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Found this arrangement left over from RPM. The drum track was already mixed from my old kit. I cut it and mashed it up trying to fix it when I mix it.
Then I added some vintage synth sounds, some guitars, and some reptilian…
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From the concept album The Tower of Rust. In this song, the main character has become aware that he has become one with many past lives. "And now I'm someone else".
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Track is from our concept album "The Tower of Rust".
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Ring of Fire - lyrics by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash -1963. Slightly modified.
This wasn't meant to be Ring of Fire but that's how it wound up.
I have been wanting to trash Ring of Fire and the words just seem to fit this simple 1-4-5…
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A few of you know I accidentally wiped out one of my SD cards that had all my works in progress on it. I'm just starting to piece it all together again - A slow process. This was supposed to be a reprise to "In My Head", but ended up being in…
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(Bowers, Rainbowtruth) from the LP "Over the Counter and Through the Woods" circa 1997.
Barnett: Lead vocal/guitar
Osborne: Drums/backing vocal
Bowers: Bass/spoken vocal
Duff: Guitar
One of my favorites. Don't be fooled, the sampled snare…
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~ Hope, awakening sound waves, that could be useful ~
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This is the first of several songs in a collaboration with Laura Kepner-Adney. Laura has a beautiful voice and a gift for arranging music. It is an exciting project with more to come.
Featuring Ryan Anderson on harmonica.
Lyrics:
As a boy…
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This is a long version of the track "THE GIRLS AND ME" A beautiful collaboration with the great BETHAN MATHIS. Here at http://alonetone.com/bethanmathis you can listen The girls and me"
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Hybrid analog/digital rock and roll. I'm trying out some new guitar FX and amp sims in Pro Tools.
They are not so bad all distorted and fuuzzzzed
up.
I tried to sing it, but hey, you know, I give it hell though right?
It's a Goddess of War…
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I know, you think I've completely lost it. This is actually a cover tune. Originally done by Wall of Voodoo around 1979. I did it from memory and ear, so I'm not sure if I got the notes or the Key right. It don't matter though, It was fun.
I…
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I guess I knew this would happen. Talk about creating one's own reality Sheeeeesh. End of the month and my pen has been re-fueled and I added some vox to this one, plus some lead guitar, and a bit of synth strings. I also took a shot at some…
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Just a guitar instrumental at this point. I don't know where it's going. I can hear some lyrics, but my pen is on hiatus for now.
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I deleted this a while ago I think. Just found it on a CD and decided to put it back up for your listening pleasure. It demonstrates the proper usage of a washboard!
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What we are is mostly water
On our way back to the sea
I have made this trip so many times
I'm just glad you're here with me
Fall alone or fall together
Either way we will be one
You and me, we will reach the sea
And have need for names no more…
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"Miss She" is another step in my late-blooming evolution as a student of music. It's more ambitious in terms of attempting to create an atmosphere of sound, and less ambitious in that I "wrote" the words while standing at the mic. (The next song…
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Wasting away another weekend with some scales and mode practice on the synthesizers.
all the percussion is from the Juno drum patches and my fingers.
For you folks out there who enjoy the mode stuff this is Phrygian in A
A,Bb(A#),C,D,E,F,G,(A)
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This is my 3rd home recording. I dug it out again and cleared the moth balls.
"Tart it up a bit" as Sis would say.
I found out that if you rub a strat the wrong way, it will talk back to you. I tried many times to re-create this guitar work…
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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Song recorded July 2009. Song originally by Santana.
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Kinda cornball but what the hell. I gotta do one for the wifey every now and then.
I think my drumming hiccuped somewhere around 2:40.
Lyrics:
just a day
or maybe for a life time
taken away
by a women in disguise
wrapped on a…
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Seems to be that one song everyone likes.
