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New original from me, hot off the old wotsit.
When it was half written yesterday, I was considering binning it as a throwaway exercise - I do that quite often. But I played the songwriting demo to someone else and, er, apparently I should finish…
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I wrote this for my girlfriend, but she'll never hear it because Travis Twitt is the earth moon and sun.
It's not really that good anyway :)
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LOVE
C Em
1. Love won't bring back a coat that's lent
F stepping up G#`
Love won't straighten out a spoke that's bent…
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a slightly gloomy, hard rock, prog song. i think it shows a lot of improvement. as usual i am the one man band for this one.
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We're truly nowhere now,
and there is no fight for who's king.
Through a tear in two souls crawls
the shapelessness of this dream.
I lay down in the sun to spring leaks,
when in pours my weight in dead fruit,
under which the ground gives way…
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Made for a punkfest somewhere in time and cyberspace.
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THE TABLE by Jeff Prince
Funny, running into you this way after all these years
You hardly aged a single day except those lines around your eyes when you smile. She laughs as she recalls the girl that she was and the boy who chased her around…
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IN MY DREAM by James Michael Taylor
Last night I held your hand
Reached out and touched your hand
I know it's just a dream
I say, "What does that change?"
Today the sun will shine
Because you made it mine
IN MY DREAM
I held…
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DRIVE 041412 - Music created for the movie DARK BLOOD.
(C) 2012 Royal T music
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My House
Words and Music by Demetrius P. Hill
©2004 Demetrius P. Hill, All rights reserved
All my life I’ve wanted you,
But we had never met,
Nothing I could do.
But since you let me stay the night,
The days without your voice
They just…
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All first take improvisations. 8 tracks of madness for your enjoyment. Ear goggles will put you inside this piece. Not recommended for the faint of heart!
Recorded between 9AM - 7PM on the 26th of February.
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A tribute to an Ibanez Tube Screamer
J.P. Miglionico - Lead guitar
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Completed 1 minute to midnight on February 29th 2012. RPM, we are win!
Sandbags took some of Savage's homemade stems and grew this in the closing hours of the RPM Challenge.
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I've seen up
and I've seen down
just can't remember the last time
I've touched the ground...
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The mans back home but he feels unsafe .....he felt safer in the war zone ...........he's a broken man.........what he's seen and done has destroyed him.......
WHIRLPOOL (Lyrics by Reg)
He’s coming down
falling through the clouds back to his…
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The Brood have gone visiting and i have sometime so i've been busy as you may have noticed ....so heres a ad-libber with the £16 special....i always write miserable songs when i'm happy the happy ones come when i'm depressed....i'm normally quite…
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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Here's one....an Easyrider classic ......with the music thanks to Gene and the 70's rock vocal from Reg....hope you enjoy it was a lot of fun to do......
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the best bits from a recent live perf at Feed Your Head in Arlington, Tx.
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Trelvis the pub singer gave me this last year and i thought i'd share it with you....to wish all at Alone-tone a very Merry Christmas .....
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Loosely based on Stone Temple Pilots "Song for the Sleeping"
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originally written and recorded by the Foo Fighters
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originally written and performed by Mason Jennings
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JESSE
I never met Jesse, but I heard her howl in the night
And I heard her pup yelping for whatever they help for
She was strong and she was there in the Texas night
Out on the prairie between Alvarado and Lillian
You could hear them, singing…
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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SUZY WOOZY
In trees that topped the tallest roofs
There lived some people known as swoofs
They built their houses up so high
The swoofs had wings and liked to fly
They flew to school. They flew to play
Most swoofs liked to climb that way…
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IF I HAD A LADY LIKE THAT
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't take her to the General Store
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't go there any more
If I had a lady like that I'd take her to some high-class joint
Buy her some candle light…
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LAMENT FOR WILD BILL in C - Capo @ 3
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse's feet
Deadwood was quiet. The smoke had all settled. The blood was dry.
Young Jack McCall sat awake in his cell, alone and quiet…
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Teaching Selah how to milk a cow...
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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I'M A STRANGER TO ME - capo @ 3 playing in C
I'm a stranger to me
I make the bed where I sleep
I cook the food that I eat
I fold the towel that dries
The tears in my eyes
I'm a stranger to me
I'm a stranger to me
Every morning we meet…
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Tim Tandy said, "I enjoy the "play like" aspect of the Stockyards District today, but I KNOW what was real and what wasn't. When I grew up in East Fort Worth in the 50's thru the 70's, the Stockyards were a working affair. Everyone downwind got…
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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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CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART
Dear Mom and Dad,
I know you worry.
