Daniel Weinstein · Love Song Kind Of Guy ===== Love Song Kind of Guy was re-mixed and re-mastered in November 2022 ===== Eve and I were travelling in the Northern Territory a while back when the line "I'm not a love song kind of guy" came to me. I thought it was such an obvious title for a country song that there must be a few songs like it around. As best I could I searched for and failed to find those songs. I figured that the song needed to...
Daniel Weinstein · Kiss It Better In 2012 I took a songwriting course led by John Vallins in Bellingen, NSW. During the course we were assigned the task of writing a song around a prompt supplied by John. The prompt that generated this song was "Love Lies Bleeding". After the course finished John took some initial recordings done at the time and turned them into this song. Contrary to popular belief, this isn't a song about a child or a lover....
Daniel Weinstein · Doing My Own Research Conspiracy theorists live among us. I think they have always been here, though the current crop are more disturbing than usual. That hasn't stopped me being amused by the general silliness of most conspiracy theories. When writing a song I almost invariably write too many words. Usually I get ruthless with a red pen to wrestle it down to a manageable size. This song seems to be the one I've chosen to be...
Daniel Weinstein · The Best ===== The Best was re-mastered in September 2022 ===== This is a song about forgiveness. Years ago a friend's father had died. He was deeply upset because he couldn't bring himself to respect his father saying that he'd failed as a father. It was clear that he did not believe that his father had done his best. I said 'maybe not, but he probably did the best he knew how". That phrase made a difference to my friend...
Daniel Weinstein · I'll Be Dead Before It Happens ===== I'll Be Dead Before It Happens was re-mastered in September 2022 ===== I keep writing songs but mostly no one hears them. This one struck a chord with John Vallins, a friend who happened to have a studio and, as chance would have it, was even a musician. He liked this one, we recorded it, and the rest is history. If there actually is a history when the seas rise and fires burn.
Kiss It Better, Written and performed by DB Weinstein[haiku url="http://goo.gl/p2dxk" title="Kiss It Better"] Last May I wrote a post, one of my early ones when I was posting more frequently than I do now, where I announced that I was going to write a song. It was a good intention. A noble intention. And that's what it remained, an intention. I did start scribbling once, but it didn't go anywhere. Somehow, in my semi-retired, theoretically...
Year before last I took a guitar course. It was an "advanced" course but that only meant I was in the part of the class that knew at least a little about the guitar. The alternative would have been "beginners" guitar which wouldn't do since I'd been playing guitar for over 40 years. The idea had been that by taking a course I could re-enthuse myself, bring the guitar back into focus in my life and start playing again. I had never been a great...
It's not really true that I could sing then (three years ago) any better then than I can sing now. Some days I convince myself that I can sing and other days I have evidence of the opposite. Anyway, I enjoy it and will probably always find a way to do some singing. This is a recording I made by putting my iPhone on the floor when Alchemy A Cappella were rehearsing this number. We worked on it for months, performed it once and...
I've spent a bit of time on this and now remember what it was like when I used to write songs. I wonder if my experience is common, or if I'm just doing it the way I do it. I haven't completed a song yet. I'm still playing with how to write a song. The way I started was the way I remember doing it in the deep dark past. I sat down at the guitar and started to play chords. I didn't have anything in mind that I wanted to write about. I...
Somewhere, buried among piles of old letters, photos and various momentos are a number of songs I wrote a great many years ago. I seem to recall that quite a few of them were part of my personal guitar-based singer-songwriter persona. Way back when. And today I don't remember a single one of them. I wonder if they were any good. Maybe I should dig them out and try playing them. I still know how to play the guitar a bit, though for years...