I recorded these 2 this afternoon. The titles are self explanitory. Walter
dealing with images instead of souls could this song be about you?
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thanks Buzadero! These things really do channel through me. I love getting right to the point with social/personal/world issues. I also have figured out that most people want these things sugarcoated via pretty metaphors and words. To have a popular song, even in the blues, this has to be in place. I was going to name the second song "most people will turn off this song". Truth is not a hot item in our culture. Created images are much more welcomed. Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I don't know Buddha. Since I was a little kid spirits have channeled through me. Being raised strict NJ catholic, it scared me. I use to think it was the devil. Now I realize it is the souls of the past, present and future. Once when I was playing live on the Columbia University radio station (they use to have good blues dj-can't remember his name) the phone rang. A couple was in their apt listening while she was in labor. I was singing about a baby being born and it was describing all the details. They called to say they named the baby Walter. Another night, playing rockefellers in Houston, a woman came in and ran up and threw her arms around me. I was freaked out. I was singing a song about a woman whose husband just died in the hospital and she was devasted, not knowing what to do. SHe decided to stop at this blues club and listen to the music. Well this woman was the one in the song. Things like this happen all the time. This is the addicting part of spontobeat. The actual music -notes, chords, etc, are back seat to the stories and grooves for me. To walk into these realities is a much higher high for me than the actual playing. The playing is the vehicle to get to these places. If I could do all my songs with one note, it would be ultimate because the simpler it is, the easier it is to move into these dimensions. No thinking allowed to get there, thus my music is simple and gets simpler as I get older. I am realizing much of the music is fluff. Thge one man band came to me to make me simplify. I can't do a lot of stuff on the guitar, harp, vocals, that I can with a real band behind me. I can do a lot of fancy stuff on the harp with a band behind me, but it really has no meaning in where I am going on this journey. Getting down to the grit of it is where the gold lies. Also playing to audiences that are not open to this vibe make for the worst pain I have ever felt. That is why I am backing off playing gigs unless my approach is supported. Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I know about Channeling and unless you know exactly who and what you are doing, you shouldn't. There is some really nasty stuff out there and if you don't know how to shield yourself bad things can happen.
I think it's great that you are open enough to allow messages to flow through you but please be very careful.
I used to run a forum that dealt precisely with this kind of stuff.
Diggs will probably tell you the same thing because he's a healer class being. ---------- "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
thanks for the advice Chris. I actually almost lost my mind/killed myself/others once I found music was the ultimate key to that door. The evil came to me out of my frustrations with trying to make it and my own troubled soul and that in turn attracted evil from the universe.
I saw some of the old blues guys work that evil side. It gives you a feeling of power but leaves you exhausted worse than a bad hangover. Over the past 35 years I have done a lot of work on dealing with all this stuff. My retreating from trying to promote spontobeat to the music world is a key component to keeping the energy clean.
I have led a very dangerous life of violence, weapons, drugs, alcohol. I hung around such people of that kind. It is a miricale I am alive and even more so that I never killed anyone. I was going crazy onstage and getting paid upwards of a grand a week back in the 70's to do it. People will, subconciously, pay lots of money to watch someone let thier demons out onstage. Most die young who have followed this path. Luckily the universe intervened and saved me from such a fate. Moving out of California 3 years ago and coming to this little village where there is no crime and people love to stop and chat, has been the biggest healing component since finding my music and my wife of 30 years, Judy B!
Life is a great journey. I am mixing a song to mp3 as I type that I recorded a few minutes ago called: I want to go home. It is about not wasting energy on convincing the music business about what I do is worth their time. I am going home with my music. It is a gift that requires careful tending to or it will leave. Walter
PS: Our inital encounter triggered all that stuff in me. It is a life long journey and the healing process is ongoing. Peace is my goal. This is why I am continuing to communicate with you. My old self would have slammed the door. ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I am about medium well healed. I will go to the grave healing the raising I had. It was a gift though. I had to daydream to escape alot of the stuff I was around. It was another component in the Spontobeat creation. Everything is good in long run! Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
if what walter tore is doing is channeling, then he has probably spent more time channeling more things than almost anybody else.. his songs have channeled some very very dark things, yet he seems to keep on a even keel. he helps people that need help, and has a pretty reasonable head on his shoulders... a bit crazy... probably, but it does not seem to have killed him yet, and like he says, he probably would be dead now or totally crazy if he did not do it. so, chris, your warnings will probably have no effect on mr. tore, even though they are well intentioned.
