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'm doing a course in Mandarin Chinese and mamahuhu is one of my favourite words. It means so-so (literally horsehorsetigertiger); "not so good". In this lyric I just allowed myself to whine about my situation; get it over with. I like the harmony…
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Technically it's OK; I like the guitar and basslines. The lyrics and vocals I'm not so fond of. I hoped to have enough time to replace this one later in february with a better one but alas, it was not to be...
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I re-imagined this Neil Young Folky song as an acoustic blues song.
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My mother was telling me a story the other day and at one point she used the phrase "I used to could..." and I thought it would make a good title for a funk jam, so I went home and recorded this. Hope you like it.
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The darkness has come to haunt Reg again.....
The Darkness comes again
Disbeliever what is your name
Your calling out from the dark again
I hear your words but there not what they say
in my mind there as clear as mud
The trodden…
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Reg has just had a moment he doesn't mean it, he was in the bar entertaining the leeches his fellow companions on his shadow of a life and he became depressed at his situation and struck out but he doesn't mean he would be lost without his companions…
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Reg was reading the paper today about the Spandex vigilante. Now Reg has got himself sorted becoming a superhero appeals to him. Ummmm about the suit i think it should be Blue to match my eyes with a large TTR motif of some sort on the chest in…
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featuring the fantastic Tim Green on vocals. Thanks Tim.
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My favorite Zappa song......long guitar solo!!!!!
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Changed this one up into a bit Alt.Country vibe
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The Devil blocks your view at the drive-in, and steals some of your snacks. What an asshat.
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John Salad wakes up, brushes his teeth, reads the paper, drinks a coffee out of his Ray's Diner mug.
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Vocals: Rebecca Riss
Lyrics: Donna Devine
Drums & Horns: Ian Burrage
Bass: Andy Gupta
Piano: Steffen Offermann
Guitars: Mike Woodford
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
I think this was the first song that Donna and I collaborated…
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Reg was positive that she was the one until he had chat with Norm who said "Be careful remember Desirea" Norm was only trying to help but it has put doubt in Reg's mind and now hes not sure what he wants...........................thought i'd do…
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Guitar instrumental, I had two licks in mind when I started recording and the rest happened along the way.
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this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.
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the thing, cast outside the gates of gormenghast.
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I haven't tried the vox pipes in a few months. I've been sickly and singing was out of the question. After 24 days of instrumental RPM, I started getting back to 99%.
Might as well sing right? Better yet , let me trash the greatest song of…
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This is another of the Bootleg prison tapes that Reg made during his Music therapy with Dr Vibes.......................
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~images of bygone days~
This was 2009, and it was a photo contest to provide seven pictures of a story and all that. I, together with other, more talented photographers, was in.
In parallel with the images I have written short seven neo…
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You'll find me there.
Discover my smile.
I'll be confused, and so will you,
But it won't last for long.
Because you and I were never meant for this place.
Soon you'll see-
We're better with wings.
It's in the air,
Reaching out for a hundred…
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The past holds nothing for a man so proud.
Nothing for a man like you.
I feel like I haven't lived before tonight.
That terrifies me.
Would you like to take a walk or something?
She keeps the truth held tight inside, but her eyes show.. something…
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Hello stranger.
I've been waiting with a compliment for you,
In case it's something that you don't already know.
Hello stranger.
There is always something left unsaid.
But just ask me and i'll tell you, though I don't even know your name.
We…
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Reg once had a childhood friend that gave in to temptation and the depths of addiction, this track is about what he saw when the Black Velvet glove took control. The degradation of a poor soul who lost his grip on reality and fell to depths so…
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I'm not superstitious, but ... I did not want to end the day with 13 uploaded songs. :D
Here is another old one. Not mixed as good as I think I could do it now, but it could be much worse. ;)
Music: Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
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I finally was able to remix the song. Please listen to "Fide On The Broom Stick (Version 2012)" in my track list to compare…
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Resulting from a Mini-Moog attack a had one night.
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A few months back we had a "Beatlesfest" on songcrafters.org.
I contributed this and Yesterday.
