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A collab with the Reverend Mike has done such a great job on the backer it was a pleasure to sing to ......Hope you enjoy.....
Medusa (Lyrics)
Watch out for Medusa cause she’ll turn your heart to stone
She got the face of angel but eyes of…
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from the jail cell came a song from the condemned .......
I Danced the Dance (Lyrics)
she was a princess from Venus
i was a warrior from mars
she look in to my eyes
and i started to, i started, i started, i started, i started to dance
i…
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This is a rallying cry! Get up, move a little! There, you'll feel better, trust me.
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Jump! Dance! Jump some more! Get excited! Play it again, it's already over!
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I traveled back to Memphis in 1969 and recorded this. At least, I wish I did.
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Here, I hope this helps you out a little, my friend.
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Dj put this backer up on Songcrafters and wanted some vocals so i was quick to oblige...hope you like it......
Your Love shines in me (Lyrics)
Yours is the Love that shines inside of me
you are the one who excites me
every day i see or feel you…
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Another song for the 'Poem Me' subscribers. Makes no sense if you don't know the story, but worthy of a listen. G:)
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some time with the piano in tetracot tuning - dividing a perfect fifth into 4 parts. Makes for an interesting tuning.
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Busking is now au fait, de rigeur and a little je n'ai sais quoi! You heard it here first G:)
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All acoustic guitar. All improvised. 23:13 is the time I finished mixing this song.
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Dismemberment...it happened to a guy. He was walking down the street, right into a machine!
Tom - vocals
Sean - vocals, drums, guitar
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I hope to revisit this track with the vox in place later. I think the vocals would really pull the whole thing together but only time will tell :)
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Took me almost 15 tries to get this one recorded. I don't know what it was about the guitar riffs but it kept tripping me up.
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This is the 10.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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This is the 9.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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This is the 8.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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This is the 6.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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This is the 5.Song from the 4.4 Single from the SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.0
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7th song by Kent Good
Another strong rocker by KG. This song was our bastard step son. It was neglected from day one . It will mature this year as we jam it more. Only song we didnt get CW on.
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Song eleven by Martin Fox
Instrumental number we did as a five piece. Recorded live with no overdubs. I came up with this one a couple years ago and we play it all the time. this is a mellower version than normal, but i love the dips and valleys…
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The first song of my RPM 2013 Album. I've processed my vocals so much you can't really understand what I'm singing. Which is not a bad thing.
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From our RPM 2013 album "Something Into Nothing"
written by Damian Lethbridge
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First side closer by Kent Good.
This song was recorded our first session of the month. We were playing as a five piece and i really love the sound. This is one of KGs best song to date.
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Honest Man
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I went down to the riverside
Way on down where the water's deep and wide
I stripped right down to my naked skin
I jumped in the river and hoped I'd learn to swim
Cause I knew the river would take me
or I'd learn
And whether I live…
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Heaven Comes
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Sometimes you have everything
Sometimes you have none
Sometimes you are separate
Sometimes you are one
In the midst of all your suffering
Sometimes Heaven Comes
Here's something for those bitter times
Here's something…
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yes...actually vocals on this one. My buddy Dave laid down some vocals to the lyrics I wrote back in 1994...original arrangement from '91 to be uploaded later...this recording was pulled from a cassette tape and not mixed...sorry for quality…
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10 minutes long? Three part harmonies? Very long fade out on a very long fruity guitar noodle? Yup, welcome to another lame attempt at prog rock!
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***Lyrics***
"and as Tarzan, Will I Ram
finds himself wearing a
animal skin cloth
he's fear and loathing in the jungle
debating on weather with a gigantic moth
and as he plucks the hallucinogenic mushroom
from the ground, there's a short…
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This one ties into the continuity from earlier tracks AMUC did previous RPM albums.
(Livewire/Firecracker/The Clockwork Man)
Two entities, one male and one female - engage in a neverending air battle. (Think two hawks circling one another…
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Title says it all. It's a quickie instrumental.
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The afterlife was a major theme on this year's RPM Challenge album.
The lyrics come from the concept that ghosts aren't aware that they are deceased - they're kind of caught in this time bubble of sorts.
