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I bounced all the tracks (18) I recorded last month to this mashup, a bit chaotic but kinda works.
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SHINY THINGS
Like the shiny things a crow stashes
Crumpled napkins and cold ashes
Like broken pieces when the bottle smashes
My tears don't mean anything at all
Like the golden rings around your fingers
The forgotten songs by unknown…
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I think...
I might...
I think I might absolutely freakin' love this song.
Well... the chorus at least. The rest is okay, but the chorus friggin' slams.
I wrote and recorded this in November 2014 for that year's National Solo Album Month…
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Trial run after rearranging some electronic doodads on my side desk, most notably the pictured Drone Stack and HypnoDrone from Kaiser Electrical Instruments in lovely Duluth, MN. Recorded at the end of a rare week-long ice event in north Alabama.
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Straight out the quarantine
Alex is the number one host with novel Covid-19
Happening to guilty sheeple
Also affecting innocent people
The answer is love but not found in these weird evil jeepers creepers here
Jesus, why you leave us in tatters…
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Good morning, America
Big race problem everywhere we are
If there’s trouble for minority
It probably ‘cause of ethnicity
If colored man is content, he is a bitch
You should let it get to you, be pissed
I wish I never been born…
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rpm 2023
Janette Salisbury vocals
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow
it’s tainted my soul
and heaven help me now
make me clean somehow
sometime, tomorrow
leaving, leaving, leaving
fleeing, your sorrow…
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UPDATE: I remixed this. I replaced the plate reverbs with rooms.
Another song from the 2022 RPM Challenge, re-recorded for Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven.
Not a lot different between this and the original. The rhythm guitar is still sloppy…
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The Feast - A A J Russe
Written 26th September 1985
Recorded 3rd March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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This one's been sticking out of the shoebox for a long long while. It always shows up in a list of maybes. And it did this time…
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Can you feel it, in your teeth
It is hiding, smoldering
In the shadows, of your mind
Where there's smoke there's surely fire
Are you evil, in disguise
Feel the acid, start to rise
Ever shameful, hide the guilt
Always lapping at the flames…
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the fretless Chinese junk strat through the mothership board played lap style slidey
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Very Pink Floyd-ish...not on purpose but happy it sent the mood that way down the ropes.
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Playing with my new Zoom B1X effects processor. Synthesized drums are from the B1X. Bassline is a panicky one I like to play. The guitar part I just came up with. Altogether I think I like it -- anyway it gets my pulse up!
Well, it's a work…
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It is what it is ..........Thanks for listening
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Not sure about this one.
This was written as part of the 2012 RPM Challenge. I had tried RPM five times prior to 2012 and had failed miserably every time. About a week into February that year I had actually decided to call RPM quits in general…
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Well Reg was watching the news and he couldn't believe a word that our great prime minister was saying ....He believes that Boris is actually working against us rather that with us in our battle against the Covid. Reg lives in the North of England…
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GONE - My sequester song...
Chain wrapped around the dog park gate
Weeds growing on the school yard lawn
Where has everybody gone
The chairs are stacked
And the stage is dusty
And my strings are getting rusty...
(C) Royal T Music
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With words by Brent Kinder, and piano by Igor.
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Originally composed in 2012.
Lyrics written 2019.
Produced July-August 2019.
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Last week I posted a song called "Flat Earth Rebuttal" that was the second half of an argument between a Flat Earther and a person who fails to see the need for a biblical conspiracy against the concept of a spherical planet Earth. This song…
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I kissed an activist...
now Uncle Sam is pissed!
She goes around...
tryin' to burn things down.
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As you may have picked up on, there's a lot this year about soldiering on when your world has been destroyed. So, this is a song of hope. Have faith, have faith...
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This is my cover of the Twin Peaks Theme, "Falling."
I've always adored the vibe of this series. This is my attempt to capture how it makes me feel. The original has music by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics by David Lynch.
You'll have to be…
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Starry Nightmoth and I (Gene Eric Mann) labored a few days on this tricky number. We gave it our best shot, but mucho kudos to Del Shannon's keyboardist -- his break rift was amazing! We settled for sort of faking our way through, which was…
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The realtors always disliked showing the old Victorian house on Layton Way. It gave them a creepy, clammy feeling. Especially in the basement where mad whispers and the sound of metal working off in the distance could sometimes be almost heard…
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OK, so it’s a creepish song about Death, but how about my happening bass lines? This Psych Folk funeral dirge features Starry Nightmoth on KBs.
