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Inspired by Tess' little Morwenna and my (getting bigger) Jessica. Writing back and forth with Bethan, I came to realize that a song needed to be written about the significance of the statements that so often come from the mouths of babes…
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A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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I'm doing a twenty-four hour project. This is the warmup done in the first ninety minutes.
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As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…
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how do you give a daughter away?
I have no clue...
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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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made with an electric guitar, a simple looping device, an amp, and automated volume curves in Garageband
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the next time youre bored and in burger king, try holding some ice cubes against your eyes. it stings like christ and also looks like youve been crying just in case you wanted people to feel sorry for you
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Inspired by a couple people. And the general pretentious ideology in general.
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I picked up on one of Norm's wonderful grooves.
I added some bass, guitar, horns, and a basic drum track. Kicker and snare with a few cymbols. I didn't want to walk on Norm's fine, fine, percussion.
Thanks Norm for allowing me the opportunity…
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Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
This was my "signature" track several years ago. I wrote this on guitar in the mid-90s while I was getting divorced, but later renamed it and recorded it…
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More stuff from the ancient archives rescued from the same cassette tape as Last Nights Fun. This time a set of 3 Irish reels Live at a concert back around 1992
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(Bowers, Rainbowtruth) from the LP "Over the Counter and Through the Woods" circa 1997.
Barnett: Lead vocal/guitar
Osborne: Drums/backing vocal
Bowers: Bass/spoken vocal
Duff: Guitar
One of my favorites. Don't be fooled, the sampled snare…
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Being as I am in something of a musical trough of despair (it's not as much fun as it sounds) right now I thought I'd try messing with my TMA-2 Reaktor instrument and try and coax some better results from it.
From a promising beginning TMA…
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I couldn't get anything right today so I just mashed through a guitar track and overlayed vocals. But now I kind of like the song so it will have to be redone.
So sit back and relax, don't shower or shave and have a beer!
Swill A Beer
I sit…
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Wellll it's not really a mystery, it's a little Beatles remixing!! I've basically just mashed together Octopus's Garden and All My Lovin'.
Hope you like it!
toooons of fun makin it :)
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Had to do this one on the fly before an open mic night....
Sorry about the quality...
Came up with the song this morning ......
One take... GTR+MIC on one tracks (doubled up), Played live....
Not much time to record music or…
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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Brilliant song shame it didn't make it onto the album. Maybe the next one.
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Written and Recorded June 5/6, 2010
Details: No-name lap steel (FCFFCF),POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
A quick little improv. Too lazy to grab a guitar so just used the lap steel. I think it still has the same strings on it from…
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This is a song that started as just an idea I had playing live one lovely thursday evening and I just started playing this progression and sang some gibberish over it and I came up with the "chorus" part and and the Idea of asking questions in…
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and a quick montage done with some space doc footage.
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This is one of my first alonetone collaborations written by Louis Smit.
Everyone should go listen to some of his tunes. Louis is a very original
and talented folk style acoustic guitarist- singer - songwriter.
You can hear him here.
http://alonetone…
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A fun childrens tune from 2008, it really ought to be a hot fiddle tune but i don't have a hot fiddle.
Old fox coming down the road now Bunny Bunny
Run Run Bunny Bunny Go
White tails bobbing in the air there funny bunny
Go Go Bunny Bunny Run…
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First done by Dock Boggs back in the 20s, it's a great piece of melancholy parafunalia. Eerie to think it's a suicide note and reassuring to know he was still a tough old bird 40 years later.
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Been carrying this around since 1982, finally recorded it. Composed when we were expecting our first child, hence the anxiety.
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I realize now that any song with the word "cathartic" in the lyrics has flow issues...
Cheers!
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This is a Mash up I did of Franz Ferdinand's "No you girls" and Daft Punk's "Da Funk." All rights belong to titled artists, The turntable mashing was done by me AC_DJ, enjoy.
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This is one of my older mixes. It was created in Sony Acid. It has this Latin/NYC subway feel to it, thus the name, enjoy.
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In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song…
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Full Title "An Army Of Wraiths" A Collaborative Piece Featuring B.G And The Great Hellenic Band Catacombs Of Doom!
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For this Mother's Day week, a conga improvisation dedicated to Saint Monica and all the other mothers who surreptitiously provide for and incessantly pray for their children. Thanks Mom!
** this could really use a tasty melody to go with…
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Trying to do write something "happier" than my usual moody stuff. Still working on it.
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i gave this one a little adjustment and couldn't decide which version i liked best...so it became a safe and warm mix...
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Harbinger Of Death-
Produced By Bradley Logan
Lyrics By Bradley Logan
Copyright 2007
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When I wrote this it was a cold cloudy and dark winter night here in vancouver but I was sitting in my room and was just in a sunny state of mind. I then picked up my Uke and started fiddlin around searching for a breezy chord progression, then…
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Taking a breather from a few other projects and fired up some drum loops. 3 hip hop beats at 80 bpm. Funny how they just line up like that.
