This is the second of three songs written by Mick Paul and I several years ago, that I have chosen to put on youtube. Ths one shows off Mick’s Bass skills a bit. I just wanted acoustic guitar and Bass in this, and I think it worked quite well. The vocals drift off key in a couple of places. This song, and most of the others were only written hours before they were recorded, so I’m not really surprised at the mistakes.

The song is about a very dark subject, though I’m not going to tell you here. You’ll have to watch the vid to find out. I reveal the meaning near the end of the video. It gives a completely new angle on the words.

Returning to Mick. Here is some information on the history so far of this very talented guy:

He performed on 2 singles in 1970.

Joined “The Hotshots” in 1973. They had a number 4 hit.

Joined “Union express” in 1974 and toured Europe for 2 years.

From 1978, did session work for the BBC and various publishers.

He was also an in-house bass player at Abbeydale studios in West London.

He co-wrote the Labour Party campaign song in 1987.

Joined “More tea vicar in 1990.

He wrote and performed on a single called “Aquarius” for Yello records, produced by Tyrrell.

He played bass on the “David Hasselhoff” single “If we could only say goodbye” (Yes. It’s The Hoff).

and there is more..

I’ll give a web link to his recording studio in West Worthing, southern England:

Froosound Recording Studio

Mick is the person doing all the music in this song. He also did the music for the song in the previous post, and the next post I do.

Anyway. This one is called “Losing my mind”. I hope you enjoy it, and the Bass

Now for the Youtube stuff.

A rise in my subs to 692.

Channel views are now at 15,540.

The overall vid views are 237,970. Still on target to hit a quarter of a million by the 17th of July. climbing at about a thousand views a day.

Next up is the third and final upload of my three old original songs.

I’m still working hard on the album. I had a song in my head, as I was waking up yesterday. A strange way to discover a song, but I thought it was very good. So I’m going to put it together to see what it sounds like, and if it makes the grade, then I’ll consider putting it on my album.

I’m going to step back in time a bit with 3 selected songs I wrote when I first started recording seriously.

Several years ago I penned and recorded nine songs in roughly 2 weeks with a very talented musician going by the name of “Mick Paul”.

Mick is an excellent bass player and has done a lot in his career to date. He also runs his own recording studio, and the nine songs I recorded with him, were done in that studio.

I’ve selected 3 of those 9 songs to put on youtube, and this one is the first of those choices.

The title of the song is “Amber falls”. The meaning is quite dark. Let’s see if you can work out the theme of the song, before the video informs you close the end.

Here it is:

I’ve included some information about Mick in the video, and I will be putting more information in the following 2 videos from that collection. There may be a name or two that some music lovers might recognise.

I added a warning in the video description of this particular song, because the song has what is known as “Speaker busters”. They are very deep and loud bass hits, that can possibly cause some damage to a bass speaker when it’s on high volume. I just thought I’d let you know that.

Now for a youtube update.

I only need another 10 subs to get to 700. So the current figure is 690.

My channel views are now 15,424.

My total video viewings are 235,621. At this rate, I might get to the quarter of a million by the first anniversary of my first video upolad to youtube.

Coming next is the second of these three old original songs.

It has been a mad rush week. I’ve done some work on my own website, so that I can get it ready for the release of the album. I’ve updated some of the info. Added some links. I’ve also put an email registration on my home page, so that people can register for updates on the progress of my album.

I pointed out that the email address will only be used for album updates, and will not be given to anyone else. I’ve also put that same registration on another website.

So now I can finally give out my website address. I’ve had it for a few years already, but it’s just been sitting there

So here it is. My own website:

Jeffs music

You will find a player on there that has a number of songs that I’ve written over the past 4 years. I could have removed them, because the recording quality is not very good on some, and the vocals are less than perfect on a number of them. However, I want them to stay there for a while to show how everything started. Including all the mistakes and flaws.

The next bit of news is really interesting. A friend messaged me on Youtube, who had created a live internet TV channel, and he asked me if he could use some of my original music in his shows. I said yes of course. He reported to me that when the first show went out, it got over 1,000 viewers within the first 3 hours!!!

This is a link to that channel:

Music for you - Live channel

He needs some more original music videos for his TV channel, so if you compose your own songs, and want it aired on a live internet broadcast channel, then go to the link above and contact him via his email address. It could get you some good exposure, just like me

Last but not least. The Youtube number counts.

I gained 2 subscribers, but then I lost 2 So it’s still 681.

The channel viewings have increased though. They are 15,146.

Another increase of a few thousand on my total video views. The are now 229,501.

There has been another cover version done of one of my own songs. The tune this time is “Broadcast fantasy”.

It was performed by “PetesBehr” on Youtube. His recording of this song is a bit like an unplugged version.

This guy has covered another one of my songs in the past.

I think that this differs quite a bit from the original song, but I quite like what he’s done with it. It’s interpreted in a completely different way, and that is something I really like hear people having a go at with music. Especially when it comes to my music. Engraving their own signature on it.

First of all, here is the original version:

Broadcast Fantasy - Jeffstunes

So now you know how the original goes. This is his cover of my song:

It feels good when other people like your songs enough to want to record their own versions. It makes me think that I must be doing something right

Now, the regular Youtube digest:

I have now got 681 subscribers. Only another 19 to go to get to 700.

My channel views have raced forward to 15,037.

The overall viewing figures for all my videos is 227,028. Only another 23,000 to the quarter of a million, and it’s going at roughly a thousand a day.

I’ve been working on my own website recently. I thought that if I’m going to release an album, I might as well bring my site up to date. So I’m changing the info on there. I’ll be pumping out the URL when I’m happy that it’s ready, for anyone who may be interested

I decided to take a few days out from making my album, and I recorded a requested song, from a while ago. It’s one I’ve always wanted to do because on the surface it seems such a simple song, but it has so much room for expression. That song is “No surprises” by “Radiohead”.

The video I made for it was pretty simple. I’m just sitting in and out of a shadow, through the entire song. The video to the original is just the singers head, nit what looks like a space helmet to me, filling up with some water. There’s no water in my video though

Instead, I concentrated on bringing moments of my life to mind that have strong emotional connections, so my facial expressions would go through subtle changes.

Here is the result:

The latest numbers on my Yotube account.

677 subs.

14,891 channel viewings.

224,885 overall video views.

I suppose I’d better get back to album making