Best That I Knew How was included in the shortlist for the ROCK/INDIE category of the 2022 Australian Songwriting Contest. 

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Best That I Knew How was re-mixed and re-mastered June 2023.

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Verse 1:
We started talking about nothing at all
We shared a bit of something and I started to fall
A little bit in love I guess I answered a call
Made her more than a friend

So we got married in a rush of youth
Feeling so free, playing fast and loose
I always meant well you know that's the truth
But I stuffed it up in the end

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

Verse 2:
We brought you home your mum and me
You entered our house turned two into three
So I went to work thought my job was to be
Bringing home big buckets of security

Who knew back then what a father should be
Who knew what a little boy or girl might need
I learned too late what I needed to see
More than anything you needed more of me.

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

Bridge:
That's not to say that I didn't try
That's all I ever did and that's no lie
If I didn't live up to the standards I had
I never thought that I was doing all that bad
The only life I've known has been in my own skin
I've never been the man I wish I'd been

Chorus:
Wish I could say that I did my best
But it's simply not true
I could have done a whole lot better
If I'd known what to do
I did as much as who I was at the time would allow
I'd like to think that whatever I did, I did the best that I knew how

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This is another take on the song previously released as The Best. The Best was reworked as a ballad and worked well.  This version is my attempt to reproduce the sort of song that I was thinking of when I wrote it.

Best That I Knew How

Christiane Hommelsheim sings and plays on sound objects, Ralf Haarmann electronics and mandoline. With a central interest in loops, they create intertwined acoustic layers. Through the looper all sounds loose their corporality, they resolve within themselves, they appear and
disappear, they become soundfields, and soundshadows. Ocassionally a sentences might appear out of nowhere, and lingers unfinished in the space, like a piece of thought-furniture, that might develop within the ear of the listener before it retreats back out of focus. HAARMANNHOMMELSHEIM create poetics of absence, poetics of nothing.

Wav 48/24 STEREO HIFI homemade records           without edit.      (Classical guitar works). 

Pieces from the classical and romantic period by composers such as F. Sor, J. K. Mertz, L. Legnani, J. Arcas, N. Coste, etc.. .

NO POST-PRODUCTION WORK HAS BEEN DONE ON  THE SOUND IN ALL THE TRACKS.
THE TRACKS ARE NOT MASTERED. 

I don't pay anyone for promoting my tracks.

I play a 2016 Heidi Pulfer guitar. 

Iacopo Maria Regazzo 

www.iacopomariaregazzo.it

Singer songwriter from the Heart of England with a box full of old and new songs on a mission to understand the art of recording and mixing. Most started life on my trusty Martin acoustic and have been played live but never been given the luxury of being recorded. I suspect am gonna be at this for quite a while!

Can you put titles to my tunes? If not, my website reveals all at:

https://www.harveytwyman.com

My Latest Tunes are at: www.soundcloud.com/harvey-twyman

I have now minimised all my musical equipment down to a single arranger keyboard, the Yamaha PSR-SX900.

Originally I had created all the features of this keyboard using multiple pieces of MIDI equipment all controlled through a Windows tablet. I created a YouTube video describing it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TekeXG_oe1g&list=PLzVsLVsxIwiZLfDwmRDZ1B8TnIrgwX7aC&index=2&t=1s

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Hip Hop, Electro and Folk. Yes, this makes no sense, but I like it like that. Everything here is DIY, composed, written , produced, played and sung by me unless mentioned otherwise. The weird instrument you hear in a lot of my tracks is not an harmonica or an accordion, it's a melodica.

My first EP is available on all platforms: https://ffm.to/sailors-ep

If you want to chat, I'm on bluesky most of the time, there's a very nice musician community over there.

Open for collabs, don't hesitate to reach me by DM if you need a voice on the lower ends :)

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That’s Pete and Pete, the original members, augmented with Spud, Pecos,  Snooks and Smooch. Pete and Pete were formally founder members of The Petes. The band like to explore a range of musical styles. They started out with folk, rock and blues but they have also been exploring a vocal style of lizard-lounge type jazz too - smoky and melodic. You’ll find love songs, both exuberant and elegiac, along with songs of loss, as well as songs lamenting the state of our world and our society.

Also The Pete Cooper Band’s first  album, ‘Let’s Make Love’ can be found on Spotify and YouTube.

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A new sound is on the horizon. I start recording it in 2026. Watch this space.
 
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 Thank you everyone for your support over the years! 

Shine on!

Gary Von Pink

https://www.youtube.com/@pinkart/videos (My art cnannel on YouTube)

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I write songs.  I'm not a performer any more than I need to be to have my songs heard once in a while. I hope that better musicians than I encounter my songs and decide to play them.  I just write songs to have them exist in the world. If the world likes them then the world can do with them what it will.  All these recordings are demos.  I've tried to make them as musically interesting as I can but they are all awaiting the skilled hand of someone who knows how to make songs shine.

Best That I Knew How

Daniel Weinstein