Hi walterharp: thanks for the note! My wife and close friends say I am eccentric, but I feel quite normal. I see most people of this world as strange. Hung up doing things they don't enjoy as if time will forever remain stopped until it is safe to move on. I see unhappy relationships, sad children with no hope, depressed adults doing meaningless work with no hope, and our world going deeper into de-emphasising real relationships. These are things that come through me often. Not many will sing about this stuff and if they do, it is almost always sugar coated so as to no offend the listener, who in turn may not buy their cd......
Crazy world it is. I am sitting in my classroom for the final parent-teacher conference night. Our high school has 2,000 students. We will be lucky if 50 parents show up. So, we sit from 4-7:30 because it is in the contract. It is a reflection as to why only 67% of the students graduate. Teen pregnacies, drop outs, drugs, violence, depression, anger, hopelesness. These are the schools I have taught in for the past 15 years. I am drawn to them because I was a product of the same thing. It gives my life much meaning to come in with hope. Simple things make a huge difference in these kids lives. Courtney, an angry young black woman that has been led our of here more times than I can rememeber in cuffs by our resident police officer now smiles and looks like a 17 year old girl should look. Why? She got a part time job in a coffee shop and now has a few bucks in her pocket and sees hope and meaning in a concrete way. She now buys a cookie and pizza bagel my students make and sell in our school cafe. I ask her how it feels to have some money and a job? She smiles and says it feels great. Her spirit is shining with hope instead of getting pregnant, quiting school, and doing the welfare boogie. Simple things can cure deep troubles. Giving time and love are worth more than gold in these settings.
I can't sugar coat a world that has given me such experiences. So my songs will probably always tend to be dark. I hold a card up to the world that most will ignore because it will challenge their reality of how the world really is. Unfortunately, we need to face these realities of our culture if it ever is going to change. They aren't pretty and there is no easy way to do it.
Letting such things channel through me brings a bit of peace to little piece of the world. Sometimes I get some dark stuff like someone getting ready to kill or rape. I have learned to put it down at that point and do something else. Some of my own experiences like almost getting killed at 9 years old by a hitman who killed a guy in front of me and then tried to kill me, having a loaded 38 jammed in my mouth and then the trigger jamming when pulled by a guy I never knew, shotguns to my head, knives stabbed in my side..... I watched most of my friends die before they could get a pot belly from drinking. Being in the Newark riots was another terrible experience for a young boy. These things were gifts. I can work with troubled souls because I am one that has healed enough to go back into it. For whatever reasons the universe protected me from death and guided me through music to the world of teaching special education. I never would have thought such a thing would have happened. I thought myself stupid. I rarely went to school and never read a textbook. But with much help, I found the courage to go to college later in life, get my masters degree, and now am empowered with the responsibility to give back. On some levels I hate coming to work. It is a depressing place, but Jesus said go to the sick, not the well. Buddha talked of love and compasion for those that are sick. I find a lot of inspiration in going to the sick. Music is a step on the ladder. Doing good work in the world, especially with those that did not ask to be born with deficiences that will never be repaired, is the ladder. It is a mean world and when you are born short in the mind, it is beyond our comprehension of mean. We live in our world of comfort and even if we are on hard times, have the ability to pull ourselves out. The children I work with don't have this option. Go out and do some good work today! Walter
I don't mean to talk off topic with all this, but my life is my music. There is no separation between the 2. ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I don't know about channelling, but recently I liked a lot "They called me pre punk crazy" and "Harp Stompin". Great lyrics and sound on the first (reminds me of The Cramps), and great playin' on the second. Well done !
The Gloth: Thanks for the comment! I will have to check out the cramps. I was too old for punk, but one day as I was playing my crazy self to death on the lawn of Kean College, a bunch of scrungy guys came and sat down. They listened for almost an hour and then invited me to open their show that night at the college. It was the dead kennedys.
The channeling thing is for real. I guess you have to experience it to believe it. I never would if I didn't. Walter
I like that line walterharp! ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
Strange phenomenons exist, and the human only uses 10% of the capacity of his brains. I don't believe in god or souls and things like that, but I believe there are large areas unexplained by science. As far as I know, a form of telepathy is not an impossible thing by definition, and I would never say it doesn't exist.
