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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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2nd track recorded on my new Boss MicroBR-80
A quite happy track with a tad darker lyrics than the music would let on .....
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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Yeah, guess I have an inner Gershwin who likes to listen to Beethoven. Go figure.
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lo-tek eclektro version of 'a character disorder' by the nu psimians
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be…
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live in the kitchen vox + piano only no fx version
and i don’t know what you mean
about the things i haven’t seen
it isn’t easy being green
when all you ever say is mean
you know i tried to keep it clean but
you were messing up my scene…
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well ... it's not really the year of the monkey ... except for me :)
Recorded on my new Boss Micro BR80, vocals done in the car ;)
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yes my voice sucks and the lyrics are silly. But its all I have...
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Did you lock door? have you lost the key?
Laughter in the strangers eyes on a windy street
And it's not surprising Winter's always cold
Years like silent footsteps follow
Autumn leaves and blue skies fade to gray
Have you see a rainbow from…
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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Psychological consequences of war.....written and performed by Nick Plagakis.....Lyrics:
Sixty seven shots ringing
Across the desert, heads are spinning
Bang, Bang Bang; is all I hear
Bang, Bang, Bang;…
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Angelos and I improvise on classical guitars tuned a quartertone apart.
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live at Avant Garden in Houston, Tx. 12/28/11
This edit contains the motifs Up the Chupacabra and Hymn.
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A bit too big but they let me slide! Thanks Alonetone!
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But the wind doesn't last forever.. and then we're all alone watching the leaves as they fall for a last time.
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A song about making choices.
Life moves in small steps
By the choices we all make.
We decide by will and pride
The path we'd like to take.
And the places we end up
And the people we will know
We'll see, you and me
By where we choose…
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Down the cellar this evening we were having a bit of fun with this old Elvis Classic ....he didn't seem to mind.....but Dr Nick had been in earlier.........with the one armed Banjo band backing...
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Jeff Prince and John Murphy add guitars and harmony.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore.
Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.
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This is a 19 note per octave solo electric guitar improvisation played in classical guitar format recorded in Sonar X1 with Guitar rig and Lexicon reverberation. Makes it hard to classify for what audience would want to listen to it I guess. The…
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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working with the two machines into a cd recorder .. for these three pieces :)
earlier work from last week is this video.
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first published in 1933, this eighty year old song is still just as sweet.
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie.
THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C
The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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where I cut out the seven layers to make the monkey songs Mon-Key is the album :) well this is what was left after the lifting off of seven layers.
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I DO - capo @ 3 in C
C Dm
You made the stars disappear
G C G
You said the words that I most feared
C stepping down to G...C
Why in the world…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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PEGGY’S GONE Capo @ 5 Key C
C G
PEGGY’S GONE after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What am I doing…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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Wrote this while playing the part of Saul Gibbs in the movie WILD BILL.
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…
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Local musos friend Darryl Wood remixed a live Witch's Night Out piece.
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part of a 3 piano solo EP found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1886
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just a little dirty blues, to cleans the pallet so to speak. "Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." --Robert Orben
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This is a remix of an improvised track I did for our first RPM album. For this new mix, I got rid of the vocals & added a most excellent electric guitar part by our good friend, Chris Mitchell. He listened to the track just once and proceeded…
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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Mozart's famous "Alla Turca" Sonata #11 in A major with period tuning and period pianoforte and period diapason of A4 = 415 Hz. Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1837
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The 11th Corridor of Tritave is an ambient piece performed originally on an M-Audio 88es with pianoteq in 11 edt, edited slightly and then ported over to four 11 edt instances of Z3TA+ 2.1 in Sonar X1.
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Thanksgiving Day
11/28/11
Its cold like November in the autumn of my life
Too far to remember my subtle suicide
And your words came and swept me away
And i woke up on this Thanksgiving Day
I was lost like a child in a secondhand store…
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Electronic Dream #1 was made for the Internet Movie Project in 2002 that fell apart as I remember. All but the initial bright sweep which comes from the CZ-101 is from the Korg MS2000 analog modeling synthesizer. Excepting the Casio sample this…
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Something i wrote and quickly recorded on Thanksgiving 2011. It will turn into something but it seems i must add two songs to make a playlist public? or something? i dont really know. but this is WIP, definitely.
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I'd never played a U2 song before this one. Tried to give it a bit of a Reggae feel.
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For details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1678
It is a bit jarring - on purpose but you've been warned.
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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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Solo guitar with effects.
picture credit
http://heranush.deviantart.com/art/ssswf-cast-your-demons-away-158702821
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The full monty
http://alonetone.com/charlieferret/tracks/after-the-worms-ate-into-my-brain
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Getting rid of some useless layers is a good thing to do. Even with the use of this rare word.
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Five star
Coffee bar
Chal na yaar
Shanivaar
Liking the late-night outings
(That’s right)
Very far
To the bar
Ek baar
In the car
We will do cootchie coo make-outings
(Don’t be naughty)
With a roar
Through the door
Teri ore teri ore
Hungry tiger…
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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I play live at my Dad's assisted living facility on a Yamaha Clarinova.
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A song made thanks to the Net. Music by Greg Connor & Steve Krell, Lyrics by me and Harmonica by my best mate Dave. Love it.
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe set to music as read by Mike Vendetti from Freesound.org.
