walter tore's spontobeat songs

thanks Chili! I see you are in Austin. I lived there for 11 years and sure miss it. I wonder if we know any of the same people? Speedy Sparks, Dave Sanger, Will/Charlie Sexton, Mike Vernon, Frosty, RIch Minus, Ricky Broussard, David Holt, Larry Lange, George Carver, Larry MOnroe, Jim Starborad, are a few that come right to mind. Walter
 
Walter Tore said:
thanks Chili! I see you are in Austin. I lived there for 11 years and sure miss it. I wonder if we know any of the same people? Speedy Sparks, Dave Sanger, Will/Charlie Sexton, Mike Vernon, Frosty, RIch Minus, Ricky Broussard, David Holt, Larry Lange, George Carver, Larry MOnroe, Jim Starborad, are a few that come right to mind. Walter
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Hey Walter, yeah you and I have PM'd back and forth about 6 months ago. ;) I see Will Sexton every so often, he's part of a songwriting group I'm in down here. You should take some time off and come to Austin in mid-january for a songwriter's conference sponsored by these guys...

Austin Songwriters Group

I think it would be worth it, especially for someone like you who writes all the time. Plus, you'd probably get to see a lot of familiar faces. Plus, it'll be close to 80 today... how about up your way???? ha ha ha... (eh, we'll be cooling off a little this weekend)
 
Chili said:
Hey Walter, yeah you and I have PM'd back and forth about 6 months ago. ;) I see Will Sexton every so often, he's part of a songwriting group I'm in down here. You should take some time off and come to Austin in mid-january for a songwriter's conference sponsored by these guys...

Austin Songwriters Group

I think it would be worth it, especially for someone like you who writes all the time. Plus, you'd probably get to see a lot of familiar faces. Plus, it'll be close to 80 today... how about up your way???? ha ha ha... (eh, we'll be cooling off a little this weekend)
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Hi Chili: Now I remember. All these alias names on the net tend to not stick in my brain. I would love to visit Austin. I haven't been there since we moved out in 96. thanks for the invite to the songwriting conference too. I don't write anything. They just come out of my mouth as I play and to think of writing songs is not of any interest. I am in my own universe which is great but also very lonely. It is like I use the same tools as other musicians but I don't build things like they do. The older I get the further I seem to drift from the music world. I have been addicted to totally spontaneously created music for about 50 years and see no end in sight and as of today, no scene for it. If someone comes along and wants to promote me, I am ready. But to do it all on my again sounds like a bad headache. What the world thinks of it is not really of interest to me anymore. I am thankful for finding peace with this, my gift of music, and the space to sit down, close my eyes, and walk into endless great gigs of musical dreams.



I see you have been having warm weather. I don't miss the Texas heat /humidity at all. It is just too hot for my white boy blood. Many of the clubs then had no a/c and I was very active with working out (martial arts, bicycle, running) and never really got use to it. Ask Will about the suits I use to wear in those places :) I use to pedal my bike to Texas State once a week when I was in college and jump in the san marcos river to cool off and barton springs on the way home. That was a great bike ride- about 100 miles on the backroads. Anyway, I am ok with the cold. I prefer the climate out in Sonoma County, Ca (lived there 2 x's for 14 years) but it was too expensive and too stressful. I am from NJ and I guess that cold is in my genes somewhere but I don't see us retiring here with it. The good news is things are cheap here. I was able to convert our 2 car cinderblock garage into a full tilt studio for my recording. I am out there about 30-80 hours a week recording my music. It has central air/heat, totally finished inside with a full bath, kithchen area, bed, work out gear, and my recording gear. Austin and Ca are both too expensive for such things with the $ we make. Here is a link to it.

