HERE IS ONE FROM PETER COOK
Someone did not like our Billabong performance of Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape some while back
See stream of consciousness below from one Martin Wellbran below. He is rather keen on militaria AND Bill Nelson (I thought the two were mutually exclusive) plus he has some kind of angst about his father’s struggle in WW2, which I appear to have aggravated!
I have been firmly told to practice more – it’s advice I have received before! L
There will be trouble at next year’s Nelsonica Convention!
1st comment
WELLBRAN has sent you a message:
Terrible
My reply
Re: Thanks
Thanks for your one word comment. I always admire economy over intelligence.
I will view your self obsessed pages with the same level of zeal.
Peter
Then…
WELLBRAN has sent you a message:
Re:Thanks
If you are referring to the Bill Nelson / Bebopdeluxe cover...well one word describes it...terrible out of tune, singing flat, and no feeling in lyrics even and the background sounds (who knows what they were) did not help it along either, good job most there were probably drunk...they liked it! Also you murdered one of the best songs from a very talented artist, BTW I diud not listen to all of it as I cut short befoe the guitar solo...Was it any better?
My reply
Re: Re:Thanks
Certainly no worse than your self obsessed life of battleships and personal memorabilia. Have a nice life.
Peter
And then….
WELLBRAN has sent you a message
I am so sorry..sorry that you cannot take any negative reactions to your music clips, but if you put them on youtube thats what you must anticipate. You have to be fair and say to yourself that cover was bad, if you go away and practice it and come back and upload a good rendition I will be the forst to say well done a cracker cover....but not for this one.
My Daughter plays Trumpet been in her Band for 4yrs and learnt for 2 yrs started age 6yrs...many weeks the Musical director would stop her and hand back her study book and tell her to go home and practice as she was playing it all wrong...going home in the car in tears...BUT it makes you a stronger musician, it is better to have it straight and the truth, shall I play the original track to my daughter and then have her listen to yours? See what she says? she has never heard the original, so should be interesting, I will get my hi fi fired up and get my Harvest label Axe victim LP out I have it here. what do you think? good idea?
As for my youtube page clips its called history in case you do not know what you are looking at. And far out of reach of your brain I would imagine, well.. by the sound of you anyway. 51yrs old? you should know better, what did your Dad do in WW2? do you know what it was like to live with my Father who went through so much, for people,such as the likes of you? And you tell me to go have a life? All because you cannot play in tune?...Pathetic
I want the world to know my Fathers story of pain and suffering during and AFTER the war...so if thats okay with you can I keep my clip? And the rest of my personal clips and History of the Royal Navy which my father loved...is that okay? Thanks
My reply
As far as I am concerned, you can carry on trainspotting. You are welcome to keep your warmongering clips as I am sure that they hold personal significance for you which I have no problem with. I hope you will agree that I can keep also clips of spontaneous jams with 60% people who have hardly heard of Bill Nelson, let alone many of his songs.
As for practising and musical theory, that really is for dummies. One only has to ask Bill Nelson himself on this point. It is fine for orchestras but of no real value in terms of spontaneous pub jam sessions.
We must just agree to disagree on our own personal whims and fancies - both are, as you say, pathetic
p.s. My Dad made prop shafts for submarines in Scotland as he was in his forties then - sounds like a much better choice than doing the fighting and then regretting it later. It's a sad fact of life that nobody really cares what happens in war. Better still then that we should not glorify it.
Peter
And finally
WELLBRAN has sent you a message:
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Shows just how ignorant you are, your father was too OLD to get called up so he did not fight, my father was 18, so your Dad was making props for battleships? so that puts him in the same war as my Father He was not making them to sell to the Germans or Japanese was he? so as a son, have a bit of respect for his job. (dear oh dear)
I'll play bill nelson to my daughter and then have her listen to your rendition....see what she thinks...agh so okay I was wrong only Orchestral musicians need to practice.......I am a member of the Bill nelson forum so I am going to ask him just that. I can tell you are a self taught amateur.
BTW where do the Trains come into anything?....trainspotting? Here's a tip, look both ways when you go over a level crossing.
So you thought your Dad was clever making props instead of doing the fighting........HAHAHAHA!
My reply
Mr Allbran,
War, what is it good for?
Do what you bloody well like. I could not give a toss.
Peter
ANOTHER FROM PETER
Local Councils now feel they need to act like nannies to justify their escalating taxes. They sent me a booklet on how to maintain my house frontage in a period style, long after the properties had lost their original features. This, we were told, was to ‘maintain Victorian standards in Medway’. To reinforce this cultural message the booklet was printed on sepia tinted glossy paper! Of course, Medway is a well-known Victorian ghetto with underage chimney sweeps, fake Gucci handbag smugglers, artful benefit dodgers etc. We were told to restore slate roofs, reinstate sash windows, put ‘Victorian bushes’ outside our houses and so on.
I thought this was insufficiently authentic and recommended to the young civil servant (neither civil nor servile) that we do the job properly by infecting my children with rickets, teaching them to pick pockets and sending them down the mines. Furthermore I suggested giving my wife syphilis, installing Thomas Crapper toilets in gardens and reintroducing bear bating in the street. Was I wrong?
