All Videos Tagged roland (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation

Forever and a Day

2014-02-14T21:25:36.597Z

I coulda bought chocolates or flowers but I wrote her a tune instead.

(Keith Allen cbg into a roland microcube).

New Song Demo "Busking"

2011-10-08T09:37:21.146Z

I came home from busking one day and wrote as my Facebook status "been busking...tired and dusty, but happy" This song grew from that.
It was good the next week to go back to the same spot and sing it : -)
LYRICS:
BUSKING

I'm tired and I'm dusty,
climbed a mountain in my head
I'm watching all the people going by,
catch my eye and turn away
Oooh, then I see you smile,
whoahoahoh, then I see you smile
and I feel alright

The sun's feeling warm upon my skin,
there's not a cloud in the sky
I sing a line from another verse,
but no one knows how it should be
Oooh, then I see you smile,
whoahoahoh, then I see you smile
and I feel alright

An old man stops to talk to me,
says I brighten up the town
A child that is dancing,
is dragged away by the hand,
oooh, then I see you smile,
whoahoahoh, then I see you smile
and I feel alright

1st verse repeated

bemuzic - Playing (No Rules) Demo

2011-09-30T11:39:27.466Z

LYRICS
PLAYING (NO RULES)

The light is playing on the wall
I watch the patterns come and go
and this moment won't come again

Notes are falling from my fingers
as I play the day away
playing a game that has no rules

The trees are bare now
there's nothing left
the trees are bare now there's nothing left
but I still see you in my head

and you're running down the road
running faster down the road
to me.....

1st verse repeated

I wrote this song the day after finishing the "Belinda" Cigar Box Guitar I'm playing.
I'm using a new amp that I bought with my busking proceeds. It's the Roland AC33. It's great for a crisp clear acoustic sound, but works well with a distortion pedal for a dirty sound too.
It's 30 watt but you can also use it with batteries, which I think then makes it go down to 20watt. It has a simple looper built in too : -)
It doesn't sound as good on the video as it does when you there!!

bemuzic goes busking, armed with a 3 string Cigar Box Guitar, Diddley Bow, Canjo and Loop pedal : -)

2011-06-15T12:26:28.873Z

Went busking for the first time last week. Got no film or photos as I was on my own.
This time my husband came along as roady/cameraman/minder!!
I'm really enjoying the whole busking thing. You get to do two of my favourite things at the same time - people watching and playing music : -)
On reflection when the bagpipe player started up just along the street I should have given in gracefully and moved somewhere else!!
I was wanting to sing "Sheep Shit Blues" - see this vid if you have somehow missed Sheep Shit Blues!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU7Sq3uKhBE
but thought the people of Cambridge might not be able to relate to it?!...SO I wrote a couple of songs with the same format "Cambridge Blues" and "Busker Blues" You can hear bits of them in the vid : -)
I took along some copies of my EP, as a few people asked last time if I had a CD, and I sold one! Download of the EP available here!!
http://www.bemuzic.bandcamp.com

Thanks to those of you who gave me advice and encouragement when I said I was thinking of doing this (even though some of it nearly put me off going,lol!)

(Free Ride by Dan Hartman/Edger Winter Band) by Ice Bob

2011-01-01T18:02:30.371Z

(Free Ride by Dan Hartman/Edger Winter Band) by Ice Bob The squeaky sound in the back is my Roland RE-150 Space Echo needs some work low (GGdd)the bass is G2 and G3 the dd's are in unison