If ghosts are oblivious that they…
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This was the result of a lucid dream I had last year - the old Worcester Center mall [which has largely been torn down] used to have an arcade, and I dreamt I was at the arcade, and it was empty, but all the arcade cabinets still stood, and were…
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I told myself that the 2013 RPM album was going to be guitar/bass/drums/vocals. Maybe an occasional keyboard thrown in as a gimmick. Yeah, this song is based around an electric piano and has a sax solo. So much for convictions.
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A song about how hard optimism can be.
Third song finished for 2013 RPM Challenge/FAWM. Might this be the album opener? I have never owned a fuzz box, but the amp simulations in GarageBand have finally corrected that stomp box oversite…
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"hand in hand, these walls will shake
these very own tavern walls will shake down
this is not the time to lay down
but the time to throw down some
very heavy psychedelic hand shakes
and as the bar quakes splitting us into…
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Its Great when a mess around becomes a kinda lost Doors song....
Give me the Love (Lyrics)
Tell me what your got now baby
i’ll tell you what i need
you can give me love cause thats is all i need
i got the need
if you got the love
i got…
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Lots of loop stacking here. And the good 'ol Rolling Reverb effect.
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I've gone a bit Bluesy on this one i got the French Horns out i blame watching BBC4...anyway hope you enjoy....
Counterfeit(Lyrics)
The night outside was as Black as coal
Her heart was made of stone
i couldn’t find no place to go
God did…
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***Lyrics***
sometimes
I wanna remain low
most times when I'm sitting by the window
sometimes the cold can exist
sometimes the cold must exist
for love to next
for love to commence
to be with another
another
when I think about…
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Well the new women in Regs life became the keeper and his wife and they lived happily ever after...well up to now anyway...Reg can never seem to keep the pessimistic thoughts totally at bay but he was trying...He felt reborn on the birth of his…
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Title Track - RPM 2013
we all clap our hands to the beat as the beat goes by
jazz & poetry in the fifties almost died
Rock n roll became the goal as people slicked back there hair
Rock, Rock and roll , the parent were in despair
Elvis was…
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Entry #4 RPM 2013
The Man
There he stands, shaking hands
smiling wide with his joker smile
promises spew out of his mouth
do you believe
all he wants to do is steal the breath that feeds your child
he don’t care
he don’t give a dam
he’s…
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Entry #10 RPM 2013
She
is wonder
she
is beauty
she
is untouched
innocent
glorious
She
is wonder
she
is beauty
she
is untouched
innocent
glorious
Where do i go
how did i lose her
what makes me be me
complicated
devastated
underestimated…
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Well Reg has finally had some good luck he's stopped drinking or at least for a while and a beautiful girl has walked into his life ..is she the one?
Love is in the Air (Lyrics)
I couldn’t believe my luck as she walked in through the door
wandered…
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Entry #5 RPM 2013
Pain of Loss
I’m sure i can hear a whisper, calling out the answers in the distance
the voices of a thousand men who have passed this way before
The path has been wandered a million times then they have walked through the…
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Entry #3 RPM 2013
Close Your Eyes
close your eyes , close your eyes maybe you will see
close your eyes ,maybe it will take you back to that place and all the good times that we had when we were skipping stones,can you remember, remember that…
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Entry #7 RPM 2013
don’t be scared
don’t run away
don’t hide behind the trees
get out in that open space
cause i’m right behind you
i always be by your side
by your side
don’t let life weigh you down
don’t let people mess you around…
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Entry #1 RPM 2013
Anything for You
Some rise early, some rise late
Some're up til morning light, some go to bed at eight
I'll be there baby whenever you tell me to
I guess you know by now, I'll do anything for you
Some like to rock, some…
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Poor old Reg is spending a lot of his time in recovery just looking out the window with a noddle playing in his head.......
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Poor old Reg he only gets to see his daughter on a Sunday now and it's getting him down....A collab with Chuckizzit from over at Songcrafters....
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Greg let me have another go at one of his songs and I the wrote the words and music for a bridge
so that way he has to pay me some royalties when he sells a million !!! lol thanks Greg for your inspiration and great music!!
