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This is a band I was in for almost 9 years. We were called 3 Ton Jack. Played mostly around the Council Bluffs, IA - Omaha, Ne areas.
Singer: James Johnston
Guitars/backing vocals: Me
Guitars: J.C. Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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This wsa a collaboration with Launched , who added Bass , Drums and backing Vox
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This has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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this is the first warm-up part to the lifeless b and lifeless c parts of lifeless a that were cut and layered as well we decided here it sounds extraterrestrial crickets in space 1.
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This was a short singer break (where I do some soloing) in one of our first shows for a Birthday Party out of a garage. We called it Funky Chick for a lack of a better name afterwards. Entirely improvised there on the spot. A this time the line…
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This was a performance at a place called the Ranchbowl in Omaha, Ne nd yes it was a bowling alley as well. We had some friends in the crowd in this one, you might be able to hear them. :) I believe this was the first and only time we performed…
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A small tribute to "Alien" (a horror movie from 1979 directed by Ridley Scott")
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Aw, we tried to make this a bit more pro, but sometimes the really fun moments in life are fleeting. So here it is warts and all. But don't mind that - just get out onto the dance floor with Reg! It's ok: he's up to date on his shots.
When…
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This is for everyone who ever gave a hand when they were needed.
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I like to play 'hard to get' with people who arn't all that interested in me.
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This was the last piece recorded for the album, I wrote it over 10 years ago after the death of my Grandmother. The events of February 22 in my homw town of Christchurch, New Zealand, the earthquake that broke our city, put me in a similary sombre…
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Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011
GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III
This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…
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Inform your decisions
All your conditions (But what is the spread, what a sure excuse)
desert your ideals
For what appeals (So easy to stay undercover girl)
Heal Thyself is what you say
Lost in thought in the self help section
The closer…
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Enervate what's in your head
No time to talk? A leak instead
And yet you wait and yet you wait
A break a drain a mottled stain
You're Clouding over ambered pain
Standing still you're standing still
You're never tempted so you've never…
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Old school art rock
Red clay still shot
White board wet rotting fall away
No time on the clock
It's over mop it up
A little left for a holiday
Well it's time to stop the routine
You might say it just another phase of the game
But now…
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You are beautifully taken when you have the upper hand when you're in high demand
A Lady in Waiting but steady when cloying, precious toying precocious with hunger
“Beware†but nobody hears
Your wilting complaint "aren't you petty but…
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You’re painting a dead end
Capturing traces
Of throwaway faces
You memorize lines
You smother your fire
To better appeal to the maddening crowd
I'm aware
Setting you dead to rights when it's easy to blame you for finishing fine
When…
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There's still a way you rise at dawn
Before I feel I don’t belong
Before we lock into the worries of the day
Yet every morning brings romance
A short reprieve a second chance
With every heartache comes the hope that I am wrong
And…
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You know I'm not perfect
But I admit when I am wrong
I know how to ask for favors
One too many times from you
But I can be a kinder soul
Far better than a polished fool
So when you find me falling, ask for grace
Don't despair again…
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Falsely
You call me
Desperately At least when it's my turn
quickly
You agree
You're killing off the ways that you could be
Someone who's willing
to live Or willing to learn
Falsely
You call me
Desperately At least when it's my turn…
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Linda spins without a care
Idle thoughts twirling in the air
Never quite a mystery
Never choosing what she wants to save
She escapes substantial loss
By adding interest to her cause
A little death a shallow say
Never paying for her shallow…
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I’ve seen the trimmings you destroy
The kindness that you avoid
Our subtle ways our sad affairs
Our vagrant airs dissolve to noise
What do you contemplate you're standing still
Your posture motivates the scene
You still don’t understand…
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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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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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AK wrote this after seeing a photogragh of an American Marine giving cookies to Iraqi Children
Done live
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Acoustic tale recorded Christmas 2010.
I wrote it years ago. Even tried rehearsing it with the band I was in at the time. But I couldn't play it properly. It took several weeks of practicing DADGAD (never really used it in anger before) until…
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This is a live cover of a Ralph Mctell song , telling the story of a coach tour to the seaside town Brighton just before World War 1 , thinking the war would be over in weeks
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Acoustic love song. Written and recorded between Christmas 2010 and the New Year.
I'd just finished recording Elizabeth's Room and was tooling up to record a pop-rock song when this little beast popped out of nowhere, almost perfectly formed…
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A tale of keeping your head above the water, or not...
Recorded Jan-Feb 2011.
I wrote it many years ago, never thought I'd ever do anything with it.
I intended to record this with just an acoustic and my new EDB (electric upright bass…
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Reg has got a little soppy since he met his new girl, the widow Desirea. His pretty sure she's the one but the old fears keep rising. He knows he has to put the past behind him if any relationship is ever going to stand a chance of working…
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a season in hell by rimbaud,samped and signal-processed,se to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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A love song....about this world of wonder that i am so fortunate to have found, or it found me.
yea we climb from the rubble
of confusion and some pain
we are the wonder of the world
and many streets we walked of bitter pills and rain
and we…
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the clock on the wall is watching the window
the shades are at half mast for what i do
there are regrets just over that horizon
but i know i know i can count on you
i think of a time when i was unwilling
the dark days i counted with a mark on…
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Jonathan takes a look at the gifts of tongues and prophecy in the local church
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Lyrics/Vocals - OldRottenHead (over at Soundcrafters.org). Music - Dave Berry. Recorded on Boss BR-1200, Epi Sheraton, Bass, Synth. Drums are played by me on my new Roland HD-1 (I have had it two weeks, timing is a little shaky, bloody hard this…
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Intro To The Lone Wolf Beat Tape
There are no Full beats on this project only snippets.
