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Added snide words to a funky little burp. There really is no point.
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Me on drums, bass, and borrowed classical guitar. Recorded the drum part to test the mic setup in my rearranged drum room. Added the guitar and bass a week later, between watching David Byrne's performances on SNL.
Not ecstatic about any of…
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Me on guitar, bass, and words. Drums via plugin. Vox via Microsoft Word narrator.
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Me on guitar, bass, and words. Drums via plugin. Vox courtesy of the Microsoft Word narrator. :)
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This one's mostly MIDI clips in the Superior Drummer 3 and EZKeys plugins in Reaper. I fumbled along on my new MIDI keyboard controller to add the bass part using a sound from SampleTank. Pretty happy with it except for the abrupt end of the last…
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Something that never got lyrics...
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
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Me on my Squier Strat and Peavey T-20 bass, both going through Amplitube 4 in Reaper. Drums courtesy of the Superior Drummer 3 plugin.
It's a little long without words, but still puts me in a pleasant mood. Hence the name. :)
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Well I did try and get an RPM challenge done after last years fail, but I'm still lacking enthusiasm or creativity.
Hence the uninspiring title of 'The Fifth', as this was the 5th track I was working on and the only one that came close to completion…
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Not quite a rap "battle," but definitely inspired by Brennan's interest in such things.
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This would be cool with piano, right? And maybe Bruno Mars singing it instead or something?
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Gilronan made this up to sing this to his girls as they played dress-up with cold weather accessories.
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Jessie kindly contributed her voice to this recording
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Brennan proposed the title of the song while looking at a bottle of Dust Off by the computer.
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris Drums
Johnny Keys
I’m Not Saying
An old expression goes
“The more you learn the less that you know”
Now i’m not preaching but perhaps we’ve been teaching it wrong
And it grows old in…
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Garys tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris Drums
Johnny Keys
Why’d You Have To Go
BEEN AROUND FOR MANY YEARS
WASHED AWAY SOME PAINFUL TEARS
MET SOME FRIENDS ALONG THE WAY
SOME STUCK AROUND SOME WENT AWAY
BUT I STILL THINK…
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Chris’s tune, lyrics, vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
Toms Mandolin
Johnnys keys
Grey Matters
Pale grey.. my blanket of birth... For what it’s worth
No one can say
Frozen hue.. bequeathed to me..
The powers that be
But what colors…
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Tom and Chris’s tune, Toms lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando, banjo, harp and some keys
Chris drums - Johnny Keys
Poor Mans Paradise
I was born in a thunderstorm
Rolling down highway one
With the poor mans tax upon my back
Before…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, mando,
Chris drum / back vocal
John Otto - Penny Whistle / great keys/ Spirit
Ummmerica....
Well my girl n me got a front row seat
To the next world war
We stood in line for quite some time
Its…
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Toms tune, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass
Chris drums Johnny Keys
You Were There
You were there
With yellow flowers in your hair
And the summer air seemed to get us high
The county fair
Was lit up like a caution flare
And it was there…
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This is the band mix of this song:
https://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/playlists/rpm2020---finished-mixes,-so-far/good-people-(coffee-shoppe-mix)
The only note worth making is that unlike almost every other song I worked on this year, the…
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Sweet Christmas, this puppy is a mess....
....and I LOVE it!
There is actually two mixes going on at once here. I set everything for the beginning and end sections without even listening to the middle. Once I had the two mixed where I could…
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This is a last minute bit of guitar goofiness. I own three Gibson guitars and have been wanting to write a silly instrumental that includes all of them. This is it. The rhythm guitar is my '79 ES 335 Pro, the lead on the left is my '18 SG Standard…
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A simple little tune that got stuck in my head. I hope to revisit this one soon and add a couple more layers.
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Waste not want not....finished the final lead take at about 3:45am this morning...almost killed me...
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Laying on your back losing yourself to the stars...
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Whatever "it" is.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
I Got It
Well I woke up this mornin
Water all around
If I hadn’t raised my head good god I woulda drowned
Now I got it
I got it
Yeah I got it and I just can’t give it away…
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You peer out from the diner and see nothing. The further out you gaze, the more dilated the light becomes, leading to an infinite band of seamless white nothing.
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What kind of twisted infinity loop have you managed to get yourself stuck in? Time seems to weave in and out like some kind of Gordian knot.
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The CB Radio in the corner echoes with an idle static, but something sounds peculiar - it's no noise you've ever heard before. There's something intelligent about it, like it's peering out of the speaker and looking right at you.
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I'm not a trick of the shadows. You're the trick of light.
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Well, it tasted like Creamsicle. Perhaps the giant radioactive insignia on the outside of the flask was meant to be a warning or something. After your sixth beer, you tend to ignore stuff like that.
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You're hitchhiking, with no recollection of how you came to be here. A route with an irregular number has never been a positive sign.
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Yeah - don't even think Houdini could get himself out of this mess. Ever tried picking the quantum lock on a wormhole?
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The waking dream ends before it began. Trailing off to quantum uncertainty.
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On an elevator, we exist in a perpetual uncertain state between different floors.
