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Generally speaking I like this one, but there are some catches.
1. The vocals for this song, along with two others, were recorded on a day when I just didn't have it. I couldn't hit a pitch if you painted a big target on it.
2. I recorded…
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July 5 - This is actually my first 50/90 song this year, just now got around to doing a quick demo. Used the "Titular" tool on the Fawm Muse page, grabbed the title and ran with it. I immediately thought of the plethora of false information harmfully…
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July 5 - First skirmish challenge in a long time, 2 hrs just barely enough time to do a basic demo, fun day! Lyric based on trips we took when the kids were young down to the beach in Destin, Florida.
Lyric:
VERSE:
We used to drive down…
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July 8 - Used the following songwriting prompt: write a song in the form of a step-by-step process, and use the progression Bm, F#m, G, Em. This was hard at first, and then I came up with something from my own past that I thought might work…
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July 10 - one-hour skirmish. We wanted to take a trip this summer but it ain't happenin'.
Lyrics:
VERSE:
Stuck here at home
With the world on lockdown
Doing my work online
There must be better ways to spend my time
When out gotta…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Got this in right on the hour, had the lyric and basic melody in 30 minutes. Takes me the rest of the time to get a decent take. Fun but nerve-wracking at the end!
VERSE:
The smoke slowly rises
The prairie wakes at dawn…
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July 10 - Skirmish. Refers to you know who.
Lyric:
He's a petulant little child
Ranting, raving mad
Apoplectic in the extreme
To me he looks rather sad
His Twitter feed on fire
With vengeful, spiteful hate
An exasperated urchin…
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July 10 - Another skirmish, messed up the end of the demo but I just gotta let it go for now!
VERSE:
It started out as a drizzle
Dotting the winding dusty road
For many hope began to fizzle
And the dark clouds began to overload
Many…
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July 11 - Skirmish. The prompt was - make your own prompt from any of the letters in “thermodynamic.” My first thought was to bale as it seemed to hard. Decided to have a little fun with it and be silly. Didn’t exactly create a prompt, but my…
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July 11 - Skirmish. A mix of autobiographical and made-up stuff to the prompt "Too Straight"
VERSE:
My mama told me
Make sure to get an education
Something to fall back on
But I didn't listen
So life's been a bumpy road
Many paths I…
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July 11 - The Skirmish writing prompt is from titular...use whatever inspires you all words or just a title?:
"___stubborn routine of the ohio
banks, nails, losers
robinson : twinkle waterfall
five (orpheus)
thought nocturnal___"
I just…
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July 12 - Skirmish. Prompt: Such a thirst. Decided to take that as my first line and go from there, ending up being about the desire to return to normalcy.
VERSE:
Such a thirst
I'm yearning for some normalcy
It’s not coming
Have we been…
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July 15 - Random collab. Laurie sent me a lyric and I sent her a basic idea that wasn't really working that well. She wrote a quick new lyric and it inspired me a lot to revise/revamp my original idea and this is the result. A fun collab and I…
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July 17 - Her chair is in my studio, as well as one of her old suitcases that I use as a table. She was so dear to me. The verses would need to be re-worked, and it's kinda long.
VERSE:
It sits there in the corner
The fabric's pretty worn…
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VERSE:
The whites of your eyes
Filled with red again
Your mind is telling lies
Says this is the end
The pain is always there
Lost in endless time
You know this was never fair
Tell everyone you're just fine
CHORUS:
Zombify
It will…
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Another protest song, the state of our country and world has been on my mind.
VERSE:
Smoke and confusion
Marching on our soil
Leaders telling lies
Darkness in the cities
Militia on the ground
They wear the worst disguise
CHORUS…
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July 28 - My lifelong struggle with resistance to completing creative work has me where I am today, finally overcoming. I had this track with another set of lyrics that just didn't fit, then another, and then this came. I think it works better…
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July 31 - Started out as "Invisible Things" (from the Poe quote "invisible things are the only reality" - maybe that's another song), turned into "Invisible Words" which I know a lot about as an introvert. I often prefer to stay silent, but there…
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August 4 - Week 4 challenge: Fire. My mind went to several fiery relationships that I've experienced in my lifetime. And out here on the prairie late summer wildfires are a normal thing.
