Ok, so I am who most might call an "ol man" and to be truthfull most days I am ok with it but there are moments especially after watching a video of one of my favorite 70's Rock bands and I get all indignent with myself for not having picked up my guitar in a couple of months and I feel disingenuinous to the whole matter of the Blue and Rock and Roll. One thing I hope you might consider is I have been a musician ( not professional ) since 1973. A lot of water has passed beneath the brigde to this point in my life and I love every moment that has come and gone. Early on, in those apprentice years, learning my chops and trying to train my right brain to be right handed ( I am a lefty )...those were very tough times, suseptable to quiting at any moment due to things like thinking ( I'm never gpoing to be anything with this thing I love so much ) but I never gave up. Those times later on when I was in a Rock Band with my friends at the time and we would get our own gig's, charge at the door and pay management a cut of the take, $40 dollars a show isn't a hell of a lot when you consider what we had to do. We all had our own gear, drive our stuff to location, realizing we had way more gear than the stage had room for, loading in, for me it was a double 410 Ampeg Bass set up and a single 100 watt head and my 4001 Bass Guuitar. We had two guitarist, both with single slant top Marshall 412 cab's and heads. a Lead singer with keyboards and he owned the PA with all the sound effets and our Drummer, don't let anyone tell you a Drummer is not a Musician, they are the workhorse of our sound and energy. We would play a good long while, usually 3 or 4 sets of 8 to 10 songs each and when we had come to the gig usually after havig worked a full days regular job did this thing and then had to load out ourselves too. So for the 40 bucks we might have got, fuel for gas in our cars, at the end of a night you might say we were toast but in love with what we were doing for sure. We used to also bring our own stage so do the math. There may have been times I have wondered what kept me connected and heres the answer, it was my soul to be who I am and nothing more. The character through playing music in the 1970's is because of all the great influence, It all comes within the person if you can recognize these things, as I remember growing up that the old addage paractice can make for perfection but you gotta have ambision and a desire to never give up. We all waiver sometimes but it's those who stay commited to their ideas and grow with the changes will have the reward so many fail to appreceate, the experience of a lifetime and one that makes me proud and understandably a little less criticle of myself and others as well. After all, life is a long and dusty road. Rock till ya drop. This is NorthernBandit Country my friends, here on ReverbNation. Thank y'all for being a friend.
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People have their own way of discribing an action having to do with music...it is subjective to the person and the condition. More specifically to musicians, people who play the music, a whole nother mindset is involved...when I wore a younger mans clothes those of us who would streaching the envolope with our imagination by thinking how we could write music that was fresh and different such as creating breaks in a song that would sound like a record LP skipping, or making the track sound like it reversed and was going backward but actually going forward. The use of a stutter in a verse or lyric but it also depends on other factors. Most music is a result of emotion...high and low fidelity, tempo and beat can be based from the experience of rhythm be phyical or mechanical such as the sound of a Steam Engine starting from a dead stop and powering up to running speed. It any of us thinks to hard about this it can all become processed sterle but if you let you mojo work it there is something that happens automatically, it's called Soul and that is what gives the song character and gets others to tap their feet or clap their hands and even dance. Nothin but fun all the way around. This is NorthernBandit, Rock till ya drop my friends. Here on Reverb Nation.
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Unofficial: The Dream
Published by Burt K Arthur
Aye, how y'all doin? Well I hope!
I have spent my whole life being part of the world of entertainment...never a Professional but a avid partisapant in supporting the Real Musicians of the world...I as a young man spent many a paycheck following my dream because of the inspiration that those professionals, young men and women hopefully being guided by good management would feed our interest and as with any capitalistic endeavor...the Fans were and still are a very important part of the love and emotion in Music.
The world of Music, Entertainment has had it's polar points shifted due to many things. That is sad for many reasons but out of the stalwart condition of the human spirit, music will never suffer what many call the death of Rock and Roll. It is still about people regardless of "The Industry", think about it...
It seems there is a lot of sorry by the old guard and thats reasonable but...here is the thing. Life in Music has'nt change that much...what has changed is that people have as they have in the past had to figure out the best way to move forward....and the obvious way is something that I and many have been doing for decades on our own. Perpetuating the heart of Rock and Roll one song and performance at a time...on our own terms.
Yeah, the years of money grubbing management has ended...to some degree and the Record Industry is not even a shadow of what it was in its heyday but thats not the real issue.
