Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in Mark Walmsley's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
8:54 pm	R.I.P Syd Barret Very sad news indeed :( My cousin gave me a copy of "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" just as I was starting to learn electric guitar many years ago & I've had it on my record player tonight. What A genius! Rest in Peace Syd. Dog Current Mood: sad Current Music: Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
7:18 pm	Exploding heads & Teapots (past their prime) Well! what a creative day I had today! It must have been something to do with staying sober last night. I've recorded another song, yes it's another cover version I'm afraid, but I'm quite pleased with it & what a great song it is :) I don't really like typing so I'll just paste what I posted on the Damned messageboard about my afternoons activities: The other day a picture was posted of some tape boxes from the 1980 studio demos of songs that would later appear on the Black Album. One of these boxes had some of Captains notes & tabs on it for "Silly Kid's Games". A note at the top contained a tuning diagram for a guitar. This guitar in the diagram was tuned "open A" which I've never used to play that song, but anyway, this led on to a post from Love policeman asking if this tuning is the same as that used in "Exploding heads & Teapots (past their prime)". I had a bit of a strum & I posted that I was pretty certain that it wasn't & that I thought the correct tuning was as normal but with the B string tuned down a tone. Private Pike posted the tuning he had been given by Captain some time ago which was slighly different although he did say that Captain gave him a couple of alternate tunings & the one I'd suggested could have been one of them. I got my copy of "Revolution Now" out & slapped it on my record player, & it's not been off since. Where's this leading, I hear those of you that have read this far asking yourselves. Well, I'd forgotten just what a good song "Exploding Heads & Teapots" really is & was it really 1989 when "Revolution Now" came out. Doesn't time fly when you're having fun! Anyway, I needed the practice on my acoustic guitar so for Love Policeman & Private Pike, oh & Eddy Spud fairy as well, here is my attempt at "Exploding Heads & Teapots" From Captains 1989 album "Revolution Now" http://www.dogswebspace.com/explodingv1.mp3 As a footnote, after recording this song this afternoon I went to the shop for some Beer & the lady behind the counter had to check that I was old enough!!! I did have my helmet on but still, that doesn't happen very often Cheers! Dog Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Revolution Now (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
7:26 pm	It's just one drunken idea after another! You may remember I had a go at "there ain't no sanity clause" by the Damned around Christmas with re-written lyrics about events that happened at Damned gigs during the year. I dedicated it to the plumbing on the Damned's tour bus, which was a bit dodgy to say the least, & renamed it "there ain't no sanitary clause". Well I'm glad it's not only me that has daft idea's when I'm drunk, as a very nice man, & fellow Damned messagboarder, Porl in Florida drunkenly asked if he could do a video for it. Damned messagboarders were then asked to email photos or videos of themeselves or of the people mentioned in the song over to Porl for him to edit with some video clips of me performing the song. Well what can I say! I'm chuffed to bits with the result, it's way better than I expected it to be & seems to have gone down very well with the messageboard :) See what you think, here's a relatively low resolution version of it. Thanks Porl :) Dog http://www.dogswebspace.com/320.mov (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
10:43 pm	I never thought I'd see the day! Well, It's certainly surprised me with the way I've abused my health over the years, but in about 40 minutes I'll be forty years old! And there were those that thought I wouldn't make it to 20! I must admit though, I didn't think I'd make it past 35, for years I had this feeling that I'd die of a brain haemorrage at that age. Ah Well! So much for Premonitions. I was going to do a song in celebration but I've been working today, from home as well which is a bit of a bummer, as I always end up doing more hours than if I'd gone into work. But at least that's all done & I can relax now with a nice can of Carlsberg or two. Weighing everything up, the last 40 years have been great to me & if life begins tomorrow, bring it on! I'd like to say thanks to all the friends I've had over the years, most of which I can still count as friends. I must say thanks to my Mum, who died when I was four, for teaching me how to count & tell the time & giving me what I like to think is a tolerant & understanding nature. I'd like to thank my Sister,(and her husband), for giving me two wonderful nieces. Having decided a long time ago that I wouldn't be having children of my own they really do mean the world to me. But the biggest thanks of all must go to my Dad, for looking after me & my sister single handedly since my mum died. Buying me my first,second,third & fourth guitars & my first & second amplifiers(I was young so couldn't pay for them myself)& a sizeable portion of my record collection. Thanks for putting up with all the noise I've generated over the years, and the drunkeness, smoking and other stuff! But most of all,for being there, because I wouldn't be here without you! Thanks Dad! Dog Current Mood: happy Current Music: Holiday in My Heart (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
