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An improvisation with my wife's Seagull acoustic guitar with Dean Markley soundhole pick up and AKG microphone with mastering.
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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Everybody who said we'd never last have broken up and here we are, still together!!!
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these are the dronishness effects going thru my mind at times..
I have the midi files saved if you would like them? although some of this is performance midi records If I can say that? ;)
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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I dedicated this song to my old friend, Ed Begley, Jr. and to all those who are working to make this a cleaner and better place to live!!!
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Is my future just to be....your ancient history?
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Here's a great way to keep some peace at home!!!
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She was mysterious, gorgeous...and we fell in love immediately...but her parents were against us being together and sent her back to their country, leaving me to search for her forever.
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A couple looks back nostalgically on the magical moment when they first met.
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Your lips are inches away but I've been hurt too badly too recently--and the last thing I want right now is to fall in love!!!
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He overheard a couple breaking up--and it sounded a bit close to home for him...
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They broke up once before and he was miserable--and now that they're back together he wants to keep it that way!!!
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This is one song of mine I hope will some day be played at someone's wedding reception!!!
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I tried to catch some of the defiance, optimism and spirit of being young as told through the voice of someone who no longer is!!!
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Sometimes it's hard to imagine how to make it through a cold and lonely night.
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Art of Love #2 is the other side of piano moment #2
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watchdog
nervus rex, the dog king,
barking mad in the barking mud,
ex-watchdog turned home-brew technologist,
made the following observations:
ideology is a concave mirror;
there's no such thing as a clerical error;
only sidney poitier…
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A composition for 3 piece jazz band, tenor sax, fretless bass, and drums in 14 equal divisions of the octave and 5/4 time. This was realized using Garritan Jazz and Big Band sample set and Sonar X1.
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SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS
At six o'clock the windmill throws it's shadow on the grave
The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn't save
The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day
And tho we hold each…
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Reg stood by the mirror and peered in at himself, he didn't recognise who he saw, the image that peered back out at him didn't resemble who he thought he was and it shook him to his core.............because he thought, he, the man he recognises…
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chopped into a ten minute special work for sites needing small sized pieces.. the video is in process :)
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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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Audience laughed because I was introducing my netbook as "my band." The track was made using "band-in-the-box" since I don't have any real music-programming or multi-instrumentalist skills. :) Got my 12-yr old daughter to join us on this one…
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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Scares me...sometimes there is no escape. Some things are for life. Maybe more.
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Worshiping at an abandoned alter...
Let my breaths be as long as her legs
Let my breaths be as smooth as her back
Let my breaths be as cool as her hips
Let my heart be as still as her tongue
Let my mind be as bright as her skin
Let my…
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I used about half of the tones produced in my stop sign video as samples looped in Kontakt and improvised on an 88 key controller in 17 equal notes per octave. Not something you'd listen to for enjoyment.
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Last one to upload today (probably)
Year: 1977
Album:
Classical Clones
Artist's description:
Something I found on tape - the best of the 6 pieces.
Me preforming a Villa Lobos piece about 1977 - a recording made while preparing for a recital…
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In 2009 I ran an internet contest where contestants had to use one or more of the samples provided in their piece. Here I put together a number of the samples I provided into one piece.
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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Fulfilling a request by Acid
The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Can't Stop Myself by Chris (Vaisvil) and the Clones - Gothic Techno-industrial metal - ISDN stereo => from 1996
Can't Stop Myself
the thoughts they in my head
spinning around
the thoughts they eat my head
and rip me down
they want me to do…
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Jean Jaques Burnel is one of my bass heroes. This song is the second I recorded with the new Squier bass. I kept the other instruments secondary to show off the bass
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This is a combination of field recording, slicing up a guitar performance into loops, using loops and effects that came with Sonar X1 in Sonar's matrix view with a bit of editing of the matrix performance.
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I wanted to see how much "music" I could get out of one chord and four notes. Sorry that it has a sort of cheesy 80s sound at times, but that's when I started playing guitar and it's hard to reprogram your brain. The chord is Bsus2 and the solo…
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Full picture of the guitarron body - it sounded great - nicely deep.
