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Sun - March 19, 2006
John Lennon Songwriting Contest - Deadline June 15, 2006 - and Songwriting tips by the Bacon Brothers and others
The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is an
international songwriting contest that began in 1997. The Contest is open to
amateur and professional songwriters who submit entries in any one of 12
categories. The JLSC is open year-round and features two Sessions -- with 72
Finalists, 24 Grand Prize Winners, 12 Lennon Award Winners and 1 Maxell Song of
the
Year.
enter the contest, go to the website... and watch The Bacon Brothers video on songwriting
enter the contest, go to the website... and watch The Bacon Brothers video on songwriting
Winners will receive EMI Publishing Contracts,
Studio Equipment from Brian Moore Guitars, Roland/Edirol and Audio-Technica,
1,000 CDs in full color with premium 6-panel Digipaks courtesy of Disc Makers,
and gift certificates from Musiciansfriend.com. One entrant wil be chosen to
TOUR and PERFORM for one week on Warped Tour '07. One (1) Lennon Award winning
song will receive an Apple Power Mac G5, Cinema Display, Logic Pro software, and
$20,000 for the "Song of the Year" courtesy of Maxell.
Go to the site and click on right navigation SONGWRITING TIPS for videos with the Bacon Brothers, Pat Metheny and others
John Lennon Songwriting Contest Website
notes: Very Cool interview with Michael and Kevin Bacon on the JL tour bus... featuring Kevin's advice when you are inspired and laying awake with lyrics running thru your head...get up and write em down....
Go to the site and click on right navigation SONGWRITING TIPS for videos with the Bacon Brothers, Pat Metheny and others
John Lennon Songwriting Contest Website
notes: Very Cool interview with Michael and Kevin Bacon on the JL tour bus... featuring Kevin's advice when you are inspired and laying awake with lyrics running thru your head...get up and write em down....
Posted at 02:11 AM
Sat - December 10, 2005
Where were you when you found out John Lennon had Been Killed and your first emotion?
I sent this question out to friends, family,
associates, colleagues, and clients, and here are the responses. Thank you all
for taking the time and giving some thought to that difficult and tragic moment,
when we found out that their would be no future music from John Lennon. We
can all be thankful that we will be listening to his music and message long into
the future. (click "Read More") to read what people had to say... where were
you...???
... when you found out John Lennon had been
Killed?
I was actually in my kitchen in NYC and discussed walking over to light a candle, with my upstairs neighbor. - CB
Honestly, I can't remember where I was when it happened! Dementia setting in perhaps. - JL
I think I was at school. My Rabbi was a big Beatles fan and I thought of calling him.
- EB
I was at home, in our apt, and I was so dismayed to think that someone would do such a rotten thing to a genius . He had not only killed the man but he had robbed the entire world of future music by J.L. - MA
In fact I was in NYC waiting tables when I walked in to the kitchen to place an order and heard on the radio that Lenon had been shot. After work, around 12:30am I bought a Christmas tree off the street and went to the Dakota (the building where he lived), and placed the tree along the fence. There were many thousands of us were there. SS
I was sitting on City Line Avenue in philadelphia, waiting for a job interview at a personnel office, actually reading the playboy interview with John and Yoko(maybe looking at the pictures too) in a parking lot listening to WMMR 93.3FM. "Complete Numbness and shock" I ended up not going in...I ended up going back to school to the Art Institute of Philadelphia, to make a difference with my art - dB+1
I was home doing bong hits when the news flash from Roger Grimsby on wabc chanel 7 came on I was stunned and McCartney was asked how he felt and he said "oh well " - SWS
I was in the city and walked over to CPW and to Strawberry Fields and mingled in silence with the others that had gathered. A very moving experience...but not quite the same impact on me personally as when Kennedy was shot..I was devastated and depressed for quite a while afterwards. EL
I WAS IN ART CLASS PAINTING WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED IT OVER OUR CAMPUS RADIO STATION UNC-GREENSBORO CAMPUS STATION - I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH OR SIGNIFICANCE (AND STILL DON'T) OF THE WORLD W/OUT J-LEN... 'CAUSE I DIDN'T REALY CARE FOR THE BEATLES THAT MUCH...THEN THEY STARTED CANCELLING CLASSES, AND PEOPLE STARTED GOING INTO THE STREETS CRYING... YOU KNOW THE REST... IT TOO UNTIL LAST NITE AS I LISTENED TO AN INTERVIEW RE-BRODCAST ON WXPN TO START TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JOHN LENNON WAS ABOUT (NOT WHO...)! - CAPT KIRK
Well,
I was in my beautiful dorm room at Syracuse U. Blackwell cottage on Walnut park. The room was on the top floor of a large victorian. Vaulted ceilings and 3 gables where you could sit and read, and look out over the park and across at Bird library. I was hangin with my roommates Barbara and, gosh I forget her name but she was in ROTC. My boyfriend Phil had just come over to pick me up with his dog Sherman (after general sherman from the civil war. (He was a mutt from an english setter and a beagle. he had beagle markings.) We had the radio on listening to some music when the announcement came. What? The radio dj spoke again and repeated it. Our mouths dropped. I felt so shaken. Disbelieving. I was hoping it wasnt true. We all started crying. Then we went to the quad with candles. It was so beautiful as everyone on filed on to the quad with their candles in front of Hendricks Chapel. This was where a scene was filmed in Born on the 4th of July with Tom Cruise.
