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? And His Glendale LG's - latest shot outta the studio straight to us!
LG
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Hi my friends,
I wish you all a Happy Easter!
This is my improvisation with the Yamaha Motif XS8, which I did last year!
Hope you like it!
:-)
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Cover of Lady Gaga's "Judas"
Guitar and vocals by me.
Drums and bass by Karl Ridgeway.
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Check out this new song written by my friend William Gittens featuring different Berklee artists, It's dedicated to the state of our world and the destruction in Japan.
Take a minute to watch and send your thoughts to the troubles of this planet…
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This is an experiment where I slowed down Norm Harris’ percussion track “7th Son†http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/7th-son and slowed it down by a factor of five and ran it through effects and such – and then played along with my 17…
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An Easter song, sort of. About standing at that place between night and day, sorrow and joy, fear and hope.
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12 string and loop station
- touch of post-processing
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I played 12 string guitar and 5 string bass along with Norm's original percussion track http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/7th-son. The only effects were a bit of attack shaping on the bass (compression w/o compressing).
I did this kind of oddly…
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There have been some discussions on the microtonal list about an isomorphic keyboard I have, the AXiS 49 (pictured above as I played it) and it reminded me I had not played it in a while. So I improvised 3 pieces on it in “selfless mode…
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This song and everything that came to play
together, just sounded right for the name.
Very Different..
Thanks for your imput...
L.A.M.
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Another minimalist synth exploration, instrumental draft at this stage only...vox and percussion to be added.
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Draft (in kitchen sink mode, still) of a track from "Figgle Your Winger" eta 2012... a sprawling tone-art-poem sometimes in 5/8 meter. Some synth parts created on iPhone with Synthpond.
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I couldn't resist crossing swords with Alex on this deft song of his which left me quite touchéd!
*Inspired in part at least by accidental meat on meat.*
Here's the original track.
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this time, won't even settle for slant rhyme
if it means choosing each tired phrase over one no one else'd say
who listens to the words anyway?
just so that i'm sure you'll hum along every time,
it ends with five to one every time.
this…
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when you wake up
and it feels like its further away
you get discouraged
could it have really gone unnoticed
what you're tryin to find
isn't so black or so white
it's more rooted in faith and less in fate
what you're tryin to find
isn't so gift…
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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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Lyrics:
I, I can’t find you, by my side today
There was something, now there’s nothing If you walk away
Can you find me, would you hold me, would you beg me to stay?
In this dark world, full of anger, would you kneel, would you pray…
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Song recorded back in the '90s on my old Fostex 4 track. Bass and drums from the BOSS DR-5
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I do love a bit of ZZ Top. This is probably my straightest cover. It was one of the first tracks I recorded when I got my Zoom R16 back last summer, although the programming on the BOSS DR-5 goes back over a decade. It was before I got my microKORG…
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No Ducks were hurt or killed during the production of this tune, unless eaten and thoroughly enjoyed
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Fisherman and the Siren by Lord Frederic Leighton
This is a blues collaboration between The TwoRegs (vocals / lyrics) and Norm Harris (percussion) and myself (17 note per octave electric guitar and fretless bass).
We hope you enjoy it…
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the sheriff's back in town
that o' hired hand of dread
cleanin' up the channels
knockin' down the webs
his lights, they are a flashin'
stopped me in my tracks alone
his hand on rein and bridle says
this freedom's gotta go
he said it…
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This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...
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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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The vocals are hard tohear cause it was recorded badly...
I feel like getting drunk
I dont feel its gonna get better
I've tied my hands to my back and its done
Nobodys in the mood for summer
I think the ghosts have come home
Done it before…
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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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I bought a $50 Woods DW-15 acoustic dreadnought 12 note per octave guitar at Guitar Center, fret wire, and a fret saw.
After a couple days of work I made a usable 18 note per octave guitar.
Most of the details and lots of pictures are on my facebook…
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Reg keeps looking at her but she doesn't show any guilt, how can she behave like nothing has happened has she forgotten he knows............
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Kind of a Neil Young impression, I guess.
You know what's ironic? I think this was the only song on the album I didn't use a metronome to record.
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I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I think I did a good job of summoning up a mellow, trippy atmosphere with a relatively minimalist arrangement (acoustic guitar, two pianos, lead vocal, and a guitar solo).
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This is for sure the thing that Reg is feeling it can't be anything else since he saw her in the park he's sure she is the one he is in love with ......................
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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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Lead & BG Vocals - Mimmo
Acoustic Guitars - Bill
Electric Guitar - Bobby
Bass - Preston
Drums - Bobby
"Strings" - Errol
Words & Music - Errol
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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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A little story of what the first few weeks of finding out I was going to be a daddy. Wan An means good night in Chinese.