I have been a musician all of my life...that doesn't mean I have played guitar or sang lyrics or performed in front of others since I was able to walk upright and scream out loud...what it means is I was born with an apptitude to appreceate the talient of the human condition and it inspired me to create and be artist in a certain sort of way.
Whether it is of anyones importance is not up to me, I will always do what will be done but when that very thing that has drove me hard all these decade fails...that is when when Rock and Roll Dies...
Love of life, love of Love, and the appreceation of harmony, structure, and the spirit of the human relationship to everything it means, we only ever have ourselves...less the playbill, the advance, the recording contract. Those things were all there was...The Industry as many knew it either as the Artist the Fan or the Promoters...
We all are one and the same.
Do not let anything ever make you forgot how important you are!
We are Stardust!
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Way back...way way back, late 1973 when I was with a fellow college friend drivin along in his old Chevy listening to a English Blues influenced Band called Foghat. Their 1st LP was some serious straight ahead Boogie Rock and Roll.
From that point forward they never left my interest on playing hard driving Rock.
I started on learning and playing Electric Bass Guitar but it wasn't until around 1976 that I got into my first real live Rock and Roll Band and never looked back.
My favorite record of theirs was and will always be "Energized" and their stage image and antics on stage just Rockin out and being LIVE.
The 70's came and went and I got fed up not being able to gel with melody on the Bass Guitar wanting to write and create my own sound so I bought an electric Guitar and learned how to play so I could exercise my right to Rock like the big boys, slowly but surely it became what I learned to do, relying on all of my Music influences but mostly from a Blues/Rock format.
As time would have it in the late 80's a version of the band were making their rounds, Roger Earl heading the lineup and I and my wife saw them perform at the 99 Club as it was called back then in SeaTac/Seattle area. It would be the only live show of theirs I would get to be at but it was what I remember, Rockin.
Of the original Band, Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Tony Stevens and Roger Earl still to this day leave no one to take their place but for all the members that have joined Roger Earl, who is still leading the current version of the Band they Rock like no tomorrow.
A foot note: roughly mid-late 60's the Blues in Brittian had escallated nicely and produced many artists. A band on the scene put together by up and coming guitar slinger Kim Simmons had a group called Savoy Brown. Groups during those early days were constantly morphing and at a point three members of Savoy Brown made a decision to take their next step leaving the band.
Roger Earl the Drummer, Dave Peverett Guitar/Lead Vocalist and Tony Stevens Bass Guitar and backup Vocalist walked away from Savoy Brown and in tow added Rod Price an amazing Lead and Slide Guitarist to the lineup which eventually would become to be known as Foghat.
No loss of time or energy would seem to effect the loss of his band mates, Kim Simmons would venture on with new players and create what would always be, a very much appreceated and continue the style and sound of the Blues Band, Savoy Brown.
Savory Brown too was a frequent visitor to the Pacific Northwest, I never got the opportunity to see them live but I remember in the 80's seeing the billboard on a tavern in between Fife and Puyallup on Valley Ave. displaying that they would be there. Oh how now I wished I had seen Kim and the lineup play.
Both Bands the essence of what Rock and Blues were about.
Stories of a life and experiences to share.
Rock till ya drop!
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Greetings to y'all, how is it all shakin? Hum?
Right off I just have to say this, being musical and lyrical can be some what convoluted but it's not a bad thing...just have to be focused however that occurs for you, for me well I am a bit prodictable.
For near all of my living years I have been influenced by soul and gospel music, I have always been very grounded to fight or flight conditions...I knew and learned the value of tears and heartache having to do with what most humans suffer, the pain of knowing and loosing someone you were very close to.
So Blues, it's no stranger to me yet the Blues is something you can't run away from though some try, it is something we come to either run away from or deal with in our own way.
Music, being a musician became my savior...not from a religious point of view but from an understanding of who I was and what it mean't to me.Over the years beginning with the Brittish Blues scene of the mid-late 60's and the face that American Rock and Roll had become an institution of it's own set the course for me through bands from the UK like Savoy Brown, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and a incarnation of early Brittish Boogie Bands, Foghat.
Coming from those musicians listening to John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and all the Blues Royality of the times, Blues eventually would morph into Boogie and Songs like Louisiania Blues and Terraplane Blues would come to be songs written by true blue American Black Musicians, their music would gain a bit of a boost among the interested youth of the late 60's and early 1970's to want to Rock those songs that hand so much Soul.