I added some 70's disco synth and some spooky sounds and Bingo.......spooky hip hop.
Go figure.....
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The coyotes in the woods they’re all lining up for the kill
And the coyotes have sharp teeth and they’ve learned how to use knives
And they’re picking the locks and stealing into your house nd drinking all your poison
Now you’re packing the…
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I had originally titled this 01May2010 with the intent of saving myself time by not thinking up titles... Then I thought about the marketing benefit for the Dungeonhack project, however small, which would be slighted by uninteresting titles. Curse…
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Written and performed by Tangmo and Jay Jackson. If my voice sounds a little sickly, it's because it was. I went into the hospital with life-threatening heart and respiratory problems days after laying vocals for this song. It remains a 'spiritual…
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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Musa means "the muse" in Portuguese.
Trumpet improv and digital production provided
by AloneToner K. Scot Sparks.
Lyrics for the bilingual version:
Ela vem, ela vai
ela tem o que eu quero mais
toque de fada
conversa que sara
esse…
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Recording some match lighting samples recently and felt compelled to put some music to it.
I put the mic up to some raw acoustic guitar. Bass and lead added with FX. Norm added percussion, making it sound waaaay better.
Contributors:
lyrics…
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Recorded in the kitchen on April 24, 2010. This is an old song I've had since 1996.
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When a friend is diagnosed with cancer, or any life threatening illness, we want to say something. But what do we say? This is a meditation on transience and emptiness, two central zen buddhist teachings.
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another experimental piece. This time we each played our parts separately. I started out with wacked out guitar madness, then bass, then drums and finally some insanely spacey sound effects.
Enjoy...
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I am simply loved
I can rest in this
(it does me good to remember this)
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Year: 1983
Album:
Land of the Lost
Artist's description:
Music Concrete
This was recorded/performed in 1983
I used reel-to-reel and cassette and LP records and a HP-85 with 16k of ram, custom HP 8bit CPU @ 0.613MHz, running a BASIC program I…
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I've got perscription pills that turn us invisible, let's pop them when the dragons darken our sky...
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Written and Recorded April 18, 2010
Some people accidentally delete tracks...I accidentally kept this one :)
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity.
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a percussive instrumental, featuring a bell sounding wood stove, yes that is a burning instrument.
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ok, volume is fixed, and the title too. Maybe soon I will mix it better or perhaps just move on to better things. Thanks to those who gave excellent advice on previous version.
and the #2 version has been deleted (actually this is #2).
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Part of a series of songs based on stories written as random memories of a character born around 1870 and his escape from poverty and hardship. This song has no words, but consider the uncertain guitar solo as a reflection of his struggle in…
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Two-part tune. The first part is "Untitled," and the second part (based on the last bit of "Untitled") is "Sugar." We went for the slow version for the record. We also play "Punk Sugar" and have messed around with "Country Sugar" and "Reggae…
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Check out the quasi-reggae breakdown right in the middle. The chorus is in 7/8 with the exception of the last measure, which is 8/8. Mike does the backup vox.
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pure draft, but I don't have time to re-record it
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Played and Sung at the same Time.....
Recorded On One Track....
Words made up on the spot....
Was in Two Minds as to if I should Post it....
I aint Preaching in this.....
It is Just something which makes me, "me" that I want to…
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our 2010 entry for the RPM Challenge. members included:
Minibar Madness - sound effects & noise,
Commoner - Amplifier worship, pedals, electrical guitar,
The Chaos Council - MicroMoog , alto sax, effects,
Tone the Destroyer - violin &…
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based on the "clique" project first introduced in a long lost forum post on the RPM Challenge forums, the rules were to record a track that was in relation/response to the previous track before it. performers were: jazzsequence, Pugilistas, The…
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the method was to record a percussive track (or not) at 110 bpm. it was not required that your track be percussive, but if it was, it needed to be 110 bpm. participants included jazzsequence, Pugilistas and project was orchestrated by The Chaos…
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A song written for a great girl who'll be getting married next year...
"You'll always be this young if love comes first
And you stay filled with life."
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This is fresh out of the oven and not perfectly shaped but I wanted to share it straight away.
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Stumblin' at the first word
Fallin' at the last fence
Always in a mess
Stumblin' at the first word
Fallin' at the last fence
god knows I tried
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Another in the iPod series.
Apps used:
Sound Pallete
NLog synth
Bebot
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Written August 29, 2009 and Recorded March 22, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
I don't normally repeat myself, but when I sat down tonight…
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A tune I made on my first attempt on my wife's Magix Music Maker software. She was impressed about how quickly I picked it up! A slightly revised second edition and it is ready for publication. Caution - contains all Magix loops.
