Posts Tagged ‘#music’
A Simple Gift POD MSK
Posted: December 27, 2022 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter
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Baby, You’re so Beautiful
Posted: December 17, 2022 in My TunesTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #ovationguitars, #poetry, #recording, #recordingstudio, #singersongwriter, #songwriter, #vocalist
Going over old recordings I finally found one of my gems from 1977. Back then I was learning to play guitar and my friend TR would jam with me. I knew a few musicians even back then and on the weekends we would gather at my place for dinner and a fun evening.
We would have about a dozen friends come over and after meals and a few drinks we would inevitably pull out the guitars and other toys. I didn’t spend much time learning or playing cover songs. That happened, but most of the time we wrote our own material. Our songs ran the gambit between topics of the day and the humorous things in life. I recorded on state of the art technology in those days: reel-to-reel tape recorders. I had a Tascam (Teac) 4-track machine back then so we could record an AMAZING 4 tracks at one time!
This song is one of our funnier songs. It wasn’t like we were trying to be like the Smothers Brother’s Comedy Hour from 1967, but we enjoyed humor in our music. This take starts with TR vocals and Ovation guitar introducing the theme of the song as I join in with my Ovation 12 string guitar.
Here is the only recording of that song. It is just the two of us jamming late after most others had crashed or gone home or to work. I learned a lot about harmonies during these sessions and still get a kick listening to us making up the arrangement as we go along.
Enjoy a funny blast from the past and wait for the end of the song for the lyrical punch line.
A Few Shattered Lines POD MSK
Posted: December 13, 2022 in PoetryTags: #audio, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter, #sound
Also called Reels of Tape. See original lyric post here
A Billion Snowflakes POD MSK 2-7-2018
Posted: December 6, 2022 in PoetryTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #personal, #poetry, #poetrypod, #songwriter
Thinking about the impossible you can get clouded by the odds. But with billions of choices swirling around, impossible things are actually inevitable. Like being one of a kind and meeting another one of a kind. Sometimes it is just a matter of perspective. Things that can’t be happen all the time. Now and then if you stop forcing and searching it will happen.
There is no Cost
Posted: November 18, 2022 in MUSIC, My Tunes, PoetryTags: #audio, #lyrics, #midimike, #music, #musician, #personal, #poetry, #recording, #songwriter
The ‘haves’ have more. News at 11.
I know you are still playing games
And cannot see what I’ve lost.
For too many, the tab gets paid by others.
For you, There is no Cost.
Pull up to another table
Grab a fancy pair of dice.
You don’t need anyone
Let alone their advice.
Black is black and everything in between
What’s left is a white that blinds like the sun.
Defended by lies no choice but to go on
There’ll be many more before this song is done.
I know you are still playing games
And cannot see what I’ve lost.
For too many, the tab gets paid by others.
For you, There is no Cost.
For you, There is no cost
There is no Cost.
Deception is the Tool
Posted: November 8, 2022 in MUSIC, My Tunes, PoetryTags: #audio, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #Midi, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #personal, #poetry, #Presonus, #recording, #songwriter, #sound
I have been busy and quite productive in spite of the world moving as fast as ever as I slow down. next year I will be 70, so everything I do takes a bit longer these days.
I have a few songs, a lot of poetry , some photos and a couple outside projects to show for it.
Here is a new song I can blame on too much time to think in between projects. Some darker themes throughout. More to come if I can find the time, even if the descriptions and personal stories are shorter than I usually aim for. Thanks for your understanding.
Pot makes me paranoid
Alcohol makes me cry.
If you ask me a question
I’ll want to know the reason why.
If we could do this all over again
It Wouldn’t Be the Same.
I’ve loved you forever
But it’s driving me insane.
Friends we know are complicated
And rarely ever try.
I told you I will love you,
Until the day I die. Until the day that I die.
Life becomes precious to those
Who see what lies ahead.
Each day becomes very special
For those who know they’ll soon be dead.
Take the time, the time is now
To look what’s inside your head.
I tell you over and over again
But you ignore what I’ve said.
Trance
Posted: November 3, 2022 in My Tunes, PoetryTags: #guitar, #lyrics, #Martinguitars, #meditation, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #poetry, #recording, #singersongwriter, #songwriter, #StudioOne5, #vocalist, MIDI
I want to share with you my latest 24 hour song. Written, recorded and mixed in one day. This is “Trance”.
