walter tore's spontobeat songs

  • Thread starter Thread starter Walter Tore
  • Start date Start date
Here is some songs from this mornings session. I used my 1938 kalamazoo acoustic guitar. This guitar tells stories all the time and this morning it was in prime form including sharing its history. All words and music spontaneously created and recorded. Walter

Im an alien
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
sociopaths
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
WWII western union death letters
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
my 1938 guitar tells its story pt 1
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
my 1938 guitar tells its story pt 2
can you hear it
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
hold my hand to the promised land
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
best thing you can do is shoot me
SoundClick artist: Walter Tore's Spontobeat - Spontaneously created music, one man band, blues
 
Ooooo looky. He re-wrote "Sweet Home Chicago" seven more times. Yay.
 
Today I started installing a privacy fence at our house. It has been 17 years since I did manual labor like this. I did ditch digging for 25 years on and off when I was doing music full time. That is kind of funny because I often had to work from sun up till 5 to make enough money to pay the bills. Then after a shower, some food, and a nap, off I would go to play from 10-2. A few hours sleep and back to the ditch I would go. When the money got good I quit the grunt work. Anyway today as I was digging fence posts, chopping roots, digging out rocks, pouring concrete, and getting muddy and sweaty as hell, I flashed back to those days.

I realized how different the blues scene is today. Back then I had to venture to the worst black ghettos to play. Once in the clubs I was generally ok, but getting to and from often meant life and death encounters. Being a white boy at 3 am on a saturday was dangerous. I rode city buses most of the time to the gigs and would walk home if I couldn't get a ride. I was shot at, chased, dogs sicked on me, rocks thrown at me, and almost run over. Still I had to go there everynight. Why? Because I was driven to be around, learn, and play the blues. It lead to being in my heros bands, living with them, and living it in 3D. Today it is just a google, youtube and you are there. Safe seminars, festivals, werent there back then.



IMO the younger players that are learning this new way lack depth. They are technically great but are like college professors talking about ghetto life to a sociology class vs. running for your life in a real one. The real blues to have real depth need to be learned in hard, scary, exciting, bigger than life, times. That was what the old blues guys are all about and it can't be learned in a warm safe environment. I continue to post this theme here so that younger players realize this is the way the blues has been learned up until their generation. Here are a few songs of reflection from all this. Walter



gonnna rock it all night

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10810984
learning the blues before MTV

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

manual labor and nite gigs

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