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This version has a different lead melody by Mark, based on the same bedtrack (with some minor modifications) as George's version. Again with Todd drumming.
Vocals: Mark A. Shrider
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Drums: Todd Vierra
Bass: Andy Gupta
Guitars…
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This is a painful story. My beautiful friend and once upon a time in the mid 90's to early 2000's music partner and songwriting partner, Ellie, passed away a few years ago. I only learned this yesterday. I had to dig out some of our originals…
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I've always wanted to do a big band blues tune ... this is as close as I'll ever get!
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woke up from a bad sleep because there was a mosquito in my room driving me crazy ... I had no words to this tune and just spontaneously put down what ever came into my head and sang it .
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My friend Kelvin played acoustic on this spur of the moment live jam , basically a tribute to Robin Gibb , the man is a legend
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A power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975 and to this day is still a hit. I hope you enjoy my version.
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[as recorded while giving birth to the tune]
By Robert Herrick
(1591 - 1674)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun…
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Well i think Reg is feeling a little cheery...Jim has that effect on him.........
Sweetness & Dreams
Sometimes I hear whispers in my mind
Sometimes it's the truth but most times it's a lie
All this torment roaming around my mind
But you have…
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I love technology, but not as much as you, you see.
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The Classic Triple is Born in this song. We ended up dedicating 2 entire albums to the legacy of The Classic Triple!
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A tale of decay, a fable of hope. Awkward, disjointed thrusts, car by car, pulled and tugged, suddenly stopping and again commencing: the locomotive begins its journey. At the height of acceleration, the iron horse howls & bursts forth on…
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I wanted this song to sound like something Chris Isaak would do.
Crying
Intro:
Em C6 Bsus7 B7
Em C6 Bsus7 B7
Em------------B7---
Where are you now?
G-----------D#dim7
What can I do?
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improv jam with friends. apologies for the awful quality. would love some feedback here
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This is a lil tune I had written over fifteen years ago. It is one of my favorite progressions and I figure in the near future to record a full band arrangement with vocals. This is just a ruff take working out a melody over the changes.
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Ready or Not laid down some quick recordings of covers on June 24th, 2012.
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Written by Zabler/Thompson.
WTF you ask??? Squirty Tuna is a play on the Italian word "scordatura", which is a term for music played on a stringed instrument that has been detuned to non-standard pitches.
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Broken (momentum)
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i wake up every morning with a look upon my face
it's called disgust
And we're all here to blame
i wake up every morning with something caught
in my throat
it's called hate
maybe it's just your name…
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It was Christmastime 2011. We really wanted to perform an original Christmas song for a coffee shop show a week away, So, we wrote one.
Josh Brokaw: lyrics, Banjo
Veejay Andres: vocals, sleigh bells
JV Andres: guitar, vocals
Daniel Wilson: vocals…
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With this song, I was challenging myself as a producer, seeing if I could sample the song, 'Vocalise' by Rachmaninov... You tell me if I got it right!
Words by CMOR
Sample by Rachmaninov
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As 6LA8 & MMI, from Final Wanderings: http://6la8.bandcamp.com/album/final-wanderings-an-improvisation-session
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Download "Doctor, Doctor" by Girl From Winter Jargon in a higher quality format... please visit: http://winterjargon.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-doctor-live-40512
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An intro the the Girl From Winter Jargon song "Dust beneath my feet" created with a looper and an ebow.
Download "Intro to Dust Beneath My Feet" by Girl From Winter Jargon in a higher quality format... please visit: http://winterjargon.bandcamp…
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Every sat in a room and sulked a little....and thought i"m not giving in this time......and then reason hits home..........
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Third track from remix album, enjoy the hip hop flavor of loops carrying my vocals in a new direction.
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Unveiling of remix of "still strung out" for a remix album I'm releasing here on alonetone.
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...a Black Keys cover I did at a local open mic
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Adventures in Southern California!!
All parts by CMOR 2011
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Pulbicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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language and communication
john lydon told me
the written word is a lie
so likewise
the recorded sung or spoken word say i
on the table
there sat a cat or a telephone
-what shape was the table?
-what was the name of the cat…
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Formerly montgomerucson. Creating an album for this song to nestle into was a primary motivation for this project.
Special thanks to Ben Montgomery for the trumpet tracks.
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Recorded at an oceanography meeting in Salt Lake City this February (2012). The Ekman Spiral is a phenomena that describes the vertical change in ocean current from wind at the surface, which is in a spiral decreasing with depth. The spoken…
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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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Words and music by me.
Lyrics:
Love is trying to find a way around,
Somebody else who's laying down,
Right in the way of where I want to go.
These words have many meanings.