I know you're tired.
But I know you are thinking of me.
Your letters keep me inspired.
When the time comes and I can't leave,
Sand in my boots, sours on my feet
I'll stand the heat because…
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JV Andres- guitalele, vocals
Veejay Andres- vocals, melodica
Daniel Wilson- engineer, snare, bass drum
Philip Cartwright- lyrics
Forty-five sparrows hum you a tune
This fowl form of choir
will sing through next June
And head up north…
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Raeann Feist- lyrics, vocals
Veejay Andres- vocals, tambourine, shaker
JV Andres- guitar
Daniel Wilson- engineer
As her death boat drifts with the currents run
Her beautiful hair shines, golden in the sun
The breeze gently kissing it with…
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Hook sent me two mix's and i couldn't decide which sounded better so i thought i'd put both up and let you decide....this one has a bit of age to it and i love how the Banjo and the Piano work together....let me know what you decide.....thanks…
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I thought I'd do a vocal&adlib version but it really didn't turn out any good.
With all due respect to Idir.
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The planets teaching the great child on the mountain to play music.
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I heard M.T.C's Session 1 today and thought wow!!! so asked if it was ok if i could jump on for the ride..Jim said Ok! .......so here goes.........a song about loves dream being broken.........thanks again Jim...................based around these…
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used these apps:
Yumi:synth
Plinkton
Sound Prism
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The husbands point of view to this one http://alonetone.com/thetworegs/tracks/your-never-too-old-to-be-a-fool-w-the-old-grey-wolf..... Well Reg has taken on the part of the wronged husband and has been dwelling on his problems all day and now…
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My cyber friend Tony Jones , added some keys , percussion and lead , transforming my song into something i couldn't have dreamed of
To the Welsh Wizard , many thanks
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The other Reg has put his lounge suit on for this one, he's desperate.........and some might say a fool....but is as bigger fool as Reg.............
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Reg has been reading a lot lately he's currently reading an interesting book called "Storming Heaven LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens" and so he decided to revisit A Toast to the Stone-age he did with Norm during Johnny's death and before…
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This song is the first of a collaboration we have begun with Josh Brokaw. We have started working with other lyricists and musicians to see songs completed that we would not have thought of ourselves. We're pretty excited to share what we come…
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I heard MTC's track Rusty nail and just had to add a vocal Thanks Movement for letting me play.......
SINGING TO ANOTHER MANS SONG (Lyrics)
I walk in the front door and i hear the back door slam
I know its the back door man
I walk blind…
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Ill Drink a little slower
can't make my mind slow down
Im thinking of nothing
at a million miles an hour
makes me burn a little deeper
Chorus
But all my dreams are gone
you were there before it burned away
and all our love is done
im just looking…
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STRICKEN - James Michael Taylor
Boy's Theme (River Phoenix) in River's last movie,
DARK BLOOD.
...none the less, in my broken mind,
some of the false hope leaks thru...
Key D capo @ 2 in C
I've been C stricken. I've been pierced…
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Reg was watching a documentary called the half ton man and it got him thinking...............
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This is a fresh one. I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Well, this may be the final tweaking of this nice little sing along song...
I sent this fun little sing along off to Jim of MTC fame, and once again he has outdone himself... And I can't thank him and his wife (who appears covertly) enough…
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live at Landers Machine Shop in Fort Worth. Rhythm background by El Lobo's percussion group.
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Well Reg got up to answer the phone and all of a sudden...............
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Reg was feeling a little sentimental in the cellar last night when everybody had left and started to wonder................
Yesterday i had a dream (Lyrics)
Yesterday i had a dream
It seemed so real
I could touch it
I could feel
But the door…
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I wrote this song for my church's 2011 Good Friday service. It was great to be part of a creative outpouring representing many different age groups and media.
