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Last of the archives for now. A set of reels from the Last Nights Fun album. I did pipes, whistle and guitar on the last tune in the set. There's a live version of this up here too. This is the studio cut
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I was flapping around working on something else with just vocal and guitar the other day. It wasn't going well, so I just started slapping the guitar and singing one of my favourite songs.
What I didn't realise was that I was recording it…
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Well, I'm almost on a roll now - this little love song was written, arranged, and recorded in just a week. I've been meaning to attempt something like this for years, just never got round to it.
I'd actually settled down to finally record a…
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This one's a bit of a ponderous beastie.
It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, it's got a lot to do with Sunday 18th June 1815.
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**Cold - A A J Russe**
Your wagon-train
Is out of danger
And of course you never lie
Not…
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Collaboration with Freight Drive Reprobates (music) and Darkarma (lyrics).
Don't think it's my best, but it's been hanging around for so long, I needed to get it out so I can move on to the next one :)
Enjoy!
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With the electrorgasmic Aged Machine, written and recorded for the RPM Challenge 2012.
Sabotaged by the coffin card girl
Rode out of the cartomancy world
I'm soaking and sick of this
Of being a bee sting because he doesn't know a good…
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Walking home from the pub late at night or early in the morning down the canal bank in the dark can sometimes be a little spooky......WOoooOOoooOOOoo!
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Also from the "Last Nights Fun" album. This tune was written by Mike Dugger who played mando and fiddle. I think we did a really nice job of arranging this tune in retrospect. Roger Landes on guitar in the first half. I think I did the bouzouki…
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This is the first time I have played in drop D
this is a Springsteen song that he borrowed the title from a Pete Seeger song..and I like the way Warren Haynes plays it live...so here is my humble attempt at it...
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New one from me. It's ended up as a bit of a "crying into yer beer at Bob's Country Bunker" sort of song lol...
I've been sat on these lyrics in some form or another for absolutely years. I first wrote them one very dark night a few years after…
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With music written and performed by Aged Machine for the RPM Challenge, 2013.
Demo version.
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Summertime in Boston, and this little tune is about how it goes by way too fast. Some hilarious chatter between the guys before and after they kick of a pseudo-psychedelic groove that I hope you will enjoy.
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With huge thanks to the awesomeinfinity Jake, Wrinkled Shirt, who let me use his gorgeous instrumental track "Gaza".
The sun left the city, from the ground
Moonlight woke up, falling down
Why are you scared, free as a bird
Now that the heat…
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my father was airborne 82nd on June 6th Normandy. like so many others he rarely spoke about it, just did what he had to do, and moved on. here's to all who have made the world a little better (this is a re post of a piece i wrote for rpm 2013
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The music you hear I created myself and played by myself, apart from the drums. I called this song "The Rain Began" it's basically about a couple where the bloke cheated, so she told him where to go, but he kept coming back ( full of regret…
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This one is dedicated to my dear friend John. Thanks for changing my life for the better....
Also a big thanks to our own Greg Connor who helped me get the chords for my own uke accompaniment, and who kindly played the beautiful guitars…
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I kissed an activist...
now Uncle Sam is pissed!
She goes around...
tryin' to burn things down.
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Sadly, Annie and Allan are now divorced...
The games are over...
Annie & Allan
Annie and Allan were having a problem
Made a decision to go their own ways
Annie and Allan made an announcement
Not even knowing how it saddened…
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Futurecrimesre-revisited.
a WAV format version of the album is available on soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/brett-warren
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Recorded 9 Aug 2015, the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown
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I wrote the lyrics and melody to this song a week or so ago when I was feeling that unsettling disconnected feeling we all get from time to time when we're missing the people we love.... Then I gave myself the challenge to try a few things with…
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With Big Time Operator, who originally uploaded his awesome music with the offer that anyone can add vocals...too good to miss! Love this music, and had loads of fun wailing. Thanks Chris!
Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)
http://alonetone…
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Just a good old fashioned up-tempo blues shuffle. Hope you like it :-)
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A love song for the heart break fest on the otherside.....
I DON'T KNOW
Baby don't leave
Don't leave me cold
The nights still young but it's starting to feel old
The day we met still burns bright in my mind
But I know that deep inside you…
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With 6LA8, from their brilliant album "Follow the fanatic" at https://6la8.bandcamp.com/album/disc-1-follow-the-fanatic
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An old song of mine recorded fresh at Winterland studios.
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Melancholy little tune about an ending that we never saw coming.
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This is an excerpt of 'Dead Cat Bounce' recorded at a live performance of counter)induction at the University of Pennsylvania.
Program note:
A “dead cat bounce†is an expression used in financial circles to describe a brief and temporary…
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A new song, still just a sketch, recorded live at Winterland studios for my demo. Story about a guy living in Tuscon, AZ, lamenting the irony of the beauty and hardship of living in the desert.
