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Reg was at the weekly AA meeting at the old school and the group asked Reg if there was anything he would like to share....so Reg decided to share this ........
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Variations on the Enigma theme by Elgar 1899
The score is below.
http://soonlabel.com/b/Attachments/EnigmaTheme.pdf
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Just a little something I cooked up on my guitar and decided to hum along...
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every moment
each day
searching
for something
someone
to feel
know
care
every face
each friend
rejection
and its too much
too much
too much
to bear
it's been a long
long
time coming
it's a long
long
way home
every moment
each inch of time…
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Reg had some dodgy fish and entered the arena of the unwell which is why he has not been seen for a few days now. He has been to that place where the mind takes you, where you are in the arena of dream because the mind will not let you sleep…
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...for they do not have to face another tomorrow...
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
Blessed are the dead for they shall not be lonely
Blessed are the dead for they will not be sad
Blessed are the dead for they shall have no longings
Nothing lost…
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Peter Thörn: Alto sax and Fretless Acoustic guitar. Fieldrecording of Irish Sea.
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this is the first track of my 1st solo album "flying solo" don't want to swamp the place with all mystuff so will upload them gradually
written on september the 3rd 2010 this is what i said about the song at the time.....
was saddened to hear…
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Reg has just finished reading the Sunday Times it's quite a read and he has decided he has had enough of bad news. So he is going to try something different to try to carry on getting his kicks before the whole shit-house falls down…
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Cover of the Roy Orbison hit. Vocals by oldrottenhead. All instruments by 64Guitars. Recorded on Boss BR-864 Dec 20, 2008.
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A guy I know never shuts up long enough to listen to what I have to say. He is singing it, I'm playing it.
Love you Jim.
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View the footage with music [at youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQZDRKD8oSA&hd=1)
After watching the video of the tsunami devastating the shores of Japan, I couldn't work anymore. So instead I sat down to dedicate a few hours of…
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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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Well Elvis couldn't just sit still watching Fredrico and the others having such a good time Jamming, he got up and joined in........i mean the party has only just started...................
She was my Princess, Queen of my highway
She was…
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Reg was just tootling about with the piano and he got possessed by someone and just couldn't stop. He's thinking it must have been the Devil himself because he just couldn't stop......or maybe it was the Moonshine........
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Keith Landry used his considerable vocal talents on this song, and he made a decent song sound great. I added one or two harmonies, but the lead vocals are his. I think he did a great job. What do you think?
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Hello 1977! This song sounds like 1977 to me. So, I totally played it up, right down to the reverb on the vocals. Enjoy.
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Hey, Christians have gospelmusic. Godless heathens like me sometime have to let off steam too. One of my best songs I think. Drumloops from http://realmusicmedia.net/samples.html (I used them in track 5 too)
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Cover of the Blondie song, from the Plastic Letters album, vocal inspired by Sonic Youth's version of the Carpenters Superstar off of Juno soundtrack. This mixdown made on 7th March 2011, tracks recorded late Feb / early March.
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This is a collaboration with a prolific chap called James Higgins (oldrottenhead on songcrafters.org), based on an instrumental of mine from a couple of years ago: http://alonetone.com/andyr/tracks/muletide
I was quietly minding my own business…
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Sometimes, when a woman gives birth, two holes become one. Consider this song a PSA.
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Anyone who has ever gone to the Y between 9:30 am and Noon knows what it's like to go through the gauntlet of wrinkly asses to get to your locker.
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This song was written during the winter of 2006 in the Chicago area. I had fallen hopelessly in love. There was a train to catch and a flight halfway around the world involved.
Veejay Andres - melodica, vocals
JV Andres - guitar, vocals…
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A loose variation of theme from movie "Ip Man" originally composed by Kenji Kawai. Modestly performed by JC Prophets band.
Ip Man was a Gradmaster of Wing Chun(southern Chinese kung-fu) and he is widely known as a Bruce Lee's SiFu(teacher…
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This is another of the Bootleg prison tapes that Reg made during his Music therapy with Dr Vibes.......................
