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Here is a Steve Krell song.
Buck Erpestad and I recorded live using two acoustic guitars.
Here is a link to Steve's original version : http://alonetone.com/slkrell/tracks/saskatchewanshostalconnorkrell
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One of my favorite songs I've recorded. An amalgamated tribute to 80's Crimson, Andy Summers and Peter Gabriel.
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Based on a poem by William Sharp that I found while researching my family history.
The poem has been put to music once already, by one Christopher Goldsack, http://www.sundown.pair.com/Sharp/piratepoem.htm but I wanted to put my own little…
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A collaboration by Burtog, oldrottenhead and 64Guitars on a cover of the song by The Smiths, though influenced by the Love Spit Love version.
Tremolo guitar, bass and drums by Burtog.
Vocals by oldrottenhead.
Other guitars by 64Guitars.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom
I'm gonna shoot you right down
Right offa your feet
Take you home with me
Put you in my house
JOHN LEE HOOKER - BOOM BOOM
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Don't Be Frightened
Don't Be Scared
Think of all those times we shared.
Don't you know we all lose all we ever dared love.
From the window, a view
Of a young me and you
Don't you know we all lose all we ever dared love.
I heard a rumour in…
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A Blues recorded by the side of the road, of course! I pinched the words from an old Bob Dylan tune. I sure hope no-one minds... :D
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A view on ghosts. Used my tenor recorder, guitars, and bass. Bizarre how once song writing starts, it seems to write itself. Hope you like.
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I decided to challenge myself by requesting some beats from a beat producer, Ant 'Brave Toaster' Hughes. One of the beats was named Popcorn Chicken.
I added a few bits and pieces with my virtual keyboard (including a little Blondie tribute…
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Dave Sederook on lead...great guy, great musician...jammed many a night with him. This if from 1994...best year ever...just sayin'...
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Most of the lyrics written in 1999, a tough year. Many thanks to JB for his awesome screaming lead playing (done first take, I should add!!!) and to LadyJane for supplying some oooo's. (anyone needing some vocals - send her your song!)
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A saucy little ditty from the Jip and LJ laboratory. The first thing I've sung for 3 weeks (been resting a very strained voice - eek!)
I'm having a party, I'm inviting everyone
There'll be much frivolity, booze flowing, so much fun
I may…
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I've been messing with Jip's Gong Bong! Enjoy :o)
Do what you do, do it for you
Make your imaginings come true
Follow your dreams and not the crowd
Be you for you and shout it loud, shout it proud, yeah
See your big dream
Show your true self…
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I was playing with my new uke (yellow and fruity), picked up my Beatles songbook and this popped out :)
Enjoy!
xox
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TRUE STORY
Here comes Ernest he say how you want your eggs
Don’t matter what you say to me, don’t care how much you beg
This here is my damn place and you are just a passing through
You’re lucky just to be alive cause I don’t care about…
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Leave your best behind
They say your life is nothing more
Than the blinking of an eye
And everything you say or do
In a moment flashes by
And in the end what is left of you
Are the memories that unwind
They tell the tale of the one they…
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January Town
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With the snow coming down
in this January town
how could I not think of you
Oh the words that you said
still echo in my head:
When one dies one is born anew
In the parking lot of the graveyard
a stranger walked up to me
he said…
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The year was 1989 and my high school rock band, Tempest Fero, was feelin' proggie! I can't remember who wrote what for this one. I do know we were quite stoked to have the little 4/4 to 3/4 to 6/8 thing at the end of the quiet parts. I also…
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She Will / Like the Rain
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She came in like the rain
More than half a day past due
And I swear she looked the same
In the way dreams and memories never do
She passed me with a glancing smile
As I tried to look away
But her gaze could…
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Not penned by The Beatles but a nice little tune :)
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Originally written on guitar in about 1996 with Phil Tapp...now down a tone on Piano...
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Re-make of a song I wrote for my Mum in the late 90's, as a nod to Jim Reeves.
