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There's a Beatles Fest going on down the cellar and over at Songcrafters .....maybe that's whats causing it
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We all know that great gal.....don't touch or you'll get your fingers burnt....or worse still, your good lady hears of it !!!!
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Had written this one many years ago. I had it recorded originally in a different key and with different instrumentation but it I just was not happy with it. I deleted the original lyrics for the chorus and added a bridge section and lyrics. I…
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With My Sister Kathy Bores
Last Waltz Of The Evening
The last waltz of the evening
Last dance of the night
I’m making the most of each beat of my heart
Music plays and I’m holding you so tight
Hard to see it come to an end
But it’s going to…
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Wooden Sam
Mike Basil: Lead Vocal
Gary Miller: Rhythm Guitar
Mick Lovering: Lead Guitar
Andy Gupta: Bass
Todd Vierra: Drums
John Scunziano: Lyrics
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Mike Basil
Mixed & Mastered by Steffen Offermann…
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You still can't believe
That you'd accept the reprieve
Despite the excitement of the sound
That detached you from the crowd
When the foliage recedes
Contracting one more disease
Hidden in the fog that engulfs and surrounds
What was lost has now…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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A track I did as part of an ImprovFriday tribute for Richard Lainhart who passed away recently.
Guitar, fx, live loops
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Reg was looking through you tube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQxhaPhFDs&feature=related and was shocked at what he saw.........
THE PLAGUE OF METH (Lyrics)
She seems twisted in her agony
her pain is visible
its destroyed her
tormented…
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Simple acoustic song I wrote for a girl that never cared. In her words, right when I finished and told her I wrote her it(my first song too) "Stop trying to sound like someone youre not." glad I got away.
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.Written shortly after the Egyptian uprising that over threw the Mobaric regime.
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Excuse me if I've uploaded this before. From a few years ago, my attempt at Fahey.
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Geas sent me this tune for National talk like a pirate a day so we took it down the cellar and luckily Robert Newton was down there so we got him up on the stage and got him to do this little number......Hoping Yee enjoy eye arrh…
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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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Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity…
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After the damp squib of a start to the party it eventually got started and what a party it was........you should have been there....the whisky started to flow......it must have been the most debauched night down the cellar yet…
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Bob came down the cellar last night it had been a bit quite down there for a while so he hit this old classic by the doors and Regged it up a little.....we hope you like it
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Recorded live during the last days of the Red Blood Club in Dallas, this Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels song features Stefan Gonzalez (drums), Aaron Gonzalez (contrabass), and Dennis Gonzalez (treated trumpet).
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This is a captured and then edited live performance using the Sonar Matrix view using various samples - some of which were paul stretched.
I'm liking this - if only they had the possibility to change the pitch live it would be like sticking…
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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apregg fun for ImprovFriday ("E"theme - 5/19-21/11)
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Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800
The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…
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This is my song Floating fully recorded at Blue Frog Studios.
Alsooo check out the video for a live version!
Enjoy :)
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This song was a challenge to write . . .
LYRICS:
Order for your protection
under threat of a gun
You might be confined here
till the damage is done
Lock him up and toss the key
It's for your own good
Straightjacket
Done
Tie me…
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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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Lucy of the species Australopithecus looks into the distance of Awash Valley in what is now Ethiopia and feels the future of what can be.
Performed in Charles Lucy's 0b5s tuning
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1776...a stalemate over Bostontown, Colonel Knox reminds General Washington of some cannon left at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York and asks if he and some hearties could go fetch them so they could have half a chance against the British…
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instrumental written by michael mcguane (reliablebowmusic)
John Fuller : piano/synth
Michael McGuane : guitar
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Louis was back in the cellar last night and he was telling Reg how Blue he was and they got to jamming...............This morning i arrived at the cellar to find Bon was passed out in the corner....Dave was right with his guess....He could never…
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Written by Errol Chugg (music & lyric)
Vocals: Error Chugg
Guitar: Mike Woodford
Organ: Swansong
Drum programming, steel drums, synths: Steffen Offermann
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
A "I wish Winter was over"-song by…
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This has probably the least effert i've ever put into a song , i was sat at my computer falling asleep , when i had the urge to sing this beautiful George Harrison song , i could'nt be asked to get up and change guitars , so using my PRS Singlecut…
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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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This was a poem written by a guy called Maverick , i altered it to fit a song stucture , it was done live , with my good friends Tina on bass , and AK on second acousic
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You never would have caught me playing this genre a few years ago. WHat the hell happened ??
