there is a reason we are all driven to writing in the first place. It is basically because we have some kind of skill or desire that makes us want to sit with those pieces of paper, those guitar or keyboard chords, or whatever and obsess over getting something just write
Funny I was thinking about this the other day and exactly what did I want to get out of songwriting and my original goal was to get a cut and be the song on the album you liked better than the big hit song, Pocahontas on Rust Never Sleeps, Battle of Evermore on Volume 4, Danny Bailey on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Mr Speed on Rock N Roll Over, plus one on nearly every album I own....
Is it or was it just me?
But then barely 10 mins into my songwriting 'career' and the album almost completely died, I feel sad for music because of it!
I was inspired by the TAPS to go and record to music one of the saddest and best poems I know, a poem called THE LAST PARADE, by an Australian bush poet known as Banjo Paterson, dealing with the fact due to the quarantine laws of Australia none of the 10,000's of horses taken over in WW1 and used by the Lighthorse regiments (save for one ridden by a colonel of course), was allowed to come back, so after the end of the war, they were all taken and shot!
They were very highly regarded in The Light Horse Charge at Beersheba thought to have been the last great Calvary win in awar. I originally intended to do it all but just kept it as the G to D... love history! Anyway it is on soundcloud if you want to hear it!
Arty
Funny I was thinking about this the other day and exactly what did I want to get out of songwriting and my original goal was to get a cut and be the song on the album you liked better than the big hit song, Pocahontas on Rust Never Sleeps, Battle of Evermore on Volume 4, Danny Bailey on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Mr Speed on Rock N Roll Over, plus one on nearly every album I own....
Is it or was it just me?
But then barely 10 mins into my songwriting 'career' and the album almost completely died, I feel sad for music because of it!
I was inspired by the TAPS to go and record to music one of the saddest and best poems I know, a poem called THE LAST PARADE, by an Australian bush poet known as Banjo Paterson, dealing with the fact due to the quarantine laws of Australia none of the 10,000's of horses taken over in WW1 and used by the Lighthorse regiments (save for one ridden by a colonel of course), was allowed to come back, so after the end of the war, they were all taken and shot!
They were very highly regarded in The Light Horse Charge at Beersheba thought to have been the last great Calvary win in awar. I originally intended to do it all but just kept it as the G to D... love history! Anyway it is on soundcloud if you want to hear it!
Arty
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