I’m Gordon Adams and I’m here to showcase my work as a songwriter/composer, artist, photographer, webmaster, writer and more!!.
GORDON ADAMS
With guitar in hand, I have carefully composed a moderate selection of tunes that have until now remained largely unknown. On deeper inspection my lyrics will reveal lifes usual ups and downs with their subtle metaphors and borrowed cliches and of course my unique poetic injustice. Interprete away and you will not fail to relate somehow ….and if you find the song that reveals your thoughts, memories and emotions, please let me know.
Fortunately for you the curious listener…..my repertoire will unfold, from now until forever. So while I am rolling out the video/audio files, I need you to be interested, because if you have come this far …..you are already dear to my heart, and my heart is where my songs originate.
Here is my latest recording, mixed September 2009
Never Let A Good Thing Slip Away (mixed by Gordon Adams)
This is my only acoustic recording for youtube.com
NEVER LET A GOOD THING SLIP AWAY - recorded June 2008
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LATEST!
Listen, watch and read about my latest NEW song. Written March 2009 and inspired by my favourite website www.projectcamelot.org
I usually visit my best friend Michael at the weekends and we always just jam with our guitars and watch ‘youtube’. One of our favourite website is www.projectcamelot.org. Watching and listening to the many interviews helps us figure out what is really going on in the world. A passion we have shared for over 20 years.
Back in February 2009 Mick stumbled upon a tune, that immediately inspired me to write a song and the theme quickly transpired into a track dedicated to the coming ‘Ascension of 2012′. Mick (who claims to be enlightened) has always known something wonderful is going to happen, since his brush with death many years ago and also a self- realization experience a few years later.
Working quickly and a few hours at weekends we finally recorded the track using our copy of Acid 5 Music Recording Software. Mick has never recorded guitar and fancies himself as a lead guitarist, so we took a little time to bring that about. Can you imagine how excited he was when I finally captured his ‘lead break’?
It was only ever a sketch but by April 2009 we had what we thought was a decent song and parody of 2012. Now this is no dreamy spiritual music….no, we are of the streets of England and have grown up listening to guitar music inspired by Neil Young, Oasis, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ruts, U2, and all the rest….you get the picture.
I’m quite a prolific songwriter in my own right, yet unknown and unpublished and have already a huge collection of recordings from many years ago, when I was a keen home recordist. I also have many unrecorded songs that i play on my acoustic just wishing I had the time to finish them all and publish them across the net. Of course it’s all possible now with all the new digital software and mp3 music sites and stores.
I don’t have much time or money so when I completed the song and the tracks recorded, my mix just wasn’t enough. So I went searching for an online mixer/sound engineer willing to finish the mix. Unsuccessful with independent mixers in a Google search, I suddenly stumbled upon the forums at www.homerecording.com and duly wrote a post ‘Can anyone mix my track?‘.
The response was amazing and what was only a request for a decent mix turned into a contest between the members at the forum. Guys from all over the world wanted a shot at mixing the track and what better company to be with. Most of these guys really know their stuff but talk in a language I don’t really understand at times lol.
I didn’t expect such a good response and such good mixes and i appreciate their enthusiasm and professionalism very much. I’ve since offered a prize for the winner. And the winner….will be chosen by my good friend Mick on May 4th 2009 and we will use the mix for a simple video on youtube.
May the 4th be with you!
Here are the final mixes as of midnight May 4nd 2009. Please feel free to vote for your favourite mix.
Winner of the ‘Mix Contest’ is revealed at our youtube.com channel AscensionTime2012
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Lo-Fi Mike
Noisewreck
Mart[1001]
Fishmed
nzausrec
Dastrick
Jugband
cybergord
Killthepixelnow
About the recording:
Briefly …we found a decent Drum Live Rocknroll break from a CD I purchased from the USA. I quickly recorded a bass track with my headless Hohner (Steinberg Copy) which unfortunately has not had a string change for 5 years. Guitars were sloppily recorded using a small practice amp through our only working microphone an old flat PZM.
I purchased a second hand Samson USB microphone off Ebay because I wanted something to work with my laptop and not just for singing but for future voiceovers in my work as a webmaster. A few days before I posted my request, i finally nailed my lyrics and recorded the vocal dry into my laptop. Now I could feel there was enough for a possible mix. Nothing really professional here but in the spirit of home recording, we have something alive and kicking.
When TV got grip of your life and your friends and they stop their partying!
Dead pan days
One more scenario
Won’t help me sleep tonight
One more portrayal
Of real life
One more mad nutter
Richer than the sain
There goes your fantasy flogged into its grave
Oh here we go, here we go again
Oh here we go, deadpan days
Who needs reality
Who needs the real thing
Sit back and relax
While we fabricate your dreams
All this technology
We’re safe behind closed doors
And grim reality
Who needs it anymore
Oh here we go, here we go again
Oh here we go, deadpan days
Now we’re together
With so much time to share
But do we revel
in the TV glare
So many exiles lost into its gaze
Who’s gonna socialise
In these dead pan days
Ever had that argument with your missus?…and you just want to get out of the house!