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I uploaded this tune several years ago. The other day I found the track was truncated,and when I tried to replace it, that didn't work. Well, anyway, since then I've redone all the vocals and remixed & remastered the tune, so I just blew away…
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Fellow alone toner Gary Talbott kindly volunteered to add some of his own vocals and strings to this song, so I gladly took him up on it. Fun to keep evolving this one. Thanks Gary!
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Music: Vaisvil
Vocals/Lyrics: TheTwoRegs
Percussion: Norm
DEMOCRACY
If I could ask for some calm please!
Can everybody just settle down calm down please?
You must vote to separate the wheat from the chaff.
The wheat from the…
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Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs
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took the chord progression from "The Weight" by The Band and added some things to it.
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an improv for BB King (RIP) after watching a video on how he does that vibrato thing.
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another little doodle....
I JUST WANT TO ROCK N ROLL
all i want from life is too feel like i’ve lived
the day they bury me i want to feel like theres nothing left
while theres life in these bones i’m gonna nothing but live
i want to rock…
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We really had a wonderful time working with Sister Savage and we have since inducted her into the band under her new virtual ego: Violet Hemlock!
Thanks Tess!
So...Without further Ado...
"Love Song for the Moon"
by VIVIAN CIRCLE featuring…
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inevitaBLE END OF THE WORLD AS SEEN BY pRIVATE jOKER
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Another album sneak peek? I guess so!
A redo that has taken WAY too long. Hope you like.
*updated audio 8/6/17
LYRICS:
Metamorphosis
Watch me shed my old skin
Cast off the past
Leave my kin behind
So I mutate
Become whatever…
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Private Joker's development away from the pop punk that floods your ears.
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I was up early this morning before the children so i got me and Les to do and ad-lib song in one take....i wish i had turned the mic down a bit as you can hear me hitting the strings but hey its a kind of percussion...isn't it?
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Martin Garrix has taken the EDM world by storm, and shows no signs of slowing down. One of Garrix’s most recent releases, “Forbidden Voices,” which he gave away in celebration of reaching 10 million fans on Facebook, has a more emotional atmosphere…
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The bass player for this one isn't a Prood...thanks for the inspiration Steve.
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It's been 11 months since my sweetie of 29 years died. I'm still in shock and broken over her death. She was more than a list of attributes, ideas, feelings or whatever. She was my greatest love and friend. Some would say that just corney. I…
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I've been messing about with the bass and came up with this bass-line and the rest just fell into place....it's a bit bumpy but hey i'm learning as i go...
THE HARD RAINS GONNA FALL AND FALL
Baby
it’s all gone wrong
once we we were good, we…
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Have been busy this last few weeks with DIY children wedding photos coming out of my ears. But finally found time to pick Les up and create something and came up with this one....Hope you enjoy!!(live in the cellar)
Everyone
Everyone wanting…
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Sometimes you need to stay up late to try to force yourself to dream.
When I wrote this song (and started singing it a bit), I knew that my voice could never give it what it needed... So I turned it over to one Sister Savage... And she did…
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I wrote this song earlier this week, and reached out to the wonderful Greg Connor and SL Krell here to help me with the lead, rhythm and bass guitars to give it a nice country love song feel. They killed it!!!!!! Thanks to them both for making…
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My humble tribute to Freddie King... Without him we wouldn't have Eric & without Eric, I would probably have never picked up a guitar.
This is sort of a pastiche of Hide Away & The Stumble & tracks like that :-)
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It is recommended to watch the video full screen. All audio is derived from the museum.
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This was written as a result of many of the things I've seen posted on a well known social site, that would have probably been better off left un-posted.
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Wrote about & for the Good Wife while she was recovering in hospital. Yes it's sloppy !!!!
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The local songwriters were in my living room earlier this week, and we had a great night. We recorded a live version of this song I posted earlier this month, and I thought you'd enjoy hearing Colin W, Greg C and Scott Z playing and singing too!
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Found an old one. Wrist is almost fit for use. Just need a spark from the old grey matter.
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Now, just a mad bit of fun. No offence to all the other Great versions of this song !!!!
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Men were disgned for short term relations, unlike women whose ideal is the perfect family, a man gets trapped in a game called matrimony, he just wants a piece of the cake and he ends up buying the whole bakery. Gives up his freedom for a bit of sex.
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It takes thousands of lives as animals before you get one human body.
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Dear amigos, you have never been alone, and you never will.
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Written at the top of a volcano in Mexico City, looking at the buildings and the polluted gray skies. It was a rainy afternoon and the lights went out, then I remembered childhood moments.
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Women are the source of inspirantion for this song. Women of all ages, shapes and sizes. Daughters of Eve, witches and fairies.
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