VERSE:
Driving down that highway
Smell the smoke in…
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August 6 - Well this is a tome and rather wordy compared to most of my lyrics. I do so much in verse/chorus form, wanted to try something different, so this is in AABA form. Had the musical idea for the A section and then as I've had the current…
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This is one of only two songs from this year's 50/90 that was started on guitar rather than bass. It's also one of three where the vocals were recorded on a day where I couldn't sing in tune to save my life. It's also one of three where the…
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another from new exploring with the mountain dulcimer. This one tuned DAC. Digging it. Created for the Sound-in Event.
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August 9 - This is a song about stepping out of your comfort zone. So I tried doing that musically as well.
Lyric:
There's an Unseen World
Yes an Unseen World
And it's waiting
Right outside
The door to your mind
Yes it's waiting
Right…
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August 9 - 1-hour skirmish (I cheated a bit and ended up taking 1.5 hrs., but I did have the song in the hour). Prompt: "I'm so ...." Tossed around a few ideas then this came. Used the fabulous internet to help me come up with 1964-ish ideas…
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August 11 - A world beat/rock song.
When I don't know who's side you're on
Oh, It hurts, I really need you
But if I must go it alone
I will, if I have to
The strength of moving together
The love that binds us effortlessly
We Are Stronger…
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August 14
VERSE:
The minutes pass
As do the lives we've planted
And it's easy to take
Too much for granted
We plow ahead
Beliefs get slanted
Do we really have time for that
CHORUS:
Its' a Borrowed World
We're not here very long…
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Sunday 8/16 skirmish, prompt: "I Don't Care."
VERSE:
Sittin' down to write again
Though my mind is wandering aimlessly
Drawin' a blank like I often do
I'll just sit here patiently
'Till a spark of a story wakens
And I start to come…
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August 18 - Working on learning to improve my skills with midi and VST instruments, still much to get a handle on.
VERSE:
It's time to step over
The line that we've drawn in our minds
The heat we expel
From our anger and fear is a sign…
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August 20 - Wrote the lyric to the prompt "Just Out of Reach," though I've experienced this when I was younger and even sometimes today, I was thinking a lot about one of my best friends who has never married or had a long-term relationship…
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August 22 - Was reading the statistic about how few U.S. citizens make the effort to vote. It's surprising to me, but I do understand how some feel that it doesn't matter. I disagree.
VERSE:
It's dark outside
Foul winds are blowing
There…
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August 23 - Sunday skirmish - prompt: "Self-Portrait" - had the song in an hour, took 20 extra minutes to finish the demo, guitar recorded a bit hot, but no time to fix.
VERSE:
It can be hard at times
To be a human being
Many hills to climb…
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August 26 - This title came up on the Fawm Muse, and this is what came from that. Follow your dreams and don't let anyone try to quash them.
VERSE:
It’s easy to succumb
To the rat race we all run
It can make your mind feel numb
And steal…
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August 28 - An intentionally ambiguous lyric that's not meant to say anything necessarily about the pandemic .... or maybe it could?
VERSE:
He was walkin' up downtown
Through the heart of the city
The streets were gettin' crowded again…
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August 30 - Sunday skirmish, prompt is "Conversation" - joined late because we took a trip to visit my Aunt today, and interestingly our little day trip ended up being perfect as a jumping off point for my lyric.
VERSE:
A perfect late-summer…
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September 1 - When I was first reading Liz's lyric a few days ago I was immediately hearing something, so happy it was available for a collab.
Lyric by Liz Petty
V1
speak to me
with your body
speak to me
without words
let me know
your…
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September 3 - I'm pretty self-critical like I'm sure a lot of us are - I actually like this one. One of my favorites for this 50/90.
VERSE:
Looking out the window
The narrow street below
The sounds of the city calling
I know where I'd…
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September 6 - Sunday skirmish, one hour to write a song from the prompt, which for today was "Bright Star."