tunnel of dreams studio construction pictures by waltertore - Photobucket


We have 2 rescue dogs and a cat and don't travel much because we don't kennel them. Once they pass we are planning on taking a break and retracing the places music landed us living - NYC, SF, Austin, Belguim, Norway, England. Austin is on the top of the list. Say hi to everyone for me and thanks for the support with my approach to music! Walter
 
day after christmas reflections 12-26-10


last call and reflecting on my life
baby please hold my hand
the blind fortune teller
blues of the universe
 
here are some from todays Moonshine Session 12-27-10

the moonshine blues
it really snowed in NYC
the highway driving blues
another junkie waiting to get high
 
rec 12-28-10 elecd 1 man band


2010 been a good year
all I want to be is happy
bad dreams all the time
time changes through our life
 
here are some from today 12-30-10

gonna get you satified
sitting here crying for your love
let it snow all day
drunk or dreaming again
this little girl moves me
 
I recorded these this morning. Happy new year everyone! Walter



you got to check in your ways

turn that music down

good times last night hangover today
 
Here are some from this afternoon 1-1-11. Walter

austin texas use to rock all night
can you trust my love
hooked on that 70% dark chocolate
drifting with me
I play to ease my troubles
real music lies in the space
remembering california on an ohio winter day
 
Here are todays songs- 1-11-11

30 years of busting rocks to play this song
can't find no peace tonight
satified as I am
lazy snowy day swing
I'm learning life can be a ball
 
here are some from tonights session 1-13-11

I learned the old school way
times are rough and times are tough
blues and trouble everywhere I go
tore funking down
1 man band swinging tonight
 
I decided to throw a party to celebrate the completion of my new recording studio. We had a standing room only crowd that was very attentive and I had some great musicians come in. Sean Carney, who won the International Blues Challenge, came and played guitar. Sean is a class act who has mentored under lots of the old guys like Robert Jr. Lockwood, Joe duskin, Gene"sax" Walker, and was in Teeny Tuckers band for years. He knows how to lay back and my unorthodox chord and tempo changes don't phase him. Johnny Roy came up from Lexinton, KY. He has played with the likes of Koko Taylor, Bo Diddly, Roy Buchanan and teaches classical guitar at the university. Mark Rubinstien, who I was in my band on and off for years down in Austin, was a no show, but he was right on time for the gig only a day late. He had it wrong on his calendar. He just got back from being the musical director for a broadway show that was in Boston for 6 weeks. I was bummed about him missing the gig because he is also a great drummer and we had no drummer. He is a world class keyboard, accordian,player. He has engineered and played on many platinum and grammy recordings and sat down with me for a couple hours listening to the recordings. He gave me a thumbs up.

The recording process was a challenging one. First off this was the first time I was playing with other guitarists in the 1 man band setup. At times I thought what I was playing was what Sean or Johnny was playing and my feet got mixed up. Also we played a total of 6 hours. My legs, mind, and whole self was wiped out. Due to space being at a premium I jammed all the instruments in one corner of the studio. Sean and I both plugged into my princeton reverb amp. He was playing a strat and me a tokai copy of a 335. These guitars have radically different tones. So I just set the dials to a compromise. The amp was only about 3 feet from the vocal mic and the PA speaker was coming through the vocal recording mic as well. With all this and me not being able to monitor the way it was going- it was just push record and hope the levels stayed ok-I am pleased with the results.

Here we go, welcome to the Spontobeat Shows first set in chronological order! the last video is with hand held harp. Unfortunately the tape ran out for a couple cool hand held harp songs that I played with my nose, in my mouth. At least I got them on the computer recording.












 
I was surfing the net and found this jam track. I have never played jazz before and decided what the heck. Since I know nothing of the genere I have no clue as to what I did being musically correct or not. I only listened to a few seconds of the track and then recorded this take. I also hooked up a shure 57 to my princton reverb amp. Amped/hand held harp is something I haven't done more than a few times in the past 25 years. I am a firm believer in trying totally new stuff with no idea where the song is going. Walter

here it is:
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10162615
 
Here are some in the 1 man band setup. For those that don't know, I make up all my words and music as I go along calling it Spontobeat. This is all done in live 1 man band context (drums on my feet, harp in a rack, vocals, guitar, keyboard).





laying my music buisness worries to rest

SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues



twisting on the harp

SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues



don't spend your life running in circles
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues



I can blow a lot of notes too
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues



my babe is so kind
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
 
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