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the-stoked-flame · 5 years

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‘Let’s Get Personal’ Meme (OOC)

Star sign: Cancer

Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first four songs that pop up:

Wake Up Call - Nothing But Thieves

Delta - C2C

I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco (I don’t even listen to them anymore, but ok shuffle lmao)

Keep me Safe - Tides of Man

Grab the nearest book to you and turn to page 23, what line is 17?

There is no book nearest to me right now as I’m at work and I don’t have any books at my desk.

Ever had a poem written about you?

No? Who am I, the object of a 17th century poet’s affection? (Do people still get poems written about them?)

When was the last time you played the air guitar?

Literally yesterday (I do it all the time.)

One sound you hate and one you love:

The sound of people whining. I really, really, really hate whining. Especially if it’s an adult doing it. It irritates me to no end and if the whining is to get me to do something, it’s only going to discourage me further from doing it.

The crackling of a campfire in a quiet wood.

Do you believe in ghosts?

The more rational side of me says no, the forever paranoid part of me is not convinced they don’t exist. (I’m not even changing @oneilmfruitpunch ‘s response because it captures exactly how I wanted to answer this question.)

Do you believe in aliens?

I believe in the possibility of life outside of Earth, yes. I even hope for it.

Do you drive and if so have you gotten in a crash?

I have a license but I’ve rarely had the need to drive since I got it (because I almost immediately moved to a city with great public transport), so I’ve not gotten into a crash.

Do you like the smell of gasoline?

Gross, no.

Last movie you’ve seen?

Halloweentown. Despite no longer being the target audience for those movies, I still enjoy them during October.

Worst injury you’ve ever had?

Ah yes, The Christmas Incident of 2005. The setting is Christmas morning of...2005 and I was at home with my family. I’d seen my family the night before when we had Christmas Eve dinner and had everyone around for opening presents at midnight and they’d come around the morning after for leftovers. I’d gotten a pair of sick roller skates and decided it’d be a great idea to try them out in our backyard. Now, the concrete areas of our backyard weren’t set the best as there were plenty of cracks and other deformations. It didn’t cross my mind that this would be an issue. It should’ve. I’d just started to roll around when one of the wheels gets stuck in a particularly rough part of the ground and I end up falling over. Because of how stuck the wheel was, my ankle ended up bent at an abnormal and painful angle. I was however fortunate enough to land in the grass and not on more concrete, but I couldn’t get up. I remember being out there alone, crying for what felt like a half hour before someone came outside and found me out there. I ended up going to the emergency room, on Christmas morning, and had X-rays done. Turns out I’d torn a ligament and would need weeks to recover. I ended up going back to school in crutches for the first couple weeks of the new year.

Do you have any obsessions right now?

Not really.

Do you hold grudges?

Not typically. There’s only one person in my life that I still hold a grudge against currently, but otherwise I let things go either immediately or eventually.

In a relationship?

Nah.

Tagged by: @oneilmfruitpunch, @zahkis-ffxiv (thanks!)

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andrewrosswatson1987 · 5 years

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REVIEW: TED RUSSELL KAMP PUTS ON HIS WALKIN’ SHOES ON NEW ALBUM

Ted Russell Kamp released his eleventh album, Walkin’ Shoes, which came out today (March 15), released via label, PoMo Records. He also recorded four albums with his trio, Ponticello: “I took songs from the four Ponticello albums and created what is kind of a greatest hits CD of my time in the band that reflects my singing and songwriting which I called "The Ponticello Years".” “I put it together a few years after the band broke up so as people got into my music they could go back and hear some of my developing years before I started really getting into my sound.” During Ponticello’s time, Kamp also released his first solo album, Dedications (1996), before moving to LA in 2001, and started a new group, Union Pacific (his NorthSouth, 2005). “I’m a New Yorker who’s thoroughly fascinated with Southern music,” Ted explains his love for music. On bass with Shooter Jennings (The .357s, Hierophant) since 2003, he’s written numerous songs for them, including the 2005 hit, “Steady At The Wheel”. He has also played with Wilson Phillips, Jessi Colter, Wanda Jackson, Rosie Flores, Billy Ray Cyrus and countless other great artists both on the road and in the studio. Singles for it, so far, are “Heart Under Pressure” and “Home Away From Home”.

