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RPM 2014
full, the ocean inside
of meadows smelling softly
of butterflies that swallow
all, there inside, it all
it’s too painful to think
and I must be stronger
than this tornado in my
soul, there inside, to release
tidal waves erupt…
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RPM 2014
take a stand against the man
when you’re backed into the corner
bears his teeth and growls
and scratches his claws on the floor
it takes a village to decide
how to count the many ways
to know your wrong from right
that don…
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Reg has succumb ...this being straight lark just isn't for him ....it's full of disappointment...at least he knows what to expect when he's high.....
Pour the whiskey from the bottle
fill the glass drain it dry
say goodbye to all that sorrow…
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Reg is not thinking right..........he just lonely...but not everyone understands that.....
(Igor very kindly offered to remix this version for me...Thank you Igor)
The curtain was raised
the show began
i took a breath as she came on
there…
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Reg is feeling lonely...he needs to feel some love...he wants to be surrounded by love.... the loneliness is getting unbearable for him........
i want love
i need it now
i want love
to take me over right now
i want love
i want love
i want…
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Reg is doing well but everything around him seems to be stopped or running at half speed...like its on rewind....he's findiing it hard adjusting to the normal pace of life after all those years on fast forward.......
STUCK IN A CLOUD
CAN NOT…
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Reg has been waiting for this day for what seems an age....and now it's here...Today is the day....
Today is the day
Today is the day
Today is the day
Todays got to be the day
i’m going to pack all those bad things in a suitcase and walk…
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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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U Make It So Hard (to say goodbye)
Lyrics - Boudreau
Music - Mairano / Boudreau
I just cant shake it no
I cant fake it no more
I try to make
it but i just cant get out the door
I wanna break it but its something
i don't wanna pay for…
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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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Recently picked up an old Ovation 12 string for cheap and also the newer Boss octave pedal, so I had to do something with the new toys
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All down to greed he lost it all....with a tip of the hat to Bob.......
they all said beware the doll
i laughed and carried on
down and down the well i fell
down and down the well i fell
the greed had tied my hands well
down i fell
the…
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This is an RPM collaboration with Bethan.
It's part of her 2014 challenge.
It was the most fun I had this RPM.
Thanks a bunch Bethan.
Enjoy!
© 2014 Mathis - Lennon
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Returning to an earlier time when things were simple.
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I keep pushing the pedal down and nothing is happening....
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For the Astro Mutt himself. Inspired by our dog Bear.
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Remember that last level of old Nintendo games? Late at night stressed out screaming at the television just hoping you will beat the game? The stress? The anxiety?
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Never Too Late
Lyrics - Boudreau
Music - Maiorano / Boudreau
You see the light, piercing your eyes
til it burns thru the back of your head
You wake from screams that shattered your dreams
loud enough to raise the dead
a whispering voice…
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Final track for RPM14. 5 guitar tracks. Lotsa editing. Not my usual way.
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Made additions to my friend Marco Lucchi's wall-of-electric-guitars- backdrop track "playground #18"
Track #9 for RPM Challenge album to be entitled Intruder.
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Early February improv with Treefrog on vocals, whistles, sounds & fx
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This is track ten from our 2014 RPM album, [Eleven](http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/eleven)
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The flames were visible for miles
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Solo guitar improv - playing around with the new loop pedal.
This is track nine from our 2014 RPM album, [Eleven](http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/eleven)
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Idiot's Delight
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To me this track sounds like getting lost in a funhouse of mirrors while a jungle drum duet spurs one ever deeper into the heart of the crazy maze. Eventually, just as the urge to give into the encroaching insanity can no…
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Treefrog vocal debut! Improv 2/7/14.
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This is track four from our 2014 RPM album, [Eleven](http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/eleven)
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** THIS IS ONLY 6 min long NOT 41 like it says, im not sure why, the mp3 tags going in to at are say 6:10)
Inspired by a magic day in Switzerland, we hiked among flowers in the Alps below the Eiger, had lunch outside just below the North Face…
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Wrote this and performed it for my mom's 70th birthday party. Our family is a bit crazy.
FORTY-THIRTY
Well, your birthday rolled around again
The way all birthdays do
And this year it’s a big one
Once again you’re sixty-two
I’m sorry…
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AAAAARGH HOW ABOUT PLAYING THOSE NOTES EVENLY THEN?