VERSE:
Refusal to engage
In the nonsense
That puts me in a rage
Sometimes
You remain above the fray
You may hear an insult…
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Well... this took a left turn at Odd Street. The main melody started off as riff written and played on bass guitar and the early version had guitars, and real drums etc.... Then I got introduced to a suite of 80s synth plugins and it all went…
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September 7 - At first glance I had some musical ideas in mind, so really glad that Cindy's lyric was available for a collab. My aim was to keep it in the pop/rock vein but with a nod to African rhythms/sounds.
Cindy's original note to her…
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September 10 - Feeling like the well is running dry lyrically (I know that's not true and is really fear, doubt, and resistance). Grabbed this title from the FAWM Muse site and told myself "write!"
VERSE:
The tall grass is blowing
As I ride…
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September 12 - This could be that inner voice that might prevent someone from expressing themselves creatively, or from pursuing any other goal that might cause fear or resistance. Partially inspired by the Stephen Pressfield book "The War of…
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September 13 - Sunday skirmish, prompt - Autumn. Had to start late but glad I was able to participate. AABA form, a song about getting older.
V1:
Autumn's Here for Me
And even though I'm getting older
There's still much more to see
Clear…
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A new song
Did this one on my own
KC
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Well I'm not asking much
All I want is your touch
That is all I'm asking for
Can't stand this craving anymore
Well I don't ask a lot
Baby give me all you…
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September 17 - Wanted to try another song in AABA form, since I ended up liking my song from last Sunday's skirmish. This ended up being Part 2 because about three-quarters of the way through the song I had another idea and almost scrapped this…
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A recording from aug 23
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
KC - vocals, guitar, keys & mix
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I don't take no for an answer
I want to know what…
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Some straight-up tenor sax, starting off somewhat tuneful but eventually wandering, as tends to happen.
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Hey there,
This is a song that has been in my head for a while now. I think it has an amazing content. It's originally for Violin Solo, but I made an arrangement for 2 Violas and 2 Violins. I added/changed perhaps 10 notes in total, it's crazy…
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There's something strange about this year, that I can't quite put my finger on...
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September 20 - 2 hr. Sunday skirmish. Prompt - "sleep" - got this in in just over 2 hours.
V1:
Sometimes when I wake
I have an uneasy feeling
Like a leafy yard that needs a rake
What am I not revealing
There must be something going…
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I wonder if we'll have redpolls showing up this winter.
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Another hit single from me,your favourite hit maker,........... She ends up testifying about me,she wants me.....but I can't be her lover. Go download this one.#udonseeamna!!
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Week 10 challenge - Place Name. I lived in LIC for about 4 of the 10 years that I lived in NYC. While mostly not a true story, I do love Long Island City - it's very close to Manhattan and has a distinct and individual charm. For those who…
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Listening to Boris today will do it to you ...... Thanks for listening
Talking Head (Am7 Am/D D7 sus4 F C Gm DM Cm Am F C G F C Gm )
Your just a talking head to me
I see your lips move but I don’t hear what you say
Tomorrow is just…
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But the Sun
I close the curtains
To shut out the darkness
I shut the window
To keep out the cold
But the Sun is shining
Somewhere, I know.
(C) 2020 Royal T Music
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Its all about being true to yourself and not letting the demons get you - remember your lies will comeback to you
V1 The darkness it comes to me
Before sleep penetrates this gloom
I reach out to touch you
Yet I know you’re not in the room…
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Sometimes when I'm working on rhythm guitar parts I have to make sure I remember Robin Trower's third album (For Earth Below) where he put a ton of distinct rhythm guitar tracks on most of the songs and most of those rhythm guitar tracks are flooded…
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If my song writing comfort zone lives at about 70 beats per minute, it's nice to double it now and then. This one is 144. A fun change of pace.
I like this one. I don't love it. I doubled the voice in the chorus because I wanted to add…
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Just looking for answers!!
V1 Lies suck and rain clouds suck.
The world is out to get you.
You want to chase the shadows out
Clear away the blue
V2
You wonder when will it end.
You wanted things to change
But would you have chosen…
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Messing around again with the HB 12 string and came up with a backer so i got Elvis of the settee and pushed him to sing for his supper....man can that man eat toasted peanut butter sandwiches ....4 tracks of guitar drums on M-audio Keyboard…
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A bit of a jam again with the HB 12string .....3 guitar tracks and a drum track using Logic x and a little fx Road noise ...Thanks for listening..
