One word:

prostitutes

We've been through this already Gar. Like I said; I'm not a member of the Secret Service. LOL!

--Bo

lmfao!

Yo Bo,

I find masturbation handy in those situations, the minutes just fly by...

But maybe thats just me......

Dr. Leroy.

Hey Doc, I'm not sure what's most disturbing; your actual post or that you actually had time to think about it before hitting "send". Hahaha!!

--Bo

Yo Bo,

We medical practitioners never fear discussing the " Sins of the flesh"...

I have made a video guide on the said subject... it is available for $19.99 and will be sent in a plain brown cover.

Dr Leroy

ROFLMAO !!!!
I thought that was something just "done".....not "spoken about"
:P

Yeah...shake your buddies hand before asking him that question...ha

OH HELL NO! I got a line about that in a new original we are working on for the next CD:

"You said you'd love me forever now did you forget,
Meeting you is my one regret,
There's one thing that I finally see,
You're poison in the air I breath,
You push the thin line between love and hate,
You make me wish that I had masturbated,
I replaced your love with alcohol,
Now I just don't seem to care at all,

: )

Dave

*grins*
TMI !!!
Looking forwards to hearing that new Steel CD....
On a separate note:
How was the Gman on Jubilee Day Dave ?
Think I saw some pics of you and Brian over on FBook and looked like the Gman.....
Peace Ed

Jubilee Day was great! I don't really remember walking home, but I woke up there so I guess I did all right.....hehehehe! I think everyone was pretty staggered but we didn't go there to stay sober.

The new Steel CD is going to be a while yet. I'm still laying down roght tracks for the guys. Aaron has been writing more which is a two edged sword. Some of the stuff he writes is good. Some, well not so much. Sometimes I think he writes a song just to write a song. He wrote this one with really good hooks. I'm sure it will be a well liked song. I like it! But, the next one he wrote I really don't even want to play. It's just not very good. We'll see how it all pans out.

Dave

I remember one thing this Dave Magaro guy once told me about song writing....
"Sometimes you gotta write 100 shitty tunes to crank out a good one"
....betcha dollars to donuts this is what's happening with Aaron

Ahhhhh....Jubilee Day.....me and Jacquie would love to partake again......maybe 2013 will be our year
....and seems to me that walk home was sketchy back then too
Maybe you best take another route
:)
Peace Ed

It sounds like something I would say. I try to encourage musicians to write songs. Writing songs will teach you more about music than just about anything. You have to think about every aspect of the song. Tempo, timing, rhythm, melody, harmony, etc. Writing teaches much! However, as a veteran song writing you need to start weeding out some of the sub par songs before you bring them to the band. The idea isn't to fill a CD. It's to fill a CD with something your proud to share. I don't just throw a song together, or it is very rare that it happens that way. Some songs I will work on for years. Whereas Aaron will throw one together in a night. Which is fine when it works. But, when it doesn't he needs to learn to just let that one fade away. I wrote a song right after the last CD that we started learning. But, I just let it fall to the way side because I had better songs that I was working on. I have songs written that won't appear on the CD because the idea for me anyway is to put your best songs forward.

It would be great if you made another Jubilee Day appearance. Brian and I do talk about coming up but it's just so damn hard for both of us to get away. There is no way in Hell I'm doing what we did last time. That about killed both of us....LOL!

Dave

*grins*
A buddy of mine has been working with a local songwriter for a couple weeks now and he's amazed at the process
Me...I can't write for sh*t...more of a mimic than a creator
I am envious of those that create tho...
...and I have no doubt you're right Dave.....about the creation process helping one out as a musician
I always said the best way to get better as a musician is to get out of your room and get in a band
....I'm guessing once you've done some roadtime and stagetime,then the next evolution would be songwriting
:)

lol
Meh....you guys rock and could re-do that weekend no sweat !!
*grins*
The other day Jacquie was still saying that the night you guys were down was the drunkest she'd ever been...and since
lol
Peace Ed

LMAO! Well Jaquie should be plenty healed then by the next time we get together and drink. When we come up again we are going to take more time. We are going to split the drive time into two days up and two days down. That was just craziness leaving Thursday and being back Monday! We're just too damn old for that Eddie!

Songwriting is one of my favorite things about music. It's one of the things that keeps me doing it. I'm sure one day will come when I won't gig anymore but I will ALWAYS write.

Dave

Whirlwind comes to mind...and yep,you're right about the "age" thing
2 consecutive days on a roof....2 more to go and a weekend of it ahead of me will soon have this body screaming NO MAS !!!
;)
Peace Ed

Dave, how difficult is it to write songs using only a bass? I don't play any other instruments.

I made a video with text for you. That will probably go a lot further explaining it than I could hope to do by typing it all out.

It's like anything Gerry, the more you do it the better you get at it. I don't think it's hard but knowing some theory is EXTREMELY helpful. To me there is not a right way or wrong way to write a song with bass. This is how I do it, but everyone needs to find what works for them. What I do is make a rough draft of the song on four track cassette. Then I give a copy of it to the band. This video is a song that I gave to the band. I do all the phrasing and keying of the vocals and do the harmonies the way I want them. I must warn you though that I am a horrible HORIBLE singer!! But, what you need to understand is I wasn't trying to do a wonderful pristine vocal track... or bass track for that matter. It's just a rough cut so the band can learn the song. So, you'll have to hear past the little flaws, or in the case of my vocals BIG flaws. But, I went through the song and added what my thought process is when taking a song to the band. I must also warn you that this song has a lot of cursing in it. But, it's nothing you wouldn't hear on Prime Time American Television. Well here it is... you've been warned.

Was that helpful at all?

Dave

Thanks, Dave! I think it was helpful, though I'll have to listen to it several more times. My theory is very basic.

So you worked out the chordal relationships on the bass? If so, does it take a bit more knowledge of theory to do so than writing with a guitar or keys?

"So you worked out the chordal relationships on the bass? " Yes, but that is not all that difficult to do. I started writing songs on piano at times. But, I find it easier to write on bass as I have been playing bass over three decades so I just know it better. But let me start with a few questions:

Do you know your modes?
Do you know what inversions are?

Dave

I do know my modes, though I'm not fluent in all of them, such as Phrygian, Locrian, to cite two. I'm most familiar with with Major and Minor, of course, and then Mixolydian and I like Dorian for some reason.

By inversion, I assume you mean chord inversions where instead of I, III, V, you might play I V III or V I III? I'm somewhat familiar with it, but not sure I truly understand the whys and whens of it.

Very informative tutorial Magaro....
Cheers and thanks for taking the time do do it....lotta work all around
Peace Ed

minutes? or "minute"?