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December 2023 A-side. A big and loud tune about the stresses of the holiday season. Apologies to friends named Joe.
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2023 50/90 Challenge song idea number 23 is finished song number 16.
Poly rhythms. The drums in the chorus are in 4/4 while the bass and guitars are in 7/8. The vocal melody and the guitar solos... well... they just close their eyes and think…
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The Record Every Month Challenge asks us to record music every month. I failed in May. Well, I failed to finish any songs. I actually started 10 of them. I wanted to do an album in a month. Now it's June and I want to do another album in…
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Tim - guitars, voices, and other noises
Marz - vocals and lead guitar
Megan Kleven - backing vocals
Marz and I have know one another for over ten years now, but we've never actually recorded anything where we sang together until now. We…
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[Verse 1]
This is where I was born to be
On a platform that don’t belong to me
I don’t fit in, so different
No different than a wolf in a coop of chickens
When I move they scoot
And when I swoop they do take a shit then
I can’t rap and…
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(interpolates lyrics of Lakim Shabazz, Apache and Treach from Naughty By Nature)
[Chorus]
One, motherfuckin' two, motherfuckin' three
One, and in comes the two to the three and
One, motherfuckin' two, motherfuckin' three
One, and in comes…
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classes and continuing to attend just frequently enough that the professors could feel like I was just there to personally insult them by not participating. And I had these headaches, and these hot flashes that were, mysterious. I really, like…
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Dark Techno/Acid Bass/Post Rock project i started working on, let's see when it leads.
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Been a while, lots of ups and downs...Glad to be back!
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As part of sound design for the Front Porch Players latest production “Let's Murder Marsha” I composed and recorded this theme song. It was recorded ‘in the box’ using MuseScore, iRealPro, and Reaper software.
The show continues next weekend…
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The second song started for the 2022 RPM Challenge is the second song finished. I'm sort of working off a first in first out queue this year. I didn't plan it that way, but that's how it's going.
I'm disappointed in this one. It's not a…
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Some days I'm the preacher with my head up in a cloud
Some days I'm a gentleman who does my mama proud
But some days I'm the creature who just arrived from Mars
And some days I'm the futurist who drives electric cars
Some days I'm the…
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I think this one may have lost something in the re-recording process. The mix feels sloppy and the performance seems... well... sloppy. I am going to need to listen to this and the first recording from over the summer back to back before I am…
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This is an older song. featuring my friend Hans Nooitgedagt Sr on guitar
The rest is done by me.
Pretty dark lyrics, feeling much better now :-)
KC
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Parents of friends around me dying
And in the midst…
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2021 50/90 Challenge, song #2.
I started this at midnight on July 4, 2021. The very minute the 50/90 challenge started. I'm 90% sure I've used almost exactly the same melody before, and I'm 99.999% sure I've used exactly the same guitar and…
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was messing about with the tuning on my jasmine electro acoustic. Tuned it to this tuning F# A C# F# A C#. And this little song popped up out of nowhere, Had my hiking gear on so you can hear my jacket sleeve sliding up my trouser leg every time…
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This is another re-recorded song, but there is a little twist this time.
In 2016's RPM Challenge there are two songs that were supposed to be an argument between a flat earther and a non-mentally defective human. They were The Flat Earth…
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Demo for new song written during the February 2021 RPM Challenge. All lyrics and music copyrighted. All rights reserved.
Blown, trudging through snow,
all alone, even though it seems
a ten part team
one downstream
a fever dream.
Replayed…
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Sometimes That Feels Like Going Home
Written by INTNL
Love is a song that only angels have sung
We try to harmonize but no one ever does
We’ll just scream until we lose our voice
And sometimes that feels like going home...
Sometimes…
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Auto Machine
Written By Fictional Name
People there are machines
Same thing everyday
Slowly losing feeling
Until they get paid
But can't dare mention or question
What is a living wage?
And no emergency savings
To get out of this…
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This was written in April of 2014. Most of the songs from that month were duds, but this one was okay. I trimmed a little fat and even at this funeral dirge tempo it's a lot faster than the original. It still clocks in at over five minutes…
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I like the theme music to the PBS/BBC mystery series Midsomer Murders with its use of a Theramin. So much so that it inspired me to purchase a Theramin and try my hand recording my version of it. The first thing I learned is, while the Theramin…
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Running backwards, walking on a loop. Time is a flat circle of mazes.
