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This song has been sat on the marvellous mechanical mouse organ in the broom-cupboard for well over a year.
A few weeks ago I got a bit of a scare - the mouse organ nearly broke down (in the middle of sorting out Delta Dawn). While I was fixing…
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It was about time I got on with musical expression. This song is about our interconnectedness. Our identity. Serious mystic stuff eh? Yeah - wait until you hear it - haha.
Said the snail to the bird how's your flight?
If I had your wings I…
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Got a guitar for my birthday... I have been trying to learn how to play it. This is a cover of an old Smiths song I tried to tackle for Lesson 10 "Finger Picking."
12.10.2013: rerecorded at slightly faster tempo; added small amount of distortion…
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I can only listen to Mustang Sally so many times. But Genghis has the most incredible tone. I can't keep my ears of it!
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With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013.
Demo version.
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LYRICS:
With Or Without You
Try to get along but it takes two
It’s a Whole lot of me and not much you
Working myself right to the bone
Thinking that I am all alone
Just like a monkey up in the tree
Throwing your feces straight…
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Bethan Mathis on Uke and Vocals.
Now we got some class!
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One of my personal favorite recordings from the 52 song MYTHOPOETICA demo collection, even though there’s a sound quality issue (the bass had a bit of a buzz). This was my first time using a wammy bar – I liked it!
PLASTIC GIRL
You can’t…
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This was my first Alonetone collaboration with Louis Smit.
At the time, Louis was Last Salute Folk.
I'm adding this to song to my last CD because it was my first collab.
Thanks Louis.
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Since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
It's down the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
You're makin' me so lonely, baby
I get so lonely, I get so lonely, I could die
Though it's always crowded
You still can find…
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Lyrics and music by Hank Williams Sr., but my cover is in Dm/D, with guitar and bass tuned to Drop D.
KAW-LIJA
Kaw-Lija was a wooden Indian standing by the door
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
Kaw-Lija-A…
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While on our European journey last summer, we stopped at an American Cemetery in between Venice and Florance Italy. It was a gray wind swept day, long rows of white crosses ran across a deep green grass field. I have read a bit about the allied…
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Words and Music by Mel Tillis (no, not by Kenny Rogers -- he covered the tune, he didn't write it).
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Me and Bee
One of my all time favorites and a must have to my last Wildgeas collection.
Enjoy!
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Thanks to Robert Palomo for giving this a little sound engineering. Robert said " I mixed thru my mastering plugin (Ozone 5).
WordsMightBethe Weapon ToCreateThePerfect Crime
If I had a dollar for everything I done
To help you through…
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EARTH
Humanity, you're blowing this
Good planets, hard to find
Insanity to wipe us out
To earn another dime
No use it is to build a house
Upon a dying land
We live upon a warming earth
Why don't we understand?
- Unless we govern for…
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#RPM Challenge 2014#
First Song of the Challenge . . . Here We Go!
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Just having fun, hanging out, creating some music.
Double drop D Capo @ 3rd- Lead Capo @ 9th. :)
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Recorded in 2002 at App State's on campus studio. Jeb Holmes Band. Jeb Holmes - guitar, Barry Canipe - bass and organ, Pat Holmes - drums
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NEW DAY Key A
A E A E
In the morning when she gets me up
A E D E
Pours some wake up in my coffee cup
A D E A (D A E)
She opens the window…
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DEAR PEGGY Capo 3 in Am
A bass stepping A G F G
Dear Peggy,I thot you'd like to know
That blue tile in our bathroom you said would have to go
I replaced with the slate that we bought at Home Depot
mmmmm mmmmm
Dear Peggy, The heat has…
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MY FAITH
I met my destiny
Upon the road for me
I took to leave her be
I'm told it was by chance
My faith is foolery
It's for the child in me
And yet to pray is free
So why not take a chance?
- I dreamed that it could be
- Believed…
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This is the 2.Song from the 2.Single from "Funeral Miracle Saga".
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Another lost composition (experiment) from 2012.
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AT The Mercy of The Fist
All music and lyrics by David Dingo
This song has gone through many different names and incarnations before I settled on this. At one point in time it was to be called "The Marionette's Song." Basically it is a song…
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I wanted something slow and dirgish (is that a word?) and twangie. I sorta got that, not really. This is another one that I got weird with the time signature setting in GarageBand for iPad and then the drummer function on GarageBand for Mac…
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Heres a Regged up version of Peace Frog the Doors Classic...i sang and played Les live on the first bit then added the drums (Ha!! Ha!!) then the second vocal a kinda jam that i tried to turn into something ....hope you enjoy!!
