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This is the latest song by Rob Grant. We were still working on it when we got a message from Rob's daughter about his health problems. Right now, as I write this note, he's in surgery.

He's a good man and a good friend. He needs our prayers and support now. Please keep him and his loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.

Rob, my friend, get well! We need you!

Rob, my prayers and thoughts are with you and your family in this troubled time. A creative and strong willed mind such as yours has no other option but to get better. The combined thoughts and prayers from around the globe are powerful and positive, so I know they will help.
Get well soon buddy, we've only scratched the surface here and have many more musical collabs to do.

Your friend and collab. mate,

Farrell

Have purchased my first Bass !! A Yamaha BB something ?
My fingers hurt but a lot of fun making this little demo
Back to practise !
Enjoy !
Christer

<font size="3"><a href="/chart.php?chart_days=1000&amp;pagebreak=20&amp;genre=Songs+For+Rob">Songs For Rob</a></font> -<font size="3"> Here is a list of the songs submitted so far!</font><br /><p><font size="3">I just wanted to pass the below on. I got a message from Reaper and WildHoneyPie this morning and wanted to pass this on. I am trying to get hospital information so we can send some flowers or a least a baby taylor so he has something to do .</font></p><p><font size="3">So please keep Rob and his family in your thoughts today! Get better my friend, you have work to do here . As information becomes available, I will update this thread.</font></p><p><font size="3">Hi friends,<br />This is Kara, Rob&#39;s daughter. He asked me to send you all an email to let you know why he has not been online the past few days. We are actually at University of Md as I write this email. Yesterday, my Dad went to the hospital to get checked out for a headache that he has been suffering from since Wednesday. They did a catscan and it showed an aneurysm in the anterior part of his brain. The Doctors here decided that they would need to perform surgery to correct this. He is due to go into surgery in about an hour, and the whole operation should take 2-3 hours. Myself and the rest of the family will be with him today, and the doctors are optimistic that they can go in there and fix this thing without complications. He is feeliing ok right now physically and mentally, just very scared as to be expected. But he is comfortable as far as pain goes. I will try to get back on here to let you know this afternoon how everything went, </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="3"><strong>Update 1 </strong>- Thanks to WildHoneyPie and Reaper for keeping everyone in the loop! You guys are the best. WHP got this information from Kara...</font></p><p><font size="3">Rob is out of surgery and it went well. He will be critical for about a two week period, and must be watched closely, for danger of strokes. We can breathe a little, but not too deeply yet. He was in alot of pain post surgery, and had to be heavily medicated. Reaper told his family that we are keeping a vigil for him, and major prayers and good vibes are being sent to them all. </font></p><p><font size="3">The family will get a laptop into his room at the point that the doctors feel it&#39;s okay. Though, I wouldn&#39;t look for it real soon. When they get home this evening, Kara will send us addresses and so forth, where cards and good wishes can be sent. Stay tuned for that tonight.</font></p><p><font size="3">WHP</font></p><p><font size="3"><strong>Update 2</strong> - Thanks again to WHP and Reaper for keeping us updated. You to Nigel! I just saw you posted the same thing!</font></p><p><font size="3">Hello again,<br />Please forgive me for not responding to the emails that were sent directly to my email. Somehow I can read them, but cannot reply. I really hope I included everyone in this email, but if not hopefully word will go around. I saw my Dad about an hour and a half out of his surgery, and like my husband said, he was in alot of pain and was drifting in and out of sleep. They upped his pain meds and made him more comfortable and expect him to sleep for the rest of the day/night. He was able to tell the nurse his name, date and what hospital he was in, which is awesome. Let me just say thanks on behalf of myself and the whole family for all the nice responses I recieved. I know his internet buddies and fellow musicians mean a lot to him, and he will feel good knowing you all are thinking of him. I am including the hospital information below. He will be in the ICU for about 2 more days, after that he will go into a regular patient room. They are really strict in there as far as what they allow in the area. I know I saw a sign that said no cut flowers but after 2 days or so he should really have no restrictions. <br /><br />Thanks again,<br />Kara<br /><br />University of Maryland Medical Center<br />22 S. Greene St.<br />Baltimore, MD 21201-1595</font></p><font size="3"><p><font size="3"><strong>Update 3 </strong></font></p><p>From Reaper - </p><p>&quot;Just got off fthe phone with rob&#39;s Son in law. He told me all is going well and Rob is aware of things. He is still getting pain meds but everything is stable.&quot;</p><p>Good news everyone! Let&#39;s hope everything continues to improve!</p><p>Dazed</p><p><font size="3"><font size="3"><strong>Update 4<br /></strong></font></font></p><p>I received the following from Nigel. Thanks for keeping us up to date. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Hi all,<br />I want to thank you again for all the emails of concern for my dad. I only have a minute but i want to give you all an update, and once again I apologize in advance if this does not reach all that it is intented to. My dads surgery went ok, but he is in TREMENDOUS pain and very drugged up and frustrated because he cannot get out of bed. It is very hard to see him go through this, I can only imagine how he must be feeling. There is some more bleeding in his brain. They do not know where it is coming from at this point, but they do know it is not the aneurysm. He is going to get a catscan tomorrow morning and if it got worse, they may need to go back in and operate. I feel like my world had totally been turned upside-down. He cannot even sit up for two more weeks. THere is a condition that sometimes occurs about 11 days after this particulaar surgery that could be fatal, so they are taking all the precautions they can hopefully so that this will not happen. I just keep hoping for the best and doing all I can for him. He has not eaten and will only touch water. They actually had to semi-restrain him tonight because he kept thinking he could get up and go home. He does have a sense of humor though, his nurse was named Sheila and he kept calling her shampoo...lol. Anyways, just so you know your emails are not bothering me at all, I just apologize I cannot respond to all of them. My computer is crappy at home and I am so mentally exhausted its just all i can do to get through. But I will try my best to give you updates every few days. I did let him know all his friends are thinking of him and that made him smile <br /><br />THanks<br />Kara&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Update 5 </strong></p><p>From Reaper -<br />I got through to Rob&#39;s son in law this morning and he told me Rob is gettin a little better each day. They&#39;ve been pretty occupied which is why we haven&#39;t heard anything.</p><p>I told Josh to let him know we&#39;re all thinkin about him and the &quot;songs for Rob&quot; we&#39;re doing and he was real excited and will tell Rob when he sees him today.<br />I feel a little relieved now.<br /><br />Rick</p><p><strong>Update 6</strong> - Thanks for the update Nigel!</p><p>&quot;Hi my name is Vince! I am sitting here with Rob and he is doing well. He is in room 718 University of Maryland Medical Center 22 S. Greene St. Baltimore, Md 21201.<br />He can&#39;t get out of bed, reason he tells me it&#39;s because his ANYOURSOMETHING is swollen and he can&#39;t keep his hands off of it! I have read some of the responses to him and he is overwhelmed, happily of course. He wishes he could get out of bed to respond to all of you. I am sure in due time he will! His heart is with you all! Keep sending those messages!!!! HE STILL HAS HIS SENSE OF HUMOR!&quot; </p><p><strong>Update 6</strong></p><div class="br-txt">This is a message directly from Rob we received this morning:<br /><br />Hello............This is my first night at home and must say, I&#39;m lost. My daughtervtold me ZI have had alot of messages and care expreesed my way. I can&#39;t sit up too long yet and read, but will ASAP. I will write a full update, as soon as I can. Just this little typing is really tough. For now....THANKS!!! FRIENDS!!! I hope to be able be around more as time goes. As it is I&#39;m told......I have 6 weeks of recovery.<br />THANK YOU GOD, for this. I am one humbled scared being.<br />Rob <br /><br />Rob, man, we love you! Speedy recovery with no bumps on the road! </div></font>

