My cover of Beautiful freak

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The title of this one is "Beautiful freak" and it comes off the album of the same name which was put out in 1996 by the band "The Eels". It's one of my all time favourite albums. At the time their music was cutting edge and I was a big fan of their lyrics. There's another on on this album that I'd like to cover soon as well. I've kept the basic melody the same. I've just used different instruments. This is what I came up with:

Now for part ten of my dad's story.

My dad part 10.

When I finally met my father, he was having a relationship with a woman called Sheila, who had two children. Sima and Kashif. She originally came from Tiger bay in Wales, although she certainly had asian roots. Sima and Kashif had great affection for my father. I thought the relationship between him and Sheila was a little odd, although that may just have been how I was looking at it at the time. There was some criticism of the relationship from family, but as far as I was concerned, if it made him happy then everything was ok. I believe that everybody should be allowed to live the life they want, and befriend the people of their choice. Sheila and her children lived in a Town called Southall on the outskirts of london with their scatty dog Ruffles. If you didn't already know, the bulk of people living in Southall are Asian. From being at the house many times, my father appeared a little bigoted, with negative comments about those from an Asian background. Yet he was romantically involved with an Asian. One possibility was that this was something that was drummed into him by those around him in his life, but it didn't seem likely, knowing his personality. He walked proudly with them among the streets of southall, as did I.

It is possible that his comments may have originated from those walks with the family though, because of several occasions that he told me about the insults and dirty looks he received from Asians whilst walking with Sheila and her children in town. That wasn't exclusive to him. I experienced a bit of that too, because I also walked with them. So if any racism existed in this vicious arena then it wasn't coming from my father's side. It was actually coming from the Asians who were horrified to see a white person walking with Asians as a family. How narrow minded. My father was human just like them. Only they were blessed with a good natural tan.

To be continued......

I got out the feather duster and started to do something with my Myspace page. Seeing as it's been sitting there for a few years now. I thought I'd let people know it's there So here it is if you want to add me:

Jeff Edwards Myspace page

Also I'm going to try and do something with my Facebook page. When I joined Facebook it was a pretty quiet place. Not so much now Here's a link to my Facebook page if you want to also add me on there:

Jeff Edwards Facebook page

Now for an update on the last week or two on Youtube.

My Subscribers have raced forward to 1,061.

The total viewings for my Youtube channel stand at 24,867 and the total viewings for all my videos are 442,298.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing for my next video yet. I've got that other Eels song in my mind at the moment, but I have a habit of changing my mind