About the Cramps, you should definitely check them out, they were not punks but rather a (great) garage band that evolved in a kind of psychobilly/rockabilly. Sometimes your sound evokes them to me, and even your singing.
thanks for that info The Gloth! I checked some of their songs. I can relate to it. I was much like that in my early days for sure. Have you ever heard of Fast Floyd and the Famous Firebirds? He started out playing with guys like howling wolf and then went on to mink deville and the spiders. His younger brother doug, who played guitar with me back in the late 70's early 80's in Sonoma county ca, hooked us up. Floyd was a super bad boy player singer IMO. We did lots of gigs together and even got arrested together. Luckily no charges were filed...... Floyd died too young. I have his one album and love it. Doug, also is a great guitarist. His band Teresa (his sister who sadly suffers from mental illness) and the Brewers had a young Doyle Brahmall II on guitar. We played a lot together as well. How about Buddy Bowser? He played horn with the NY Dolls. Buddy and I did a lot of duo gigs around NYC and our favorite was in the top drug dealers home. He sold every thursday night out of his huge brownstone. One floor was a state of the art reel to reel music room, another floor was a target practice range for handguns, and the main floor was where we played and he sold. He gave us a ton of money and a to go bag with whatever we wanted. David Johanson was a regular to join us on those gigs. Boy, I am lucky to still be alive! Check out floyds album. I think you will dig it. Walter
here is a link to it: http://tooshortalife.blogspot.com/2009/12/fast-floyd-and-famous-firebirds-devils.html
---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I've always loved the Cramps and the NY Dolls, I'll have to check out Fast Floyd tonight! ---------- There is nowhere to go and nothing to find, only something to create.
shanester: I am reluctant to post this video, but here goes. It is floyd from a funky access tv show. The quality is terrible, but it is the only know film fotage of floyd. Check out his lp. Walter
---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
That is cool you could listen through the poor audio and hear the real floyd! I have some live recordings we did laying around somewhere from the era of that video(late 70's early 80's). I transfered them to cd about 5 years ago. The problem is I have at least 50 cd spindles (100 cds on each one) laying around of my recordings. Finding it ain't easy. A bookeeper I am not! I will give a look for it and post some songs if I find it. Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
Ha, I developed the skill of listening through poor audio when I was a teenager, a lot of punk rock was poorly recorded.
It took something to find music then, it was an outing to places like the Record Exchange and Inner Sanctum, laying on the floor with friends and a stack of vinyl, it's weird how gone that scene is... ---------- There is nowhere to go and nothing to find, only something to create.
shanester: I had no idea punk music was often poorly recorded. I never listened to it unless I was on a bill with them. I remember it was loud! That unto itslelf makes for a nightmare in trying to get a good recording. Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
I downloaded the Fast Floyd album, it's good stuff, thanks !
I enjoy playing rock n'roll on the harp, actually I've been playing for several months in the band of Buddy Brent (who you may have known at the times you were living in Brussels). He played RnR since the 60's and turned on to blues rock some 10 years ago. So we play mainly his compositions but we always throw in some RnR classics from Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard and so on.
Goth: I don't remember Buddy. I did meet Sharif Dean while living in Brussels. He had a lot of platnium hits. Do you remember Pols bierdrome? Pol would hire me. He had a phone book size photo album that had every major blues and jazz guys from the early 50's on. He had SBWII's passport photo in it. He said SB wanted a gun and Pol wanted a picture of him. They traded out. I also use to play the Ancience Belguiqe, CHez gaston la gaff, and the brussels jazz club, montana mikes, the piano bar, regularly. THere were some americans living there I hooked up with - tt fingers, red archibald in particular. I miss Belguim! I am glad you like floyd! Walter
---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
Yes, I remember Pol's bierodrome, though I never went there. It doesn't exist anymore. The Ancienne Belgique is still there, I go two or three times a year to see a concert.
The bass player from the other band I play with, told me he used to see Red Archibald playing in Brussels, and that he was a great harp player.
I figured Pol had died. He was in his 80's when I was living there in 1982. Do you remember Guy Van Esbeek? He was a harp player in the shy guys. We became close friends. Louisiana Red and I also ended up on a live lp by a belgian blues band that was recorded at the banana peel. I think their name was the Zoots?? I sure miss the belgian chocolate. I ate so much that I started getting an ulcer. Do you Remember Roland and his blues workshop? I played a lot with him as well. They were great times. I hope someday to get back to belguim and retrace my steps. Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
Don't know Guy Van Esbeek or the Zoots, but I know Roland Van Campenhout. He's still active, still records albums and plays live. Actually, I'm going to see him live in a blues festival the 2d of May. He will perform with Steven De Bruyn, a great harp player, formerly from the band "El Fish".
say hi to Roland for me! Walter ---------- 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. " No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
