Pissing In The Wind

After the disaster that was last year and losing two entire hardrives I decided to start again with the recording. Pissing In The Wind was never going to be the title of a track just the title of this blog but it seemed like a wasted opportunity so here ya go. Its a song about how we, the people have to pay for absolutely everything whether we want to or not and was written instaed of the Christmas song that was going to be recorded.
I have also been offered a few gigs this year and will put the dates up in due course when they are confirmed. Unlike the tracks here I will be doing these gigs acoustically, me, a guitar and my big mouth should be interesting.

This track will be one of six that are going onto a CD and download and will be given away free soon as the artwork is done and I can afford it. Here is the tune - with the lyrics.

 
 Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.



Every day you pay the price,
You pay for someone elses life
You pay for someone elses dream
To earn yourself some self esteem
You pay to live and stay a slave
With the tax you pay on the wages you're paid
You pay for the prison where you're sent
Got caught and you pay for the rules you bent

We're pissing in the wind, Pissing in the wind
One step forward two / three steps back
We're pissing in the wind, Pissing in the wind,
The Union Jackboot marches on
Pissing in the wind

You pay for the Queen and the priveledged few
You pay for the hold they have on you
You pay the bills of corporate greed
And the bonus for the boss thats guaranteed
You pay for the government you vote in
You pay all the time for their wages of sin
You pay for the army and pay for the police
You pay for war and you pay for peace

You pay for this and you pay for that
You pay for it all as a matter of fact
Everyone will pay coz nothing is free
They'll soon make you pay for the air you breathe
You'll pay with your blood and pay with your sweat
You'll pay with your fears, hopes, dreams and regrets
You'll pay the price, lets not pretend
You'll pay with your own life in the end.

Crash, Bang ..Fuck it

Well, I was going to be telling you of the Anti-Christmas tune I was going to write and then post the finished song but everything has gone a bit tits up. I was learning a B Minor barre chord especially for it as well and then the worse thing happened, my PC crashed while i was recording the bass line, well, I thought it had crashed, what transpired is that the hard drive gave up the ghost toppled over after too much beer and said night night - no hard drive and therefore no music.
There was no back up as this drive was the back up while I was cleaning off the rest of my 'puter. Never mind these things happen, it has just set me back recording for a while as all the demos bar those online are now gone. Everything I had recorded was on that drive so its going to take a while to get back up and running again.
In the meantime I will be trying to learn these damn barre chords and swapping between chords I don't know too well namely Bminor and C. I can play a C but cant swap between other chords and C unless its an A or Am - best i get on YouTube and see if there is a way that will make my life less difficult.
In the meantime here is the last of the three demos that have been put up on Soundcloud, its a bit slower than the other three that have been put up here and actually involves a small amount of lead work which is repeated at various point thru the song.



Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.

Generation iDiot

After posting Still Called Scum on the internet I wrote a few other songs, mainly a load of crap but a couple of good songs came out of it and I posted them to a couple of people I knew to get some feedback from them and to see if I was heading in the right direction.
The thing about sending them to your mates is that they will do one of two things, tell you the truth or lie profusely just so they don't upset you or piss you off in any way. Luckily I have mates that will be brutally honest and they said that with a bit of work the new songs could be really good. I decided against posting them on the internet as they need to be worked on a bit before I did so and set about writing some more.
My changing of the chords on an acoustic was getting better, it still wasn't good as I was missing strings, hitting bum notes all over the place and still couldn't play a C or F properly. But I was going to damn well carry on and would get my fingers round those two bastards sooner or later.
I was playing electric guitar as well, swapping between them so that I could play on one what I played on the other or so I thought. Nope, i found it easier to play barre chords on the electric and open chords on the acoustic, I was struggling with  barre chords on the acoustic but was going to persevere.

Generation iDiot came about one afternoon while I was in a pub trying to have a conversation with someone who insisited on checking their phone and using it pretty much contstantly. Its pretty frustrating when you are trying to say something and the person you are talking to is texting or in this case updating their status on Facebook while in the middle of  a conversation. How frustrating and annoying and more to the point - bloody rude. The other thing that annoys me about modern technology is people taking ipads to gigs to film the gig. You're at a gig to watch the band or whatever not to stand there watching the entire thing thru an ipad whilst filming the gig - show some respect please.
I mean who takes an ipad to a gig ... this bloke obviously

Like the previous song, Still Called Scum, this was entirely played and recorded by myself, I even managed to work out some harmonics on the electric to give it some dynamics, rather than a straight forward chordorama thrashalong song.





Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me or Urban Fallout know - Thanks Russ Crimewave