I'm not just walking blindly any more.
And if you'd lend…
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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Snow has covered the branches
The warm sun sets red through the trees
There’s a crow on the rooftop
And a magpie that eavesdrops
Behind the window in front of me
Smoke rises up from the chimney
The world looks so peaceful, serene
My footprints…
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These walls which surround me
No longer protect
They obsess and they haunt me
And no longer connect
The door, once an entry
Now broken and wrecked
In the parlour, the pantry
The windows are cracked
Home has no boundaries
But I’m chained to these…
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I came up with a nice melody on my guitar so I decided to make a little song with it. Sounds kinda like something you could start your day with.
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A brief visit back to the hemisphere should be accompanied by a brief visit ti ye ole alonetone. So here it is. Hi.
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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BAND AIDS
Words won't heal what's wrong with me
and I suspect it's true
all these band aids made of words
won't heal what's wrong with you.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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JONAH
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents, "Why
Jonah lives under the bridge."
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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This is the song that got me the job of writing all the music for the 1985 George Sluizer movie, Red Desert Penitentiary and a free trip to Amsterdam to work on the music with the editor.
Video at"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23Be8kDiSs…
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BUTTER MOON
I heard this kid say the moon looked like a tortilla
Some people say they can see a man in the moon
But I know, if you look just right, you can see the face of Marylin Monroe
Yeah, when the moon first comes up it looks like a…
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When this happened I couldn't get home before I had the song half written. What a lonely feeling.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Key of G
G Em
There’s a bird in the gutter that…
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by James Michael Taylor
I have a brain that I must keep busy
I have a heart with too many hurts
And I have a house with too many memories
My life is broken but somehow it still works
And I have a dream that wakes me up crying
I feel…
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... just found this cover of "Doll Parts" i recorded a few years back and thought I'd share!
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Ideal words by TJC music by Vivian Circle
Your porn makes me jealous
When I think I’m in love
And the televisions not there
I want a boy that shakes it
That makes the most of everyday
A sense of humor
and all those sorts of things…
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This comes from a Steppenwolf song from back when. It has always been one of the most powerful statements of protest for me.
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Mt Sad was 80 acres of old timberground cleared to be farmed. So named by my dad to describe the difficulties involved in farming it......
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This piece was played entirely on the Fairlight CMI iPad app, and mixed in Ableton Live.
Jean Michel Jarre eat your heart out!
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This is just a really simple string/piano piece that resulted from two years of half-hearted tinkering. As of now the cello is too loud and the snare sounds too sample-y, but I'd appreciate any other criticism.
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Oh, the fun of being drunk. My little dedication to the "spins". lol.
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1. ?? - Hello
2. Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 5555)
3. ??-??? ??
4. ???- ? ???
5. ???? - ??? (Feat. ???)
6. ???- ???
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She often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams,
But nothing will ever make sense again.
~For Molly, at 5~
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Autumn again ... It falls every time, I would say, of a sudden. I knew it will, but...
~for Steve~
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Just a short single guitar track that I never got around to working into something a little more full, but still one of my favorite scraps.
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More live in Evergreen with Paul Mimlitsch, Richard Ball and myself. This piece feature Paul and myself on guitar and Richard playing his arsenal of wind and brass instruments.
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The poem by Tennyson. Recording made with the Amberola.
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Another Lover - SKEEN 110204
Skeen Remix 120608
How I wish I could tell, why my heart seems to swell into a restless state of worry,
But it seems right now, there's just no way how,
It's impossible to say I'm sorry..
There's a look in your…
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Back in December of 2009 I sequenced a number of tracks from Bill (http://alonetone.com/acid ) and didn't release this alternate mix. If you like ambient you may enjoy this. Creative content by Bill, production by me.
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Something I've been listening to this morning on repeat so I thought I would record and share it.
At heart it's two instances of the Morpheus metallophone instrument layered together with some nice verb and a bit of compression.
One of the…
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Some kind of rap-music. Made with a little bit tongue in cheek approach. I've filtered the rap artists voice so much that i'd rather leave his name unpublished.
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This song is the first of a collaboration we have begun with Josh Brokaw. We have started working with other lyricists and musicians to see songs completed that we would not have thought of ourselves. We're pretty excited to share what we come…
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jew's harp duet with dutch jew's harp maker Steven Stoop. www.jewsharper.com
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"Imaginary Friend"
Perplexed and perturbed
downright disturbed
After decades of fighting
my lone war in this world
lo and behold -- she's returned
When I stopped believing in you
I stopped believing in me
Could you have been true
a premonition…
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Recorded live at the Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton
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dedicated to a pretty girl I know... :P
also note there is a meager attempt at video for this song!