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Reg was back at therapy using music to explain one of his favourite memories, watching John Wayne sat on his fathers knee......it seemed to help
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While writing music for Ron Wyman's film "Agadez" (featuring Bombino!) this sweet little Kalimba part had to get recorded... It sat on a drive for a while forgotten until RPM 2011 shed light on it... I'm thrilled at how well the Kalimba came out…
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Reg is back on the drink there was no escaping it. He found out that Desirea was not what he thought she was, she had been telling him lies and his hopes were dashed again.............. theres a little mess up on the Xylophone but what can you…
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america is a state of micro-managed fascism.
its many laws are the product of overpaid lawyer, judges, politicians, police, and pundits.
compulsory schooling streamlines personality traits,
departmentalized careers collapse cognition.
CIAFBIDHSNSALPD…
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Even more sound recorder craziness, with "Do Not Lean Against Doors" as the source material this tome.
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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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Here's one with the Broham on the kit... Goofy and fun!!
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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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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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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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Another song James and I wrote together almost exactly half and half.
Vocals: James Johnston
guitars/backing vocals: Me
other guitars: JC Leach
Bass: John Schrader
Drums: Kevin Corum
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Acoustic tale of revenge. Recorded 2010 on a Boss BR1600CD.
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**The Knife - A A J Russe**
A dark and star-less night
Probably driving rain
That's what they think became of me
A foolish walk along the cliff when he was drunk…
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Pop-rock song. Recorded 2009.
I wrote this several years earlier and rehearsed it with the last band I was in.
The recording was my first "serious" project on my Boss MBR, I was stunned that you could do something like this on a little silver…
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A lot of different types of people get down the cellar since Elvis moved in and Reg has been taking notice.........
A BLUE BLOODED JUNKIE
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A Blue blooded junkie has the time of his life…
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This song was written about being regressed under hypnosis , to discover what happened , when as a young boy i started a fire in a cornfield , and hid from the trouble i knew would ensue , it was recorded live
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This was written as part of a concept album inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso ,Trevor Lewis is a member of Songcrafters music forum , he came up with the idea of writing poems to 12 Picasso paintings , then put them out for people to put music…
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Reg has been out on the town again with his old friend madness and its now the morning and loves old friend sorrow has come to call........
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my contribution/offering to this years RPM...Does it ever happen that angels or devils perhaps walk among us mortals here on our earth?? Winter Nacht is a 11 act dialogue between two travelers who meet in the winter twilight, on a road in the…
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This initially had started out as my attempt to do a basic electronica track - I sort of failed miserably at this. (Like most music I program, it ultimately begins to sound like 'not electronica' by the end, for better or worse.)
The re-recording…
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So I dropped the guitar into DADGAD tuning for the first time, threw a capo on the third fret, rifled off something nice, and sent it to Movement to Contact for his contribution, got it back, did some mixing...
Here is the result.
YOU NEED…
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Compare to "Coughdrop Overdose" from RPM 2010. =)
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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Probably the oddest recording I've ever made.
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It's said that we're neurologically set to be the happiest as children - everything is at its most vibrant when we're young, and every experience is new.
As adults, a lot of that vibrance is lost, but just as autumn comes around with all its…
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Kavin.: guitars, loops
Michelangelo: buzz guitar
Ross Reitzammer: flute
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
I was looping Mick's wooden flute and I diddled some delayed guitar.
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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Thinking of summer.........original guitar composition.........by Dave Berry
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Reg is in the empty bar, its three in the morning and he sits down and plays the blues...............
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Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
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During therapy Reg starts to look back on his family and one of his favourite Uncles comes to mind.....................
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A Highly disappointing arrangement i just threw out there cause i tried it multiple times and gave up. this was the best
The Tempo sucks in the beginning and some notes are really sour. ( and there's some really beautiful parts i messed up that…
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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It was Chris Vaisvils four minutes to midnight that got us thinking. The orchestrated music made us think of the film Platoon and a soldier who has come home, who finds it hard to come to terms with what happened over there, he wakes at Four…
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Reg has just gotta get on gone, he wants to move out from his old lady's into reg's place where it's happening, what with Elvis in the cellar and his visiting friends jammin all night, Reg is almost living there anyway. So now he has decided to…
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While waiting for a time for his release date from his successful appeal. Reg whiled the last hours of his incarceration talking to his cell mate Disappointed Dennis. Dennis told Reg of some of the disappointments in his life and so Reg dedicated…
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Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.
