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Reg heard this one over on songcrafters and liked the tune it made him think of Elvis. so he promptly went and woke him up in the cellar as he was sleeping off the night before. He finally brought him round after a quick visit from Dr. Nick and…
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Reg has had a tough week and decided to get himself wiped clean so he has took to the drink. I had some help Vocally and with the music i must thank the Red wine....Thank you
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Originally on my [24-hour album](http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/playlists/24-hours-of-aargh) back in 2008, I've added an invisible rhythm section and remixed it.
I may do this with a few more old tracks I didn't quite get right first time round.
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12 string and loop station
- touch of post-processing
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Another minimalist synth exploration, instrumental draft at this stage only...vox and percussion to be added.
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Here is the solo dance version. It's rockin' pretty hard. I'm hoping to take this into a band setting at some point and get some brass involved, but for now...
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Another old one from back in the mid ninties.
Everyone that's ever written a song has written a song called Baby Blue. This is mine.
Lyrics
Baby Blue, Baby Blue
I love you, yes I do
I'll admit, I think about you
Baby I can't face…
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Song recorded back in the mid ninties. Everyone's written a song called Fallen Angel; this is mine...
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Lyrics:
I’ll stand above this cliff
And offer up my soul
Would there be an end to pain
To jump in to this hole
Could this be goodbye
If there’s a light below me
Will it set me free
Could I fly today
Is this my only option
Close…
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A song inspired by and dedicated to Pink Floyd.
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Newly recorded today (11th April), I wrote the song back in the early ninties, although I have added some stuff.
Song about being down, I guess...
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Georgia 2010, LG & Wayne having a bit of an acoustic jam session, while the family 7 friends were visiting....
Wayne - Vox & guitar
LG - 2nd guitar
Background noise - family & friends
LG
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This dark reggae tune has been hanging around in my "works in progress" folder for a while, but I was finally inspired to complete it when I borrowed a guitar from my friend Joe. Thanks, Joe!
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Slowed down the tempo took the distorted guitar out and added some distortion to the bass and took out some of the FX on the drum track. I played every track on this song on my keyboard. No loops just midi recording and quanitization of the midi…
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A Holdempok original song here to be included on the 'album' The Gregory James Band'
Holdempok - vox & guitar
LG - 2nd guitar
LG
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This is a piano improvisation that mixes Pianoteq in Werckmeister III tuning with Cakewalk’s True Piano in 12 equal. What results is a soft phased piano sound. This skirts right on the edge of what can be considered microtonal. Some may well…
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Written in 2010, St. John's.
Originally performed live by The Fast Years in St. John's.
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Written in 2010, St. John's.
Originally recorded by Pet Legs in St. John's.
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Written in 2008, St. John's.
Originally recorded and performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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Written in 2007, St. John's.
Originally performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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Written in 2007, St. John's.
Originally recorded with Grant King and performed live by Exit Party in St. John's.
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A simple piece of music looked at from 3 perspectives.
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Improvisation is what I love, finding out about things (when there is a little time).
I also post the video where I have used it in. Hedgehogs were here last year in our garden, and now they start coming back from hibernation. Uk, the hedgehog…
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Norm has been teaching a master's class in percussion and gave me (a lot!!) of guidance to try to add bass properly to this. I added 5 string bass, Fender Mustang and GR-20 sax to his excellent Tumbao track. We hope you enjoy it.
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There's times I wonder if your hair is still black and long, if your eyes are still brown, staring shyly at the ground... if your button nose still curves just so... if your eyes still squeeze closed when you laugh.
Sometimes I wonder if you…
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Reg just had to Reg this old classic up........
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Reg's mate came down the cellar last night complaining about the Government cut's and what they have done to him..........
ROAD TO NOWHERE
Are we really going nowhere
They said the cuts have to be made
They said we‘ve all got to pay…
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about Winter Nacht
each year for the past 4 RPM cycles,, i have known a friend or loved one who has passed away... throughout history winter has been a time when sickness and death creep a little stronger amongst us..... perhaps because of these…
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Lyrics and information can be found here if you are so inclined:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=696
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This song was conceived as a kind of prayer thanking the Almighty for having the wisdom of having me meet and marry such a wonderful woman. Colin Garvey added terrific vocals to take the song to an entirely higher level.
