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My maternal grandparents were two amazing people, but they both passed away just recently.

My grandfather...

...started as a muskrat trapper, later became a logger, and finally bought some land in Colorado and became a farmer. When he was a logger, he worked in the redwoods, and felled some incredible trees. I have a picture of him cutting through a tree trunk with a diameter bigger than my apartment's living room.

My grandmother truly had the heart of a servant. She collected strawberries, and it seemed like everything in the kitchen had a strawberry on it. During meals, we'd all try to get her to sit down, but she was invariably popping up to get refills and seconds for everyone.

They'll both be missed terribly, but I'm glad they've gone to a place without suffering.

Hey folks! I don't know about you, but I've had about all the winter I want.
I wrote a new tune for all my friends with cabin fever, I promise it will make you feel better!

It's called "Summer Come"

Summer Come
It won't be long!!!!!!!!!

:D

FInally added female vocals to STAY IN MY ARMS.
Much better. Check it out.

--Z

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/al_pckr/passenger.jpg" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket" border="0"></a><br><br><font size="3"><br>Since 1999 I have been in the Australian Music and Poetry Band "Dingo's Breakfast". I originally started out playing keyboards but switched to mandolin and dobro (and my son Corrin took over the keyboards role).<br>These days "Dingos" just get together to play specific gigs and the line-up is quite fluid. Corrin often now plays mandolin as I live quite some distance from the rest of the band and don't play on some gigs.<br>"Woolshed Dances" are one of the fortes of the band and over the years this has taken us to some pretty unusual gigs - here is just one of them. </font><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Glenelg Rock Narembeen: </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">We set out early in two cars to travel the 175 miles to Narembeen. On arrival we were told that the dance was not in the Town Hall as we'd been told but to be held in the open air a "few" miles out of town.<br>"You go down that road a bit until you come to a "T" junction and then you turn left".....<br>So we went down that road about 25 miles!.....<br>"Then you go up that road a bit until you come to a dirt road".....<br>5 more miles.....<br>"Then you follow the dirt road for a bit until you come to a big granite rock".....<br>Another 5 miles.....<br>"And then you're there"<br>It was a huge granite outcrop about 50 ft high and several acres in area. At the bottom was parked a semi with a flatbed trailer. The stage. A hundred yards or so away was parked another truck with a generator on it. The power. No people.<br>Anyway we set up and did a soundcheck. Still no people.<br>It got dark.....<br>And then down the dirt road came a procession of more than a hundred headlights. The entire population of the little town of Narembeen was coming to the dance.<br>With the dust from a hundred cars still in the air we launched into our first set. At first only the women and children danced while the men stood in the shadows beyond the lighting and drank beer.....<br>Now the dust of a hundred cars AND two hundred pairs of dancing feet was in the air.....<br>The first set over, we gathered around the BBQ for some dinner.....<br>Then into the second set. The beer was starting to take effect and several of the braver men joined the dancing. The dust grew thicker. By now the audience was just a dusty haze.....<br>The second set over, WE gathered round and drank some beer.....<br>Now it was the last set and everybody was dancing. The dust was so thick we couldn't see each other, let alone the audience.<br>Finally around midnight the dance was over and the 100 car convoy departed for the 30 mile trip back to town. As the dust cloud settled we packed up and set out on our 225 mile return trip.<br>One of the cars ran out of petrol. They had to camp the night.<br>In the leading car we didn't know about their problem. We were listening to Pink Floyd.....<br> Almost 24 hours after setting out we returned home.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"> </font></p>

Just wanted to publicly state my thoughts regarding the review process here. I was reviewing a new song that had been recently posted and came across something that really bothered me. The reviewer saw that the poster had not done any reviews and publicly attacked him for not participating in the review process. One of the reasons this bothered me is because I've been on the receiving end of this kind of attack and it was completely unfounded. People post their songs on this website for many different reasons, none of which any of us are privy too unless the person declares their reasons to us. Some post because they enjoy the sense of community here, that includes me. Some post because they want to have a place for friends and family to have access to their songs without the bother of sending large files through email or burning cd's to snail mail. Whatever their reason, they post. Some of these people pay for the extra benefits included with the package. Being coerced into doing reviews because you're worried about being called to the carpet does not produce honest, heartfelt reviews. It produces quick, cookie cutter reviews that end up being shallow, however honest, to get your review count up. Sorry, I don't subscribe to this. I think the public humiliation angle will hurt this site. If you've got a problem with someone, it would be better to privately message them to get it straightened out. You might find out that their situation might be different than yours. Maybe they don't have the time that you have to sit down everyday and listen to ten or twelve songs. There may be long stretches of time where their life is just so busy, they don't have time at all to listen and review. Whatever the reason, who are we to judge? You may disagree with me, that is your perogative. It is just my opinion that these "public" displays of disaffection does a disservice to the community as a whole. There, I said my piece.

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G'day, just got back from some time in hospital, I had Pneumonia, which wasnt much fun..
been a great start to the year, not...

:devil:

Just wanted to thank all those people who took the time to review my take on, THAT`S IT, IVE HAD ENOUGH......19 reviews !!!, I did`nt expect that...I`m very flattered and proud...ehheeee...Great music WhereWolf....You are one of the best....

Peace n Love

Margot..:-)

Well heres a musical answer.

This track is the first featuring Main Pie.
Its taken for a collection that myself and Mark are working on at present with (for me anyway)a view to hopefully getting a CD out there.

This one is probably one of the gentlest of the tracks we've been working on so far.It also features some of the finest guitar I've managed to get onto any of my tracks-so thanks Mark !

Those that listen to nexus radio may have heard some of the other work in progress tracks songs like :Sgt.Dime Bar,My Baby Love,amongst others .

What I can say is that there will be other great musicians helping out on some of these songs :The Devils Reward and :And Do You have bass added to them by two superb bass players Jim and Rob.....those are nearing completion.

So I have been busy :I've also been mixing/producing demo tracks for my great friend and fellow artist Ian K who has just released his 1st ep and is currently working on a full blown album release for later in the year. Agian some will remember the collab myself and Ian di as Silverhorse:well his new stuff is a million miles from Silverhorse ! but retains much of its electro sensibilty (Oxygen aside) .

just some words

Sly

Okay, It's Monday again, time for The Monday Monkey Mixshow!

We've got a bunch of new music for ya, new tunes and new artists!

And a whole bunch of your favorite IMS tunes.....

Plus Bobby, and the whole Monday crowd!

Tonight we're featuring the new CD from RedEye C, "Shalia"

Plus a brand new song from ME, dedicated especially to all my internet radio friends.
I promise it will make you feel good!

Join us!!

We have a lot of fun!!

BROADBAND:
http://209.51.162.173:9278

DIAL-UP:
http://209.51.162.173:9482

Nexus Radio Chatroom (where the ACTION is!)
http://www.imusicscene.com/chat

We'll probably start about 4:00 est, and go until?????

COME ON!!!