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Noodling around with some scale patterns in D. Kind of a fun tune :) new strings sound pretty good!
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Formed in Melbrooks, Newfoundland, Smug Drugglers are the duo of Tim and Jim Druggler. "Acid Waltz" is taken from the album Butt Dust, said to be recorded under the influence of a potent mixture of carbona and marinara sauce.
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Something quite short, and hopefully very jolly this time around - the joy of children playing!!
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This is a collab with Kari & Kopi from Finland i got the idea for the lyrics fron Frank Sinatra's it was a very good year ....any way here it is Thanks for listening
When I was w/ Kari Topi
When I was nineteen
Well it was a crazy time…
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The Interstate Highway system was started in the mid-50s at the height of the Baby Boom era. It was a virgin ribbon of highway stretching out in all directions. We couldn't wait to explore it.
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I'm really tired right now so this mix might sound awful and I won't know. Also, 50/90 might be hitting a snag in that I have a bit of an injury to my left hand. It's not getting better and while recording the leads on this puppy it was affecting…
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Just a mellow instrumental to get involved here. Hope you like it!
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Antoinette plays keys, Anonymous plays drums, Evan is guitar left, Chris is guitar right (sorry I was a jerk and too loud) - This dates from 1977 when I was a classical major and Antoinette a piano major. Even though this improvisation was from…
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In Lockdown, I have really been inspired to return to my more classical roots, and have enjoyed playing around with the idea of epic style movie or cinematic themes/trailers. I have imaginatively named them Lockdown Orchestrations No. 1, No…
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A demigod or demi-god is a minor deity, or a mortal or immortal who is the offspring of a god and a human, or a figure who has attained divine status after death.
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This was really a transition piece that struck me after I had finished working on some heavier, darker music. As I was playing around with it, Love Still Wins just struck me as an appropriate name. Another track from my 2016 self titled debut.
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from the album "the Machine"
nothings wrong with me
it's all in your mind
everything's ok
and I am feeling fine
must be some mistake
or you've misunderstood
whatever you might think
everything is good, so good
the power is still on…
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Have you ever felt like it was YOU who were the problem? If you haven't, then you're missing out on one of the purest forms of self loathing that humanity has to offer. This is dedicated to the fine soul who actually did find something lovable…
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This is an alternate mix of an RPM2020 song. I'm hoping half of my album will be arranged for acoustic guitar, hand percussion, and saxophone. I also want to do an alternate mix of each of those songs with the usual three piece rock band arrangement…
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Here is my contribution to the Minnesota Homebrew Radio Show Songwriting Challenge for April:
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Our SONGWRITING CHALLENGE for the April 25 show is to write a song that 1) is about the…
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Pharmakeus & I teamed up on icompositions many years ago and made around 30-40 songs and this is one of them. My old 1970's Kasuga dreadnought sounds amazing and so does Pharmakeus voice and harmonica , enjoy :)
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(i have literally not made it through a single listen of this demo since last year. no idea.)
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HOURGLASS
Vocals, Vocal Melody: George Schiessl
Lyrics: Mike Mantecon
Guitars: "Tofu Trebelsix"
Bass: George Schiessl
Drums: Chris Bouchard
Original Music & Produktion: Steffen Offermann
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my little dirty remix of the proods
Dr. Pepsi's Death Cult Glee Club
guest vocals by random homeless guy walking by
i love the proods
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Attempting February Album Writing Month.
http://fawm.org/fawmers/saltbearer/
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Startled awake after that feeling of falling.....
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Nothing beats when the MN songwriters convene. Greg and Colin sure brought some awesome sound to this song at the coffee table to improve the version that I recorded myself earlier this month. It's what I call a TOTAL MAKEOVER.
Thanks guys…
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drone (noun) plural: drones
1.
a low continuous humming sound.
a monotonous speech.
a continuous musical note, typically of low pitch.
a musical instrument sounding a continuous note.
2.
a male bee in a colony of social bees.
a person…
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This is the guitar backing track for MOMENT OF GRACE.The song is in a full E tuning if I recall correctly - EBEG#BE - from low to high.
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A collab on lyrics from the other-side......