LOOK
Look in the mirror
See me standing there
Look out the window
See me everywhere…
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Capo @ 3 in Em
Em D
Weather man is talking on the radio.
Am C B7
Says the sun is going to shine but does he…
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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My cover of the 1967 Velvet Underground song Venus in Furs.
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Who says that I define you?
Who says I should label you?
Who says I should shelter you? Who says i should restrict you?
Who says I should limit you? Who says i should hold back you?
There is no user guide.
There is no yellow brick road.
There…
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Guilty Roses
Three dollars at the drug store
For a rose as real as life
Can't pass the display
I want to take one to my wife
But she's one suspicious lady
A rose herself you see
"I'm not that complicate."
That's what she said to me…
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Here is a Steve Krell song.
Buck Erpestad and I recorded live using two acoustic guitars.
Here is a link to Steve's original version : http://alonetone.com/slkrell/tracks/saskatchewanshostalconnorkrell
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rpm 3,,cello,cello, contrabass, and bass clarinet,, im really getting to love that clarinet!,, thanks for listening , and please send any comments,suggestions, thoughts richard
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A bit of improv done yesterday with my newly refurbished fretless guitar. Finally got the midi pickup to track almost right! Part of the sounds were gotten by rubbing a teaspoon on the strings.
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This was the original version I recorded before I completely overhauled it (see version on "It takes a village album ). I wasnt crazy about it but hell I put time into it and completed it so why not post it up.
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Noodling with the "art guitar" in DADGAD tuning in the Serra sculpture Vortex at the FW MOMA. No fx added, all natural reverb/delay inside the structure.
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Original song kind of in response the Pussycat Dolls song.
I'd like to dedicate this to Eddie Van Halen, for being such a massive inspiration to a generation. If you're reading this Eddie, thanks. And please don't sue me for stealing your riffs.
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A cover off the new Letter 17 album "King Richard"
the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/letterseventeen/tracks/laws-of-motion
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Song #2 for the RPMC. My goal is to have 12 short tunes (1-3 minutes long), so I need to pick up the pace.
Again, quartal tuning on the top 3 unison pairs of the 12 string. I've been listening to Ralph Towner's Blue Sun, hence the title.
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A drone + some angry drunken guitar playing.
Trying to capture a feeling...
You have just had a fight/argument with a lover but you're drunk and your feelings are lost in a swimming haze.
Tech details:
Drone is two tracks, volume pedal…
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For the daughters of two of my favorite people.
Bonfire Lullaby
Dannah studies my hands while I play
With heavy eyes at the end of a runaround day
Fading fast ‘neath a summer night’s sky
No need to wonder why
Time stands still in her…
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Sensory Overload - SKEEN 110204
Remix 130401
Don't you know, there's a reason why we're here...
Such a show, but situations are never clear...
How do we find, a better future?
How do we mend, such a broken past?
Free to laugh at what…
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I just got myself a new toy called Maschine. Maschine is a "Groove Production Studio." So I guess that makes this my first groove product.
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Samples used in this tune from the NY subway this summer. Inspired by Dave Dunseath
3-12, just uploaded a new version of this with guitar- and some other changes
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Along with her magnificent harmonizing vocal tracks, Inge sent me one track which was crashed by her 2-year old son Willem. He pretty much takes over the whole operation at about 3:00.
In the background you can hear the original rough vocals…
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Acoustic Jam, Heavy Times in Peoples Minds. Thanx for Listening. "G"
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A rough one to keep my account alive :-)
Just capturing some ideas with using my new Freeze and uPOG pedals.
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First track I produced on my DAW...just tryin' to get the feel of thing at the time (no manual...well...a manual, but it's in Japanese...so same thing). Anyway, it's pretty simple...programmed a drum track, threw down a fretless dub line...threw…
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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with just the coolest tiny idea? perhaps a musical dream? these small pieces are just that,, tiny little musical notes that just seem to break into my normal musical day,, one take suff
think…
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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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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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RPM 2011
You say the world is too complicated
You say close your eyes forget it all
Nobody sold me a bridge in the desert
Nobody remembers with our eyes closed tight
You say somedays just a point of view
You say someones not much different
Nobody…
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Final version
I wanted to have a banjo fiddle tune but i still haven't learnt to play either instrument, so this is my famous 1 string banjo technique, with mandolin and guitar. It's style is inspired by meeting Morgan O'Kane and Ferd 4 last…
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During therapy Reg starts to look back on his family and one of his favourite Uncles comes to mind.....................