The guitarron is fretless with a very short neck which reminds me of a giant Oud - the wikipedia article will give you an idea of just how huge this thing really is…
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This is a recording of Norm and me playing together a few months ago. I didnt have any percussion instruments so Norm was on a Roland electric trap set and I had a cello. I looped some of the stuff we did that night, and retrofitted the rest…
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The time will come and our grand-grand-grandchildren will not know how open and easy we (at least some of us) were. How we was loved, grieve, fought-then-reconciled. ...and again, again.
~vintage synths do not tolerate midi/programming/planning…
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From my RPM Challenge 2011 effort. Originally this wasn't an instrumental, but the time pressures of RPM changed that.
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I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj†from his book “Moebius†thanks to PennSound archive.
To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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Flinch
I'm guilty
I took the bait again
And here I am again
Always with the same stupid grin
And I didn't go as planned
Few things do I've learned
From the top I pulled it
but I didn't see how far you'd go
didn't I see you flinch…
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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A collection of four improvisations on 19 note per octave electric guitar.
Sucralose
Aspartame
Cyclamate
Saccharin
The title is a play on artificial sweeteners and a collection of songs being a suite.
Per wikipedia "In music, a suite…
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The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871
goodnight.
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19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing.
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound
III
To Madame Lullin
You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty
Can go on writing you verses…
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Picture and information here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859
Line up:
2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.
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Well last night none other that the headbanger Byron turned up at the cellar well him and Debussey got together and came up with little beauty............
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A track from the RPM Challenge 2011 album. "Foggy Bottom Stomp" is a straight forward rolling groove that goes well with a brisk walk around the neighborhood.
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playing some guitar to my favorite e.e. cummings poem.
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I like this Ezra Pound poem and wanted to put some music to it.
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An Italian pop ballad. Mimmo sent me the lyric years ago, and I had almost forgotten the music I wrote for it. :)
Still needs a real sax.
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Lyrics: Domenico Mercurio
Violin: Enrico Nichelatti…
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I heard this beat of Norms this morning bright and early an had to jump all over ilesa in my mind she was her instead of a town it was fun but it didn't last.....the same old story.....it was her fault she was too hot.......What can i say
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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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mixed today with the feeds fed into it the others.
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The radio play episode 1 is introducing Thetworegs with Reg as writer performer, musician, and producer as the budget was rather low.......... They have just set sail for Germany it was time for them to leave England before they were caught…
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i did this one for the localfest at www.songcrafters.org. is a cover of the blue nile song over the hillside.
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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.
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a "rehearsal" outtake. Guitar/loops/ebow/iPod synth/cassette recorder.
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Well Reg got up to answer the phone and all of a sudden...............
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Reg was feeling a little sentimental in the cellar last night when everybody had left and started to wonder................
Yesterday i had a dream (Lyrics)
Yesterday i had a dream
It seemed so real
I could touch it
I could feel
But the door…
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Year: 2011
Album:
Voiced Thoughts
Artist's description:
A musical setting for an excerpt of The Book of Frank as written and recited by CA Conrad
The piece uses a rock ensemble of guitar, two bass guitars, 2 pianos, 2 synthesizers…
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added some bass and added some drums took a guitar part out and had lots of fun all around this track.
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green means go
and green grows mean
green glows with a hint of yellow
when your a green kind of fellow
dreaming that your tall and lean
while your eating your pillow
while your bodys feeling like jello
before you wake up soft and mellow
gelatinous…
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Reg was out for a stroll in town and met Jed who was homeless sitting on the pavement with his hat out in front of him. Reg stopped to have a chat with him to see if he could help. Reg expected him to have a sad story but to his surprise he hadn…
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if you are interested in windy dialog about the music go here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=838
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written to calm myself after getting frustrated with my girlfriend, lyrics kinda work on different levels as well :
I am not a machine
god make make me a perfect machine
so I can please those from above
who forget about love
I am not a glove…
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SongCrafter's website is running a Psych-Fest, and well it has been too long since anyone has covered Napoleon XIV anyway, so why not? Why not, I ask?
You drove me outta my stinkin' mind, you mangy mutt!!!!
So, ...... well, have a listen
LG
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Mama
MAMA
My Mama taught me to make my bed.
My Mama taught me to iron my shirt.
My Mama taught me how to put a pillow in a pillow case, to wash and dry the dishese and that
orange doesn't go with red. She said, "That is busy."
(C…
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Reg was flying last night he was on a real high when he bumped into Debussy down in the cellar and they came up with this little beauty...................
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Departing - leave. Do not believe. And don't say words of farewell. All told. Love can't go back...
