waltertore
2299 posts
Jun 04, 2012
4:50 PM
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Funny how we see ourself as normal. I am off for the summer and have nothing but time on my side. Got up this morning did a 2 hour bicycle ride, hit the market on the way home, and spent 8 hour recording my songs. This is a normal day to me but people often say I am strange....... but I find most people strange- not many are really driven to do anything with all they got. I find that very strange........ Here are some from today. Walter
never been down this low and long before
we keep trying
sleep I do enjoy
I hope no one kills you
don't give up yet
all I got is my heart
gonna hit that number tonight
I swear she was a witch
guess I'm strange
back on my home street.
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1812 posts
Jun 04, 2012
5:15 PM
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I swear shes a witch,I hear ya there,Some of them gals are crazy;-)I dig your drums Ive seen your set up and if I had the money I might try it,I just revamped mine ,I went from the suitcase ,to mounting a tamberine on a stand,It went from a dull thug to ,to much chang chang,So I cut a hole the diameter of the tamberine into the suitcase and mounted the tamberine into the suitcase,Im going to do some recording and see how it works,I messed with it this morning and it has a tighter dull chang chand thug sound ,better than the other 2 ways,but still aint completly satified,further testing needs to be done;-)
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1813 posts
Jun 04, 2012
5:19 PM
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Nice work as allways Walter;-)
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laurent2015
245 posts
Jun 04, 2012
6:32 PM
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Walter, in the first lines I'm kidding but not completely.
You're not strange, because it's of course common for people to create 3 or 4 songs per day and needing (feeding on?) music as oxygen...that's just incredible.
I think you could create a couple, like Sonny Terry/Brownie Mc Ghee or Cephas/Wiggins or Steve Baker/Chris Jones...
Don't really know why, but I feel it could be a mistake to play in a band, in short, to lose your individuality.
Strange? No, you are not.Just quite a bit original, not to say special.
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waltertore
2300 posts
Jun 04, 2012
6:46 PM
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Hobostubs: I went that route when I was playing full time with my trio and doing the 1 man band at home and on the streets when I had off time. I had no money. I constantly struggled to keep good harps, 6 strings on my guitar, and an amp that worked. My 1 man band rig was never a money maker so I just used what I found laying around, and stuff people threw out. Playing full time for most means crap gear unless they have a woman that pays for everything. I was making a living with crap gear most of the time and now I have great gear and don't make hardly anything playing.
You would be suprised how cheap you can now get drum gear that is made in china. They didn't have that when I was at the place you are currently at finacially. Check ebay. I paid like 12 bucks for a new snare that I use for live gigs. My studio snare is a classic. My longtime drummer Katherine gave me her fathers ludwig kit from the early 60s and I kept that one in the studio. I keep my custom harps and that snare for recording and use delta frosts for live gigs. I endorse them and I still have a load of them that John Hall gave me when I played his bean blossom blues festival.
Laurent2015: Thanks but I don't understand the first 3 sentences. I had a real bassist and drummer behind me for like 30 years. When I quit playing full time in the early 90's and moved to northern california in 96 there wasn't hardly any clubs to play and I had lost track of the musicians I use to play with and/or so I went to the 1 man band full time. It is hard to believe I have been full tilt on the 1 man band since 96..... I doubt I will ever go back to a real band. It makes things too stiff and predictable. The more I do the 1 man band the less I find the band thing of interest. I lose a lot of fancy stuff as a 1 man band but as I mature as a musician I find the fancy stuff to be for kids. I prefer to work the simple grooves and tweak them a hair this way and that to come up with what I hear as different beats. 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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 04, 2012 7:12 PM
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laurent2015
246 posts
Jun 04, 2012
7:24 PM
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Walter, it's a way of expressing myself!
You actually wouldn't seem strange if average people would consider normal to be able to create (from scratch) 3 or 4 songs in a day i.e. music and lyrics.
Are there so many musicians who can do that?
As for the band: I don't know you, but we see eye to eye, though I never played with a band.