Vocals and guitar: JV Andres
Holy one
You are the way
Precious son
Of light and clay…
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Reg was having a battle with his subconscious which one part had decided not to repent his sins for his failed relationships and wanted to carry on the party whirlwind it had been living but the other side of Reg's consciousness wanted the dream…
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I REMEMBER THEM
Capo @ 5 in C (F)
C CM7 C CM7
I stare at a picture of you and me thirty years ago
G C CM7
Sitting on the porch at a cheap motel in Midland
C CM7 FM7
Glad I didn't know way back then what I didn't know
G C CM7
Stars in…
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At a recent charity event held in my small town's train museum, I was admiring a massive brass train bell when the curator walked up to me. I commented that a bell would really rather be heard then seen, and he agreed. I offered to digitally record…
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Reg was alone so he had a few beers and had a look through his tapes this is Pt 1 of a set of tapes taken from the cellar.......Regs first night in the cellar...James Brown ...Elvis....Louis...Jim.The story begins.........
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This is 3 way colaboration with my good friends, Nick Coward and Mark Drozdz.
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An improv in a found tuning. E and A strings tuned WAY down so they're slapping the neck:
A(low) E(low) C# E A C#
Super full moon tonight! (View More for video)
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http://improvfriday.ning.com/
recorded for the Japan benefit happening this weekend (right now) over at improvFriday. Stop by and help or just give a listen.
My father brought a koto back from Japan after WWII, I thought this might be a good time…
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Probably anyone who plays the guitar could write this song....
Someone asked if I was actually in Spain in 2003. Actually, 2000. Working on the movie, THE STONE RAFT with George Sluizer, from a book by Jose Saramago.
Inspired by something Jenni…
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Reg has been sitting in the cellar reading some old notebooks and he has decided it's time to air some of his secret stash of poetry. He knows the word poetry can turn an audience of quicker than a desperate man turns a women off but he is prepared…
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Frederico our Spanish friend is training to be a Matador and he was finding the going a little hard. So he came down the cellar to drink a little moonshine and play a little Blues and let those bad feelings go.............
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There is a Dutch expression Luchtfietsen/Luchtfietserij which I transated as Skycycling. It's a term for unrealistic plans/dreams. Another recent Dutch expression is Linkse Hobby (leftist hobby/leftwing hobby) which was coined by rightwingers…
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Reg has just had a moment he doesn't mean it, he was in the bar entertaining the leeches his fellow companions on his shadow of a life and he became depressed at his situation and struck out but he doesn't mean he would be lost without his companions…
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i see a path,
it's a trail.
i see a road,
thru these woods.
And on that road,
we move so fast.
we move so fast,
it changes us.
and we make the changes
we move so fast,
wheels sprout under us,
then they become wings.
and it changes us.
and not…
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tale of a few past relationships that just never could get to the "next level" and sort of a tribute to aging punksters.
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Recorded Oct 2010.
It was meant to be a full band pop-rock song. But I started overdubbing on the original exploratory demo I'd done to work out the arrangement (with no click track). I kept coming back to it intending to start afresh... but…
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A cover of Justin Currie's Sleep Instead of Teardrops. Recorded 2010.
It has always been one of my favourite Del Amitri songs. I was strumming away at it one day and my missus said I should record it...
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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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Reg is still in the empty bar but this time he decides to sing along and let his Blues out..........he wakes.......
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After Reg's murderous thoughts it only took an argument about who was going to make the tea to make his beloved leave him but the problem was, so had 50% of his lottery winnings and it was this he took hard, He went on the preverbal bender. Waking…
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Chris sent me this great tune playing his 17 ET guitar and fretless bass, and for some reason i thought Mafia instantly. Sammy the Bull was the under-boss to John Gotti back in the 80's and 90's and he turned informer to bring John Gotti down…
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That busy life we all lead, sometimes we should take notice of that time flying by......... thanks Norm
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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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This is an ad-lib to Vaisvil's track, i heard it and the drumbeat reminded me of The Doors slowed down, it gave me an idea so here it is..........
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Another remake of an oldie. Probably among my favorites lyrically.
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Yet another remake of an oldie. I'd fantasized for years about how this song could be better, so I am slightly disappointed in this. I just don't play guitar well enough to do what I want, and I guess I never will.
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Reg had sat listening to the Wrinkled Shirts track and decided it was time to tell you the story of how he found his Mojo. it was a time way back when, to far back to remember. when he was just a young man. when he had decided to fast-forward…
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I listened to Chris's Orwellioan Cameras while watching the video. It got me thinking about the eye watching us and this is what i came up with.............
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I once met Juliet sitting in the dark after just losing her Romeo ...............
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A little bit A cappella Yeh Yeh Yeh Yeh Yerrrrr
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She's left, your drunk and on the floor not able to see a future, your friend is trying to help, your not listening, he obviously doesn't understand you need the drink..........