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This is about my Nan who in some ways was more like a second mum...
You wont be gone when you leave me,
You wont be gone x 2
Cos while I'm alive til the day I die
You'll linger on when you leave me
You'll linger on
I remember how your…
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The other night a few of Elvis's friends came over to see him and the thetworegs were listening in by the ventilation shaft from the cellar and they took a liking to a jam that was happening with a man called Diamond Neil doing the Vocals. This…
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Gonna let this moment bend us into circles so we have no ends
in light of everything you think of being isn’t always knowing
something isn’t coming, something in you still denying love,
love is never wanting to be all alone and so we roam…
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Reg has been up to his womanizing ways and has ended up dancing on his own. reg came up with another great funky tune and Reg had to jump all over again. Hope you Funk IT.........
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I Am => a piano solo in John O'Sullivan's Blue Temperament Tuning
Written with a good friend in mind who has gone to market.
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A test track of sorts.
I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…
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Black Cat
Words and Music by Tharek Mokbul ( OsCKilO )
My heart will miss a beat
Each time
I see your pain
I know this is the end
But I
Will fight this tide
The battle is complete
Both sides
Have won this time
I will remember you
So proud…
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This little toe tapper is simply a baseline of guitar, bass, and drums, with horns and guitar providing the solos. It was also a song I just couldn't find the right lyrics for. Oh well. Enjoy.
ER
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It's not unusual to chase your girl around with a dull axe, is it? Just kidding - This was 60 tracks and almost a year to finish. I had some help:
Guitars: Tony W
Fadeout Solo: Gnasty
Acoustic/Rhythm Guitars: Me
Phone Message: Tony W &…
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Guitars, mandolin, penny whistle: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2006
From an out of print, self-released CD I put out in 2006 (titled "The Old Stone Bridge" - not the same one as the Old Stone Bridge tracks I've released…
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Here's an instrumental track I put together a while ago, bit of a rough around the edges demo, but you get the idea!
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Been carrying this around since 1982, finally recorded it. Composed when we were expecting our first child, hence the anxiety.
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I wanted to record something that sounded like Jimi Hendrix and Jack Bruce (in his Cream days) jamming together.
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I imagine this music playing in a bar sometime in the future, probably in the background while cybernetic bar patrons interface with one another in full view of the world's sensor network.
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Three hours.
No plan.
Halloween.
Thirteen tracks.
Dark but not dark.
Toys used:
Synths: FM8, Massive, Absynth
Guitar: GT-10, Timeless 2, Volcano 2, Eos, BigSeq2
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guitars, synths, tabla, tambourine, and elephants (the lead melody at around 01:40)
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Increasingly I think the music I am making is less about sound design and more about expressing some of the things inside of me that want out. I guess I may be starting to know what I want.
This one started with a beat (using Stylus RMX to…
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This is another guitar heavy piece, however there are three synth parts, but they further back in the mix. The name is from a dream of moving back to Vancouver BC.
This is also definitely an ambient piece, treating sound as a sculpture more than…
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Another one without lyrics. The title was my workingtitle. And I just thought it was a funny title (I think Rage Against the Machine is kind of silly) I quite like some of the sounds on this one (it's a Poly 800 through an Electro Harmonix Big…
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Lyrics:
I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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A 12-string guitar instrumental in drop D tuning.
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This song was written for a festival of Peace that took place in St. Catharines, On, in June of 2008
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
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On that morn
She could hear the mist on the mountain
And the sound of a robin's wing
Hear the snowflakes hit the frozen ground
And hear the sunrise sing
All those beautiful sounds were oh so lame
Compared to the sound of his name
Love immeasurable;…
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Mixed and Edited in Logic Pro ... Recorded Violin into the Modular (Clouds) with some Custom Percussion Samples the side to add to the Chaos
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My fav track from my latest release, released on September 9th, 2025!
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Boy meets girl. Girl enthralls boy. Hilarity ensues.
