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          In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song…
        
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          Lyrics, music, acoustic rhythm guitar, front vocals by Greg Connor.  Acoustic Bass, electric guitar, synthesizer, and background vocals by Merry Bear.
        
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          WALKING ON THE MOON
See the Earth on horizon
Watch the Earth as she's arising
I hope the living are gazing
I hope the people are loving
Feel like I'm walking on the moon
I think I will be on there soon
My body's going to set me free…
        
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          Recorded Friday, December 13th, 2013.  Drums were generated using a Yamaha E313 keyboard.  Vocals and all other instruments are my fault.  Lyrics and composition by Stevie Wonder.
        
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Pleasure boats and fishermen
Tugboat pushin three barges wide
 Sit on the banks from morn till evening
Wave to the people as they pass me by
 
Up in Minnesota she’s fast and cold
Walleye fishing just below the dam
Go and catch em til…
        
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          Something that I intend to develop more at some point, but was going through things from a month or so ago and kind of liked this little version
        
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          Thanks to Robert Palomo for giving this a little sound engineering.  Robert said " I mixed thru my mastering plugin (Ozone 5).
WordsMightBethe Weapon ToCreateThePerfect Crime
  
If I had a dollar for everything I done
To help you through…
        
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          EARTH
Humanity, you're blowing this
Good planets, hard to find
Insanity to wipe us out
To earn another dime
No use it is to build a house
Upon a dying land
We live upon a warming earth
Why don't we understand?
- Unless we govern for…
        
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          Just having fun, hanging out, creating some music. 
Double drop D Capo @ 3rd- Lead Capo @ 9th. :)
        
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          NEW DAY Key A
A      E                A       E
In the morning when she gets me up
A          E             D      E 
Pours some wake up in my coffee cup
A                     D        E       A                (D A E)
She opens the window…
        
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          DEAR PEGGY Capo 3 in Am
A bass stepping A G F G
Dear Peggy,I thot you'd like to know
That blue tile in our bathroom you said would have to go
I replaced with the slate that we bought at Home Depot
mmmmm mmmmm
Dear Peggy, The heat has…
        
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          Got to messing about while waiting for my DVDs for the wedding i've been working on to burn............
        
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          Finding some new melodies looking back at the Counterweight Rpm. 
        
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          This song, Way it Goes, (odh original) forms the second part of a diptych with my other recent song, Storming Woman.  They were both written around the same time, and both under the influence of early ZZ Top (and other things).  They book-end…
        
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          "I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song." 
-Sonny Sharrock
        
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          Just a duet with a Piano player and myself on one of my favorite Ballads, by my favorite composer and bass player, Charles Mingus.
        
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          A fairly simple Bass Solo with Piano Accompaniment I wrote a few years back.
This “recording” is exported straight from Finale, so the quality is not great.
        
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          A melancholy island tune... original music by James Calore and Patrick Poulou
        
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          This work was recorded at counter)induction's 'a little night music' concert, 22 Jan 22 2007 at Christ St. Stephen's Church in New York.
The composer Stratis Minakakis describes his work thus: "In Aristophanes' 'Birds, Night is described as…
        
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          c)i performed Caroline Mallonee's rocking work at Tenri Cultural Center in October 2008.  Hotness!
        
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          Oddsay, single note, this is the feedback from it
        
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          Dogs love to swim, you know! (Well maybe not my dog.)
keywords: electronic, experimental, chill, instrumental, dogs underwater
"Remastered" - 12/18/2010
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          I was working on one of my ethno 2 demos and needed a break so I made an improvisation on a series of major 7ths using only the Ethno 2 package.
All of the pitched instruments use the included Werckmeister temperament tuning.
        
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          Capo 2 in C
This is a true story. Cody even permitted me to use his name.
Cody is a cowboy, a horseman, that’s for sure
Traded in his guitar for long John underwear
Every day he pulls his boots almost to his knees
Oh, Cody is a cowboy…
        
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          The music was written in a hotel room in Niagara Falls, Ontario.  When I first recorded the rhythm guitars it hit me how 80's corporate rock this was.  It sounded like Journey and that pissed me off.  When it came time to write the lyrics that…
        
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          The music was written in a hotel room in Montreal (I think) and the lyrics are about how stupid the Market Basket situation got in New England (ironically, as I was recording the last vocal line a friend sent me a link to a stream of Artie T's…
        
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          Track three of my album in works titled “Post Mountain.”
        
