Very cool Dan!!!!! Much cleaner than a traditional guitar slide & much more natural sounding!!!! What made you decide to make your guitar fretless? Great idea!!!!

nice intonation on that fretless! you are a man who likes a new challenge.

Cool vibe and sound Dan... I tried playing some slide recently beyond the last frets...

Expressions In Groove

CHAOS

Can't stop the rain falling from the sky
Can't stop the wind blowing through the leaves
Can't stop the leaves falling from the trees
Can't stop my bones from turning into dust

I just must trust
My time on Earth
Added up to something
My time on Earth
Added up to something

All things that come
They too must pass
And with the blinking of an eye
The time, it comes, for them to die

So, like the famous butterfly,
Did my flutterings alter some thing?
Will I leave an echo or a trace
On departing from this Place?

What was my life?
What was it for?

I made some noise
I made some sounds
But when I cease to be around
The air will still itself once more

I caused some ripples as I splashed
But when I am no more, alas
The water will be calm just as before

Can't stop the rain falling from the sky
Can't stop the leaves falling from the trees
Can't stop the natural flow of energy...

Chaos

HEY AMIN
DON’T MIND MY SAYING
YOU SHOULD HAVE STUCK TO BED GARDENING 
INSTEAD OF CLINICAL MECHANICS TINKERING
HEY AMIN FORGIVE MY RIDDLE TALKING
I KNOW YOU’RE THE KING OF THE KIND
DON’T MIND ME TRYING TO SPEAK OUT YOUR MIND

SALUT AMIN
BIEN QUE DISTANT TU ES DES NÔTRES 
MOI JE SUIS MÉTAPHORIQUEMENT VÔTRE
HEY AMIN
FORGIVE MEG’S EAVESDROPPING
IT SEEMS SHE’S QUITE UNDER THE SPELL 
OF YOUR WORDS WHATEVER THE HELL THEY MEAN
AMIN
SALUT AMIN
BIEN QUE DISTANT JE SUIS DES VÔTRES ET MOI JE TRINQUE MÉTAPHORIQUEMENT A LA NÔTRE

METAPHORICALLY YOURS (Lyrics) Song for Amin

I have no preconception
And don't care what the reception
I've no bias and take it all on face value
If you're a dick you're a dick its final
Should be flushed down the urinal
Block my ears at all the wicked words you spew

CHORUS
Despite what you see we're the same as one another
Your dialogues extreme - its the script straight from hell
No bias - let it be - there's no need to run and take cover
You're playing an old theme and don't play it very well
Despite what you see we're the same as one another
The company I keep shouldn't matter much at all
The sexuality, what you worship or any colour
You're playing an old theme and quite frankly I'm appalled

I went out on a bender
With a gay and a transgender
It was just as good as any other night out
I'm not trying to be poetic
But your bigotry's pathetic
The hatred in the words you often spout

CHORUS

Despite What You See

Once upon a time a little man
alone  and with no age
by dint of living at minimum.
He sold tobacco and chewing gums
always behind his counter , transparent, almost no one.
Then , when night comes, 
 in the land of chimeras
he re-writes his own story
then , in the softness of his sheets , he leaves real life away 
for the most beautiful Happy end

Once upon a time a beautiful lady 
who crossed her life with a certain melancholy
she had achieved her woman life 
but when children leave, sometimes, tears only remain 
Then , when night comes, 
 in the land of chimeras
she re-writes her own story
then , in the softness of her sheets , she leaves real life away 
for the most beautiful Happy end

This is eventually the very banal story 
of all those people living on their own
to whom we don't even give a look 

Then , when night comes, 
they want to believe that life is beautiful
that they can change the end of the story
eyes wide open , in the dark, they leave real life away 
for the most beautiful Happy end

Happy End

Ambience

Summer Night Romance

Wordless Notes To My Son Entering A Brave New World

I noticed some action on a rehearsal studio version of this track here on SoundCloud, so I thought to upload a tighter version of it

As the band UMF dissolved, I really wanted to carry over some of the songs to the new band (now called Laybow), in particular this one, so I recorded a half decent version of it and pitched it.

It was picked up and has been a setlist favourite for a long time now, albeit the lyrics and solo bit have slightly changed.

I put this 2013 recording through a bit modern treatment.

lyrics:

ready to take it
whatever you're saying
maybe I'll make it
maybe you'll break it

wanna play?
not today!
wanna play?
stop screwing around!

leave me hanging
broken record spinning
somehow it's fitting
I'm not used to winning

wanna play?
not today!
wanna play?
stop screwing around!

... oh make me stay
and take me out
and do me proud
and let me down
stop screwing around

let me down
let me down
do me proud
stop screwing around
let me down
let me down
do me proud
stop screwing around

❤️ @Bandcamp

Skrew (band-pitch demo version from 2013) 2021 Remix

I recently bought a fretless guitar.  I have been experimenting with how to play this guitar in my songs.  I chose a fairly simple riff to highlight the note sliding of the fretless.  This song starts in the key of A Minor.  Then, in the middle, switches to B Minor.  The end is a series of half step moves back to an A Minor.

Fretless Guitar Magic

'A House that Nobody Owns' is licensed under a creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons License.

Written by Bluebird
Vocals and Guitar performed by Bluebird
Lead Guitar, Bass and Drums performed by Richard Brown
Produced by Richard Brown

Lyrics:

Empty rooms with no pockets
memories are broken
your stories written on wallpaper
the floor beneath your feet is ageing

You won't sit still open water
you're ready to steal open water
just like the swaying arms of the ocean
the calm before the storm approaches

You pick up sticks in your lounge room
the hollow walls leave you frozen
you won't hear a word they've spoken
can you hear it? can you hear it?

You won't sit still open water
you're ready to steal open water
just like the swaying arms of the ocean
the calm before the storm approaches

Four walls were not enough to hold you, windows are behind you
it calls, let the water fall around you and wrap it's arms around you

You won't sit still open water
you're ready to steal open water
just like the swaying arms of the ocean
the calm before the storm approaches

A House That Nobody Owns

Searching for a clean sound. One of the first models of solid bodies that Gibson  ever made. The tone speaks for itself. An R8 for those that are curious

A New Way

I am ProgRockDan1.  I started this site for those individuals who like instrumentals.  You can come here and find all of my instrumentals.  There will be minimal vocals on this site.  I love collaborating with other musicians.

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