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rpm song from 2007, my wife's father had just died and i had to drive 4 hours to be with her, then spent 2 days with her and her family, then drove back home and left her there. this is the song about that journey home.
the house is cold…
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based on a poem from Charles Bukowski. the bass part is from an older song i wrote with a band call black water. i hate wasting good parts.
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originally a fast tempo tune, i started slowing it down to add variety. it's hit or miss really.
first you say, that you don't believe me
then you say, that you cannot trust me
then you say, that you can't forgive me
then you say that it…
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this is the first song I wrote for my wife. it is an actually step by step of our first date.
she opened the door and stood there smiling
this exchange between us lasted forever
so i took her in my car and went to eat some vietnamese food…
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the reprise is actually the way the song was written.
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a song from a previous band (kill.pop.), i took the metal out of it and made it more dreamy. this is actually the 3rd version of this song that i've played.
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this was a song i wrote and performed a couple times with a former band (kill.pop.), but we broke up before it ever got recorded. i had to save it, though this version is aweful.
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old bandmate coming to visit after moving away to Indiana. this is a true story.
remember me
when I slept with your wife
and you didn't kill me
remember me
when we played in that band
and toured…
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one of 5 songs written July 5, 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away. this is actually about my wife.
close my eyes and fall asleep
and dream of you
hold you close and your kiss your face
and lick your thighs and realize…
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this is one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate was visiting after moving away. we drank alot while he was here.
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away.
when is how, and don't begin
silent thoughts and long lost friends
goodbye for now
just and wise and kind and true
from earth to sky, from me to you…
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Based on the work of Janet Cardiff, my final is an audio walk through of the Digital building, the Brown Center, at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I weave fictions and truth, with recorded sounds and sampled, manipulated and natural. There…
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tomorrow i have sold my soul
i saw you, you were alone
i saw me, white as a bone
can we feel the distance as much as the empty hearts?
it wasn't too easy yesterday
i tried to talk to you, but my mouth was so sore
it burned with words that…
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are you listening tonight?
or am i talking to a wall
a stone wall in your heart
will you talk to me?
just say anything, i will hear it
in my heart
night after night i sit here and listen to you
night after night i speak to myself
day by…
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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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Something just broke and I think it's my heart
It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart
It mighta been a meter that tore it apart
But, something just broke and I think it's my heart
G.
A bedside bomb with no alarm…
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Rick Babb came to me with this song he had written thinking it might express how I feel about the person missing from my life.
It did. I rewrote the verses.
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I was trying to find an image that expresses how lonely and abandoned I feel. This was it.
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This song tells about a guy I know named Gene.
GENE
AGFE
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Gene had a girlfriend. The band would play and they would dance
A…
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I listened to Emilie's music on her MySpace site and was prompted to write this song.
Emilie
She's been there. She'll be there.
She's part of the landscape
At old Uncle Calvin's she's grandfathered in.
She'll be there when you need…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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We were shooting this movie one day when they needed a song for a dance scene. I said, "I wrote a song that might fit here." The director agreed and I ended up getting to write all the music for that movie, RED DESERT PENITENTIARY. directed by…
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Michael Jeffrey showed me a progression on the guitar. I wrote words to go with it.
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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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"Burning Anna Rose" is a murder ballad. it's about a man who's love takes him out to get him drunk and in so doing, seals her own fate. Despite killing here on a snowy, winter afternoon he knows they'll always be together.
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"We Know Everything (A Requiem for a Rock Band) is just what it says. It's a requiem for a rock band. We all knew, and most of us were in, that greatest rock band that no one ever heard.
Those stories are full of sad clichés like the deal…
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MMI gave me one of his loops to play with (maybe he'll upload the original loop for comparison). Anyway this is my first real attempt at using a loop so I butchered it pretty liberally. Let me know what you think.
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A Tonefreak colab from a few years ago. Written by my good friend Dennis Coble. He suggested I give it a reggae treatment. Voila!
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The third installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the LA-based Yarlung Records.
Interviews with: Bob Attiyeh (Yarlung Records founder…
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Recorded December 17, 2008
Guitars: DADGAD and DADGBE
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Recorded December 17, 2008
Guitar: EBEGAD
Lap Steel: EBEEBE
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Recorded: December 19, 2008
Guitars: CGDGBD, CGCGCE
Lap Steel: EBEG#BE
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I often apologize to my Guardian Angels, so I thought I'd compose something nice for them!
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An electric monk is a device which believes in things for you so you don't have to (Dirk Gently). This is a quick little rif.
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This is the first real attempt at recording this properly and its got some way to go. It needs a guitar solo and vocoders and so on. But this is some of what I did in my 24 hour slot. I battled with my vocoders and lost :(
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This is based on a recording of a meeting between 2 pairs of dolphins. Moody perhaps.
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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hi guys I just worked on a new Track I found a cool "get money" sample I could use from Jamglue so I decided to anme the song "Get Money" thoug. the whole Instrumental (140BPM) will be featured on my mixtape so as soon as the mixtape is finished…
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This song started just as a chord progression that evolved, lost some chords, gained others. I don't usually sing this high on a song, but for some reason this song needed it. I thought about doing more on this one, but I really like acoustic…
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Hi guys just redid the whole track originally named Get $$$ Instrumental because some of you (inc me hehe) didnt like the pitched vocalz so I just removed it and created a whole new atmosphere based on an ambushed gangsta crew. the whole Instrumental…
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Didn't really work. Kind of lost the essence of the song by going a bit bonkers on effects and what not.
Will return to this (but a lot more simplified) in the future.. comments welcome!
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A little something I threw together while waiting for Godot.
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On IRC, somebody was asking about routing to I got to playing around attempting to help them out. This throw-away piece came out...
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a musical landscape,made of the noble sarod,played with bottleneck,and absynth..
passing from the known to other shores....
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