Details here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1506
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Silence:
i hold hatred in my heart
from everything i've seen
sometimes it slips all the way out
bleeding out until i become obscene
don't leave me alone too long
locked up in my own thoughts
don't leave me here all alone
hemorrahaging…
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Another collaboration with Andy from Southampton, England. Vocals and rhythm guitar: Andy
Vocals, lead guitars, bass & organ: Ron
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Wrote and recorded my first Xmas tune ...was supposed to be entered into a song contest but that site closed...all instruments except drums are played by me.
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Some things remains the same; some changed with time, some leave.
~As long as we remember~
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My wife's voice. Constructed using Beatmaker 2 on the iPad. Final mastering on a PC though.
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The planets teaching the great child on the mountain to play music.
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Details and another piece
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1477
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La soledad puede conducir a la desesperación, pero puede conducir a la iluminación.
~Es decir, si tienes suerte ...~
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Last saturday we had a little jam session, and here
is the initial result. This is myself on lead guitar, and Magic Mike [Holdempok as some of you may know him by...] on vox and guitar.
LG
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I'm obsessed with this tune (actually, just few notes, but...), and I cannot get rid of it, at least for today. At least for all these days...
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A traditional piece from the renaissance arranged for flute and two classical guitars.
I used meantone tuning which is probably a bit more authentic - though so very close to 12 equal that you may not notice the difference. http://en.wikipedia…
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Recorded at home, all done digitally by myself.
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NO ONE CARES
© Paul Dempsey, 2011
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Lead Vocals: Mark Lee Fletcher
Backup Vocals: Andy Gupta, Henry Mittnacht
Bass: Andy Gupta
Drums: Alberto Villa
Percussion: Alberto Villa, Henry Mittnacht
Guitars: Henry Mittnacht…
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For details and the TED talk that I connect with this piece see http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1439
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A steel string guitar improvisation I did last night before bed called “A Nagging Thought“. The piece prominently features a V+ to i (augmented dominant to minor tonic) movement. I usually don’t care for the sound of an augmented tried but in…
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The story of everyone's life.
I tried again, after I learned it a bit better.
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
Till the landslide brought me down…
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2011.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "Fox Shoots Man", recorded for the RPM Challenge, February 2011.
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guitar and piano jam over some loops and spoken words of "veins of evil" written by me
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I found this vocal in my phone mailbox. Not sure who Reg was calling but I'll take advantage of the wrong number he dialed :-)
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The original way it was written and originally written for my band, Nail of The Sun. A version showed up on my album demos for "Cryptical Condition" as the song "Transitions".
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Nowhere To Run, original composition. Nowhere to Run i'm pretty sure not hitting theaters and everywhere else 2012, hah, now is the time to PANIC.
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Vaisvil sent me this great Blues tune and so i threw it down the cellar and Reg jumped all over it with his point of view on love being a Four letter word..........
FOUR LETTER WORD (Lyrics)
Love
oh Love
it's not just a four letter word…
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I don't wanna lose you,
I don't wanna use you
Just to have somebody by my side
And I don't wanna hate you
I don't wanna take you
But I don't wanna be the one to cry
That don't really matter to anyone, anymore
But like a fool I keep losing…
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Instrumental - sorry for the drums continue far past the "music".
Cheers all
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My Fender Mustang + Marshall Amp + I dragged out the whammy bar - AKG D950 mic behind the amp and Zoom H2 in front - dropped the tracks into sonar and panned a bit. I also midi recorded the guitar and used the midi to drive upright bass, albino…
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This is a song some 15 years in the making. The original 4-track cassette tape tracks laid down in 1997 - and this past year Frank added bass and drums. Its my fault on how there are still rough edges - that is the result of how I did things…
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My friend Frank Miller did a drum improvisation track at my request - and I then improvised lyrics, vocal, and guitar with a bit of touch up. This was the first track we did together since 1979.
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I salivated over this $3,500 guitar last night. I had the "expensive guitar room" at Guitar Center to myself so I played and recorded on my zoom H2. Yes, this is guitar p0rn...
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This is an improvisation I did live on ustream - but the audio quality was horrific - fortunately I had recorded everything in Sonar so I used Sony Vegas to make this into something listenable. Since the frame rate was messed up (you can see…
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This is my contribution to the Angie Fights Crime project titled "Sunny Sorta"...." It's 12 songs written by A.F.C. and performed by 12 different artists.
I chose Honky Tonk Prison because I knew it would rock and roll :)
So CRANK IT UP…
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Another one from last nights session down the cellar.........Well it was only a matter of time before Reg had enough of her, she reminded him too much of Desire......now he's gone.......it was goodbye.........
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Image from Katerina Art - click on image to view more work by this great graphics artist. If you follow the link you will see that she has dedicated this image to the victims of 9-11. Katerina of course owns all rights to her image and is not…
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Tom came down the cellar this morning so Reg Regged up one of his tunes....... Straight out of the Micro Br i'm still trying to figure it out but it's coming..............
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I bought a thing called an irig for the I pad and an app Amplitude ...i used the onboard mic on the ipad......the song is my version of take it easy baby it's been Regged.... I still have to work out how to mix it .........I did this while sitting…
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A live performance in Evergreen on 26-August with Paul Mimlitsch, Richard Ball and Howard Ostrow. This is a section taken from the start of the performance. Paul is playing clarinet and Richard is playing the flute and Howard is creating guitar…
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