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We were killing time
We had a killing time
Always a killing time
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angel delight
as soon as i awoke i ran downstairs to my laboratory
to see what my strange attractor had brought me
at first it had been disappointing: a few wisps of smoke
some sea-shells and butterfly wings
but this time i found something…
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drowning in a sea of vaseline
alive or dead or somewhere in between
sit very still and read a magazine
wash and wash but never get it clean
it must be true I saw it on the screen
painting all the roses for the queen
don't eat that you don…
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A simple little guitar instrumental from my RPM 2013 album. This carries the ocean & water theme that's loosely present in that album, and was witten to follow the song "Twenty Atmospheres".
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This is a rock song!
Its sort of ok but i'd rather have a pint of strong ale!
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Lido shuffle from way back in the 80's a Boz Scraggs cover with Johnny Robbo from over at the Cool Lab, John really smashes the music….hope you enjoy
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June, the summer is in full swing. We cook jam from wild rose petals (or more precisely, Svetlana brews, I play for her).
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Holed up in my shed at work last winter looking out the window and writing down anything i could see!
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Another one from Jip and LJ. Didn't realise how 'Teletubby' it was until it was done!
Baby
Can't you see I'm running from you
trying to get away from you so
you can't do your usual trick and
mesmerise me
Maybe
You already had it in your…
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" "Jabberwocky"
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub…
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.legg4/fliessite.htm
princess anorexia ('90s demo i think)
princess anorexia was out walking
in the magnetic fields of her mother
queen anaesthesia, whose reign had died down
until now it was no more than…
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Kubla Khan. Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. (poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea…
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After lots of chirpy, upbeat stuff coming from me and Jip, here's some misery - oh yes, and some rapping - oh! and a little bit of swearing! Well, there wasn't much else I could do with it.
Enjoy, as much as you can, and I'll get back to…
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Originally an assignment for a Coursera guitar course given by Berklee College of Music. My final grade for the whole course was 98.3%, yay!
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Dave sent me over this punk track so i went back in time and found my best East London accent and off i went .....i really love what dave has done with the guitar work it really laid the bed for the lyrics ...Best played really loud.....
The…
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A little Chico Style Blues with slide guitar and awesome blues piano.
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The plinky sound is an acoustic guitar prepared with a drumstick stuck under the strings.
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The idea behind the song was to create complete chaos you might find on a carnival. Flutes are my lifelong obsession.
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Ladies and Gentleman,
a brand new banger from the TEN.SENSE cauldrons!
all music composed by yours truly in Ableton Suite...
and I love feedback so tell me you thoughts!
for more on TEN.SENSE visit listn.to/tensense, ten-sense.com, or follow…
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the sarangi that dreamed an electric dream....in raga bageshri...a raga of the apres miudi
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I lurch crablike across the boundaries of public decency.
I feel no shame.
Its just a job.
Someone has to do it...
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just a fingerpicking exercise with some improvisation that i recorded for a Coursera course.
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This is the overture for our game that we have in pre production. For further details check out our website. www.doublevisiongames.org
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Just a little cover tune I did in preparation for last year's live RPM Challenge album "Letters."
Nylon string Yamaha travel guitar, vocals, and one mic... Missed notes and all.
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Previously released as "a little moon music", Here, used as the background for a video i made in Oct of Great White Sharks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX5R3lrxmYs
This is not the typical Discovery Channel version, here i saw the more languid…
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Back from the pub and straight on stage in the cellar....Hic!! Burp Fart!!!
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A spacey instrumental recorded during the Dawn Chorus this mornin (18/6/2013) If u turn it up u can hear birds tweetin merrily away...
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Many thanks to Greg Connor for helping me with this track...I have been playing this Lindsey Buckingham / Fleetwood Mac song for a while, but could never sing it...so I recorded the acoustic guitar and sent it to Greg and he added outstanding…
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Lady Jane's one woman band! No loops today - I got all my instruments out - all being guitar (played with plectrum in neck without realising - oops!), bongos, rain stick, ting sha bells, tibetan singing bowl and tinkly bell thing from my miniature…
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Cover of River of Deceit, by Mad Season. This is the first song I've finished in a long time.
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Diana, or "Di", as we most often call her, has such a sultry voice and we wrote this song especially to let that aspect of her voice shine through. It's a reserved yet hot and sexy Urban R&B piece.