Thank you, Colin, and…
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This piece is a digital remaster of a track done on 4-track cassette back in 1987 for the Modern Clones album.
Christ Killers
Take me in and We defy!
We destroy all life
We have no respect
We destroy all life
We are the Christ killers…
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Radio Edit of I JUST HAD SEX by AKON AND LONELY ISLAND as heard on Nova in Australia, with a slight extended intro, you can speak up to the lyrics of the song :)
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Done by one of my clients, Tiago. This is a cover of the Bruno Mars song, "Just the Way You Are". Let me know your thoughts.
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Holdempok wrote this. We actually recorded this take here at work, in the lunch-room after hours...
Holdempok - Vox & acoustic guitar
LG - lead guitar
Chad - drums
LG
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Well I suppose we hadn't got to drinkin' yet, 'cause this.n here sounds pretty good!
Holdempok - Vox & acoustic guitar
LG - lead guitar
Chad - drums
LG
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A 7/8 improvisation on a set of 3 Bata drums, accented with afucha, tube shekere and cowbell.
The number 7 is a symbol for perfection or completeness: 7 colors in a rainbow, 7 musical notes in a scale, 7 days = a week, etc.
In Cuba, the…
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The Stones piled into the cellar last and Mick and Reg got exchanging ideas and they came up with this one . Sung by Reg with Keith playing the Cello and Mick on the piano but he had had a far bit to drink so.......................
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Actually, it won't play for me.... maybe that's a good thing.
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A mostly true story about a kid I knew growing up. It didn't end so good. That story is finished in Teenage Hurricane.
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Not really a "Fun in the sun" Beach song. More like a Beach at midnight.
Still, there is a pretty big Beach Boys influence here, I think. The backing vocals were staggered to sound like waves breaking on the beach. Not 100% sure it worked…
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I'm not the best singer. In fact, I'm probably a contender for the WORST singer. But I'm also a huge Beach Boys fan, so I will sometimes do ambitious vocal arrangements like this.
I didn't notice the chorus' resemblance to Ben Folds Five's…
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Well as you've come to know Reg wears his heart on his sleeve, the new woman who was going to be the one has gone. He's decided to go for a walk in the park to clear his head , he's sad oh! he is sad, sad, sad, .............
This one, i heard…
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Reg got Elvis last night to do a special request for LG, but as the TCB band was having the night off Reg and Elvis concocted this one.....................
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This song's been on the backburner for a while and I finally feel like I've officially "finished" it.
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Reg has been over to Songcrafters.org on the other side and found this little beauty a piece of music by Willi Wendon and he loved it so much he's put a vocal to it. Hope you like it Willie..........
IT'S A CRAZY WORLD
It’s a crazy world…
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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An experiment with different mic's to use when playing live
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This is a piece scored for flute, bassoon, cello, and double bass => if you want to gory details follow this link http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=644
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Recorded at Studio 67 with our veteran rocker and studio musician BC. Enjoy kids...........
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HAPPINESS IS FOR FOOLS
Happiness is for fools
Those who have no compassion
They turn away when they are needed
they are surely damned
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
How can we be happy in a world of suffering?
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Reg's little homage to Elizabeth Taylor who passed away today, the piano is a little dodgy and the lyrics and the singing in parts as i'm following my dodgy playing, it will have to be revisited but i thought i'd share anyway as i would forget…
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Everyone has had one of those special nights . . .
(The strings are not a sample.)
UPDATED AUDIO 1-20-12
LYRICS:
Sneak out and slip into the night
Shotgun we're going for a ride
Forget your curfew
Everything will be all right…
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Single-microphone recording of a rehearsal from March 23, 2011.
