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Reg is back on the drink there was no escaping it. He found out that Desirea was not what he thought she was, she had been telling him lies and his hopes were dashed again.............. theres a little mess up on the Xylophone but what can you…
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Vocals: James Ryce
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Bass & Drums: Neal Vanderhoof
Guitar: Andrew Doherty
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
James is actually a country singer. This was the first time for him to sing a jazzy piano…
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Vocals: Sabrina Doughty
Lyrics: Grant D. McLeman
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This is the 2012 remix.
This song was based on a free-form lyric by Grant D. McLeman from Scotland. Quite a challenge ... :)
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A pop/rock tune in the veins of the 80s. At least that was the goal.
UPDATE: This is the Jan 2017 version!
Lyrics: Casia
Vocals: Jessica Rasche
Solo Guitar: Bobby Clohessy
Bass: Jean Lui Toudou
Drums: Jay Carros
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Vocals: Tricia Dovidio
Lyrics: Bob Beckley
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This one was tricky to do because the piano does not play at a fixed tempo, and it was an online collaboration (like all my collaborations).
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Resulting from a Mini-Moog attack a had one night.
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Vocals: Eric Savoie
Acoustic Guitar: Dan Clancy
Electric Guitars: Bobby Clohessy
Bass: Trevor Tillotson
Drums: Gerald Langenfeld
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Eric Savoie
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Guitar: Billy Playle
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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This celtic folk piece is a collaboration with lyricist Donna Devine.
This is Donna's explanation:
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Background: In earlier centuries, young men were captured by "press gangs" - often literally torn away from…
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"When I Die"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
From coast to coast and pillar to post the unpredictable is posed.
If there's a God, will he answer my prayers?
Is there a Hell, will I end up down there?
I have to admit when I think about death…
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"Stations"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'm in love with a ghost with suicidal tendencies.
It's not brave, it's not strong, lady feeds on pity.
Wind me up, crank me down.
Kill me with the railroad sound.
Get me back on the track,
Hope…
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"The Ballad of Dan Forth and Jane Finch"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Joe Neff
I could never be part of your Cinderella story.
I could never go where all hope is gonee.
I could never try to rationalize your living…
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"I Don't Get You"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Who will bite the hand that feeds?
Sink into it, make it bleed?
It's just me who wants to reconcile and find the glory days.
Thanks for giving me the gift,
I'm just shooting from the hip…
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"Smell of Spring"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Indistinct conversations happen all the time.
Keep your secrets to yourself and I will tell you mine.
Teach an old dog new tricks, giving a boy a gun.
"Encourage Anger" is the game, and you…
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"Twenty Four"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'm a poet and a lover and a son and a brother and a brick in the wall.
My patience was short but I'm learning the importance of starting out small.
Didn't know where to begin cause I'm human…
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"My Guitar"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'll destroy my guitar
In the name of the greater good.
Though I love my guitar
It doesn't love me like it should.
I'm about to lose my temper.
I'm about to lose my temper.
Screw the silence, can…
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"The Backyard"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Met my friends in the backyard
In the summer I was lookin' to be a man.
Didn't know how it would change me, raise me.
But I didn't think about that.
Every Sunday we'd wake up,
And paint the…
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"Fail"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Keith Landry
There's a price to pay to be the boy who popped out from a storybook
And every single day I find the jury's giving me the alibis.
So let me tell you:
I'm so-so tall…
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"I Was Born"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Greetings to my only friend, sacrifical lamb.
Ask me where my mind has been, ask me where I stand.
Guess it isn't real, guess it doesn't matter much.
Ash to ash and dust to dust, etcetera and such…
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One for the lonely kids.
Too dark for a children's record?
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A noodle I started with my buddy Ron's wood drum box thing...
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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This one means a lot to me... Kinda twangy I guess?
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Doing My Time
Lyrics T Boudreau
Music Jimmy T
I was off on my ways
Might even call me crazy
I said, 'Baby brother,
can you spare a dime?'
He said 'from one to another,
how long have you been doin' time?"
I was out on a break…
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Final Version
If in doubt write more songs
with Kazoo solo! and heckling!
this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band
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This was going to be a re-make of Dancing on my own but reg was too busy to participate so i have used Norms percussion track and got Chris Vaisvil to bass it up and i have added a vocal creating something new. Reg has had a lot of trouble with…
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Without the darkness it has a different feel........
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Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
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The title track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'. It was the last track I completed and I had to rush to finish it. That's why it has no real melody and is really just a bunch of riffs.
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad.
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Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect.
One Perfect Day
Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl
The sun is on its…
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A crazy little song written while considering Ed Robertson's plane crash from a few years back, "Any Landing" is given much legitimacy by Ashley's incredible voice and Kavin Allenson's (Kavin S. Acoustic Church) guitar.
Any Landing
Learning…
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Another formerly poorly recorded song... Really a piece of poetry that was put to music (a hit-or-miss approach for me that seemed to work well on this one).
Three Times More
Dad plants his spring garden
For a good summer bounty he's…
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When the girl in the room is just too cute for me to concentrate on whatever it was I was trying to do.
