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The past holds nothing for a man so proud.
Nothing for a man like you.
I feel like I haven't lived before tonight.
That terrifies me.
Would you like to take a walk or something?
She keeps the truth held tight inside, but her eyes show.. something…
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Hello stranger.
I've been waiting with a compliment for you,
In case it's something that you don't already know.
Hello stranger.
There is always something left unsaid.
But just ask me and i'll tell you, though I don't even know your name.
We…
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Reg once had a childhood friend that gave in to temptation and the depths of addiction, this track is about what he saw when the Black Velvet glove took control. The degradation of a poor soul who lost his grip on reality and fell to depths so…
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I'm not superstitious, but ... I did not want to end the day with 13 uploaded songs. :D
Here is another old one. Not mixed as good as I think I could do it now, but it could be much worse. ;)
Music: Steffen Offermann & Tricia Dovidio
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I finally was able to remix the song. Please listen to "Fide On The Broom Stick (Version 2012)" in my track list to compare…
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Resulting from a Mini-Moog attack a had one night.
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A few months back we had a "Beatlesfest" on songcrafters.org.
I contributed this and Yesterday.
This one's a bit of a departure for me. Not the song itself - it's been one of my favourites ever since I was tiny (I preferred Robin Gibb's…
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Acoustic interlude with a slightly lower tempo that leads into If. The solo is a mix of two improvised takes.
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First song written...this actually had words, but I never got brave enough to sing them.
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antiquary february
queen annes lace is tucked away
in bureaus of dirt
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One for the lonely kids.
Too dark for a children's record?
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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Make Up Your Mind
T Boudreau
I've been lying here all alone waiting for you to pick up the phone oh yea
I've been dying here all along praying for you to come and save my soul oh yea
Where you gonna run when the well gets dry
Or are you…
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The Morning Came
lyrics - t boudreau
music j. tramontano, t. boudreau
If i thought i needed more it'd be for selfish reasons
If i didn't think that i had it all i'd be kidding myself
So whats ever left out there it's for your taking
Remember…
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Reg has decided to write this song about an English serial killer known as the Crossbow killer to make those young trusting women well aware that some men are not always what they seem ................. as in the case of Stephen Griffiths who…
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~Bless the Beasts & Children~
Shades of feeling. How do I transfer them to the music unless only I can is to roar as the buffalo? Overload from top, firmament from below. Play one note. Then another, then a third. Then overdrive them, all…
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Roughly recorded years ago... A little more properly recorded now.
Pass On Love
Falling off the fence in year twelve of your lifetime
Landing hard'll change your view of time
The minutes left in life will count down slowly
I need to…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
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(RPM 2011) For obvious reasons, many RPM albums make use of improvisational sound collages. ;-) This is the first of three that divide the record into sections. You may or may not hear the connections in the lyrics, but it actually does make…
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This is an experiment in stacking real time delay/looped tracks that had no preconceived connections... all overdubs were done without listening to previously recorded tracks. I hear some very interesting synchronizations.... You?
RPM 2011
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Harmonica by Dr. K
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Paper hearts in your window
paper hearts on your door
Paper hearts ripped in pieces
And Strewn across the floor
but who am I to question
The intentions of old…
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A major thing, This began as I sat down to lunch and did some musing about my old wind-up gramophone, as food poisoning set in I spent the rest of the day lying in bed thinking of lyrics, getting up to type them in, throwing up, and going back…
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Ok, Who HASN'T had the fantasy about the hot librarian?
This was originally intended to be sung by a friend of mine with a much higher range, but a massive earthquake disrupted the schedule. I wound up singing it down an octave, trying to do…
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This was originally a much longer gospel style song about meeting the devil at the crossroads and selling him my car, I got discouraged when I put down the scratch vocals and realised that no ammount of overdubs could possibly make me sound like…
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I had a go at channeling Ray Charles for this one, I just forgot to channel his talent.
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Another song James and I wrote together almost exactly half and half.
Vocals: James Johnston
guitars/backing vocals: Me
other guitars: JC Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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This is another from my former band 3 Ton Jack. James wrote the first have and I finish the last have. We seemed to be able to do that fairly well on some of our songs. This one actually got some decent air time on the local radio stations.
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This is a synopsis of Reg's favourite movie put to music. Sorry about the length but what can you do, when you have a story to tell, you can't cut it short can you? This is one to download for the car to listen to on that boring journey or when…
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a bit smaller in length, a bit more up lifting, at least it makes me feel like lifting my arms up into the air when i listen... WN is a dialogue between two sides, so i suppose this is the section where the angles get their say,,,, dedicated to…
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I tries to wake the dead. Oh if your not dead then adjust the volume at different times..
It took an hour of continuous performance before I settled down and recorded this and did excerpts and layered it here.
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Finished my RPM CD.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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I used a clip of the English version of greetings recorded on the gold disk on board Voyager 1.
Thanks NASA/JPL
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Almost finished...
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…
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Trying to see if I can break alonetone's formatting with the song title ;)
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This starts at essentially the same improvisation pattern and then travels elsewhere - I think I like the Martin version better myself. This one is in stereo.
