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doing another NBC special soundtrack
doing another NBC special soundtrack
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waltertore
592 posts
May 28, 2010
6:48 PM
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Hi All: I was contacted today to do another soundtrack for an upcoming NBC special focusing around baseball. This is my third time at this. The first one was for the christmas holidays and second was about valentines day. I love doing these. I just send them what I come up with and they use it. I have said this before, but I am really proud that the recording quality of my songs are good enough to be used on network tv. Also that Spontobeat is on network tv is pretty exciting. I bet my stuff is the only totally spontaneous music on network tv. Most people say network tv is all lightweight commercial jive. Well I must be knee deep in it because I can't get a gig on a bluesfestival/club lately. Have I sold out to POP MUSIC????? Walter
here are a couple I recorded tonight
he got a wicked fastball- for nbc baseball special
home run ball-for nbc baseball special
never satified woman - not baseball related
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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.
" No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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oda
335 posts
May 28, 2010
7:10 PM
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Walter, I'm real happy to hear! I'm glad your music is getting recognized and being offered to a wide audience.
Feel free to throw in my name from time to time when you talk to the suits at NBC. I plan to write for television as I write the next great American novel in the midst of my Harp playing.
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I could be bound by a nutshell and still count myself a king of infinite space
OdaHUMANITY!
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waltertore
593 posts
May 29, 2010
4:53 AM
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thanks oda! I wish you luck on your journey! As far as me helping any, I wouldn't count on much. My clout is very very small :-)
I continue to realize that my journey with music will be its own path. I am giving up on shirt tailing on the conventional track. I am forging a new road and how far I get on it in my lifetime is a big unknown. The blues scene has let me hang on the fringe and have scraps. I am thankful for that but it is kind of like hoping to win the lottery with me making it in the blues scene - a multi million to one shot.
I have to just keep doing what I do and each step of the journey is new territory. Building a new road is exciting, but sometimes I get tired of it and the nice paved highway running right next to me looks pretty good until I take a taste of it and realize I would rather build my own. The world is not very open to new ideas. We want things we consider new, to be just be the same old thing with a new suit on it. I have watched this happen over and over enough to the point that it is finally sinking in that my path will probably always be a lonesome one. That is ok because I have my own path. For that, I am forever thankful. I am thankful I have a job that allows Spontobeat to survive. Without it, it would have died. Clubs/festivals have been steadily not interested in my music and I am no longer interested in spearheading the process to get gigs.
The blues clubs want the same old stuff - lyrics and beat wise. They also want the players to be easily pegged into a box- like so and so can do a great SBWII imitation, and so and so will be the next SRV, and so and so really has that west coast sound down............ People are lazy in general. They would rather market the same thing in a different color than a new idea. I also have realized most people are not very adventurous or spontanous. Most fear the unknown. I say all this with no bad intent. It helps for me to admitt this and move forward with my dreams. These NBC specials are just little things that keep me connected to the outside world. I have no expectations from them other than that.
The gig calendar is beginning to fill up again in a different way and a far cry from the days of things like having Robbie Robertson call me and ask that I play on the soundtrack for the movie "the color of money". I play a retirement party and a reunion for collie rescue next month and will be playing at the local farmers market every saturday this summer. I will be selling the dog and horse treats my special education students make there as well. I am really excited about this. I get to hang out for 4 hours, play at my lesiure, sell cds, and collect tips. Back when I was playing full time, I would have looked at this gig as joke- one for amatuers that aren't good enough to get a club gig. Now I realize the new road I am building will take me to places I never thought about and joys will be there as long as I am there honestly. All chances to play are the same, regardless of the prestige level. I have also realized that to have a chance to play live, on my terms, is making it. What more could anyone ask for? Walter
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.
" No one can control anyone, but anyone can let someone control them"
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on May 29, 2010 6:01 AM
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