It seems to me
This is the place to be.
Outside everything
Inside nothing
In a
Trance
In a
Trance
It seems to me
This is the place to be.
Outside everything
Inside nothing
Internal Glance
Brain Dance
Another Chance
In a Trance
Outside everything
Inside nothing
Deception is the Tool
Posted: September 26, 2022 in My Tunes, PoetryTags: #life, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poetry, #songwriter
The stock market rises
The politicians fall.
Take off your disguises
We can see you all.
The magician on stage
Poker player in the biggest game
Each salesman closing the deal
In many ways they are all the same.
If it looks too good to be true
Someone is showing it to you.
It starts with a clever deception
Giving you the wrong impression.
The package is pretty
Worth it for twice the price
A mansion the overlooks the city
Costs more than paradise.
The stock market rises
Then politicians fall.
Take off your disguises
We can see you all.
Perception is the Rule:
Deception is the Tool.
Man of Steel
Posted: September 16, 2022 in My Tunes, projectsTags: #brother, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike.com, #music, #personal, #plagiarism, #poetry, #songwriter
Trying to force my thoughts into rhymes
I’ve started over too many times.
Lost my way more often than I can count
Paying for the future from an empty account.
I lived in a palace that is now
Smoldering ash and dust.
I thought I was a Man of Steel
Turns out I’m a bucket of rust.
Running down-hill you can only go so fast
Falling head first, now your feet aren’t the last.
Told a good story, played the main part
Some if it science, some of it art.
I lived in a palace that is gone
Smoldering ash and dust.
I thought I was a Man of Steel
Turns out I am a bucket of rust.
Sometimes you are forced to gamble
Usually there is no preamble.
For some it’s fun to shop until you drop
For me it was just impossible to stop.
I thought I was a Man of Steel
What’s left is a bucket of rust.
I stole the main theme from my older brother. He would often say he thought he was a man of steel but looking around he saw a bucket of rust. He was a wrestler and chess player in school…. an avid reader and ready for any challenge. Even after his third stroke and 2nd seizure this year, he remembers his wrestling days in high school more clearly than many other accomplishments. It is plagiarism, but he is my brother so I think I can get away with it this time.
UnPredictable
Posted: August 29, 2022 in MUSIC, Opinions and Observations, PoetryTags: #guitar, #jayaronoff, #localbands, #lyrics, #Mara, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #poetry, #recording, #songwriter, #sound, #stanaronoff, #UnPredictable
A common topic shared on this platform as I reach 70 years old.
Another friend of mine has died unexpectedly. He was ten years younger than me. My posts have bragged about the people I have met over the years, and he is one of the special ones. Jay Aronoff truly loved music…. in all it’s forms, but he made it his own. Life had it’s struggles but he always had time for good friends.
Son of former Ohio Senator Stan Aronoff but he chose his own path. I met him when I worked at a local music store chain. I managed the store and he was a guitar instructor. Even when he was not in a lesson, the guitar was strapped around his shoulder and he encouraged impromptu renditions of our favorite prog-rock songs. He was easy to love.
Jay was stunned I had never had a cup of coffee. He persisted until I had my first and only cup of coffee with him. It wasn’t that bad but not as good as the smell of fresh ground coffee in the old grocery stores so I decided to stick with tea!
I did a video of Jay’s band Mara performing live. My wife Ellen and I did all the camera work on two separate nights, and I did the post production video and timing by ear. In memory of Jay Aronoff, here are links to that video filmed in 1988:
I also have some lyrics to share with all who knew Jay, and those who know me:
This is all Unpredictable
The end to a terrible day.
A phone call from another friend;
This would be the last day with Jay.
He was a very special soul
Who bound so many together.
I thought he’d be the one
To remember us forever.
Jay had his demons to face
I’m sure he faced many alone.
None of that matters today
Because from now on, Jay is gone.
This is all UnPredictable
The cruelty cannot be more clear
This would be the last day with Jay.
So I raised another glass of beer.
This is all UnPredictable
The cruelty cannot be more clear
This would be the last day with Jay.
So I raised a glass of beer.
Michael K
MidiMike 