This one's a bit of a departure for me. Not the song itself - it's been one of my favourites ever since I was tiny (I preferred Robin Gibb's…
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antiquary february
queen annes lace is tucked away
in bureaus of dirt
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One for the lonely kids.
Too dark for a children's record?
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The Morning Came
lyrics - t boudreau
music j. tramontano, t. boudreau
If i thought i needed more it'd be for selfish reasons
If i didn't think that i had it all i'd be kidding myself
So whats ever left out there it's for your taking
Remember…
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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~Bless the Beasts & Children~
Shades of feeling. How do I transfer them to the music unless only I can is to roar as the buffalo? Overload from top, firmament from below. Play one note. Then another, then a third. Then overdrive them, all…
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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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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
You asked me where these rumors start.
"I don't know," I said and crossed my heart.
But I told you I did not hope to die.
You said you can't trust no more.
Why start now? You never did before.
Now I just have to pause and wonder…
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rpm 2011
As night falls, a cold wind blows
Together we shall strive
Hold me now before I fall apart
and come undone in pieces
and fall to the earth the like rain
Hold on through the dark
Hold on climbing together
Hold on to me as…
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I've been all around
I've been up and down
I said I've traveled in all directions
Now
The world is new
If you've seen what I've seen
And you've been where I've been
I guess you know what I mean
Now
The world is new
RPM 2011
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A major thing, This began as I sat down to lunch and did some musing about my old wind-up gramophone, as food poisoning set in I spent the rest of the day lying in bed thinking of lyrics, getting up to type them in, throwing up, and going back…
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Ok, Who HASN'T had the fantasy about the hot librarian?
This was originally intended to be sung by a friend of mine with a much higher range, but a massive earthquake disrupted the schedule. I wound up singing it down an octave, trying to do…
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This was originally a much longer gospel style song about meeting the devil at the crossroads and selling him my car, I got discouraged when I put down the scratch vocals and realised that no ammount of overdubs could possibly make me sound like…
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I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.
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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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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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a bit smaller in length, a bit more up lifting, at least it makes me feel like lifting my arms up into the air when i listen... WN is a dialogue between two sides, so i suppose this is the section where the angles get their say,,,, dedicated to…
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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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Trying to see if I can break alonetone's formatting with the song title ;)
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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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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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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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spoof, "no one gives a shiiiiiit about my rpm album"
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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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(WATCH THE VIDEO!!!)
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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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an odd re-version of "zombie children in the dark" for RPM 2011.
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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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I think I bit off more than I could actually chew this time and I apologize to Norm and Reg about that. This is a setting of verses from Contemporary English Bible Version of Daniel Chapter 6. I don’t think I orchestrated as much drama from…
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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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Has Reg found his excuse to have another drink or is this just the start of another drunken escapade...................
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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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Final version
One of my heroes. Willie McTell was blind from birth and travelled all over the south in the thirties at a time when many people would never go more than 20 miles from their home.
Plus nobody sings the blues quite like him…
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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
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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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Reg has been caught again by the bottle this time he has nearly gone too far. He paralyzed with drink and hallucinating on the grog he sees his dead Uncle ................
Uncle
The room was spinning, the cartwheels have come,
He’s…
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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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If you believe the conspiracy theories it ain't over yet. This is a piece from early 2009.
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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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One of two pretty little interludes for the album, both of which are based around a guitar part Gary did for me. I've put different synth chords behind each of them to cover the two sides of the lady that inspired the full song, Jekyll & Hyde…
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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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wisdom hair...
lyrics :
He can say and may can he
oh where is the tree of life in me
He can say and may can he
oh where is the silent dream
how do you know
he can, I can, I he can, kenoagen
(although the lyrics aren't really…
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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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Thank you for being you
No one else would do
Thank you for being you
You're all I ask for
Too many nights alone
tonight I'm coming home
open up the wine cos I'm
gonna be with the one who's shown
Me the ways of old
Women into wives…
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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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Grenade_Fish_by_Fenrir06 from deviantART
A musical setting in 17 notes per octave of CA Conrad’s reading of his poem “Say it With Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds†posted on PennSound. Title and concept credit…
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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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A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.
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