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Baz Smith

About Me

Imagine working at a steelworks in a northern town for more years than you care to remember, with words and lyrics always the main distraction from it all. Hastily written down on the back of job cards and scraps off paper, hidden away from your mates and managers prying eyes only to be removed from your grubby overall pocket when in the safety of your own space. Words about everything from childhood dreams, Love lost and found through protest for peace, past and present, religion and rebellion, safety at work and Death to name just a few. Eventually after struggling away through a process of strumming and singing you get something that to your ears at least resembles a song. The completed article can then be filed under probably finished and the next set of words attacked. By constant repetition you find you can remember completely the words and chords to all your "songs" so your now ready for the "Concert for Yourself" which establishes once again you are a "Legend" in your own Living Room. Then along comes My Space which for a short time after seeing and hearing yourself on the PC makes you want to keep reaching for those job cards and grubby pieces of paper... You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/13/2007
Band Members: Thanks to Bill (Norman Martin) Reeves for the hammond and lead on ..Jesus in Denim.. and the mellow pad work on ..Yellow Rose....Believe in me.. is a demo with full backing to follow..Jealous Prophet.. one take recording ..Mind the Gap.. more from the talented fingers of mr Reeves from an original idea of one Tarik Algin....Paris.. me and the telecaster full re-work to follow if we remember how we did it
Influences: Vast and varied always been a Bowie,Bolan, Stones, Tragically Hip fan but travelled through Talking Heads, Joy Division, Inspiral Carpets and Stone Roses recently listening to Nick Cave, Jeff Buckley,Newton Faulkner,Damien Rice,and Josh Ritter but not against listening to anything Pigeon Detectives, Arcade Fire,People in Planes,Klaxons and Editors...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Songs

Jesus in Denim ..An Indie Gospel Shuffle Boogie slice of blasphemy.. ..Believe in me.. another Acoustic true story  
Posted by Baz Smith on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:37:00 PST

Jealous Prophet

New Buckley tribute type thingy.........
Posted by Baz Smith on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:20:00 PST