Well that's it. These milestones really mean something to us. But in 50 years people will forget. Because all that matters is counting our blessings, forgiving people, and loving and caring for one another. Oh and one more thing from my own favorite Beatles Album: "The love you take is equal to the love you make."
--PG
Was recording an album of improvisations by Paul Halley, pipe organ at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC and staying at a hotel near the Dakota. On the nights following this devastating event, we’d be in the midst of a gorgeous musical invention, and he’d break into a Beatles song. It was a overwhelming experience for a musician: walking in the neighborhood seems everyone was affected. Already impacted by a schedule in which I recorded all night and tried to sleep daytimes, I sank into a deep melancholy. Subsequently the album “Nightwatch” won awards and was hailed as “the finest-sounding American organ record. - ”Sorry, there was no way to make it short..." CMB
I remember I was in bed asleep and my brother came into the room we shared and woke me to tell me John Lennon had been killed. He heard it watching Monday Night Football. I dozed back off hoping I'd been dreaming but my mother confirmed it in the morning before school. I'm still bothered by it as I was then. I was a 15-year old Beatles authority and felt I'd been robbed and was very angry. My first selfish thought was that we would never ever get a Beatles reunion now, which I'd desperately hoped for. The second was no more new John Lennon albums like the one I was enjoying so much at the time, Double Fantasy. "Why the hell would anybody shoot John Lennon" was the most poignant quote from one of my schoolmates the next day as we dejectedly discussed the news before band rehearsal. Each of my teachers even discussed it in class throughout the day.
It's hard to come up with a current star whose murder would have the same impact. The Beatles in 1980 were a part of the fabric of many more lives in 1980 than they are now. They were still young and so were their fans and their fans' parents, who'd probably come to appreciate the band more over the years since the breakup.
The cold-blooded murder of a music star famously on the rebound from years away added extra shock, shame and anger. Everytime I hear a John Lennon song now-and I play them a lot, there's always a sadness to it I wish wasn't there. - BDeak
my actual feelings the day he died was... what has the world come to?,friends from that time were sitting around my living room and I turned to them and said,"Bob,Danny,Bernie,it's the beginning of the end,watch the next war will be fought soon and it will be about nothing but economics SWS (single white santa)
(more to be added)
NOTE: PLEASE READ on this same day I was updating my music site and links and resources, and looped back to
anditgoes.com Tribute to Philly Music Scene , and found out that Jerry Healy had died on Dec 4th at only 50 years old. I was friendly with him and knew him as well as many of the other well knowns in Philadelphia music scene in 80's and 90's. I saw Beru Revue in one of their first performances with Pierre Robert (of WMMR) and others at Ripley Music Hall, or was it Grendels Lair...mmm..any way they had it together...Bob Beru with his amazing stage presence and costumes/props and Jerry and Greg Davis packing punch with their guitars, and BUZZ. Saw them many times..Ambler Cabaret and the last show that Jerry played with the band at U of P (Univeristy of Pennsylvania). It was an outdoor show featuring the who's who of Philly including Tommy Conwell...a very cool songwriter and performer. Yes I am reminiscing. I am very sad about Jerry. I used to run into him round town and ask if he could stop over and teach me a few of his chops, and at J.C.Dobbs. I don't think I got to hear him with any of his other projects...but I will always respect him as one of the gifted and interesting guitarists in the Philadelphia music scene. My favs where... Separate Checks (fondly called separated cheeks), Robert Hazard, Philly Gumbo, Social Voyeurs, Public Service, Beru Revue, Tommy Conwell, Radio Rodeo, Jamison Smoothdog...etc...etc...
