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This was an RPM track back in the day, and I've been playing it various ways to find a setting for it within the band repertoire. This doesn't sound much like our band would do it but it came out nicely, so i thought i'd share it.
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This is the lite version.
I have a real heavy version of this one still on the presses.
I'm not sure which one I like better.
Crunchy guitars and stuff :)
Cool Hammond patch right?
It's yours if you want to jam on it.
Feel free…
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STEPPIN' ON SOME TOES Key - Em and E
Em
Well, some folks got big noses
Some folks got big hats
Some folks stand out in the aisle
Make it hard to pass
Am
Some folks they got money
Em
They…
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I wrote this song while out hiking some awesome trails in Zion National Park... gave me some excellent inspiration. I also tried some different stuff with the mixing and using my keyboard... so trying to push a few of my envelopes...
Here…
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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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Just a little something I've been tinkering with. Lyrics and Music from yours truly, Nick P
Am I fool to love you
Am I fool to love you
I'd drive 300 miles just to see your smile
Here I am, but you want that other man
Am I fool to love…
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Song inspired by listening to Nick Cave and reading all the bad news in the newspapers. Enjoy.
Lyrics and Music by yours truly, Nick Plagakis
Damn it’s cold, as I exit this road
Time is now to intoxicate the soul
Up high, private jets…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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Inspired by a gorgeous recording on a wax cylinder by the composer, Tanburi Cemil Bey (1873-1916).
Performed on politiki lyra (classic kemençe), a small bowed fiddle from Istanbul.
Recorded at The Banff Centre, November 2008.
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I had a wish to sing along with Greg, so he offered me a piece of his Cherry Pie to sing along with... I added a few other bits here and there as well. Thanks Greg!!! This was a fun one for me... added some piano and a teeny bit of percussion....
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Inspired by Last Week's Winter Storm where the only people out driving around in it were the people trying to prove Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.
Vocal addition by Colleen Dillon. Colleen also suggested the topic *"Winter Tune…
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Track 5 from my RPMX album Cold Ground Was My Bed
Inspired by Salvador Dali. Mostly.
Gravity failing
Cats float flailing
Furniture in midair
Salvador smiling
Rainbows crying
Clocks melting everywhere
Pachyderms stilted
Lovers…
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RPMX track 4
Skin of silk, tungsten steel
Machine of lust, seems unreal
Simple chores are what you’re for
I remade you for so much more
My love is gone forever now
But you will do, 'cos I know how
To modify you’re software now
Will…
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My first attempt to work with loops I created using midi.
With Mr Sandbags (reichatron). There's a really cool version with guitar added by Mac somewhere too, but it's weirdly vanished! Will add as soon as I find it.
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This was a write it and record it in one session song challenge that my songwriting friends and I came up with this week. Lions and Lambs was started thinking of spring, but it turned into a song about relationships... as they often do.
Greg…
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This is one of my favorite collaborations with Paul Lennon so far. I wrote the song with king of a bluesy feel, and then found a perfect marriage for the music with one of Paul's awesome tracks. Then we tinkered on it together to make it so…
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My favorite song by Jane Bowers
She was still alive back when I 1st learned
this song from the Kingston Trio.
I didn't know, back then, that I could have met her.
WHEN I WAS YOUNG by Jane Bowers
When I was young and dreams were new…
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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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With Mr Sandbags (beats and reichatron), as band "Elusive Gene".
Played on BBC Radio Introducing. :)
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This is my first upload. I mostly have a vocal here. It's a song that I'd love to get some collaboration on from the guitarists in the community. Let me know what you think?
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I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY
Ironically, it does not include this song.
Key D
D (figure is D D sus, D D sus)
I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys
G…
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A new one...
I wrote it on 5th February, and managed to record it in less than a month (a head-cold and lack of hearing in one ear slowed the last lap somewhat).
But seeing as the last one took over 8 months, I think I'm already ahead for…
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Here's a new one. Well, a new old one, actually... And a bit different than the last one!
Something old, something new, something borrowed, and, er, something blue...
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**Nobody Loves You - A A J Russe**
Nobody loves you
Like you…
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It's all yours if you can use it.
Feel Free.
I'm open to changes.
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One of my favorite recordings and favorite songs. The drums of this Political Folk tune was generated with the Yamaha E313. The lead guitar break needs replaced with a violin, but…
THE FINAL HOUR
Welcome to the final hour
Everybody kneel…
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rpm #7,, i think this will be the overture, to a small midi orchestral suite, which i hope will finish up as my remaining 3 pieces for this years rpm, but well see how that goes,, thanks for all the helpful comments i have received on this project…
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A song about a friend of mine who by day is a postman and by night is one crazy dude..........
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drowning out the screams of my insanity.
another insane song. :P this one starts off soft and progresses to a more metal proggish song.
it runs almost 9:30 mins. thanks for giving a listen.
1893 drowning…
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This is 3 way colaboration with my good friends, Nick Coward and Mark Drozdz.
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DREAMING
Inside the dream I'm drowning
I struggle for the shore
I'm swimming 'neath the surface
I'm sinking ever more
While Davy Jones is laughing
And Neptune scoffs at me
I'm swimming on with purpose
I'm frantic to be free
- The…
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Uhm… whatever. She took the walk anyway and we’re both better for it. It’s all good.
