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My take on Gumbo's Keep Your Eye On The Spot, one of many excellent tracks from his RPM2011 album 'Cat's Moustache'. It's something of a departure from the original, though I was trying to retain an element of the gospel so hopefully its soul…
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While writing music for Ron Wyman's film "Agadez" (featuring Bombino!) this sweet little Kalimba part had to get recorded... It sat on a drive for a while forgotten until RPM 2011 shed light on it... I'm thrilled at how well the Kalimba came out…
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Another Zelda tribute. Tal Tal mountains had some pretty epic music. but I have to admit, I'm no OC Remixer when it comes to this sort of thing. either way, hope you enjoy my Happyhardcore/ Rock remix of The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening…
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Vocals: Sabrina Doughty
Lyrics: Grant D. McLeman
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This is the 2012 remix.
This song was based on a free-form lyric by Grant D. McLeman from Scotland. Quite a challenge ... :)
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Vocals: Tricia Dovidio
Lyrics: Bob Beckley
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
This one was tricky to do because the piano does not play at a fixed tempo, and it was an online collaboration (like all my collaborations).
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Resulting from a Mini-Moog attack a had one night.
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Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Guitar: Billy Playle
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alex Zulaika
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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in creep out
you bloe my mind
creep me out
all the time
i wish rain were a flower
and blooming pour over this world
its over its ended
your dreams
have been rendered.
already its been proven
there is no nation
just a dry skeleton
of words and…
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Just some playing around with Electronica. This track is the oddball of the bunch. The rest are more pop/rock.
RPM 11
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Mentally Blocked from coming up with lyrics. Changed directions and pieced together an instrumental.
RPM 11
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Another nostalgic backward glance at an icon
RPM 11
I couldn't wait
to show you off
to all my jealous friends
I knew that they
would be blown away
by the way your body bends
your smile it was so warm
it never did get old
and i…
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5th of the 11 parts,, just a small string interlude a small wave, between the larger seas
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"When I Die"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
From coast to coast and pillar to post the unpredictable is posed.
If there's a God, will he answer my prayers?
Is there a Hell, will I end up down there?
I have to admit when I think about death…
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"Stations"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'm in love with a ghost with suicidal tendencies.
It's not brave, it's not strong, lady feeds on pity.
Wind me up, crank me down.
Kill me with the railroad sound.
Get me back on the track,
Hope…
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"The Ballad of Dan Forth and Jane Finch"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Joe Neff
I could never be part of your Cinderella story.
I could never go where all hope is gonee.
I could never try to rationalize your living…
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"I Don't Get You"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Who will bite the hand that feeds?
Sink into it, make it bleed?
It's just me who wants to reconcile and find the glory days.
Thanks for giving me the gift,
I'm just shooting from the hip…
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"Smell of Spring"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Indistinct conversations happen all the time.
Keep your secrets to yourself and I will tell you mine.
Teach an old dog new tricks, giving a boy a gun.
"Encourage Anger" is the game, and you…
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"Twenty Four"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'm a poet and a lover and a son and a brother and a brick in the wall.
My patience was short but I'm learning the importance of starting out small.
Didn't know where to begin cause I'm human…
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"My Guitar"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
I'll destroy my guitar
In the name of the greater good.
Though I love my guitar
It doesn't love me like it should.
I'm about to lose my temper.
I'm about to lose my temper.
Screw the silence, can…
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"The Backyard"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Met my friends in the backyard
In the summer I was lookin' to be a man.
Didn't know how it would change me, raise me.
But I didn't think about that.
Every Sunday we'd wake up,
And paint the…
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This is an Acoustic piece that was inspired by a Journey in a Dream I had that took me to a strange place between earth and another place in space and time, I went to a train station and entered a train that went up into space to some very strange…
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A noodle I started with my buddy Ron's wood drum box thing...
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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This one means a lot to me... Kinda twangy I guess?
