waltertore
1215 posts
Mar 23, 2011
4:42 PM
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I was lacking inspiration to record tonight but the thread about tone got me fired up and recorded these 2 tonight with just stock bushman harps in my hands. No customized harp, harp in hands a foot off the mic, and the natural sound of the harp. I don't need any fancy harps or gear to have my fun :-) The last one is with the one man band. Thanks for the inspiration! Walter
stock harp, not tricks, just me off the mic
rules
feels better if I do than if I dont
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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5F6H
580 posts
Mar 24, 2011
2:25 AM
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No Walter, no fancy gear, just a home studio, PC, internet, no gear though...:-o
If your gear didn't turn the music into volts & amps, then convert into "0"s & "1"s then no one on this forum would be able to hear them. You thrive on "gear". what else are you going to do, catch the notes in a bag & carry them around with you? ;-)
How about a song on irony? ;-)
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waltertore
1216 posts
Mar 24, 2011
3:32 AM
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5F6H: We could extend that and say a stock harp is too much gear and all our music should flow inside our head, but wait, our brain is gear too........ My goal is to capture the natural sound of the voice and harp. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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5F6H
581 posts
Mar 24, 2011
4:37 AM
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"My goal is to capture the natural sound of the voice and harp."...and then slather it in artificial reverb :-). Not that I don't like the reverb, I do, my point isn't to criticise what you do, simply to get you to reflect on your perception.
The music flowing in your head may be epic, but you can't share any of it without some gear. That old Confusion riddle keeps popping up in my mind, "Does a tree falling in the forest still make a sound if there is no-one there to hear it?" The answer isn't "yes", or "no", it's "no one give's a rat's arse!". The best things in life are shared, good food, good drink, music, genital warts (OK, not so much the last one)...the more people you want to share them with the more gear is involved.
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captainbliss
479 posts
Mar 24, 2011
5:16 AM
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@waltertore:
I've had lessons with Joe Filisko. I have a Filisko custom brain!
Also...
You remind me of two passages from the Tao:
/Having leads to profit,
Not having leads to use./
and
/There is no greatrer calamity
Than not knowing what is enough.
There is no greater fault
Than desire for success.
Therefore, Knowing that enough is enough
Is always enough./
@5F6H:
/That old Confusion riddle keeps popping up in my mind, "Does a tree falling in the forest still make a sound if there is no-one there to hear it?" The answer isn't "yes", or "no", it's "no one give's a rat's arse!/
I do! And... The answer lies in drawing a distinction between physical sound waves (produced by the falling tree) and the sensory experience of sound (which obviously requires sensory apparatus to be present)...
xxx
/
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RT123
109 posts
Mar 24, 2011
5:27 AM
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Walter, I think they missed your point here. I like what you did with it, well done.
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waltertore
1217 posts
Mar 24, 2011
7:48 AM
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RT123: Thanks! I enjoyed doing it and it sounds like me:-)
captainbliss: Thanks for those quotes. It made my day.
5F6H: That was room reverb. Only kidding. it was the universal audio plate reverb plugin. That is the sound I grew up playing with in the abandoned stairways of buildings in Newark, NJ. After the riots tons of buildings sat vacant. I had a circut of different ones that each had their own unique reverbs. I named my first band The Stairway Blues Band. I surrender on this debate and yes I understand what you are saying. Play what makes you feel good and leave it at that. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Mar 24, 2011 7:49 AM
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Honkin On Bobo
637 posts
Mar 24, 2011
7:56 AM
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Loved me some "anti gear song"!!!!!!!
Knew exactly what yer message was Walter.
awesome.
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HarpNinja
1263 posts
Mar 24, 2011
8:24 AM
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Walter,
I am curious as to how you've done over a million tunes. I must have missed that in your sig before, but I am extremely interested in how that has come to be. I am not calling you out or suggesting your lying or anything. It is just mind blowing.
From the other info in your tag and other info you've shared, I figured out some rough numbers and am genuinely interested in where the other songs are.
300 full length (guessing 15ish songs) albums a year for 20 yrs (stated on SoundClick) = 90,000 songs
35 years of 200ish shows a year (SoundClick)...assuming 35ish songs a show = 245,000 songs
So roughly 335,000...add another 250,000 songs assuming I am totally missing something (with the goal of trying to get to 1,000,000) and I get 585,000. That number is beyond comprehension and absolutely amazing!
That is 16,714 songs a year over 35 years...nearly 50 songs a day over 35 years!!! If each song was roughly 3min (I just picked something short of the standard pop tune) that would be 2.5 hrs of recording/performing every day for 35 years...simply astounding!!!!
