Count my blessings by Gene Kalmes featuring Gary Bouley.wmv
song never played before...1 take...gary rules on guitar...love spontaneous jams...the song is one of the first I wrote, words in 1981, music in 1998... ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH55OX4TppE
There are probably less than 10 people who will be interested in this video, but these are my thoughts. I wish I could see video of myself playing on a playground in 1968, or singing in a grade school concert. Some parents had sound super 8 film cameras but video cameras really didn't become common until about 1980 forward. And those old 8mm movies were always pretty poor quality. We are products of our times. Today we have phones with cameras and every moment of life is ready for capture. My son Kal, and his personality at 8 or 9 here, is framed. A brief glimpse of his mother and then a background song from my brother singing Tupilow Honey, combine to show the viewer a feeling. Emotion of nostalgic times passing swiftly. Kids being kids, schools being schools, ignorant parents so caught up in angers and resentments that they would need another 20 years to see what was right in front of them. Sad but true.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4s3smlBwx8
I make myself mad when I listen to a mix online and it isn't what it sounded like in the mixing programs... I should always check it after the upload. But I didn't. So I went back to the original recording. I chose not to mix it with the new recording nor did I mess with the EQ settings. I have to trust I did okay with that 12 years ago.
I guess the video and song can explain the rest.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys1nFQ0SBdc
the idea that everything be designed for a planned obsolecense is a diseased thinking process...ultimately it makes everything and everyone disposable...as an artist Geno created thinking he was doing something that would matter and last...and as life kept showing no one cares...what was the point of leaving anything behind?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nEYBcgiyhA
What would my Wiki say about me?
He was a cartoonist, musician, singer, songwriter, video and filmmaker whose work was both peculiar and odd. He could make you laugh heartily, and often move you to feel his pain. His approach to truthing was different than most, and though using conspiracy theory as a frequent subject, he seemed to believe in the very things he poked fun of.
Some called him an anti-semite but he would ask, "How is it all other races and religions are allowed to be criticized?" Sunday Morning in his underwear is a cry for help. LOL. In this : "Sunday" He visits a song he wrote when he was 17.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n9FcU7G0Eo