Brit Floyd - Forum

Subject: By a freak of nature... - by: Orphan_Soul

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:05:09 +0000

... you have been given the power to hold a one time only one day festival with all the artists you love. But the catch is...they must have shuffled off this mortal coil. Who would you choose?

Mine in no particular order would be:-

Mozart - imagine what he could do with the technology we have today.

John Lennon - nuff said

Freddy Mercury - nobody could and can match him for his uncanny way of connecting with an audience

Sid Vicious - He turned the music industry on it's head in the UK and tea bagged them so i wonder if he could do the same today because the industry desperately needs someone like him today to shake things up.

What would your choices be

Peace

Subject: Toilet World by JOSEPH FERRANTE - by: rdavisr

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:59:58 +0000

We first came to you talking about the ¨Hey Jude¨ masterpiece recomposition of Joseph Ferrante, as well as talking about another two songs of him, namely, ¨Here comes a brand new day¨ and ¨Alone again¨.
This time we want to talk about another song of Joseph Ferrante, titled ¨Toilet World¨. ¨Toilet World¨ describes the world we live in, a world that will never change because it was made to be like that. No matter how many revolutions come and go, the ¨Toilet World¨ will always be the ¨Toilet World¨, because the nature of the human animal will always be the same.

The ¨Toilet World¨, a world where the best pop musician of all time was blocked during nearly 20 long years by a heartless mafia, simply because he was a threat to many music myths.
This horrible mafia did everything they could to hide the musician from the public. A dreamy musician had to go through all this. This is the ¨Toilet World¨.

Why the ¨Toilet World?: selfishness, egoism, greed, envy, jealousy, abuse, racism, hatred, tyranny of the powerful, useless presidents, money as only value, divorces, betrayals, outlaws, non spirituality, evil, wars, disasters, unhappiness, unemployment, merciless competition, corruption, sicknesses, inhuman trends, enemies, mafias, you name it, the ¨Toilet World¨ has done it.

Joseph Ferrante gives you his description of the ¨Toilet World¨ in his song. Maybe his views are not as drastic as mine, but just the same describe this ¨Toilet World.

¨Everybody´s running fast, trying to reach the moon and stars,
there´s no need of doing that if we can share each other´s heart¨...

(Poet musicians always soften the harsh reality to make it musical. Things are quite different in a newspaper than they are in a song)

To listen to ¨Toilet World¨ even with the option of downloading it go to:

ferrrantemusic5.byethost13.com

(You can also download the other tracks we talked about before, should you want to have them. It is a free download for some time, especially for you. Every song we talk about becomes a free download on the website of Joseph Ferrante at the same time).

R. Davis.
PR

Subject: I was wondering if music notes are important - by: andrewjames2

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:47:56 +0000

I was wondering if music notes are important in case of practicing music with friends.
Is this true so?

Subject: A ballad of JOSEPH FERRANTE - by: rdavisr

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:27:44 +0000

On this occasion we want to talk about a ballad of Joseph Ferrante.
It is called ¨Alone again¨

¨Alone again¨ is a ballad full of floating guitars. A delicate piece.

You can listen to it going to:

ferrantemusic3.byethost13.com

(You can also download this track, should you want to have it. It is a free download for some time, especially for you)

Subject: Another song by JOSEPH FERRANTE - by: rdavisr

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:54:59 +0000

We first came to you talking about the ¨Hey Jude¨ of Joseph Ferrante.
This time we want to draw your attention to another song by Joseph Ferrante.
It is called ¨Here comes a brand new day¨
It is made in a Classic Rock fashion, with the same fast guitar of Joseph Ferrante, but this time on an electric guitar.

Used to be a 60 seconds preview. Now we made it full for you (same as Hey Jude)

You can listen to it going to:

ferrantemusic3.byethost13.com

(You can also download these tracks, should you want to have them. It is a free download especially for you)

Subject: Duck Dunn - by: Nick

Sun, 13 May 2012 22:25:43 +0000

Very sad news, Donald "Duck" Dunn died today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18049583

Subject: The recomposition of Hey Jude by JOSEPH FERRANTE - by: rdavisr

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:15:59 +0000

EXTREME GUITAR WORK.

(Joseph Ferrante, piano tuner of George Harrison)

This treatment of the song has been completely changed rhythmically and harmonically to obtain a very different song which hardly keeps any resemblance to the original one.
Only the lyrics and the singing melody remain untouched. The rest is another song altogether. The piece has been practically recomposed. In other words, another song was composed where the singing melody of the original song would perfectly fit.
An ethereal choir lays the carpet upon which the rest of the arrangements would rest.
A mixture of classical scales, indian music, greek music, latin bachata, mambo and flamenco brings the song into reality.