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waltertore
2301 posts
Jun 04, 2012
7:41 PM
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laurent: I got it now! I think everyone could do a cd or more worth of made up songs a day if they just forgot about the shame that they would fear on themselves for trying such stuff. Walter
I decided to go back and listen to what I use to sound like when I started the 1 man band full time. Here are a couple from 2004. I had a thousand or so songs on nowhere radio from the late 90s- 2004 but it went under and I switched to soundclick in 2004. I was using a high hat and bass drum on these tracks. The recording quality is pretty bad but I was just starting out with recording myself and they all are pretty raw. My gear was raw too.
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1922003
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1934840
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1460621
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1620835
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1644955
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1199446
here is one with doug and katherine and I walked the room using peopled fingers as picks. I take their fingers and use them as a pick. I had a 100 foot cord and use to do stuff like that alot.
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=1807982
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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laurent2015
248 posts
Jun 04, 2012
7:53 PM
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I'll have a look (and ears) later.
It's reasonable time to go to bed now (five AM here!).
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Jim Rumbaugh
729 posts
Jun 05, 2012
5:31 AM
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Walter
Your title said, "I guees I'm Strange"
But I thought what every man wanted was some "strange" :)
So you must be what every man wants. :)
Don't go changing. I love just you the way you are.
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theharmonicaclub.com (of Huntington, WV)
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waltertore
2303 posts
Jun 05, 2012
5:58 AM
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Hi Jim: thanks! I can't change. It would kill me and I don't want to die but I would like my approach to music to be accepted by the industry. I know how pioneers felt- driven, passionate, uncompromising, sometimes frustrated and lonesome..... All in all I am ok with it but I would enjoy regularly playing gigs again to appreciative audiences. I had to book all my gigs and since I have realized that hat doesn't fit my life anymore, I have gone from like 200-250 a year to 3. I do feel the right person(s) are on the horizion and I am getting my life/music together to the point they appear :-) 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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Jun 05, 2012 6:02 AM
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waltertore
2307 posts
Jun 05, 2012
1:35 PM
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the state of the world is in todays songs. Here are some from todays session. Walter
religions aren't working right
no soap strong enough to clean this world
the deep money blues
the beauty of louisiana red
live and belive your dreams
some good old time loving
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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strawwoodclaw
303 posts
Jun 05, 2012
2:14 PM
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You've got it good
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waltertore
2308 posts
Jun 06, 2012
7:18 PM
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here are some from this afternoon. Walter
what happened to the dancing days?
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
2309 posts
Jun 07, 2012
2:04 PM
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Here are some acoustic 1 man band songs from this afternoon. Walter
many people sing about those highway shoes
the lonesomest blues
I'm not one to stick around long
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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laurent2015
253 posts
Jun 07, 2012
5:37 PM
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Walter, just to tell you I listened to your old 2004 songs and found "Heavens Train" and "Is your house in order" really pleasant, and to my liking, more than the other songs: I tried to figure out why.
If you defer to Frank's thread "a pooty one" about Studebaker John, you'll find there's an obvious similarity in the pattern of each music, yours and his -I'm not pointing either rhythm nor key.
Can you find it by simply listening (not by reading the posts).
Regardless, something makes that I like those songs more than others and I realized this is true for any kind of music I hear, e.g. jazz, blues, rock.
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waltertore
2310 posts
Jun 07, 2012
6:49 PM
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laurent2015: I never know what people will like that is why I play for myself. Those beats are the easiest to play and I have to be in the right mood to want to do them because without inspiration they are just boring but with it they are a blast. Fast songs are the easiest to play and the least interesting to me as the years go on. I still dig them but don't get inspired to play them near as much as in my younger days. The space isn't there on fast ones so the inspiration has to be strong for me to do one. I know of studebaker john. He has been around as long as me. My most challenging songs consistently are the slow grooves with lots of space like this one from tonight-
unwanted little girl
here are some others from tonight:
it raining mighty bad tonight
just yesterday I was pulling her hair
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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waltertore
2312 posts
Jun 09, 2012
1:42 PM
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Here are some from this afternoon. Walter
I drift where the spirit guides me
I wonder how many
skipping with my baby downtown
oh little girl
can't fake or buy true love
it seems like the world is going sour
love and the money game blues
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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
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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