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I was on location for The Stone Raft in Spain and feeling pretty lonely. June of 2000. I was the only person on cast or crew that spoke only English. I was left out of most conversations because the crew and cast were all multilingual Europeans…
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Inspired by Captgene's post of this song I happened upon, so I dug this one out of the archives, from several years ago..
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I don’t need you and I can do this. Life is dead batteries and pockets full of lint, but I do what I want. Me and O'Connor can eat dinner at a fancy restaurant. On and off, nonchalant, tied in knots, hope I’m not on my way to insanity. I watched…
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Sometime it’s better to let it go away
Sometimes it’s better to never know anything
This heart beat’s similar to drum beats only difference is it’s coming from dolls.
And all this waiting is killing, we only prepare to fall
This is the…
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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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Reg has been up to his womanizing ways and has ended up dancing on his own. reg came up with another great funky tune and Reg had to jump all over again. Hope you Funk IT.........
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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With his lottery money Reg has invested in becoming a funk star. The other reg came up with the tune and Reg jumped all over the thing......come and get funky with thetwoReg
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A little bit of boom boom be doom ...... without the waffle.... a little clumsy at the beginning but we soon get the hang of it..
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This one is more of a reading set to music of part of a piece i wrote about a place i used to live. We used to walk most days down into the valley and i long to be back there, hopefully one day i will ...
There are a few fluffs in the reading…
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This one is about remembering the feelings of watching Tv as a child in England when we only had three channels but everyone watched them .......
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 3rd Demo
Year: 1992?
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As Dave rightly guessed, Elvis is not dead. He is alive and well living in our cellar in Sheffield. He kindly agrees to do a bit for us now and again, as he is getting on a bit now and gets out of breath easily. So here he is possibly for the…
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Dwaraka used to be a coastal city, until ancient world governments collapsed in a hyper space alien war which shifted the continental plates of earth. The aliens have been in hiding ever since, but their robots are the topics of front page news.
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An experiment with granular "freezing" in Boîte Diaboliqué this time using a few seconds of guitar from [MMI](http://alonetone.com/mmi).
Using granular synthesis it is very hard to get a real "freeze" effect although by using very high grain…
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It's an idea we are playing with using the Tracks we already have. (It's along one not for the faint hearted.)
Now you have to imagine the announcers voice
"Is everybody in?........Is everybody in?... If you are. He shall begin..........
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If your movie needs an 80's montage song, perhaps you should consider this one... :)
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This song is not for everyone but I like it because its a live recording with a single instrument using infinity delay FX. (I turned on the loop delay at :09 after the guitar was flat on the floor.)
All the sounds are made with an acoustic bass…
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I didn't like the 1st version so i changed it so here it is. imagine Sitting in the forest listening to the breeze being free and wanting to follow it..........................
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 2nd Demo
Year: 1991
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 2nd Demo
Year: 1991
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Artist: The Wallflowers
Demo: 1st Demo
Year: 1990
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Artist: Full On
Demo: Futhamuckinrevolution
Year: 1992
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The world seemed different from the front seat up-stairs on the Double Decker Blue ............ an experience with a Blue Bus
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I decided to go full-punk here, while desperately trying to avoid the obvious rhyme words.
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I've been here. This is one of those songs that only I seem to like, especially the tremelo vox.
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I heard this by Norm and it got me thinking about an idea of an old friend who turns up in need, its a surprise , you haven't even thought of him in the last six months and here he is what do you do?............
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Just the traditional tune. I've always loved it.
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A young mans fall from the excess's of youth.....
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Well, this is a blues I've composed about ten years ago, just before I stopped playing guitar untill now. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Kinda rough. I'm uploading this mainly to share a guitar technique I've been working on. I'm wearing a slide on my picking hand and using it to alter pitches in single line phrases. There's a lot more can be done with this technique that I've…
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Written by my friend Dennis Coble, this is probably one of my top favorite songs of all time. Sunshine Emery sang this and I played slide reso.
