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Well Reg had an hour or so to himself today so he decided to let it go.......hope you have your Dancing slippers on you may want to shuffle to this one..........thats if the beat gets you.........it got me......
LETTING IT GO (Lyrics)
I’ve been…
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first published in 1933, this eighty year old song is still just as sweet.
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~late night one, in waves~
/For Rob, The Sailor
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I remastered it for better sound quality. it was a bit rough on its own, so I decided to fix that with a new limiter and to tone down the high frequencies. Overall, it's easier listening.
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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COWTOWN
In a court yard down the alley
There's a grave yard, weeds and litter
Memories, undisturbed, await their doom
Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN
You take a building, old and crooked
Long ago the life forsook it
Paint it up and name…
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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Well, my friend and I were chilling when he comes up with a random statement, "Are we in a Psychedelic Movie Experience?" haha, so I told him I will make a song named after that statement. Viola.
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No Banjos were harmed in this song.......i would really love to be able to play one but this is all done on a keyboard ...hope you enjoy attempt at ...well i'm not sure what to call it...but i sure enjoyed doing it....
I DON’T WANT TO GO (Lyrics…
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Gramma's Shampoo
Gramma's shampoo is washing my hair
And I hope it will notice that gramma's not there
It's the kind that knows just what to do
Says it right there on the bottle, shampoo
"Automatically adjusts to your hair's cleansing needs…
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This song contains the body of the first song I ever wrote. A poem sent to me while I was away to school in Idaho in 1959 by Carolyn Opitz that I sat at an old pump organ and sang a thousand times when I was a junior in high school.
YOU CAN…
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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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SLOOP JOHN B - REVISITED
My 9/11 song
Come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me
Blindly sailing. Hopes are failing. Storm hangs o're the sea
Guns a-blazing! Blaze amazing. Pants down around my feet
Captain, he got drunk. Just sits…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie.
THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C
The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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This is my adaptation of a poem by Rosemarie Kempton.
"I always felt that it was fitting that you turned the poem I wrote into a poignant hymn that captured the feeling of loss of a loved one. My words sprang from my attempts to understand…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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Key of G
G C G C
G
I'd be glad to let you love me
C
if you'll just hold me for a while
D
You could take your time and linger
C G
I…
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The banjo, bass and guitar on this song
was played by Michael Jeffrey. This is one song off the record we did together back in 1975/6 on his 4 track machine. Michael and Barbara Anne Taylor sing harmony.
I LIVE WITH REBECCA
I live with…
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SWEET YOUNG THING
He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow
Clean socks and his new underwear
He brushes his teeth with tooth paste
There's a charge in the air
He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled, the night before
He…
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OH JIMMY
capo @ 4 or 5 live
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice…
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Cover of a 19th century minstrel tune attributed to S.S. Steele, popularize by the late great John Hartford. This is my own arrangement. I use it as a backing track for alive set without the banjo and lead vocal tracks.
BTW- that banjo is an…
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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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PEGGY’S GONE Capo @ 5 Key C
C G
PEGGY’S GONE after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What am I doing…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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FOREVER
She stares out the window. That look in her eye
How deep can her heart know life's passing her by
The radio's playing. She holds back a tear
A song she's forgotten
Holds back the years...Forever
And she says,
"I wish I 'd loved…
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Well Reg is drunk again in the cellar and getting Morose thinking of how he was treated so badly by yet another woman who has left him....... so he's had to vent it into this blues song for the broken people................He just doesn't know…
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Local musos friend Darryl Wood remixed a live Witch's Night Out piece.
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A step along the way to here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1895
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Long ago One mans argument against the opposition of the many didn't go down too well............Thanks Norm for Groove for St. Ambrose
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Reg was feeling lost last night in the cellar so he got the house band together and struck up this heart breaker....................
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part of a 3 piano solo EP found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1886
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just a little dirty blues, to cleans the pallet so to speak. "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." --Robert Orben
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A song from Lancashire folk history, Malkin Tower is no longer there. Near pendle Hill.
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Song for my daughter. Last verse shows the tragedy of life
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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Mozart's famous "Alla Turca" Sonata #11 in A major with period tuning and period pianoforte and period diapason of A4 = 415 Hz. Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1837
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The 11th Corridor of Tritave is an ambient piece performed originally on an M-Audio 88es with pianoteq in 11 edt, edited slightly and then ported over to four 11 edt instances of Z3TA+ 2.1 in Sonar X1.
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Thanksgiving Day
11/28/11
Its cold like November in the autumn of my life
Too far to remember my subtle suicide
And your words came and swept me away
And i woke up on this Thanksgiving Day
I was lost like a child in a secondhand store…
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Electronic Dream #1 was made for the Internet Movie Project in 2002 that fell apart as I remember. All but the initial bright sweep which comes from the CZ-101 is from the Korg MS2000 analog modeling synthesizer. Excepting the Casio sample this…
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Something i wrote and quickly recorded on Thanksgiving 2011. It will turn into something but it seems i must add two songs to make a playlist public? or something? i dont really know. but this is WIP, definitely.
