gerrysongs.com

Links

Home Profile History Songs Video Clips Poems Links Photo Album Contact

Just click on the artists name to go to their web site or press play to view their video

Find excellent tips on how to write a song, plus interviews with hit songwriters and other great articles at Addicted to songwriting

Alice Cooper

My first listen to Alice cooper was welcome to my nightmare, in whities house when I was 15 (1977) Stephen was my favorite track , we used to play poker dice and go to the shows (fun fair) they used to bring the shows to the public park in Johnstone and everyone would go but because Johnstone was made up of several different areas you would or could get into trouble depending which area had more representatives. The last time I was at the shows in Johnstone was in 1978 Baker street and Wothering heights were in the charts and being blasted out on the waltzers Those were the days.

Alicia Keys

Worth a Listen

Alvin Lee

The first time I heard Alvin Lee was on the Ten years After Album recorded live in Amsterdam Rotterdam and Frankfurt. One of the best tracks were I'm going home (by helicopter) and another was the Hobbit.

Bad Company

If you think you don't know any Bad co songs try Feel like makin love Paul Rodgers was the front man for both Free and Bad company He is still making records and I recently heard his Muddy Waters Blues album which was brilliant.

Billy Connolly

What can I say about Billy Connolly, Except my mother laughed. but she never condoned his bad language. It was during the Three day week I first got a good listen to Billy. He has a gift of bringing real life, the things we all go through, out of the mundane and into the hysterical. My all time great is when his Mother (or your Mother) is entertaining the priest in the living room with a cup of tea and a scone. and the Kids are in the bedroom playing and because their was no central heating in those days you would put coats on the beds to keep the kids warm at night ( makes sense) Well the kids are causing mayhem in the room and the noise is disturbing the Priest and the Mother shouts through "what's all the noise in there me and the Father are trying to talk and we can't hear ourselves think in here" and the reply is "but Mammy its that Billy he's got more coats than me" And the Mother looking at the Priest replies "Oh you silly girl what do you mean coats that's an eiderdown." She then looks at the priest and smiles "Oh those kids they have a vivid imagination, have another scone Father" meanwhile there is absolute bedlam going on in the bedroom and the Mother loses her patience. "right you two that is enough, what is going on in there?" Suddenly sobs come from the room "but mammy its no fair, that Billy has got his legs down the sleeves of the eiderdown! He was pure dead brilliant!

Black Oak Arkansas

Hard to describe Black Oak, but for those of you who know them you may understand and for those of you who don't know them look up mutants of the Monster or Jim Dandy they are great songs

Black Sabbath

Ozzy is a legend , however he may not have been without Sabbath This is the World Wide Web site for the premiere heavy metal band, Black Sabbath. Sabbath's been around in some form or another now for the better part of 40 years or so (depends when you start counting, I guess). If you're a fan of quality metal, then this is the site for you! The site is maintained by Joe Siegler.

Bowie

David Bowie is one of my most favorite artists who has been able to change with every coming year and not lose any of his identity.All the madmen is one of my favorite songs but my son, when he was only 3 years old, was singing Star man in the back of the car one day and my wife and I turned round and looked at each other and from that day on we always watched what we have said in front of the children!!!!!!

'At 12 years of age, David's parents bought him a Selmer white cream coloured Bakelite acrylic alto saxophone with all gold keys. David at first tried to teach himself, Terry suggested that he ask for tuition and recommended lessons from top British saxophonist Ronnie Ross who they had seen play in the West End. David phoned Ross himself, and went to his home at 6 Irving Way, Orpington, Kent once a week for the first 3 weeks and then once every fortnight thereafter. The lessons last roughly over a 16 week period and was charged £2 per lesson. David got a part time job as a butcher's delivery boy to help pay towards the cost. Then in August 1962 David told Ronnie that he was joining a band.

In 1973, Ronnie Ross played solo baritone saxophone on the Lou Reed song 'Walk On The Wild Side' from the Transformer album. Ross was surprised when he learnt that the David Bowie in the control room was the same David that he had first given lessons to when David was only 13 years of age.

At the end of the recording session David walked in and the conversation went...

    RR: "Thanks very much."
    DB: "No, thank you very much. It's the least I could do for you."
    RR: "What do you mean?"
    DB: "Well, you taught me to play saxophone."
    RR: "Did I? When was that?"
    DB: "I was that bloke who came to see you; I was about nine or ten years old."
    RR: "Good God! You said you were going to be a rock star, didn't you?"

This extract was taken from bowie wonder world and you can get other other great interesting facts about David Bowie at the URL below.

http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/faq.htm

Christy Moore

If you've not heard any of his stuff make an effort, its worth a listen. Christy Moore has albums that span from1969 through to 2006 as far as I am aware he has released a stunning total of 35 albums

Cockney Rebel

Cockney Rebel was formed by Steve Harley in 1973 and was signed to EMI Records after just 5 gigs at London's Speakeasy club.The band comprised Steve Harley (who was the songwriter) on vocals and acoustic guitar, Stuart Elliot (an amazing young drummer whose timing was so tight he was like a human drum machine), John Crocker on violin, mandolin and guitar (a bluegrass fiddler at heart) and funky bass player Paul Avron Jeffreys. Keyboards man Milton Reame-James was invited to join and the band went straight into the studio and recorded "The Human Menagerie" (in 1973) and "The Psychomodo" (in 1974). The band had UK hits with "Judy Teen" and "Mr. Soft", and did a major UK tour. The first single "Sebastian" didn't happen in the UK but did start a great interest in the band. It was, however, a huge hit in Holland and Belgium, staying at No 1 for weeks on end. The album rapidly drew attention and the violin/electric piano sound was soon recognised as an original trademark - Steve once famously declaring that the electric guitar was dead. A promotional tour of Europe followed. Cockney Rebel the original band - the untold story