Just some random thoughts that occurred as a result of a gig I played last week.

It was a 40th birthday party. I’d played a 40th late last year and the birthday boy had asked me to play some songs from the year of his birth. I agreed to do so, but was horrified when I checked the net and found the top song of the year was Snoopy versus the Red Baron, with To Sir To Love and The Last Waltz not far behind..

Ultimately I was able to cobble a set together including Gimme Some Loving, Brown Eyed Girl, Happy Together, I’m A Believer, Whiter Shade of Pale, Paper Sun, Gimme Little Sign, Friday On My Mind, River Deep Mountain High, I’m A Man and some others.

Now I’m not saying that the music in 1967 was crap. Clearly there was a lot of good music about. But it seemed to be surrounded by a fair amount of schlock.

For last weeks gig I had an embarrassment of choice. I did one keyboard bracket which included, for example, Hey Jude, Hole in My Shoe, Dock of the Bay, Daydream Believer (okay some schlock in 1968) , Baby Now That I’ve Found You, Midnight Confessions, Heard It Through the Grapevine, Lady Madonna, and then follow it up with a guitar bracket that included Jumping Jack Flash, Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, All Along the Watchtower, Elevator Driver, Itchycoo Park, Mighty Quinn, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Piece of My Heart , Baby Come Back, Hold On I’m Coming, Fire, On The Road Again.

