MarkusClinus
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A song I wrote while my father was passing.
My father died of alzheimers disease in June of 2007. Anyone who has been with someone who has alzheimers knows how difficult it is - it's just unimaginable watching some fade. During the last six months of his life, I wasn't really able to write - or for that matter play music. But, I did work on this one song from around January 2007 until he passed. This tune is really the only creative music I could work on at the time. I think I posted this once after I finished it. I never listened to it again during the past ten years - I just couldn't listen to it. The other day, I pulled it out and remastered it. It's a sad song - but it doesn't affect me the way it did ten years ago. So, I thought I would post it again. The name of the song is Silent Memory. I played the guitars on this, Earl Foote played the slide guitar and Mike Vlahskis played bass guitar. Silent Memory. https://www.soundclick.co...&q=hi&newref=1
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/04 00:35:15
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It's beautiful Mark. I'm sorry about your dad. I can't fathom what that must have been like.
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/04 14:09:02
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Here's to you Mark. Sounds like it would have been a cathartic project for you back then. Watching our parents get older or sicker is gut wrenching. It's a lovely piece you've done here.
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/04 14:20:00
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Hey Markybro!
Long time no see. Hope you’ve been well. I like your tune here. It’s very sweet and haunting at the same time. I feel for you, bro. I lost my mom the same way eight months after you lost your dad. Watching her fade away and revert to infancy was excruciating. Beams to you my brother from another mother.
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Makke
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/05 18:42:24
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Beautiful tune. Sadness but beautiful.
I lost the same way my Mom few years ago.
I couldn't play nothing for a few months after my Mom passed.
And the first composition I done after that was melancholy. '' Sadness, longing and memories.''
But I still have Mom... in beautiful memories
And you have Father ... in beautiful memories
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Jesse Screed
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/05 21:26:19
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Man, I can hear the grief. It is deep. Death is a unexplainable by me.
I like the guitar much.
Kind of George Harrison like.
Bless you Man!
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MarkusClinus
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/05 22:02:33
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Leadfoot - thank you.
montezuma - yes - it was cathartic. It sounds like I felt at the time Thanks for taking a listen.
scottybro - sorry about your mom - we all have to go at some time - the slow death just doesn't seem fair.
Makke - sorry to hear that your mom passed the same way. I really is hard for your feelings not to come out through your music. Thanks for taking a listen.
Jesse - thank you so much.
Mark (formerly CLEAN) THE PUGTONES
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markno999
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/06 19:53:16
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Mark,
Beautiful song, sounds melancholic, not sad or depressing. Some happy memories in there along with loss.... Lost my mom in 2014 after a 30 year battle with MS so know the feeling of watching a parent slowly fade.
Regards
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/06 20:31:11
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that's tough, mark......
i can relate, similar deal....
and it inspired me into a song as well..
this is cool,
it's got a hendrix vibe to it,
reminds me of 'one rainy wish'
nice
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/06 23:31:42
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My father died of Alzheimer's in 2002. I, too, composed a song. The lyrics came to me on the drive home after watching him die. I'd done the same when my mother died in 1992. I did it again when my wife died in 2014.
Music is therapy.
 All else is in doubt, so this is the truth I cling to. My Stuff
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/07 17:02:28
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Beautifully sad song Mark, while none in my family have suffered from Alzheimer's my dad did suffer from Parkinson's. You have done him proud with this.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Karma has a way of finding its own way home.
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/07 20:39:32
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Beautiful song. The only way to really express your feelings at a time as you described is through music and it comes through naturally and with little effort. The music I wrote for my mother's memorial was like that. When I listen to it now it reminds me more of her life and not her passing. I hope it's like that for you.
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MarkusClinus
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/07 22:55:48
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gonzo, thanks man.
bitflipper, so sorry for your losses. I guess if you've got music in you it just has to come out at times like that.
wookiee - thanks so much. It was hard not to do sad.
Bjorn - yea, now that time has passed it is like that - thanks for taking a listen.
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/15 18:11:43
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I feel your pain in this. I wrote a similar song the week before my dad passed in 2010 but I don't know if it's good enough to post since I don't sing it very well. It was originally an instrumental. Maybe I should have left it that way like you did.
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Lynn
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/16 16:28:18
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So hauntingly beautiful, Mark. Your father must have been quite a man because this is quite a tribute.
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iRelevant
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Re: A song I wrote while my father was passing.
2018/04/20 18:39:57
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Fine song. Contemplative feel. My condolences.
- Sven
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