This was originally a blog devoted to The Dave Clemo Band. It's been defunct for over six years so I thought I'd resurrect it to blog anything and everything about my musical activities.
Hi there,
I've been looking at posting my videos on other platforms as I move away from FB to alt-media.
Here's a link to VK.
https://vk.com/id545642675
I've also posted a few to Rumble
https://rumble.com/account/content?type=all
I'd be interested to know if they can be viewed where you are.
And a recent video I posted to YouTube
https://youtu.be/RgLYVweeYxE
Dave
I was going through one of my external hard drives and found this review of my 2013 album 'Hard Times'.
This was the third part of my 'trilogy' of albums recorded after I went into remission from leukaemia. The first was a DCB Gospel album that I recorded in response to our reception at the 2011 Whitby Gospel Music Convention. It was followed almost immediately by the Dave Clemo Band's covers album called 'Other People's Greatest Hits' with 'Hard Times' hot on its heels.
Three albums in a little under two years. Thirty songs in all, half of them being original compositions. I sent the album off to be reviewed in the specialist music press and this was printed in Blues Matters magazine a couple of months later.
This is a song that I co-wrote with Jerry Arhelger back in 2006 or 2007. This version of the song was recorded in 2008 during an impromptu session with my son Chris on drums and his friend Jay on guitar. I showed them the basic song then we got to work on the arrangement. What turned out was an almost 'Brown Sugar' style version of what was originally a good-time folky country thing. I recorded an acoustic version of the song on my 2013 album 'Hard Times'.
Here are both versions. I created a video of the electric version and posted it on YouTube. The acoustic version can be heard on Soundcloud.
Let me know what you think?
Acoustic version here-
https://soundcloud.com/dave-clemo-547315199/dave-clemo-im-too-busy-drinking-for-thinking
A couple of days ago I took a few hours off from book-writing and put this video together.
It's based on a song I wrote in about 2004 when I was suffering from a combination of ill-health, being out of work and having yet another church split to deal with. I walked away from church and hid my faith away for several years.
I recorded this song in my home studio with the help of drummer Cozy Dixon. Over a couple of hours we recorded the basic tracks for several songs. I added guitars, bass, backing vocals and lead vocals, mixed it off and forgot about it until 2017 when I remixed it for a collection of songs that I posted to iTunes.
Anyway, I resurrected the track and added some images and made this video. I hope you like it!
https://youtu.be/U1ujAmhV_Es