rest in Peace Jerry and rock on... thanks to and anditgoes.com for carrying on the legacy of so many!!!!
I was actually in my kitchen in NYC and discussed walking over to light a candle, with my upstairs neighbor. - CB
Honestly, I can't remember where I was when it happened! Dementia setting in perhaps. - JL
I think I was at school. My Rabbi was a big Beatles fan and I thought of calling him.
- EB
I was at home, in our apt, and I was so dismayed to think that someone would do such a rotten thing to a genius . He had not only killed the man but he had robbed the entire world of future music by J.L. - MA
In fact I was in NYC waiting tables when I walked in to the kitchen to place an order and heard on the radio that Lenon had been shot. After work, around 12:30am I bought a Christmas tree off the street and went to the Dakota (the building where he lived), and placed the tree along the fence. There were many thousands of us were there. SS
I was sitting on City Line Avenue in philadelphia, waiting for a job interview at a personnel office, actually reading the playboy interview with John and Yoko(maybe looking at the pictures too) in a parking lot listening to WMMR 93.3FM. "Complete Numbness and shock" I ended up not going in...I ended up going back to school to the Art Institute of Philadelphia, to make a difference with my art - dB+1
I was home doing bong hits when the news flash from Roger Grimsby on wabc chanel 7 came on I was stunned and McCartney was asked how he felt and he said "oh well " - SWS
I was in the city and walked over to CPW and to Strawberry Fields and mingled in silence with the others that had gathered. A very moving experience...but not quite the same impact on me personally as when Kennedy was shot..I was devastated and depressed for quite a while afterwards. EL
I WAS IN ART CLASS PAINTING WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED IT OVER OUR CAMPUS RADIO STATION UNC-GREENSBORO CAMPUS STATION - I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH OR SIGNIFICANCE (AND STILL DON'T) OF THE WORLD W/OUT J-LEN... 'CAUSE I DIDN'T REALY CARE FOR THE BEATLES THAT MUCH...THEN THEY STARTED CANCELLING CLASSES, AND PEOPLE STARTED GOING INTO THE STREETS CRYING... YOU KNOW THE REST... IT TOO UNTIL LAST NITE AS I LISTENED TO AN INTERVIEW RE-BRODCAST ON WXPN TO START TO UNDERSTAND WHAT JOHN LENNON WAS ABOUT (NOT WHO...)! - CAPT KIRK
Well,
I was in my beautiful dorm room at Syracuse U. Blackwell cottage on Walnut park. The room was on the top floor of a large victorian. Vaulted ceilings and 3 gables where you could sit and read, and look out over the park and across at Bird library. I was hangin with my roommates Barbara and, gosh I forget her name but she was in ROTC. My boyfriend Phil had just come over to pick me up with his dog Sherman (after general sherman from the civil war. (He was a mutt from an english setter and a beagle. he had beagle markings.) We had the radio on listening to some music when the announcement came. What? The radio dj spoke again and repeated it. Our mouths dropped. I felt so shaken. Disbelieving. I was hoping it wasnt true. We all started crying. Then we went to the quad with candles. It was so beautiful as everyone on filed on to the quad with their candles in front of Hendricks Chapel. This was where a scene was filmed in Born on the 4th of July with Tom Cruise.
Well that's it. These milestones really mean something to us. But in 50 years people will forget. Because all that matters is counting our blessings, forgiving people, and loving and caring for one another. Oh and one more thing from my own favorite Beatles Album: "The love you take is equal to the love you make."
