waltertore
2581 posts
Oct 15, 2012
2:37 PM
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I am still a bit shaken up after being hit by a deer on my bycycle this morning. I went through work fine and rode home ok too but when I set down to sing I was a bit rattled. My neck and back are a bit tweeked. I took a few advil and feel much better. Getting older and bike crashes don't jive together like they use to. Here are some songs. I used a 50's fender champ clone amp my friend built and gave me on the guitar. Walter
hit by a deer on my bicycle
rather be on a country road
big city with guitar on my back
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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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bonedog569
661 posts
Oct 15, 2012
6:23 PM
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This could be 'wildest' W-T story yet. (it does invlolve a wild deer after all).
Hope you're ok Walter. I liked the first deer song (only one I listened too so far) Now tell us about the gun in the mouth that jammed episode -the Jersey mob?? sheesh!
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waltertore
2582 posts
Oct 15, 2012
6:50 PM
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bonedog569: I am fine and so is my bike. I hope the deer is too. It was pretty intense getting broadsided by a running deer and ending up with it under me and my bike! The gun story- I use to not like being in my house as a kid and would sneak out and walk a couple miles to the white castle hamburger shop in Orange, NJ. The ladies working there would give me free burgers because I would play my harp to them as they cooked/danced. It was quite a scene with me the only white face in the place blowing and singing till the wee hours. One night this young black man walked in came right up to me, jammed a 38 in my mouth and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. We met eyes. I will never forget that experience. He cursed and ran out. The place was dead quiet. I walked home and went to bed. It was just another day for me. Now I realize how terrible that day was and the effect it and several other such things had on me as kid including seeing a mob hit and the hitman trying to kill me. I played my harp to escape the terror that was ever present in my head from these things. Most play harp for reasons other than this. I play music because it keeps me from terrors and killing myself. I think my intensity was and still is something most musicians fear. That is sad. I wish more musicians played from the deep pains in their hearts. It has been a big part of my healing along with 30+ years of counseling. It is a miricale that I am alive, have no crimminal record, and am a school teacher. I should have broken bones from todays encounter but there is a light that protects me so I can go back to working with kids that society ignores. I watched Boys Town tonight on Turner movie channel. It always makes me cry. I can relate to Father Flanigan and the boys there. I wish I could have lived there as a kid. I know the blues well......... Thanks. 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
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bonedog569
662 posts
Oct 15, 2012
9:21 PM
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Thanks for sharing that Walter. I grew up in Jersey too - but in the lily white burb of Paramus in Bergen Co. Our adventures where lighting off firecrackers at the mall and heading up to Harriman St. Park over the NY border to go skinny dippin. Not quite the same.
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waltertore
2583 posts
Oct 16, 2012
3:15 AM
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Hi bonedog569: I had similar experiences too growing up bordering Newark in Bellville and later South Orange. I am thankful I had friends on my block that had more normal families than I did. Music drew me to Newark early on and I found lots of it and lots of trouble there being a white face in square miles of whitelessness.... I miss those childhood bonds and have not been able to recreate them in adulthood with being in my locale. We have moved so much that I am pretty much a rootless soul.
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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 Oct 16, 2012 3:16 AM
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