DON’T WALK AWAY
Let’s sit and talk this over
Can’t take from me what is ours
Lived a few lives before you
And this is the best one by far
I’ve made…
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Keyboards (bagpipes) performed by Starry Nightmoth. Lead guitar by George Harrison. Vocals and all other instruments performed by Gene Eric Mann. Thunder and rain by Mother Nature. Lyrics by John Lennon.
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I felt like something rocking tonight so ijumped on Johnny's Roadhouse blues a brilliant backer Hope you enjoy!! I sure did Thanks Johnny
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Mellow Jeremy - Ride In Funk Computer. From the album Galaxy Persuasions.
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Music recorded using only a ukulele and hands on a Boss BR800 in Spain. Vocals recorded back in Norway.
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CHECK IT OUT!! It's the very elusive and thought to be the stuff of fabled musician's lore, A "completed" song by the guy that I AM!
A robster the rock lobster
I'm going to keep this song EXCLUSIVELY here at Alonetone.com because this…
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A simple solo acoustic guitar track for a dear departed four legged friend. Written 2005. Recorded Jan 9 2009.
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Recorded live on Br80 stereo mic for the protestfest.
Our henwrench then added some harmonies later.
Lyrics and music by OsCKilO
A man is as good as his word.
Never a truer word told.
When ever he lies, a part of him dies.
Left…
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I'm channeling my inner Johnny Cash here, for this quick and dirty demo of a song I wrote for my musical "Lashing Of Ginger Beer". The lyric is rather more dark than the music might suggest.
All the world is changing
It never stays the…
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This is a song about meeting a new love & soul mate , written just hours after a first date in the new forest
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I was miserable and wanted something to cheer me up so i mooched into the garage and came out funky
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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Geas heard my Zepfext that i'm having and sent me a little prezzie over in the form of this great backer....i found it quite a challenge and throughly enjoyed trying to crack the nut....you should have heard the first aahha it nearly cracked the…
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Originally titled 'helio::instance().init();'
The first track I wrote in a midi sequencer of my own work (called Helio Workstation: http://helioworkstation.com)
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I song I wrote recently. It's kind of an indie/pop punk ballad influenced by Mat Kerekes of Citizen.
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My daughter, Wyn, sings
a song I wrote in 1977
while I was doing a gig
at the Ramada Inn in
Laredo.
Harmonies are by her mother,
Barbara Anne Taylor and step
mother, Peggy Ann Mitchell.
The guitar solo and keys are
by my son, Rabyn…
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POTTER'S FIELD KEY Em Capo @ 3
Em……..(hold) Figure 1 is C G Am Em, Figure 2 is A A Em Em
F 1 - You might as well take me out and stand me up against the wall
F 1 - I don't want no bandanna, no cigarettes to ease the fall
F 2 - No…
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RONDA'S THEME
Ronda. Ronda.
In her faded blue jeans
with her guitar she sings
It's just one of the things
about Ronda.
Ronda was a little girl
Just like you
Once upon a time
But now, but now
She's RONDA
(C) 2015 Royal T Music
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These tunes have been in the pipeline for almost 8 months now.
I think I'm done with them :)
I'm looking for Rappers, Freestylers, and hip-hop artists to turn these
beats into songs. Let me know if anything turns you on.
I would be…
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'idus martii' - that day julius caesar was stabbed in the senate of rome ...
ambient soundscapes - double bass improvisations reworked.
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Entropic Sculpture is an accidental interpenetration of a post-modern sculptural art genre created from analog synthesizer settings my son left for me and then I used and eventually mutated. I ran this mix out of Sonar pretty hot and generated…
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A Facebook Friend posted a picture of a
sign hanging on a tree that had the words
to the first verse. I couldn't leave well
enough alone...I Googled the verse and
found it was written by Dallas Clayton.
MESSAGE ON A TREE
“She blew…
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Another for the back to basics Zep album....Thanks Andy R for suggesting it...........
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Gene sent me this one over and i jumped all over it ...what a great backer.. Hope you enjoy!!
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another back to basics Zep this one goes out to Martin where ever he is ...he died getting on for 14 years ago but he's not forgotten ...Happy birthday for tomorrow man.....
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Looks like a great year for more fishing /guitar playing /beer drinking /.Cheers
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Piano that I have not played in ages a bit rough.
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Based on a Yoruba Obàtálá pattern, which I hope Greg doesn't find underhanded.
Congas and cowbell.
4/4 160bpm.
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first for rpm 2014
This summer my wife and i traveled to Europe! our first time across the pond..what a wonderful time of adventure we had from Paris to Roma. each morning i would rise before dawn to watch as the early morning sun painted the…
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Wrote this song today as my first in the RPM challenge! A universal theme that came to me as I drove across the beautiful Mississippi River this morning watching the sun come up.
Here are the lyrics:
Change Is Calling You
© 2015 Colleen…
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wind farm in 19 equal temperament is a pseudo raga played on a 19 equal guitar using slide for the melody and the same guitar plus synthesizers for the drone. The video and stills of a wind farm was taken by me during a recent trip.
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PRETTY GIRL
Pretty girl, pretty dress
Well, I must confess my heart is in a mess
Pretty girl
Some guys can walk up to a girl
Say, "Hey! I love you
They make it look like something
So easy to do
Pretty girl, pretty dress
Well, I…
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This song pretty much sums up my life right now. No direction and no ambition.
Maybe because it's SpringTime and Love is in the air.
In keeping with the romantic nature of the season, it features:
BANJO . . . . . The instrument made…
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Track 8 for the RPM 2015 album Cold Ground Was My Bed
For the great Joni Mitchell of course.
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