Jake`s Surprise

Strange days

Hello to you ! First of all I wish you a very very Merry and Happy Christmas!! And of course if you don`t celebrate Christmas happy holidays as well. STAY HEALTHTY everyone! (That`s an Order!) My cancer is much better now-in fact I think I`m cured. The best present anyone can get. PEACE&LOVE! Jake

Hello! First of all thank you for being a subscriber. And MEGA thanks for listening my songs!! (someone is listening out there..) It means so so much me that I can`t put it down in words. To get 100 000 plays would be awesome but every single play is precious. Thank you!
Number one music is about MUSIC of course but my health is on my mind almost all the time. I wrote before about my cancer. I went thru an operation in mars (on Earth) and everything went as planned. I got a stoma now (colostomy). Feeling pretty good, tired thou and a little depressed but it`s part of the process. In hospital you`re just thinking about getting home and then first weeks at home it was just so good to be there. Now when it`s time to start living again it`s surprisingly hard.
Well that`s it now-I wish you a very good summer ( or winter) and especially good health. PEACE&LOVE Jake

Hi everybody! Last six months has been very quiet for me. I haven`t been well at all-really tired and almost unable to do anything-in fact I`ve been even too tired to play the guitar. So I finally went to see the doctor and finally, it was diagnosed a cancer.
It`s going to be surgery later this spring-just went thru radiation- and chemotherapy- this morning was the last time
Anyhow-I`m sure that I`ll be better later ( as a nurse put it " It`s not a dead sentence!") and it`s not.
I wish you all a best of health. Peace! Jake

HI everyone! Hope you haven't been sick and your summer's been GREAT. It's only august but here in north the summer is fading away-so maybe today really is "the Last Day of Summer." There's a little bit of melancholy in there (of course) but it's not the end of the world! The fall is beautiful and the winter too..I hope you have time to listen the song and if you want to make a comment please do! For now: Stay healthy&safe and-PEACE! Jake.

Hi everybody! Summer is here and that cursed covid is fading away....Great times I really hope you haven't been sick!
And yes I've added 4 new songs!
1. ROCK 'n ROLL LIFE (not) : song is about the misunderstanding what it is to a musician: not playing music but you know-drink every day and.. you know what I mean! And there seem to be people who live that kinda life but has nothing to do with music.
2. MONDAY BLUE: now this is what I call "slow music". If you're in hurry skip it and come back later. Lyrics : monday afternoon in a bar, a little bit drunk - there's a big window and you can see the street like in a shop window. Yes I've been a bit of a drunk-not anymore thou and I DON'T recommend it. But of course everybody makes decision him/herself.
3. BEAUTIFUL CRIME: Okay it's not beautiful or wonderful-sarcasm is the word. Seems to me that the criminal could be a police as well? BLM.
4. SOLDIER OF BAD FORTUNE: This is very personal-I really was for many years my own worst enemy. I hurt myself in so many ways and I was in fact in war against ME. Thats of course very harmful and down right stupid. Love yourself! You'll do fine! For now: hope you got time to listen and I wish you a great summer (and winter in New Zealand..)PEACE! JAKE

Hello and thank you everybody again! And special thanks to the new subscribers. It`s so amazing to think that someone is actually listening my music and I thought I should..well to tell you something about myself as a musician.
I`ve done a lot: various kind of gigs playing guitar, bass, keyboards and sing. Rock`n Roll, ballroom dancing, blues, guitar bands (like the Shadows I mean) playing guitar and sing alone and sing-along. And of course playing classical guitar. In bars, weddings, birthdays, christmas parties, streets, even at funerals. I`ve been teaching guitar at home and as a substitute teacher at the local conservatory. In which I´m a still a student trying to get my exam done on classical guitar ( and it`s of course closed now). Worked here in Finland ( oh yes we are so happy) but couple of times in the (expired link). and France.
It`s been mostly interesting, fun and rewarding . Some money honey too ( I am rich! (not)) There`s been negative things as well: have to "fight" for that money (whats been agreed and whats not) music is not right ( whats been (expired link).)playing among the drunks shouting "play Paranoid!!" ( God bless them!) guys in the band can`t play and disappear all of the sudden ( and are drunk..) car breaks up(down!), you`ll get home at seven a clock in the morning...But as I said mostly FUN.
Wait a minute..how about writing sons? Been done that too as you know but that really needs another letter. Till next time:
PEACE! STAY HEALTHY! WASH HANDS! LOVE! Jake.

Hi! I added two new songs on number1music: ROCKY ROAD is a bit sad rock ballad and I`M GOING HOME is kinda folk song. In both I`m longing to get home (for some reason..) Hope you have time to listen and hope you enjoy! Peace and have a great week end & no corona!! Jake.

Hi everybody! At last I added two new pieces on Number1Music-hope you enjoy them. There`s "In the Flow" a 60´s kind (Beatles and so on) Psychedelic song. And there`s " Why (innocent people die)" a Morricone-like instrumental. Enjoy and PEACE! Jake.

MEW MATERIAL NEW MATERIAL NEW MATERIAL!!
HI! I added two pieces: "In The Flow" is a bit of Phychedelic thing and "Why" is Morricone-like instrumental. Enjoy!!!!!

Hi everybody! Last time I told you about the Mediterranean sea and how people are drowning in it. And they still are-there`s humantrafickers at least in Libya and they are taking (bush them in the sea in small rubberboats) those poor souls to Lambedusa island in Italy. Some make it many...don`t. There are politicans who are trying to stop that horror (oh yes politicians) or at least I think there are. Anyway NO ONE should be forced to leave their home like that trying to get to Europe.. or die. Libya is a gateway mirgrants come mostly from Western Africa.
Climate Change? Well I´m a "good guy"- I don´t fly anywhere this year I walk a lot try to eat less meat. Maybe that`s enought maybe not.
Music? Oh yes I make music all the time. Most of my time goes in (to?) practising classical guitar-difficult pieces (Chaconne by (expired link). Bach, Scarlatti sonatas and others..) I have writen couple of songs too. Need to do recordings -then they`ll get their final form or at least some kinda form.
That`s it then, I wish good autum and early winter to everybody! PeAce & LOvE JakE

Thank you very very much! All of you!!! Just back from Sicily Italia, had nice time by the Mediterranean. The same Mediterranean wich has become a tomb to so many people...so very mixed feelings now really
Some people were peddlers trying to sell beach towels, jewelry, massage..walked and walked under the sun as we enjoyed. We did actually bye a beach towel `cos we thought that was a right thing to do..
And now I´m peddling music here? Right?