On top of an obstinate percussive tempo softened by a romantic bachata rhythm, we hear the sometimes sweet and sometimes savage expressions of the guitar telling us a story...
The third part of this recomposition gives the guitar the chance to break free from the melodic structure.
After a fierce battle in the oceanic winds against creatures of all sorts, we hear the guitar rest on an ingenuous final chord which, in the sunset is the herald of a peaceful starry night...
This Hey Jude was born to reach music lovers of all backgrounds and ages.
This Hey Jude is a child of the heart and is meant to reach the hearts...comes from the depths of the soul and from there calls out to the depths of any other soul....

The owners of the copyright for the original Hey Jude (Sony Music Publishers) were so delighted by this recomposition that granted Joseph Ferrante a publishing agreement for it, thus allowing him to restructure the song. It is important to notice that on very few occasions copyright owners have granted a permission to alter a song protected by them. To view this publishing agreement go to: ferrantemusic3.byethost13.com/12.htm

Concerning this Hey Jude of Joseph Ferrante, Richard Dunn of BBC World service commented: ¨I must say I found it a very original and quite virtuoso arrangement¨. Sam Winwood of Sony Entertainment (UK) Limited said: ¨I was really impressed with the quality of the performance and your new arrangement¨. Andy Turner of London Capital Radio went on to say: ¨I found it a very interesting arrangement¨.

For a 40 seconds preview of the song go to: ferrantemusic3.byethost13.com

You will only listen to the first part of the song. The most thrilling part of the song, the last part, is not heard on this preview.

Subject: Songwriter Jerry Leiber died yesterday - by: Damian

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:25:59 +0000

Jerry Leiber, a 'master of songwriting' who with Mike Stoller penned such hits as Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock and Stand By Me died yesterday at the age of 78. Here is David Gilmour performing his rendition of 'Don't' at the Leiber-Stoller Tribute Concert in 2001, originally written by the duo for Elvis Presley, and giving him his eleventh number one hit in the US in 1958.

Subject: Black Crowes, Manchester - by: Nick

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:20:14 +0000

About 1,000 people crammed into the O2 Academy Manchester to see the Black Crowes on their farewell tour before going off on indefinite hiatus. The atmosphere was incredible, the band even more so, they played a 2 hour set that didn't let up for a second. That's the good part - the whole thing was let down by truly awful sound. I used to think there were venues that couldn't sound good no matter what, but I've seen Brit Floyd, Classic Rock and TAPFS in Gareth's hands and he makes everywhere sound great. Now I put it down to either a deaf FOH Engineer, or just too lazy to soundcheck for long enough.

Subject: tributehub - by: Nick

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:40:17 +0000

tapfs.com has now closed and been replaced by tributehub, a brand new community website just for tribute bands and their fans.

This is a very different site to the old one, more centred on the gig engine and social networking activities. You can search for gigs by country, genre and tribute to; mark shows as attending and hook up with other fans that are going to the same gigs. Bands can post their own gig listings with links to ticket sales. Every member has a blog, a wall and a photo gallery. Be patient, it will take a while to get bands on board and build the gig lists!

The forum has been migrated from tapfs.com, so we hit the ground running with almost 700 members and 60,000 posts.

We will be adding loads of new features in the coming weeks and months, making tributehub a unique resource for the tribute band community.

Subject: Going to see ... - by: Nick

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:04:47 +0000

Never the Bride at the Pokey Hole this coming friday. Fronted by the amazing Nikki Lamborn, of whom Roger Daltrey once said ” Nikki is the best female rock singer since Janis Joplin".

www.neverthebride.com/

Subject: The worst ever - by: Nick

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:11:26 +0000

Go and find your most excruciating music videos. You'll have to go a very long way to top this one.

The worst Comfy ever

Subject: Bands you've been to see - by: Nick

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:12:57 +0000

As fans of Brit Floyd the bar is set very high when it comes to seeing other tribute bands, and last night Classic Clapton came a long way short of great. An entertaining night out, but I wasn't upset when it was over. Hats off to the excellent bass player, John Forster, though. However ...

The support act, who should have been given the night to themselves, was the amazing Hall Brothers, joined by fiddler extraordinaire John Carey from Magna Carta and Michelle Plumb of Chumbawamba fame. Folk music with a rock edge written and played by brilliant and entertaining musicians.

The Hall Brothers