--PG
Was recording an album of improvisations by Paul Halley, pipe organ at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, NYC and staying at a hotel near the Dakota. On the nights following this devastating event, we’d be in the midst of a gorgeous musical invention, and he’d break into a Beatles song. It was a overwhelming experience for a musician: walking in the neighborhood seems everyone was affected. Already impacted by a schedule in which I recorded all night and tried to sleep daytimes, I sank into a deep melancholy. Subsequently the album “Nightwatch” won awards and was hailed as “the finest-sounding American organ record. - ”Sorry, there was no way to make it short..." CMB
I remember I was in bed asleep and my brother came into the room we shared and woke me to tell me John Lennon had been killed. He heard it watching Monday Night Football. I dozed back off hoping I'd been dreaming but my mother confirmed it in the morning before school. I'm still bothered by it as I was then. I was a 15-year old Beatles authority and felt I'd been robbed and was very angry. My first selfish thought was that we would never ever get a Beatles reunion now, which I'd desperately hoped for. The second was no more new John Lennon albums like the one I was enjoying so much at the time, Double Fantasy. "Why the hell would anybody shoot John Lennon" was the most poignant quote from one of my schoolmates the next day as we dejectedly discussed the news before band rehearsal. Each of my teachers even discussed it in class throughout the day.
It's hard to come up with a current star whose murder would have the same impact. The Beatles in 1980 were a part of the fabric of many more lives in 1980 than they are now. They were still young and so were their fans and their fans' parents, who'd probably come to appreciate the band more over the years since the breakup.
The cold-blooded murder of a music star famously on the rebound from years away added extra shock, shame and anger. Everytime I hear a John Lennon song now-and I play them a lot, there's always a sadness to it I wish wasn't there. - BDeak
my actual feelings the day he died was... what has the world come to?,friends from that time were sitting around my living room and I turned to them and said,"Bob,Danny,Bernie,it's the beginning of the end,watch the next war will be fought soon and it will be about nothing but economics SWS (single white santa)
(more to be added)
NOTE: PLEASE READ on this same day I was updating my music site and links and resources, and looped back to
anditgoes.com Tribute to Philly Music Scene , and found out that Jerry Healy had died on Dec 4th at only 50 years old. I was friendly with him and knew him as well as many of the other well knowns in Philadelphia music scene in 80's and 90's. I saw Beru Revue in one of their first performances with Pierre Robert (of WMMR) and others at Ripley Music Hall, or was it Grendels Lair...mmm..any way they had it together...Bob Beru with his amazing stage presence and costumes/props and Jerry and Greg Davis packing punch with their guitars, and BUZZ. Saw them many times..Ambler Cabaret and the last show that Jerry played with the band at U of P (Univeristy of Pennsylvania). It was an outdoor show featuring the who's who of Philly including Tommy Conwell...a very cool songwriter and performer. Yes I am reminiscing. I am very sad about Jerry. I used to run into him round town and ask if he could stop over and teach me a few of his chops, and at J.C.Dobbs. I don't think I got to hear him with any of his other projects...but I will always respect him as one of the gifted and interesting guitarists in the Philadelphia music scene. My favs where... Separate Checks (fondly called separated cheeks), Robert Hazard, Philly Gumbo, Social Voyeurs, Public Service, Beru Revue, Tommy Conwell, Radio Rodeo, Jamison Smoothdog...etc...etc...
rest in Peace Jerry and rock on... thanks to and anditgoes.com for carrying on the legacy of so many!!!!
Posted at 01:39 PM
Thu - December 8, 2005
25th Anniversary of John Lennon's Murder, and Release of Double Fantasy Album
It's 6:40 am eastern Standard...and I am going to
Rant about this day. Where were You when you found
out???
Enjoy your day by listening to Sgt Pepper. It was released on a friday, and Hendrix performed it with Paul in the audience(stunned by Hendrix solo) on Sunday
Enjoy your day by listening to Sgt Pepper. It was released on a friday, and Hendrix performed it with Paul in the audience(stunned by Hendrix solo) on Sunday
Cut back to something I heard John say...to the
effect... that when the Beatles (official Site) stopped playing
live...many acts were making music and headlines... and many thought the Beatles
were yesterday's news. They were entrenched in the sessions of Sgt Pepper, (I
believe they still released their Christmas Greeting 1966 as tradition), and
were creating one of the ground breaking POP albums of all time. The Buzz
was... have they faded away???...while they sensed that people were going to be
pleased with the music (wait till they hear this one). And sure enough in 67
the summer of love, Sgt Pepper...stunned the world, musicians, listeners,
producers, and critics alike. The world has never been the
same.