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Alone for 3 days in the red desert was an amazing experience. I had and still have never again sat down and watched an entire day pass by and experience the profound deafening sound of solitude and silence.
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When Owen and Angela went to Taiwan for 2 months it was really hard on me. Owen, my little son was a big part of my life, and still is and being away from him was very difficult. I wrote this song to express how I wanted to hold my little boy…
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This is a kids song about putting on your socks. I wrote this for my son Owen
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Special earth, Once held a large population. where now?
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An experiment with different mic's to use when playing live
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You go and I stay.
Almost like before, I think.
Don't you notice now?
Always I lag behind you.
Stutter-step to notice me.
Shyness looks at tennis shoes,
Studies things you'll never see.
Will you ever see me?
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Do you see that girl? Do you see that boy?
Walking hand in hand? They're on top of the world.
Can you see that boy? Can you see that girl?
Kissing in the park. They're on top of the world.
I can see that girl. I can see that boy.
Walking…
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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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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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This song is about that moment that you, as an adult, stop trying to live up to everyone's expectations of you..whether it be a girl/boyfriend, family member, society, etc.
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Drums - Steve Gardner
Lead & rhythm guitars - Norm
Bass - Mimmo
Words, music, vocals, piano & 'strings' - Errol
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An old one that needed a kick in the ass. Consider it kicked.
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a variation of the irish traditional song, "Siun Ni Dhuibnir"
susan o'dwyer
i walked out one morning
for market to buy and sell
as others before me
tis' thirsty, there i fell
and sat down to drink
with susan o'dwyer to tell
we drank…
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Norm's original 12/8 percussion track that forms the basis for the entire piece. http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/mother-nut-drop
I'm involved in a microtonal music class. We are studying 11 edo instead of the normal 12 edo (equal division…
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weightless
you flew in my life
and unexpected high flyer
oh such a beautiful kite
all your colors shining light
so high...i followed you up
to where the daytime turns night
then we circled the sun
weightless with laughter
so joyous...kids on…
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I had this house I had been working on and I had all my movie making stuff in it. It burned down. That's sort of like this song but not...
WASTING OF YEARS by James Michael Taylor
I have a brain that I must keep busy
I have a heart with…
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Perhaps the longest intro in music history but well worth the wait. The actual song is only about 48 seconds long but who can complain with the soothing voice of Mondo leading us in ?????!!!???
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Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red Hook, NY.
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Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s.
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Music & Vocals by Holger Bremer
Lyrics: Johnny Ace Williams
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
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This song was written and performed by Holger Bremer. My only role in it was the mix and master…
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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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standing in the cornfield you watch the corn grow and
the searing hot days pass on to night to day to night to day,
taller and taller, until you are one with all there is...
for you are one of them...
your roots dig soil,
your stalk stretches…
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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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Variations on the Enigma theme by Elgar 1899
The score is below.
http://soonlabel.com/b/Attachments/EnigmaTheme.pdf
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This was one of my first compositions ever (I started writing songs in 2004/2005). I don't have the original audio seps any more, just this MP3 file, so I cannot do a decent remix. And I'm too lazy to re-do it all from scratch. :)
Composed, arranged…
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Just a little something I cooked up on my guitar and decided to hum along...
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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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An improv in a found tuning. E and A strings tuned WAY down so they're slapping the neck:
A(low) E(low) C# E A C#
Super full moon tonight! (View More for video)
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I think this is the most recently-written song on the album.
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I think I wrote the music for this in, like, 2002. Then tweaked it bit by bit until I got around to finishing it in 2009 or so.
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Arrived early to band practice, started playing a bass riff, made something of it a few days later!
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17 edo guitar lead and drone via loop station
12 edo 5 string bass
drums from a box of cracker jack
Just something I felt I had to do tonight.
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second version of "Remember When" but instrumental and a little different. Is going to be added to the "Horton Smokes A Whookah" album project. Cheers.
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.......if there not the one,should you keep looking, if so for how long...........well Reg threw Henwrench's music into the cellar and what bounced out was a song he wasn't suspecting....
Love me tender
I've been alone now seems to long…
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From: youtubechannel RoelekesPlace | Made: 25 feb 2011
Have to find out some more about my organ. So I gave it a try once more. And ofcourse had to play with the video of the organ and me playing on it.
I hope you like it.
Also I love to play…
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Another one that sounds a bit thin without lyrics/vocals. Meh.
And, yes, I know the rhythm section drops the beat on the last chorus. It's the first take for the bass and drums. I was in a hurry. 'Tis the nature of RPM.
The little coda…
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I wrote this for a combo I played lead guitar in a few years ago
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This is a two guitar sketch I posted to Youtube a while back.
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Peter Thörn: Alto sax and Fretless Acoustic guitar. Fieldrecording of Irish Sea.