All the instruments were recorded with an open mic at my house. Which, as you know is always a chaotic place to record :) If you listen hard enough…
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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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This time paying homage to grandpa. Did I miss any dead folks out this album?
I often stop and think of William
Up on Skinners Ridge
He passed me on his way back down
As I passed from being a kid
A shame you’d say
But aint that the way
Things…
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rpm 2011
Making music everyday alone in my dark hole
Pumping out my silliness for not a single soul
Stinking up the internets with links to stupid songs
Oblivious that no one clicks and no one sings along
There's a word for people like…
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12 string improv experiment with stereo mic setup and dual capos to get a Csus open tuning.
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Copyright issues aside, I had to share. This is funny I don't care who ya'are.
Bob Murphey live from Nacogdoches, Texas
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This is a collab tune which was originally written by Tad Rees (aka Solo). He plays the Keyboard.synth, and I did the guitar and drums. The last half blends with his original which can be heard in completion at :
http://www.traxinspace…
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I wrote this song after me and my boyfriend who planned on getting married broke up. I was in a very desperate state and I believe God gave me the lyrics to this song. It's amazing how His peace brought me through what I thought I couldn't bear.:)
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If you ever spent any time in the Whiskey well. You know it's a place you never want to revisit......
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Written/Recorded: December 25, 2010
Not really finished, not even sure what it is. I jst felt like playing some loud guitar...
EBEGAD (Capo III) and EADGBE.
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VOIP (dance for the solstice you fucking plastic robots)
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from the new album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals from Melissa Childers
You see the lights in the sky of a trillion shining stars
Image yourself, just one of them
You see a field full of flowers and everyone's the same
That's what I…
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A prototype. I recorded the banjo parts myself and the rest is all arranged in Logic. The mandolin that comes in halfway through is a chopped up loop until I can find a mandolin to record my own solo.
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Original song I wrote with the goal of the Louisville Cardinal's football team coming on to the field to it. Go Cards!!
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i know it's another remix of the same Bolero of fire theme, but I just felt I didn't do it justice. behold this new rock themed track for Bolero of Fire from The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.
enjoy.
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This is a piece Norm and I collaborated on last year. We hope you will enjoy it.
two improvised 12 string guitar lines
bass line ( I took a few takes)
improvised piano
Norm's percussion in Tumbao rhythm
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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This is the first tune I wrote using an actual loop pedal. I really like the rawness of its form. The sound is sharp, it kind of attacks your ear.. but then after it loops around a few times, it calms down and sinks in..
I expect that there will…
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a stripped naked version of the classic song from our 2010 new crop RPM album
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A Poem about Fear....
-My friend Fear-
By Tharek Mokbul
My friend.... (!?) .....
You have controlled your tone....?!?!
Is this the first time I have truly known you?
The ever present protector....
Moderator of will....
I request that you know…
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I almost forgot I had this one lying around. Written for (RPM musician and composer extraordinaire) Michelangelo's January challenge, I had to use two random words out of the dictionary... So this little bit of foolishness (using industry and…
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Sometimes the most profound statements come out of the mouths of babes.
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Don’t Talk Much- Perhaps it’s time you got over your big, bad self and moved on.
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Written and Recorded: Feb 28, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (FBbEbGCF, FBbEbGDbF, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
Last track for RPM 2010, and by far my favorite of the batch…
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Old Paint Ver.II
Continued from Old Paint Version I............
So, I plugged in the cat eater, hit distort and it took on a whole new feel.
I added bass(finger is tore up now), more drums, and low level fuzzed up leads.
The ghost…
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A good take on a middleeastern style theme. Sounds refreshing and with the reiterations of a Middleeastern prayer, it makes itself right at home. I've always wanted to do one song like this.
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wonderland
what is the sound of the last few minutes of life
she said I wouldn't feel a thing, but women lie
what is the color of the last thing you'll ever see
frozen for all eternity
and these things inside my brain
tell a wicked tale
and…
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This is the last of the live stuff for awhile.