Steve Harley is still touring today and my personal favorite song is Mr. Soft from my old album Psychomodo

Deep Purple

I was only young when I first heard DP. I was in the back room in Lilac place listening to 24 carat purple with Gerry Tipping and it must have been the summer of 1974 it was sunny and warm and the Tennis had been on the telly and all the kids in Lilac place had been out playing in the street (The good thing about being poor was no one had a car so the street was one big play ground) Kenny, George, Donald, Bernadette, Maureen, Zander, Alec, The Quinns We were all their kidding on we were nastazie or Conner or billy Jean King (depending on how you were feeling)

Dick Gaughan

Dick Gaughan is a must for a listen he will truly blow you away. I saw him in concert in Stornoway on the 18th Aug 2006 he was brilliant he was on stage with another great singer songwriter Brian McNeill.

There is an album called Different kind of love song with my personal favorite song called Prisoner 562, Get a hold of that and you will see why he is so good

Dream Weaver

Holly is a friend of mine from America and has a great web site pay her a visit and say hi from me she gave me support when I was releasing my album she is a good gal!

Eric Bogle

Welcome to Eric Bogle's official web-site! I hope you find enough inside to entertain, inform, inspire and perhaps even titillate. The web-site was designed mostly by Eric Bogle's mate Pete Titchener, with a miniscule input from Eric Bogle, so if you don't like the layout, colours etc., it's all Pete 's fault.

Eva Cassidy

EVA CASSIDY WEB SITE

Albums, articles, photos, interviews, and more

Celebrating its 6th anniversary and 1.4 million visitors in 2006!

Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention played its first concert in a church hall in May 1967. Based in suburban north London, the group had coalesced around bass guitarist Ashley 'Tyger' Hutchings.

The youngsters 'convened'
for rehearsals at a house named Fairport, the family home of rhythm guitarist Simon Nicol. Thus was born the name of a band that has endured for nearly four decades.

As well as Hutchings and Nicol, there was lead guitarist Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater on drums.

Fairport Convention's official history

I managed to pick up a fantastic double album up in a small second hand record store in York when I was taking the kids to see Shrek in the cinema when we were on holiday. My wife was trying to get me out of the shop but I put my foot down with a firm and said Yes dear, right away dear.!!!!!

Gabrielle

Get everything you want on Gabrielle at her official web site.#

Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix live at royal albert hall my train a comin

Man alive, how long do you have? The first time I heard Jimi was when I was hooked on Rock and Role. I loved Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Buddy Holly etc and my older brother Harry said to me this day "you like rock n role don't you? and I said yes He then put a set of head phones on me and I was subjected to Mr Hendrix playing blue sued shoes. I was sent home from school the next day because I couldn't hear the teacher. Jimi will always be the best!!!!!!

Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix pioneered the explosive possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix's innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form. Because he was unable to read or write music, it is nothing short of remarkable that Jimi Hendrix's meteoric rise in the music took place in just four short years. His musical language continues to influence a host of modern musicians, from George Clinton to Miles Davis, and Steve Vai to Jonny Lang.

Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix at 10:15 a.m. on November 27, 1942, at Seattle's King County Hospital, was later renamed James Marshall by his father, James "Al" Hendrix. Young Jimmy (as he was referred to at the time) took an interest in music, drawing influence from virtually every major artist at the time, including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Holly, and Robert Johnson.

jimihendrix.com - Jimi Hendrix Biography

Ian Bruce

Ian is a big man with a big voice to match. His reputation is deservedly growing fast on both sides of the Atlantic and all goes predictably well for one who is amongst Britain's most talented singer / songwriters.

Ian agreed to come to our studios and record for a couple of weeks. Our original intention was a sparse production with the odd harmony vocal and second instrument to punctuate what would be, after all, a very long CD. (It turned out to be 74.01 Minutes)

Such were Ian's 'live' performances that any overdubs would have been intrusive. We agreed to let it stand in its solo and unsynthesised brilliance.

Ian has an awesome voice which had the digits running for cover but "The Naked Truth vol 1" is the album I, and probably you, have been waiting for.

Ian McCalman (The McCalmans and Kevock Digital Studios, Lasswade)

THE IAN BRUCE PRESS RELEASES

Jake Thackray

The Late great Jake Thackery Sit back and enjoy

Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley - live on canal - Hallelujah

Jethro Tull

JETHRO TULL-SONG FOR JEFFREY

John Martyn

John Martyn, May You Never (Clip)

KT Tunstal

New Music Label.com - Your Ticket into the Music Business. Where Singers, Musicians and Artists meet Record Labels, Music Managers and Scouts. New Music Label is a one-stop solution for seeking, finding, and managing all types of Music careers.

Stuart Macfarlane is a Scottish guitarist, singer & songwriter with several years experience of playing live sets, both with a band and as a solo performer. His songs are acoustic based, melodic with a twist of folk. Have a listen

URascal.com is an internet search engine and directory categorized by topic. It includes both general and specialty topics.

Woody Guthrie