Genuine question. Has anyone here ever written a song? What/who was it about? It’s a damn hard thing to do well
I’m a prolific singer songwriter my friend. How can I help you out?
I have a song set in a train station in Georgia but I’ve decided I want to have it in Shannon airport now instead. I am having great difficulty in adjusting the tone of a gospel themed spiritual to the clanking soulless jetlag of an airport. What’s your advice Peter?
I’m more interested in production mate*
- I have never produced a song
The hollowness, impersonal nature and departures/arrivals of an airport should be perfect to relate to one’s soul
[QUOTE=“farmerinthecity, post: 1115874, member: 24”]I’m more interested in production mate*
- I have never produced a song[/QUOTE]
That does not surprise me at all and I don’t mean that disparagingly. Your disposition towards kraut rock, not to mention your avatar, suggest as much.
I am on a jet plane to creative meltdown here pal
You want to ‘Shannon up’ your song? Throw a banjo and an accordion into the background. Possible an ole ole if it fits.
Jesus, it actually should not be difficult to transpose it.
There’s a reason I’m an amateur buddy
Do you have a melody? What instrument are you playing?
Not slagging you off. Just saying… Throw up a verse of it there.
You should call it Midnight Train to Georgia.
My old band played on Open House and the Late Late Show. And on the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Heady days.
I was the drummer in Waterford Krautrock inspired outfit Frankfurter Allgemeine, beating out a motorik drumbeat to Can and Neu covers. I wrote one song, My Father was a Friend of an Enemy of the People. I wasn’t asked to pen a second one.
Guitar. More or less a straight 4 bar a-e progression throughout. Think Jason Pierce without all the noise
When it’s finished
I wrote a few back in the day. Was in a band. It was fucking brilliant fun.
Brilliant stuff. Fair fucks to the both of you