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Poor old Reg is having yet another mid-life crisis he's trying to work through...ever been there..........
LOST (Lyrics)
i hear the faint whisper of my youth as it’s calls as it disappears
It’s disappeared from me so quick
the shock has shook…
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Well Reg had an hour or so to himself today so he decided to let it go.......hope you have your Dancing slippers on you may want to shuffle to this one..........thats if the beat gets you.........it got me......
LETTING IT GO (Lyrics)
I’ve been…
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~late night one, in waves~
/For Rob, The Sailor
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I remastered it for better sound quality. it was a bit rough on its own, so I decided to fix that with a new limiter and to tone down the high frequencies. Overall, it's easier listening.
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COWTOWN
In a court yard down the alley
There's a grave yard, weeds and litter
Memories, undisturbed, await their doom
Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN
You take a building, old and crooked
Long ago the life forsook it
Paint it up and name…
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This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
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Well, my friend and I were chilling when he comes up with a random statement, "Are we in a Psychedelic Movie Experience?" haha, so I told him I will make a song named after that statement. Viola.
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No Banjos were harmed in this song.......i would really love to be able to play one but this is all done on a keyboard ...hope you enjoy attempt at ...well i'm not sure what to call it...but i sure enjoyed doing it....
I DON’T WANT TO GO (Lyrics…
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Gramma's Shampoo
Gramma's shampoo is washing my hair
And I hope it will notice that gramma's not there
It's the kind that knows just what to do
Says it right there on the bottle, shampoo
"Automatically adjusts to your hair's cleansing needs…
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was a Texan.
Quannah Parker was the son born to Cynthia Parker, a white girl, stolen by Comanche raiders who grew up to be the wife of the chief. Quannah, in turn became the leader of his tribe. Eventually, Cynthia returned to her people. This…
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This song contains the body of the first song I ever wrote. A poem sent to me while I was away to school in Idaho in 1959 by Carolyn Opitz that I sat at an old pump organ and sang a thousand times when I was a junior in high school.
YOU CAN…
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I was in Spain, in the Pyrenees, working on THE STONE RAFT. I was the only American, read, "English speaker." I was feeling very alone.
SOLITARY WALK Am
INTRO Am F Am F
Am (walking down) G F G
Tho I follow in the footprints of my friends…
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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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SLOOP JOHN B - REVISITED
My 9/11 song
Come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me
Blindly sailing. Hopes are failing. Storm hangs o're the sea
Guns a-blazing! Blaze amazing. Pants down around my feet
Captain, he got drunk. Just sits…
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TESLA
Who invented remote control? TESLA
Who invented the fluorescent light? TESLA
Who invented the radio? TESLA
And who died alone and forgotten in 1943? TESLA
So, you say now, “Don’t be angry.”
And you say, “Just tell the story…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie.
THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C
The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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I wrote this at my dad's urging. He likes it. We sing it together. I have YouTube Video of it up.
EULOGY
He grew up in Clinton, Oklahoma
Red dirt back yard, Gramma's place
Honey suckle in a dust bowl
Life as hard as limestone lace…
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This is my adaptation of a poem by Rosemarie Kempton.
"I always felt that it was fitting that you turned the poem I wrote into a poignant hymn that captured the feeling of loss of a loved one. My words sprang from my attempts to understand…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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Key of G
G C G C
G
I'd be glad to let you love me
C
if you'll just hold me for a while
D
You could take your time and linger
C G
I…
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The banjo, bass and guitar on this song
was played by Michael Jeffrey. This is one song off the record we did together back in 1975/6 on his 4 track machine. Michael and Barbara Anne Taylor sing harmony.
I LIVE WITH REBECCA
I live with…
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SWEET YOUNG THING
He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow
Clean socks and his new underwear
He brushes his teeth with tooth paste
There's a charge in the air
He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled, the night before
He…
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OH JIMMY
capo @ 4 or 5 live
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice…
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Cover of a 19th century minstrel tune attributed to S.S. Steele, popularize by the late great John Hartford. This is my own arrangement. I use it as a backing track for alive set without the banjo and lead vocal tracks.
BTW- that banjo is an…
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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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PEGGY’S GONE Capo @ 5 Key C
C G
PEGGY’S GONE after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What am I doing…
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YOU - in C
There's a place in my mind
Where your face had a home
Long before you walked into my life
Before you were a known
There's a note in my song
That I knew fit somewhere
Tho the journey was long
I hoped I wouldn't be wrong…
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WHERE
Where will I spend the rest of our life?
