Eddie Clay

Originals only, cool, guess I better practice,

Well, a simple song that has such a deep meaning on relationships ;-)…yeah right, this was written quickly on one of those days where everyone seemed to be yelling and whining (on the news, at home etc.), including our little puppie, Toby… so I locked my self in the bathroom while he barked and whined and finished it.  Played it at Kings Head several times in the very early days (2005/6).  Then forgot about this recording, but here it is…done on an old PC

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A quick attempt with Joe last night to see if recording with the Mac, and garageband will work...

From my room of course (and no, its not on fire, just a foggy dream ….) Lyrics here if you Read the rest of this entry »

So I have been getting political emails from friends lately…mostly forwarded to me and a list of others, which were forwarded by their friends and etc. I am not publicly political, I don’t try to sway people other than to look at both sides, and point to resources and other fact finding engines. I am passionate only about one thing, being fed BS…I don’t care what wing or party or whatever, just don’t feed BS to me.

Its not just about politics though, it could be anything, just go to snopes.com and take your pick.

Anyway I get a letter forwarded to me from David Letterman. Its a very deep thought provoking letter, so I realize right away its not written by David Letterman. (The letter is found on the link at the end of this post)

So I responded to my friend and everyone on the CC list this way:

The writer of this made a very good point, brilliant in fact, that most of us are so gullible that we believe the constant propaganda that we are bombarded with. Just like we are into style over substance, image over depth. We’ll listen to a common sense, but only if its packaged right, and makes us feel good (less filling, taste great!)…its like coke without pepsi, you wouldn’t be as passionate about your coke if there was no pepsi in the world and vice a versa.

In any other world, country or universe, the dems and republicans would be considered moderate wings in the same party…and McCain and Obama, like cola wars are both just sugar and water. But common sense also has to be packaged right, hmmmm, let’s get David Letterman on the cover of the box ha ha…

Anyway here you go…

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/davidletterman/a/spoiled_brats.htm

Yeah, I am sure no one knows what I am talking about.  So here is a song (again) that says my feelings in a different way.

Thanks to Kent Sandvik for this photo, and the others.  I am lobbying for our cover band to be called “The 680’s” because we do 60s and 80s music, I-680 next to us enters Silicon Valley from the east, and I just like the name…I like the Brit Yank thing but it makes us sound like a pub band… which was convenient since we played this trial gig at a pub.  But also,  we may not be a 3 member band forever.  Anyhow, we will be doing serious gigging in about three months or when I can learn about 50 more songs…I know you can’t wait.

I just want to remind y'all (or if you are not aware) of the Mostly Celtic group because there is a relationship to Open Mic stuff here in the south bay. Most of you know Tony, he's done many a Very Open Mics, and sessions is a great open mic like experience (the sitting outside playing along with others while waiting for your turn

Also, another plug...I am in a band...yeah, go figure, its a cover band for now, and therefore songwriting career is on hold. Its why I have not had a lot of time lately for hosting, or promoting the Very Open Mic scene...but several months ago I was given the opportunity to learn and perform with one of the most professional and talented

I wrote this song at the start of the current political season (which seems about a 100 years ago)…. don’t know where it came from except  my hair lately has been bugging people.  When I came up with the first line I yelled at Sarah to write it down so I wouldn’t forget, her “Hay” mispelling I liked and left in….Just saying there is big difference between rightness and rightmindedness.  The video was quickly recorded and uploaded using my Mac (imovie ).  I’ll probably scratch out these originals this way from now on.  Don’t have time to do multi track recordings these days…(my next post will explain why).  The mp3 here, is from a recording I made several months ago…too slow, but I like the fake sax solo in between…so I decided to post it too

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We are back from vacation from the San Diego beaches this weekend…right back into our routines.  Me, I like Open Mics (performing live music with other performers)…there is one at The Spot (former Kings Head) in downtown on Sunday evenings, others everywhere (join veryopenmic.com to see).  My sons (and me sometimes) love Open Gyms (for basketball of course) you can find them at the community center (on Mon and Wed afternoons), or at Saratoga High on Tuesdays and Thurdays (send me email I’ll get you on the mail list)…or of course pick up games are at Campbell Park all the time. And then for Kelly, of course, Open Houses.

Well, we all report that everything is sparse right now - must be the August midlums.  The entertainment biz is slow, people must still be at the beach…not many ballers right…and very few people are going to Open Houses.  Kelly reports her and her colleagues have had very few people looking around to buy.  My thoughts, fear, uncertainty and doubt must be playing a factor, I mean there is nothing but bad news in Real Estate these days.  But I am old enough to remember several times in life where I wish I bought on the low, when things were apprantly bad…and kicked myself years later for not doing it.  But that’s speculation…people buy homes to live in, as Kelly keeps telling me, and nothing should keep you from buying if you can afford it and its a place you want to live in for a long time.  Long term thinkers you can’t lose…sort term speculators?  Its a gamble…Long term speculators (like me) hmmmm….buy low - sell high, isn’t that what grandpa always said?  “How do you know its low ?” I asked Grandpa, and he said “When everyone agrees things are bad.”