Anything Done
How am I supposed to get anything done
With you looking like that
I'm so far gone
I'm forgetting where I'm at
How…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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This is a synopsis of Reg's favourite movie put to music. Sorry about the length but what can you do, when you have a story to tell, you can't cut it short can you? This is one to download for the car to listen to on that boring journey or when…
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This is a band I was in for almost 9 years. We were called 3 Ton Jack. Played mostly around the Council Bluffs, IA - Omaha, Ne areas.
Singer: James Johnston
Guitars/backing vocals: Me
Guitars: J.C. Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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Reg has decided that he doesn't want hurting again so he has decided to be up front about what he wants.................. Love me for who I am........
Love me, Love me, for who I am
Love me, take me for what I am…
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Acoustic tale of revenge. Recorded 2010 on a Boss BR1600CD.
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**The Knife - A A J Russe**
A dark and star-less night
Probably driving rain
That's what they think became of me
A foolish walk along the cliff when he was drunk…
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A cover of Larry Wallis's fine ditty (it's always been one of my favourite Dr Feelgood songs).
This was my second recording with my Boss MBR, recorded early 2009. It confirmed for me that I was a "standalone recorder" kind of guy, and there was…
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I used a clip of the English version of greetings recorded on the gold disk on board Voyager 1.
Thanks NASA/JPL
Headphones and volume knobs required!
Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…
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Trying to see if I can break alonetone's formatting with the song title ;)
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A lot of different types of people get down the cellar since Elvis moved in and Reg has been taking notice.........
A BLUE BLOODED JUNKIE
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A Blue blooded junkie has the time of his life…
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This song was written about being regressed under hypnosis , to discover what happened , when as a young boy i started a fire in a cornfield , and hid from the trouble i knew would ensue , it was recorded live
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This was a poem written by a guy called Maverick , i altered it to fit a song stucture , it was done live , with my good friends Tina on bass , and AK on second acousic
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This was written as part of a concept album inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso ,Trevor Lewis is a member of Songcrafters music forum , he came up with the idea of writing poems to 12 Picasso paintings , then put them out for people to put music…
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Desirae & Johnny were lovers but they got into debt and Desirae left Johnny. Johnny didn't handle the separation at all well.............
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
The idea is adapted from "The Blind Boy's Dog" by Hank Snow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRVR76hwvs
The song contains references to people you may not recognise if you're not from Australia…
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The explanation for this is a bit long, so if you're just looking for the lyrics, switch over to "about" and click the "view more" box below.
So I'm eating fish and chips at an Irish restaurant waiting to play an open mic in Saratoga over at…
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I guess it's a semi-sequel to Emote. One of my mellower ones.
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Reg has been out on the town again with his old friend madness and its now the morning and loves old friend sorrow has come to call........
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Another song in our ongoing Wojo project. Wojo is a Wetband splinter group made up of Jethro and Woody.
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a season in hell by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
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my last one for the RPM... until next year
...mwa hahahahahahahhaha
Lyrics:
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this isn't sad, it's survival
i bet you think this is where the happy ending goes
the realization i've been living wrong
not exactly right, but we…
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This initially had started out as my attempt to do a basic electronica track - I sort of failed miserably at this. (Like most music I program, it ultimately begins to sound like 'not electronica' by the end, for better or worse.)
The re-recording…
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I write a Vikings parody song for every game of the Minnesota Vikings season for my blog, which is found at http://www.thevikingship.net
This is a parody of New York New York by Frank Sinatra
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Title song from this years RPM Challenge.
Lyrics:
Shot dead
is what I felt when I first looked into your eyes
Shot dead
Is what I became, I tell you that ain't no lie
My head
it just exploded when I saw that way that you dance
Off…
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Had the blues in Alabama
Had the blues in Texas too
Had the blues all over
Now I 'm givin' em to you
And if you don't want em
You know what you can do
You wont find me I'm goin' ta run and hide away from you
Because I see trouble
Trouble…
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Track 5 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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Probably the oddest recording I've ever made.
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I'm pretty sure I've ripped off the main riff from somewhere. Oh, well, too late now...
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thanks to Keith Landry for the lyrics help on the choruses.
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I hope you can see the above picture - I scored a 15 chord autoharp zither for $42 on ebay. 4 old guitar strings later (I save them... just in case :-) and a tuning against an organ patch she is working nicely again. Can't wait to show Emily…
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In response to a suggestion of Dr. Ozan Yarman I tried a tuning he created for a different project. I realized the composition using Garritan Personal Orchestra Baroque organs, Garritan World sample set Oud and Santoor samples performed on an…
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~Au Bordel~
Lived in, played there all sorts of things. Salon. Tango.
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It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
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For 2011 RPM Challenge album John the Resonator
A Sword and Sorcery parody. With Elvis.
Daughter Brit sang the vocal in the middle part.
Elvis was the mountain king
Who ruled the land of El-Karyaang
His wife Priscilla lady fair
Was taken…
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Story came out of my current situation of commuting Mondays to my job 200 miles out of town and then back on Fridays. Been doing it 8 months now. Trying to sell a house, it aint fun.
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This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
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Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.
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That's right...354. He's working the jazz circuit now. Blythm and Ruse on the Five. Lipless (on The Top) Willie Lee Harlot on the Four.
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