BELLY OF THE BEAST-feat Clouders for... collab. see description

I love the blues and became determined to learn to play when I found my beautiful Eastman archtop guitar up for sale, second hand for a bargain price, in Jan 2012. As soon as I touched it I fell in love.

I first tried playing guitar several decades ago: with unrealistic teenaged enthusiasm I fully expected to sound like Hendrix within a month or two while practising just thirty minutes a week. I gave up when I still struggled to tune my guitar and the cowboy chords I'd learnt sounded really rough when I literally banged on them. Girls were much more interesting.

In my late thirties I had a mid-life crisis(!), so I  bought a US Strat and a Gibson LP Pro, determined to learn to be an ageing 'bedroom rock star'. I was working long and hard hours so only practised on odd weekends, always wondering why following tab and listening to CD lessons was not working. I decided I was tone deaf and incompetent, so yet again, I gave up, still unable to master bar chords, convinced I would never be able to play.

As an early retiree, I decided to give it a final attempt when I found my black beauty: the first few years were a journey of discovery, discipline and sore fingers. I practised most days (except when arthritis in my joints and a trapped nerve in my shoulder 'froze' my fretting pinkie and sent my thumb totally numb). Back then, I trawled YouTube and bought a DVD course of lessons, and plugged away. It was worth it as I really enjoyed the fairly limited range of things I could play.

When I first arrived on Soundcloud, I was not expecting to find such a talented and helpful community. I just wanted to upload a jam track for my friends to hear, then I found the amazing wealth of creativity here. 

Sadly, my frozen shoulder, trapped nerve and related problems have pretty much stopped my guitar ambitions since 2016.

However, I still have a blast exploring all the fabulous originals and covers so many relatively unknown, but hugely talented, musicians have conjured up for the SC community. In my first five weeks on here I downloaded c100 tracks and 'liked' hundreds more, and since then I have created many playlists that I regularly listen to depending on my mood...

Simon Cowell and his ilk (overpaid gatekeepers/brand creators/ubercapitalists) have, until now, throttled mass talent for the sake of creating a relative handful of extremely wealthy 'cash cow' celebs.

Who needs these supposedly 'professional talent spotters' and their artificially enhanced 'celebrities'? The internet rocks!

NB If you too suffer from joint pain, RSI or trapped nerves I highly recommend this free DIY pain relief site: it is not just for guitar related injuries but pain anywhere in the body pretty much, and the techniques used really do work - although for me, they provide just temporary relief. Good luck!

Thanks much for 815980 Plays, 43392 Likes, 26920 Reposts, 10222 Comments and 7243 Downloads since 2016 !!!
Explanation to my open collabs (You see it in the title or the description):
The track is downloadable as a mp3 or wav file!
You can complete what you want!
If you publish it, you have to mention me in the description and title!
If you want the track different ...contact me!
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Unfortunately there are always people who use my open collab tracks, but don't have the decency to like the original track or to repost and comment...shame on them!
I will not support such collaborations anymore, no matter how good they are!

VIDEO LINK FOR KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6XZR9ZoJ0
ARMS OF A WOMAN https://vimeo.com/271986153
                           
Knocking on Heavens Door video link--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6XZR9ZoJ0
Motherland.. youtube video link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLYBKXX9TE&feature=youtu.be
SkiesofJehovah..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2GiG36eTs
WE NEVER LOOSE FRIENDS..WE SIMPLY LEARN WHO THE REAL ONES ARE!!
Hi i,m Ged,Since joining soundcloud i have met some amazing musicians from all over the world and to have you listen,comment and appreciate my music is something very special to me and i thank each and everyone of you for that!!! ..Thank you so much for dropping by and for all the wonderful comments on my tracks....

I hope you will like my music i try and keep my tracks as varied as possible,,from Rock and blues to ballads and acoustic instrumentals....this is Just me...,my music... and no frills..... all my tracks can be downloaded and if you want to fav my tracks please leave a comment...Peace :)

"WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS....WE ARE THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS"

A BIG thank you to....

Brian Peters......."Moments of Doubt"
Chris Scheri ..... "Knocking on Heavens door" and  "Moments of Doubt"
Bella_Luna ........"Nothing lasts Forever"
Hans-michael Albers..(Roth Whyler)......"Into Africa"
Hans-Michael Albers..3000 lightyears
Folderol...No Turning Back

I simply don't have the time to invest in listening to fellow musicians this year so I have decided to stop my pro account.... may return in 2018 if I have more to offer and more time to listen to others on the cloud.   The last 5 years were truly special, met some wonderful artists in the process and have some fond memories.  Thank you all .

Kitchen parties are part of the cultural heritage of the Maritime provinces and you will discover that every jam has its own unique personality depending on who is sitting in the circle that evening...

The Free-Wheeling Kitchen Party House Band  is made up of musicians from different disciplines that come together every now and then in Yarmouth county, Nova Scotia, Canada to have a few drinks, tell a few stories and of course to free jam into the wee hours of the morning. The only rule of thumb is that we not play the same song twice in one evening... 

All sets are played on the fly so don't be surprised if you hear someone calling out a cord change now and then... enjoy. 

We  also started up a group on soundcloud under "Kitchen party live jaming" for anyone who might have recordings of jams with friends and fellow musicians in their basement somewhere ;)

https://soundcloud.com/groups/kitchen-parties

..and you can see us performing live on Vimo

https://vimeo.com/user9940381

...and you contact moi on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/roy.j.taylor.96

COMPOSER - PRODUCER - MUSICIAN
I PLAY BASS GUITAR AND DRUMS
IN THE BAND „4NO1“
(ALL STYLES, SINCE 1992)

Our music can be found by visiting our main page here (https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs)

BELLY OF THE BEAST-feat Clouders for... collab. see description

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