If you would like to purchase a full beat
Contact: illcutprobeats@gmail.com
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Enjoy!
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A recording made 'live from air' of radio stations playing one night in 1995
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Reg has a vision but his not really sure it happened... I mean he was at a party and he had been drinking and smoking...........
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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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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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(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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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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The contrast of this aging "summer boy" and his outdoors-loving daughter who is more than happy to run out into the cold.
Late December
Late December
The nights get so long
Turning embers
In the dark before dawn
Late December
For…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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Vocal excellence from girl named Sam... Do you really need any other reason to listen?
A Little Playing
Blue sky
Only getting clearer
Blue eyes
Like looking in a mirror
I can tell just what you're thinking
By that tiny little flicker…
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Inspired by a picture of my sister at the top of the Estes Cone (I was too out of shape to get up there myself... something I need to do when I return to RMNP).
From the Top of the World
On the top of the world
Nothing 'round 'cept mountain…
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When the girl in the room is just too cute for me to concentrate on whatever it was I was trying to do.
Anything Done
How am I supposed to get anything done
With you looking like that
I'm so far gone
I'm forgetting where I'm at
How…
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Another formerly poorly recorded song... Really a piece of poetry that was put to music (a hit-or-miss approach for me that seemed to work well on this one).
Three Times More
Dad plants his spring garden
For a good summer bounty he's…
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A crazy little song written while considering Ed Robertson's plane crash from a few years back, "Any Landing" is given much legitimacy by Ashley's incredible voice and Kavin Allenson's (Kavin S. Acoustic Church) guitar.
Any Landing
Learning…
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Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect.
One Perfect Day
Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl
The sun is on its…
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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It was created entirely on my iPad.
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The title track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'. It was the last track I completed and I had to rush to finish it. That's why it has no real melody and is really just a bunch of riffs.
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a season in hell by rimbaud,sampled and signal -processed,set to music by wordless poemcomposed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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Final version
Day 28
Anyone else still writing songs?
this is the result of trying to listen to too many mixes in one day. Sometimes it's just easier to record something else.
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Without the darkness it has a different feel........
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Sieger composition for late night listening. Features the inimitable James Burton on guitar.
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Another John Sieger composition from the Salty Tears album. Produced by Mitchell Froom.
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This was going to be a re-make of Dancing on my own but reg was too busy to participate so i have used Norms percussion track and got Chris Vaisvil to bass it up and i have added a vocal creating something new. Reg has had a lot of trouble with…
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Final Version
If in doubt write more songs
with Kazoo solo! and heckling!
this is as close as i got to some hokum jug band
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Doing My Time
Lyrics T Boudreau
Music Jimmy T
I was off on my ways
Might even call me crazy
I said, 'Baby brother,
can you spare a dime?'
He said 'from one to another,
how long have you been doin' time?"
I was out on a break…
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Endless Highway
(A Song For David)
Lyrics - t.boudreau
Music - j. tramontano, t. boudreau
Like a flash of light in the late summer sky
I never had the chance just to say goodbye
(or the reason why)
When I hear that howling wind or…
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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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Narrow Bridge
Lyrics - T Boudreau, C Maiorano Music - Jimmy T
That old narrow bridge might get ya to the otherside
But the strength within you will push you far and wide
And the lessons learned are far greater than the ride
All those hours…
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Secondhand Stray
tboudreau
music by Cmariano / Tboudreau
i watch ya walking these streets, a few feet off the ground
i hear ya talking so sweet, never making a sound
i see ya looking so cute your such a secondhand stray
from your bracelets…
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(a question of) Relevance
tboudreau
We cling to the edge of sanity one falls as the other holds on
We devour our own stabilities and pass the blame like a hot baton
And the more we try to insulate the deeper that we crawl
The threshold…
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Falling Down
C. Maiorano
Travellin', my memories a time machine
Re-living former glory and shame
On a quest to find out what this all means
No excuses, only myself to blame
Cruisin' on a road to redemption
Steer clear the potholes of…
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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February
t boudreau
I'm stuck inside of February
With little chance of escape
And all you bar-stool visionaries
giving me advice that you'd never take
Wanna seat on a slow boat heading
South down a stream that seems to never end
Or…
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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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This one means a lot to me... Kinda twangy I guess?
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I'm finally happy with this track - v1 was too much of a nothing song and it's been bugging me all the way to the last night of the challenge.
1 more to mix
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A noodle I started with my buddy Ron's wood drum box thing...
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An art piano piece inspired by poem Kontrapunkti (Counterpoint) by the Finnish poet and author Eeva-Liisa Manner who was a frontline figure in the Finnish post-WWII modernism. You can find an English translation of the poem here: http://nordicvoicesinprint…
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A noise drone piece made from dozens of snippets of Hammond B3 notes stretched, slowed and pitch shifted before being over laid over each other.
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Here's one with the Broham on the kit... Goofy and fun!!
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It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Again, I have the feeling I've ripped this off from somewhere, but if nobody tries to sue me I'm having it :D
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