I am one of those from the early 70's who found the direction and have never let go of the inspiration that brings me to the days of my life and Rockin Boogie Roll we all had come to love and play.
I have a strong ambisition to recreate my own version of Louisiana Blues, in the love of the music and in the vein of the spirit of Savoy Brown and Foghat. It is about the back beatand the rhythm it shale always be the most eclectic sound your spirit will ever know and feel. Rock till ya drop my friends...you are in NorthernBandit Territory now here on ReverbNation!
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Obviously my friends it all means something different to each of us but it is true, songs have a point that indivgually or commonly make an impact on who we are, in some cases help us to focus in a derection or just to get through the day. Over the years I have expressed many ideas and some of them have been in song, some of those songs over time I have recreated, not because I no longer cared for what they meant when I first wrote them but because of my ever expanding universe. Life changes each of us in the subtlest of ways. There is a piece I wrote back in 1980 titled Nightwind. I never got the chance to publish it, mostly because the original was mastered on cassette and my archieve is burried it a box somewhere, the other issue is I don't have a cassette player any longer to be able to transfer the cassette to digital so...I was thinking about something and I started imagining that old track into something new. I got inspired by a live verson of a Savoy Brown track titled Hell Bound Train. Mostly about the texture of the music, the ebb and flow and the dynamic of the vocal delivery and thats when it struck me. The idea of rerecording my song which kinda got me excited to play guitar again. Just to preface the reason through my song...Nightwind is a homonym, basically a song with more that one meaning on purpose...my song originating in 1979-80 as I was making my way to the midwest on I-84 heading to my destiny. I will clarify more as time moves forward, but for now as the end of one of the verses say..." The nightwind, is calling me home ". Rock till ya drop. This is NorthernBandit Territory here on ReverbNation!
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It is a amazing how as little as a month can change the dynamic of an Artists Musical Page. I appreceate everyones attention on matters of music, It means a lot to me too. For everone at Facebook, ReverbNation and Google...thank you too. Without you help none of this would have been possible. Rock till ya drop. You are in NorthernBandit Territory now my friends!
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Aye, how y'all doin? Well I hope this finds you doing just fine. If you have a notion please have a listen to my newest track just re-edited call Only Soul, it's a Rock and Roll ditty with a bit of that old time R&R jive. https://www.reverbnation.com/northernbandit/song/34232928-only-soul-2023-northernbandit-but. Drums, Bass Guitar, Piano, Cow Bell, Tambourine, Vocal, and two rockin Electric Guitars. The two most famous guitars ever made and played in the left pan of the mix a Les Paul Standard Tradition Pro 2009 and in the right pan of the recording a new model Fender Telecaster. I mixed this up a bit louder then the previous version...the way I like my music so you might feel it...turn it up. Played live no cutting and splicing my friends true to the end. Yah it is a garage band sound but you know that how and where all music begins, at home from the heart. Only Soul here on ReverbNation by NorthernBandit...yah thats me Burt K. Arthur. Rock till ya drop!
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The response to who is the best in the world...is not a valid question as far as a final response to the status of a said artist. In and of itself making the comment " Best in the world " is a personal statement. This is about how one feels about an artist and a sound that can not fill the void of all the other artists who could be included only because of ones emotional and esthetic seperation of humanity in a single statement. A statement regarding the joy and appreceation of the artist to a degree of exalltation for a particular time. Best in the World, which world? Prog, Classical, Rock, Blues...Hip Hop, R&B, Urban...down the Rabbit hole again... wholey cow my friends. I think it is a matter of how much promotion one is trying to serve to the masses by making such elevated a statement of anything well received. At a particular time, Greatest in the World serves the soul and echos the gratitude one has for the expression at the time for a particular artist. I have said it, others too...it conjours up fairy tale emotions and raises expectations to super hero qualities. That says a lot about the human experience. Music that we all love to share.
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I can't go into a dialog...the song is quite new to the air waves but this much I can tell you, I have been a Fan since 1964, this is 2023. I found the meaning of my life that night watching them on the Ed Sullivan Show when i was 9 years old. Enough said. If you are a fan, take it upon yourself to have a listen...Love still is and always has been with us through them, John, George, Paul and Ringo. Now and Then.
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NorthernBandit / Burt K. Arthur / Mississippi Fats / Blog
When I was...