Lyrics:
Stary night, the highway fades
a hundred miles and I'm on my way
I got up late
Lazy days and even crazier nights
there she was, on her way
she stuck her thumb out for me to see…
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I remember when we were young
I remember waiting for the sun
you said you loved me
you said you need me
you said you want me
and that was forever
I remember the stories of our days
I remember the tears in your eyes
you said…
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Inspired by RFK's Mindless Menace of Violence Speech
Lyrics
Perhaps we can remember
if only for a time
that violence stops for no man
being rich and poor,and black or white
we share the same old dreams
a captive moment in our lives…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 8
Notes: This is our alumni song.
This version is not introduced by Mr. Martin
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Si me recuerdas debe ser que hay algo en ti.
Puede ser tal vez, que el destino es real
y une nuestras vidas.
Siento que hay algo en mí, esperándote
desde siempre, por mil vidas hasta que te encontré.
Viajaré otra vez sobre cerros y mar…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Winter 1993
(School Year 93-94):
Track 5
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The mysterious planet of the machines from Dune. Features a 9-note scale.
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Lyrics:
Slow days start to shape my mind
into a feedback of
negative thoughts that undermine
my efforts to get rid of
impatience wasting all my time
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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The first beat I ever made, first song I produced :) Please forgive the ill advised symbol.
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I have had an itinerant life and most of the friends I've made are scattered to the winds. Or rather I am.
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Here is something I just thought was funny, and then I added a bit of Buckethead's "..." for good measure. Vox by Throatrake.
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Track originally by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.
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Sound source: Realistic Concertmate-500. Found this cool interrelationship between chorus and octave fuzz pedals that creates this weird, wobbly bassline.
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Still You Loved Me
Verse 1:
I walked the path I chose,
Blind to truth, deaf to grace,
I filled my cup with fading things,
And wore my pride like praise.
I trusted hands that dropped me,
And words that led astray,
Till pain became my…
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What do you guys do when you hit a wall? I'm looking at that wall and can't seem to get past it.
I think taking a break is the answer, or take up painting instead?
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Session fragment May 5, 2025. Roland J-6, Roland S-1, Bastl Kastle FX Wizard, Zoia, and a couple other pedals.
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14/02/25:
https://ditto.fm/my-infernal-world-ode-to-lina-and-paw-the-remixes
'My Infernal World (Ode to Lina & Paw) -The Remixes MEGAMIX' reached the Top 55 on the Spinnin' Records Talent Pool prior to release:
https://spinninrecords…
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Session fragment April 20, 2025. Roland J-6, Roland S-1, Bastl Kastle FX Wizard, Zoia, and a couple other pedals.
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This track started as an attempt to make something for the Drone Orchestra for April. I used my own presets on the Typhon (Dystope) and the Minilogue xd (Sacred Calls), but I found it didn't fit the month's theme of chaos well enough. I set both…
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Recordings of grackles, slowed, added vox, whistles and sound effects.
Kat: vox, whistles, composition
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Messing around with mixing.
Sometimes I wonder if your hair is still black and long
If your eyes are still brown and staring shyly at the ground
If your button nose still curves just so
If your eyes still stay close when you laugh
Sometimes…
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This is a song my late-night self apparently left for my morning self to think about. I admit it just keeps gnawing at me, maybe not in a good way.
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Nineteen, standing by the ocean for the first time
Gazing long at the sea feeling the…
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this video shows the details that went into creating this song...
https://youtu.be/KVhn3MMQ7BY
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Too many rainy days lately, so what is a boy to do? Write a song!
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I'm walking down this country road to find some peace of mind
With every step I seem to take I leave the world behind
There's agates in the gravel…
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SSA with Piano accompaniment.
Written for Beniaminek children's choir (Enfield, London) for their 2021 Christmas Album "Male Swiatelko z Betlejem" (Little Light from Bethlehem).
Text by s. Karen Trafankowska CFSN.
Performed by Mikolaj…
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A sad tango of a song .......
Karli & Frank
Karli gin soaked sat on the bench
She didn’t know where she was or what she was gonna do
Her head was gone to the clouds
Her head
a mash
of everything she was mean…
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Some cd glitching mashed with a track from exactly a year ago, "schyzotransient"
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There's a story behind this that's uninteresting to anyone but me. A short version is that my old, broken guitar (made semi-immortal with duct tape and instrumental willpower) needed to play this Dylan song before it is laid to rest.