~Echoes~
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The Regs have decided to have another crack at this Reg classic we hope you will enjoy the new approach ..............
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Marian is my favorite fiddle player after Itzhak Perlman. She and I wrote this song about her feeling of her Dad's presence when she plays and people listen.
MARION'S SONG
A puff of smoke when her violin broke
A look that just said, "I…
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Take me back to ole Virginia Lord, he's pluggin' in a mic.
I dig the cheesy Farfisa Rotary patch......
Here's a song to sing
a fairy tale
no mountain high
or oceans to sail
no darken nights
in the belly of a whale
no hammer's throne
or red…
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Frank has turned up at Reg's cellar with Louis and the Duke with a tune that Frank is claiming to be about his latest love affair, so naturally Reg switched on his tape recorder........
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This tiny, repetitive melody, was really a demo, but i liked so much... that i thought it was done.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Trying to channel some of my favorite pre-Apocalypse music.SOME KIND OF LOVE - capo @ 2 play in Key of C
VERSE 1 - It’s so easy in the middle of the night to fall into SOME KIND OF LOVE.
A boy and a girl can forget the whole world when the…
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After Creation is an entry into the Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame competition for flute and marimba duet. Unfortunately the entry was not accepted for performance but undeterred I present to you a performance of the score rendered by Garritan…
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The story is at www.iburymydead.com
THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME
What remains of an eagle that's fallen
The roots of an oak tree now claim
To draw sap for the shade for the cattle
O're the child with the beautiful name
The law…
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Vocals: Domenico Mercurio, Canada
Lyrics: Mike Graczyk, USA
Saxophone: Kay Hoeksema, Germany
Guitar: Bobby Clohessy, Ireland
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann (Stoman), Germany…
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Too much whiskey can warp the thought in the mind and the desert is probably the best place for Reg when he feels like this........................
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It was in the garden of the house of help that Reg walked and tried to decipher his problems .................everything seemed to have a similar beat and it was causing him some confusion.....................
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I thought a microtonal piece almost completely in absynth would be a decent goal. So, I improvised bass, lead, chords, effects in 19 notes per octave against a sequence of drum loops run through effects. Then - just to see the difference I took…
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> First there was Spring Time. Then there was Summer.
> Then there was Autumn.
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> And then there was Winter. Her daddy mowed lawns
> She was a smart little doll
> River loved Winter. His dad was a singer
> But River…
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This is simple test of East-West symphonic choirs solo soprano voice and East-West Hollywood strings contra-bass. I feel its a bit reminiscent of Lord of the Rings - of course, your mileage may vary - it is a very simple and direct arrangement…
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We have just uploaded another brand new original Wetband song. On this one, Jethro asks that you hop aboard the 'Train Of Dreams' and live out your fantasy celebrity encounter. The song features Woody playing guitar, banjo, and harmonica. And…
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From the album WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD MOTH ? [Malice In Sunderland Records, 2009].
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"Oblivion is not such a bad place. Its kinda like a club med."
For Reg ;-)
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The fruit of transatlantic collaboration, the lyrics of this song were written by Ron Wilson of Californian band The Dropas.
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Reg heard this one over on songcrafters and liked the tune it made him think of Elvis. so he promptly went and woke him up in the cellar as he was sleeping off the night before. He finally brought him round after a quick visit from Dr. Nick and…
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and the story goes
we know you thru the chain
the chain of ghosts
we know you brag and boast
and toast with the holy ghost
brag and boast and
steal the chain of ghosts
steal the chains of ghosts in the dark
when I was a kid
i could steal in the…
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This tune was written on the day I bought my vintage Yamaha CP-25 electric piano and returned to hear that Dennis Hopper had passed away. I fired up the gear and cranked this out. The sound of the piano made me feel like Ray Manzarek...thus the…
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Originally on my [24-hour album](http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/playlists/24-hours-of-aargh) back in 2008, I've added an invisible rhythm section and remixed it.
I may do this with a few more old tracks I didn't quite get right first time round.
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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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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with just the coolest tiny idea? perhaps a musical dream? these small pieces are just that,, tiny little musical notes that just seem to break into my normal musical day,, one take suff
think…
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LG in Georgia jamming with a friend...
Wayne - Vox & guitar
LG - lead guitar
Background noise - family & friends
LG
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A simple piece of music looked at from 3 perspectives.
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