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Just an improvisation for ImprovFriday - recorded on my Zoom H2 in the expensive acoustic guitar room at my local guitar center.
I had to switch to mono because I had the zoom too sensitive and created a series of pops on one channel. This…
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bit of a key change, and temperament,
just as small note: the opening and closing strings really buzz cool in headphones, something i though i might give a try too
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Desirae & Johnny were lovers but they got into debt and Desirae left Johnny. Johnny didn't handle the separation at all well.............
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I started off with an idea to record some harmonized diminished arpeggios and the other riffs just happened along the way. Inspired by Dethklok, hope you like it.
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Inspired by the scene in the movie Hustle & Flow where they make the song "Whoop That Trick," I made this jam based (loosely) on the main riff to that song with extra stuff. The strange thing about the main riff is that I'm playing (low) octaves…
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The explanation for this is a bit long, so if you're just looking for the lyrics, switch over to "about" and click the "view more" box below.
So I'm eating fish and chips at an Irish restaurant waiting to play an open mic in Saratoga over at…
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zither, slide mandolin, vocal
not the best recording - oh well.
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The music is a repeat - but the video is new. Press "more"
Sister Savage had the original idea for the "holy haunted aquariums"
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After spending some time listening to Breaking Light, I figured I can try more guitar sounds in these ambient productions.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Compare to "Coughdrop Overdose" from RPM 2010. =)
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Hey... i've been absent for some days. Sad, depressing days. And happy days.
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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these are the messages from my machine. I did this before but somehow had to do this again. of course the answering machine messages were edited for content .. :)
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I hope you can see the above picture - I scored a 15 chord autoharp zither for $42 on ebay. 4 old guitar strings later (I save them... just in case :-) and a tuning against an organ patch she is working nicely again. Can't wait to show Emily…
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Lyrics:
Skip ahead to her in pants,
watch her dance in the living room
in front of all the other dinner guests.
She thumbs her nose at simulacra,
but someone must play Cleopatra
in the PTA's yearly drama fest.
Her husband broke his body…
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Some people measure things by inches and miles,
gallons and quarts and sometimes smiles, but I got a measure that I made up: I measure my orange juice by the "blub, blub, blub.".
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Michelangelo: didjeridu
Kavin.: guitar, loops
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#7 for the RPM this year
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i know
what this means
i know now
meaning is only found in meaningless
The path to knowledge is convoluted
often self destructive
ingrained in our souls is a
nihilistic ending to all your…
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Was Reg daydreaming had Robert Plant really just come down the cellar bar to visit Elvis and sang while he played. He shook his head and resumed playing .....................
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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this gets loud at minute 3 and never settles down. wawoots. :) till about minute 7.5 then it quite outs.. then the end just kills me and yes I know I performed that but still it kills me LOL
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spoof, "no one gives a shiiiiiit about my rpm album"
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…
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Narrator:
"Hey pumpcrop
has been too long?
is it time to phone a friend?
I said, hey pumpcrop
i'm talking to you
is it time to phone a friend?"
Demon:
"that won't work here"
Narrator…
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some how this was mixed for the pleasure of ours.
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I am noticing a patter in the musics like at minute five to minute five and a half I start to slow down and change up the systems.. anyway when i mixed the two things they came out like this.
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an odd re-version of "zombie children in the dark" for RPM 2011.
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this is mostly sync level play and other things too. It seems the Microkorg likes being controlled by the supernova II :)
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I think I bit off more than I could actually chew this time and I apologize to Norm and Reg about that. This is a setting of verses from Contemporary English Bible Version of Daniel Chapter 6. I don’t think I orchestrated as much drama from…
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Field Fresh - Texas Cow Patties are yummy little milk chocolate carmel peanut patties that come in this neat little wooden box..... Not really cow shit!
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My uncle used to tap his foot and sing "six feet under, six feet under" and my grandmother
would tell him to stop and say it was bad luck, so I made this jam based on his melody.
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Has Reg found his excuse to have another drink or is this just the start of another drunken escapade...................
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Reg has been with the new women in his life now for a while.She has noticed that Reg has an air of sadness around him.She wants to get to the bottom of it.She starts to ask him why? all the time. Reg wants to keep his secrets of his past to himself…
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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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Final version
One of my heroes. Willie McTell was blind from birth and travelled all over the south in the thirties at a time when many people would never go more than 20 miles from their home.
Plus nobody sings the blues quite like him…
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
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sethares…
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something I might work more on but after crashing the acid program I am leery some.
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Reg has been caught again by the bottle this time he has nearly gone too far. He paralyzed with drink and hallucinating on the grog he sees his dead Uncle ................
Uncle
The room was spinning, the cartwheels have come,
He’s…
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~Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité et l'Amour~
Simple joys of being in this the seeming imperfect world.
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~Spinning the Squirrel Wheel~
Spinning-spinning our globe, and we're in spin with it, servants of spin. What if we actually just ... snowflakes? We are spinning all our lives, sometimes together but often apart. Is it sad? And, if so, then…
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If you believe the conspiracy theories it ain't over yet. This is a piece from early 2009.
