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I've been missing in action for ages - apologies to all, I'm about to start listening again too.
For ages, I'd been considering a move away from my trusty Boss BR1600 on which I've recorded and mixed nearly everything…
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Another one from the archives! Collab with glu from 2009 - I took his original guitar track and added vocals, then he remixed and made about four more versions, but this is my fave.
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Song 1 for the RPM Challenge. Wanted to feature an incessant base line inspired by The Smoke.
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I write letters, but I don't send them and they go unanswered. I take them out and rewrite them, picking up the words and clarifying the meanings. I wait in hope that a reply will come someday.
I continue the conversation when it's long over…
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Song 4 of my 2022 RPM challenge. A simple popish tune to add to the mix.
I never told you
what I wanted
no, it don’t feel right
the things you say
the things you do
well they hold me hold me
I never asked you
for anything
I…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 1
Written Sunday 6th February 2022
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OK, this is a bit of a departure for me - posting songwriting demos.
This is a one mic recording made this morning in the living room, touch of reverbs…
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Demo #3 for FAWM ’22.
[INTRO]
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Cause I ain’t got time for no slow ass train
My babies moving on,
and I know when she’s gone
My life will only get better…
One Two Three Four!
[CHORUS]
Gimmie a ticket…
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A Cheap Peavey Blues' piece. I don't blow much harp, don't have the wind for it, but occasionally I add some simple notes.
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The random wisdom of bar room philosophers, and the magic of sipping whiskey in a darkened room.
This is the December submission for the RPM - Record Every Month challenge
Recorded in December 2021
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Song 5 for the RPM Challenge. Building tunes around an incessant bass line is oddly appealing to me. This is a bit of a dystopian song of sorts. Thanks to anyone who listens!
Take me to the river
and hold me under water
Bow down beside…
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Song 2 for the RPM Challenge. Wrote this at the piano and then had fun trying all sorts of spontaneous vocal harmonies. Switching time signatures for the chorus made for some challenging recording!
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Sunshine fill my soul
Let the blues be the first to go
Sunshine can’t complain
If life shows us a little rain
Chorus
Sunshine through the window
At first morning’s light
All the stars fade away
When sunshine gets so bright
When sunshine…
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Can you hear me?
Can you see my screen?
I'm explaining
Exactly what I mean
There's an error on the next slide, and I hope that you will bear with me
15 minutes
Read it word-for-word
You'll be reading
Exactly what you heard
I will…
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Prophet 12 desk module, Oxygen 25, 31 notes per octave tuning. Knob twiddling.
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I was going to make an electronic track, but I grabbed a microphone and this happened.
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This tune was born from the RPM Challenge 2022 Endlesss jam with contributions from fellow RPMers: Salman, Bukupanda & Elling. After slicing and dicing the Endlesss stems, some additional instrumentation was added and this is the result. A…
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MISS HER
I hardly know her
But I miss her more each day...
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IN MY ROOM
In my room there's no day and there's no night
In my room, just an incandescent light
...hanging from a wire.
In my room there's no hot and there's no cold
In my room,I'm not young. I'm not old
...hanging from a wire…
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BROCCOLI
Every day I stop at Walmart
And buy a crown of broccoli
Get it fresh. Eat it before it dies...
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improvisation with prepared electric guitar and electronics.
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The Minnesota Association of Songwriters issued a writing challenge this January to "borrow" conceptually from a writer that has influenced our writing to create a new original work of our own. Once you hear this, I think you'll get the idea…
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Cute little song about the evils of Gerrymandering
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A live improv of dulcimer and voice, continuing on the energy from my October 21 Shiver session. With Sound-In in mind to say I ain't dead yet!
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Another little ditty. A bit different, just me and my Guitar ( tuned to Open D ) and recorded on my i-Pad ( Garageband ) very few tweaks.
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garage band playing the strings on note/string at a time... :) then the layering of that recording backwards with both recordings left and right stereo sides. -with freesound heartbeat sound layer made by matlab stretched 2x and layered with itself…
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Bonus points if you can figure out what this song is about before the end of the first verse.
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Starting out on Sunday morning, nothing else to do
Getting right through 1 dash 1, moving right…
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I found this one while I was digging through the shoe-box for the 1994 songs. Apparently I wrote it on 10th November 1995.
Foolishly, I thought it would only take a week or so to record... I was originally expecting…
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Song 3 of RPM 2022. For the many tortured artists I've met with a bit of a dance spin to it. Most of my songs are unintentional and unplanned....they just happen. Thanks to anyone who's listening!! :)
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something of a logic and theme type song with a heartbeat --- made in matlab and put at freesound as a layer,,..
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Song I wrote last year about struggling with identity...
lyrics below lol
it's hard for me to be myself when i don't know who i am
feel like i'm just an empty shelf filled with empty photographs
and i might be all alright if i don't think…
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The coffee table gang helped me round out this one that I shared earlier. I love this version with Mark Lofgren and Greg Connor's wonderful talents on the backup vocals and guitars. I like how my ukulele blended in on this version.