Ok, so I am who most might call an "ol man" and to be truthfull most days I am ok with it but there are moments especially after watching a video of one of my favorite 70's Rock bands and I get all indignent with myself for not having picked up my guitar in a couple of months and I feel disingenuinous to the whole matter of the Blue and Rock and Roll. One thing I hope you might consider is I have been a musician ( not professional ) since 1973. A lot of water has passed beneath the brigde to this point in my life and I love every moment that has come and gone. Early on, in those apprentice years, learning my chops and trying to train my right brain to be right handed ( I am a lefty )...those were very tough times, suseptable to quiting at any moment due to things like thinking ( I'm never gpoing to be anything with this thing I love so much ) but I never gave up. Those times later on when I was in a Rock Band with my friends at the time and we would get our own gig's, charge at the door and pay management a cut of the take, $40 dollars a show isn't a hell of a lot when you consider what we had to do. We all had our own gear, drive our stuff to location, realizing we had way more gear than the stage had room for, loading in, for me it was a double 410 Ampeg Bass set up and a single 100 watt head and my 4001 Bass Guuitar. We had two guitarist, both with single slant top Marshall 412 cab's and heads. a Lead singer with keyboards and he owned the PA with all the sound effets and our Drummer, don't let anyone tell you a Drummer is not a Musician, they are the workhorse of our sound and energy. We would play a good long while, usually 3 or 4 sets of 8 to 10 songs each and when we had come to the gig usually after havig worked a full days regular job did this thing and then had to load out ourselves too. So for the 40 bucks we might have got, fuel for gas in our cars, at the end of a night you might say we were toast but in love with what we were doing for sure. We used to also bring our own stage so do the math. There may have been times I have wondered what kept me connected and heres the answer, it was my soul to be who I am and nothing more. The character through playing music in the 1970's is because of all the great influence, It all comes within the person if you can recognize these things, as I remember growing up that the old addage paractice can make for perfection but you gotta have ambision and a desire to never give up. We all waiver sometimes but it's those who stay commited to their ideas and grow with the changes will have the reward so many fail to appreceate, the experience of a lifetime and one that makes me proud and understandably a little less criticle of myself and others as well. After all, life is a long and dusty road. Rock till ya drop. This is NorthernBandit Country my friends, here on ReverbNation. Thank y'all for being a friend.
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It ain't ROCK untill you ROLL!
People have their own way of discribing an action having to do with music...it is subjective to the person and the condition. More specifically to musicians, people who play the music, a whole nother mindset is involved...when I wore a younger mans clothes those of us who would streaching the envolope with our imagination by thinking how we could write music that was fresh and different such as creating breaks in a song that would sound like a record LP skipping, or making the track sound like it reversed and was going backward but actually going forward. The use of a stutter in a verse or lyric but it also depends on other factors. Most music is a result of emotion...high and low fidelity, tempo and beat can be based from the experience of rhythm be phyical or mechanical such as the sound of a Steam Engine starting from a dead stop and powering up to running speed. It any of us thinks to hard about this it can all become processed sterle but if you let you mojo work it there is something that happens automatically, it's called Soul and that is what gives the song character and gets others to tap their feet or clap their hands and even dance. Nothin but fun all the way around. This is NorthernBandit, Rock till ya drop my friends. Here on Reverb Nation.
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The way it is...
Unofficial: The Dream Published by Burt K Arthur Aye, how y'all doin? Well I hope! I have spent my whole life being part of the world of entertainment...never a Professional but a avid partisapant in supporting the Real Musicians of the world...I as a young man spent many a paycheck following my dream because of the inspiration that those professionals, young men and women hopefully being guided by good management would feed our interest and as with any capitalistic endeavor...the Fans were and still are a very important part of the love and emotion in Music. The world of Music, Entertainment has had it's polar points shifted due to many things. That is sad for many reasons but out of the stalwart condition of the human spirit, music will never suffer what many call the death of Rock and Roll. It is still about people regardless of "The Industry", think about it... It seems there is a lot of sorry by the old guard and thats reasonable but...here is the thing. Life in Music has'nt change that much...what has changed is that people have as they have in the past had to figure out the best way to move forward....and the obvious way is something that I and many have been doing for decades on our own. Perpetuating the heart of Rock and Roll one song and performance at a time...on our own terms. Yeah, the years of money grubbing management has ended...to some degree and the Record Industry is not even a shadow of what it was in its heyday but thats not the real issue. I have been a musician all of my life...that doesn't mean I have played guitar or sang lyrics or performed in front of others since I was able to walk upright and scream out loud...what it means is I was born with an apptitude to appreceate the talient of the human condition and it inspired me to create and be artist in a certain sort of way. Whether it is of anyones importance is not up to me, I will always do what will be done but when that very thing that has drove me hard all these decade fails...that is when when Rock and Roll Dies... Love of life, love of Love, and the appreceation of harmony, structure, and the spirit of the human relationship to everything it means, we only ever have ourselves...less the playbill, the advance, the recording contract. Those things were all there was...The Industry as many knew it either as the Artist the Fan or the Promoters... We all are one and the same. Do not let anything ever make you forgot how important you are! We are Stardust!
