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Another song James and I wrote together almost exactly half and half.
Vocals: James Johnston
guitars/backing vocals: Me
other guitars: JC Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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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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I tries to wake the dead. Oh if your not dead then adjust the volume at different times..
It took an hour of continuous performance before I settled down and recorded this and did excerpts and layered it here.
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Finished my RPM CD.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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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
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Almost finished...
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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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This starts at essentially the same improvisation pattern and then travels elsewhere - I think I like the Martin version better myself. This one is in stereo.
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Just an improvisation for ImprovFriday - recorded on my Zoom H2 in the expensive acoustic guitar room at my local guitar center.
I had to switch to mono because I had the zoom too sensitive and created a series of pops on one channel. This…
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bit of a key change, and temperament,
just as small note: the opening and closing strings really buzz cool in headphones, something i though i might give a try too
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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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I started off with an idea to record some harmonized diminished arpeggios and the other riffs just happened along the way. Inspired by Dethklok, hope you like it.
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Inspired by the scene in the movie Hustle & Flow where they make the song "Whoop That Trick," I made this jam based (loosely) on the main riff to that song with extra stuff. The strange thing about the main riff is that I'm playing (low) octaves…
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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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zither, slide mandolin, vocal
not the best recording - oh well.
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After spending some time listening to Breaking Light, I figured I can try more guitar sounds in these ambient productions.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Compare to "Coughdrop Overdose" from RPM 2010. =)
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Hey... i've been absent for some days. Sad, depressing days. And happy days.
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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these are the messages from my machine. I did this before but somehow had to do this again. of course the answering machine messages were edited for content .. :)
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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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Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
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Some people measure things by inches and miles,
gallons and quarts and sometimes smiles, but I got a measure that I made up: I measure my orange juice by the "blub, blub, blub.".
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Michelangelo: didjeridu
Kavin.: guitar, loops
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#7 for the RPM this year
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i know
what this means
i know now
meaning is only found in meaningless
The path to knowledge is convoluted
often self destructive
ingrained in our souls is a
nihilistic ending to all your…
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Was Reg daydreaming had Robert Plant really just come down the cellar bar to visit Elvis and sang while he played. He shook his head and resumed playing .....................
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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this gets loud at minute 3 and never settles down. wawoots. :) till about minute 7.5 then it quite outs.. then the end just kills me and yes I know I performed that but still it kills me LOL
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This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…
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Narrator:
"Hey pumpcrop
has been too long?
is it time to phone a friend?
I said, hey pumpcrop
i'm talking to you
is it time to phone a friend?"
Demon:
"that won't work here"
Narrator…
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some how this was mixed for the pleasure of ours.
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I am noticing a patter in the musics like at minute five to minute five and a half I start to slow down and change up the systems.. anyway when i mixed the two things they came out like this.
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This is a page from my "sketchbook". I regularly sit with a guitar and just let the flow of thoughts drift up in words and progressions. I will rather "surf" an idea that arises on some set of words, but I don't "control" much of this. So it's…
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this is mostly sync level play and other things too. It seems the Microkorg likes being controlled by the supernova II :)
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Field Fresh - Texas Cow Patties are yummy little milk chocolate carmel peanut patties that come in this neat little wooden box..... Not really cow shit!
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My uncle used to tap his foot and sing "six feet under, six feet under" and my grandmother
would tell him to stop and say it was bad luck, so I made this jam based on his melody.
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Reg has been with the new women in his life now for a while.She has noticed that Reg has an air of sadness around him.She wants to get to the bottom of it.She starts to ask him why? all the time. Reg wants to keep his secrets of his past to himself…
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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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life429
The POWER of Appreciation
Minister Brad Dassey
2-16-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
Free Sermon Downloads
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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something I might work more on but after crashing the acid program I am leery some.
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~Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité et l'Amour~
Simple joys of being in this the seeming imperfect world.
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~Spinning the Squirrel Wheel~
Spinning-spinning our globe, and we're in spin with it, servants of spin. What if we actually just ... snowflakes? We are spinning all our lives, sometimes together but often apart. Is it sad? And, if so, then…
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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Danny Zuko from the motion picture Grease
sung by Sandy Gritt
written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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INSTRUMENTAL! or just mental, probably one of those 80 to 20 mental over physical kind of things.
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finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.
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Lyrics
Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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~For all those who have parted forever, and those who have parted for a while~
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Kickin' off RPM this year with instrumentals.
I don't feel much like singing. Or trying for that matter.
I may put some vox on this when I'm feeling a bit better.
Enjoy!
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One in a lifeless space. Cold. Only the power of spirit can help to survive and to love again.
~Furiously~
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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anutha one for rpm, this is I think the final idea for the hath beezlebub tune, just maybe more added to it. Half Ass Metallica stuff here.
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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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for ImprovFriday 2/10-12 2011
ambient impro+tweaks
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How To Overcome The Cycle Of Sin
Minister Brad Dassey
2-7-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Island tribute to a drink made of Kahlua and milk. Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s. This song inspired wild dancing when played live.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red…
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Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.
