First song you wrote?

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2009/03/19 13:50:55 (permalink)

First song you wrote?

"Hey Girl"

co-wrote with my singer. 1967.

The chords were (strangely enough) E-D-A but not like Gloria or The Last Time. We were different. HAH!


About a year later, that same singer and I stayed up one night and wrote about 12 songs together. None of them ever survived. The next day we realized what a load cr@p they were.
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    Fog
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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:01:58 (permalink)
    tricky.. first thing I did was on octamed on the amiga.. a house tune..

    in a proper studio with an engineer hhmm (Hamish, a guy who did a remix of FSOL papa nu guinea ).. a jungle tune.. i brought the samples and played it.. the engineer did the fixing / quantising / mixing. I liked working with him, some others I've had pure headaches with.

    after that more tunes using fast tracker 2 on a pc.. then using an AWE 32 as a sampler.

    back then equipment was way out of my price range and some people I knew were a bit stink with studio time or wouldn't engineer for me.

    post edited by Fog - 2009/03/19 14:13:04
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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:04:08 (permalink)
    "unknown desire"
    a completely brutal ballad, written when I was 15 (1989), after playing the guitar for 6 months.
    C-G-Amaj-D, not too bad musically, considering I knew nothing about keys. The lyrics were terrible, and I recorded it into a cassette player.
    10 years later, I ran into a girlfriend that I'd had then, and she played me the tape (she had kept it). I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the recording.
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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:11:46 (permalink)
    The first serious tune I wrote was at age 17 in 1969, which I later found on an ancient tape reel and re-recorded in 2005. It's on my SoundClick page, called "Not Tonight".
    post edited by bitflipper - 2009/03/19 14:18:10


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:15:24 (permalink)
    The first serious tune I wrote was at age 17 in 1969, which I later found on an ancient tape reel and re-recorded in 1996. It's on my SoundClick page, called "Not Tonight".


    1969. 1996. 2005.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:20:00 (permalink)
    The first one I wrote all on my own was called "Above the Clouds" in '91 or '92 (19 or 20 years old). It was pretty bad - I had only been playing bass a year or two, had just picked up playing guitar and had really crappy recording equipment and really didn't know what the heck I was doing. I have a 4-track cassette recording of part of it with my roommate singing it, but I'm way too embarassed of it to let anyone hear it. Luckily I didn't realize how bad it sucked at the time or I would have probably given up!! The chorus was:

    Above the Clouds and into the light
    I've listened too long to the call of the night
    I've surrendered my hopes and broken all my own dreams
    Now the ghosts in my head are all who hear my screams


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 14:20:28 (permalink)
    Mr Smith Has got a Wesson (he's gonna teach those kids a lesson)

    In a beach punk style.


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 15:23:24 (permalink)
    I started writing stuff when I started taking piano lessons...... I'm thinking.... fortunately, that stuff is long forgotten.

    Tried writing a few tunes in the early seventies.... played them in a coffee house.... everybody just kinda sat and stared..... getting me ready for the first real band I played in.... people kinda sat and stared.... or got up and went somewhere else.... we were country rock when the world was turning disco.... but that band provided the inspiration for me to write my first real song.... Hanging Around.... it's on my sound click.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:02:49 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: mike_mccue

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    In a beach punk style.


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:05:38 (permalink)
    I wrote "Greeting Song" when I was 14. Still got the .mid-file. I listen to it every once in a while. It sucks...

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:07:39 (permalink)
    Mine was an instrumental called Axe Murderer. Wasnt so much a song as it was a heavy guitar tribute to King Crimson.

    First song I wasn't ashamed of was Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag - a kind of shuffle thing that was like
    You're always mean to me no matter what I do
    You can't stop ****in and thats why I'm leaving you
    You can't just shut your mouth you have to go complain
    For anyone to stay with you they'd have to be insane
    Cause you just
    Nag nag nag nag nag nag nag
    Its such a drag drag drag drag

    You get the picture.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:29:58 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: space_cowboy

    Mine was an instrumental called Axe Murderer. Wasnt so much a song as it was a heavy guitar tribute to King Crimson.

    First song I wasn't ashamed of was Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag Nag - a kind of shuffle thing that was like
    You're always mean to me no matter what I do
    You can't stop ****in and thats why I'm leaving you
    You can't just shut your mouth you have to go complain
    For anyone to stay with you they'd have to be insane
    Cause you just
    Nag nag nag nag nag nag nag
    Its such a drag drag drag drag

    You get the picture.


    That was the one your wrote for your wife on your anniversary, right?