Ross Reitzammer on flute.
Oh by the way, I have blogspot presence now:
http://guitarlooper.blogspot.com
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One of the things about my [Glitching Satie](http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/glitching-satie-1) track that I wasn't comfortable with was that it wasn't my recording that I was using. But I'm nowhere near good enough to play a piece like Gnossiennes…
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It's the "do no harm" mix.
Because, theoretically you won't hear any difference between this and "technique 43".
Which is sad really, given how many hours I spent on it. Hours spent on the oh-so-exciting put-everything-in-Logic step…
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sexy synth pop tune.
It's still rough around the edges
but it's time to unveil the idea.
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[2003] Full Scale Nature of Equanimity & Inner Trepidation
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How could I have been so blind, so stupid . . . and so human?
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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Rod Webber, Joey Slliks and Luke & Aaron Bellamy bring you sounds of love and death straight through the chip in the back of your neck.
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Copyright © 2008 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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Sunday aftnoon (11/09/08) took the reso down to the Fort Worth Modern Art Museum and recorded some doodling inside the Serra sculpture Vortex. No effects added, all natural reverb inside the structure.
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A further march down the road in acl's evolution - and one of the many directions we've been dying to get to... it's, ummm, water-y. (And this song is especially dedicated to J Wentz.)
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Nice melodic pop song. Mostly guitar instrumental with a roll your top down, feel good outlook.
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(Disclosure: Despite the Aug Upload, these are no longer the demo versions I had. I just didn’t want to lose my high listen count… very vain, I know…)
Verse One
Ash from the fireplace,
Driftin' like ghosts in the air
Smoke on the ceiling…
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It started as an attempt to make a dream-pop song, but it evolved into a purely instrumental piece with three movements. I felt a need to make something more pleasant and peaceful this month, and to spend as much time as I could immersed in that…
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This is a song I wrote on returning to the place I used to live.
I tried to record it in the 'dream pop' style as suggested for the optional theme on this month's REM Challenge.
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He walks through the city, the lights all aglow,
Faces rush past him, but none seem to know.
He whispers to shadows, he speaks to the skies,
Asking the night where his true love hides.
But the stars keep their silence, the moon turns away…
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There was a man from Galilee
With hands that cared for everything
They took his plow and beat it into swords
I have a dad I never see
And children here in front of me
We’re going where the apples taste like flowers
I wouldn’t…
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Dark clouds are moving in
Soft breeze upo0n my skin
Prepared but even then
So swings the pendulum
The lives it takes as the branches break
The hopes and dreams now sympathies
For all the starts left in the sky
Are pocket change left…
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composed with loops from Steve Tibbetts' Friendly Fire package
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2024 50/90 Challenge song idea number one becomes finished song number three. Only 47 more to go!
My morning routine got messed up and it became a song. Fascinating source of inspiration, eh?
I like the chorus in this one. Well, I like…
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Song I wrote using a slide on my old Silvertone Archtop guitar. Has its own sound.
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“Thank You” was written, recorded, and mixed on November 28, 2023 2023, for November’s 30 Day Songs challenge (30daysongs.com).
“Thank You” was also submitted to November’s REM Challenge (via RPM Challenge).
"Thank You" written by W. Ng.
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Marz and I love Crowded House. We were feeling ambitious and took on one of our favorites for the June 30 Day Songs submission.