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I'm learning that I write better lyrics to a prompt or title. This title came from the FawmMuse title generator. For many years I felt lost and wrongly-directed creatively - its only been the last 3-4 years that I've begun to find myself in…
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I've been designing patches for my Prophet 6 the last couple weeks. I'm hand-playing a handful of them here...
The quote is [björk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixrSzIa264)
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The lyrics were off the top of my head so if you're wondering how I really feel, or what I'm talking about... let's just say there's a lot of stupid out there right now and a lot of it has important jobs. Dig?
Kinda funky. Not bad. Maybe…
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There was an album by a Los Angeles singer/songwriter named Judee Sill that came into KINK-FM back in 1971.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/obituaries/judee-sill-overlooked.html
MISSING JUDY - Capo 2
Stepping down from C
C B…
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From a series of continuous improvs night before last on new explorations with the mountain dulcimer.
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First one-hr skirmish of this weekend's Super Skirmish - prompt: Beginnings
V1:
Better get going
You may hear yourself say
You may feel like you're rowing
In the opposite way
Well I know that feeling
Like there's nowhere to go
You…
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Jack Buda Delivered Another Brand New Single "Ng'totiletsa Tonkhe" Featuring Spider Attain, N-Kay Keyz, Bleezy & Rudest
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Okay, this one is all about being a guitar gear nerd.
Wet/Dry. You play through two amplifiers. One amplifier gets a dry signal and the other gets all of the effects. The idea is you can crank up the effects without having to worry about…
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Another skirmish - the prompt was "Cats (or other pets)". Great prompt and I had some fun with this one. Pets are a big part of our lives so here's a little taste of what it's like at the Gordon house.
V1:
A long line of dogs and cats have…
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Tenor sax key pops, and crackle from scraping tongue across end of reed.
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Made from a section deleted from Upper Atmosphere, run through noise reduction then stretched. There were lots of very long gaps (up to 30 seconds and more) between sound events so added some acoustic guitar over top (Acoustic Guitar with Electronic…
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Superskirmish L - one hour write (except I went over by 15 minutes) - prompt: "The Road Ahead"
A1:
I Can't See the Road Ahead
We're in the kind of storm I dread
Driving slower so I might find
A speed where I won't feel so blind
This feeling…
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I came up with this one this afternoon its about loss just guitar and Vocal HB 12 string plugged straight into focusrite.........Thanks for listening
The Old Man
the old man thought he was king of the hill
Till life made him feel nothing…
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Next superskirmish, 1-hr write - prompt: "Unexpected (Something you didn't anticipate, whether a Positive surprise (a wonderful occurrence/event) or a Negative one (a challenge/obstacle/disappointment)" So of course the subject of aging was…
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Another superskirmish 1-hr write. I hosted this one, the prompt: "October Sunshine" - had know idea which direction I'd take.
V1:
The leaves started changing
Beautiful red and green and yellow
It was a crisp early morning
I didn't think…
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seven layered synth tracks that worry that 2020 could actually get worse...
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Heavily processed dulcimer shadowing a bit of a koto.
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Another superskirmish, prompt: "Hideaway".
V1:
Sometimes
I find myself at odds
With everything about this world
I wanna shout up to the Gods
And that's when
I know I need a break
A quiet place to settle in
For everybody's sake…
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guitar and effects. And a republic if we can keep it.
But none of the founders had the day Benjamin Franklin had. As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention…
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It is said that the Valley of the Kings is understandably a haunted and sacred place...hence the start and end of this composition, being no. 7 in the Fusion Soundscapes project....and hopefully evoking a sense of awe and majesty walking in the…
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Well Reg started to remaniss his previous life of drink & debawtry now he's tea-total ( and thats all he drinks now a days) and in bed by 10 ...by God does he miss it ;D
Just the HB 12string and Vocal ( I love this guitar but don't tell…
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Song #50!! Another part of the super-skirmish weekend. Prompt was to use 5 of 10 randomly generated words. I used: cowgirl, alaska, fools, madness, top, taco
V1:
Drivin' down Main I noticed her license plate
Man, she was a long, long…
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Last skirmish of this years 50/90. Great prompt: "Wonder"
A1:
The days
The Days of Wonder
Are they gone
Gone forever
It makes me sad
I thought I'd never
I'd hoped my hard-nosed nature was a fad
With blinders on
Can't see the beauty…
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I keep waffling on whether I like this one or not. Right now I'm okay with it, but sometimes I just want to junk it. I think I'm too close to all of this stuff to know what's good and what isn't.