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Frozen eyes....
and like the wail of a crying child...
she grieves for what is lost to her...
finding solace in a shared moment....
she absently brushes the thought away....
there is no beauty in the sky....
or warmth on her face…
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I was flapping around working on something else with just vocal and guitar the other day. It wasn't going well, so I just started slapping the guitar and singing one of my favourite songs.
What I didn't realise was that I was recording it…
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#RPM Challenge 2013#
I was standing behind an elderly couple in the grocery store checkout line last week.
The cashier told them that someone had donated $100 toward their groceries. $100 had already been paid toward their $121 grocery…
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One of my original compositions, written and created by me (including the lead break, which was played here by Alan Bowens from my band 'Y')
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Just did not really make the cut for RPM this year but had some good concept licks so I decided to let it sleep here.
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solo piano
information on John's Raven tuning http://www.johnsmusic7.com/
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A song that I wrote in the mid-90s, became a bigger number when my band 'Y' took it into the studio and we tightened it up a notch. Proud of this one (as of all of my babies) G:)
The story is of the actor on the stage...
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Here's number 08 in the saga of Reg……………..Reg has been so down since he stopped drinking…….he feels so alone he's gone and done something stupid…..but luckily he was found by the postman unconscious on the steps leading to his bedsit….the postman…
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Rough, hoping to have time to rerecord elements (especially vocals) before the end of the month.
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Poor old Reg is finally dry but all he dreams of is his thirst..............
Thirst (Lyrics)
Now i’m dry i just feel thirsty
all i dream of is a drink
nothing seems to matter
all i crave
is the drink
now the days all drift into one
now the hard…
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Reg is trying to go cold Turkey but he needs help so he's gone to see the Doctor ......
Doctor (Lyrics)
Doctor can you help me, can you stop the pain thats roaming around in my head
Doctor give me something to stop the Hallucination thats coming…
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Heres Track 5 for the RPM carry on with the Saga of Reg......Well after his night of falling of the wagon Reg has realized that he needs to get his head together and stop...but how....he needs help....desperately .......
What Have I Done Where…
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Well Reg has fell off the wagon and wants to party on……theres no looking back……it's full on ….PARTY!!!
Party On (Lyrics)
Yeah i feel good i’m ready to get it on
i feel like i’ve been dead. i been gone so long
my mind is alive and im ready rock…
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All source files come from apps on my phone. This is best if you download the 200M video and play full screen http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3034
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song about all thoes special people we are close to but never seem to go see until its too late.
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Heres the 2nd Track for the RPM challenge ....Reg really does not want to go back behind the door...he's afraid of his own shadow...poor old Reg......
I don't want to go Back (Lyrics)
tick tick goes the clock once more
i don’t know who i am anymore…
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Well, one of my early Uke songs. Always popular (as it's over quicker) and a firm favourite of... mine! Have realised that with some gentle persuasion it could segue into Pinball Whizz-Bang! which is still in the melting pot! Watch this space. G:)
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Warts and all - the idea behind the song was that I would probably not had the same day as Lou Reed and this is a true representation of the most probable outcome!
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Another Uke song for your delectation, with an air of uncertainty!
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A doodle that couldn't be left and a pondering thought of a love story that's going wrong always makes a song...so here it is.....on the old Acoustic .....
If Life is a Dream ( Lyrics)
If life is a dream that carries breath along
there is something…
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Actually I am not Jamaican you listen to any of my tracks. This is a Uke song - you have been warned!
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One of a longish line of songs based upon the premise that I am waiting for something.
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Song about the UK dance culture, from a sceptics perspective.
For Carl. who loves this shit.