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 1st Demo
Year: 1990
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 1st Demo
Year: 1990
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My first attempt at a Blumlein or Mid/Side recording. This one is actually a mid/side recording as I used a directional mic in combo with a figure 8 ribbon mic set at 90 degrees from the main mic. Thanks to Pat Broaders for the loan of the ribbon…
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part 2 of the set from the gig at Super Happy Funland in Houston.
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Gary Thompson from the Music by Computer yahoo list (aka Johnny Pumphandle) remixed me version 2 of Sweeny's Agony - and blew me away - by toning down the volume he brought out a lot more soul in my opinion. I love it - and I hope you do too.
Chris
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eshar asked me "if you ever feel like supplying some funky vocals...that would be awesome!
." I said "yes" instantly because i love what she comes up with. Here is the first attempt, all words are made up on the moment with no retakes. I think…
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for improvFriday
D open tuned acoustic, live looping
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An idea i had today to try and learn Dminor and Aminor on the Keyboard i think it works i'll be having another look at it when i have learned a bit more about the program i'm using. So hope you enjoy
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Watch out there coming and they are tooled up.....
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I believe without belief in self you can't achieve anything..................
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Without the waffle for those who prefer just the tune to tell the story.
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12 string acoustic gtr "prepared" with a hair band and paper clip.
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This is a solo piano performance using an M-Audio 88es midi controller, Pianoteq, and a tuning I devised that is based on a harmonic series segment reduced to one octave.
Online play and download plus scala formatted tuning are here:
http…
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I wrote this after seeing the film "I'm Not There" about all them Bob Dylans. The early acoustic take of the song was much more nasaly.
©2010 Sandy Gritt
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Just a little jam track i came up with. Simple little chord progression simple lead work.
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drip by drip..
I did the guitar and bass tracks first, then procured my 10 year olds cello for the main bass line :) I also tried my luck playing cello with a bow on this track- which was a new experience.
The trumpet and violin bits are played…
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if you had an indian name
what would it be
if you needed a hostage
you can always have me
and when the world is flat
and we come to the edge
would you red me your words
would you tell me our pledge
oh the sounds of the morning
they set desire…
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JV Andres - vocals, guitar, clock
Veejay Andres - vocals, piano
Spirit be the sieve
That filters out my thoughts
Uphold me and remind me of
How much this life has cost
Each flight, I feel like I'm taking a hard right
From you
In…
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full title:
"input output smoothnews standstill on frog pond"
ImprovFriday (8/27/10) mashup featuring Jeff Fairbanks (US), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Finland), Todd Lainhart (US), Steve Moyes (UK), & me w/the psychedelic vocals & bass.
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From the concept album The Tower of Rust. In this song, the main character has become aware that he has become one with many past lives. "And now I'm someone else".
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Timestretched acoustic guitar, cicadas.
A sonic tribute to Ray Bradbury, who turns 90 this Sunday.
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i am not that guy at the beach.
the first slolo in this song is played on a half scale guitar with four strings. The second part after the pause is played on my accursed 1, theofficial nomenclature for that being lost, it is a full scale, but…
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On this beach made of sand and shells
and broken hearts
as with so many things in this life
it ends where it starts
And like the waves that will roll over me
you take away everything that I see
So I walk to the place where the sand
and sky…
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I am working on some demonstration pieces for Mark of the Unicorn's Ethno 2 sample set. This is the first mostly completed piece.
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I was drunk and feeling like a loser, so I wrote a song about it. It's the coolest song you ever heard... :)
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SLEEPING ALONE
Now, I've got room for my radio and I've got room for my phone
And I've got room for my books and sun glasses now that I'm sleeping alone
Now I've got room for my tablet and I've got room for my pen
And now I've got room for…
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Not much to say about this song.
I miss my baby. I miss my baby bad
She’s the bestest baby this boy has aver had
I miss my baby. I miss my baby real deep
I miss her when I’m awake and I miss her when I’ asleep
Since my baby left me…
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2010 Vocal Jazz Festival - Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
The Mansfieldians, a 12 voice vocal jazz ensemble, held a concert on April 15, 2010 closing the day's festivities. Directed by Dr. Sheryl Monkelien, the group features some of the…
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I don't know why I never told them how I felt, either.
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Of all the days I had to get up super early, it happened to fall on the first day of spring. Also known as (fingers crossed) the worst day of spring.
I spent part of the early morning digging my car out from underneath the ice and snow. Later…
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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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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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