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wrote this song about 6 yrs ago , mix and mastered , guitars , keyboard , bass guitar , vocals and backing vocals , lead guitar , mandolin , and song written by myself , hope you like it thanks for your time ,.....cheers tony cee
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everybody's waiting for the light
but we don't need the sun to show our bright side
strip away the veil before your eyes
wading in with nothing on our minds
good morning swimmers
if you should respond to our invite
you may even come…
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moving back and forth
doesn't have to take very much force
oh but standing up straight, it does
crowding doesn't count much when you are trying to limb out
can we get down to the roots of us
small connections can be found
buried deep beneath…
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Verse One
How did we get to this place
in our lives where we hate each other
how could you be so far away from me
I’ll never understand
With you by my side
We could have been so great so perfect now
Chorus
And how the world can be so…
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Wasteland
Verse One
Follow with soft eyes
(I imagine it so hard to come by)
Combing version wanted alive
(Circumstance on my own)
Constantly eyes dart
(Sit and stare at poverty)
Raise your towers high
(I figured you come around…
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Verse One
Careful what you say now
We’re carefully plotting your death
Mistakes have been made
As you’ll soon see through your modest eyse
Pre Chorus
as seen through therse cute winter greens
Leave us now
You can be our
Hero in the…
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Lessons not, quickly forgotten.
Stable eye, upbuild downtrodden.
Troubled times, lay down often.
Catch the sky, once in a while.
No longer a sound.
Lack of presence feelin' down.
Nothing to put my arms around.
Emptiness is not profound…
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I saw her mother
Just the other day
She didn’t know me
So I froze on what to say
When she was happy
Nothing made her frown
Danced so much
They even gave her a crown
She was , she was royalty
Really wish that she remembered me
She…
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What's your angle?
Why, you want everything for free?
Is it your ego,
or how you want the world to be?
Chase your desire,
But your blind to the cost.
Grab at the surface.
Your ideology is lost.
You can't have it all!
This is the price…
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Push & pull,
Left & right,
Up & down,
Don't forget your dog's in this fight.
Courage!
Might!
All so hard to see in this light.
Couldn’t put it any other way,
Hands up in the air as if they’re trynna say,
Will I ever be…
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One last cup of coffee
Before I hit the road
Where I’m going
You only know
Don’t forget me
Once i’m sold
Breaking down slowly
I suppose so
I’m beaten up
But I’ve grown up
Beaten up
Grow up
You’ll make someone happy
For a year…
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There’s. man by the shallow
He goes there each day
Screams about his problems,
Prays them away
Why’d you come to the shallow?
Do you ever feel peace?
I need a solution
Before my head is fleeced.
The shallow, it saves me
It, holds…
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I wait, I wait,
For you now.
I wait, I wait,
For you now.
Now that you're ahead I wonder,
Will you turn and wait for me?
I wonder.
If I lost direction,
Would the favor return for free?
I wonder.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes!
Wait…
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It’s all smoke and mirrors
Why I can’t see straight
Will this illusion vanish
When will it break
The smoke it lifting
The mirrors clear
I wasn’t really risking
Everything is still there
Am I still dreaming
This just don’t sit right…
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I guess it's really gonna be farewell,
For as far as I can tell,
Once upon a time story sounds so swell,
the kind of story that we would tell,
We tell the children that it's all, alright,
Nursery rhymes to get through the night,
Hush little…
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I saw you walk right by me without a second glance.
I heard you talking right behind my ‘ugly’ back.
Who knew that we could turn from friends to strangers so so fast,
I thought that this was just the end.
I always argued it was your fault…
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Alone again, shrinking under the city lights
small price, large fee
cashing out
pressures building by the by
in a world set a fire
Everyone is
Everyone is not
the dripping stars of the melting sky
Alone again, at a bus stop in July…
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