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RPM 2014
there’s hissing on the ground
keep your legs up high
listen for a rustle in the leaves
you can’t trust your eyes alone
it’s not a monster coming out
of a deep hole in the ground
this is real, I tell you
so real
you can’t trust…
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RPM 2014
horrible life
needs a favor tonight
keep the fakers away
and the hipsters and the leeches from my sight
horrible life
needs a drink or nine
shortly everything’s bright
and the music is neither awful nor sublime
it’s all…
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RPM 2014
on the other side of the river
swollen and impossible to wade
underneath a canopy of cool dark trees
she’s waiting there for me
see her eyes reflecting in the swiftly moving water
hear her voice merge with the rustle of the leaves…
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RPM 2014
The trumpets here are Midi on my keyboard. I ran the signal through a heavy metal amp sim. Then set it in place with EQ and verb.
Enjoy.
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to have you in your grasp is a piece that features Jacky Ligon’s programs FMTS version 2 and IVOR as well as session drummer and my 17 edo guitar.
She plays in fields of grass
Not afraid of the world at last
Did you want to be as free…
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MY TRIBUTE TO OLD COUNTRY MUSIC. CONWAY TWITTY, GEORGE JONES, ETC....
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Heres one from the 70's a rick derringer tune....Gene has done up a great backer with a great lead by Farrell thanks chaps.......i got the easy bit and it was a great fun....
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This needs some rearrangement... yeah... even so, don't ask me about the future, there is no future.
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This needs a better arrangement, but it's central to the album's themes and images.
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Music and poetry and sketches in a 'radio show' format - includes Lisa Thorne, Syd Meats, Andrew Pogson and Damian O'Vitch along with all the usual suspects
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Two walkie talkies
Pull over the cops
Paid our monthly fees
Then the money stops
Tiny makeshift farm
Cabbage, turnip greens
Germans built this barn
Fit for royalty
Tumble in the weeds
Hummingbirds and frogs
Naked bumblebees
Multi-coloured…
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Cardboard box, congas, shekeré, kokiriko, no metronome.
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RPM 2014
clenching teeth
through an iron jaw
your eyes are just slivers on your face
rosy glow
on your porcelain cheeks
there is nothing not a trace
happy, are you?
losing sleep
the weight is heavy
you can barely keep afloat
clenching…
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The title track to this year's RPM album. The lines actually forced themselves into being and then straightaway demanded that no other lines should be written.
When the songs speak that loudly, I do what I'm told.
OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR…
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THE LIGHTHOUSE
You hide an ancient soul
Behind your tired eyes
You keep a heart of gold
Buried deep inside
At least you tried
Always in control
Of what the world might see
Has taken quite a toll
You’re afraid that you might be
Lost…
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The Barn Storm (another band here on alonetone) is about as good as it gets. I had the fleeting idea last year that I should make an album inspired by the names of as many great indie musician friends as possible.
This is the only one that…
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Yeah,I know it's a long one,that's cause it was part of the "RPM CHALLENGE". The other thing is that February is my birthday month!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
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I constantly need to remind myself that music doesn't need to be frantic, so I wrote a song about it, and ignored my own advice.
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I wrote this in 2001, and wasn't a good enough player to create a releasable version. After 13 years and many abandoned attempts, I finally got it onto tape the way I yearned for it to sound all those years ago. This has been my Everest, and I…
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You've heard the phrase, "fix it in the mix" right? This is my attempt. I am seriously burnt out on RPM. I'm not feeling it anymore. I'm not hearing it anymore. I'm not physically capable of playing well anymore. I recorded the guitar leads…
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This is for my darling Tina, the most loving, caring, and beautiful woman I could've found.
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OK, it's time for you to guess the artist to whom this is a tribute. This is the latest mix in my ongoing album project.
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Here's the final track for my rpm album....Reg realizes he has to love the life he leads because there's only one bite of the apple and there's no second chances........
You Gotta love the life you need
MY LIFE IS FULL OF REGRET AND OH SO FULL…
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We all sing the song, caffeine-maddened hipsters drunk on double espresso. Chatter along.
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RPM 2014
I'll be working on this one.
Regs has some great vox planned for this.
Stay tuned.
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