jeffstunes's Journals
This is the second of three songs written by Mick Paul and I several years ago, that I have selected to upload. Ths one shows off Mick's Bass skills a bit. I just wanted acoustic guitar and Bass in this, and I think it worked quite well. The vocals drift off key in a couple of places. This song, and most of the others were only written hours before they were recorded, so I'm not really surprised at the mistakes. The song is about a very dark subject, though I'm not going to tell you here. You'll have to watch the vid to find out. I reveal the meaning at the end. It puts a whole new angle on the lyrics. Getting back to Mick. Here's some information on this very talented guy: Played on 2 singles in 1970. He joined "The Hotshots" in 1973. They got to number 4 in the british chart with one of their releases. Joined "Union express" in 1974 and toured Europe for 2 years. From 1978, did session work for the BBC and various publishers. Did a stint as an in-house bass player at Abbeydale studios in West London. He co-wrote the Labour Party campaign song in 1987. Joined "More tea vicar in 1990. Wrote and played on a single called "Aquarius" for Yello records, which was produced by Tyrrell. He played bass on the "David Hasselhoff" single "If we could only say goodbye" (Yes. It's The Hoff). and there is more.. I'll give a web link to his recording studio in West Worthing, southern England: This is the guy doing all the music in this song. The previous song, and the next song. The title of this song is "Losing my mind". I hope you like it, and the Bass playing :) Now here is the latest youtube account stats. A rise in my subs to 692. The Channel views are 15,540. The total video views are now at 237,970. Still on schedule to reach a quarter of a million by the 17th. Rising at roughly a thousand views a day. Next up is the third and final upload of my three old original songs. I'm still beavering away on my album. I had a song in my head, as I was waking up yesterday. A strange way to discover a song, but I thought it was very good. I'm going to put the track together to see what it sounds like in real life, and if it's good enough, it can go on the album. |
I'm going to go back in time a little with three selected songs I wrote when I first started to record music seriously. A few years ago I wrote and recorded 9 songs in about a teo week period with a very talented guy called "Mick Paul". Mick is a fantastic bass player and has done a lot in his career to date. He owns his own recording studio, and that is where all of those 9 songs were recorded. I've picked 3 of those songs to upload to youtube, and this is the first of them. This one is called "Amber falls". It's a pretty dark song. I wonder if you can work out what the song is about, before the video tells you near the end. Check out the video here: I have put some snippets of info about Mick in this first video, and I will be adding more to the following 2 videos. There may be a name or two that some music lovers might recognise. I put a warning in the video description of this song, because the song contains what is known as "Speaker busters". Extremely deep high volume bass notes, that can cause damage to a bass speaker when it's turned up full. I just thought I'd let you know that. :) Now for some youtube food. I only need another 10 subs to get to 700. So the current figure is 690. The channel viewings have increased to 15,424. The overall video views are up to 235,621. The way things are going, I might hit the quarter million by the first year anniversary of my first video upload. Coming next is the second of these three old original songs. |
It's been a really hectic week. I've done a little work on my own website, so that I can prepare it for the album release. I've updated some of the info. Added some links. I've also put an email registration on my home page, so that people can register for updates on the progress of my album. I pointed out that the email address will only be used for album updates, and will not be given to anyone else. I've also put that same registration on another website. So now I can confidently share my web address. I've been running it for a few years already, but I haven't done much with it up to now :) So here it is. My own website: You will find a player on there that has a number of songs that I've written over the past 4 years. I could have removed them, because the recording quality is not very good on some, and the vocals are less than perfect on a number of them. However, I want them to stay there for a while to show how everything started. Including all the mistakes and flaws. Now this next bit is very interesting. I was contacted by a friend on Youtube, who had started up a live internet TV channel, and he asked if he could feature my tracks on his shows. I agreed, of course. He informed that when the first show aired, it received over 1,000 viewers in the first 3 hours!!! Here is a link to his live channel: This guy needs some more original music videos for his channel, so if you write your own stuff, and would like it broadcast on a live internet television channel, then visit the link I've provided above and contact him via the email address that is shown on the channel. It could provide you with some essential exposure, just like it has for me :) Finally I'll finish up with the Youtube figures. I gained 2 subscribers, but then I lost 2 :( So it's still 681. The channel viewings have increased though. They are 15,146. Another increase of a few thousand on my total video views. The are now 229,501. |
There has been another cover version done of one of my own songs. This time it's "Broadcast fantasy". It was performed by "PetesBehr" on Youtube. His recording of this song is a bit like an unplugged version. He has done a cover version of one of my songs before. I think that this differs quite a bit from the original song, but I quite like what he's done with it. It's interpreted in a completely different way, and that is something I really like hear people having a go at with music. Especially when it comes to my music. Engraving their own signature on it. First of all, here is the original version: Broadcast Fantasy - Jeffstunes So now you know how the original goes. This is his cover of my song: It feels good when other people like your songs enough to want to record their own versions. It makes me feel like I'm doing something right :) Now, it's the Youtube update: I have now got 681 subscribers. Only another 19 to go to get to 700. The channel views are moving along very nicely, and have now reached 15,037. The total viewings for all of my videos are 227,028. Only another 23k to the quarter of a million, and it's moving at about a thousand a day at the moment. I have been doing a bit of work on my personal website over the last week. I thought that if I'm going to release an album, I might as well bring my site up to date. So I'm changing the info on there. I'll be giving out the URL when It's done, for anyone interested :) |
I decided to take a few days out from making my album, and I got around to recording one of the songs that was requested quite a while ago. It's one I've always wanted to do because on the surface it seems such a simple song, but it has so much room for expression. That song is "No surprises" by "Radiohead". The video I made for it was pretty simple. I'm just sitting in and out of a shadow, through the entire song. The video to the original is just the singers head, nit what looks like a space helmet to me, filling up with some water. There's no water in my video though :) Instead, I decided to think about different events in my life while singing, so that there would be subtle changes in expression. This is the final outcome: As per normal. Here is the latest news on my Youtube account statistics. 677 subscribers. 14,891 channel viewings. 224,885 overall video views. I suppose I'd better get back to album making :) |