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Rob Cooke (@boyatheart) progress: 15 winner! joined: February 3 2008 location: Thailand website: www.karonasound.com influences: Neil Young/Crazy Horse, David Bowie,Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Dylan, CSN & CSNY, Bob Marley, Beach Boys, Led Zep, James Brown, Funkadelic, Link Wray, The Who, The Kinks, The Stones, Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rodgers, Sound Garden, Pistols, Pixies

Bio

2012 Songs

1		Not on Your Life	18 comments // 3 months ago
2		Don't Go Thinking (a love song)	15 comments // 3 months ago
3		What to Do with Your Moves	6 comments // 3 months ago
4		Unstuck	9 comments // 3 months ago
5		F.I.N.E	6 comments // 3 months ago
6		Make Your Own Luck	3 comments // 2 months ago
7		I Like it Anyway	2 comments // 2 months ago
8		Obstacle	2 comments // 2 months ago
9		Waking Up	3 comments // 2 months ago
10		Any Other Way	3 comments // 2 months ago
11		Full Circle	3 comments // 2 months ago
12		Beside Myself	3 comments // 2 months ago
13		One Afternoon (with  dreamscuba)	2 comments // 2 months ago
14		Clearing Space	4 comments // 2 months ago
15		Because They Said So	4 comments // 2 months ago

Soundboard

•  headfirstonly 2 months ago

  Thanks for your very kind words - glad you liked my stuff!

• thevelvetdrone 2 months ago

  Thanks for the nice comments and congrats on getting your 15!!!!!

• loljosh0106 2 months ago

  Thanks so much!!

• jayafrica 2 months ago

  Hi, Rob, and thanks for the comments you left on my songs. I'm finally getting the opportunity to listen to your tunes and am enjoying them thoroughly!

•  dreamscuba 2 months ago

  Hi Rob, no worries...Understood....I will get round to listening to more of your songs soon...Thanks.

•  dreamscuba 2 months ago

  Hey Rob, I don't think I will get much more of a chance before Sunday/Monday to work on the collab...will chat later....I guess we can post the "space" and work on it....

•  jsini 2 months ago

  Thank you very much for your comment! Greatly appreciated.

•  gordon 2 months ago

  Thanks for your comment. My songs are mostly a mixture of sweet harmony type songs and dark distorted ones. I'm certainly having a lot of fun doing FAWM for the first time and just hope the songs keep coming.:)

•  zecoop 2 months ago

  Hey thanks for checking out my song. Looking forward to hearing yours... there is a lot of excellent influence up there in your profile.

•  wyatt 2 months ago

  Thanks for the thoughts on "Ridge"
  I'll take another look at what you have a bit later

• the3queens 2 months ago

  You went Thailand and never came back? How is that?

•  heuristicsinc 2 months ago

  Thanks for the review. That bass is getting good marks!

•  dreamscuba 2 months ago

  Hi Rob, thanks very much for your comments on "Ain't nobody home but me and my blues". Very much appreciated. I reckon it may be interesting to put a horn section on this at some point....

•  oneslowtyper 2 months ago

  Hi Rob, thanks for the kind words. I like your list of musical influences in your Bio. That's awesome that you're having success in what you love to do... yet you still join us fools in this huge music-fest that draws us all in, to share and encourage each other.
  
  Cheers,
  John

•  stevenwesleyguiles 3 months ago

  Thanks Rob! I appreciate your comments as someone I know to be a serious musician.

•  dragondreams 3 months ago

  You've got LOADS of time!
  
  Seriously, I hope you achieve whatever goal you set for yourself - and have fun doing it.

•  musicsongwriter 3 months ago

  Thank you Rob, yes, I know what you mean, so much easier to listen to the songs which are playing here Enjoy FAWM, it's great fun!

• susyblue 3 months ago

  Hey Robs thanks! your songs sound amazing, flawless production and great singing!

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Thanks Rob for listening to yet more of my songs and for the great comments.

•  dragondreams 3 months ago

  Hi Rob.
  
  Many, many thanks for taking the time to listen and comment. It's very much appreciated.

•  tjod 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment! Maybe someday I'll have a chateau where I can stay up late, playing music with my pals, too ; )

• jessicagraae 3 months ago

  Thanks for your kind words, Rob!

•  musicsongwriter 3 months ago

  Hello Rob. Thank you very much for your nice comment on my music and collaboration with John on one chord song. I've enjoyed doing the challenge and felt very inspired It was wonderful to collaborate with John on the song. Happy FAWMing

•  toms 3 months ago

  Thank you for the kind comment & for the listen!

• ladyvinyl 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment on my Fluttershy song! Glad to hear it got stuck in your head and that your daughter loved it!

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Hi Rob, back now...I SMSd you my temporary number as my number was terminated thanks to lovely actions by a the focus of "Satan's Den"!!!...hehehe. take care.

• arthurrossi 3 months ago

  Thank you very much for your nice comment!

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Hi Rob, wow, thanks for all that time listening to all my songs and for your wonderful comments on them all. I have found the writing very therapeutic with the passing of my mum. She actually said to me one week before she was admitted to hospital, "you are still writing and playing aren't you."... I owe it to her... I have also found that writing with the iPad has helped me with keeping things simple, so a very useful tool to get the ideas out, that clatter be shaped. I must admit, with all my life changing events, I am keen to really get more into all this stuff and do some work with you and Gary.

•  downburst 3 months ago

  Thanks for the comment... Boy. I look forward to hearing your songs.

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Hi Rob, thanks very much for your comments on 2 songs. "Something's Gotta Give" started life as a guitar riff song...I plan to rework it later as there are bits I like in it...Thanks for the feedback on the lead breaks...was trying to sound Angus like..
  Thanks for your feedback on my singing....It does feel to be coming more easily and I don't feel so self conscious when recording vocals. I quite enjoy playing with backing vocals even if I have no idea what to do. I think the iPad mic is quite kind to my voice too....I cannot lay claim on the drums track (I wish I could)...it was a loop in GarageBand.

•  caterwauler 3 months ago

  Hey there!
  Thanks, good to see you

• ankara 3 months ago

  thanks for your comment, good to hear nice words. only loop in there was the record crackling, everything else was either me playing bass or using VSTs using the keyboard.
  cheers

• arealhope 3 months ago

  If I can figure out how to make a demo and put it on here, I'll do that!!

• arealhope 3 months ago

  Posted a song!!

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Thanks for your comments on Satan's Den. Yes, very therapeutic for sure. I can't really sing metal but I gave it a go. It all came from the riff I was messing with in GarageBand.

•  dreamscuba 3 months ago

  Hi Rob, thanks very much for your comments on "where the sun is shining"...Very much appreciated. I did change the lyrics after gslade's comments. I changed the last line of the chorus from "in my heart" to "where I am free"...I think this works quite well. Although, I may do a version with the original to compare. The second song was messing with the guitar in GarageBand and I ended up with the metal like riff...of course, I can't sing metal but I gave it a whiz.

•  billysea 3 months ago

  Hello Mr. Cooke just like always, my goal is 14 (more or less) Looking forward to another great FAWM with you!

• mikeskliar 3 months ago

  great to see ya back!

•  devin 3 months ago

  Sir yes sir! Let's rock this long month Rob!!

•  stevenwesleyguiles 3 months ago

  Rob. So sorry you're dealing with the gall stones, but glad that it's not something you have to do surgically.