All in all, it occurred to me that in the space of 12 months things had got a lot heavier and rockier. Obviously the release by Bobby Golsboro of “Honey” militates against my argument. And as I’m in Australia and music hits us months after it’s hit the States and Europe some of those that I’ve included in the 1968 list were probably hits elsewhere in 1967.

But I just found it curious that between the two years there seem to be so many more tracks from 1968 that I consider to be classics than the year before. And 1968 was also a very torrid year in political terms with student riots in Paris, the Democratic Convention etc.

Just some random thoughts that I thought I would share.


Cheers

Brian

I just uploaded a couple short songs/parts I had handy. Check 'em out.

well... contrary to my original thoughts... here is blog two.. heh..!!

i am of course looking forward to a weekend with two days in it, and in which i will hopefully be examining some of my mixing and mastering of some of our stuff (so it may be getting updated..? god knows, and as a result of recent conversations on here... i hope this doesn't delete people's reviews..?)

i can't believe what i did last night... i deleted all of the 'pool' files for crazy bones.. and if they're not backed up onto my mates PC... all i have is the original audio takes... and completely rebuilding the track from them is a nigh on impossible task... **** happens eh..?
on a plus side... i have the master .wav... but that;s it... ;(

be good

thanks so much friends for the reviews of my return to rock.. man I had to find out what my new vamp with a pre amp could do (thanks rick, dazed and focus player for the good advice and tips)..
I love the sounds you all been gettin and man that's where i come from too.. bands man.. gettin down live.. finally can input direct.. no more worrying about the neighbors hearing my miked amp.. even if it was only clean and quiet lol.. now i can wail in my phones all alone.. hope to do more in this genre.. hard rock/metal.. I dig it hard and tough.. thanks nigel for all your tough songs of late.. that's what i like mate.. and all you amazing fellow pickers out there.. thanks for kicking my butt..

this song carries a dedication to dace and tsargoth who also like to do it hard.. thanks dudes !!!

<p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">I was looking at the site today and am really blown away with everything that has happened over the last year or so. Close to 3000 songs on here! New artists signing up every day. Alexa Rank about to break the top 200,000! Yes my friends a lot has happened. I have gained a lot of new friends on here as I am sure many of you have also. I love the fact that the song review process is thriving. </font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Please remember that in your Control Panel at the bottom left is an Invitation Link. It is a great way to invite people to the site. Also at the bottom of the main page and artist pages is a Promote Us link. If you have a website, please add a banner!</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Lot&#39;s of new stuff coming up everyone. I think it is only going to get better from here!</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Thanks for supporting us everyone!</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#ff0000">Dazed&nbsp;</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Hi Guys,

I`ve recently done and am still doing a little collabing with WhereWolf, he gave me the link to his website and I thought it might be nice to share it.......

http://www.tlt50.com/home.html


I found this there, have to say it made me weep...... heheee

The Horse Story

Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing.

Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him. This alone is amazing.

If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field. Attached to the horse's halter is a small bell. It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.

As you stand and watch these two friends, you'll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is trusting that he will not be led astray. When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back , making sure that the blind friend isn't too far behind to
hear the bell.

Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives. Other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way.

Good friends are like that... you may not always see them, but you know they are always there. Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.

And remember... be kinder than necessary - everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle


A Dog's Purpose, from a 4-year-old

A veterinarian was called to examine a ten-year-old
Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa,
and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and
they were hoping for a miracle.

I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family
we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the
euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.

As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would
be good for four-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt
Shane might learn something from the experience.

The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker's
family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for
the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on.
Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away. The little boy
seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or
confusion.

We sat together for a while after Belker's death,wondering aloud
about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.
Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, 'I know why.'

Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next
stunned me. I'd never heard a more comforting explanation.

He said, 'People are born so that they can learn how to live a good
life -- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?'
The four-year-old continued, 'Well, dogs already know how to do that,
so they don't have to stay as long.'

Remember, if a dog was the teacher you would learn stuff like:

When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.

Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.

Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be
pure ecstasy.

Take naps.

Stretch before rising.

Run, romp, and play daily.

Thrive on attention and let people touch you.

Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.

On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.

When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body.

Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.

Eat with gusto and enthusiasm. Stop when you have had enough.

Be loyal. Never pretend to be something you're not.

If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.

When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle
them gently.

Copied from WhereWolf`s website...


Peace n Love Margot xx