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Reg is wanting his lady to come home, he misses her, he needs her everything has gone wrong................RPM2011
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It's funny how Reg can seem to put in one sentence what others need a whole page to say...........
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Updated on RPM website also but here for your listening pleasure.
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FORGIVENESS
Minister Brad Dassey
2-2-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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This is a song I made at my cabin last fall ... didn't have anything new to say so the lyrics are a bit out there ... anyway ... this is "Nothing new" ... all recorded on my Boss BR800
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I don't see myself in shiny mirrors
I don't see myself in sunny skies
And I won't see myself
Until I see myself again in Peggy's Eyes.
Once upon a time there was a reason for the rhyme
There was some silver in the dime . I remember
And…
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Minister Brad Dassey
Why The World Is Geared On Sex
1/30/2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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This was made as a parody/homage to the great mr Henwrench !!
http://alonetone.com/henwrench
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Minister Brad Dassey
The 3 R's To A Better Relationship
1-29-2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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I'm sorry for this one. Not the whole song, not well done, nothing... but it fits my mood today. And i love it.
Edit, uploaded a new version with some storm recording in the background and re equalized. I think it's better now.
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What? is an improvisation using excerpts of Timo Tuhkanen's Clarinet Improvisation and Kavin Allenson's accoutrements in Dimension Pro 1.5 - each using a harmonic series tuning plus "epic frame drums" sample loops in Kontakt played on a M Audio…
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Was going to layer or track this into the jumping on 2 but could not do that legitimately anyhow by the end I start part of the jumping on 2 song, coming next. first here i set the levels then at about min 2 something I sync the beats between…
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my best howlin' wolf/lemmy vocals slowed down foolish games
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2x 5 string bass, electric piano, vox
I tried adding percussion via playing drums on my keyboard. It was way ugly. So... I think I'm done unless someone wishes to lend a hand.
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Part 5 of the collaborative Rich Gibbs and Vestigial Remorse "Faces of Humanity" project.
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Narrator:
"I know
You don't understand
Yet
This is a glimpse of eternity
Welcome home
Home is the place…
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
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A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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The year is 1790 and the place is French Guiana and the subject is the slave trade.....................
This is a collab with Norm.
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Gonna let this moment bend us into circles so we have no ends
in light of everything you think of being isn’t always knowing
something isn’t coming, something in you still denying love,
love is never wanting to be all alone and so we roam…
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This was made from a sample of an elephant roar/scream.
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In the winter when I have no work I survive by the good grace of my fine lady. She says she doesn't mind but I can't help but worry that one day she'll get fed up with it.
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Believe what you like. Or don't. It's your choice.
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TRAIL OF TEARS was not a metaphor. It was an American Holocaust. Michael Jeffrey helped me with this track.
TRAIL OF TEARS
Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E
A
CHORUS - Well, the trees…
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Reg had sat listening to the Wrinkled Shirts track and decided it was time to tell you the story of how he found his Mojo. it was a time way back when, to far back to remember. when he was just a young man. when he had decided to fast-forward…
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A remix of a performance by laptop/guitar duo Wasp and Pear. Remixed with iPod touch and Filtatron app.
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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A friend of mine sent me a poem and asked me to put music to it. I took the liberty to mangle a bit of the lyric.
MANGO
I like a mango. I like a mango.
Well, I like mangos mornin' noon 'n night
I like's in the dark. I like 'em in the light…
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A mini-miniature conceived last night, some hours ago... as the result of a discussion.
Enjoy.
Edit: new record.
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And in this warm up, Dave used an insane sustain distortion to show case his mad skills. Check out our band's page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kolombour
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Another backing track but at my bad memory it wasn't the Irish penny flute sound I used but a patch called Changer Winds inside Alchemy with two different arpegiators. One with rhythmic steps and another one set to minor pentatonic scale.
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the deep blue sea rose up
and the devil came to play
she rose up and she began to say
why do little men take with my name
such a foolish game to play
hath be the devil be thy name
hath beezlebub have a grain of salt
so never look back upon
you…
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Calculated Electron Orbitals
I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good idea. Well, here is 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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First Song Idea Demo of unveiling my next album.
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consider this a microcosm of the final work that might just happen ,, yes a complete Klingon Orchestrated Opera :) (feeling shameful that it was Chris's idea first.) (this is a mire raw example of an outproduced work.>
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Guess where I dreamed up something like this? When the choir members started walking up the aisle in a cadence of the Monastic Walk (3 steps forward followed by one step back, followed by a brief pause), the backbeat appeared in my mind. I worked…
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A serial improvisation in 12 equal setting Vachel Lindsay's 1931 reading of his poem "The Mysterious Cat" to musical accompaniment. Vachel Lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are…
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Some people need to fall down every now and then.
LYRICS:
Won't you ever go away
cause I feel the same way too
Did you have your kicks and eat them too
Did you ever cross the line
I confess is undefined
Did you have your taste of…
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Ok, this is another of my few blues (late 90 i guess..). I was playing it today and recorded several times. I don't think this one is the best one, but it has something that i really like. This record is the plane rythmic guitar. Later i was playing…
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