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This one features a backwards sample of one of my older songs, something I've been meaning to try for a while now.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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Recorded this a few years back,needed something to blow my harp too. Didnt know all the words so i made the last couple of versus up.
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It's the strangest thing
Must be a waking dream
The strangest thing
Or the latest invention
Reflections
Holographic projections
Some cruel trick
Or pharmaceutical deception
Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets
You were walking around…
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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Here's one....an Easyrider classic ......with the music thanks to Gene and the 70's rock vocal from Reg....hope you enjoy it was a lot of fun to do......
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New Computer - Just testing to see if everything works
Lyrics:
One kiss leads to another
Down the road we go
In each other’s arms
Love struck, drive me crazy
Hoping that you recognize
My charms
One kiss leads to love
One kiss…
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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This cut was made right after operation Shock and Awe started. I wanted to try and capture the feel of being an innocent civilian caught in the middle of it with helicopters flying around...gun-fire swirling around, etc. It's particularly a tribute…
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It'd be a single, if we ever stood a chance of being on the radio.
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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Lionel the hermit crab - Skeen Remix 120607
Lionel the hermit crab lives by the sea, oh yeh
He looks a little bit like you, a little bit like me,
Lionel the hermit crab doesn't have no friends, oh no
He'll live his life alone in his shell…
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The intro here is a fuzzed up guitar harmonic and a harmonica. I'd like to take that idea to another level.
Enjoy!
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Acoustic improv. Top 3 pairs of strings tuned a 4th apart on 11 string guitar. And a touch of synth.
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Mancera is an spanish Fortress build about 500 years ago in an island with the same name, in the south of Chile.
Off course it has a lot of history, i used to go there when i was a kid and i have big memories of it, been in the big dungeon, where…
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Ömer Faruk Tekbilek (born 1951, Adana, Turkey), also known as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, is a Turkish virtuoso flautist. He is known for his performances with the ney in a Sufi style. He also plays the Oud, Saz, Zurna and sings in many of his recorded…
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Fasten your seatbelts, this jeep is going deep into the heart of the jungle! Sound clips cut and pasted against Norm's Fat Baby Bembe.
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G
There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep
He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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bejewled casing flutter inside wink twitch and pacing on a moonlit wing turn...
beautiful song by Juniper set to one of hotwheels most ambient boop jobs..NOW WITH CLEARER VOCALS
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There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…
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I lost a friend. This is how I feel.
The tech:
Just my guitar and the GT-10 (looper, delay, reverb, etc).
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A very special love song.
Featuring Ewan Crossan on guitar.
One touch
Can make you do anything
Your light shows me everything
Please know i'll carry you everywhere
I go, my plaything
Chorus:
And i knew i'd have you
moment my eyes…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
[right click on arrow and select 'save link as' to download]
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Hey gang! It’s us again, The Proods…thousands of followers worldwide!
Here’s another track by Brian…channeling his inner heavy-metal lover….
It was fun working on this, though I prefer the OTHER version that we did. A groovy 1960’s styled version…
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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Getting lost in the maze from time to time is just part of life
The maze of misfortune
I get one step forward and three steps back
Can’t see where I’m going
Lifes so dark and black
Looking ahead seems stupid and pretty…
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He looks into a maelstrom of fragmented thoughts and half-remembered faces. The dust claims it all in the end, leaving just incomplete remnants of indecipherable emotion.
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Freesound Sample Used (and it's buried deep, deep in there…
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This song/hymn consists of lines lifted from Psalm 34. I had written it in April of 2024 but didn't record it until March of 2025. I would play and sing it often through the year trying to perfect the guitar arrangement of it, and then I eventually…
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she's beckoned by the turnstiles
she prays they'll let her in
a token that she's missing
for a dream that may begin
she hops across the banister
and darts down darkened halls
mad humming of the terminal
reverberates the walls
do you…
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for sound in abstract noise constructions - all abelton live
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[Verse 1]
Why do you think getting approval from [*gap*] is better than being better than [*gap*], or copying is better than what you have?
You, the average person, sees the [*gap*] and imitates them, so yes, you’re a [*gap*]
If all people…
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[Chorus]
It’s all for the best, yes, man
Whether good or bad, it is this, man
It all leads to like consequences
‘cause you asked to get just this thang
Uncle Sam is [*gap*], and it is fact
Not just [*gap*], a shrimp [*gap*] and a big [*gap…
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I see, so let me ask you, how did you get into hip-hop?