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This rough track uses my Blue Just Tuning system (go to www.johnsmusic7.com for details and a photo of the guitar). This is the same tuning Chris Vaisvil used in his Excluded By Peers piece. I hope to add some lead to the track soon.
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This is a song that we used to perform about 15 years ago in our band Suburb. Myself on rhythum guitar and vocals, Steve Redhead on drums, and Keith Randall on lead guitar. This version was recorded in logic Fun about 10 or so years ago. Hope…
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Really wanted to try and learn what i would consider one of the best lead guitar solos of all time, recorded this in early 2010 and it's my effort at learning the solo. Hope you enjoy it.
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For everyone who lives in a bright sunny place. Got lots of snow in the mountains today.
On days like these, there are only 4 things to do:
1)start fire
2)shovel snow
3)Make music (inside, not on deck)
4)access EWABS (emergency wine and beer…
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made this for the recent indaba contest; kept mine true to Reich in some ways but put some new spins on it. my main rule was to use only the orig for sound sources.
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Remembering when we were special. Were you special?
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She turned to him, looked him straight in the eye and said "I don't love you no more"..........
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The Trumpets in love and wants everyone to know......
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I was mean't to go to see Paul Weller tonight in town £35 a ticket, It snowed, i didn't think much about it until i had to try and drive in it. The car was abandoned 2 miles away the concert missed and a cold walk home was needed to get home…
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Recorded in 2005.
Joe Silence - vocals and all instruments; tracked by Joe Silence at Spit Recorders.
Mixed by Joe Griffin of Toxic Bag Productions.
The guitar solo is not actually a guitar.
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song icon by Elaska
Free Sue is a work for spoken choir, bowed piano in 18 notes per octave, mallet piano in 18 notes per equal, strummed piano in 18 notes per octave, tabla ensemble, snare drum, frame drum ensemble and various gongs. It is…
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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Poor old reg he was having a cup of tea then it happened..................
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Felt the need to go back to something more sound driven.
I've been learning a lot of new Jazz chords and wondered what they might sound like as pads. I ended up creating a device chain in Ableton Live featuring Alchemy, Omnisphere, and Absynth…
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Recorded in 2005.
The keyboard sound in the second half is a backwards electric piano processed through a triggered filter (kind of like a Mutron III).
Muted the vocals cos I'm not too pleased with the lyrics or performance.
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A crazy time in an old cold farmhouse with no coal. The Beginings Tapes
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What would have happened if you had not spoken to her? I dread to think.
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The first commandment with a promise, check it out
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This is how I write a song(sometimes). I create a bit of music then I sing ad libbing. Once the recording is done then I listen to what I recorded and write down the words that I sang. Song done.
Ha-Ha
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Listen to the words, see if you hear my mistakes.
I recorded this once and never bothered to correct it. I wonder why?
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Have you ever tried hitching a lift home after a goodnight out and nobody has stopped.....
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....another Peggy dream.
She tiptoes to my room
She leans over my bed
And she kisses me
I leave my doors unlocked
so she can come to me
When she misses me
And I pretend that I'm asleep
But that's not easy
When she kisses me...
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This song was performed by myself and a friend Steve in Garageband, lyrics written by my good friend thetworegs (Trevor). All guitar tracks played, the drums were put together from loops.
Hope you enjoy it.
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Alone in a bedroom with a turnned off TV a guitar a microphone and an imagination....
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He has no clothes what are we going to do? Or rather what are you going to do?
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... again ... for Randy.
Memories of old magazines gathering dust on the shelves with things you never could let go of.
Dirty chess sets hardly touched. Empty bottles of cheap scotch you never could get enough of.
And it's a shameful world…
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what are we doing to turn this around? What I do is to write these songs to touch people's hearts.
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on a Sunday afternoon withpout the 4 minutes of silence
We now have a video for this one
http://www.myspace.com/reguk/videos
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If Elvis had been a Kelt would Rock "n" Roll have been as we know it?
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The children liked it just as much without the words they still went Crazy!!!!
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keywords: electronic, experimental, chill, instrumental
"Remastered": 12/18/2010
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