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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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Lyrics:
Don’t you bow, to kings and queens
Rise above, everything
If the devil beckons, and the angels sing
Don’t listen to, anything
The time has come, to raise your hands
C’mon everybody, take a stand
Higher, Higher, Higher, Higher…
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LYRICS:
Live to my potential
End my life in debt
Meet no expectations
except what I regret
I lost
what a cost
There's no way I would have won
I know
let it go
There's no point what's done is done
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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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RPM 2014
been so long since I’ve been out of the city
maybe even longer than I can remember
tried to leave many times, oh what a pity
there’s no around anymore to take me away
should I be a hermit in a barrel
under the brush creek bridge…
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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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Improv with Treefrog -- potential track for RPM 2014. We'll see. - 2/19/14
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2/24/14 - It turns out to be the opening track on this year's RPM submission. Even with it's unpredictable, 'catch me if you can' tempo changes this is probably…
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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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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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Remembering Bliss
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2-3-14 Improv with new acoustic & new delay/looper. By the end of the month I'll probably have two or three albums worth of outtakes of this kinda stuff. Haven't even scratched the surface…
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What a treasure these marbles! Colorful, transparent, with or without stripes... Let's play?
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For Bee.
Also:
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced…
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Just bashed this out whilst in the middle of cooking dinner :)
Please excuse wrong chords and dodgy timing...
Enjoy!
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This lil Hendrix tune has been in my head lately so I decided to take a stab at it. Every time I attempt a cover of one of his songs I discover something new. This time it was his uncanny sense of phrasing and harmony within a blues context. It…
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This is an extreme variation of Paganini's 24th Caprice, no where near the original. I just took some parts from it and did them my own way, not trying to follow the original version at all. Thanks for listening.
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Wizard Mountain
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This is track number twelve from our 2014 RPM album, [Eleven](http://alonetone.com/cavestreet/playlists/eleven)
This is the second of three bonus tracks that each have parts that were recorded in February but also some…
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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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Florance! Il Duomo one of the many many great architectural wonders of Italy,, Filippo Brunelleschi creates one of the most beautiful Domed churches of all time in 1471, and it's still there today to marvel at,,,also i had my first gelato there…
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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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Thinking about and inspired a lot by trees lately. That, and the excellent film Rivers and Tides.
Arboreal
Drink in the sun
Until the day is done
Dance with the wind
Circle of life has no end
Roots into the ground
Arms reach up to the…
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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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Hello everyone...it has been a while and i trust you are all well. Here's a very simple tune i've been working on this week...enjoy!
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The poem is by Jason Kirk Bartley
This is in 19 edo and I play drums using a Simmons SMDP1 drum pad. The quality of poem is a lot higher than my music which is kind of an odd psychedelic blues not usually associated with the subject.
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One of my favorites from this year's album, probably because I didn't have to write the back story.
Little sis wrote a novel called "The Wishmaker" set on an island off the coast of Maine. I'm betting y'all'll be seeing it on shelves soon…
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THE LIGHT OF YOUR SMILING FACE
I’ve been warming my hands in the light of your smiling face
I never knew what I was missing
I thought I had it all
Summer fading in the distance
I wasn’t ready for the fall
Leaves turn gold
Just before…
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When I was a junior in high school, I read the book "Illusions" by Richard Bach. It was "that book" for me and at age sixteen I started realizing what I was capable of becoming.
I read it again twenty-five years later, and as the line in the…
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MIGHT BE A SIGN
I didn’t think about you all this weekend
While I was standing in the rain
I didn’t worry ‘bout where you were going
Or where you might have been
It might be a sign I’m going insane
I didn’t think about you all this evening…
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IF I WAS A JEW
Words and Music © 2009 by H. Dean Berry
If I was a jew
I'd be better than you
In fact, you'd all be my servants
You'd be kissing my boots
If I was a jew
I'd control what you think
I'd program you to love me
Using just…
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Years ago, in Winter, a friend of mine sent me pictures from Moscow, where she lives. And that inspired me to write this "soundtrack".
The vocal theme is "sung" by Vocaloid, a software singer. Unfortunately I don't have a singer of that calibre…
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Reg and Regfunkel reunion tour 2012...live in the Bunker...
Yesterday's Dreamer
Yesterday's dreamer sat on the sidewalk
Trying to find a way through his clouded mind
There was no rhyme or reason
To why he was feeling so down inside…
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I think the muse of jj cale must have paid me a visit/
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A love song... It's amazing how easy it would've been to miss her... So lucky I didn't.