Where will I live our tomorrow
Our only hope springs from within your sorrow
And if I thot your pain could be bought
I'd start saving today for tomorrow
Where, where
Our only hope springs…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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This is a Rick Babb song.
Hey! What's that sound
You're not around
The silence makes me see
Just what you meant to me
It's quiet tonight
Ah, you're not coming back
You drove away
I watched you pack
I can't hear a thing
But the sound…
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A song that Rick Babb started and I helped finish. (He brought me the first verse and the chorus and the music.)
HERE COMES LONELY
Ronnie says it's over but I don't believe
I'm not willing to give up I'm not willing to see She's made up…
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FOREVER
She stares out the window. That look in her eye
How deep can her heart know life's passing her by
The radio's playing. She holds back a tear
A song she's forgotten
Holds back the years...Forever
And she says,
"I wish I 'd loved…
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Well Reg is drunk again in the cellar and getting Morose thinking of how he was treated so badly by yet another woman who has left him....... so he's had to vent it into this blues song for the broken people................He just doesn't know…
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Local musos friend Darryl Wood remixed a live Witch's Night Out piece.
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A step along the way to here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1895
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Long ago One mans argument against the opposition of the many didn't go down too well............Thanks Norm for Groove for St. Ambrose
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Reg was feeling lost last night in the cellar so he got the house band together and struck up this heart breaker....................
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Thanks to Geas for the great music....this one has the vocal of both Regs high and low....hope you enjoy.......
Gone to Yesterday (Lyrics)
Once upon a time I lived in a life i thought was nothing but a dream
The happily ever after was just part…
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part of a 3 piano solo EP found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1886
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Now can you imagine it, it’s Christmas eve and there is no one to give us Christmas as Father Christmas has died and there is no one to take is place what are we gonna do????? What would life be without a Christmas song???
No-one to sing the…
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just a little dirty blues, to cleans the pallet so to speak. "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." --Robert Orben
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A song from Lancashire folk history, Malkin Tower is no longer there. Near pendle Hill.
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Song for my daughter. Last verse shows the tragedy of life
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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Well last night down in the cellar we got ourselves a train theme riding and this is the result hope you like it...........
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Well Jefferry came down the cellar this evening for a chat and a bit of consoling.................. so we decided to recant his tale of woe........................poor old Jeferry.............
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We were having a little tipple down the cellar last night and we came up with a Christmas song for the festive season...hope you enjoy..........
CHRISTMAS TIME AT THE DRUNK’S HOUSE (Lyrics)
it's Christmas time in the drunks house
and the…
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I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
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Mozart's famous "Alla Turca" Sonata #11 in A major with period tuning and period pianoforte and period diapason of A4 = 415 Hz. Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1837
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The 11th Corridor of Tritave is an ambient piece performed originally on an M-Audio 88es with pianoteq in 11 edt, edited slightly and then ported over to four 11 edt instances of Z3TA+ 2.1 in Sonar X1.
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Another work in progress down the cellar.............a first cut...........
I KNOW HOW LOVE CAN FEEL(Lyrics)
I know how love can feel
I know that love can heal
i know i kneel before you
i know it can burn you, destroy you
i know how love can…
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Thanksgiving Day
11/28/11
Its cold like November in the autumn of my life
Too far to remember my subtle suicide
And your words came and swept me away
And i woke up on this Thanksgiving Day
I was lost like a child in a secondhand store…
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Electronic Dream #1 was made for the Internet Movie Project in 2002 that fell apart as I remember. All but the initial bright sweep which comes from the CZ-101 is from the Korg MS2000 analog modeling synthesizer. Excepting the Casio sample this…
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Something i wrote and quickly recorded on Thanksgiving 2011. It will turn into something but it seems i must add two songs to make a playlist public? or something? i dont really know. but this is WIP, definitely.
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Alone On Christmas
Once upon the end of every year well there
Comes a time when we forget our fears
And a childs face will light up for no reason
Ho ho well it must be Christmas season
Its been so long since i've seen your face it must…
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Woods acoustic 6 str recorded by a Zoom H2 x 2 with a touch of lexicon reverberation.
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Improvised/recorded on 11-12-11 in Alpharetta GA, mixed/edited on 11-13-11 in Summertown, TN.
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A bit of a Jazzy noodle under influence of a nice drop of Red.................
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I'd never played a U2 song before this one. Tried to give it a bit of a Reggae feel.
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There I go again, thinking
You might have something to say
Some sympathy for me?