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It’s only the start of the album, yet Ted’s found a “Home Away From Home”. This chimes with acoustic, bobbing bass and other elements. Jangling with a country flavour. “Every place I go/I’m a home away from home” like a troubadour, of sorts. Guitar solo having that surf and beach vibe. “I could have played it safe, I could have stayed in bed/But I won’t stop and stay at home, I’ll rest when I’m dead” either like a regret, or glad he took the hard road in life. “They speak in different tongues, they got different food” is still a home away from home. “Paid By The Mile” clamours for attention with a climatic start before plodding into a really bluesy, stomping groove. “For every night, and every show/For every dream, that comes and goes” like, again, the tales of a travelling musician. Nomad kind of lifestyle. “If I had a silver dollar for every palm I had to grease” comes at the instrumental drop of a hat, the vocal refrain. Striking, arresting and co-written by guest singer, Sam Morrow. “This Old Guitar” waves in majestic, yet with a feel of melancholy. Hazy and sun kissed, baking in potential Southern heat. “This old guitar ain’t done just yet/When you play rock and roll long enough, the blues is what you get” the quote from a seasoned musician. The organ mournful, mostly in the background but adding to the soundscape yet, still. “We’ve weathered it together, the storms and the scars” is followed by quite, indeed, mournful lead guitar. “But you know I’m even older than this old guitar” ends the track. The love struck “We Don’t Have To Be Alone” scratches in, abrasive. This broods, cyclical bass swaggering its groove, as pretty much everything else is a bit more intermittent. This then leads into something more propelled by the steps of bass drum. “Now there’s no one else around/And this something that we found” is joined with instrumentation that still sees a touch of menace in the track. It then strives to more positivity, two ones joining to become a less lonesome two: “Don’t fight it, don’t try hide it”.

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“Heart Under Pressure” is hopeful, striving. Organ probably aiding this feel. “That heart under pressure, might just lead the way” like under the cosh, everything ramped up and overcome with more than just stress. “That heart won’t miss a beat and let you down,” however. Next you’re blinded by “Tail Light Shine”. It’s moody with an emphatic beat. It also searches for crescendo, yet retaining that grounded grit with a tad of spite. “So goodbye and good night/‘cos I’ll soon be out of sight” is followed by quite an instrumentation trading solos, before paring back into the quite quiet before building up, again. Even the bass breaks outs latterly, bobbing, weaving in that pocket. “Highway Whisper” opens with melodious bass, its chords gently reverberating. “And the stars don’t need to know they light the way” equally thoughtful. “With no one else around/To hear that lonesome sound,” indeed. “I’m not asking for much/Just a horizon and a touch/Of a hobo’s lullaby” he proclaims. There’s an extended bass break before the next verse, dynamics so you can hear a pin drop. “And give me strength to walk another mile, highway whisper just enough to bring me home” like detailing a long walk really meant for some form of transport other than your weary feet. You’re seeking escape from everyday life in “Get Off The Grid”. This another country workout, a stable, reliable groove set against, “Life’s got a little crazier”. Then, “Someday soon, I’m gonna get off the grid” like saying you’ve had enough of the rat race. Technology like, “My car has a computer brain that tells my where to go/My son plays video games all day with strangers he don’t know” has you ducking for cover, to get off the grid. Despairing of modern life, it would seem. The “Written In Stone” comes in with regimented drum before guitar and organ groove nicely. “Alone on an island your line drawn in the sand/Drifting out at sea finally found dry land” tells a story of strife, and potential redemption. The solo really reaching for that sense of achievement, having come a long way. It turns out love is written in stone. Love’s redemptive power? “Freeway Mona Lisa” is a sedate kind of bluesy vibe. An air of despondency. “The sun belongs to you” a lyric like love and its accompanying sacrifices. Giving more than you’re given, in some respects. Wistful lead playing waves over you like the rays of the, indeed, sun. “Just About Time For A Heartache” rings low, before swaying from side to side. He sounds like on the verge of tears. Accident or design, heartfelt or a good actor, it doesn’t really matter. “Oh, waiting on a broken heart/Is like waiting on the world to fall apart,” particularly. “Less Thinking, More Drinkin’” is another slice of tasteful bassplaying. This song more striving for happiness rather than dwelling on what’s at the bottom of that pint glass. “Me and a bottle and an old bar stool, the three best friends around,” indeed. The hook making it evermore apparent. The wailing, bending wildcat roar of the guitar as tasteful, even more so. How the album closes, “Roll On Through The Night”, is grand. This opens like a classic Seventies track courtesy of The Who. Driving, pounding, then gradually more country-fied. The melodic, self-assured bass resurrecting classic era John Entwistle, before the twanging treble of him in the following decade. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Anyway, things pare back, bass still at the forefront. Then the shuffling drum builds and builds, track ending as it began. Picks from the album are “Paid By The Mile”, “We Don’t Have To Be Alone”, “Tail Light Shine”, “Highway Whisper”, “Written In Stone”, “Less Thinking, More Drinkin’” and “Roll On Through The Night”. Over half the thirteen total. Ted Russell Kamp goes from that kind of emphatic, rock track delivery and then catches you unawares with country music far from hackneyed as that genre sometimes is. Brilliant bassist. Ted Russell Kamp’s Walkin’ Shoes can be bought on iTunes, here.

#Ted Russell Kamp #.357s #Hierophant #The .357s #Walkin' Shoes #Ponticello #The Ponticello Years #Union Pacific #Dedications #NorthSouth #Shooter Jennings #Wilson Phillips #Jessi Colter #Wanda Jackson #Rosie Flores #Billy Ray Cyrus #Sam Morrow #The Who #John Entwistle

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