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Elvis is in the building and Elvis needs to let go tonight......................so he's got the TCB's together and let loose
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jim was getting moping about the cellar, he was bored, i mean he must have been down here in the cellar now for nearly 40 years...him and Louis used to rip the place up every night, something terrible. But lately he had been a bit down and not…
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Dioses:
Voy a confiar
En la remota esperanza
De abrirte a verdades
Tomadas de un sol arcano y sus hijos
(del sol y sus hijos)
Transita entre eras
Guiado por fuerzas distantes
Los ciclos le esperan, abre la puerta.
Abre tu mente y…
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"Luna":
Ir, nunca volver al viento sur...
Ni dejar marcas de arena o rastros.
Yo estaré bien en la marea.
Luna, guía mis pasos
encauzados por lágrimas de mar.
Ir, nunca volver al viento sur, perfecto y frío
Surcaré grises cuerpos…
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Very simple version of this Pink Floyd classic. Lots of mistakes and some notes out of tune. Anyway, I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Trying, and failing, to get through the last Pink Floyd song that means something to me.
Sorry. ;(
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that's second solo complete this is the final track of the album
Just a song
When you put it in perspective
Does it even really matter
It’s only just a song
It’s only just a song
When the sands of time have blown away
And everything is…
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This traditional Cuban rhythm is the well established "go-to" pattern for 4/4 songs. It is perhaps the most commonly heard conga pattern in 4/4 music. The bongo pattern that accompanies the congas is referred to as "martillo" (the hammer…
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(C) 2011 Royal T Music.
LET IT GO 032011 Key - G
I do a lot of walkin' so I find a lot of stuff
I fill my pockets up with bolts and nuts
Once upon a while I find a diamond in the ruff
But mostly dimes and nickels in the ruts…
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My first RPM cover of 2011. This one is "Like This" by The Missed Connections. I seem to have taken a darker turn with the song than Amelia did. It wasn't intentional, but it seems to be what I do when I cover her songs.
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Poor old Mary lived in the anonymous council flats near Reg, he didn't know her he just read about her in the paper....Thanks Henwrench
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My band xDoubleCrossx at a block party performing one of our songs penned by our bass player 'The Rock' ... Myself playing the lead guitar....
LG
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Another jam session in Holdempok's garage back in October of 2010. Myself playing slide guitar, Mike chanting and playing rhythm guitar.
at least until the cops came and told us to turn it down!
LG
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With all the highs in Regs life, it had to equal out and Reg has dropped like a stone ........he's broken.........he's had a breakdown.....Well let's face it. It had to happen he was just pushing himself too much. Hopefully he can carry on the…
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I'm not even sure where this came from!!!!
It just appeared in my head one day, so I wrote it down, and this is my 1st take....
LG
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LG's Opus number 2 .... LOL
My dabbling in the classical field of music with a borrowed keyboard....
LG
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A song that I wrote about our currant events here on this little blue and green orb.....
Performed by Me, myself and I....
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I met this girl in high school, we dated for 2 and a half years. She was my 1st. We broke up. I later married some one else - blah, blah, blah...The years went by....36 years to be exact! I re-met her again on facebook. I asked here over to…
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This is a song that I wrote, and my most recent band xDoubleCrossx is performing it for the first time here. I like the innocence and purity of this performance the best, hence it's post here!
LG
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My old band LSP again....We were goofing around after a few beers, myself on bass guitar.
I had a trip planned in the near future to New York!
And here is the result....
Holdempok - Lead Vox
LG - Bass & 2nd Vox
Chad - drums
LG
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This was an older band from some years ago called LSP. We used to switch around the instruments that we played....All fun, you know....
Holdempok - lead guitar
Chad - bass
LG - drums
LG
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dub south style hip hop feat joesky and hood rich
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This is a radio edit version of Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', with a 32 second extended intro and 2 minute outro, you can speak over the music.
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this is my cover of the missed connections song from her RPM 2011 album.
the original is here:
http://alonetone.com/themissedconnections/tracks/our-dreams
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I think this is the most recently-written song on the album.
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A nice cheery dirge for you all.
Do not listen while operating heavy machinery.
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The duel guitars were inspired by a song from Jesus Christ Superstar. I think the first one Pilate sings. No words because I didn't need them and I recorded this before I had a decent microphone.