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Thought i'd try a bit of country.........
When i was a young boy my mama said to me
love with head not your heart see
cause your heart will lead you
to be a fool
if you find a girl with your head you’ll know she’ll stay for sure
those…
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This, along with the male voice opening track is very simple and very strong. Walking anticlockwise in file, arms straight up, palms up for Hayy (Life), arms down, palms push towards earth, for Allah.
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This is totally different from anything else I have ever done, pretty crazy and very poor rap I am sure but I do like it and I would love to find an adventurous bunch of people to do it as a dance.
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There is a YouTube video with links to a guitar instruction video.
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This dance emerged in the moment and is still the one which most consistently works best for me. There is YouTube video and links to guitar instruction.
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One of my two all-time favorite dances - nothing particularly special musically but amazing to have danced on the day. There is a YouTube video of the dance and a guitar instruction link.
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An original improvisation as part of my Sufi zikr / Dances of Universal Peace practice.
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This has been in my head forever, but I never managed to pull it together until now. The lyrics were inspired by @_FloridaMan on twitter. Formerly known as RPM 2014 #4
Is it overreaction
when everyone acts that way
does it lead to distraction…
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Seeing Steve Vai on the G3 tour back really inspired this song.
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Myself, I'm a lover not a fighter.
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SMOTHERED IN LOVE
I was down at The Clearing House,
with all my boys, we was drinkin’
One talked some shit, one laid down the law, yeah
y’know, it got me to thinkin’
He said, get that turkey on…
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live looping with "Skully", my customized fretless junk Strat.
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RPM 2014
why feel safe
in this house
feel the walls have eyes
they’re staring at me
feel the eyes closing in
there’s no escape
screaming out, like child
who’s lost his way
the walls are closing in
I cannot breathe
where’s reality…
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Dug up an old one while I'm working on a new track. We all love a good woman but .......... :)
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We got the Brass band back in for this one....although..Reg is trying to hide away from the world he can't find love he can't find a job he likes he's only just keeping a hold of the reigns but the good thing is he's not drinking........
i’ve…
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A cast off from our current RPM project. Let your inner chest hair flow!
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Ahead of Workfare being introduced in the UK in April 2014...
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Reg has decided he's never gonna be financially stable so he going looking for what money can't buy LOVE!
come little closer
come on come close
come a little nearer
where i can see you the most
i want you
i want your love
all i need
all…
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The opening track to this year's RPM album.
PATCHWORK PLAN
You don’t have a job and I don’t have a place to stay
I make just enough for all the bills you have to pay
We won’t roll in dough but who needs money anyway
It don’t sound half…
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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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This started as a 3 or 4 minute long piece, written after falling completely in love with Robin Trowers' 'Bridge of Sighs' LP, and the track "Too Rolling Stoned" in particular. By the time I brought it to the table for This Caustic Autumn to arrange…
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Track 2 from the album Novella Minor.
Started as an acoustic track that I brought to practice one day, and then it turned into this.
Means to an End
So what's that you're reading?
I promise you, I don't know the name.
I choose between me and…
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Originally by Freddie King, I did the John Mayall (Eric Clapton) version since the March 2014 issue of Guitar World mag has a good transcription of it. Looking back now I wish my lead tone wouldn't have been quite so harsh in places.
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The RPM journey begins here....Reg has fallen again it was soon after he got wagon he was falling off...but he's come to a crossroads and this time he means it this time....things are going to change.....
TOMORROW IT STOPS
Another week just…
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"If answerable style I can obtain
Of my celestial patroness, who deigns
Her nightly visitation unimplor'd,
And dictates to me slumb'ring, or inspires
Easy my unpremeditated verse:"
Paradise Lost: Book IX - John Milton
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Well, this is the hastily written, poorly performed, weakly sung, badly mixed love song I threw together a few years back about the last time I saw the Northern Lights. It happened to be the night I fell in love with my future wife (and knew…
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A favorite Bob Dylan song i think it's quite apt today in dear old Blighty as she's starting to sink...i got the local Brass Band in for this one it was a bit of a tight squeeze but we managed to get it done....Hope you enjoy and the words get…
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RPM tack 2 --i stand atop the cathedral Notre Dame, fluffy white clouds float in an electric blue sky, gazing towards to Tour De Eiffel, i notice a small balloon flitting and flying along in the gentle summer breeze over the skyline of Paris
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