I describe my ongoing lyrics writing projects. Where I get my ideas, how I match my words with other people's music, which little helpers I use...
Rock is about sex, isn't it. Well, life is, and so is Rock music. That is even true for harmless Pop Rock songs like "Good day sun shine" by the Beatles. On a hike in the Bavarian Alps I came up with an idea for yet another sex song in the manner of "holy...
Post lesenThis is one of my early songs. A song about the internet hype when the world-wide-web was taking off. Its text was inspired by a programming colleague who was more impressed by the many fanciful features of the web technology rather than their functionality....
Post lesenVanity was a very, very old lady I have written and sung about. Well, she had been young once, and the "Vanitas" sculpture I mentioned the other day actually has two sides: the young, vain woman, and the old, pruney one. Every once in a while I write...
Post lesenAt the moment it is just an entry in my "scrap book". But it might become another song of my "carpe-diem section" eventually: tell me when I'm dead make sure I don't miss it out while I'm busy spending my time living, and kicking about tell me when I'm...
Post lesenPlaying "Spartacus" - it has become a little folk song, by the way, since IMO rock music would not fit - I found that it was way too short. I used to repeat the last verse, for which I had altered the chords a bit so as to make it a little more dramatic:...
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