Sometimes…
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A song I wrote over the last few days. Did a one-take-wonder on the recording, so it's pretty simple. Hope you like it!
Sometimes You Don't
Verse 1
Sometimes in the early morning hours
As the sun lights up the sky
I look back and think…
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Another song for the 2021 National Solo Album Month.
What do we think of this cat? I have an urge to get proggy right now and generally that requires a level of talent that I don't posses. I'm not putting myself down when I say that, it's…
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Demo #2 for FAWM ’22.
A saucy groove served on a bed of strained metaphor.
[VERSE]
In the company of strangers
Breaking bread around a feast
And the meals stacking higher on the trays
They keep opening their mouths
And shoving it…
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Might need some more touch-up work (2nd take version) but ill leave this up for now and let it ride...
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Brace yourself! This is my latest Song Challenge entry for Carl Unbehaun’s Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show: Write a song about Groundhog’s Day, a Ground Hog or Woodchuck.
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Nothing better…
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This is a song about a time I took too much drugs. It was an experience that has had a lasting impact on me.
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Here is my contribution to the January 2022 Solo Songwriting Challenge offered by the Minnesota Association of Songwriters. The goal was to take an idea from another song without plagiarizing and incorporate it in a new way.
I chose a Public…
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Glu and Sister Savage bring you these remixes!
Original track by Sister Savage:
http://alonetone.com/sistersavage/tracks/little-england
This one is pure pop. Voice pitched 1/2 step up.
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You Are Free....a fun tune from Prood jam session
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String arrangement of the music from the XR NL fall 2021 Climate Rebellion video series. This is a slightly tweaked version of the background music used on the New Year’s video (https://vimeo.com/662578943).
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Keep me close and afraid
Keep me wandering for days
Keep me exactly the same
Keep me docile and tired
Keep me angsty and wired
Keep me faking the pain
Keep me loose and contained
Keep me close and afraid
Keep me wandering for days…
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There is a story behind this song. I'll leave it at that for now.
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Moonlight shined through the trees in the woods
A barred owl called and I understood
Nocturnal presence flew silently by
I tried…
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This is our January submission to the REM Challenge. The song came together very quickly.
Dan Will on Piano
David True on Bass
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What if global warming was from the heat that thousands of nuclear tests created? I read today that the permafrost is defrosting and it cannot be turned off. When it is done defrosting it will have emitted 2 times more greenhouse gases than currently…
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Kind of went sideways this week. Had some lyrics and good intentions, but never could quite get it together. Did record some stereo guitar using the Blumlein stereo technique. It sounds great.
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Percussing a bunch of plastic objects, destined for the recycling bin but making one more contribution before they go. Played with a pair of disposable wooden chopsticks, until the dropping of one brought the piece to a somewhat premature end…
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Using the sustainer settings on the EOB strat quite a bit here
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This is a song that I wrote to show my gratitude to God my father
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I hope Brian (one of us Proods) will forgive me for posting this before we could get together to work on it further. He first played it for me a few months ago and I've been obsessively tweaking it every chance I could get.
I like to imagine…
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Sound switch for ChillHorror
The Rabbit Hole extends the Universe one piece at time.
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Sound-In mash for Dreaming of Music theme
Shane Cadman and James Bailey
mix Kavin.
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Unadulterated recording of an ABS pipe didjeridoo. Submitted to Sound-In "You say you want a resolution?" for 30/12/2021 - 6/1/2022.
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Haven't done any Ambient work in a long time, so it kind of feels good to come back around and work on it.
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Inspired by a perfect morning watching the Sun come up over Lake Superior.
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Great 12 string song suggested by my beautiful wife. 2 days in my repetoire so it needs a little work but still is a great song.
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Supposed to work on a 50000 word novel, but this is all I can come up with. Still a work in progress but this shows some sounds and feelings I have had during the month of November.
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shortened a little, added a few instruments, redid the drums.
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[Hello?] (ring)
[Hello?] (ring)
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Samples (from Freesound)
* 219776_madamvicious_tell-my-wife-hello
* 456433__mycompasstv__old-rotary-phone-ringing-western-electric-bell-500-phone
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The second of 3 variations based on the folk melodies known as Carol of the Bells, this being the one almost entirely nothing like the source material
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I was just experimenting with a new arrangement for my cheap condenser mics to try to get better acoustic instrument sound. I think I got on to something I like better. Anyway, fooling around with it, and with this traditional sea shanty (and…
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Once again, Greg Connor has kindly added his wonderful harmonica and Dobro to this song. Thanks so much, Greg! Mean Streak Blues is a song about how wrongly we could deal with frustration....enjoy listening
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Dogs bark all night
My…
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Here is my entry for the "Who Knew" Song Writing Challenge. Thanks for including me :)
Lyrics:
When I was a young boy
I never knew what it meant
to be unloved
When I was a young man
I never knew what it meant
to be undone
Now I’m…
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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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One of the household's fave TV theme tunes....so evocative....I have taken the main theme, tweaked and extended.......
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