I started to play the guitar in the spring of 2004, in preparation for a special Earthday event that I was hosting. I wasn't very good... but the audience still enjoyed my positive effort!!!! Thanks!
Over the next few years, I continued to practice and practice. It took me over six months before I could change chords without having to look at my fingers. It took me another six months before I was able to sing and play at the same time.
It was the early part of summer, in 2007, when I went through a very personal and very negative experience. I was feeling very low about the things that were going on in my life and one day this low hit rock bottom! I had me a heart wrenching cry!!
Afterwards, I went looking for some comfort and so I had a beer and picked up my guitar. My sorrow flowed out of me and into the strings of my guitar and suddenly a new and exciting melody created itself through my efforts! An hour later, I had written a song!
My wife came home from work and I played my song for her. She told me that it was a very depressing song and I replied, "Yeah! I know! But isn't it great!!!!!!"
It seems that a flood gate had been opened over the course of this experience and over the next two months I had created seven other songs!! Bricks of Love was one of them.
This song began with a simple melody with a few chord changes. I just had the music to play with as I had no idea what the words would be. One afternoon, my wife and I were in our back garden. I was enjoying a cold beer while I played the music over and again - making small changes here and there and beginning again. I began to hum in the places where I thought the words might go. My wife was weeding in the garden.
It was a lovely afternoon and we were both enjoying the day and we were in good spirits. As I played, watching my wife pulling out weeds, my hum turned into words...
Yeah - she's pulling out the weeds - pulling out the weeds!
We both laughed and I continued to sing this part each time I got to the chorus of the music.
Now, that I had a small rhythm to work with a more serious song started to come into my mind and two hours later the backbone for Bricks of Love was born. Over the next few months, I played and played and soon I was comfortable enough with this song to begin thinking about making a video.
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That fall, my wife and I were visiting my parents for the Thanksgiving weekend. My parents lived in one of the most beautiful places in Ontario - with rolling hills, farmland, rivers and lakes. We were talking about the new camera that a friend had given to me and as we chatted, I learned that I could record video with the camera. I got really excited!!!!
It was two hours before dinner and I felt a burning desire to record some video so that I could make a video for my song Bricks of Love. My wife, dog and I went for a nice walk - visiting a special place that I always like to visit when in the Mansfield area - and soon I had recorded enough video footage to make two new videos!!!!
I'll share the second video sometime soon, but for today - please enjoy....
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