I’ve worn out my welcome tonight
And it’s freezing on this desert trip
I’ve been screaming at the slightest things
And Robert Blake smiles
On the tv by…
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Ideal words by TJC music by Vivian Circle
Your porn makes me jealous
When I think I’m in love
And the televisions not there
I want a boy that shakes it
That makes the most of everyday
A sense of humor
and all those sorts of things…
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I'll tell you one thing for sure... I wouldn't trust no words written down on no piece of paper, especially from no Dickinson out in the town of Machine... you're just as likely to find your own grave.
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Sometimes it might be best not to even think about what terrible things might happen. It might be part of setting those very terrible things in motion. How can one know?
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The piece that was originally uploaded here had an awful flaw - the sustain pedal was depressed throughout the piece. This is the correct rendering.
The tuning in question is only slightly different from the "normal" 12 equal.
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Dave Tanner's rendition of his Sunny, sorta... song at the release show Nov. 5. that's me on the Ooos in the background.
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After the posing and posturing of my Life in Tokyo, here's a real balls out thrash from the Ramones.
I just finished recording this 5 minutes ago, the whole thing took about 90 minutes from when I started programming the drums to finishing…
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For a link to the visual artist and details on this piano piece see http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/61
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For details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1678
It is a bit jarring - on purpose but you've been warned.
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Refuge into the imagination:
Is it crazy?
Is it survival?
Is desire to survive crazy?
THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811
G
She'd been gone for three years now so he'd been on the road
Playing every truck stop bar and every song he…
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Electronics and looped guitar
For more and a beautiful picture from a friend:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1658
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Solo guitar with effects.
picture credit
http://heranush.deviantart.com/art/ssswf-cast-your-demons-away-158702821
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The full monty
http://alonetone.com/charlieferret/tracks/after-the-worms-ate-into-my-brain
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Getting rid of some useless layers is a good thing to do. Even with the use of this rare word.
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OK,there's three sides to every story. Yours. Mine. And the cold hard truth. So- let's just tell it like it is.
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from the album "Que Vive!"
night falling don’t want to sleep
my dreams don’t feel like me
falling, failing, twist all around
my world turned upside down
crash over, drown in the sea
crush under, darkness inside of me
failing harder, like a…
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~ Observation Affects Reality ~ (as used to say Schrödinger's cat)
Schrödinger's cat: A pussycat, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence…
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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Thanks to Chris for coming down the cellar and doing this with me .............with Chris on piano, harpsichord, electic guitar, fretless bass, electronic sax........Reg on Vocals.........
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This is a remix of a little piece by Pilchard. I liked the sound of his track and wanted to put an edge on it. Enjoy the remix!
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Light, to which thou goest; to which you fly like a moth. Once it was real.
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Fall came, and it came with the notion of finiteness of ~all things~
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Reg was looking through some old notebooks last night in the cellar and found this one..................Divorce is a terrible thing to experience all the mixed emotions and torment.............
VOICES IN THE NIGHT (Lyrics)
Voices in the…
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Music recorded using only a ukulele and hands on a Boss BR800 in Spain. Vocals recorded back in Norway.
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This one is an endless party mix! put it on repeat, and viola!
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This on was a remix of an older song with some new kicks and shiz. I have re-done this one soooo many times......
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Interstellar Wind is a microtonal piece performed on Tibetan Singing Bowls creating samples that were then sequenced in Sonar X1.
Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1522
Full quality video (~90 megabytes)can be downloaded here:
http://micro…
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Reg was looking through you tube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQxhaPhFDs&feature=related and was shocked at what he saw.........
THE PLAGUE OF METH (Lyrics)
She seems twisted in her agony
her pain is visible
its destroyed her
tormented…
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe set to music as read by Mike Vendetti from Freesound.org.
Details here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1506
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Leaves everywhere today. Autumn has come late this year in London it seems.
Reminded me of a song Me Geir and Mark wrote a while back...
Written and recorded in a three hour time period from three places across the world. We just all happened…
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Silence:
i hold hatred in my heart
from everything i've seen
sometimes it slips all the way out
bleeding out until i become obscene
don't leave me alone too long
locked up in my own thoughts
don't leave me here all alone
hemorrahaging…
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Reg found spotty Pete on the ledge of the apartment building ......about to jump......it was all a bit bizarre really........as Pete was mumbling something about meeting the Devil and what his Mummy had told him..............
MUMMY TOLD ME…
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Reg got to wondering...What does happen when the money runs out......how many people are going to be homeless through this recession, the people who are going to lose it all and end up on the streets.......and also the ones already out there…
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Another collaboration with Andy from Southampton, England. Vocals and rhythm guitar: Andy
Vocals, lead guitars, bass & organ: Ron
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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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Wrote and recorded my first Xmas tune ...was supposed to be entered into a song contest but that site closed...all instruments except drums are played by me.
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