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          Another go at the concept of reverse engineering a popular song to see what it's made of. I think I actually got pretty far, given that I'm neither guitar-, bass- nor keyboard player...
New version with vocals is here: http://alonetone.com…
        
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          This is the 2.Song from the 2.Single from "Funeral Miracle Saga".
        
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          On Facebook, my sister in law (a middle school teacher) told us that my niece said the second day of kindergarten was even better than the first.  My sister (an elementary school teacher) said something along the lines of yippee for good days…
        
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          All 45 RPM all the damn time. All love. Listen to the message. Do you know what it means? Oh yeah, and fair use!!
        
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          "Arnold V.S. Marley" took the least amount of time to create out of all of the songs on, "Experiments". I completed it in about two and a half weeks. Incredibly, the instrumentation, including the police sirens, was created long before I'd even…
        
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          Another lost composition (experiment) from 2012.
        
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          The music was written in a hotel room in upstate New York.  How rock and roll is that?  I occasionally find myself very inclined to throw electric pianos at everything.  This comes from such a phase.  The part in question here was recorded using…
        
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          The realtors always disliked showing the old Victorian house on Layton Way. It gave them a creepy, clammy feeling. Especially in the basement where mad whispers and the sound of metal working off in the distance could sometimes be almost heard…
        
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          Thinking about GPS, continuing to explore delay and this tuning low to high AACEAE.
        
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          AT The Mercy of The Fist
All music and lyrics by David Dingo
This song has gone through many different names and incarnations before I settled on this. At one point in time it was to be called "The Marionette's Song." Basically it is a song…
        
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          I wanted something slow and dirgish (is that a word?) and twangie.  I sorta got that, not really.  This is another one that I got weird with the time signature setting in GarageBand for iPad and then the drummer function on GarageBand for Mac…
        
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          Heres a Regged up version of Peace Frog the Doors Classic...i sang and played Les live on the first bit then added the drums (Ha!! Ha!!) then the second vocal a kinda jam that i tried to turn into something ....hope you enjoy!!
        
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          An old Stephen Foster song (Pub. Domain)
Always waiting, hopeful sorrow.
Featuring my spouse, Marily!!!!
I could have picked a song to do her justice, next time.  My phrasing is kind of hard to follow...
        
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          Before listening to this, please remember this, we made this song and "Wiggle" from start to finish in an evening. "Wiggle" is pretty much how we see all the mainstream club music, i'd say it's kind of a spoof.
and "White Trash Money" is the same…
        
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          another christmas song inspired by Ashley Reynold's haunting version as sung by the 312th Army Band at the Christmas Concert in Emporia KS today.
        
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          from the holiday project 'NOEL"
part 3 of my christmas trilogy for 2009
        
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          from the album "orange"
I feel the same as yesterday
Even though I’m losing my mind
It’s hard to remember my name
When I wake I never know what I will find
Whither away, further each day
I’m invincible
Nothing can slow me down
My feet…
        
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          from the new album "Orange"
Where’s the sun? waiting on the sun.
And sitting in the grey of this new dawn
And knowing that this is my last day, my last day
Why can’t you see, I’ve been deep in this for such a lonely time
And it’s getting…
        
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          from the album "orange"
I still look before I leap
Sometimes sew more than I reap
Holding tight my soul to keep
The ghost inside is fast asleep
Ain't it sad when all or nothings mostly nothing mostly
And pain don't care what good intentions…
        
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          from the new CD "Orange"
You can feel the sameness, all around
Beat tomorrow, into the ground, a-ha
It's just the weight of sound
You can smell forgiveness, if you try
And hold back sorrow until you cry, a-ha
It's just the weight of sound…
        
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          from the album "orange"
this game, is a, last stop
before, you see, to the, very top
and I'm half asleep, yet I'm wide awake
and this ride isn't working out, not it's not for me
cause it gets so hard to believe, in
anything that you…
        
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          Boston, Massachusetts is not just a college town.  It's THE college town.  I mean it.  Seriously.  There is a major university in just about every neighborhood, and there are institutions of higher learning on nearly every street corner.  Add…
        
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          This is a sweet song, I wrote it as my vows to my wife at our wedding.
        
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          The drone is a lawn-mower (my neighbour's)
The words speak for themslves
        
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          I think the title pretty much covers the "short story" behind the sound of clarity. 
-Wrinkled Shirt
        
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