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Tommy Emmanuel is an excellent guitarist, nothing more to say enjoy the video.

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Think about this, you where raised to believe certain things about the world around you, seen and unseen.
As you grow older hopefully you use the brain that God gave you and seek the truth out for yourself.

The words to this song are so true, can anyone really change beliefs?
We need to get out of that business.

Belief Lyrics

Is there anyone who
Ever remembers
Changing their mind from
The paint on a sign
Is there anyone who
Really recalls
Ever breaking rank at all
For something someone yelled real loud one time

Oh everyone believes
In how they think it oughta be
Oh everyone believes
And they’re not going easily

Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching underwater
You never can hit who you trying for
Some need the exhibition
Some have to know their trying
It’s the chemical weapon for the war
That’s raging on inside

Oh everyone believes
From emptiness to everything
Oh everyone believes
No one’s going quietly

We’re never gonna win the world
We’re never gonna stop the war
We’re never gonna beat this
If belief is what we’re fighting for
We’re never gonna win the world
We’re never gonna stop the war
We’re never gonna beat this
If belief is what we’re fighting for

Is there anyone who
Can remember
Ever surrendering
With their life on the line

What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand?
Belief can
Belief can
What puts a folded flag inside his mother’s hands?
Belief can
Belief can

Continuum

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I found a site this weekend called eMusic where I got 25 free downloads just for signing up.

My kids where excited when each of us got to pick a few of our favorite songs for our Ipods. Just a heads up to my blog readers and friends, the site is called eMusic.com

Have a great weekend all.

Enjoy

eMusic.com

Andrew

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Surfin around on youtube today checking out what’s up with Keane these days, and low and behold I ran across Tim Rice Oxley doing a cover of “Jackson Browne’s” / Gregg Allman’s “These Days“, off of the Laid Back Album. Jackon Browne wrote the song and it was his orginal, although I have to say Allman’s version is the one I will always remember. These days was one of my favorite songs that seemed to capture of lot of feelings for me and when I was growing up listening to this Album daily. You know how some songs just give you certain feeling, this one did, and still does, it is timeless.

What I like about Tim’s version here is I can pick out all the words of the song without having to go look up the lyrics. Of course not taking away Gregg’s mastered version that is the best of all time.

It is strange how some music / artists you just feel a connection with through their music, well Gregg Allman was alway one for me, and Keane certainly.

If you get a chance go check out both on YouTube, lots of good stuff there.

Enjoy

Laid Back

Posted under General interests, Hobbies, Music, My Life, teenage memories

I grew up in Smyrna Ga. I have had every intention to try to capture my memories of my childhood and teenage years somewhere, I guess my blog would be the best place for that.

I have been wanting to drive around Smyrna and take pictures of the few places that are still left that hold memories for me, more on that in a later post.

In the meantime I have decided to try a brainstorming exercise to try to think of every person, place and or thing about Smyrna and my experiences there.

Here goes the random list as they enter my mind, I will add more as I think of them.

Family,Sandies, Dantes Pizza,  Smyrna Elementary,  Aunt Fannies Cabin, Brinkley Park, Dunn St., Campbell High School, 1970 Chevelle Malibu, summertime, friends, GB’s Place, Hoot Gibsons BarBQ, Storyland, the covered bridge, bennet woods, old fire truck, the 4th of July, how to make a buck, belmont hills shopping center, Howards, Cobb Center, Griffin Middle School, Sisters, sparkles skating rink, Campbells Restaurant, The American Legion, Tenneco, Lee St., Jonquil Plaza, Smyrna Cable, The Sunnyside Inn, Nanny, Holly Tree, Colquitts, Ponderosa, Pizza Inn, Shakeys Pizza, First Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Church, Church St., Ridge Rd., Pecans, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Silver Corvair, magic tricks, baseball, Johnny Rebs, A&P, Captain D’s, JC Penny’s, Woolworths, Dunaway Drugs, Dairy Queen, cutting grass, Whitfield St., Cousins, The Music Mart, Gibson’s Department Store, Richway’s, Jonquil sporting goods,Garage, Floor Heaters, Big Apple, Love, sno-cones, the concession stand, pool,green grass, blue sky, Jonquil pool, the teen canteen on Church St., Jane Lyle Rd., the woods, tennis, go cart, old Smyrna Library,

I am sure I have a bunch more in my brain but it is not 11:40 and I have to wake up at 4:30 AM

To be continued

P.S. If anyone from Smyrna reads this please post your memories here.