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After writing these lyrics years ago I realized how embarrassingly passive-aggressive and entitled they sounded. But there were a few nice turns of phrase I didn't want to lose, so I decided to just own up to it, hence the subtitle.
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Mondo, Hojo and GK Rockin' the Free World. Written and recorded in Hollywood California March 18, 2011. Peace and Love........
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This song was written by a guy called Bert Sommer , and perforormed at the Woodstock Festival , he was also in the musical Hair , its said he wrote the song about Jennifer Warnes ( who was also in Hair ), if this song had been included on the…
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Sam did a great job on this song. Both the lead and backing vocals are hers. The song could use a little editing, but I thought you'd all like to hear it anyway.
Enjoy.
ER
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Not being particularly religious, I still believe that the soul exists and that it does not die.
The prologue and epilogue of this piece were recorded in Basilique Sacre Coeur, Paris, on March, 11th 2011.
~For those who left and those who…
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Recorded for RPM 2011 (http://rpmchallenge.com). Recorded in February 2011 in Tempe, AZ.
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It's called "Seven" because it was the 7th track I recorded. And because I was out of clever titles. It gave me an odd pleasure to make "Seven" the 6th track on the album.
Anyway, it sounds to me like the bastard child of elevator music and…
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A colaboration off of Soundcrafters.org, again with Mike or Holdenpok off of McHenry Illinois (who's vocals you hear) and LestG off of I know not where, who wrote the origal drum, bass, guitar arrangement. My humble contribution is only the keyboard…
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Peter Thörn: Alto sax and Fretless Acoustic guitar. Fieldrecording of Irish Sea.
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This is an improvisation with my Korg I3.
And also I use the recorder, as you can see in the video.
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Just a little piano ballad - another old composition. The strings have not been mixed/edited too well, sorry for that. I'll fix it some day.
It was bedtime and I suddenly felt like playing something on my keyboard. That's how this song came…
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A Capella. I'm not doing Tibetan throat-singing but due to some happy accident it sounds as if I am in parts.
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A little four-bar, 21-second joke. It's all woodwinds and a tiny bit of sampled junk percussion.
Mr. Schaum was the band teacher when I was in elementary school. Hmmm, or was it Mr. Schram? I don't recall now.
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This could have been an out-take from the Austin Powers soundtrack, thus the title. ;) Gear used: MT-32 & sampled junk percussion.
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Over the weekend Reg had gone back to his home town where he come from and met up with a few of his friends from whey back when. He found that he seemed like stranger. He was sitting telling Elvis about his weekend. Elvis felt sorry for Reg because…
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Tweaked, remixed and mastered version of my 2011 RPM effort.
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a tribute to captain beefheart/ don van vliet whilst quietly celebrating my birthday i heard of the good captains passing, so i wrote this in tribute to him.
My captain
Undercover
Underground
Off the beaten track
Blazing new trails
For us to follow…
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Guitar solo is by Andy. I did the rest.
If the video does not play, try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R59tYiH83po&feature=youtu.be
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Written By Errol Chugg
Produced at Ken Barken Studios
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Prayers to the folks in Japan, We dodged a bullet in Hawaii!
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I only recently heard the Howlin' Wolf version and I've been playing this riff for years.
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They were all in the cellar and Louis heard this great tune by the Farfetched Tangmo Band and had to recite this story he had heard of Jack and Jill... so here it is.............
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Reg was getting a little sentimental so he wrote this song for his eldest Daughter who has flew the nest for quite a time now.....
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Ok... while i'm recording 'the big one', all straight from part I to part IX with my nylon guitar, I couldn't resist to do this little one.
I hope you like and or enjoy.
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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11 notes per octave (11 edo) has been a tuning that has generated a lot of music later. Not wanting to be left out I decided to take some time to compose a piece in 11 edo using Garritan Personal Orchestra. As a subject matter suitable for…
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Reg has woken feeling a little down, must of had too much moonshine last night trying to cover his sadness................
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This is an improvised 'piece'. We did quite a bit of improvising, taping the sessions, then sitting in the bedroom listening to the tapes and talking about what we liked, then next time everyone would come with ideas and we would work on things…
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