I've posted 2 anti-war songs, basically prayers for peace. Liberty and Message of Peace. Liberty I wrote when the imbeciles that currently occupy the White House conned us into this sad shameful war in Iraq. What will be the final cost in lives and dollars for what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rove et al baltantly deceived a sleeping America. An America more concerned with so called morality in the White House than the price of war. What's less moral; dragging the country into war where over 3500 American troops have died? Or getting a blow job where no one died? Well we need to wake the fuck up. If we had stayed in Afghanistan where we had the worlds sympathy and support after 9-11 we wouldn't have created another Vietnam. It breaks my heart to see needless death and suffering among Americans and the rest of the world. I want our troops home safe and sound and soon.
Message of Peace was recorded in Curacao with Mikey Brown on Vocals, Russel and Isoco percussion and I'm playing guitar. I gave Mikey my words on a slip of paper and he couldn't really read most of the words so during the session he pretty much just added his own words mixed with mine. He got em all in eventually along with some great lines of his own. The song actually reflects on hurricane Katrina and the war. The lack of governmental response to one, in America. And the amount of zeal the Bush adminstration had for going to war in a country thousands of miles away....
I've been writing music since I picked up the guitar. Some of the songs I write I feel should best be kept acoustic and some just acoustic instrumental. My band might not agree but I hope you do. I've written a children's book called 'Spooky, T-Bone, Mallory, Me and a Grumpy Cat Named Sam'. A bit winded but hey I wrote it for kids. I've written 5 pieces for the book that follow the storyline in mood and tempo. The book is illustrated by Gloria Young Smith with plates of her series of pastel works. Proudly this is a collaboration of mother and son.
I remember as children my parents would sit us down, on a Sunday, and play classical music for us. Now, mind you, I'd rather be on the playing field getting black and blue in the dirt than getting tortured by Mahler but the pieces I did love Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi.... stay with me to this day. My father, Henry George Smith, would sit us all down and describe what was happening in each movement. My favorite was Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. We would sit there all ears and speechless as my father would lead us through the story. The innocent calm, the danger, the woods, the wolf.... you could close your eyes and see and feel what he was talking about. That's the feel I wanted to re-create with this book and music along with Gloria's art. I would never compare myself to any classical composer, except maybe Vivaldi for his beautiful simplicity, nor would I pretend to be the caliber of a guitar player as Segovia or Montoya. I just create music and write words. It's what I have to do. MySpace Layouts @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotComments
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