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from the album "Que Vive!"
which is circumstance and which is fate
the child with nothing or the one with hate
one may see wrong from right
but the line is hard to follow
even with the right design
where do miracles go when the world’s in…
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In memory of my cousin Mike, nicknamed Shovel Head, because of the Harley Davidson Shovel Head motorcycle he drove.
Lyrics
I can feel the wind blow
Lean into that winding road
Setting Sun against my skin
Shift into that high gear
Get…
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This track was made for collaborative purposes. Looking for a slow build of layers. If you hear anything that you would like to add...feel free to do so, and send it back to me...or post it and let me know that you did. TANKS!
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...almost a love song ... - ish. deal with it, and don't come to expect it from here.
Scent
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I can smell your perfume on my body
*scent of the chase i need what i want, this is on
Invigorating my sense of taste for your world
Making…
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The passport, acapulco and finding out about the affair with Reg was the final straw ithe saga of Desirea and Reg is finally over Reg has drawn a line in the sand and stepped over it. It over and done he washes his hands of her. So he went out…
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Mario... what can I say about our lovable Nintendo mascot. He's short... chubby... fights reptiles of many shapes and sizes.
The music is deffinitely fitting for our Plumber's adventures into the Mushroomy, Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe he'll get…
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I'm really thinking of renaming the upcoming "Burning Wood... The Bonfire Sessions" album "Stealing Genius." I write something simple, put down some picking at the beginning, some acoustic guitar and some vocals, and send it off to people with…
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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A light classical solo piano piece with a touch of humor.
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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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~images of bygone days~
This was 2009, and it was a photo contest to provide seven pictures of a story and all that. I, together with other, more talented photographers, was in.
In parallel with the images I have written short seven neo…
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Another Zelda tribute. Tal Tal mountains had some pretty epic music. but I have to admit, I'm no OC Remixer when it comes to this sort of thing. either way, hope you enjoy my Happyhardcore/ Rock remix of The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening…
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Song for a great friend that lost his home to a fire around christmas 2010.
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Simple Plan
T Boudreau
Wandering soul, do as your told
and come back inside it's getting cold
I've been waiting here with hope n fear and my hands on the wheel til you decide to steer
Mr. Hollowtree you're a mystery to me you stand tall…
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So I'm watching Ken Burns' documentary on the National Parks and realize that I'd never written that John Muir song I had been meaning to get to... So I got to it. Tim Alexander (Letter Seventeen) mentioned that he thought the song needed a…
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Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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2010
Depeche Mode lite
I was going to hire Meatloaf for the ending but it turns out he will NOT work for pancakes... which is what I had heard.
This is one of the prime examples of (early on) being WAY more ambitious than what my ability…
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rpm 2011
I don't want to wake up
Don't want to watch tv
Don't want to go to work
No desire to read
Don't want to take out the trash
Don't want to take off my shades
Don't want to mow the yard
I've got better things to do
Surfin round…
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Genres:
Urban/Hip-Hop: Rhythm and Blues
Urban/Hip-Hop: Soul
Album:
Its About Soul
Artist's description:
a collaboration
Contributors:
thetworegs vocals
Norm percussion and didgeridoo
Chris guitars n stuff.
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It's Wednesday night lets all get F................
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from the album "orange"
I feel the same as yesterday
Even though I’m losing my mind
It’s hard to remember my name
When I wake I never know what I will find
Whither away, further each day
I’m invincible
Nothing can slow me down
My feet…
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from the album "orange"
this game, is a, last stop
before, you see, to the, very top
and I'm half asleep, yet I'm wide awake
and this ride isn't working out, not it's not for me
cause it gets so hard to believe, in
anything that you…
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This song is dedicated to my van...the Pumpkin.
She took me all the way from Winnipeg to St. John's, Newfoundland. On the way home she died on the 40 East between Quebec City and Montreal where i had to let her go.
Oh Pumpkin you have been good…
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Funky version i created of a a friends song. (thetworegs)
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a little jam with Norm's "Cabinets" percussion track.
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a waddling guitar solo transforms into godknowswhat
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Recorded on my old Alvarez 5023 with a Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pickup.
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year.
The original piano version can be had here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528
or listen to it…
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What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem".
No Man's Land
Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long
Pay your…
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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I call those harmonies at the end, my chipmunk voices....which, by the way, is the best part of this song. This work was done at January Sound in about 1981. Yikes! That's a long time ago.
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do not follow instructions/its just other people making signs/ an asphault schooner sky/ a plaster walrus eye/ why are people pointing guns at each other/ isnt that crazy/ they mad or sumptin? I just dont get it/ why dont we have/ a global bucket…
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You live long enough... you take some real hits. And the only way to get on, is, to, "Pick myself up, walk down the long long road". Lifes real easy when it's all theoretical, but it's never been lived until the theories and philosophies are trashed…
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The vodka, ahhh. One of 3 that I recorded to a dimming flashlight during a power outage.
