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Melody was too fresh to have down properly but hey, it's another demo. I think I hate this one. Just idea after idea morphing daily. The ending was more of a joke but I guess it is staying...
Verse One
I feel like, I’m lying awake
But I…
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pay a man to:
-walk through his field of corn
-pick an apple off of his apple tree
-pick a pumpkin out of his pumpkin patch
-carve a face into that pumpkin for me
I sing a song a song about
living in small-town Tennessee
my best…
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Each demo is getting me closer to where I will eventually be to record the album. Drums are really coming together. The next demo will focus more on the rhythm tones. New cab mic coming...
Verse I
Morning light, spills on the floor
Shadows…
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Trying out a whole lot of new gear. (Even though it is all really old gear)
This demo was mostly for the guitars and drums. All outboard gear and no outside samples where used for the first time for me. Guitars are a greenback style speaker…
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so much depends on a little red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens
these days a man dies you can't leave him be
gotta get his body offa your property mm-hmm
so much depends on a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater…
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Song about my mother instead of my father for once...
Another demo, things are choppy, but it is just to get the idea down and to test the set up, spent maybe four hours on it tops.
Chorus
You never listen when I’m drowning
I’m breaking…
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EMPTINESS
It seems to be very difficult for people to be critical of the culture in which they are enmeshed within. There are all sorts of mechanisms that dominant cultures use to further socialize and entrench us:
patriotism /// nationalism…
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Baby Willow
Somewhere, something
has turned a wing
and left a branch dancing
grey days, grassways
there's a stowaway seed
in the cuff of my jeans
baby willow
it's the only place you'll ever know
blue vein in my head
gets the blood…
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The sound of the wheels
That the gravel driveway reveals
I am home for a while
Where I keep my things and desires
Tennessee / Carolina
Tie the loose ends and leave it behind
You know me, I’m unwinding
Soaked in gin subatomic dividing…
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probably the most 'full band' thing i've ever done
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I saw jack-in-the-pulpit and I knew I belonged
And I felt every sermon and I held every song
O The trees creaked and shifted as they turned and dropped their leaves
And I pulled an empty bottle and I held it to the breeze.
Oh this one life…
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I took a wav file of a UDIO creation and uploaded it into ChatGPT and used the following prompts
please rearrange this wav file with 3 second length markov chains and provide the output. In addition randomly reverse the 3 second sections…
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The seats are all filled on the zeppelin
The Tower of Babel is raised - I’m amazed!
And the hope springs eternal
Their fears stay nocturnal for now
The plastics hold shape in the soil
The farmer’s daughter goes blind - so shall I
The rooster…
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Country blues version of my song, ai generated demo.
Lyrics:
Starting Over Again
2025©JohnSchofield
That summer night when fireflies flickered
Like secrets playing on your lips
I knew from your faraway expression…
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Just getting the demos uploaded somewhere - These will act as the refrence tracks for when I go to record the cnext album
Ash from the fireplace, driftin' like ghosts in the air
Smoke on the ceiling, still clings to the cold in my hair
Flickers…
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Recorded Live (Field recording) and in Studio for the June 2025 REM (Record every Month) .. Mixed and edited in Logic Pro
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What do you call guys like us, who are from the USA? USA-guys?
Why, we’re USAnian of course.
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My wicked little brother
Is on his way back
He’s squandered his fortune
To spite our old dad
The filthy little wanderer
I can see down the road
Now he’ll get his penance
For the bad life he chose
Oh my brother likes to gamble
But now…
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My May 2025 REM (record every month Submission ... toying/Experimenting with different drum and Percussion Sounds/Modules with a bit Ambient Sounds in for good taste
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Brian's songs are so unique, he really is on another level....
They're deep, soulful and fun to jam to.
We have a cycle, each time we get together we do a different member's song...I can't wait until it's Brian's turn next.
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Who will break this ice
sleepwalking through the pines
Said I won’t tell you twice
100 million times
You can’t pay the price
We’ll never get the bill
You don’t need to atone
And though it’s such a thrill
To heave the first stone…
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frozen trip around the lakes
We were passing through six states
But we couldn’t get Detroit
Out of our rear view
The trip that sealed our fate
Were both children out of place
Stormy Lake Michigan
Threw us for a loop
Family makes…
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This song is about one of the Prood girls, who is a school teacher
….special THANK YOU to Colleen Dillon for her endless support and encouragement.
Lyrics…
As the shadows stretch across your dark and lonely room
and your record player fails…
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You can roll the dice
You can read the gospel
Or just balance on the knife
Kicking rocks like cigarettes
You both used to like
Now it’s all just plastic
I could use some advice
And you could use me
Anytime you like
Dead man’s paradise…
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Ok, I know that it appears that The Proods have been posting so grim music of late, but this song started out as an homage to one of the Lady-Proods, and just kinda got away from us.
More stuff following….bright, chipper love songs.
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I noticed when I woke up
I was half gone
I’ve known this having broken
Promises I’ve sworn
I just want some sunlight
I just want a good time
One day, this will make sense
One day, I will want less
What recourse can I manage?
That…
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Day two of the Daily Two! I feel like I flubbed these drums. But I did the thing and that's what matters...