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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Narrow Bridge
Lyrics - T Boudreau, C Maiorano Music - Jimmy T
That old narrow bridge might get ya to the otherside
But the strength within you will push you far and wide
And the lessons learned are far greater than the ride
All those hours…
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Doing My Time
Lyrics T Boudreau
Music Jimmy T
I was off on my ways
Might even call me crazy
I said, 'Baby brother,
can you spare a dime?'
He said 'from one to another,
how long have you been doin' time?"
I was out on a break…
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This was going to be a re-make of Dancing on my own but reg was too busy to participate so i have used Norms percussion track and got Chris Vaisvil to bass it up and i have added a vocal creating something new. Reg has had a lot of trouble with…
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The title track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'. It was the last track I completed and I had to rush to finish it. That's why it has no real melody and is really just a bunch of riffs.
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad.
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Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect.
One Perfect Day
Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl
The sun is on its…
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Another formerly poorly recorded song... Really a piece of poetry that was put to music (a hit-or-miss approach for me that seemed to work well on this one).
Three Times More
Dad plants his spring garden
For a good summer bounty he's…
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Roughly recorded years ago... A little more properly recorded now.
Pass On Love
Falling off the fence in year twelve of your lifetime
Landing hard'll change your view of time
The minutes left in life will count down slowly
I need to…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
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Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member.
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Seventeen thousand…
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(RPM 2011) For obvious reasons, many RPM albums make use of improvisational sound collages. ;-) This is the first of three that divide the record into sections. You may or may not hear the connections in the lyrics, but it actually does make…
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A recording made 'live from air' of radio stations playing one night in 1995
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A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
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I’ve seen the trimmings you destroy
The kindness that you avoid
Our subtle ways our sad affairs
Our vagrant airs dissolve to noise
What do you contemplate you're standing still
Your posture motivates the scene
You still don’t understand…
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Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011
GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III
This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…
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Aw, we tried to make this a bit more pro, but sometimes the really fun moments in life are fleeting. So here it is warts and all. But don't mind that - just get out onto the dance floor with Reg! It's ok: he's up to date on his shots.
When…
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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 has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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This wsa a collaboration with Launched , who added Bass , Drums and backing Vox
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This is a synopsis of Reg's favourite movie put to music. Sorry about the length but what can you do, when you have a story to tell, you can't cut it short can you? This is one to download for the car to listen to on that boring journey or when…
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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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This is just a clip of me messing around with Garage Band software. Running my guitar into my laptop using the built in effects.
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Reg has decided that he doesn't want hurting again so he has decided to be up front about what he wants.................. Love me for who I am........
Love me, Love me, for who I am
Love me, take me for what I am…
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Acoustic tale of revenge. Recorded 2010 on a Boss BR1600CD.
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**The Knife - A A J Russe**
A dark and star-less night
Probably driving rain
That's what they think became of me
A foolish walk along the cliff when he was drunk…
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A cover of Larry Wallis's fine ditty (it's always been one of my favourite Dr Feelgood songs).
This was my second recording with my Boss MBR, recorded early 2009. It confirmed for me that I was a "standalone recorder" kind of guy, and there was…
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The same name calls me father
Reject the pharaohs promise
Hit one and feign the other
Another pyramid to build
The sky rejects the other
Full frontal luminescent
Hit twice but feeling nothing
Another suicide dispenser
Feel smaller shame the pathetic…
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Like to feel the falling rain
Shed my brittle skin
Maybe hard enough to face tomorrow
Find out soon enough, find out soon enough
And the river is clean enough to touch
And it washes away the bitterness
Cleaner than the falling snow
Melting…
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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
Headphones and volume knobs required!
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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Trying to see if I can break alonetone's formatting with the song title ;)
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A lot of different types of people get down the cellar since Elvis moved in and Reg has been taking notice.........
A BLUE BLOODED JUNKIE
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A Blue blooded junkie has the time of his life…
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Early seventies type electric blues thing.