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smile for me, pretty girl
smile for me, please
i'd do anything you want
to get you to acknowledge me
but i breathe…
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Jean Jaques Burnel is one of my bass heroes. This song is the second I recorded with the new Squier bass. I kept the other instruments secondary to show off the bass
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Good news/bad news joke:
Sean and Seamus were great baseball fans. They pledged that whoever died first would contact the other from the afterlife to report on whether or not there was baseball in heaven. Sean was first to depart this life…
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This song is about all the Austin bands that tried to make a living with their original music in the Austin, TX area in 1991. Lots of Austin bands got their start playing at the Black Cat Club on 6th street in Austin playing for the door. This…
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Lyrics by Steve Davenport, who also wrote the lyrics for "The Sestina Has Been Drinking" (on "Arthur Unknown").
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Well Reg has decided he's had enough of looking for love, he's always disappointed anyway. He went down to his local lap Dancing club and met Shandy who was a working girl on the side, so Reg decided to pay for sex to try and keep a lid on his…
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I DREAMED I HUGGED JACK HARDY
I dreamed I met Jack Hardy.
He was bold but had sensitive hands
With a voice that was tempered by New York City
In his eyes I saw many lands
I dreamed I hugged Jack Hardy
He was thick and soft, like pine…
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Year: 1999
Album:
Land of the Lost
Artist's description:
I don't remember where I got the drum set from but there is a custom percussion loop thanks to HammerHead.
The voice is mine suitably modified.
That is not a sequencer…
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You go and I stay.
Almost like before, I think.
Don't you notice now?
Always I lag behind you.
Stutter-step to notice me.
Shyness looks at tennis shoes,
Studies things you'll never see.
Will you ever see me?
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Dioses:
Voy a confiar
En la remota esperanza
De abrirte a verdades
Tomadas de un sol arcano y sus hijos
(del sol y sus hijos)
Transita entre eras
Guiado por fuerzas distantes
Los ciclos le esperan, abre la puerta.
Abre tu mente y…
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Mostly Monotron (yep, that little thing I'm holding up in front of my face). Vocal, clarinet, soprano recorder, and acoustic guitar. The percussion is also Monotron.
I decided to make this a tribute to the late, great Mick Karn after realizing…
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The story of a car crash.
Had the dream again this morning
Pictured just how it would be
Saw it moving in slow motion
Felt it rushing up to me
And suddenly it's happening
I can't seem to make myself believe
Clench my fists
Lose my…
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Track 9 / Band: The Anchorage Drift / Album: The Anchorage Drift (2010)
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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Also nearly unchanged from the demo version, although it still needs a bit of revision. Kept the title this time.
5 tracks guitar
1 bass
1 Indian toy/souvenir bowed instrument of unknown name
Sorry for killing the comments when I deleted…
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in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).
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Vocals: James Ryce
Lyrics: Paul Dempsey
Bass & Drums: Neal Vanderhoof
Guitar: Andrew Doherty
Composed, arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
James is actually a country singer. This was the first time for him to sing a jazzy piano…
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Vocals & Guitar: Billy Playle
Composed by Donna Devine & Steffen Offermann
Arranged & mixed by Steffen Offermann
Donna had the original idea for this song. She does not play any instrument, but she bought herself a keyboard, hit the…
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"When I Die"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
From coast to coast and pillar to post the unpredictable is posed.
If there's a God, will he answer my prayers?
Is there a Hell, will I end up down there?
I have to admit when I think about death…
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This is an experiment in stacking real time delay/looped tracks that had no preconceived connections... all overdubs were done without listening to previously recorded tracks. I hear some very interesting synchronizations.... You?
RPM 2011
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I've been all around
I've been up and down
I said I've traveled in all directions
Now
The world is new
If you've seen what I've seen
And you've been where I've been
I guess you know what I mean
Now
The world is new
RPM 2011
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Ok, Who HASN'T had the fantasy about the hot librarian?
This was originally intended to be sung by a friend of mine with a much higher range, but a massive earthquake disrupted the schedule. I wound up singing it down an octave, trying to do…
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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On Growing Old
by John Masefield - an excerpt read by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1940, the year of Scott's death.
>Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
Man, whose young passion sets the…
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NEW VERSION (25 Jan 2011) Just me getting ready for RPM 2011. Of course this song will not appear on my RPM album. Version 1 was extremely rough, this one much less so. I don't cringe as much when I listen to this version! The lyrics were jotted…
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A song for my friend, Eric. Eric changed his diet and drank some green gunk every day and he's cancer went into remission. It's 12 years later and last time we talked he said it was all back...now. He hasn't called in a while. I assume he has died.
