No Rain – Perhaps I’ve Found a New Muse
Can you believe we’re getting close to two years since so many of us migrated here to FriendBurst with the meltdown of MySpace? There be but a few of us from that exodus left, but point being, time passes.
2012 hasn’t been a year that I’ve made ukulele videos like in years past. There have been a few, but not like I did before, which those of you who’ve stuck around reading my blogs will remember.
I dunno. I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk. I’m not inspired. I also feel constrained by this coffin-like miniature apartment I live in. All that said, I still WANT to create crappy ukulele videos, I just haven’t felt inspired ENOUGH.
One thing I’ve always been derisive of has moved in right next door here in Friendburst and gotten really friendly with the landlord. That being imposed content community creation. The CPC pets do it with their poetry themes, and a couple blogging communities I know have tried to do that here too… but I’ve always been like too aloof and feeling like anyone who needs to be TOLD what to write is at some other level than I who can write whatever I want when I want…
With the ukulele, I need to be given suggestions. My best stuff comes from when I am GIVEN an assignment to complete.
This week’s assignment at Ukulele Underground was “Rain”.. I looked and looked for songs including the word “Rain” in their title; Songs ABOUT rain… THERE ARE LOTS OF THEM!!! I would posit that other than Love, Rain is the most sung about thing in the universe. Anyhoots, I think I have found an avenur by which I can be the creative self I want to be and have been in the past.
This song has lots of meaning for me. Some people have found, whether they say so or not, that the way I think is “insane”. I really do want to find someone who will tell me that he or she will always be there when I wake. I want to fall in love again. I read books as a form of escape. God, I love a good book for the exact reason described in this song; it gives me an escape.
Howdy Joko.
Good Morning. I enjoyed the cover with my coffee in the morning.
The first Rain song that came to mind for me was the Temptations, “I wish it would Rain”
But I have to Ask, “Have you ever seen the Rain”, coming down a Sunny day.
ANd NOw… Since it is raining, I have to ask, “Who’ll stop the Rain”?…Cause you know, 5 year plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains, and I wonder, YES I wonder…
Hey! “The Sky is Crying”
gotta go.
No Rain, No Rain, No Rain….
Joko, you ain’t insane, you’re just awake.
and good luck with that love thing.
Good choice. Good cover on that new ook. (I am one of those blasphemers that pronounce it yewk)
Bonnie Bramlett and Eric Clapton’s Let It Rain is probably my favorite. Roscoe’s choice Who Will Stop The Rain has a deeply sad and personal meaning for me, but is the very first song that comes to mind when somebody says ‘song about rain’.
Then there is the Weather Girls’ ‘It’s Raining Men’….
Well, now that Bonnie Bramlett came to mind, I am thinking about Delaney & Bonnie—
Well I enjoyed this little offering with my nightly coffee J….seems your tune has run the whole gamut from morning till night…:)
I must tell you that the Baritone seems better suited to your vocal style than your other ukulele’s…I don’t know it just sounded better….and nice job again my friend as always….:)
Yea time moves on that’s for sure it is after all is said and done a constant….
Speaking of uke’s I am in the process of replacing my baritone’s friction tuners with brand new geared one’s…an easy fix for sure yet a much needed on….
You know J …perhaps I may have a request or two for you to play…well it could happen….:)
Then again I may just make a video myself..lololol Lemurs….:)
One side note….>>>>>>>thank goodness for second string running backs>>>>>>>>can you say”Lemur got lucky…..?
Well I can….,”Lemur got Lucky”………….:)
You know along the lines of life moving on…..sometimes inspiration does wane when you are busy getting on with living your life…it is after all par for the course…with most folks…
But then something plays the right chord…from out of the blue and you find your fire re-ignited….
and that I believe is the real you that comes shinning through all the dull that life can sometimes make you think that your life has become J…….
As long as that fire remains burning inside of you J….you’ll be alright……..
:entertained:
DL
Aha! The next “season of the uke” theme was just announced. It’s the British Invasion…
“The week, we want songs from the bands of the British Invasion. For sake of argument we’re going to say that consists of bands or singers from the UK who were in existence between the years of 1962 and 1970.”
Oh what to cover?
Suggestions? Requests?