I dig it! The lyrics are so heartfelt and the production is super fun! Great work guys!

Nice percussion selections on the accompaniment.

i told Allen to STOP me but he didnt.  LOL.  hey Allen you had the percussion going already.  I kept your ideas intact and am just thrilled you let me help and have some fun on this.  everything adheres to your idea and attempts to highlight and accentuate it only.  what a total thrill that you dug the treatment - this mix is also pretty much my non-verbal feedback on your whole track.  the embellishments are literally me telling you what I dig about it......im moved that you dug the arrangement man.  this is DEFINITELY the kind of work I would quit my day job for!!!! LOL!!!!  feels awesome to help thank you for letting me be a part of it Allen!

No Teacher Blues

By: Abe Partridge 
Covered By: SWU Class of Winter 2017

If any SWU Alumni would like to contribute vocals - please contact Don ... and we'll mix ya in !   ;-)


* Allen Sosa ( 'n Deborah Heaton Brown )
Well I bought me a Guitar at t he corner pawn shop
I played guitar hero now I really want to rock
I bought me a music book I couldn't even read
Man I'm gonna have to find someone to teach me
So I'm going to the city where the rock and rollers live
So I gassed up my truck and down the road I went

* Wayne Bertone
So I went up to Seattle to find the ghost of Kurt Cobain
And learned to play the grunge guitar like Alice in chains
But all I found were hipsters with their lumberjack beards
In their trendy coffee shops with their fancy jelled up hair
So I asked this homeless dude where is the underground scene
He said punk is dead and it ain't had no recovery

* Sherofi Guess
Two turn tables and a microphone
MPC now I'm in the zone
Chop it up until my fingers bleed 
Learned how to walk this way Run DMC
Break beats to make beats 
Flip anything from the Stones to Backstreet
To something from scratch, yeah I can do that
I can carve my own patch on this pretty little axe
I can sample that
Rap star supreme, rock star you mean 
call it what you want - kept this thing clean
Hip hop is dead - is that what he said?
Na - just underground instead

* Mark Magram
Well maybe I'll try my hand at some old school R&B
Or maybe Detroit city is where that I should be
I could  grow a white boy Afro and learn some funky moves
And find some black girls to stand behind me singing shoe bop sha do 
But Motown left there years ago and there was no R&B
So maybe Detroit city just ain't for me

* Deborah Heaton Brown
So I went down to San Francisco just to find my hippy soul
I went to Hayden Ashberry where all the hippys  go
I walked around barefooted and put flowers in my hair
I took a trip on LSD but didn't get nowhere
Till this mystic maharishi she said you got a find yourself
So I packed up my truck 
I headed back south
 
* Marshall (bad-hombre) Sanchez
Well my mom was the biggest fan so I was raised on Elvis
Surely I could find some rockabilly pickers down in Memphis
They had Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins
But now Sun Studios is just a museum
That kind of music don't sell many records anymore
I guess rockabilly it ain't a big deal no more

* Michael Olivier
So I figured I should get back to the home of the blues
The Mississippi Delta was the best that I could do
I went to the crossroads of Robert Johnson fame
I waited there till midnight and they called the devil's name
And I guess it is ridiculous 
I waited there for hours
The sun came up and I still had no rock 'n' roll powers

* Don Mercer
So I went up to Nashville to become a country star
Where I seen 1500 dollar boots and fancy guitars
Played by GQ models and centrefold dolls
Man what they're calling country it ain't country at all
It's just a cookie cutter product of a crooked industry 
And I don't know about you brother 
But that ain't my thing

* Bruce Salmon
Well maybe punk is dead maybe the hippies are through
And maybe rockabilly's done all that it can do
And maybe the devil ain't still teaching the blues
And Nashville's been taken by this business suits
I'll just play it like I feel it 
I'll let it come right from my soul
Because you don't need no teacher to rock 'n' roll

I'll just play it like I feel it let I'll let it come right from my soul
Because you don't need no teacher to rock 'n' roll
=====
Abe ... you got some special songs happening ... I commented on your original that I thought it sounded like a hit song ... yeah, it sounds like a hit to me ... 

Bruce - thanks for powering through (pain meds) and listening and commenting and encouraging everyone week after week.

#@$*(   I'm tired ... c ya'll in July! 

If anyone hates the mix - this is a draft - we can fix it.  ;-)

- Don

No Teacher Blues

SWU 2017 - Week 16 - No Teacher Blues Collab Cover = Original By Abe Partridge

Chasing a Ghost
By: Allen Sosa
Prompt: chasing a ghost

Verse 1

I look at you from across the room 
Like a bright light breaking through the gloom
You smile at me and touch my hand 
My world slips away like sinking sand

Chorus

If you only had eyes to see
Baby what you doing to me
Then you'd see how you captured my heart
But you keep me a world's apart
Sometimes it feels like I'm CHASING A GHOST

solo

Verse 2

I wonder If I could be your man
Maybe we could work out some kind of plan
I'll bring to you all the love you'll need 
Baby can you hear all of my pleas?

Repeat Chorus x2

End

Chasing A Ghost(Magram Remix)

Written by JD Torian
Produced / Arranged by Mark Magram

Verse 1

Our pictures on the wall

So young and fun life ahead of us all

Barely visible always invincible

Count the Wednesdays; they’re gone



Up peeling back the years

What’s gone behind us’ hiding our fears

What happened to us all?

Did anything ever go wrong?



Chorus

Don’t you hide from our love



Verse 2

Sometimes it all depends 

On which way it’s coming and from where it begins

Usually doesn’t matter 

You’re always with your friends



Zero fun alone

Especially when your heart’s not here in your home

Some things you never try

Some things you do on your own 



Chorus

Don’t you hide from our love

Dont Hide From Love (By JD Torian and Mark Magram)

Enough To Get You By / Instrumental

Created using RockBand multitracks and a hell of a lot of pitch shifting and warping in PT. This work is made entirely using copyrighted material, no infringement intended.

Samples:
Goodbye – Paul McCartney demo (1969)

Drums – Come Together, Hello Goodbye, Lovely Rita, Carry That Weight, Octopus’s Garden, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, The End
Bass – Lovely Rita, Hello Goodbye
Guitars – Lovely Rita, Hello Goodbye, Octopus’s Garden, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, You Never Give Me Your Money, 
Pianos – Lovely Rita, Hello Goodbye, Dear Prudence
Percussion – A Day In the Life, Polythene Pam, Come Together
Backing Vocals – Because, Octopus’s Garden, Goodbye demo
Other  - Getting Better (tambura), Hello Goodbye (violins), Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (moog synth), The End (orchestra)

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