Alan wrote the music and Di and Alan co…
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This is a Rock Ballad guitar instrumental written and performed by Alan. It reaches deep into the listener's emotions to feel the sadness and sorrow of the piece.
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This is Alan singing a slow R&B Pop ballad. Think of Al Greene with a modern backing track. Alan wrote the music and the lyric. Let us know if you like it a bit...thanks!
(c) 2013 Alan D. David, BMI (Half of Double Trouble)
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Music: Jip
Verse lyrics: Mark Goldsack
Chorus lyrics: Lady Jane
Lead recorder: Lady Jane
Vocals: Lady Jane
A wonderful collaboration that came about by Jip and Mark sending me music/lyrics totally independently and me having a eureka…
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Heres one i have done with Chunk's excellent backer..
Down this Road (Lyrics)
She said, she was sweet
she lied she were no where complete
she said that she wanted my babies
that should have told me that she was a little crazy
one night, thats…
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For the grandchildren, when I get some!
Moonbee started life as a doodle, then he was turned into a little story, then a song!
This is Part 1 of the series - I have no idea how many there will be in total!
Enjoy! xox
P.S. This is…
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Part 2 of The adventures of Moonbee and friends.
Just me and my new guitar :)
Enjoy
xox
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When he knows....... he knows.....Acoustic Electric & Harp..............
All i know (Lyrics)
I sit here cold
i sit here lost
knowing no where to go
don’t know who to ask
don’t know what to say
or do
all i know is i love you…
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Has an intro and outro. It's a guitar solo! ...I woke up from a Coma a couple of years ago with nerve damage in my left arm, and was told I'd never play again. Since then, I've worked hard to do so, and this is one such attempt.
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23 notes per octave home made electric guitar
another version is here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/diy-23-edo-stick-guitar-improvisation/
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Yeah I know, trying to kill one of my favourite songs is madness, but the story is ... my daughter was getting lonely in her flat so she got herself a friend, Roscoe the Pug, could've tried to write one, but came in my head. I'll take the flack…
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Simple tune I wrote on Bonfire Night, many moons ago...four-track recording, w guitars and bass.
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I'm singing lead on this. It was recorded to 24 track, 2 inch tape, I'm thinking. I have those somewhere, but they've turned gooey. Sadly, it seems to go into the red during the chorus, but I can't fix that now. I have more stories about the…
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A poetic piece written on the fly by Gene. Vinnie does the lead guitar on this all the way through. It's inspired by a tale of a woman and the dunes of Pismo Beach, California. The rest is up to your imagination.
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Vinnie commissioned a song for Gene to write for Vinnie's other band, The Blue Kind. It never made it to the Blue Kind's set list so we decided to do it ourselves, for ourselves. Great chord progression!
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broken
Damn I thought you were real
Now they saying I was wrong
When all you need is someone on your side
To help protect your favourite disguise
Oh the summer was short
Giving way to all kinds of rain
You wont believe the dreams that…
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Just messing with a few chords and extended it a bit. Could do with some words, but can't think of any - feel free if you can add something) cheers
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CGFCGC GC
Every time I read a book
and try to turn the pages
I Shake. Just a little.
Ever since the night
You said you were leaving me
I Shake. Just a little
© 2013 ROYAL T MUSIC
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A Flamenco piece in palo(genre) of Taranta, ending with a little Buleria. This is about a man, who wanders like ghost along snowfields flooded with starlight near one northern city. He pointlessly looks to the sky. A kind of city legend from the…
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Ah! My favorite Saint.
Tuned Congas, glass-beaded shekere and bass cajon.
4/4. BPM? Heaven knows. Had the headphones blissfully off for this one.
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Hi everyone.. I wrote this song for Archie Watson, son of my dear friends Lauren and Bradley Watson, who sadly was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease just before Christmas. Tay-sachs is a rare genetic disorder for which there is currently no cure…
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Another song that didn't get recorded in February
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DJBride put this backer up on Songcrafters looking for some lyrics and i couldn't resist so here's my second Friday nights offering for you ears...the original instrumental can be found here http://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=18439…
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