Before i stumble and fall
Falling back through memories
I don't expect a soft landing
I'm staring at the tumbleweeds
remembering it all
i'm remembering it all
before I stumble and fall
remembering…
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I know we all let stuff stress us out but personally I have to stop it. Now. Part of my RPM 2015 effort
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a laid back jam along tune . Cheers all, smokem if ya got'm.
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Poor old Reg is just not satisfied.......
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
it’s the Grey of the morning,
and the alarms ringing loud
right in the midst of a dream
as it sings out loud, loud and proud
it wakes me from my slumber an dreams
into…
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Just having fun, hanging out, creating some music.
Double drop D Capo @ 3rd- Lead Capo @ 9th. :)
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Another for the John Lennon Jukebox fest on the otherside....Well i've kinda done my own thing on this but throughly enjoyed the experience....i got the harp out of the case first for a long time so please excuse...and got the cellar band fired…
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Track taken from my ''Dead Man's Shoes Acoustic Takes'' album 2008.
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Pitchforks glow reflecting torches held in hand by the town’s folk
Eyeballs gleam beneath the balls of flame puffing out the stream of smoke
Rumors grow, they’re telling of the child who was flung in the lake
Gnashing teeth, they scream…
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This is a song nearly 20 years in the making.
It's a wholly new version.
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inspired by inside the taj mahal by paul horn on spotify.....my version,mastered and processed in audacity....sublime soprano sax...
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Messin' about in Open G tuning & this popped out. Actually, as I tune all my guitar's half a note down I suppose it's in Open Gb !?!?! Do that exist !!! Any way, hope you enjoy it.
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Magpie
By OsCKilO
RC300 Looper
Mummy's in the kitchen working out her dreams....
Tempted by the torture that she always feels.
Running out of things that she wants to steal.
You're the apple of her eye...
She just wants to feel....
Scared…
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A tribute to my good friends Saturn's Return from Southport, ME. A great hard punk/metal band. The first three parts were instrumental songs, so I felt I could offer my playing this way. Check em out on Facebook!
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Hes back on the booze.......
Fallen from Grace again (Lyrics)
before you judge take a walk in my mind
walk in my shoes if you’ve got the time
people don’t laugh i’m broken again
cause i’ve fallen from grace again
i’ve fallen from grace again…
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OH JIMMY - capo @ 4
C Am F G
On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet
A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street
Dm walk down G
He didn’t notice that the date was 1983. Oh, Jimmy!
C Am F G
Oh, Jimmy!
That…
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Happily Ever After
(Boudreau)
I’ve been counting on the sun to come and melt my blues away
I’ve been dying for your smile all day
I’m trying to find the reason I’ve been moving so slow
I guess I’m just tired of blaming the snow
So I…
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Busking is now au fait, de rigeur and a little je n'ai sais quoi! You heard it here first G:)
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(Thanks Norm for a great beat i think i'm even in time here and there…. i tried ….. i've been meaning to do something with this beat ever since i first heard it …so after watching one born every minute on the TV i decided to finally try so here…
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eyes all around
thought surveillance, the fighting on the ground
dont abuse the diguise the one they made,
should never be altered
now we fear , the words we say, descent in
the shadows
we must hide to survive the thought police their searching…
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Heres Track 5 for the RPM carry on with the Saga of Reg......Well after his night of falling of the wagon Reg has realized that he needs to get his head together and stop...but how....he needs help....desperately .......
What Have I Done Where…
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All's well in Reg's world at the moment .......he woke this morning after meeting his new love last night down at the Dog & Bone it was Kareoke night....in she walked and Reg was hooked it only took one look........
Sweet Love (Lyrics)
you…
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This is a collab song with MTC. I almost hated adding anything to it cuz the first track he sent me was kickass vintage Jim. It totally changed flavors in the collab process, but still one of my favs
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this song is originally a song by the band i play guitar and sing in, simfonik plague. another alonetone member, the lkgc, plays bass in this band as well. another tidbit- alonetoner's "movement to contact" was one of the original members of…
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Our history was held in objects and places. We didn't realize as children that we were standing amongst the ashes of the loves of our ancestors. Still, we knew back then that love was possible and that we'd all move mountains for it.
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This is one of those I made it up as I went along songs. Started with some chords to a click track and well it just had a life of it's own. Loosely based on some personal musical memories and a fantastic musician I had the pleasure of playing…
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Why?
Oh' I am not so ready in my heart
But I will reach for closeness to the wind
Fear stops what we feel.