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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Danny Zuko from the motion picture Grease
sung by Sandy Gritt
written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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INSTRUMENTAL! or just mental, probably one of those 80 to 20 mental over physical kind of things.
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One of two pretty little interludes for the album, both of which are based around a guitar part Gary did for me. I've put different synth chords behind each of them to cover the two sides of the lady that inspired the full song, Jekyll & Hyde…
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Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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~For all those who have parted forever, and those who have parted for a while~
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Kickin' off RPM this year with instrumentals.
I don't feel much like singing. Or trying for that matter.
I may put some vox on this when I'm feeling a bit better.
Enjoy!
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wisdom hair...
lyrics :
He can say and may can he
oh where is the tree of life in me
He can say and may can he
oh where is the silent dream
how do you know
he can, I can, I he can, kenoagen
(although the lyrics aren't really…
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One in a lifeless space. Cold. Only the power of spirit can help to survive and to love again.
~Furiously~
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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Thank you for being you
No one else would do
Thank you for being you
You're all I ask for
Too many nights alone
tonight I'm coming home
open up the wine cos I'm
gonna be with the one who's shown
Me the ways of old
Women into wives…
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anutha one for rpm, this is I think the final idea for the hath beezlebub tune, just maybe more added to it. Half Ass Metallica stuff here.
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Reg has been dancing on the scene and started drinking again, this freedom he wanted so badly is harder than he thought. But he'll get through it.........
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Grenade_Fish_by_Fenrir06 from deviantART
A musical setting in 17 notes per octave of CA Conrad’s reading of his poem “Say it With Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds†posted on PennSound. Title and concept credit…
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Island tribute to a drink made of Kahlua and milk. Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s. This song inspired wild dancing when played live.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red…
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A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.
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I don't feel comfortable with the arrengements of this little piece yet. Anyway, i wanted to share it. I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Such a sweet girl,
the camera really loves your face
Tall heels and a bullets grace
The creatures gonna eat your name
Such a sad girl
Your mammas gone an let you down
left you wandering down the streets like a sacred cow but holes in your…
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Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.
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In time
you'll understand
everything I did
in time
you'll understand
everywhere we've been
In time
you'll understand
Why
You are not what I want
You are not what i need
You are nothing to me
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lyrics (variations of ) : we fought/the moon/the sun/came back/rose up/turned blue/turned black and in different order sometimes.
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Reg is wanting his lady to come home, he misses her, he needs her everything has gone wrong................RPM2011
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A live improvisation on 3 keyboards and a half dozen softsynths plus korg MS2000 in Sonar X1
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I heard this from Rick & Norm and read how Rick had described the track and something clicked. So here it is, what do i know..
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It's funny how Reg can seem to put in one sentence what others need a whole page to say...........
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On Growing Old
by John Masefield - an excerpt read by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1940, the year of Scott's death.
>Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
Man, whose young passion sets the…
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A little modal jamming over a D drone. Just trying to make myself feel warm as I look outside at the third major snowstorm in three weeks coming down.
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Updated on RPM website also but here for your listening pleasure.
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This is a song I made at my cabin last fall ... didn't have anything new to say so the lyrics are a bit out there ... anyway ... this is "Nothing new" ... all recorded on my Boss BR800
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I don't see myself in shiny mirrors
I don't see myself in sunny skies
And I won't see myself
Until I see myself again in Peggy's Eyes.
Once upon a time there was a reason for the rhyme
There was some silver in the dime . I remember
And…
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Genres:
Urban/Hip-Hop: Rhythm and Blues
Urban/Hip-Hop: Soul
Album:
Its About Soul
Artist's description:
a collaboration
Contributors:
thetworegs vocals
Norm percussion and didgeridoo
Chris guitars n stuff.
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This was made as a parody/homage to the great mr Henwrench !!
http://alonetone.com/henwrench
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Minister Brad Dassey
The 3 R's To A Better Relationship
1-29-2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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I'm sorry for this one. Not the whole song, not well done, nothing... but it fits my mood today. And i love it.
Edit, uploaded a new version with some storm recording in the background and re equalized. I think it's better now.
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What? is an improvisation using excerpts of Timo Tuhkanen's Clarinet Improvisation and Kavin Allenson's accoutrements in Dimension Pro 1.5 - each using a harmonic series tuning plus "epic frame drums" sample loops in Kontakt played on a M Audio…
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Was going to layer or track this into the jumping on 2 but could not do that legitimately anyhow by the end I start part of the jumping on 2 song, coming next. first here i set the levels then at about min 2 something I sync the beats between…
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Inspired by Captgene's post of this song I happened upon, so I dug this one out of the archives, from several years ago..
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my best howlin' wolf/lemmy vocals slowed down foolish games
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2x 5 string bass, electric piano, vox
I tried adding percussion via playing drums on my keyboard. It was way ugly. So... I think I'm done unless someone wishes to lend a hand.
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Part 5 of the collaborative Rich Gibbs and Vestigial Remorse "Faces of Humanity" project.
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Narrator:
"I know
You don't understand
Yet
This is a glimpse of eternity
Welcome home
Home is the place…
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
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A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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