One take into the Micro BR hole with some harmony and noodle overdubs.
Vodka
I want the vodka
'Cause I know it's gonna make me play better…
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Lorelei reaches her breaking point after years of abuse — via a failed attempt at an homage to Ennio Morricone (had he been Mexican).
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This provides a theory which ties together two of my key traits a) always tired b) terminally disappointed by peoples lack of courtesy - there's a link people!
Did you ever feel so down
That you didnt know up
Didnt recognise highs
And smiles…
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A collaboration that involved 5 musicians over several parts of the world. A crazy stalker tune - Has a soft/hard/soft format. Recorded with The Boss Micro BR(MBR), Mixed with Audacity and then mastered with the MBR.
More details in the Youtube…
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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and you didn't even have to spend the night to get it.
another one from the morning sessions...
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Sudara sent me a guitar piece he was working on... So I added a song. And it didn't turn out at all as I expected.
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words fail me right now, so I will just include the music.
fretless bass, electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, fake drums, emotions.
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My cover of Gumbo Stu's (Stuart Walker) Blind In One Eye. Originally on his 2009 RPM Challenge Album, and available here on alonetone. Thanks Stu!
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this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009.
lyrics:
i'll tell you a dream i had once
up in the sky blue everything
flying away a kite on a string
i didn't have anything
i was cool you were warm…
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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for the 2009 RPM Challenge album "Sabbatical"
Standing at the edge of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona at sunrise last summer I had an out of body experience.
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y Sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org
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here we are, for the very first time
is it safe to touch you
or am I way out of line
now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet
is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat
here we are in my bedroom all alone…
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A song about Jesus. you believe or you don't, it's that simple.
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swerving off the road...coming so close to the ever waiting trees...
sometimes, yes, sometimes this is the space I find myself in.
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A remix of the [lead vocals](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15128) of "Silence" by [Shannon Hurley](http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley).
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This fab iconic song by Andrew Gold was asking for a full BBC Symphony Orchestral treatment, duly arranged by myself, so here is my take on it.
© Written and copyright owned by Andrew Gold and BMG Blue
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Making tunes feels like swimming through mud at the moment ... make that quick setting concrete!
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An instrumental cover of Marty Haugen's Shepard Me, O God based on Psalm 23.
3 tracks $139 Squier Sonic Mustang, 1 track bass. - a bit of reverb
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[Verse 1]
Through you I am, I do all things
All credit to you and to your gifts
And your help which is plentiful
You steer me clear of trouble
You lead me to a place of wonder
When I get a curve ball
You want me to learn from it
And I…
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This is actually a pretty old track, made in 2011 and released under the (now defunct) Ember Music label. I only now realise it never got uploaded it here.
Alonetone bonus: this version is 11s longer than the released version!
I guess this…
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“Bats in Flight” composed, recorded, and mixed on 10/20/2023, for October’s 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com).
“Bats in Flight” was also submitted to October’s REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
“Bats in Flight” composed by W. Ng…
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Teejay’s WRLD_-_Down In The Dump’s (Déjà vu)
“Am Always Happy When I See My Mom Smile’s”
(A Feeling Of Déjà vu)
Bhad Mharn Tinz
To me everyday life is a mess
I only pray for better days just to feel bless
I do my thing my way, I really…
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This is the lowkey vibe, the wind down, decompression
Before I put my head to bed then
I take a step down
Didn’t have a stepfather
Only my Heavenly Father
My Mother-slash-Father from up above, huh?
Don’t bother me as I sleep soundly
Being…
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[Verse 1]
All they ever see are the frowns
All they ever hear are the swearing sounds
They don’t ever see that I really hurt
It’s not just me, it’s your and my fault
I don’t sit around and just mope
I jump on the raps and get dope
This…
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(beat produced by Dr. Dre, from the song "My Name Is" by Eminem)
[Verse 1]
I’m a state away from my family tree
Fuck Alex D
I’m gonna change my name to Randy V
Fuck having children
I’m gonna stick a baby inside of my abdominal cavity…
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This an old, old one from way back, Merry Christmas to everyone
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tennis balls in the dryer for beats.. this is that recording of .. if anyone wants to set down tracks with these "beats" go for it ...
This is actually 3 tennis balls and a pillow in a dryer that is spinning at a kinda normal speed. ---
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My neighbors in Arkansas cook dishes with a special flavor
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Here is the latest song challenge offered by the Minnesota Asscociation of Songwriters:
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Your mission this month is twofold:
1. Try creating a boundary between the production of content versus the judging…
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Improv on baritone ukulele. Inspired by Ralph Towner recently.