December 8, 1980 One year out of high school...
I was sitting on City Line Avenue in philadelphia, actually reading the playboy interview(maybe looking at the pictures too) in a parking lot ,at a personnel and placement company. I was waiting for my appointment and enjoying the fact I was reading the candid interview with John and Yoko, and listening to Beatles on the radio. At the commercial break, the DJ said and that was for the late John Lennon, (WHAT????? the F__k????NO...What????) and then proceeded to relate what many of the world had already known...John was dead. The nite before he had been shot in front of his home in NYC. That week on Philadelphia's No#1 radio station, WMMR 93.3 (the 29,000 watt flame thrower), People called in about their feelings for John, the Beatles, and their sorrow and Shock. The outpouring of people who said that Beatles and John were their soundtrack for their lives, emotions, hopes and dreams, loves won and lost, and coming of age in the 60's and 70's, was intense. Then one guy came on and said something like. I don't know what all the fuss was about... he was a trouble maker, a drug addict, and other derogatory comments. Rather than anger for this man I felt sorrow that he missed it...Missed a guy who wrote love songs, spoke his mind, and voiced the humanity in us all. I believe John also said..."work is life, without it there is only fear and insecurity." This is a bad man??? I also, watched the making of Imagine DVD two days ago(bought it at our library book sale)..with thoughts of John. The guys, including George who was at the sessions, all remarked ""That's a good one", when they heard john play the first few verses and chorus. Well, yep...that's a good one. IMAGINE............
visit the Liverpool Lennons (Julian sings "When I'm 64) . Tell them dB @ exit4music.com sent ya... Peace and Love are not things that died in the sixties or with John... Happy and Safe Holidays to you and your family and friends...and a better world and economy in 2006.
Beatles_gibberish.wave(508MB) ©1967 EMI RECORDS LTD.
Words to "Imagine" supplied by gidion.com (beauty from the inside out, High frequency energy clearing products for you and your environment)
December 8, 1980 One year out of high school...
I was sitting on City Line Avenue in philadelphia, actually reading the playboy interview(maybe looking at the pictures too) in a parking lot ,at a personnel and placement company. I was waiting for my appointment and enjoying the fact I was reading the candid interview with John and Yoko, and listening to Beatles on the radio. At the commercial break, the DJ said and that was for the late John Lennon, (WHAT????? the F__k????NO...What????) and then proceeded to relate what many of the world had already known...John was dead. The nite before he had been shot in front of his home in NYC. That week on Philadelphia's No#1 radio station, WMMR 93.3 (the 29,000 watt flame thrower), People called in about their feelings for John, the Beatles, and their sorrow and Shock. The outpouring of people who said that Beatles and John were their soundtrack for their lives, emotions, hopes and dreams, loves won and lost, and coming of age in the 60's and 70's, was intense. Then one guy came on and said something like. I don't know what all the fuss was about... he was a trouble maker, a drug addict, and other derogatory comments. Rather than anger for this man I felt sorrow that he missed it...Missed a guy who wrote love songs, spoke his mind, and voiced the humanity in us all. I believe John also said..."work is life, without it there is only fear and insecurity." This is a bad man??? I also, watched the making of Imagine DVD two days ago(bought it at our library book sale)..with thoughts of John. The guys, including George who was at the sessions, all remarked ""That's a good one", when they heard john play the first few verses and chorus. Well, yep...that's a good one. IMAGINE............
visit the Liverpool Lennons (Julian sings "When I'm 64) . Tell them dB @ exit4music.com sent ya... Peace and Love are not things that died in the sixties or with John... Happy and Safe Holidays to you and your family and friends...and a better world and economy in 2006.
Beatles_gibberish.wave(508MB) ©1967 EMI RECORDS LTD.
Words to "Imagine" supplied by gidion.com (beauty from the inside out, High frequency energy clearing products for you and your environment)
Imagine
by John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
Posted at 07:14 AM