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Nothin I won't do!
Way back...way way back, late 1973 when I was with a fellow college friend drivin along in his old Chevy listening to a English Blues influenced Band called Foghat. Their 1st LP was some serious straight ahead Boogie Rock and Roll. From that point forward they never left my interest on playing hard driving Rock. I started on learning and playing Electric Bass Guitar but it wasn't until around 1976 that I got into my first real live Rock and Roll Band and never looked back. My favorite record of theirs was and will always be "Energized" and their stage image and antics on stage just Rockin out and being LIVE. The 70's came and went and I got fed up not being able to gel with melody on the Bass Guitar wanting to write and create my own sound so I bought an electric Guitar and learned how to play so I could exercise my right to Rock like the big boys, slowly but surely it became what I learned to do, relying on all of my Music influences but mostly from a Blues/Rock format. As time would have it in the late 80's a version of the band were making their rounds, Roger Earl heading the lineup and I and my wife saw them perform at the 99 Club as it was called back then in SeaTac/Seattle area. It would be the only live show of theirs I would get to be at but it was what I remember, Rockin. Of the original Band, Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Tony Stevens and Roger Earl still to this day leave no one to take their place but for all the members that have joined Roger Earl, who is still leading the current version of the Band they Rock like no tomorrow. A foot note: roughly mid-late 60's the Blues in Brittian had escallated nicely and produced many artists. A band on the scene put together by up and coming guitar slinger Kim Simmons had a group called Savoy Brown. Groups during those early days were constantly morphing and at a point three members of Savoy Brown made a decision to take their next step leaving the band. Roger Earl the Drummer, Dave Peverett Guitar/Lead Vocalist and Tony Stevens Bass Guitar and backup Vocalist walked away from Savoy Brown and in tow added Rod Price an amazing Lead and Slide Guitarist to the lineup which eventually would become to be known as Foghat. No loss of time or energy would seem to effect the loss of his band mates, Kim Simmons would venture on with new players and create what would always be, a very much appreceated and continue the style and sound of the Blues Band, Savoy Brown. Savory Brown too was a frequent visitor to the Pacific Northwest, I never got the opportunity to see them live but I remember in the 80's seeing the billboard on a tavern in between Fife and Puyallup on Valley Ave. displaying that they would be there. Oh how now I wished I had seen Kim and the lineup play. Both Bands the essence of what Rock and Blues were about. Stories of a life and experiences to share. Rock till ya drop!
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Blues, Boogie and Rock and Roll
Greetings to y'all, how is it all shakin? Hum? Right off I just have to say this, being musical and lyrical can be some what convoluted but it's not a bad thing...just have to be focused however that occurs for you, for me well I am a bit prodictable. For near all of my living years I have been influenced by soul and gospel music, I have always been very grounded to fight or flight conditions...I knew and learned the value of tears and heartache having to do with what most humans suffer, the pain of knowing and loosing someone you were very close to. So Blues, it's no stranger to me yet the Blues is something you can't run away from though some try, it is something we come to either run away from or deal with in our own way. Music, being a musician became my savior...not from a religious point of view but from an understanding of who I was and what it mean't to me.Over the years beginning with the Brittish Blues scene of the mid-late 60's and the face that American Rock and Roll had become an institution of it's own set the course for me through bands from the UK like Savoy Brown, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and a incarnation of early Brittish Boogie Bands, Foghat. Coming from those musicians listening to John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and all the Blues Royality of the times, Blues eventually would morph into Boogie and Songs like Louisiania Blues and Terraplane Blues would come to be songs written by true blue American Black Musicians, their music would gain a bit of a boost among the interested youth of the late 60's and early 1970's to want to Rock those songs that hand so much Soul. I am one of those from the early 70's who found the direction and have never let go of the inspiration that brings me to the days of my life and Rockin Boogie Roll we all had come to love and play. I have a strong ambisition to recreate my own version of Louisiana Blues, in the love of the music and in the vein of the spirit of Savoy Brown and Foghat. It is about the back beatand the rhythm it shale always be the most eclectic sound your spirit will ever know and feel. Rock till ya drop my friends...you are in NorthernBandit Territory now here on ReverbNation!