Take me for a ride
I dragged my feet over the barren land
Took to the streets and wished I never did
Roamed around in someones sleepless night
And found myself inside a frying pan
Take me for a ride
Nobody heard me but threatening sky
Ooh I love it when the sun goes down
Cant go home I dont know why I try
One step more and I’ll burn before your eyes
Burn, Burn…….
Like those neon lights
Take me for a ride
Here I am inside the frying pan
One step more and I’ll burn before your eyes
Burn, Burn…….
Like those neon lights
I belong to someone somewhere ..oh why?
I can hear her cries, screaming violent lines
Don’t know why I try, don’t know why I try
One step more and I’ll burn before your eyes
Are you rich or are you poor?…that is the question.
Are You Doin Alright?
You spoke to the devil
He made you cry
Cry like a river
Down the mountainside
There’s a world out there
Deep down underground
If hell is what you want
Then hell is what you’ve found
Everybody wants something
Everybody wants something …yeh
Everybody wants something …is that a crime?
Lost hearts in the ghetto
Beating out of time
Slap bang in the middle
Of rising crime
Will it cost me an arm and a leg? I don’t know
Just what I want
I’m not sure if I’m good or bad
When you ask me if I’m doin’ alright
Everybody wants something
Everybody wants something …yeh
Everybody wants something …is that a crime?
Are you doin alright?
Living in a bed of roses
Are you doin alright?
Living on borrowed time
Are you doin alright?
You must be joking
Are you doin alright?
Living on the bottom line
Somewhere in the city
Everybody knows
Love for money
Wont let you go
Easy money
A sure cure for depression!
I’m not sure if I’m up or down
Please don’t ask me if I’m doin alright
Everybody wants something
Everybody wants something …yeh
Everybody wants something …is that a crime?
Are you doin alright?
Living in a bed of roses
Are you doin alright?
Living on borrowed time
Are you doin alright?
Look out he’s loaded
Are you doin alright?
Living on the bottom line
I was inspired to write this song while returning to my hometown from a music festival weekend
Starlights and Cities
I’ll never stray away too far
I’ll never stay away too long
I’ll leave my troubles behind me
You kept me waiting so long
Something cmae right out of wrong
Something came right out of wrong
Broken hearts and broken homes
I left them all
I left them all behind me
Starlights
Starlights and cities
You look so pretty to me
Starlights
I’m coming home
I’m sitting pretty
Back to the city
Never stray away too far
Never stay away too long
I need you here beside me
Something came right out of wrong
For so long I’ve been waiting
Ive been waiting to sing this song
For so long I’ve been waiting
Ive been waiting to sing this…
Sing this song
Back, back, back…back to the city
Back, back, back…back to the city
This was a response to the Poll Tax introduced by Margaret Thatcher, I refused to pay it.
Pure and Godless
I was ducking and diving in the summer of love
And I knew how much I could find
Consider us all the rich the poor
in amongst the pure and the godless
fussing and fighting at the moon of love
and you know how hard I try
It happens to be much more than a dream
In amongst the pure and godless
I’m not alone
You held me to ransom, you made me afraid
and I can’t believe I’m free
Now I’m deeper and deeper, deeper in the red
In amongst the pure and the godless
No way was i going to stay working on that shop floor forever…..i had a dream.
Melancholy Boy
Ride, ride the circle
On the merry go round
And when your money runs dry
You still come back for more
I, I can see you
You’re like the morning star
And i wish away
I wish away my days
Everyday
Well, I hide in the shadows
Of moonlit hearts
And I wish away, I wish away my days
So I, I’ll surrender
To my only dream, and I dream, and I dream, and I dream!
I’m just a melancholy boy
Sweet dreams and melancholy days
Upstaged and melancholy boy
Sweet dreams and melancholy days
Im just a melancholy boy
Well its time, time for coffee
On the workshop floor
And I wish away, I wish away my days
So I, I’ll surrender
To my only dream, and I dream, and I dream, and I dream!
I’m just a melancholy boy
Sweet dreams and melancholy days
Upstaged and melancholy boy
Sweet dreams and melancholy days
Im just a melancholy boy
It doesn’t matter if I get no love at all
It doesnt really matter if I’m not in love
That doesnt mean I’ve never been loved at all
It’s just that..it aint so easy if you don’t love at all
I’m quite happy
Living it my way
Only time will let it be
Let me go, your killing me
There’s something I want that I can’t describe
Is it something I’ve lost that I just can’t find
Which way do I go If I can’t decide
It’s like I’m lost in space where I just can’t hide
I’m not perfect
Living it my way
Only time will let it be
Let me go you’re killing me
If I said hello
Would it make you feel better
If I said goodbye
Would it make you cry
I’m not happy
Living it my way
Only time will let it be
Let me go you’re killing me
You’re killing me
You’re killing me
You’re killing me
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