TOO.

BY JIM VALDES (C) 2002

SHARRI

"HAUNTED" (Feat. Vocal By Sharri Hobbs)

Original song by White Lion (1987)

Papa Ceira: Piano (2020)
Jim (7th): Vocal (2024)

Piano- Vocal White Lion  When The Children Cry Piano Cover By Papa Ceira & 7th

So LA proved too much for the man? How, I wonder, did the singer - let's call her Gladys - get on in Georgia? This just in from the guy who said he was going back to find a simpler place and time ...

Old Atlanta Georgia (couldn't hold you very long)

The Chattahoochee has never looked so fine
It was flowing through my mind
That whole damn year in LA
I can breathe again as I stand here today

And yes it’s lonelier now that you’ve gone back
Along the very track
That we took to get here
But I try to focus on getting my head clear

And I still see fallen-faced strangers 
Wondering what went wrong
And they been riding all through the night
Probably singing your song
I tell them old Atlanta, Georgia couldn’t hold you very long

The big blue ocean on this here postcard
Well it’s almost your back yard
And it seems so serene
Tell me why was the city on its shore so mean?

Another numbskull and so starry-eyed
Just like a million other guys
I blew town a wiser man
And you blew out with me, saw my world and ran

And I still see fallen-faced strangers
Wondering what went wrong
And they been riding all through the night
Probably singing your song
I tell them old Atlanta, Georgia couldn’t hold you very long

I tell them old Atlanta, Georgia couldn’t hold you very long etc

Old Atlanta Georgia (couldn't hold you very long)

LAYERS

I am a singer with a love for melodic metal/ hard rock and have had the pleasure of collaborating with some very talented guitarists and musicians from around the world. I appreciate the opportunity to sing on these projects. And thanks for stopping by-- I hope you find something pleasing to your ears.

Update: If anyone wants to record a song from the bands: Badlands, Blind Guardian, Blue Murder, Disneyland After Dark (D.A.D.), Badlands, LA Guns, XYZ, Bulletboys, Salty Dog, Cry Wolf, or Tangier, please send me a message. ;-)

Update 2: Also looking to collaborate on some Type O Negative, W.A.S.P., Dokken, or pretty much anything from that era that rocks.

Update 3: Open collaboration invitation for Tesla, Vandenberg, Scorpions, Yngwie Malmsteen or Alcatrazz...............................

Update 4: 03/17/2019 moved reposts to repost page here: https://soundcloud.com/7thhelden

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Piano- Vocal White Lion When The Children Cry Piano Cover By Papa Ceira & 7th

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