The star of the show here is clearly the Garageband…
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Valerie was fatefully tied to the fortunes of Amy, so we lay Valerie to rest knowing the it was Amy's fortuitous spell kindling the flames of another young heart.
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EX MILITARY punk rock zine from the Milwaukee dial-up scene; where the Grips that were Psi-ded with copper-clad steel planchetts, and there was but a mere whisper of a waifish trade token for all to gather, smirking, arms akimbo, as they envied…
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You can hear the radoe of her stride as she progresses to the center of the room of cages; a room where perilously those that had been stricken with a poor lot in life or had made a deal that went southside pride; the mages in their cages looking…
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Let the River / Take us Higher / floating Potions / bottled Fire
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Camper van Cougar van
Camper van Cougar van
whittled down to circus peanuts
it's just johnny osmosis
johnny osmosis
johnny osmosis
whittled down to circus peanuts
squeaky twin ptosis
camper van cougar van
camper van…
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the paw prints, weary little tracks from where princess mononoke had fled from the living quarters, made her way up to the crawlspace above the breakfast nook, will not come down despite plaintive cries & pleas from her flatmate
she must…
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there was a chance that the sequel would be better than the original. she mulled this over in her head as the sound of the fleeing boys echoed throughout the vaulted ceiling of the library of babel
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the story of the woodbury red tape fire pit mixtape would have to wait, she thought to herself
the municipality of woodbury itself not being confined to businesspeople or salarymen considering themselves to be sharks; how to build a business…
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oh sing a song about how when you're doing it you were writing about doing her and insofar as we could tell you were most proud of describing it as 'unless you like hitting the back' which made us all get a little softer in our collective stances…
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Dj Rim / Elvis Presley Voice Overs . Hope The Magic Works! :-)
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Dj Rim / Elvis Presley Voice Overs . Hope The Magic Works! :-)
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Dj Rim / Elvis Presley Voice Overs . Hope The Magic Works! :-)
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Gone north to the homestead for a while.
" That old air liner bit that landing site like an orphan headed home"
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I think we have a winner here.
I already had 50 songs in process for the 50/90 challenge and I was starting to feel like I was going to finish with time to spare. Then my wife and I were having a Facetime call with my step daughter who is…
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A nice, bouncy little ditty, eh?
This has two tie backs to the 1980's. First, the lead guitar. Back in the late 80's I was not a guitar gear junkie at all. That addiction only developed a few years ago. Back then it was Les Paul -> Wah…
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This one is okay. Nothing special. The whole stream of conscious lyric writing approach got a little screwy here when the second verse went really dark but the chorus was kinda up and happy. Oh well.
I kinda like the chorus here. A few…
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This is a track written and performed with an old metal band called Soul Casket.
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I was going for something here... I don't know what it was, but I didn't get it. It's not the worst thing ever. I like the strummy guitar solos. The chorus isn't so bad. I don't know. I might just be tired, but I think this one is going to…
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Here is my latest Minnesota Homebrew Radio Challenge entry:
Let's write scary or creepy songs for our October 29 show--songs that'll make our listeners' skin crawl! Submit by October 28 to:
minnesotahomebrew@gmail.com
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Did you see any of the articles recently that talked about the John Cage piece? Cage wrote what is unquestionably the slowest piece of music ever performed. A machine was designed in order to play the entire piece and recently it changed chord…
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I found a cat that looked like one in nearby Lost Cat posters, and tried to bring him in, but he managed to escape before I could reunite him with his owner. But it turns out that he might not have been the right cat after all.
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Recorded september 20th
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
Hans Nooitgedagt Sr - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
KC - vocals, guitar & mix
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Everytime I turn on the radio
All I hear is just this crap
I…
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