My love for hip-hop really started in high school. I listened to guys like Nas and Eminem, Jay-Z, Xzibit and even 2pac and BIG and then when I went to college it was Kanye, Common, Lupe…
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Last Snow Strom for the Southern U S,
a lil porch tune here comes spring
we wish you some long awaited sunshine
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Brace yourself! This is my latest Song Challenge entry for Carl Unbehaun’s Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show: Write a song about Groundhog’s Day, a Ground Hog or Woodchuck.
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Nothing better…
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Another late night session in a dark blue-ish cloud.
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Dance remix of “Alive” by Gary Fox off his 2021 RPM album Stardust.
Check out the original version here:
https://alonetone.com/garyfox8/playlists/stardust/alive
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While kids watched TV eating chocolate,we had easter early as their cousins came over after they left I had a couple of hours this afternoon so of course i got the guitar out i used the fender stratocaster with a 12 string plugin through the kemper…
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well after listening to the mixers on alone tone I decided to do some apple loops.
I had a great time with it , so here is a jazz tune on the positive side
ive had it with sad tunes
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vocal => ego compressor => tensor
guitars => MXR badass fuzz => Mood => El Capistan
Some reverb added post production.
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Thanks for listening .......
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME
Some People don’t know they can’t control their dreams
They hold them back and watch them rip at the seams
If they could break away maybe one day they could see
that I am not like you…
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Here's a new song.
Just me...
KC
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I've been callin' your number – I was so alone
I've been callin' all night long – You didn't pick up your phone
I want to hear you whisper – Sweet things in my ear…
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Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I added some lyrics to make a "positive message" song for the times we are in.... Hope it makes you smile too...
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
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Brian of A Beautiful Scene wrote an amazing tune for the 2020 A Beautiful Scene RPM record and I couldn't get it out of my head. I hope I did it justice.
(updated May 10 with a slightly different mix)
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The closing number, the thoughtful number. It says more than goodbye.
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vamp thing maybe for something but now for Sound-In 1-25-20
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DOG PARK
Everybody meet me down at the DOG PARK
If you need me I’ll be down at the DOG PARK
Sunday afternoon and I’m bound for the DOG PARK
Everybody gets along at the DOG PARK
White and black and brown at the DOG PARK
Nobody’s looking…
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Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??
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A new project of thinking about writing for 4 guitars as in same feeling as a string quartet. This is one of two recent pieces. The initial idea was thought and recorded then the other parts were improvised one at a time from that. All performed…
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Crazy is a term of art, insane is a term of law.
-Hunter S Thompson
RPM 17, Enjoy!
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals and Jeff Treese on solo guitar
i wasn’t certain, if you could hear
when i told you, the rain was falling
but not it’s easy to see in your eyes
but for a moment, there’s hesitation…
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More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Madeline Koestner
she tries to push me away
nothing that i can do
so hard just to maintain
and keep my mind focused
to not let my eyes betray
i’m watching her slide away
into the abyss, call it nothing
call it nothing…
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I CAN'T TELL
I can't tell if it's morning or evening
I can't tell night from day
I can't tell if I'm arriving or leaving
Doesn't mean a thing to me
Since you went away
I can't tell if it's sunny or raining
I can't tell if it's…
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from the album ZERO
featuring Alex Moody on vocals
it's time to paint it on again
adjust my smile smooth down my dress
make sure the shoes both match, and leave
jump in the car, i'm fast asleep
and all the people in my dreams
seem so…
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Starry Nightmoth and I (Gene Eric Mann) labored a few days on this tricky number. We gave it our best shot, but mucho kudos to Del Shannon's keyboardist -- his break rift was amazing! We settled for sort of faking our way through, which was…
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This one came together really fast. I had spent most of my Sunday forcing two other songs out of my head and I was tired and not feeling all that pleased with the day's work. I figured I'd give it one more shot and went to my binkie. My security…
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Blues. My way of playing “Rollin' in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” ‘cuz I’m a Soul man. See the Soul-patch? Dig. Be cool, cats, and stay dry!
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Sometimes the natural order of things seemed broken, the course of events accelerated to a rapid and you feel that what is happening with you is ...a movie, and you're in, but this is not your, you are here by accident.