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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First track of my, now defunct EP RPM challenge effort. It has not gone well :)
Week 1 - road being resurfaced outside.... noise noise noise!
Week 2 - got some tracking done
Week 3 - Bad tooth infection needing extraction for week 4
Week…
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This is a song about a time I took too much drugs. It was an experience that has had a lasting impact on me.
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Lemonade is an instrumental. It started as an early version of a co-written song with Mary Kealy Falk. We eventually settled on the 4th version of the project.
I just couldn't let this version go without doing something with it. It's the…
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Dizi through effects; EHX Stereo Memory Man -> Zoom RFX300. File was treated with noise reduction taken from a small section of plain noise from the beginning of the recording. The file was then "slowed down" in Audacity by the equivalent amount…
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You've been gone too long
I've been here before
some remnant condiment
behind the oven door
I shut the door so long ago
there's demon in the code
if I took the chance to let you out
the whole thing could implode
To make you go away…
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In the early 70s I lived near Haight Ashbury, played music and was deeply involved in that scene. Wrote this song a few years later about those days. Recorded in one take at Rosewood studios..not bragging on the one take, we booked a full day…
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This is what I got when I used the exact song structure from "Yesterday".
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Another song for the RPM Challenge Record Every Month thing. I have three for May but I haven't decided which one to actually submit. I'm leaning toward this one, but the next one I upload might be a smidge better. We'll see.
I think the…
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I recorded the Gibson straight with the SE Magneto condenser mic into the Scarlet and then vocal on seperate track you may hear the bloody dryer in the background if you listen carefully but this one had to be done there and then or i'd forget…
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Happy Halloween. At least for 19 more minutes here in New England.
This is the ninth and final song for the Quarantine Tunes Volume 2 project. Is it fitting that the song was written a month ago? I don't know. This was the last song written…
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The Freedom Of The Moon
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Poem by Robert Frost
I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one…
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Not bad, 10 to 15 years to to get this one done Ha Ha. This was wrote tongue in
cheek. The story behind it is, a group of us used to meet up, taking turns whose house we used, have a chat, a bit of food, a few drinks ( ok then, more than…
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Just fooling about with arpeggiators and apps, what else is new?
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I was messing about and this came out. Thanks for listening
GET DOWN ON MY KNEES
I get down on my knees and I pray for a day
Where we can all go outside to run and play
Take my hand and tell what you see
can you see a future, for likes…
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This one came to me as I was sleeping on a plane, delayed on a tarmac. I dreamt that McCartney was singing this, sort of. I came out of the dream abruptly when the pilot said we were finally cleared to take off. I racked my brain to figure out…
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There's a line in an Indigo Girls song that says, "If you need to know that you weathered the storm of cruel mortality, a hundred years later I'm sitting here living proof." For me, ever since hearing the words "cruel mortality," they have always…
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I'm making tea. But instead of using an old fashioned kettle, I'm using a microwave oven to heat the water.
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from the album xChange 2k18
arranged and performed by Jarrett Osborn
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For this track I used a scale that John McLaughlin once mentioned in an interview, which I later figured out was a Phrygian Dominant scale with the flat-6 omitted.
Thanks for listening.
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An American Contemporary worship music band, has released a new gospel song titled ‘ Do It Again ‘ the track is off “Evidence – Elevation Collective” Album featuring Kierra Sheard and Travis Greene , it was also produced by Israel Houghton.
The…
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A band version of this song
KC - guitar, vocals & mix
Bingsolex - lead guitar
Erwin B - bass, recording
Hans Nooitgedagt Jr - drums
They say that you are evil
They say that you are bad
They say you got me hooked
They say you drive…
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a bit of doodling turned into this .....
The clock strikes midnight and Jennys heading home
Peter, makes do with bus and he sits there on his alone
He’s Watching the streets fill with people as the the raindrops form to the glass
the falling…
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I could not ignore this hypnotic circling guitar riff on my mind keeping me awake endlessly spinning above the drop "D" tuning registers of a complicated web of entangled guitars that are driving atop the very solid bass horizon the tension is…
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A PICTURE I CAN'T THROW AWAY Key C
Capo @ 4
(Yes. It's a true story. I changed it to 1st person. It was a friend of my brother, Joe's.)