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Why songs are so important.
Obviously my friends it all means something different to each of us but it is true, songs have a point that indivgually or commonly make an impact on who we are, in some cases help us to focus in a derection or just to get through the day. Over the years I have expressed many ideas and some of them have been in song, some of those songs over time I have recreated, not because I no longer cared for what they meant when I first wrote them but because of my ever expanding universe. Life changes each of us in the subtlest of ways. There is a piece I wrote back in 1980 titled Nightwind. I never got the chance to publish it, mostly because the original was mastered on cassette and my archieve is burried it a box somewhere, the other issue is I don't have a cassette player any longer to be able to transfer the cassette to digital so...I was thinking about something and I started imagining that old track into something new. I got inspired by a live verson of a Savoy Brown track titled Hell Bound Train. Mostly about the texture of the music, the ebb and flow and the dynamic of the vocal delivery and thats when it struck me. The idea of rerecording my song which kinda got me excited to play guitar again. Just to preface the reason through my song...Nightwind is a homonym, basically a song with more that one meaning on purpose...my song originating in 1979-80 as I was making my way to the midwest on I-84 heading to my destiny. I will clarify more as time moves forward, but for now as the end of one of the verses say..." The nightwind, is calling me home ". Rock till ya drop. This is NorthernBandit Territory here on ReverbNation!
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It is good to be back.
It is a amazing how as little as a month can change the dynamic of an Artists Musical Page. I appreceate everyones attention on matters of music, It means a lot to me too. For everone at Facebook, ReverbNation and Google...thank you too. Without you help none of this would have been possible. Rock till ya drop. You are in NorthernBandit Territory now my friends!
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Writing about writing a song?
Aye, how y'all doin? Well I hope this finds you doing just fine. If you have a notion please have a listen to my newest track just re-edited call Only Soul, it's a Rock and Roll ditty with a bit of that old time R&R jive. https://www.reverbnation.com/northernbandit/song/34232928-only-soul-2023-northernbandit-but. Drums, Bass Guitar, Piano, Cow Bell, Tambourine, Vocal, and two rockin Electric Guitars. The two most famous guitars ever made and played in the left pan of the mix a Les Paul Standard Tradition Pro 2009 and in the right pan of the recording a new model Fender Telecaster. I mixed this up a bit louder then the previous version...the way I like my music so you might feel it...turn it up. Played live no cutting and splicing my friends true to the end. Yah it is a garage band sound but you know that how and where all music begins, at home from the heart. Only Soul here on ReverbNation by NorthernBandit...yah thats me Burt K. Arthur. Rock till ya drop!
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The best in the world???
The response to who is the best in the world...is not a valid question as far as a final response to the status of a said artist. In and of itself making the comment " Best in the world " is a personal statement. This is about how one feels about an artist and a sound that can not fill the void of all the other artists who could be included only because of ones emotional and esthetic seperation of humanity in a single statement. A statement regarding the joy and appreceation of the artist to a degree of exalltation for a particular time. Best in the World, which world? Prog, Classical, Rock, Blues...Hip Hop, R&B, Urban...down the Rabbit hole again... wholey cow my friends. I think it is a matter of how much promotion one is trying to serve to the masses by making such elevated a statement of anything well received. At a particular time, Greatest in the World serves the soul and echos the gratitude one has for the expression at the time for a particular artist. I have said it, others too...it conjours up fairy tale emotions and raises expectations to super hero qualities. That says a lot about the human experience. Music that we all love to share.
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Now and then...The Beatles
I can't go into a dialog...the song is quite new to the air waves but this much I can tell you, I have been a Fan since 1964, this is 2023. I found the meaning of my life that night watching them on the Ed Sullivan Show when i was 9 years old. Enough said. If you are a fan, take it upon yourself to have a listen...Love still is and always has been with us through them, John, George, Paul and Ringo. Now and Then.
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