thanks Al, as always...hope you are doing well in these crazy times!!🕊☮🌻🦜🦢🌺🦋🌞

thanks Berni, i should add to comment about my urge to write either protest tunes or love song these days... i'll add comedic tunes ... crazy times when one idiot and the insane manifestations of his inner wounds can wreck a whole society...or even the world!!! hope you're well 🩷🌹🌺🕊🪺☮

thanks so much...i find tunes i have completely forgot about 🤣🎶🎵🕊️☮️

with my musical abilities compromised by the stroke, i am interested in putting more effort into the video side and with the availability of high quality video clip in pexels and pixabay it's great to have fun while the avoiding Ai crutch!! thanks Ralf 🦋🌹🩷🕊️🪺☀️

you're very kind, thank you ❤️🎶🎵🕊️🪺🦋🌺🚴🏽☀️😊

thanks for the encouragement Dave ... you too!!!🎶🎵🚴🏽🦋🛶🪕🌅🕊☮

thanks... start collecting stuff for Max and Sophie's visits...Rube Goldberg machines were a blasts!! i think Ethan remembers but he's a teenager now, so he can't admit it was fun!!

thanks Colin, had fun making the video.....so much available!!! when are you gonna record a new tune? hope you and family are well 🦋🌺🥂☀🎶🎵💜

@@michaelhermiston All good here , will write again eventually! Awra best.

glad you enjoyed Bert...wanna borrow my hairbrush? 🤣🎵🎶🪺🦋💜

@@michaelhermiston hahaha, I haven't used combs or hairbrushes for years.... I just shake it back and forth with my hands and then it should fit well :)

thanks Rosa 🙏🏾🥂🩷🦩🕊️🪺🧢🌺☀️

thanks, always had fun performing this one...i'd get a few laughs🚴🏽🕊️🪺🌈🌺🌻💜

​@@michaelhermistonCan you PLEASE please share how you came up with tbis MELODY and the LYRICS especiallyand the chords? I'd lpve to know. I'm starting out and strugglw with writer's block. Thanks for sharing and hope to hear from you.

@@leif1075 always write about what you know... i spent years making Rube Goldberg machines with my son, combining that with a love song..and the melody is pretty basic...comes from noodling on the guitar...good luck!!

for sure!!!!! that'd be a good idea for a song, "i'll play until i sleep forever" thanks Phil🌹🎵🎶🪺☀️🌺💜

i remember those times fondly, he got pretty good at building those Rube Goldberg machines by the end...he is still a very messy boy when it comes to the house!! thanks for encouraging me to repost, it was fun finding those video clips!!!!🌻🌹☀️🌱🌺🦜🚴🏽💜😊

thanks Gary, these old songs become part of the woodwork, you almost forget you wrote 'em 🎶🎵🦜🕊️🦅🦩🌺🌹🌻☀️

So true....I write 'em, record 'em, and forget 'em 😀😀

thanks Gordon, ya, it usually went over well when i played it..some folks got the humour, and metaphors.. and thanks for that piece on Jandek, i'm halfway through it...inspiration certainly inspires analysis ...reminded me of my early poetry writing, and journey into painting and giving up of structure...with music i never could dispense with structure, except with chord structure: a few of my tunes abandoned tradition...what the ear naturally "wants" thanks for sending it🙏🏾🥂🩷🕊️🦜🦩🚴🏽☮️

@ you are welcome. I am glad you are enjoying so far. I find his attitude towards his art very liberating. Structure for me too has always easier to give up in other creative endeavors. Songwriting not as much. I have dabbled in serialism. Which I guess is just throwing out rules for other rules. I’ve noticed some of your tunes go to really cool non diatonic places. Do you still paint? I would love to be able to one day play music similar to the way someone like Gertrude Stein wrote. Especially like Tender Buttons. I guess that would be considered cubism?

@ again. I am glad you are enjoying so far and hope it helps in some way. If nothing else, it is very entertaining. I have several of his albums. Ordered through Corwood. So if you are interested in acquiring his stuff I do have my personal recommendations.

@@GordonRoss83 re. painting, my experience with painting was short and sweet..a painting friend came to stay at my cabin on the Bay of Fundy for a summer, she was a really inspired artist, and prolific...i got turned on to painting, in oils : landscapes, figures, still lifes... i painted for a couple of years on pieces of driftwood/plywood and nailed them up on trees along the path to the cabin.. then i got into abstract painting...and totally lost interest!! gradually the paintings either got faded or were taken by folks...i heard from one friend that he woke up after a drunken party at some house to see a painting above the fireplace!!

@ that sounds like a really special way to get into painting. That’s interesting how you lost interest after getting into a more abstract style. Im assuming you were as good at painting as you are at writing songs. Otherwise that one would have ended up in the fireplace instead of above it!

thanks🎶🎵🦋🌹🕊️🪺☀️

My pleasure!

thanks so much Joseph 🕊️☮️🌻🌺☀️🙏🏾🌈🥂🌹

thanks so much....yes i built the first few, he built the later ones... he's out driving with his girlfriend these days...time sure flies by!!!🦜🕊️☮️🙏🏾🌺🧢💙🍷☀️

thanks John, i always liked performing this one, it usually got a lot of laughs ...all the best🦋🦩🙏🏾🎶💙☀️

most definitely!! and thanks... please post the link on one of my tunes so i don't miss it!! 🌹🕊🦋🎶🎵

@michaelhermiston Thank you i really appreciate it, I will put a credit to your channel when I upload , thank you again, David

thanks Therese ... elisa always adds class when she harmonizes 🎵🕊️🪺🦋🌈🥂🌻🌞