Thought it may be an idea to put three little try out songs together here. I have recently, over the last week or so, been using the computer again for recording some additional keyboard track layering on top of old songs. These songs below are new tryouts. All in infancy concerning how to develop them.

What to remember? A moment of time that you, as an artist, feel is actually okay, but never stable, is still progress. It is never written historically in cemented time’s timelines. But, we all have to experiment. And present to others, when we are inherently happy but uncertain with our own input, and leave outcomes to tell their own stories. They will always be challenged down the line. The thing is….just do it. Please don’t hide anything away that you give heart to. Always grab the scenario of self naivety, show them willingly and allow the questions that inevitably come back at you. At least you have started the ball rolling. And remember too that people exist that love the base. Where they see the initial value of trying the vibe to realise the final result. I love to check out early recordings of, for example, The Beatles, T.Rex, and others…..and I always say ‘Thank you for persevering’. I wouldn’t love those songs that stay for a lifetime if the basement, front room or Aunty Mimi’s kitchen table tape results weren’t followed up.

Firstly:

A different short intro for the Vlogcasts. Getting tedious thinking this idea through regarding the ‘And so the story goes’ malarkey, but hey ho. This is gentle. And I thought it would be nice to sit with each different musician and play the song together at start of Vlogcasts. Imagining a saxophonist, harp player, fiddle player, accordion player, etc. playing alongside. Or a vocalist changing the dynamic harmoniously. Short and easy to play.

Secondly:

‘Give me something real’. It’s a song from a short while back that’s been sitting on the shelf. Got no idea of how to develop it, but did add a bit of crazy keyboard notes played at random. Sometimes it gives me backing ideas when I do this. Wish I could play keyboards properly. And, no, it’s too late to learn. My fingers are all aches and pains still from a January double whammy virus attack that’s still dawdling around my joints.

First up the vocal and the downward strum guitar first try out.

Sang and played it again but added a bit of keyboard mysterious malarkey.

Thirdly:

She Said. I wrote the words and tune to this back in the late 1970s. Came along with the bass line here and sang it. Think it was in another key though. Higher, so out of reach now. She Said is accredited to myself, my brother Kev and Dave the guitarist from The XCerts. Towards the end days of the band, we just gave the writing kudos to all three of us because, well, we just did.

This as rough as houses, but gives me direction of new ideas to add that is different from the original.

So, today was a bit of a muck about to kick start feeling confident to begin recording in earnest again. Here it has been awful on and off rainy weather today. And yesterday too. A bit brighter now at 17.30. So stayed in instead of hitting the road with the VeeDub Bus.

These songs above? I enjoyed getting at least a kick start going, even though I trundled along in first gear. However. Any intended journey starts with one first step as they say.