Where It Feels Like Home

Mid Day Sun (demo) M

The great Elvin Jones use to drive music with his cymbals and power behind John Coltrane and McCoy Tyler.   Joining me here again on a 12/8 modal groove to celebrate the sound of Trane is Cologne's Georg Boehme, a superb Bari Sax and woodwind player.   https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme. Together we remember these great moments from the 60s

Here's a playlist of our recordings together:  https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind/sets/grooving-with-georg-boehme

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares

Step Out - Georg Boehme / Jamie Rhind

February brings a slower, pensive, ballad from the WAG fellas. Perhaps we're feeling a little sentimental, or reflective in the bleak midwinter?  Maybe it is the approach of Valentine's Day slowing things down, or is it simply age, and the desire to capture anew, the childlike wonder of looking up in a gentle snowfall?

Change is the key to being fresh in our creative approaches to music. One For The Eye is a poem I wrote in celebration of the winter season. It was adapted by Keith to better fit an easy listening composition I had sent to him earlier. Keith ran with the challenge to make a song out of these parts and delivers a song that, we trust,  gives one pause to conjure up those moments from childhood in the snow, and smile. 

Two observations offer a frame for this song:
This week, Nova Scotia, where I have family, received a record setting dump of snow (Sydney N.S. received 1.5 m), and that is where the muse opens.
The other observation is that in the west, in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where I also have family, there is too little snow accumulation leading to worries about water tables, crops, and forest fires this summer. Too much or too little is not good.

Lyrics:
One for the Eye 

Too much can be an undesirable burden
Too little leave all hopes abandoned.
One at a time,
One on the tongue,
and one in the eye.

Or could it be a warm iconic postcard?
Or would it be much better left just as Mother intended
One at a time
One on the tongue
and one in the eye

A light descent from heaven
It may be euphoric
Though always seen,  
never heard in the falling

One at a time
One at a time
One for the tongue
One for the tongue
…and one in the eye


Wigmore: Original poem, music, production
Allen: adapting lyrics, vocals, bass.

One For The Eye

Pennsylvania

For 2

A big thank you to the talented Wikiloops Musicians

https://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack-jam-290184

As of 6.6.2024 you can now a reel & decent cover
https://www.instagram.com/p/C72YcLEO2B2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WlY8MygMk






Presenting - Till I Get Over You

Vocals - Heidi-Marie - first take
Original Lyrics as I sung

Choose another road
Walk another path

Time to clear the mind
Time  to the cleanse the soul

So let me take another road

Does it really matter
Which way I go

Not sure what I'll


Till I get over you

Produced in the ARAPA Music Studio,
Sydney - Australia

Till I Get Over You

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"Paperback Writer" by Lennon & McCartney performed by James Nesser.

Epiphone Casino
Epiphone Viola Bass
Addictive Drums 2 - Black Oyster

"Paperback Writer"

Performed by David Cooper

Written by:

Music - David Cooper

Words - Ralph Donkin

Don't need no religion to pray
Don't need no opinion to say
Say what I feel
Pray when I kneel
It makes no difference to me

Don't need no secrets to keep
Don't need no dreams to sleep
Sleep when I'm tired
Secrets undesired
It makes no difference to me

Chorus

No tears
No fears
It's just the way that it is
No cheers
No jeers
It's just the way that it is

Don't need no physician to heal
Don't need no politician to steal
Steal from the poor 
Pain I'll endure
It makes no difference to me

Don't need no education to learn
Don't need to go back to return
Return to where
There's no knowledge to share
It makes no difference to me

Chorus

Don't need no flowers to grow
Don't need no ill wind to blow
Blow me a kiss
And if you miss
It makes no difference to me

It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me
It makes no difference to me

It Makes No Difference To  Me (Cooper/Donkin Collaboration)

The opening track off my first ever attempt at writing, recording, and producing and album by myself ("Instrumentally Challenged") (1999-2000).  I was trying to program a bass part for a different song and realized 3/4 of the way through that I made a mistake and it was way too fast.  Instead of deleting it I thought it might be fun to try soloing over it. 

The title comes from something two of my friends used to say all the time (once, a couple times once...).  Not sure anyone really knows why they said it, or why they thought it was so funny.

Guitar:  Ibanez S-series 7 String
Amp:  KORG ToneWorks 1st Gen Pandora's Box
Drums:  Zoom RT-123
DAW:  Cakewalk Pro Audio 9

Recorded (1999-2000)
2022 remaster

Once (a couple times)

Shredder (Slowed Remastered Version)

This is the sounding board for my many projects. I use this for works-in-progress to check mix levels and such. None of these tracks is finished.

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Botch!