This audio is missing. I will have to find it in the archives or re-record it some day…
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Multi-talented Warri based OAP and gospel rap artiste, Godspower Kabowei has dropped his take on social vices and moral decadence in this new hardcore rap piece: "Gospel For The Street" produced by Just1 of Firsty Productions. Please Download…
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It's not really a finished, polished recording, but isn't that the point of this website? Hope you like it.
sunshine and all the dust
faded colors up above
memories of the one I loved
coulda been the one
the desert she don’t forgive ya…
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Vocals, Lyrics, Lead Melody: Mike Basil;
Bass: Mark Bowen;
Drums: Dean Wuksta;
Guitars: Jeff Chalpan;
Saxophone: Tom Nigbor;
Original Music & Production: Steffen Offermann
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Colin Garvey
extra guitars Brent Nolan
he’s hiding in plain sight
sends a message, don’t bother
drive away, refuse to fight
and try to be the father
left alone with the radio
and wipe away my tears
weakness reveals…
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When my 'whole morning for recording' turned into 30 minutes, I did this. Beep beep;
Driving all over the fucking road.
Left right left right doesn't really matter.
In n out of lanes in my mitsubishi colt
Left right left right doesnt really…
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More lo-fi noodlings for RPM. Featuring 2 year old daughter let loose on a box of instruments, and then messed with in goldwave. Will be a (poorly) hidden track on RPM album.. when there are actual songs on it.
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from the album 'ZERO'
featuring Tess Savigear on vocals
as you wish said the boy
to the girl with the sparkling eyes
so it goes, so they say
he was taken from her that day
and her deep blue eyes went silent
just another sad tale, so sorry…
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Bill got with Wayne and they made this... with a moxf6 yamaha and novation supernova II mixed together as counterpoint microtonal 22edo guitar bound the tones together. :)
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Song #1 for the 2014 National Solo Album Month.
It's November again, so it's time for another NaSoAlMo. This year I am thinking of trying to write longish songs, and I would like to find a way to get my 12-string into every song somehow…
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This is the 45th song posted for 50/90, but it is really the 50th song to be worked on. Somehow it seems fitting to close off the festivities with a sappy love song that swings a bit.
Of all the crap I've written this summer, this is the…
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A song in honor of my Grandad Benny.......who survived the 1st world war and lived to the ripe old age of 96........but never forgot the friends he lost.......
The Screaming The Pain And The Mayhem
it was the 28th July 1914
and nobody could…
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FAWM's 50/90 starts on July 4th, Independence Day in the USA, and wouldn't you know it New England got hit by the remnants of a hurricane that night. Hurricane Arthur was pretty much just a rain storm by the time it hit us, but it was still song…
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My first attempt to work with loops I created using midi.
With Mr Sandbags (reichatron). There's a really cool version with guitar added by Mac somewhere too, but it's weirdly vanished! Will add as soon as I find it.
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RPM 2014
there’s hissing on the ground
keep your legs up high
listen for a rustle in the leaves
you can’t trust your eyes alone
it’s not a monster coming out
of a deep hole in the ground
this is real, I tell you
so real
you can’t trust…
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from the album xChange
performed by Alex Moody
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It started again tonight....the haunting of Big E ....he wouldn't leave me alone until i played him this one.....i said to him...i said "now Elvis i'm not quite the guitar man yet but give me time ....20 years or so"...He said don't give me no…
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Having a lil fun with one. Changed the melody up a bit and removed the horn sections at the end.
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A song about a walk i took on a recent holiday....
At One (Lyrics)
I feel the thermal stir the air
I watch Life evolve before me everywhere
I see life's palette live and fluoresce
I feel, I feel at one
I feel at one with the sun
There's that…
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Here is a John Lee Hooker Song that Buck and I used to sing in Duluth. We were playing in a group called *"THE LARRYS"*
I love Bucks harmony on this!
I moved away a couple years ago, and Buck stopped by for a visit last Friday. As you can…
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THE WALK
I drove 400 miles that night
East of Dallas to Abilene
And the hopes that I held in my headlights
Were hopes like I'd never seen
She called me from work that afternoon
She said she'd be off about 2 AM
Said it would be nice…
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Straight cover, from a backing track, just because I had the urge and I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me thrashing the guitar so late!
The backing track pretty much sums up where my head was at when I recorded it :)
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Another rough scratch track - and more in the bad biker movie soundtrack series... our hero is down, sitting along side the road, his love interest has ridden off into the sunset on his bike. He gave her the keys when she didn't have a way to…
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Wrote this short melody 5 years ago. Messin around the other day with my YouRock Midi guitar and decided to record it really quick.
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For Elly Barnes
Thanks for the moment to think......
-My part of peace-
To think for a moment
Is the greatest of gift to me.
To think without fear
Better still....
My part of peace
Detracts in the least
From the good…
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Cover of one of my favortie Beatles songs, from the White Album.
I actually bought a capo for this, after 30+ years of thinking capos are for wimps.
The Songcrafters.org Beatles II fest prompted me to go ahead and record it.
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