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get on your ready to roll rocking shoes
get on your ready to roll rocking shoes
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waltertore
187 posts
Feb 18, 2010
6:39 PM
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Hi All: Here is some from tonight:
get on your ready to roll rocking shoes (solo harp )
I don't know what to do
love me once and I will be satified
I don't like where we are going
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.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 of my music
my videos
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Stickman
201 posts
Feb 18, 2010
6:54 PM
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"over 1 million spontaneously created songs"
WOW!
1 million songs at aprox. 3 min a song is 3,000,000 minutes
3,000,000 divided by 60 = 50,000 hrs of non stop music
50,000 divided by 24 = 2,083.3 days of non stop music
2,083 divided by 365 = 5.5 years of non stop music
I bet your tired!
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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waltertore
188 posts
Feb 19, 2010
7:50 AM
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I never was anygood with math, so thanks Stickman! I have been making up songs since I was born. They go through my head all day and when I sleep. My life is a song. So, on that level, at 52 years old, I ain't tired at all!
When you think about it, most people release a few cds in their lives at best. I use to feel self concious about posting my songs because of the sheer volume. I also use to hide the fact I made everything up as I went along. When I did tell the truth, it usually resulted in not getting gigs or a record deal. I recorded my first lp in the early 80's and no one knew I was making it all up but my bassist. Our drummer was Belgian (recorded in Brussels) and he didn't speak english and had only done a gig or two with me at that point. He was with me a couple years and after a bit, figured out everything was being made up on the spot. The record label never did another one. That was Konnexion Records, a subsidiary of Muselium Records (spelling?) Their logo was- if it ain't heavy, it ain't on Muselium. Konnexion records was a jazz subsidiary. Then in austin I got signed to Rennisance Records. Austin Adams ran that label and signed me for spontobeat. He sent a mobile recording truck to a month of gigs. Shiner donated free kegs too. It was a huge party, with tons of who's who's of the austin music scene sitting in. It was all done on ADAT tapes (cutting edge at the time). Austin was diagnosed with inoperatable stomach cancer and drove his car off a cliff without telling anyone. His family cleared everything out. I asked them about the tapes. they said they tried them in the vcr and nothing happened so they threw them out. Nashville has courted me a few times too, most notably Roger Slovine, then the head of BMI. He wanted me to work with the top songwriters and make an album where I would only sing and maybe blow a little harp, with top studio musicians backing me. He pretty much garuanteed me a major deal. I said no. then a dutch label wanted me and again not my band or spontobeat. They wanted to put al copely (original roomful of blues) band behind me. Robbie Robertson of the band wanted me to blow harp on the movie soundtrack for The Color of Money. Again, it would be rehearsals, set songs, solos, etc. I said no. Anyway, lots of stuff like this has come my way but the business is not tooled for spontaneous music and a guy that records about a cd a day. So, I built my own studio and have taught myself how to record and how to be a 1 man band. Blowing just harp is severly limiting in lots of ways- mainly you need too many other people to make music. To me art is true when you do it straight from the heart. No thoughts, no concerns. It has taken a lot of years to accept this and now I am proud of my stuff. I get tired with the same old thing being heralded as new...... 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.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 of my music
my videos
Last Edited by on Feb 19, 2010 7:51 AM
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