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dimension
reflected
a nexus
internment
delirium
disorient
a rapid transit
itinerant
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I've walked myself in circles
where maps do not apply
I've met myself so many times
and all my doubles lie
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Samples:
(from Freesound…
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Note: Dr. Sattilaro strayed from the diet in the late '80s and back onto typical Western fare, his cancer returned, and he died soon thereafter.
hey so just wanna pop in really quick and talk about a book I just read
it’s by a doctor called…
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3rd Song for RPM. Getting this done was filled with late night torture.
You tried so hard
You tried so hard
But you’re not there
You’re not there
You’re not there
You’re not there
You made your way
Oh you made your way
But…
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A man walks into a bar, looking like a faggoty-ass Austin Powers, sideburns long
After about an hour, he’s about had four or five
He says, “bartender, give me another one, put it on ice”
“Don’t you think you’ve had enough?”
“I’ll tell…
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[Chorus]
Some got it really bad
So don’t be getting mad
Be thankful what you got, for things to build upon
Some got it really bad
So don’t be getting mad
Be thankful what you got, for things to build upon
[Verse 1]
He came back from…
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This beat is just for me, I don’t do it for your peeps
And it’s so damn raw, I need soda pop
And if you’re going to pop, don’t hold it back, come on
Yeah, I am so raw, I’m so depressed, can’t fix me yeah
I’m Alex D, AD and Klash, I go by several…
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(Another day. Another week. Could barely remember what day it was. What month it was.
It didn’t matter. It was all the same. The morning coffee. The food. The internet. The evening booze. The bright, flickering screens. The dreamless sleep…
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Written and recorded for a promo video for Jasper Guitar Company, LLC, a boutique guitar manufacturer based in Green Bay, WI.
Jasper guitars use bodies that employ unique, patented technology that increase sustain, enhance harmonic overtones…
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If we take a moment Ignore what divides us two
Just take a moment What would we see
Would I see a brother Might I be your friend
Might there be more that binds us hand in hand
Between you and me are the same old songs
Between you and me…
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Keep me close and afraid
Keep me wandering for days
Keep me exactly the same
Keep me docile and tired
Keep me angsty and wired
Keep me faking the pain
Keep me loose and contained
Keep me close and afraid
Keep me wandering for days…
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Here's a new one that I did
All instruments and vocals by me
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When I was young I dreamed of big things
I was flying so high on eternity's wings
Refr: Live every moment as if it were your last…
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Recorded way back (early '80s?) on open reel tape. The mumbly voices are from whatever was recorded on there before, as it was a former CBC Radio tape. The "instrument" is one of those little slicers for hard-boiled eggs. Submitted to Sound-In…
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Dance remix of "Tonight" by Letter Seventeen off their 2021 RPM album Tonight.
Check out the original version here:
https://alonetone.com/letterseventeen/playlists/tonight-(rpm-2021)/tonight
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2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.
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(Remastered 22/10/2021)
So I got me a new geetar the other week.
Named her Lala, obviously. Seemed kind of appropriate - she wears a faded gold dress and is full of chunes and mischiefs.
This is our first effort together. It was meant…
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hey .... Cheer up and play some ABBA tunes
Greg Connor Steve Krell Guitars
Off the cuff vocal. slkrell
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What’s on your mind
Are you losing confidence
Someone’s been unkind
And caring becomes a consequence
Look for a reason to smile
The Sun will shine your way
Look for a reason to smile
And watch the clouds drift away
Feeling like you…
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Fresh breeze on Lake Superior
And waves collide with the shore
The sailor must be watching
For gusting wind we can’t ignore
Loose the main, correct the healing
Point the bow to the wind
Recognize the peaceful feeling
In this sacred…
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This ones for a collaboration on Songcrafters with Kari from Finland. I heard his composition and an idea jumped into my head. So here it is. Thanks for listening
Callous smiles and whispers wake the drunk from his dream
Eyes unfocused to a…
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After several bottles of wine, thetworegs and I were able to coerce Elvis and a few others down in regs basement to come out for a long overdue collab. After all, isn't October collab month?
Thanks again for the great vox!!
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The sound of an old Remington typewriter, sampled, looped, and run through a vocoder.
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This one's the single. It's fun to play and fun to sing when I was in the studio. It's meant to played loud. Actually, the whole album is. Thanks for listening! Cheers, Gary
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Shout out to Tom Waits, one of my favs. Rumor has it, he has had a similar problem with his piano.