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composed with loops from Steve Tibbetts' Friendly Fire package
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Maybe I’m someone
Or maybe I’m not
A tree falls in the forest
And the roots start to rot
And my lady she loves me
Whether I like it or not
I’ve got all that I need
I’ve got all that I’ve got
It’s too early for peaches
And it’s too late…
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You were so clever
You had us all in your hands
We’re seeing thru you
You never had any plans
It could have been better
You never gave us the chance
You’re being untrue
But baby it’s all in the dance
What’s wrong with that
Im…
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On the other side Of the planet
I just heard the news
I was served something so tragic
Reaching for my muse
On the other side of my attention span
So abused
I said “hope it’s another lie
Like me and all my friends are used to”
It all…
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Here’s day one of my d2! knew I would have very little time, so I hummed a melody on my way to work, worked out the lyrics on my breaks, and tried to make an accompaniment when I got home!
If I had a second chance
To make it all feel right…
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A quick iPhone recorded Demo.
Still working on Lyrics!
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I wrote this track pretty long time ago, but then redid parts of it for a live setting so I could play it on my digitakt. I haven't played out live in a bit so I tried practicing it today...
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On my way home
By that lonesome graveyard
A ghost jumps up and says
Come here won't you be my man
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a ride
Wasn't a ghost at all
Someone asking for a home
Said boy come here
And take me to your…
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A cover of Working Hands by Tom Eisenbraun from his 2014 album "Radio Ghost"
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Cracked glass
Lightning
Strike
The passing
Yellow
Line
Pull over
I said
I’m fine
Everything we took for granted
Oh I can taste it
Now it all amounts to nothing
more than wasted
time
I said
I’ll try
Sad sack…
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I wrote this a week or so ago, and decided to give it a proper "mix" I guess? I'm not great at mixing quite yet, so this is just trying to add some ear candy and make it sound as good as I can!
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Hares on the Mountain
O Sally my dear it's you I'd be kissin'
She smiled and replied "You don't know what you're missin"
If all the young men were hares on the mountain
many young girls would grab guns and go huntin
If the young…
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I was in deep at second, my heels in the outfield - full count
No one left out on the bases, familiar faces, the heat breaks a cloud
Hands red from the clay dirt as I held up my glove to my faaaaaaace
It smells just the way I remember, the…
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Sunday morning, no such luck
My head is dizzy, it’s bright as fuck I’m dying
I make my way to south French broad
Lumbering wondering where she’s gone or something
I see Sam he’s in the same shape as me
Bundled in funneling misery by the…
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I wish I was the moon in the sky
O I wish I was the moon in the sky
If I's the moon in the sky
I'd be floating in your eye
Wish I was the moon in the sky
I wish I was the song on your lips
O I wish I was the song on your lips
If I's…
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I’m light and love
Until I go broke
I’m nothing but smiles
TIL I’m on my last smoke
And if the suns not in my eyes
I could tell you a joke
“It only gets better? Let’s leave it to hope”
I’m a fair weather vain
TIL the rain makes me…
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Darlin I been dreamin about the moon on the prairie
The way our voices carry, the song on the radio
Arm out the window, dipper in the sky
On a solstice night
Darlin I been dreamin about the breeze on the water
The mountain and her daughter…
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Yes…we’re TRYING to do an AC~DC thing here.
The song was written by our lovable drummer Matt, but we all had fun working on it. (The Angus-style guitar lick was mine.)
As always, the song is introduced to the band, kicked around and recorded…
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I spent some time in 2012 and 2013 to record my friend Rick who was just learning how to play guitar. He had grown up playing drums in different bands and found the joy of writing songs. Rick is no longer with us.
Greg Connor
Here is…
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This is another song for my Hyperphantasia album, dealing with dreams, daydreams, fantasies, and imagination. The inspiration was a challenge in the Deluge synth discord group to make a song using a single kit. I compiled a bunch of sounds from…
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Everyone is writing songs inside their heads
Waking up from sleeping in their unmade beds
I cleared out space in springtime to make room for the fall
I wrote you words of kindness, but I won’t speak them at all
The kudzu choked the hillside…
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My version of Woody Guthries "all you fascists bound to lose.
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There was once a boy
Who got inside my blood
And began to make me sick
I heard he loves a girl
With a big house and sexy looks
And he's goin' to have her kids
It's like he's erasing us
Erasing me
And filling his life with another…
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Accidental synthwave. I hated this at first, but it's not bad. I kind of feel like this is me, in the 80s, driving home from work along palm tree lined high way. I had a bad day writing fortran for my job and I'm burnt out.
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One Newport left in the pack
I know that we ain't coming back
Waving goodbye to my friends
Beginnings can feel like the end
Thrusters go off underneath
Vibrations under my feet
Can't help but think of that thrill
Card in my spokes as…
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another attempt at short form deep techno a la some of my favorites...
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A quick attempt at some hypnotic techno a la deep bass..
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It was not for me to chose
You’ve still got a lot to lose
Give it up or try again
Breaking ties or make amends
It’s almost miraculous
To go as far as you did
With the rage still white hot
In your white knuckle grip
You were dragged…
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Spinning like the wheel
Painted on the temple
Does the wheel turn slowly
Or is it me that moves?
I can count the hours
And I can name the prophets
Kept like silver spoons
Struck like wooden matches
Should I call it sleep or divine…
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The Four Primary Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change
While natural selection is the principal engine of adaptation, modern evolutionary synthesis recognizes that it is one of four primary mechanisms that can alter the frequency of alleles (gene…
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