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A bit of a ding dong in the cellar last night while on a Bender Reg, was sitting at the bar talking to himself an met J. M. Barrie. They disagreed on something and argued into the night...........but they left together........
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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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This is another composition from the early 90, and also a bass line. I added some arrengements to it, and it was, eventually, the third part of a long 'spacial' suite called 'Mars'. I could upload the 'part one' bass line one day, which I think…
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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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This is the new version!
Lyrics: Andrew Furlong
Vocals: Mark A. Shrider
Guitars: Mark A. Shrider
Bass: Andy Gupta
Music & Mix: Steffen Offermann
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Just a little rock song.
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The second song written for the 2010 self challenge "Song A Week." And one of my favorites from that challenge.
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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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Far more bouncy and cheery than the title might suggest.
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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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gave her the sandy gritt treatement.or maybe the ole catmandonk.
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Always coming up with the resolutions and not the plan
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Slightly rocked up version of this great traditional folk song.
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the mixed result that i did not have time to upload before.. :()
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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?
ER
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This was one of the two songs I wrote ahead of time to get a jump on RPM.
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Get on your bellbottoms, and get out on the floor. There's more to the song than you realize, but just dance baby, just dance.
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Top Of The Pops circa 1972! Remember when all those bands in the early 70's where adding synth to every song but the lyrics meant something (sometimes)? Pure excitement, pure bubblegum, pure fun. Well, this is my offering and thanks to all of…
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Originally meant to sound more Hendrix-ey, this one informed me that acoustic was the way to start. As always, the song was right, I was wrong.
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This one started as a the title line while driving in my car. All I had was the line and it's melody. I built the song around that about 6 months later. The lyrics are self explanatory.
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New one from me. It's ended up as a bit of a "crying into yer beer at Bob's Country Bunker" sort of song lol...
I've been sat on these lyrics in some form or another for absolutely years. I first wrote them one very dark night a few years after…
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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Sassy Nation version!
Sister Savage and Mr Sandbags collaborated on the original of this wonderful heartbreaker of a song. I've been playing it on the guitar the last few days and it always seemed to come out with a grittier tone, so i asked…
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The lyrics started out as being about talking to someone and somehow you never get on the same wavelenght. You say something and the other person goes: "Yeah, I know what you mean like this...etc..." and goes on about something you didn't mean…
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'm doing a course in Mandarin Chinese and mamahuhu is one of my favourite words. It means so-so (literally horsehorsetigertiger); "not so good". In this lyric I just allowed myself to whine about my situation; get it over with. I like the harmony…
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Original song: from the album, When I Was Your Age (which started off life as our RPM album for 2009). When I Was Your Age features songs that take a look back at when we were kids. If you're anything like us, Saturday mornings were about two…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - June. Featuring our friend, Qadree Holmes on vocals, this song goes out to all Notary Publics everywhere. The song came about when Jason was asked to notarize a few immigration documents for…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - February. This song refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that back…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - January. This song began it's life back in 1999 on an 8-track cassette recorder. In 2007, for TheSongOfTheDay.com project, we were able to overlay drums, re-do vocals, and replace some hummed…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - December. This was one of the last songs recorded for TheSongOfTheDay.com project. The original version was completely a sixties-inspired orchestra ballad a la something off The Beatles album…
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Original song: from the album, All In A Day's Work (which started out life as our RPM album for 2007). The views expressed in this song solely represent Beatnik Turtle, the band, and do not reflect the views of any individual member. The band…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - December. Written from a kid's perspective, this song challenges his parents to come clean about the truth behind Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. After all, lies make the Baby…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - October. Ah, the great mysteries in life: Why are we here? Is there a God? How much do you tip a bartender for a beer? Back when we were recording the songs for TheSongOfTheDay.com, inspiration…
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Original song: from the album, TheSongOfTheDay.com - September. This song got its start as an instrumental, but ended up with the record for the most vocal tracks of all. The title "Just Go Back" referred to one of Ryan's comments when recording…
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I walk 13 miles of barbwire just to sing my song
I walk 13 miles of barbwire just to sing my song
I walk 13 miles of barbwire just to sing my song
I walk 65 miles all along
I walk 13 miles of barbwire just to sing my song
I walk 65 miles…
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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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17 equal guitar, loop station, whammy pedal, distortion pedal, Garritan world sample set.
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Inspired by kirklynch's Jimi Jam, I'm just messing around with the Foxy Lady riff.
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This FaceBook friend of mine posted the first line and I went with it.
THE CORNER - G (if capo is at 2 it sounds more like Neil Young.)
C D
G Am…
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Well, I feel almost human today. Been a rough few days with the flu or something. I'm running on a baked potato - seems I can't each much else yet. It was ironic that I became sick just when I went to pick up a Boss Loop Station I found for half…
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