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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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New original from me, hot off the old wotsit.
When it was half written yesterday, I was considering binning it as a throwaway exercise - I do that quite often. But I played the songwriting demo to someone else and, er, apparently I should finish…
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Instrumental Rock Blues,
Just Connecting with the Sounds, Life and Beyond,
Thanx for Tuning in "G"
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Helplessly
But then sometimes in the colorless light of a hazy windy moonlit night, the feeling haunts you like you've known that you would always be alone.
But then sometimes in the sparkling sun, you think of things you should have done…
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Dedicated to all musicians who get asked "what do expect to get from making music?"
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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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More from the way back machine. A set of polkas from the 1992 Scartaglen album "Last Nights Fun". Former band mate Mike Dugger wrote the first 2 tunes and I can't remember where we got the last tune. There is a live version of this up here. This…
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Title track from the Scartaglen album of the same name. There is also a live version of this up here. Oddly enough the live version of the set actually has the tune called Last Nights Fun, but for some reason we couldn't get that to work in the…
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This track is from the 1986 Scartaglen album "The Middle Path". The first tune "Jezaig" was composed by Breton musician Gilles Le Bigot. The second tune is one of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" and is attributed to King Alfonso X of Spain
Roger…
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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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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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Another song with rain in it..............damn stuff gets everywhere.........
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Madeline Koestner
she tries to push me away
nothing that i can do
so hard just to maintain
and keep my mind focused
to not let my eyes betray
i’m watching her slide away
into the abyss, call it nothing
call it nothing…
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The new album will be up in a few weeks! I just finished the vocals in this one and was pretty pleased with the unexpected results. So yeah, sneak peek.
Lyrics:
Lay me on a slab
State the time and date
Describe what you see
Measurements…
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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. :)
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I really like Sonny Sharrock's approach to the guitar. It's hard for me to play totally "free" like he could.
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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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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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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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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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A chord arrangement from some SRV chords and stuff.A real hand cramper.
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Oh yet another nostalgic blast from the past. I found this unbelievable backing track surfing the web some years ago. I usually never use backing tracks because they usually suck bad . But this one is like having mitch and noel at your side. I…
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This song was originally written for the Angie Fights Crime album XCHANGE and is now the first single off our upcoming album.
verses: G - Bm - C - Am X2
pre-chorus: C - C - D - G
C - C - (D - C…
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A tribute to my good friends Saturn's Return from Southport, ME. A great hard punk/metal band. The first three parts were instrumental songs, so I felt I could offer my playing this way. Check em out on Facebook!
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Well, its that time of year again and all 4 of the ladies have something to say to you this Christmas. I used Wrinkled Shirt's tune, Skydroll, as a frosty backdrop and brought them all along for the sleigh ride.
In order of their appearance…
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"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert.
Since then it was translated into English…
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"On Green Dolphin Street" (originally entitled "Green Dolphin Street") is a 1947 popular song composed by Bronislau Kaper with lyrics by Ned Washington. The song, composed for the film Green Dolphin Street (which was based on a 1944 novel of the…
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Completed 1 minute to midnight on February 29th 2012. RPM, we are win!
Sandbags took some of Savage's homemade stems and grew this in the closing hours of the RPM Challenge.
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Including the following sample from Freesound.com:
http://www.freesound.org/people/sleep/sounds/1375/
deep
it can be stowed away
it can be remembered
it can't be thrown away
when it's deep
hurt
it can be cherished
it can be channelled…
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I am learning a bit more each day about how to write/compose for guitar ,, quite fun. This RPM piece is dedicated for our 16 and 1/2 year old mini red Dachshund,, Howie.. though blind and mostly deaf, and recovering from illness, he still…
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Psychonaut
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Psychonaut adrift
in the hazy realm
of confusion
When you
come back to us
won't you please
do your best
to remember
where you've been
to remember
what you've learned
Psychonaut, o psychonaut
adrift upon…
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Classic hip-hop beat. Sampled on Maschin (Native Instruments).
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At last... I've managed to finish something.
This was written months ago. I was about to try recording it with one or two others when this year's decorating started. With various buggered fingers, back muscles, etc, etc, I wasn't actually able…
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This was the result of a recent EM class. We had to combine audio and digital instruments. The two classical guitar tracks are of course the audio portion. Used Logic X for the other instruments. Hope you enjoy.
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I wrote this song for my sister who got married last June. I performed it at her wedding reception. It's about going through dark times, depression, and the power of love that gets you through the pain.
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It was really cold the winter I wrote the main guitar arpeggios for this.
It was cold again the winter we arranged and recorded it.
So far, this winter's been fairly mild.
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Produced with the awesome help of my friend, John Davis, who I think is on AloneTone.
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More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut
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A small project using LogicX instruments. Love, Peace to all of you!
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This was a song I wrote last year, and haven't recorded until last night. We had a jam session at my place, so you'll hear some folks you know on this live recording.. Feels like a old time sing-a-long as I listened again this morning.
Colleen…
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Written in San Diego after a holiday in Thailand back in 1992. This particular version featured two buds who learned the song that particular day, the bass player and the vocalist. Neither did either for a living, but it was a blast. Recorded…
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from the album xChange
performed by AM/FM Dreams
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Just another song originally created as a very long poem about a kid who wrote 40 poems, all about the same girl.
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I live 15 miles away from Chi-Town.... What can I say!
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Gary the drummer bought a new song along we are working on in our band "BIG BAD DOG" with Jon on Guitar and myself on vocals....the recording is a bit shit but hey were trying.......Watch out the band BIG BAD DOG will be performing near you soon…
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we have named the band BIG BAD DOG so we need a song and i've just written this one.....it's needing some work but as the bare bones i think it has something..what do you think?
Big Bad Dog
the big bad dog
doesn ‘t do what you want him…
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Archival stuff from the 1986 Scaraglen album "the Middle Path". A friend recently asked me about it and I got around to getting some of it in digital form finally. I played whistle on this set, which are tunes we learned from some County Kerry…
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picture from Vaisvil family album – 4th of July circa 1915 – 1920
percussive electric guitar playing with gongs, Tibetan bells and cymbals.
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Silence in the air further cold
Breathing again.
Nobody can see into my old feeling.
No, no one can take this moment
No, no one can change what I think now
I am free
I could open my eyes again
Silence in the rain further cold
bBreathing…
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"Epilogue" from my album "I should follow Steve's thought".
FREE online on my website www.misterpeculiar.com
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Another cover of a rare Nirvana song. A bit of extrapolation was required.
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A much different version of an old demo. Sometimes things really do change.
LYRICS:
Been lost
for quite some time
who knew what to do
Living with
the runaround
Never had a clue
Suddenly
it all changed
Shook me to my core
I'll…
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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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This is the closest I'd get to psychedelic rock, I don't even know what to call this kind of song, to be honest.
Technically this is a redo of an old demo song of mine, but of course things grew in the retelling.
The rock section of the…
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Techno dance music used in a Sundance Film Festival comedy.
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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Song that came from nowhere. Fun song. And it's been played on the radio
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Tribute to the 1965 Yarbirds song of the same name
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When you need some information, what do you do ?.
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A dark ambient/ritual track.
From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"
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This is a musical sketch for a sweet Italian girl living in Milan who was helping me learn Italian.
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Main Theme music from a Sundance Film Festival comedy.
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