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How can you forget you've written a song? I found this back-tracking through my recordings, and I love it - one of my favourites for a host of reasons. G:)
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I put up a wren house in the trees and garden where I was living and surprisingly a house wren moved in. Every day he sang his song in a repeating pattern ... a natural loop. I held a mic out the window one morning and taped his beautiful repetitive…
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The length of a title does not indicate its quality - Nietsche
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We woke Elvis up for this little beauty for the 70's fest over on Songcrafters …the piano is a bit dodgy but then again Jango isn't known for his piano playing….a song from Jim's back Catalogue back in February 1970 from the Morrison Hotel album…
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Not 'Two Fingers' to the establishment, but getting maximum effect from minimum effort. two fingers on the left hand do all the running around whilst all other digits just 'keep fort'. Made sense to me G:)
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Poor old Reg has taken a walk in the desert to try and find salvation......I got the Acoustic out for this one.
I was Blind (Lyrics)
I’ve been out on this open road looking for the way to find me
nothing but tormented skies in front and behind…
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No Jake today so i had a little while to play while Seb sleeps ain't pre-schools great......so i took a look at Regs life and he’s none too happy ..........Reg has had enough of her threats to leave its time to start the new year a fresh so he…
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Another in the 'Stream of Consciousness' ideas that I have - whereby I start with no lyrics, no tune, but just grab the wood and strings and strum for a while. Just an idea G:)
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Reg has started to look to the future and it seems a little brighter when he thinks of the summer to come...Maybe 2013 wont be too bad after all......He got the £16 pound special out for this one with a little clean Bizarro filter…
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After the warning comes the storm (in a tea cup). Still, no harm in ignoring warning signs, is there?
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Says exactly what it does on the label. Having said that "You have been warned!"
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January challenge songwriting fun...
WATER UNDER WATER
So near the surface
So near the end
So near the purpose
Time and again
Just barely breathing
I’ll need you when
I’m floating in the water under water
Holding on loosely
Without letting…
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more information and an analysis on my blog
words in the video
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=3018
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I've put this one up too as i couldn't decide which one to choose..........
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Well heres the ballad of the younger other Reg who has found himself in trouble trying to do a deal with the devil.....why didn't he listen?.....Reg told him not to trust him............I got the acoustic out for this one and a little guitar fx…
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this is my take on Joe Bonamassa's version of Blind Faith's "Had To Cry today"
a much shorter version...just wanted to record that cool lick and am trying to work on my vocals ... oh well ..what a time to try to learn to sing at my age...63 next…
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vanity fare cover using 23 tracks. as usual, I did everything on this song except write it! :P
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift.
The cat is on the chair
And I watch him as he stares
The sky is changing fast
I see the boats sail past
And the winter's closing in
I can feel the changes from within
Tomorrow…
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Heres a collab that i did on the cool-lab with Tims Buddy on the beginning Johny Robbo on the 1st main solo and The Rev on the next two solos and Tim on the end and my self on the vocal…hope you enjoy.........
Close the door on Love (Lyrics…
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This is the 10.Song from the 2.4 (Album) from SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.3.
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This is the 9.Song from the 2.4 (Album) from SUB OUT RIPPER Collection 2.3.
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At the end of this road
Red rock and blue skies
And the wind calls
Plant your roots in the ground
And the clean air that the trees share
You can't hear a sound
Deep in the heart of it all
Morning dew at the sunrise
Covered in fog
Fires…
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This salty man's a salty dog
His travels have left him weary
Got boots all lined up at the door
He's must be carrying stones again...
His salty wife waits on salty shores
Tending the child she carries
Washing his wounds with olive soap…
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How long we've been waiting for this storm to end
Said we might go
Where the winds they do blow
Full steam ahead the blind captain said
Might take some time now
We might windup dead
Just bury those bones along that 2 note transfer…
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My humble tribute to Wilko Johnson, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Wilko has always been a massive influence on my music and I will miss him when he's gone...
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Well, this started with a ukulele riff and then kind of took off from there. I enjoyed rockin' with the uke ... added a guitar rhythm, a bass track some drums and vocals and here we go! I've played in a few bars over the years and have seen my…
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Unedited, one-off improv. Making all the synths and effects as the song progresses, then again it is ambient so it's not that much of a hassle
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Dear Northern Ireland
Let the Troubles sleep a deep, deep sleep, never to return……
Hurdy Gurdy, Nakers, and Renaissance side drums.
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A little folksy - jazzy tune recorded in two parts.
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