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My contribution for Johnny with Norms excellent percussion. I've given it a bit of an Indian twist.......
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For the lyrics I tried to "paint a picture" rather than tell a story or make a clear point. I was thinking of Caroline No by the Beach Boys about a girl who suddenly lost the glow of youth. The lyric is not quite succesfull but... it will have…
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This song is all about everyday life. working all week and living for the weekend.
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The piano track is a mangled version of the already-mangled piano from the previous song ("The Saucers Arrive").
The plan was to try to improvise in a way that was somehow rhythmically compatible with the skittering piano track. The guitar track…
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Every thought
words/music: Geir
'in the home late at night
just as I turn out the lights
I hear a voice from the wall
it says it has heard it all
it holds the secrets of the home
every thought that needs a throne
in the middle of…
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February
t boudreau
I'm stuck inside of February
With little chance of escape
And all you bar-stool visionaries
giving me advice that you'd never take
Wanna seat on a slow boat heading
South down a stream that seems to never end
Or…
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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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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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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AK wrote this after seeing a photogragh of an American Marine giving cookies to Iraqi Children
Done live
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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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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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Another Apple Garage Band session. I thought this had a little bit of a Joe Satriani feel to it so called it Satcheroni. :)
I'm nowhere near the level of the guy, but he is an influence.
Just me plugged in to the laptop again, using the Garageband…
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RPM 2011
You say the world is too complicated
You say close your eyes forget it all
Nobody sold me a bridge in the desert
Nobody remembers with our eyes closed tight
You say somedays just a point of view
You say someones not much different
Nobody…
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RPM 2011
So wide awake the hands are still
Too tired to keep them silent
It barely pokes above the surface
It hardly registers among the crowd
So long and waves the farwell
We’d better tell the authorities
Goodbyes are so beautiful
Disappear…
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RPM 2011
It's a song where we can sing along
All the day and all the night
Shoot the breeze if you can't sing it right
Dance away now melody, dance away now
It's the way to fail more gracefully
See me jump up and fall to pieces
It's sad…
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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 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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So I dropped the guitar into DADGAD tuning for the first time, threw a capo on the third fret, rifled off something nice, and sent it to Movement to Contact for his contribution, got it back, did some mixing...
Here is the result.
YOU NEED…
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Written and Recorded: February 22, 2011
DADGAD, DADGBD
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Reworked the vocals a bit (quite a bit). And yet again! And now, Gumbo Stu is singing backup bits. Thanks for the vocals Gumbo, a very welcome addition!
And, as requested, here are the lyrics:
I'm Not Afraid
You can blow me up
You…
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This was based on a flying dream I had months ago.
(Actually, more like a crashing dream, since while I was able to pilot myself into the heavens, I guess I forgot to turn off gravity.)
The fellow described appeared in the dream, casting…
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jazzsequence - bass, mix mangler
daedae - spacey, acoustic guitar
Jahn - Electric Guitar Analog Effects
Commoner - Found and common percussion
jesmiaus - flpitchervocals
Uncle Tompa - Percussion and Ambient Synth
Ronny Wærnes - contact mic feedback…
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Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.
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I wrote this because It seemed like the proper thing to do. I had considered casting it into the abyss, but thought better of it when I heard angelic voices emanating from within its belly.
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Reg is still in the empty bar but this time he decides to sing along and let his Blues out..........he wakes.......
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Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
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An unaccompanied song about bedtime. Not a lullaby though. Oh no!
What does anyone think of the 'cat's moustache' line - it seems like that's a make or break call right there and i like it when i read it but it's hard to sing without…
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I was Inspired to record this song by the Comet Temple One that was photographed from outer space just recently in the news
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Another page from my "sketchbook". This is typical. Not much detail. But a real feeling or two emerges. Like a potters perfectly turned shard or the poet's beautiful line that she's never found more words to join with...
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There was only one helping of biscuits and gravy left, which I warmed up for my son, who stormed out the door stating emphatically that he was off to join the Navy instead of going to school and so there I was, having gained a good breakfast while…
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As bassy as I could get. I suppose.
I dunno, I like it, hope someone else does!
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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Homegrown loops, cut and pasted.
Drumming with loops. I'm going loopty looooo...
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Final version
it needs a fiddle but it has a mandolin, a chicken banjo and some excellent backing vocalists
my third demo for RPM 2011
The cat's in the window and
the rabbit's in the hutch
goat's in the meadow just
a-chewin on the…
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This track is from the 1986 Scartaglen album "The Middle Path". The first tune "Jezaig" was composed by Breton musician Gilles Le Bigot. The second tune is one of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" and is attributed to King Alfonso X of Spain
Roger…
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Reg has been dancing on the scene and started drinking again, this freedom he wanted so badly is harder than he thought. But he'll get through it.........
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"Some years ago, the good folks at The Acid Exchange took up the challenge to make a different kind of collaboration...an experiment in the unity of music. Each of the participants submitted one or more renditions of verses of this familiar song…
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Jamming with a couple buddies. I screwed the lyrics up but it was fun to do. Who doesn't want to at least try an AC/DC tune?
A live recording:
Me: Vox, Bass
Joel: Guitar, Backing Vox
Chris: Drums, Backing Vox
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I reversed the bass in some sections and even changed some of the character (via filters) of some of the bass sounds.
