ak301
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My Dad died last Friday and I've been dealing with loosing him the past few days.
I sat down to play along with some backing tracks tonight and instead ended up recording this for him.
It's Mark Knopfler's version of the Last Post
Like Mark my dad was from the North East of England, Hartlepool in fact. He was born in 1940 and joined the British Army in the early 60's as a radio operator on Tanks and served all over the world from Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Hong Kong and Germany.
I was born in West Germany in 1978 and we moved back to England in the mid-80's and by then he was a Captain. The regiment was being posted back to Germany and I would've been sent off to a boarding school, but he didn't want us to be separated as a family so he gave up any chance of his career progressing to take a desk job running a Territorial Army unit at air support unit at an airbase is the East Midlands of England.
I got into music heavily in the early 90's and he was always very supportive of everything I did and as soon as I started playing guitar he always loved to hear me play.
He instilled in me liking lots of different types of music, he loved Bobby Darren and Matt Monro to The Beatles, Floyd and ZZ Top
Sadly his health deteriorated over the past few months and he died of heart failure peacefully in hospital
I had a gig the following night, wasn't sure if I should or could do it. But once we got going it was all for him and the others said I was playing my ass off - Felt so therapeutic
Anyway, I'm so pi55ed off I can't get to talk to him again so sat down tonight to just jam along and before I knew it I was recording this
I don't know if it's any good or not as I'm not a pro, but hope someone likes it.
I sat down to play along with some backing tracks tonight and instead ended up recording this for him.
It's Mark Knopfler's version of the Last Post
Like Mark my dad was from the North East of England, Hartlepool in fact. He was born in 1940 and joined the British Army in the early 60's as a radio operator on Tanks and served all over the world from Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Hong Kong and Germany.
I was born in West Germany in 1978 and we moved back to England in the mid-80's and by then he was a Captain. The regiment was being posted back to Germany and I would've been sent off to a boarding school, but he didn't want us to be separated as a family so he gave up any chance of his career progressing to take a desk job running a Territorial Army unit at air support unit at an airbase is the East Midlands of England.
I got into music heavily in the early 90's and he was always very supportive of everything I did and as soon as I started playing guitar he always loved to hear me play.
He instilled in me liking lots of different types of music, he loved Bobby Darren and Matt Monro to The Beatles, Floyd and ZZ Top
Sadly his health deteriorated over the past few months and he died of heart failure peacefully in hospital
I had a gig the following night, wasn't sure if I should or could do it. But once we got going it was all for him and the others said I was playing my ass off - Felt so therapeutic
Anyway, I'm so pi55ed off I can't get to talk to him again so sat down tonight to just jam along and before I knew it I was recording this
I don't know if it's any good or not as I'm not a pro, but hope someone likes it.