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Mike
Quicksilver Custom Harmonicas
Updated 3/23/11
Last Edited by on Mar 24, 2011 8:28 AM
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waltertore
1218 posts
Mar 24, 2011
9:33 AM
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Hi Mike: You are a number cruncher :-) My mother tells me since I could talk I have been making up songs. I sing songs all day since being a kid. They are in my head when I am in a quiet place, out of my mouth as I walk, ride my bike, etc, and with instruments when they are in my hands. I play well over a cd worth of stuff a day. I post a few from each session and only put the ones I like onto cd. I burn a copy and archive it. So, with that said, if you like, figure I sing songs at least 5 hours a day since being a talker and am now 54...... Is that a million?? I have no idea. I came up with that tag line years ago bring attention to what I do, and inadvertenly have irrated many people over the years who claim I could never do such a thing. Thanks for asking so kind! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Mar 24, 2011 9:35 AM
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groyster1
939 posts
Mar 24, 2011
9:43 AM
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you go walter! your tone is great and you dont need an amp to prove it back to basics
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waltertore
1219 posts
Mar 24, 2011
9:54 AM
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thanks groyster1! Not many people comment favorably on my harp playing/tone so I take each compliment to my heart. I realize with as much product as I put out daily, my songs never stick around for long on the top of my site or in peoples minds. Also playing 99% of my stuff on the rack in the 1 man band set up doesn't get much respect by serious harp players. It doesn't allow me to play like I do on the hand held solo harp songs. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Mar 24, 2011 9:56 AM
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HarpNinja
1266 posts
Mar 24, 2011
9:59 AM
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I love quality rack playing...Harry Manx is amongst my favorites. The skill necessary to coordinate the harp/rack/other instrument(s) is something I wouldn't be able to handle.
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Mike
Quicksilver Custom Harmonicas
Updated 3/23/11
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RT123
110 posts
Mar 24, 2011
10:11 AM
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Walter you are well over a million.
If you sing 5 hours a day, that is 300 mins. If you use Mikes average of 3 mins per song you get 100 songs per day.
You are 54 and singing since you could talk. So lets say 50 years of singing.
50 years x 365 days + 12 days for leap years is 18262 days
18262 days x 100 songs = 1,826,200
So if mike can't imagine 1 million his head may explode when he realizes it is 1,826,200.
Actually 1,826,201. If my math is right he just sang another song in the time it took me to write this. 100 songs a day is about 1 every 15 minutes.
Keep going Walter!
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waltertore
1220 posts
Mar 24, 2011
10:12 AM
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Mike: That is nice to hear. I ended up using the rack because I got tired of dealing with finding/keeping guitarists, then the same thing happened with bassists (thumb on the bass strings), then drummers, then keyboardists. All in all, it was a lot of fun learning and still learning these instruments. It is a meditation in imagining I am 3-4 people at once. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
1221 posts
Mar 24, 2011
10:14 AM
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RT123: thanks for doing the math! I will save that equation the next time I am asked this question. All my movements are in beat to song. Life is a song and songs are my life! Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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RT123
111 posts
Mar 24, 2011
10:34 AM
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Walter
December 26, 2015
You will be able to update your signature to show OVE 2 Million songs!
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waltertore
1222 posts
Mar 24, 2011
1:34 PM
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RT123: Wow! That will really wack out some people. Like I said, I have come up with these phrases to hopefully bring attention to what I do. Being the only one in the world doing what I do makes it a lonely road most of the time. It saddens me that the music business is so conservative and unwilling to support new ideas. If they did, there is no telling what kind of new stuff would emerge. One of the positive things with the internet is I able to share my concept with people I would never have met when I was a full time musician. Then it was you had to do it all pretty much in the flesh, onstage. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Mar 24, 2011 1:36 PM
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waltertore
1223 posts
Mar 24, 2011
5:40 PM
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here are some piano/harp one man band songs. Walter
more is less than less
growing older
when you lose blues
when is it going to end
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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mandowhacker
36 posts
Mar 24, 2011
6:34 PM
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I backed into a parking spot the other night in Wheat Ridge, Co. When I set the brakes the guy in the truck was playing a harp, with a mic to a backing track!! Cool.
He had a phone thing that could connect to the Internet with all sorts of songs and videos. I told him to check out Walter Tore.
I ended up falling asleep as Walter's tunes rang out of the truck next door. Another fan....one at a time.
"Does a tree falling in the forest still make a sound if there is no-one there to hear it?" The answer isn't "yes", or "no", it's "no one give's a rat's arse!".
Correct, but I want to know if a man, fishing alone in a boat in the middle of the lake, with no woman around to hear, should happen to mutter something to himself. Is he still wrong?
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Just when I got a paddle, they added more water to the creek.
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Jehosaphat
22 posts
Mar 24, 2011
8:55 PM
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"thanks groyster1! Not many people comment favorably on my harp playing/tone so I take each compliment to my heart. "
Walter you don't play 'fancy' harp but your racked tone is up there with the best imo
You have some fans down here in Kiwiland.
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waltertore
1224 posts
Mar 25, 2011
6:52 AM
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mandowhacker: Thanks for sharing that story! It made my day and I will always cherish it.
Jehosphat: thanks for that support! I hope someday to make it to your country. I hear there is an area on one of your coasts that has weather very similar to san francisco. It is called a prime mediteranian climate and it only exists, if I remember right, around SF, that spot in Australia, and somewhere in Greece. I would like to retire to one of those places. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
2,600+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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