Tim - guitars, voices, other noises
Marz - vocals and lead guitar
Jarrett Osborn - drums
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Hello, so I am speaking now in light of the recent Turkey/Syria earthquake
And there are officially confirmed dead around seventeen thousand people
With more to be confirmed dead probably soon in the coming days
And speaking now and generally…
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I got a new hydraulic system
My whatchamacallit ticking
I find myself getting even and then getting away—Macaulay Culkin syndrome
I’m enjoying life despite the hiccups
Why rhyme except to edify the listener—me
There’s never been a time like…
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I haven’t described myself as of late
But I will now
[Chorus]
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a person
Don’t judge me off of nothing
Turn nothing into something
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a…
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(samples "Lounge Session" by Alex Dionisio)
[Chorus]
This is all three parts of me
The artist, the emcee, I’m Alex
The holy trinity, multiple personalities
I’m Alex D, AD and Klash
[Verse 1]
This was before things came to be
Before…
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5th track from new album Wishing Well. Instrumental composition. Lots of distortion, reverb, and delay! :)
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Written with John Bennett - Find more John Bennett music here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB8kZ_1SeK4wsNtEoYwlEzCbGVt0XA6ny
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Walking On A Winter’s Day
Sunlight glistening on freshly fallen…
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Two different small-size guitars; one a "proper" electric with microtonal frets in the top half of the fingerboard, the other a toy but with metal strings tuned to the same scale as an egg slicer. Two different recordings of each, all through…
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You came and planted your flag
You gave a name to all this
You cleared away all the weeds inside
You built a solid fortress
The walls around it so high
You kept the door open
All the time, open wide
Sometimes i crawl inside
I know…
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My dear friend Brent Kinder asked for some covers of his AFC songs, and this is my attempt at covering the excellent song Sideways from his Orange album, which is available on Alonetone in its original form. I'll include the link here, but I'm…
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A friend got me excited about writing short instrumentals for Video, TV etc and posting them on Pond5 ( A site catering to that type of thing). I recorded this little banjo piece this morning.
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Since venturing beyond twenty atmospheres, our intrepid explorers were assumed lost forever. Never underestimate the human spirit and instinct for survival, especially when it’s fueled by a defiant shanty.
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Based on a riff brought back to life after many years, and remembrance of a childhood fever dream. Wrap this in the context of the past two years and this is the musical result.
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Guess I just needed to say something ......
Well, the line's been drawn, we'll ignore and we'll invade,
It's best if you run, or get on your knees and pray,
After midnight, bullets…
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"For You" by W. Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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Test recording of voice modified by a EHX Voice Box on vocoder setting; the modulating signal is the sound from a one-string instrument made from an old crutch. Post production involved adding two copies of the original mono track, panned slightly…
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The sixth song taken from the 2016 RPM Challenge to be re-recorded in The Great 2015 Re-Recording Project. I swear that makes sense. Just trust me.
I have been saying that this round of Quarantine Tunes (the sixth and final round) is scraping…
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This was by far my favorite song from the 2021 RPM Challenge, but I was really disappointed with the recording. I thought the rhythm guitars sounded like crap and the vocals were terrible.
This version sort of fixes the rhythm guitars but…
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2021 50/90 Challenge Song Number 27
You know what? I like this one a lot. I haven't done much of what you could call "hard rock" this summer, but this one might qualify. It's another in a growing line of songs in 3/4 time that are attempts…
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Can you hide in happiness
Can you disguise the sadness in your voice
Could you play only major chords
Can you hide in happiness
Choose a part of you to show
And no one around you can know
Just how deep the scars go
Can you hide in…
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This one started life as a noodle which turned into a doodle which became shark bait....Thanks for listening
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Shark Bait
Nothing but blue
Nothing but the blue
waiting for you
Nothing
but the…
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A reliable source of funny since at least 2011.
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The good folks at the RPM Challenge came up with a year round game for us to play. Record Every Month. One song each month. I'm game, but I don't think I'll stick to just one. I was trying to get 10 done in March 2021 but here I am on the…
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Thanks for listening .......
YOU ARE NOT LIKE ME
Some People don’t know they can’t control their dreams
They hold them back and watch them rip at the seams
If they could break away maybe one day they could see
that I am not like you…
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I think I need to take a day off. My ears are turning to mush. I really struggled mixing this and I can't even tell if it's worth keeping or not.
This song was written during my first attempt at doing anything in GarageBand. Prior August…
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Now that the October album in a month thingie is finished I can get back to the better (not necessarily good) stuff. The Quarantine Tunes, volume 2.
This song is wicked old. I wrote it for the 2020 RPM Challenge, all of nine months ago…
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The song was written inspired in The Book of Enki. Man talking to his creator.
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Originally recorded for my 2019 RPM Challenge album, "The Dark Side of the Moo." This is how I cry musically.
I added some verbs, an additional minor organ line, tweaked the bass, and remixed it on 09.05.20.
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Was messing around this afternoon and came up with this .....
let the love come out and play
Now you tell me you’ve nothing to give
Yeh You tell me, you can’t get that hit
You tell me that you want it
You giving me nothing you don’t want…
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