Here's some lyrics:
Bye Bi Baby
Sorry to see you fly
Bye Bi Baby
Sorry to see you fly
You wanted the one thing I couldn't give you
No matter how hard I tried
Bye Bi Baby
We had some fun…
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I had the music for this for about three months , and the lyrics for about a year , one day i just happened to start singing and playing them together and bingo , this is done live
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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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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
The idea is adapted from "The Blind Boy's Dog" by Hank Snow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRVR76hwvs
The song contains references to people you may not recognise if you're not from Australia…
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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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I guess it's a semi-sequel to Emote. One of my mellower ones.
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Reg has been out on the town again with his old friend madness and its now the morning and loves old friend sorrow has come to call........
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Another song in our ongoing Wojo project. Wojo is a Wetband splinter group made up of Jethro and Woody.
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a season in hell by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more"
Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"
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This initially had started out as my attempt to do a basic electronica track - I sort of failed miserably at this. (Like most music I program, it ultimately begins to sound like 'not electronica' by the end, for better or worse.)
The re-recording…
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I write a Vikings parody song for every game of the Minnesota Vikings season for my blog, which is found at http://www.thevikingship.net
This is a parody of New York New York by Frank Sinatra
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Title song from this years RPM Challenge.
Lyrics:
Shot dead
is what I felt when I first looked into your eyes
Shot dead
Is what I became, I tell you that ain't no lie
My head
it just exploded when I saw that way that you dance
Off…
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Mellow morning mist fall
Melting into day
This summer said son, you are lazy
Don’t follow any example, break every rule
After awhile you’ll find it’s so easy to do
Just stay within the limits of your love
Soon the air will turn colder…
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Had the blues in Alabama
Had the blues in Texas too
Had the blues all over
Now I 'm givin' em to you
And if you don't want em
You know what you can do
You wont find me I'm goin' ta run and hide away from you
Because I see trouble
Trouble…
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Track 9 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Track 8 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Track 7 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Track 5 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Track 2 - Album: Futurism - Band: The Anchorage Drift
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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I'm pretty sure I've ripped off the main riff from somewhere. Oh, well, too late now...
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thanks to Keith Landry for the lyrics help on the choruses.
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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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In response to a suggestion of Dr. Ozan Yarman I tried a tuning he created for a different project. I realized the composition using Garritan Personal Orchestra Baroque organs, Garritan World sample set Oud and Santoor samples performed on an…
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~Au Bordel~
Lived in, played there all sorts of things. Salon. Tango.
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It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
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For 2011 RPM Challenge album John the Resonator
A Sword and Sorcery parody. With Elvis.
Daughter Brit sang the vocal in the middle part.
Elvis was the mountain king
Who ruled the land of El-Karyaang
His wife Priscilla lady fair
Was taken…
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Story came out of my current situation of commuting Mondays to my job 200 miles out of town and then back on Fridays. Been doing it 8 months now. Trying to sell a house, it aint fun.
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This is a piece written for a small ensemble of Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn and Percussion in harmonic series tuning using a section from harmonic 12 to 30 reduced to an octave tuning of 15 steps.
This piece is…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad using a DAW app called 'Music Studio'. The title comes from a line in the song 'Bodhisattva' by Steely Dan:
"Can you show me the shine of your japan, the sparkle…
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Got my 70's on...lots of cool loops from Garageband and various effects on my acoustic guitar... Sit back and enjoy!
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This is like a mission for the Doom Patrol
I need a robot body for my brain
Miss Callas calls
the dopamine exhanges
the sound of down
And there is danger everywhere
the scissor men are coming
House of icons
Felt like cards
The brilliant…
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Something I'm working on for RPM 2011. I think this is a really pretty tune, just wish I had the kind of voice for singing it.
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EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro?
i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…
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Thinking of summer.........original guitar composition.........by Dave Berry
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