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Vocal excellence from girl named Sam... Do you really need any other reason to listen?
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Blue sky
Only getting clearer
Blue eyes
Like looking in a mirror
I can tell just what you're thinking
By that tiny little flicker…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
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Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member.
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Seventeen thousand…
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
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(RPM 2011) For obvious reasons, many RPM albums make use of improvisational sound collages. ;-) This is the first of three that divide the record into sections. You may or may not hear the connections in the lyrics, but it actually does make…
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This is an experiment in stacking real time delay/looped tracks that had no preconceived connections... all overdubs were done without listening to previously recorded tracks. I hear some very interesting synchronizations.... You?
RPM 2011
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Harmonica by Dr. K
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Paper hearts in your window
paper hearts on your door
Paper hearts ripped in pieces
And Strewn across the floor
but who am I to question
The intentions of old…
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rpm 2011
You asked me where these rumors start.
"I don't know," I said and crossed my heart.
But I told you I did not hope to die.
You said you can't trust no more.
Why start now? You never did before.
Now I just have to pause and wonder…
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rpm 2011
As night falls, a cold wind blows
Together we shall strive
Hold me now before I fall apart
and come undone in pieces
and fall to the earth the like rain
Hold on through the dark
Hold on climbing together
Hold on to me as…
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I've been all around
I've been up and down
I said I've traveled in all directions
Now
The world is new
If you've seen what I've seen
And you've been where I've been
I guess you know what I mean
Now
The world is new
RPM 2011
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Reg has a vision but his not really sure it happened... I mean he was at a party and he had been drinking and smoking...........
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A recording made 'live from air' of radio stations playing one night in 1995
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Intro To The Lone Wolf Beat Tape
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Lyrics/Vocals - OldRottenHead (over at Soundcrafters.org). Music - Dave Berry. Recorded on Boss BR-1200, Epi Sheraton, Bass, Synth. Drums are played by me on my new Roland HD-1 (I have had it two weeks, timing is a little shaky, bloody hard this…
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Jonathan takes a look at the gifts of tongues and prophecy in the local church
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the clock on the wall is watching the window
the shades are at half mast for what i do
there are regrets just over that horizon
but i know i know i can count on you
i think of a time when i was unwilling
the dark days i counted with a mark on…
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A love song....about this world of wonder that i am so fortunate to have found, or it found me.
yea we climb from the rubble
of confusion and some pain
we are the wonder of the world
and many streets we walked of bitter pills and rain
and we…
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a season in hell by rimbaud,samped and signal-processed,se to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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Reg has got a little soppy since he met his new girl, the widow Desirea. His pretty sure she's the one but the old fears keep rising. He knows he has to put the past behind him if any relationship is ever going to stand a chance of working…
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A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
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Acoustic love song. Written and recorded between Christmas 2010 and the New Year.
I'd just finished recording Elizabeth's Room and was tooling up to record a pop-rock song when this little beast popped out of nowhere, almost perfectly formed…
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This is a live cover of a Ralph Mctell song , telling the story of a coach tour to the seaside town Brighton just before World War 1 , thinking the war would be over in weeks
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Acoustic tale recorded Christmas 2010.
I wrote it years ago. Even tried rehearsing it with the band I was in at the time. But I couldn't play it properly. It took several weeks of practicing DADGAD (never really used it in anger before) until…
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AK wrote this after seeing a photogragh of an American Marine giving cookies to Iraqi Children
Done live
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Recorded Oct 2010.
It was meant to be a full band pop-rock song. But I started overdubbing on the original exploratory demo I'd done to work out the arrangement (with no click track). I kept coming back to it intending to start afresh... but…
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A cover of Justin Currie's Sleep Instead of Teardrops. Recorded 2010.
It has always been one of my favourite Del Amitri songs. I was strumming away at it one day and my missus said I should record it...