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An old Stephen Foster song (Pub. Domain)
Always waiting, hopeful sorrow.
Featuring my spouse, Marily!!!!
I could have picked a song to do her justice, next time. My phrasing is kind of hard to follow...
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Before listening to this, please remember this, we made this song and "Wiggle" from start to finish in an evening. "Wiggle" is pretty much how we see all the mainstream club music, i'd say it's kind of a spoof.
and "White Trash Money" is the same…
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another christmas song inspired by Ashley Reynold's haunting version as sung by the 312th Army Band at the Christmas Concert in Emporia KS today.
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from the holiday project 'NOEL"
part 3 of my christmas trilogy for 2009
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from the album "orange"
I feel the same as yesterday
Even though I’m losing my mind
It’s hard to remember my name
When I wake I never know what I will find
Whither away, further each day
I’m invincible
Nothing can slow me down
My feet…
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from the new album "Orange"
Where’s the sun? waiting on the sun.
And sitting in the grey of this new dawn
And knowing that this is my last day, my last day
Why can’t you see, I’ve been deep in this for such a lonely time
And it’s getting…
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from the album "orange"
I still look before I leap
Sometimes sew more than I reap
Holding tight my soul to keep
The ghost inside is fast asleep
Ain't it sad when all or nothings mostly nothing mostly
And pain don't care what good intentions…
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from the new CD "Orange"
You can feel the sameness, all around
Beat tomorrow, into the ground, a-ha
It's just the weight of sound
You can smell forgiveness, if you try
And hold back sorrow until you cry, a-ha
It's just the weight of sound…
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from the album "orange"
this game, is a, last stop
before, you see, to the, very top
and I'm half asleep, yet I'm wide awake
and this ride isn't working out, not it's not for me
cause it gets so hard to believe, in
anything that you…
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Boston, Massachusetts is not just a college town. It's THE college town. I mean it. Seriously. There is a major university in just about every neighborhood, and there are institutions of higher learning on nearly every street corner. Add…
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This is a sweet song, I wrote it as my vows to my wife at our wedding.
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The drone is a lawn-mower (my neighbour's)
The words speak for themslves
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I think the title pretty much covers the "short story" behind the sound of clarity.
-Wrinkled Shirt
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This is a Metal song me and my buddy Steven (Return To The Sea) came up with. Hope you like it!
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I've heard this melody before but am unsure who wrote the original. This is my version, written for a video I created. Check it out here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152158199259073&set=vb.636109072&type=2&theater
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On Wikipedia I read this about the great jazz pianist Bud Powell: "...his solos could be heard to emulate the horn players' attack — with the use of frequent arpeggios punctuated by chromaticism," so the first thing you hear is a lick that uses…
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A tune to knock the rust and dust off the strings . Had to record with head phones, so a bit ruff.
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.Written shortly after the Egyptian uprising that over threw the Mobaric regime.
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And now for something completely different...
Well, friends, I think I may have over-banjo'd myself the past 3 years. It's not abandoned totally or permanently, but since the weather turned I've been feeling the need to turn to something else…
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Having a bit of an identity crisis.. not sure what I'm doing musically at the moment and here's the proof. Now mixed a little better.
I can't think of anything worth saying
I can't think of any other way to say it
I can't think of anything…
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Its a RnB type of popsong.. Starting with a singing way of rap and then furthering with singing.. It's not a love song but more a sort of song explaining what the person they love do to them and what they'd do for them..
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i see a light,
i see it, shining through,
like fire through the darkness,
through the gloom
i see myself, i'm rising up,
with a hand to raise me there,
to the sky and through the clouds,
to the blue
to the blue
i see a light shining…
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Harmony by [Tess Savigear](https://soundcloud.com/peppermintsky).
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An uplifting trance remix of Balham Nights - the recent song from Big Wedge Of Cheese. Get your glow sticks ready!
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Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad
If you listen closely at 47 seconds you will hear a "swoosh" sound - it was my wife moving something around upstairs. It adds something extra that works somehow. A breath, a sigh, a surprise...