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Alone On Christmas
Once upon the end of every year well there
Comes a time when we forget our fears
And a childs face will light up for no reason
Ho ho well it must be Christmas season
Its been so long since i've seen your face it must…
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Woods acoustic 6 str recorded by a Zoom H2 x 2 with a touch of lexicon reverberation.
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Improvised/recorded on 11-12-11 in Alpharetta GA, mixed/edited on 11-13-11 in Summertown, TN.
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This is my favourite Elvis song and it's took me over a week to get the piano as good as it can be although i do intend to give it another go but for now it will have to do.....plinky plonky as it is.........the vocal needs recording better as…
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I'd never played a U2 song before this one. Tried to give it a bit of a Reggae feel.
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I'll tell you one thing for sure... I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine... you're just as likely to find your own grave.
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Sometimes it might be best not to even think about what terrible things might happen. It might be part of setting those very terrible things in motion. How can one know?
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The piece that was originally uploaded here had an awful flaw - the sustain pedal was depressed throughout the piece. This is the correct rendering.
The tuning in question is only slightly different from the "normal" 12 equal.
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After the posing and posturing of my Life in Tokyo, here's a real balls out thrash from the Ramones.
I just finished recording this 5 minutes ago, the whole thing took about 90 minutes from when I started programming the drums to finishing…
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For a link to the visual artist and details on this piano piece see http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/61
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For details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1678
It is a bit jarring - on purpose but you've been warned.
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Refuge into the imagination:
Is it crazy?
Is it survival?
Is desire to survive crazy?
THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811
G
She'd been gone for three years now so he'd been on the road
Playing every truck stop bar and every song he…
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Electronics and looped guitar
For more and a beautiful picture from a friend:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1658
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Hook sent me two mix's and i couldn't decide which sounded better so i thought i'd put both up and let you decide....this one has a bit of age to it and i love how the Banjo and the Piano work together....let me know what you decide.....thanks…
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Solo guitar with effects.
picture credit
http://heranush.deviantart.com/art/ssswf-cast-your-demons-away-158702821
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The full monty
http://alonetone.com/charlieferret/tracks/after-the-worms-ate-into-my-brain
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Getting rid of some useless layers is a good thing to do. Even with the use of this rare word.
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Five star
Coffee bar
Chal na yaar
Shanivaar
Liking the late-night outings
(That’s right)
Very far
To the bar
Ek baar
In the car
We will do cootchie coo make-outings
(Don’t be naughty)
With a roar
Through the door
Teri ore teri ore
Hungry tiger…
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~ Observation Affects Reality ~ (as used to say Schrödinger's cat)
Schrödinger's cat: A pussycat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence…
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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Thanks to Chris for coming down the cellar and doing this with me .............with Chris on piano, harpsichord, electic guitar, fretless bass, electronic sax........Reg on Vocals.........
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This is a remix of a little piece by Pilchard. I liked the sound of his track and wanted to put an edge on it. Enjoy the remix!
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Light, to which thou goest; to which you fly like a moth. Once it was real.
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Fall came, and it came with the notion of finiteness of ~all things~
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Reg was looking through some old notebooks last night in the cellar and found this one..................Divorce is a terrible thing to experience all the mixed emotions and torment.............
VOICES IN THE NIGHT (Lyrics)
Voices in the…
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Music recorded using only a ukulele and hands on a Boss BR800 in Spain. Vocals recorded back in Norway.
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A song made thanks to the Net. Music by Greg Connor & Steve Krell, Lyrics by me and Harmonica by my best mate Dave. Love it.
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This one is an endless party mix! put it on repeat, and viola!
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This on was a remix of an older song with some new kicks and shiz. I have re-done this one soooo many times......
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Interstellar Wind is a microtonal piece performed on Tibetan Singing Bowls creating samples that were then sequenced in Sonar X1.
Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1522
Full quality video (~90 megabytes)can be downloaded here:
http://micro…
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe set to music as read by Mike Vendetti from Freesound.org.
Details here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1506
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Leaves everywhere today. Autumn has come late this year in London it seems.
Reminded me of a song Me Geir and Mark wrote a while back...
Written and recorded in a three hour time period from three places across the world. We just all happened…
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Silence:
i hold hatred in my heart
from everything i've seen
sometimes it slips all the way out
bleeding out until i become obscene
don't leave me alone too long
locked up in my own thoughts
don't leave me here all alone
hemorrahaging…
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Reg got to wondering...What does happen when the money runs out......how many people are going to be homeless through this recession, the people who are going to lose it all and end up on the streets.......and also the ones already out there…
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Another collaboration with Andy from Southampton, England. Vocals and rhythm guitar: Andy
Vocals, lead guitars, bass & organ: Ron
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This is a story written by a friend in England (Andy Rashley) who I also write music with, it is about a guy who had a stalker chick when he was young..then she found him 30 years later on Facebook and started stalking him again...until his wife…
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Wrote and recorded my first Xmas tune ...was supposed to be entered into a song contest but that site closed...all instruments except drums are played by me.
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this song - purple mountains was iriginally a jam back in 75. chris vaisvil was the guitarist and i always remembered it cause i liked it. he had an echo-plex then and it was pretty psychedelic. no keys were originally in the song but it was a…
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