What really…
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I took Galileo's Cough Drop's Too Early To Tell and added about 8 tracks of guitar.
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this song reflects how i feel staring out my window today
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An iPod Touch doodad. More to come, so be warned.
Apps: tongue drum, Cosmovox
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the beats part is worked by my friend using fruityloops and the guitar part is done by me.ENJOY!!!!
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This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…
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Well, hot summer night. Beautiful woman dancing in the moonlight, (the goddesses knew what they were doing, a man doesn't stand a chance against this), knees going weak.... hearts' pounding...head spinning = new song. (Love was already there…
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A happy kind of electro pot-pourri.
The process:
- find a sound, noodle in Ab
- find another sound, develop a compatible noodle
- repeat a couple of times
- program a beat
- add replicant
- find other sounds for a B section
- find more sounds…
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i sing for you, dont shoot the fkkk outtta me.!
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This is an older song from 93 and 94. I have no way of editing it any longer as I borked my machine and lost everything. I dont know if I could ever get the same sound again. My singing is lackluster on this and hopefully forgivable.
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I'm including this, beacause I want to be able to say, and demonstrate, just what Steve Buzzell, my musical partner and collaborator means to several of the songs that are either here already, or will follow. This is all Steve. In all the songs…
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I wrote this on the fly. Nothing fancy, just a mellow song for my wife.
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The first track from our 2008 RPM album. Didn't make the cut for the final album, so you get to enjoy it here!
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This is just the beginning on this song. We haven't put the bridge in yet, it was a jam between Steve and I (Steve played that awesome Sax track, and about three guitar parts, organ..)It was just too much fun, but still... undone.
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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Simple little song. My view on how love really falls apart. Last verse is in my opinion an add-on. I wrote it after the rest, at the behest of someone who thought it was too "un-hopeful". It may have been a goood thing.
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This is probably to personal, to raw to put here, but I've been listening to some pretty courageous stuff here in alonetone. This is more of an occurence, a onetime performance, more of a memorial, than a recording. My dad had died recently, I…
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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Himitsu jam. Title says it all. Visting hard rock guitarist sitting in this session.
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Himitsu jam session. This little piece reminds me of driving through small towns in Mexico on Sunday morning, with the light just pinking the horizon, and the entire towns' populace heading to mass to the sound of the church bells.
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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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Named after a painting which was named after a lovely little daily ritual I share with my best friend.
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Late night, last piece from a Himitsu session. Very laid back. All electronic. Recorded on minidisc and rescued later from a random hard drive.
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Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.
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"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…
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Thank God!... Something up-beat. One of my colleagues has THE party of the year on Labor Day weekend every year, and I play around the bonfire from dusk until everyone is unconscious... and the ladies like to dance.
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In 1979, my father came home from the record store with an album that forever changed my life, Pete Seeger's Circles & Seasons. Before I knew Pete to be the blacklisted folk icon that had been on the humanitarian side of every fight since…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Heavy use of Kaos Pad and vocoders, as a…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
This one's a three piece set, after the keyboard…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Our guitarist led this 5 player piece, though…
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From the Himitsu jam sessions. Electronic punk jazz or almost anything else. A group of 3 to 5 musicians meeting weekly to just play. All improvisation, no planning or themes, just what you bring.
Kaos Pad twisted vocals run beneath this heavilly…
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The album kicks off with one of the gritter, darker songs. The amazing, gravely voice you hear is that of Linda Harrison.
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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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"There's a dude from Indiana rockin' real hard to Carlos Santana!" If you've ever been to Indiana, you'll know where this came from.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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these 2 "new" songs are a test to see if I now have what I need to successfully upload material. These 2 songs were recorded 20 years ago on a Tascam 4-track. The band is the Riptiles.
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2010 RPM Challenge Track. Lyrics
The thin veneer
That thin film of fear
What have you started
And what of your dreams
they tear away
And they won't return
We won't return here
Anymore
Dont they tear away (the thin veneer…
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With this special offer, you, too, can be the bomb.
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My attempt at being the male version of Sister Savage. I apologize in advance if you think it sucks.
As requested, the lyrics...
"She"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
She's ripped the fabric of my world with harsh intention.
She…
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If you're a businessman or a politician, mosh to this song.
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The anthem of my musical career. I'm joking. I hope.
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Relate if you can. Rock your ass off if you can't.
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This is what happens when you try to write a love song at 2AM for someone who doesn't exist.
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Aren't you?
As requested, here are the lyrics...
"Homeless"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
As I walk around downtown, and I see city drown around me,
I wonder how this happens to someone like you and me.
This city has a way of…
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Started with a little guitar riff on the archtop, Played roland rs9 string synth through tremolo amp. Also has my tenor steel pan played live.
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