Hope you…
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This is an old song that I wrote a few years ago. I noticed it on my iPod this morning and thought it was fun to hear it again.
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I'm doing just Fine with Buck Erpestad. Check out Bucks music here:
http://alonetone.com/buck
Here is what Buck said he added:
"So I used the tremolophone (vibes) and tuba sounds in Garageband and played them on the keyboard."
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One of my other hobbies is watching wildlife in the area. I'm the happiest with a pair of binoculars around my neck and my hiking boots laced up.
Rita and I took these photos over the last few days, near our home.
Dakota County / February 2014
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Dedicated to the Winter that never seems to end.
New Moon
G I’m making my way down this C old muddy G road
Em Clay and the C ruts slow me D down
And a G thin sheet of ice oer the C puddles so G cold
Em I’m making my way D down this G…
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Das ist der 1.Song von der 3. Single von Cum Splash!
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Here's number 08 in the saga of Reg……………..Reg has been so down since he stopped drinking…….he feels so alone he's gone and done something stupid…..but luckily he was found by the postman unconscious on the steps leading to his bedsit….the postman…
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This is a piece written for the Linux Musicians Uncompetition (http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10331).
The purpose of such un-competition is making some music with Linux tools, and then share it.
The premise for this…
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This is the 1.Songfrom the bonus album from the 2.Trilogie from Mordant In Flesh"
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Rapunzel and vocal are live followed by an attempt at drumming and the Les wanted to join in so i let him hope you enjoy!!.....The unemployed.....Have they really got the life of Riley..Like they tell us....i for one don't think so
DREAM IS LIFE…
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a soundtrack from my playlist soundtrack akustik
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LIFE
The art of life, it lies between
Hanging on and letting go
I didn't ask to be alive
It's the best life that I know
So we are here, so let us be
Adding to the gripping tale
The universe can know itself
As we journey on our…
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Written by Brent Kinder (Angie Fights Crime)
Performed and recorded by am/fm dreams
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performed by Rob Medcalf
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
is it funny? do I care what you say
(thinking hardly matters)
it’s not who you are at the end of the day
(thinking hardly matters)
you’re worse than a child so please go away…
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here, this place, the magic is all around us
feel, the breeze, carry away your sorrows
feel, the sand, warm and soft beneath us
see, the light, fading across the water
another day slips away
here, in paradise
touch, the water, cool and wet…
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new track from "the Hardest Blow"
vocals by Damian Lethbridge of AM/FM Dreams
Tune my soul, strum my heart, Sing me lies, tear me apart
Make me less, than I see, It’s not you, it’s just me me me
Life sucks and then you die
Waiting to…
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from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals & samples from Barney of Vivian Circle
I’m just singing for the war, inside me
Four thousand soldiers dead, maybe more, maybe more
It’s hard to read between the lines, so blurry now…
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you used to be a person in your shell
now you're just a shell
so big inside your home
the turrets face the lowly masses
so big inside your home
obvlious to the world as it cries out
and the sun begins to shine upon our tiny world
and…
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This one was recorded back in 2011 but I never posted it. I took a listen to it recently and liked what I heard with fresh ears. It's another of my surf tunes which I enjoy making from time to time.
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Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad
An easy tune with a couple guitar tracks and bass. Not perfect, but not all bad.
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Oh a lil bluesy feeling one night...so I threw this simple lil number down.
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more shity noise. this song was made with an online random song lyric generator, and a stock rhythm @ 255bpm
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this has a real voice this time...thanks REN-REN for collaborating. This will be last song I'll do for the moment, I need to focus on my studies for now thnx.:3
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Something more mellow. Got the idea from an Andy Aledort column in Guitar World magazine but can't remember which one and can't find the issue now.
Thanks for listening.
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The wife had the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" for her book club but life got in the way and she didn't have time to finish it before the club met...so of course we cheated and watched the classic Gregory Peck movie so she would know the ending…
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Thought I'd have a go at a soul number. FDR did some lead but the song was left all alone on my comp until today when I landed on it's lyrics while driving home. Thought I'd have a plumb at auditioning for the 3rd Reg, lol.
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Really don't know about this one. Feels like I've nicked it from some where or is it just a load rubbish !!!! Any way I've put it out there now. If rubbish it is, I'll take on the chin...... and sulk for a week or two !!!!!!
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