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I’ve seen the trimmings you destroy
The kindness that you avoid
Our subtle ways our sad affairs
Our vagrant airs dissolve to noise
What do you contemplate you're standing still
Your posture motivates the scene
You still don’t understand…
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Linda spins without a care
Idle thoughts twirling in the air
Never quite a mystery
Never choosing what she wants to save
She escapes substantial loss
By adding interest to her cause
A little death a shallow say
Never paying for her shallow…
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Falsely
You call me
Desperately At least when it's my turn
quickly
You agree
You're killing off the ways that you could be
Someone who's willing
to live Or willing to learn
Falsely
You call me
Desperately At least when it's my turn…
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You know I'm not perfect
But I admit when I am wrong
I know how to ask for favors
One too many times from you
But I can be a kinder soul
Far better than a polished fool
So when you find me falling, ask for grace
Don't despair again…
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There's still a way you rise at dawn
Before I feel I don’t belong
Before we lock into the worries of the day
Yet every morning brings romance
A short reprieve a second chance
With every heartache comes the hope that I am wrong
And…
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You’re painting a dead end
Capturing traces
Of throwaway faces
You memorize lines
You smother your fire
To better appeal to the maddening crowd
I'm aware
Setting you dead to rights when it's easy to blame you for finishing fine
When…
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You are beautifully taken when you have the upper hand when you're in high demand
A Lady in Waiting but steady when cloying, precious toying precocious with hunger
“Beware†but nobody hears
Your wilting complaint "aren't you petty but…
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Old school art rock
Red clay still shot
White board wet rotting fall away
No time on the clock
It's over mop it up
A little left for a holiday
Well it's time to stop the routine
You might say it just another phase of the game
But now…
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Enervate what's in your head
No time to talk? A leak instead
And yet you wait and yet you wait
A break a drain a mottled stain
You're Clouding over ambered pain
Standing still you're standing still
You're never tempted so you've never…
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Inform your decisions
All your conditions (But what is the spread, what a sure excuse)
desert your ideals
For what appeals (So easy to stay undercover girl)
Heal Thyself is what you say
Lost in thought in the self help section
The closer…
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Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011
GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III
This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…
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A major thing, This began as I sat down to lunch and did some musing about my old wind-up gramophone, as food poisoning set in I spent the rest of the day lying in bed thinking of lyrics, getting up to type them in, throwing up, and going back…
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Ok, Who HASN'T had the fantasy about the hot librarian?
This was originally intended to be sung by a friend of mine with a much higher range, but a massive earthquake disrupted the schedule. I wound up singing it down an octave, trying to do…
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This was originally a much longer gospel style song about meeting the devil at the crossroads and selling him my car, I got discouraged when I put down the scratch vocals and realised that no ammount of overdubs could possibly make me sound like…
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I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.
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This was the last piece recorded for the album, I wrote it over 10 years ago after the death of my Grandmother. The events of February 22 in my homw town of Christchurch, New Zealand, the earthquake that broke our city, put me in a similary sombre…
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I like to play 'hard to get' with people who arn't all that interested in me.
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This is for everyone who ever gave a hand when they were needed.
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Aw, we tried to make this a bit more pro, but sometimes the really fun moments in life are fleeting. So here it is warts and all. But don't mind that - just get out onto the dance floor with Reg! It's ok: he's up to date on his shots.
When…
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A small tribute to "Alien" (a horror movie from 1979 directed by Ridley Scott")
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This was a performance at a place called the Ranchbowl in Omaha, Ne nd yes it was a bowling alley as well. We had some friends in the crowd in this one, you might be able to hear them. :) I believe this was the first and only time we performed…
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This was a short singer break (where I do some soloing) in one of our first shows for a Birthday Party out of a garage. We called it Funky Chick for a lack of a better name afterwards. Entirely improvised there on the spot. A this time the line…
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Another song James and I wrote together almost exactly half and half.
Vocals: James Johnston
guitars/backing vocals: Me
other guitars: JC Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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This is another from my former band 3 Ton Jack. James wrote the first have and I finish the last have. We seemed to be able to do that fairly well on some of our songs. This one actually got some decent air time on the local radio stations.
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