10:34 pm	Happy New Year! I'd just like to wish anybody reading this a very Happy & Healthy 2006! Looking back, I've had better years, but 2005 could have been a hell of a lot worse. I'm really dissappointed that after all the recording I've done this year, as far I can see, I've only actually written one original song in the last 12 months, & that was about the drivel that comes from the pop idol / x factor type media machine. That's terrible for me, I must try harder next year. There was the Damned Messageboard music project collaboration that produced, among other brilliant things, this fantastic song, written by Damnedmistress, instruments done by myself & backing vocals by Gareth. "I want the World to be Damned" http://www.dogswebspace.com/dmver4.mp3 But here is the only original song I wrote in 2005, & I didn't even do a proper version of it, this only being a rough demo. http://www.dogswebspace.com/circusdemo.mp3 I'll do better next year, Honest! Dog Current Mood: drunk Current Music: Problems (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
11:57 pm	December 28th 2005 Some daft sod wanted to hear me doing "One Way Love" by The Damned. So here's what I did earlier today. I'd already set my bass up to do one of my own songs but after a request for me to play something from Music for Pleasure, how could I refuse. It sounds a bit out of tune to me & I've never been any good at slide guitar but here it is. http://www.dogswebspace.com/onewaylove.mp3 I hope you enjoy it. Dog (Comment on this)
11:50 pm	Dead Men Walking photos Here are the photos I took at the Dead Men Walking gig at the Castle in Oldham on the 18th December. It was a brilliant gig & so nice to see Mike Peters up there enjoying himself :) Good on you Mike! & best of luck with the treatment. http://www.dogswebspace.com/deadmen3.htm Dog (Comment on this)
Monday, December 26th, 2005
11:59 pm	December 26th 2005 After typing a quite detailed journal entry for today my computer died half way through so here's the re-worked lyrics to the version of "there ain't no sanity clause" I recorded earlier today. Brian had a visit from the hound from Hell, at the hilton park, it gave him fleas as well. Thought it must have had it's head stuck in a door. Ah Ha! there ain't no sanity clause. Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Tig thought he'd gone crazy when a bench it walked, down the Cambridge junction, had his eyes on stalks. Had a conversation with a bin that talked. Ah Ha! there ain't no sanity clause. Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Didn't you expect, that I'd be drinking beer just, like a fool. Now it's boxing day &, ain't it sad. That I've done my song &, yes it's bad. But at least it's f*cking finished. huey! Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Oh No, there ain't no sanity clause Tress's sparkly knickers cast a magic spell, except they left the tour bus with a funny smell. And with it's dodgy plumbing when it rains it pours. Ah Ha! There ain't no sanitary clause. The lyrics are about some of the strange events that happened at some of the gigs on the Damned's 2005 tour & are dedicated to the plumbing on the tour bus. I hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas & that you all have a very Happy & Healthy 2006. Almost forgot, here's the mp3: http://www.dogswebspace.com/sanitaryclause.mp3 I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! Dog (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
12:06 am	Richard Prior R.I.P Well, after falling asleep with the TV on last night & waking up at 4AM with a headache I thought I had a full day ahead of me to play about with. It was not to be, I fell asleep again watching Chucklevision at about 8:30. I climbed out of bed at about 11:30 & after downloading & listening to some fantastic stuff by an "old" band called Stray, courtesey of captain Sensible, I tested my new shower that I had installed on Friday. Stray were marvellous :) Just the sort of thing I can listen to all day long when I have the time to do so. And as for being 17/18 year olds at the time! They p*ss all over my efforts at that age & to this day, Thanks to Cappy for posting the links :) My new shower, well, it worked. My old one was better, if just a little bit more Electrically dangerous, ah well, the joy's of DIY. Then I went to the supermarket on my motorbike. A strange fellow called Claypole had started a thread on the Damned message board about favourite Xmas type tunes & he'd posted his drunken version of "Stop the Cavalry" By someone or other. I'd run through a few songs in my helmet, (I do that from time to time, it frightens horses in the countyside), on the way home from Tesco, "There ain't no sanity clause", "Antipope" (Lyrics kindly provided by Phil Burns) & "Merry Xmas everybody" by Slade. After putting away my shopping, I'm afraid I ended up doing the Slade song, which I have to say is still one of my favourite songs, Christmas or otherwise. Then, after the relative high of the great time I had recording that, I heard the terrible news that a very funny & talented man, Richard Prior, had died. :( I'm not entirely sure who reads these journal things but I do remember the stuff he did in the seventies. I remember when he set himself on fire in the middle of a road. I remember how he took the piss out of his own suicide attempt. A geniunely funny,talented guy & real human being! It's a shame you chose today to die Richard, because you've ended up with this dedicated to you, from me, you talented muthaf*cker. http://www.dogswebspace.com/merryxmas.mp3 Rest In Peace, Richard Prior. Dog (Comment on this)