Thanks

Posted under Family, Genealogy, General interests, Music, My Life, Spiritual, childhood memories, favorite restaurants, home, homelife, relationships

I seem to be a bit late to getting around to watching the latest movies, and I practically have to be drug to the movies. The last movie theater that I visited was when my Wife and I went to see Mama Mia, I was reluctant to go see a movie with a name like that, I knew nothing about the movie, then after the first few minutes my Wife informed me, “Oh by the way this is a Musical” as she laughed at the look on my face.
Well needless to say Mama Mia seems to be one of those movies that you start out hating, then all of the sudden it grows on you. We now have the DVD and did a family movie night, my daughters ended up hating it too, then ended up saying it was a good move. It is one of those movies that gives you a good feeling once it is finished with it.

So again with Twilight the movie, I am sort of late here as well. My daughters have been reading all the Stephenie Meyer Twilight series books way before the movie was made, of course while watching the move they informed me several times that the book was way better than the movie. And they kept saying something about “is robert pattison’s married? They googled it, the answer is no.

I have to say the movie was pretty entertaining, I doubt if I will ever get around to reading even a chapter of one of the books. I am more of a technical reader that a pleasure non-fiction reader, I need to change that I’m told.

Now I am looking  forward to the release of the next movie, New Moon.

Posted under Family, General interests, Music, My Life, books, favorite books, home, movies

I will be the first to admit that songs from the late 60′s and 70′s go on forever in a day, but this is one of my favorite youtube videos of Pink Floyd at Pompeii. The sound that David Gilmour gets out of his Fender Stratocaster is one of kind. I want to do more research on what type of gear he was using to get this effect. This is the second part of a song called Echos, a cut off of the Meddle Album, the lyrics are abstract, but I still love them to this day. I am not so much a fan of the first part of this song as it starts very dark and scary, but then leads into this classic second half.

So can you imagine performing in an ancient amphitheater that Archaeologists had uncovered from the ashes of pompeii, could there be a better setting for Pink Floyd to perform in.

I was lucky enough to see them during their Animals tour at the Omni in Atlanta Ga, there was a huge pig floating around in this indoor arena. The Omni has long since been destroyed, literally blown up to make way for something bigger and better, for the life of me I can’t remember what, maybe some type of international convention center?

Anyway here you go, mark my words you will drift off by the end of this, hang in there though it is still an all time classic, music of all types will forever be a big part of my life.

Ten Thousand years from now I will be basking in the glory of music that has never been heard by human ears, God is great.

Pink Floyd – Live at Pompeii (Director’s Cut)

Posted under Music, My Life

Since the first day I listened to Keane’s Under the Iron Sea CD I was hooked. Great music that fits right in with rainy days, fog and the feeling that goes with it. These classmates from School days garner a unique sound that I can’t let go.

I really like this youtube video if the shooting of the music video and song “Is it any wonder”.
A mini roller coaster with a camera mounted on it, as the brits would say brilliant.

I after all am still just a kid at heart, and this kind of thing sets along side in my childhood fond memories of a makeshift 3ft tall model rocket on a pitchers mound, packed with saltpeter sulfur and charcoal that only made it three feet off the ground.

Enjoy

Hopes and Fears

Posted under Music, My Life, childhood memories

I would really like to hear John Mayer’s entire version of the Clapton Classic Crossroads, it adds new meaning to the word groove.

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So I have an interesting story here about this video that John Mayer posted all the way back at the beginning of the year, it was January 13, 2008, and I was browsing through youtube, and checking out my favorite subscriptions, one of which is John Mayers handle mayermusic.

Well I noticed that he had just posted this video in what I would think was just minutes before as it only had 3 views, I checked it out and was mesmurized by the tonal quality of the guitar, and Mayer’s masterful way of playing a cover of Justin Timberlake’s I Think She Knows.
Well no words or not, this intrumental cover version of the song is really cool.

Now not just anybody has a five, six grand or more lying around to fork out to pickup a Collings I-35 electric, and the mix of gear he is using here… well I can only dream and save.

Uh Sorry, I digressed into equipment envy… anyway the next morning when I checked out the video again it had over 300,000 views in less than 24 hours, I still like to watch and listen to this video, to this day it is one of my favorites.

Since then this video has exceeded a million and a half views

Mayer’s Post on youtube Interesting use of Tags

From: mayermusic
Added: January 13, 2008

Heard this in the car today, wanted to try it out… Collings I-35 through a Roland Space Echo pedal, Cornish NG-2 Fuzz and Fender ’64 Vibroverb… Looped through a Boomerang pedal.
Category: Music

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Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles

Posted under Hobbies, Music