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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dedicated to the ones that are having a hard time fitting in this society.
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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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Recorded 9 Aug 2015, the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown
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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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Melancholy little tune about an ending that we never saw coming.
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inevitaBLE END OF THE WORLD AS SEEN BY pRIVATE jOKER
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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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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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