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Another one for the RPM2011 pile. Vocals are a bit shonky so apologies for that. If you don't like the start I would give the ending a try. If you don't like that either, I'm sorry to have wasted your time. The subject matter's self-explanatory…
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3rd one for RPM2011. This is an 'oh you'll never get to heaven' type affair inspired by a beer my mate introduced me too. The song is basically about drinking yourself to death and having one up on the healthy brigade having made a rather spectacular…
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After Reg's murderous thoughts it only took an argument about who was going to make the tea to make his beloved leave him but the problem was, so had 50% of his lottery winnings and it was this he took hard, He went on the preverbal bender. Waking…
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This song was inspired from all the snowstorms we have been having this winter, another on the way tonight.....I decided to prog it out for this one....prog-rock.....lets bring it back.
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I'm not that good at making rock music. or any music that would normally require a guitar. I do my best with what I can on FL Studios, so often times a normally cool sounding amped guitar ends up sounding very brass and dull when I use it…
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the next submission for RMP ;)
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// Sometimes you gotta be stupid
// Sometimes you gotta make your own mistakes
// Sometimes you have to find your own path
// Sometimes you gotta... fall on your face
All you people…
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Another one and woah I was not going in that direction of the way the song sounds like at all when I set out to record. :)
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An unusual traditional tune from the first Scartaglen album way back in 1984. Going through stuff the other day and ran across the LP and couldn't even remember the tune or having recorded it. I played guitar on this track
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Just saw Ween's soon to be infamous train wreck of a show in Vancouver. Still one of the best live bands around. All hail Boognish!
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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From Norm's modifed Stealing Pumpkins created by MTC....Jim, I'll send you the guitar track only for your masterpiece :)
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(I Never Wanted To Know) Someone Like You
I never wanted to know someone like you
I thought I'd never love a girl the way I love you
You came in my life and turned it upside down
You came in my life and rescued me
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I wrote this to have something to play my new fiddle to. Thankfully, the fiddle is long gone, but the song remains. Additional lyrics added by Paul Aaron Hughes. You can hear his recording from his new record "I've Got To Have You"
http…
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A Break from the fake world to my real World..... Music
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Written around the time of my first wedding but played at my second...
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Flies trapped in a jar
Oh Candy
I see it in your eyes
You want Candy
No morals to disguise
I'm standing
On the edge of a million stars
We are only
Flies trapped in a jar
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Everything I know about Classical/Baroque music I learned on Saturday mornings in front of a TV with a bowl of Captain Crunch. That door needs some WD-40.
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I think it's about collective consciousness. Either that or social awkwardness.
There's a river ever flowing
On it's way down to the sea
In it's wake we all are going
On our way to eternity
And everybody knows
We're only here
For the…
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I'm surprised I forgot to post this collaboration with Norm and Char.
Char performs the reading
Norm performs the percussion
Chris did choir, sax, bass, FXs
Poem - Edgar Allen Poe
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago…
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Leafless trees hung low in the cold.
I saw myself kneel, fall, die all alone.
No pity, no tears, no profound song.
Just gone.
The limbs of the trees broke in the wind.
Worn and old from beckoning, again and again.
But no god came. In the end…
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loved doing this one. hope you enjoy it....SDS
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2 guitars, melody and rhythm. Inoffsensive and potentially catchy. Drums by Luke Sampson (of The The The Stutters).
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Pastichio Rocker aka PDOA wrote and performed/programmed this electronica piece and asked me to write and sing a lyric for it. Despite (or maybe because of ) my accent, we considered it a success. It got some college-radio airplay.
I've made…
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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Another song I love. Nothing compares to Lou, though. Seasonal, will melt away soon!
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This was a large, somewhat unwieldy internet-based blues collaboration from several years back. I wrote and sang the lyric. AE pub collaboration!....lyrics and vocals by Tangmo harmonica by Tony(T.D. Brown)...bed by Scott(Riffmaster)....guitarst…
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My 100th upload to Alonetone!
I played a pretty random arpeggio which I arranged into 3 versions of medium notes, long notes, and short notes followed by a gap. I cloned these version and transposed them up and down one octave respectively…
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Another version of the song i put up earlier which i thought had too much going on. So here it is. It might be nothing at all................
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Ok, on the make micro music list tune smiths are challenging composers to write coherent music with their worst tunings imaginable. This is my result for one of the challenges.
This is an improvisational piece that uses a modified pianoteq…
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My first attempt at a Blumlein or Mid/Side recording. This one is actually a mid/side recording as I used a directional mic in combo with a figure 8 ribbon mic set at 90 degrees from the main mic. Thanks to Pat Broaders for the loan of the ribbon…
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part 2 of the set from the gig at Super Happy Funland in Houston.
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(Lyrics posted below) A fun song I wrote with Kenneth from songcrafters.org. Its about having fun making music with friends from all over the world, connected by the internet and these great music sites that we all belong to.
I came in from…
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This piece is for solo viola. No electronics or processing were used. The fantastic technicolor performance is by Jessica Meyer.
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Reworked from an improvised track recorded for Christmas 2009. Now with structure and meaning! Happy Holidays everyone.
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Percussion = Norm
Guitar = Rick
Vox = Emily
Bass = Chris
We started with this
http://alonetone.com/rickph/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow-normrick
which came from this
http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow
I hope you both…
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Here is my attempt at the mile of sorrow hope you like it..........
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Written by my friend Dennis Coble, this is probably one of my top favorite songs of all time. Sunshine Emery sang this and I played slide reso.
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