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I promise I am not really this creepy. I actually used a 12-sided die to figure the chord-riff here.
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The relationship is going wrong. You suddenly realize that those so called friends of yours are paying a little bit too much attention to your honey................ (Take 2 remixed to see if i could get the voice cleaner)
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A Christmas song in the typical "Ridiculously Epic Obbster Power Ballad" style.
:)
I'll weather this storm
this blizzard of days
goes on and on
holding out for a love that's strong
but it drifts away
I gotta keep on believing
Frozen in snow…
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A cover of a great old Jethro Tull song. Back in the day when they were blues rock.
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six verses of blues about six nasty pieces of work. Straight forward blues played in various styles in one take and normalised. The vocal done in one proper take too (i got shouted at for the first one, abandoned half way!).
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
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Christmas was a bit untypical on the Mojave Desert back about 1950.
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I was going to do a jazz version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for the Yule Tide season, but I wrote an original ballad instead. Inspired by a knick knack my wife has of a pair of ceramic snowbirds cuddling. In the song, I put them into a…
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Recommended to listen with question "Who I am?" Maybe, answer will come from "inside" with some softly vibrations, or unimagiably familiar mentally focus. If not, dont complain to me more than for that broken english :)
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We need to drop some of the things of this world and do more of the things that are everlasting
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frags delivered me a ratata soundwav and this came out.... Another track from the BackvieW playlist
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field recordings and home made 8 string psaltry (enhanced from picture below)
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Is another one from yester year made up on the moment on a Tascam 4Track tape recorder
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An exercise in dissecting a well known song to see what makes it tick. Drums are looped, bass is not in tune, guitar is not quite right, but I'm slowly getting there. Will update this later. Somewhen...
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Jonathan explores the claim that 'when church discipline leaves the church, Jesus leaves the church.'
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We went to visit my dad at his assisted living facility and they have a Yamaha Clavinova on which I improvised for a half hour to provide some entertainment. This is a ~ 3 minute excerpt from about half way through. This was recorded on my Zoom…
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This is a pop dance tune about a woman seeking to find a good man to spend the rest of her life with, but she doesn't want a "wannabe", but she wants a real man with real love.
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Vocals are from Snowflake's Persephone. Music is completely original.
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A song about the classic dice-rolling game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-stop
Lyrics:
It feels so nice when I throw the dice that I think I'll do it again
It'll be okay if I can find a way to make a 3 or 6 or 10
I've come…
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There are both degrading desires that enslave you and sacred desires that liberate you.
The piece is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings…
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So, I've been working my ass off lately, both at my day job, and spinning tracks at night. Basically, burning the candle at both ends. But, I need to maintain my music, and I've been working on this on and off, few minutes here, a few minutes…
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Turn up the volume and adopt the air guitar stance.
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a simple seventies type performance core piece vocal, guitars, bass, and lots of lovely drums!
and a few effects just for the thrill
Contributors:
Din who composed the drum track despite incredible odds against that ever occurring since…
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A pleasant pop tune, written in the Fall of 2009 about "chilling out" and taking a less serious view of the world. Instrumentation done in MIDI
using Samplitude Music Studio version 14 and Mixcraft 4.5.
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Just messing around on a Saturday morning. A
rough cut at best, but I get a kick out of it.
This is a song by the great Jimmy Dean - 1961
I used to spin this 45 RPM record way back when I
wore a young boy's clothes. I always wanted to
cover…
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This is from the movie Crossroads, a guitar piece from the head-cutting guitar duel near the end. I put background music to it, which makes it sound quite a bit different from the original version. Below I also have a video of me playing it solo…
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Goonist Aptitude (Feat Hannibal Jesster)
Produced By Motion
Lyrics By Bradley Logan
Lyrics By Jesse C.
Copywrite 2009
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Psycho (Feat Grim Aka J Reap) '2004 Demo'
Produced By J Reap
Lyrics By Jonathan Willams
Lyrics By Bradley Logan
Copyright 2004
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), alonetone's very own [Sudara](http://veryusartists.com/sudara) shares his potty mouth with us about a young BASTAR_ named Matthew.
Visit [veryusartists…
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SLEEPING ALONE
Now, I've got room for my radio and I've got room for my phone
And I've got room for my books and sun glasses now that I'm sleeping alone
Now I've got room for my tablet and I've got room for my pen
And now I've got room for…
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This piece is a medley consisting Aragorn (named after my chilhood hero), Continental Op ( Everyone familiar with Hammett's books knows this infamous detective) and Scienceboy... nerd or not
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A heavy thing I recorded for Fedor Emelianenko, the greatest MMA fighter in the world.
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