I feel i know you now.
Lay
Let's talk of all the things we need to say
No whispers will suffice in our abode
Only song of what we…
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Extravagant and clean and practised, oh, so very well,
they pose and fall and knead and climb, unclothed yet practical.
The ceiling sets the scene and I am reminded not to go.
I'm at the mercy of this posthumous woe.
Never seen again…
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Another lyrically-challenged collaboration with jip1965, who sent me a guitar, bongo, percussion track with a recorder playing named, simply, 'Love'.
I added the piccolo, crystals and windchimes from my virtual keyboard, renamed it 'What is…
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I did it!
Starts off a little cheesy, but I really was on a train, going in a westerly direction, when I wrote that!
Enjoy!
xox
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MAN THAT I AM - Key Dm
Dm
Train pulls out the station and the shades are all drawn
Cold steel bites my ankles and I am on my way home
G
I would jump out of that window. Risk a bullet in my back
Dm
But I'm shackled to a bunk…
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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From a idea born in the mind of Greg Connor, who wrote half the words. I supplied the tune,at his behest. Perhaps someday he will take it up and add his accents to it.
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Reg has met a new girl she’s a little unstable but he loves her just the same................
Time Bomb (Lyrics)
Yeah baby your just like a ticking bomb
Ooh baby your just like a ticking bomb
The only trouble is if you explode
The only trouble…
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There are things I cannot do without x2
And if I ever run out of the things I cannot do without
I'll run to the nearest 'things I cannot do without' store
And I'll run in and I'll buy some x2
And if someday their running out
Of the things…
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This is just a bit of silly fun I had one day with a four-track cassette recorder...about 9 years ago (yup...another lost find fro the racks). Just blowin' off some steam on a day off in my little apartment of Tokyo. On first listen-back...it…
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THE GIRL HERE IN MY HEART
If anybody sees her will you tell her that I love her
She might not remember. Now she loves another
If you ever see her you will recognize her
The girl here in this picture. She's the girl here in my heart
If…
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins aka Gasserpe, September 2011. BMI
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This old civil war song, calls to mind the needless slaughter and stark inequity of wars.
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quick ImprovFriday mash featuring Kavin Allenson, Roger Sundstrom & Chris Vaisvil
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Here comes the rush
You feel it in your bones
And when your bones are crushed
You feel it in your soul
You just cant escape it
Its everywhere you go
Turn round and face it
Tell everyone you know
Ah, the rush
You've missed so much
Here comes…
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Alee- own - ee - rection.
It's got a mind of its own.
And when it comes, its gonna be the death of you all.
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I did this weeks ago & then found it again last night as I was archiving old files. This is one of those one-off improv sessions... I recorded the rhythm guitar in one pass, then one "lead" pass and then one vocal pass, and done. Even the…
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We forgot to mention that Reg visited Norm's place a little later and added some vocals. The video is a ride through the US state of Virginia. The Texas Tavern serves cheesy westerns (cheese, fried egg, burger, bun) in the downtown of Roanoke Va.
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It took a bit of doing and a lot of learning - I've built my first guitar
I have a video of all of the stills I took while making the guitar with some demonstration music.
The music has mistakes - but it is the first time I played it - I spent…
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Oldrottenhead - lyrics/vocals
Dave Berry - Epi Sheraton, bass, keys, drums played on Roland HD-1
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The whole world could be falling to pieces but it really doesn't matter because WE'RE IN LOVE!!!!!
(I was especially happy to throw in a line about 2012 and the Mayan Prophesy!!!)
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I wanted to see how much "music" I could get out of one chord and four notes. Sorry that it has a sort of cheesy 80s sound at times, but that's when I started playing guitar and it's hard to reprogram your brain. The chord is Bsus2 and the solo…
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Just a simple humble ditty, one of a handful I've been playing on the piano lately.
I haven't been in the mood to do much recording in the last months — or more specifically, haven't been in the mood to flesh out and arrange tunes. So this…
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A short filler track!
Lyrics:
30 seconds to midnight
and i embrace decay
half a minute to tomorrow
i just want to watch the world go away
everything i've ever loved
it's all gone away
30 seconds to midnight
i don't want another day
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A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.
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Too much whiskey can warp the thought in the mind and the desert is probably the best place for Reg when he feels like this........................
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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