I didnt think I would make it signing this way to the end of the song, lol.
Throat lozenge anyone??
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Written and Performed by Rog Hildreth.
This isn't a Christmas song, but it's a new song, and I hope you like it.
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A piece in a tangos flamencos form that i composed for "Mare Nostrum - Mystical music of Mediterranean" project. Here i play Iranian drum Zarb, Greek lute Bouzouki and Middle Eastern flute Ney. My friend Denis plays flamenco guitar.
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This one is still in progress, Jon the guitarist sent me a riff which i stuck together to get a kinda structure...so this is take 1....
I'm gonna kill a Mockingbird
That mockingbird mocks me with your name
I'm still not over you and it's causing…
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More from the archives. This was the opening cut on Scartaglen's 1986 album "The Middle Path". A double jig, a slip jig, and 2 reels. I played bouzouki and Uilleann pipes on this cut
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Ambient, building electric guitar instrumental, something like a cross between the late great Gary Moore and some softer stuff by Allan Holdsworth.
Imagine your spacecraft nearing a black hole, and the strain it puts on your vessel. Then, as…
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First track of 2015...
mega shimmery verbs + beat + funky gated guitar = this
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Written and recorded by Tiggy Acworth late August 2014
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Lyrics and music by Hank Williams Sr., but my cover is in Dm/D, with guitar and bass tuned to Drop D.
KAW-LIJA
Kaw-Lija was a wooden Indian standing by the door
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
Kaw-Lija-A…
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Political Folk tune featuring Starry Nightmoth on baby grand piano, pan flute, KB “strings” and intro voice. About the blatant environmental destruction humans are committing against Mother Nature/Earth.
Curse of Eden
Why did you heed the…
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Lyrics & music by Greg Connor. Lead and slide guitars by Gene Eric Mann. Copyright © 2012 Greg Connor.
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I feel so small.
I feel so weak
I feel so small
© 2014 ROYAL T MUSIC
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So you stopped coming round
Your heart buried in the ground
It's a shock, it's a scene
You never say what you mean
Emotional landmines
You can see the stop signs
But you're not slowing down
One foot on the trip line
And the words fly…
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Had a jam with myself at the weekend and into Monday and then Tuesday evening, and now my fingers are sore!
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So, I realized that there are so many songs with the name Caroline in them, and I wanted one of my own. It's pretty simple and stripped down.
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Written for: Sing Me A Story
http://singmeastory.org/
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*World Of Art* was written specifically for *Victoria's Story*
http://singmeastory.org/stories/victoria-s-story
The world of art
Design and color
Leaves…
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Original comment by Andy Gupta:
A 70s hard rock jam style of track. With incredible parts by Billy, Steve and Marcel, capped off by a meaty mix by Steffen.
Thanks so much guys!!!
Pages Will Turn aka "Endless Spin" (Gupta/McAndrew/Playle/Offermann…
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Scrapin' metal across metal. I love train wrecks.
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A noodle that turned into a doodle which turned into a song....thats what you get when you watch David Attenborough's Africa on TV................
No Rain (Lyrics)
The earth was scorched as dry as stone
nothing anywhere wanted to grow
the Devil…
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Part 2 of The adventures of Moonbee and friends.
Just me and my new guitar :)
Enjoy
xox
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My take on an old Fleetwood Mac number,it's boogie time!
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Oh,
Iron jaws, wrapped around my legs,
Try to gnaw, but why would I want to.
Why would I want to.
Oh,
Fresh cut gauze, soaking lips,
Trying not to fall, but why would I want to.
Why would I want to.
Silent pines, know my name
Even…
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Continuing FDR's adventures in space..........
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Here's my second submission to the Stones Fest.i'd have liked a bit more time to play....but with four children under6 you take your time when you can or it don't get done...hope you enjoy as much as i did doing....another stripped Reg Version…
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A mando improv for Pete Cosey, who left this week. For the improvFriday "blues" theme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Cosey
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Here's a cover of a zep classic...from Reg and Speed Demon Gene....Gene has done all the music and the mixing..thanks Gene ....and i'm responsible for the warbling..... hope you enjoy
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She was a bad girl but boy did she keep me warm in winter!
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if i had enough $$$ for a gold watch, id buy something else...yep,
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