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:35:33 (permalink)

    "Rain". Wrote it while sitting in a hotel room in Grindlewald, Switzerland in 1971 during an early evening rainstorm. I had a room overlooking the Jungfrau and I was missing (terribly, if you know what I mean) my stunningly beautiful Brazilian girlfriend. Eventually this song got recorded off of a live radio show my band did. It's pretty awful, but I can still dredge up the way I felt the night I wrote it.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:42:07 (permalink)
    1969. 1996. 2005.

    Is this the DaBit Code? Or just your vanilla cover up?

    I composed it in 1969, re-recorded it in 1996 and again in 2005. It's the latter version that's posted on SoundClick. The secret code can only be heard by playing the last chorus backward, which reveals the hidden message "wwwrrbpaaht", or "Paul is dead", one of those two.



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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:44:26 (permalink)
    Mine was an instrumental called Axe Murderer.

    Dude, you've sought therapy since then, right?


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:48:10 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: bitflipper

    Mine was an instrumental called Axe Murderer.

    Dude, you've sought therapy since then, right?


    Writing the song *was* the therapy...

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 19:54:41 (permalink)
    I can't really remember if it was "Dream Girl" or "Jenny please don't cry", it was one or the other back in 1988 I think? They were both written around the same time.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 20:02:58 (permalink)
    You know...it is kinda depressing, but I cannot remember what was my first song. I know there were about 10 really forgettable ones that I wrote early on. I think I have blocked them out of my memory for my own sanity.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 20:04:49 (permalink)
    Axe Murderer was a very heavy guitar instrumental. And a guitar is an axe - no?

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 20:51:59 (permalink)
    My first was actually co-written with a guitarist in my first cover band. We somehow got booked to play a combination country/biker bar on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. During a break, a fight broke out near the pool table, and spilled out the front door. I wandered to out to see what was going on, and there was 3 big guys holding a guy down. About 10 feet away stood his girlfriend, who he had just belted in the mouth. She was bleeding a little, and when she yelled at him, she revealed that her 2 front teeth had been knocked out. He was crying and kept yelling "Ya'll let me up, I love her!

    We thought it was an extremely funny thing to say, and later wrote the following. It was kind of a country shuffle in GCD

    Ya'll let me up
    cuz I love her
    I didnt mean to beat the ****
    out of her
    but she pisses me off
    everyday, one by one

    Ya'll let me up
    I need some kissin
    and even though her front
    teeth are missin
    I need to hold that woman
    in my arrrrrmmmms.

    We used to laugh ourselves stupid singing that song in our most "southern, redneck twangy voices".

    I've been meaning to record it for years, and just havent got around to it yet.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 20:57:21 (permalink)
    Hmmm....

    Beatles cover at 8th grade summer camp... tune of "Yesterday"

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 21:46:00 (permalink)
    I was 12 and it was the early 70's. I had a crush on a pretty young thing and decided to write a song about it...but I never worked up the nerve to share the song with her. It really isn't too bad. Very pentatonic tune for piano in the key of F#. I actually heard a very similar tune years later in a movie soundtrack...something with Robert Redford. I guess I should have copyrighted it...Oh well.

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 21:55:10 (permalink)
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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/19 23:01:08 (permalink)

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/20 00:41:27 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: Russell.Whaley

    Hmmm....

    Beatles cover at 8th grade summer camp... tune of "Yesterday"

    Leprosy....
    all my skin is falling off of me...
    I'm not half the man I used to be...
    Because of leprosy, oh leprosy...

    I'll stop now.

    Hopefully I've already done enough penance...


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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/20 09:02:40 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: rsp@odyssey.net

    Ya'll let me up
    cuz I love her
    I didnt mean to beat the ****
    out of her
    but she pisses me off
    everyday, one by one

    Ya'll let me up
    I need some kissin
    and even though her front
    teeth are missin
    I need to hold that woman
    in my arrrrrmmmms.

    Randy


    That's awesome. If I ever get stuck on a stage in the country, I hope I remember it. I'll send you royalties (and my 2 front teeth).

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    RE: First song you wrote? 2009/03/20 19:24:41 (permalink)
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    ORIGINAL: rsp@odyssey.net

    Ya'll let me up
    cuz I love her
    I didnt mean to beat the ****
    out of her
    but she pisses me off
    everyday, one by one

    Ya'll let me up
    I need some kissin
    and even though her front
    teeth are missin
    I need to hold that woman
    in my arrrrrmmmms.

    Randy


    That's awesome. If I ever get stuck on a stage in the country, I hope I remember it. I'll send you royalties (and my 2 front teeth).


    That has shades of Pinkard & Bowden's "Beat the Cheat Out of You" - another relational classic...






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