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They try and find a way to reach you, but it's like concrete.
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Or is this some sort of dream? "Sleep come soon, and white away the room."
Perhaps this is a dream you shouldn't be having. Some doors are best left unopened.
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Although they would probably not admit it, writing credits to Carl Barnhardt and Kevin Martin.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
The Vaseline Queen of Abilene
There’s a little town out west of Sabine
Where the wind spins the turbine…
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A Valentine's Day song for my sweetie. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
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We've all been there. Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Borborygmas Blues
I was hangin with my honey
Late last night
We heard a sound
And got a terrible fright
It sounded like a tremor
Or a far off beast
But I felt something down…
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based on the science fiction story "Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith.
Recorded for the 2020 RPM Challenge
Lyrics:
Lord Jestocost
She’s a cat and she’s a girl
But she’s not equal in this world
I am lord of all I see
This…
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This one is pretty much your basic bad day. I mean hectic, frantic, crazy, pull-your-hair-out, everything's going wrong, Junior puked in class and I crashed the car on the way to get him days. Really bad but survivable.
Make yourself the main…
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I wrote the backing track a couple years ago after watching the documentary "It Might Get Loud." It somehow evolved into a li'l tribute to Bob Dylan (Bob really deserves so much better). The words allude to a number of Dylan's songs: "Like a Rolling…
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A track over twenty years in the making. I came up with it sitting in front of the TV with an unplugged borrowed Rickenbacker 360 (thanks, Mark). The Santana vibe just happened. I made a four track cassette recording of it just to get it down…
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Swamp Thing is a custom built guitar by Tony Louscher at Luthier's Workshop in Green Bay, WI. I wrote the main riff three years ago and it sounded "swampy" to me. For the 2020 RPM Challenge, I dusted off the little riff and created this tune…
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A simple little ballad. I wrote it thinking of meaningful relationships gone south.
The guitar is a Les Paul Studio through a Boss AC-3 Acoustic Simulator and Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon delay.
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Music By Geoff Cox
Lyrics by Ben Blackett and Geoff Cox
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parts may hurt your ears. depending. guitar -> mxr superbadass fuzz -> red panda tensor -> tc electronics mimiq -> behinger audio interface -> cakewalk breverb -> sonitus delay -> your ears
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ABACHA is a blend of heavy Arewa fused Jiggy Trap with Bars On Bars.
This ballers anthem is for all Arewa kings and lovers of good music in the North and Beyond, as King IB and The Arewa Trap Kart3L gets ready to give you more creative vibes…
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Wrote this one from an interesting perspective. Found a nice little hook and didn't mess with it - sometimes sparse arranging is best.
TOO LATE
Time had a funny way of passing
That time I first looked in your eyes
I thought it might be…
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Sometimes you just gotta hack away at the acoustic. Oh, and for those of you listening from the New Hampshire coastal music scene, I "borrowed" your documentary title. Had to do it.
SHE'LL NEVER BE MINE
Raised on the water
Born on the…
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This one is a turd and a half. I knew it was a loser from the word go but my February rule is everything that can be completed will be. As a result we have a song where the guitars are half assed, the lyrics are half assed, the vocals are half…
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No one ever rocks in 3/4 time. This is a cheesy attempt to do just that. I woke up one morning with the music for this pretty much complete in my head. I recorded the rhythm guitars and vocals over a simple drum and bass loop. When I went…
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This track is number 4 of my album Space discovery and is a long peacefull track that could put anyone to sleep straigh away ;o) but in fact mean the deep artificial sleep of spationauts while their ship is crossing space for a very long distance…
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This is the third track of my album Space discovery. When spationaut are coming back to their family after a long trip in the innerspace.
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Shinning stars is an old composition I completly reworked adding tracks and also guitars tracks that were not present in the original release. This is the second track of my album Space Discovery available on Bandcamp.
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Track composition inspired by playing Star Citizen video game Spatioport is a track with long introduction with big waves pads sound and my electric guitar and ambiance of Spatioport made with sound of airport vocals and simulation of starships…
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This one was fun to play while I was working on it, but now it's kind of a turd. I don't know if I am going to drop anything from this year's RPM Challenge album, but if I do this is definitely a candidate. The lyrics are cheese, the singing…
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The longuest track of my last album "The long travel" using instrument Korg Kronos2 + Korg Microstation + Novation mininova + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3.
I also made a video on Youtube with this track that…
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Composed as well on my new Korg Kronos2 + Novation Mininova + Korg Microstation + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3. I also made a video of this track in Star Citizen game here :
Youtube.com/watch?v=TlOrJSQ0Wg8
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Composed on my new Korg Kronos2 + Novation Mininova + Korg Microstation + electric guitar Blade and additional tracks in Cakewalk Sonar X3.
I made a video of this track in Star Citizen game here : Youtube.com/watch?v=byfYAF54WAo
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The miracle here is that I was able to upload this using the guest wifi at Disney World and it didn't take six days! Nice!
The lyrics are about how I used to be a cynical asshole when it came to love and relationships and then I met my wife…
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I recently watched the 80s horror movie Brain Damage, and did this over the last couple of days.
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