waltertore
2685 posts
Jun 10, 2014
6:20 PM
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Hi all: I hope all here are well. I have been off this forum for a while but got inspired tonight to play some amplified harp in my 1 man band set up and thought of the MBH. I have been busy as heck with my job- running the smiling with hope bakery program for special needs high school students. We have exploded nationally and between that and recording my music most everyday, time shrunk out on me. I am off for the summer and time has slipped back to easy time :-). You can hear the songs at the link below. For those that are not aware of what Spontobeat is,everything is done in real time with real instruments and I make up the words and music as I go along. Walter
here is a link to some tv/press on The Smiling With Hope Program.
Link to TV/magazine/newspaper articles on The Smiling With Hope Bakery Program
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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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
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Last Edited by waltertore on Jun 10, 2014 6:22 PM
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SuperBee
2061 posts
Jun 10, 2014
6:23 PM
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Good to hear from you! I'm glad things are going well for you.
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BronzeWailer
1304 posts
Jun 10, 2014
6:27 PM
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I second SuperBee's comments. Listening to "4am blues". Sounding great. All the best.
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KingoBad
1483 posts
Jun 10, 2014
6:53 PM
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Welcome back Walter!!! Glad to have you back around for a while!
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walterharp
1404 posts
Jun 10, 2014
6:54 PM
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from one walter to another, glad to see your emails
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orphan
362 posts
Jun 10, 2014
7:18 PM
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Thanks for posting, Walter. How you do what you do is amazing. Welcome back!
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OzarkRich
516 posts
Jun 10, 2014
8:03 PM
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Welcome back Walter; I've just recently come back myself.
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Jehosaphat
752 posts
Jun 10, 2014
11:33 PM
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Good to see(hear) you again Walter.
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jbone
1652 posts
Jun 11, 2014
3:32 AM
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Hi Walter, nice to see you sir!
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http://www.reverbnation.com/jawboneandjolene
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000386839482
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waltertore
2686 posts
Jun 11, 2014
4:33 AM
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thanks everyone! Posting back here was a bit scary in the sense that I have completely disconnected from the music world and been at peace with it. Having my studio, a great customizer doing my harps, singing/playing all the instruments at once,I am totally self contained. It is a very freeing experience.
A small part of me still hopes someday my music will get accepted to the point that I can play good gigs but I am no longer trying to make that happen. I feel very lucky to have found myself and be satified with being able to make music anyway I want anytime I want. Music is for ones soul but our society has pushed it to profit and thus it has warped to the point that most of us are born deformed so to speak with it and I have been deformed much of my life. For me it has taken over 50 years (still working on it too) to find peace with music and how it fits in our society and fits for me. Walter
this tv news segment done recently has some harp in it. I share this with the hopes that like a stone thrown in a pond one never knows where the ripples will lead to. My hope is it brings some more awareness to just how great a worker special needs people can be and someone(s) will give them a shot in their workplace.
tv news story
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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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
Last Edited by waltertore on Jun 11, 2014 4:56 AM
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Diggsblues
1356 posts
Jun 11, 2014
5:01 AM
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That beautiful what your doing Walter.
A good water bagel yummy.
All the best
Emile
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waltertore
2687 posts
Jun 11, 2014
5:08 AM
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Thanks Emille! We hand roll, boil, bake on bagel boards, and finish the bagels on the pizza oven deck oven stones, just like back home. The pizza ovens are mine and are the best deck ovens ever built (mid 70's), We do everything just like back home which I have found out is a rarity in the midwest. Being raised in the Newark NJ area was a gift with food. My mother is from Italy and her and her family were master bakers/pizza makers and I learned it as a kid and was always able to find work in a bakery/pizzeria when music was not paying the bills. Here in central Ohio it is wierd trip with food for me. I have never lived in the midwest. I have lived in the NYC area, SF bay area, Sonoma County CA, Austin, Brussels, and had no idea that food could be of such little interest out here as compared to what I have been accustomed to all my life. If anyone wants a real deal NY pizza, bagel, or artisan bread, stop by sometime. 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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,500+ of my songs in a streaming format
my videos
Last Edited by waltertore on Jun 11, 2014 5:13 AM
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Frank
4498 posts
Jun 11, 2014
5:20 AM
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Hi Walter glad to see your still doin your thing and facing life's challenges with courage and love :)
here is a tune to spin pizzas too :)
Last Edited by Frank on Jun 11, 2014 5:26 AM
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Sarge
415 posts
Jun 11, 2014
6:36 AM
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Hey Walter, great to hear that things are going well for you.
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Greg Heumann
2739 posts
Jun 11, 2014
8:32 AM
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Nice to hear from you Walter!
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tookatooka
3662 posts
Jun 11, 2014
8:42 AM
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Yeah! Great to hear from you Walter. You can take the boy out of the harp but you can't take the harp out of the boy. Or something like that.
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Diggsblues
1358 posts
Jun 11, 2014
10:50 AM
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Walter the ovens are an east coast thing.
I was playing in Atlanta once and a sign said,
"Philly cheese steaks rolls flown in daily."
Emile
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nacoran
7805 posts
Jun 11, 2014
12:26 PM
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Nice to see you again Walter. :)
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Rubes
859 posts
Jun 11, 2014
2:08 PM
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Hi Walter!
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Old Man Rubes at Reverbnation
Dads in Space at Reverbnation
Benny and Rubes at Reverbnation
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barbequebob
2596 posts
Jun 12, 2014
10:19 AM
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Good to hear from you, man!
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mr_so&so
835 posts
Jun 12, 2014
10:51 AM
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Hey Walter, nice that you popped back in. I've been missing those stories you tell. Did that book about you get published? What is the title?
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waltertore
2688 posts
Jun 12, 2014
12:10 PM
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thanks again everyone! The book hasn't been published and to be honest the author and myself have lost interest in it. He is now the minister at an old church in England and I am deep into my Smiling With Hope Bakery Program at Newark High School. Both of us are consumed with these projects and they are much more meaningful to the world than another book.
I am thankful I got called to work with special needs people. . 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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
Last Edited by waltertore on Jun 12, 2014 2:33 PM
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arzajac
1398 posts
Jun 12, 2014
6:18 PM
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You sound good as usual.
Your face in the news story says it all. It's more than just happiness. In French, the word is "comblé." It means rejoicing in being at peace, happy, satisfied.
Everyone is looking for it and you found it. Cheers!
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waltertore
2689 posts
Jun 13, 2014
4:28 AM
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thanks for those kind words arzajac! I thought my road to peace was playing music full time. I finally realized through nothing more than time on this earth that playing music is my road to peace and making money with it is my road to hell which I refused to listen to until special needs people crossed my trail :-) If that didn't come I would probably have gone mental. Going to college to be a teacher changed my life and today most of my music friends that are still alive are struggling with poverty, mental illness, and bad health. I am finding peace. I can play music my own way anytime and for however long I want and the teaching pays the bills. I never fit in the music scene and now have no need to fit in. Money means nothing to me in concern to my music anymore. To have found 2 passions that I am driven to do is more than I ever could have wished for. 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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
my videos
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