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…just another turn…
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Remember that last level of old Nintendo games? Late at night stressed out screaming at the television just hoping you will beat the game? The stress? The anxiety?
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One of my other hobbies is watching wildlife in the area. I'm the happiest with a pair of binoculars around my neck and my hiking boots laced up.
Rita and I took these photos over the last few days, near our home.
Dakota County / February 2014
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#RPM Challenge 2014#
First Song of the Challenge . . . Here We Go!
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So you stopped coming round
Your heart buried in the ground
It's a shock, it's a scene
You never say what you mean
Emotional landmines
You can see the stop signs
But you're not slowing down
One foot on the trip line
And the words fly…
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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Meeting the Gremlin's at my house for a quick brunch.
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Here is a Steve Krell song.
Buck Erpestad and I recorded live using two acoustic guitars.
Here is a link to Steve's original version : http://alonetone.com/slkrell/tracks/saskatchewanshostalconnorkrell
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I've been sent to the cellar by the wife as she has a visitor...bad luck hey!...so i got the acoustic down of the wall and even tried a little harmonica...hope you enjoy........
Over the Hills and far away (Lyrics)
over the hills and far away…
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Another rough scratch track - and more in the bad biker movie soundtrack series... our hero is down, sitting along side the road, his love interest has ridden off into the sunset on his bike. He gave her the keys when she didn't have a way to…
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The second part of your gift is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2946
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A little work in progress here : written with a friend as a female/male duet.
Ill cut off my hair
And trim down my nails
Set out to sea
Then let down my sails
Mistake me for a man
You wouldn't be the first
You can't have my best
Without getting…
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This is my eldest daughter Amy singing with me strumming badly in the background. One take, no edits, it's exactly how we did it 15 mins ago!
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This is a Kevin Ayers song that I love. He calls it something else, but Blue seems to be a good name to me.
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A bit of fun. Feel free to chop it up or add to it.
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Here's a cover of a zep classic...from Reg and Speed Demon Gene....Gene has done all the music and the mixing..thanks Gene ....and i'm responsible for the warbling..... hope you enjoy
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She was a bad girl but boy did she keep me warm in winter!
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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You may be shocked to learn that I own a Rickenbacker 360 and I love R.E.M.
Intro/verses: G-C-Am7-Cmaj7
Chorus: Em-G-C-D
Bridge: Fmaj7-C/G-Em
What if you found you had
Your own time bomb
Never sure if and when
It could go off
Safe again
At…
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Time for a noodle in the middle of the house move...packing....dumping......sorting...reminiscing..... still waiting to exchange contracts and mean't to be moving Friday....a little stressed
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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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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Inspired by the local Farmers Market in my community.
YouTube video is attached.
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I had a little time this evening to noodle about so i noodled with the Zep...i've Regged another one another classic i had to take down the cellar and Reg over ....i'm gonna revisit this so class it as a work in progress ....Hope you like it...i do
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A simple song that somehow became a rather complicated recording.
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Kaia my wonderful new grand daughter @ 6 months old!
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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Here is the solo dance version. It's rockin' pretty hard. I'm hoping to take this into a band setting at some point and get some brass involved, but for now...
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Alan Sondheim - violin, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - electric guitar, SMD.
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It tells of the perils of dating for the modern werewolf.
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yar another pokemon remix. better then what i did with the title theme imho.
check it.
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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In loving memory of Takeshi Shudo, creator and CEO of the Pokemon franchise. A great mind, a great idea, and a wonderful era of Japanese cartoon/ games, end with his passing. Let it be known that his virtuoso soul was laid to rest for the reason…
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If you've been waitingfor me to post a remix for some time now, wait no further, I've done a side project with many more to come.
In memory of Mr. Kubo, I will be making a few remixes of Pokemon game music, such as what is heard in Pokemon…
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Well poor old Reg was left by his love so he decided to write a song. Here it is another brokenhearted rendition....................
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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Drive cleaning....
This is a lost instrumental. I have no interest.
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One from the vault...
Recorded for the compilation album Catacoustic Overtones.
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Another song from the archive... Written about a friend who somehow seemed to come out of her general sad manner... Thoughts go back to a lunar eclipse when the girl I was standing next to to watch it (way back in college) disappeared from sight…
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This song's about that guy in the band who really can't play and just doesn't get any better, but pays for studio time, buys the gear, springs for beer, and owns the van. You always have to think twice about kicking the guy out with all the money!
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