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Mother your an a hole
I know cos father said so
when you left for bingo
he said you was a pain in the ass
Father you're a dick head
I know cos uncle mick said
when mum and him were in bed
they said you was a total douche
ah but its…
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I see in color,
Even when, the words, black and white
I hear in flutters,
Even when, the words come in trite.
After all,
I'm tied to this anchor.
I'm tied to this hull.
Tied to this deck, through the night.
I better get to climbing…
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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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Sometimes the natural order of things seemed broken, the course of events accelerated to a rapid and you feel that what is happening with you is ...a movie, and you're in, but this is not your, you are here by accident.
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…just another turn…
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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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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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Meeting the Gremlin's at my house for a quick brunch.
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rough mix (midi) of new work for piano, vibes & computer
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i just played some simple triads that matched the basic chord progression to Pachelbel's Canon in D(didn't try to play the original melody or anything), then improvised a few solos, hope you like it.
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The second part of your gift is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2946
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This is my eldest daughter Amy singing with me strumming badly in the background. One take, no edits, it's exactly how we did it 15 mins ago!
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Waiting for something that would be: familiar feeling, isn't it? We look forward to when she comes back, look forward to when the morning comes; waiting to stop the rain (or when will finally rain...).
Life itself is a... waiting?
Note…
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This is from the Gospel of Luke.
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
Ave, Maria
From heaven flew Gabriel, angel of God
You were in awe and afraid
Hail, full of grace, he said, you have found favor
To you shall be born the Savior…
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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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This song is about a friend of ours back in 2009. A lot of people called it very strange because she lost her 2 children, Husband, Mother and Father all in one week and they died of natural causes. One night she couldn't take it anymore she was…
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I was listening to Jims beautiful instrumental and it struck a chord ...so here it is Thanks Jim.....
Shadow of a man (Lyrics)
As i look in the water i see a reflection of what i was
i see the strong man who could have done what ever he wants…
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This is the original version before I messed it up with Maxicraft :P
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A mando improv for Doc Watson, who left this week. For the improvFriday event "blues" theme.
http://www.docsguitar.com/
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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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Cascadia is the first solo work written and recorded by Andrew Davis. This funky instrumental blend of folk, rock and jazz features mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bass, and varied percussion. Enjoy!
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This is a song called "if it hadn't been for love" by Adelle.
Not originally recorded by her but hers is the only version i've heard.
This is me on all the parts.
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I ended up using so much of the Chef's Surprise track by MMI that I wouldn't feel right without putting the name in the title as well :)
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Including the following sample from Freesound.com:
http://www.freesound.org/people/sleep/sounds/1375/
deep
it can be stowed away
it can be remembered
it can't be thrown away
when it's deep
hurt
it can be cherished
it can be channelled…
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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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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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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(Click the link above for a live studio version with many other musicians)
This is a solo acoustic version of my song Water Trees and Poison
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Wouldn't it be great if I could just finish one song one day and have it last longer than 2 minutes, but not today and maybe not tomorrow either.
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This cut was made right after operation Shock and Awe started. I wanted to try and capture the feel of being an innocent civilian caught in the middle of it with helicopters flying around...gun-fire swirling around, etc. It's particularly a tribute…
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Another with Johnny this one with a whole lotta love thanks Johnny
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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Reg couldn't remember a thing.........then he started to remember................
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I only recently heard the Howlin' Wolf version and I've been playing this riff for years.
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For Dave.
Blues Man and Capt'n Beefhearts Long Lost Brother.
Passed away from Cancer on Friday the 4th of March 2011, aged 62.
You Were a Great friend and taught me alot about music and life.
Peace be Upon you Bro....
See you and your…
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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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Background music for the Master, illustrating his unique style.
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Thought I'd try an improv with two capos to get an open C tuning.
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this is what happens when i drink.
must credit Memoirs , fellow alonetone artist for playing everything except what i played. thanks buddy!
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I wrote this today in a new creative process, writing a poem first, then a lead part and ending with an accompaniment. It's definitely a different sound: I was experimenting. Some of my other influences came through on this one. Also, I paraphrased…
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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a little cover i whipped up for my last live show, i thought it was neat, so i recorded it for your listening pleasure.
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G
There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep
He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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I'm not sure if I'm happy with how the mastering came out but I figured it's time to let this one fly and get some feedback on it. I recorded the 'robot' voice using Audio Hijack Pro to record my Apple's system voice and then added some effects…
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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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An ambient anthemic piece.
The process:
- Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad.
- add camelphat and camelspace
- add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff
- record a single take accompanying the…
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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A very special love song.
Featuring Ewan Crossan on guitar.
One touch
Can make you do anything
Your light shows me everything
Please know i'll carry you everywhere
I go, my plaything
Chorus:
And i knew i'd have you
moment my eyes…
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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this ain't perfect, i've been working on it a while. the drums sound like shit, my vox are horid and the guitars suck balls, but i kinda like it.
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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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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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kimono rose, is that feeling/thing/person you always long for
[right click on arrow and select 'save link as' to download]
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This is a song by our guitarist Keith. He doesn't get a chance to jam with us as much since he moved to New York. He and I had a lot of fun working on this simple tune, and it makes me miss times long gone.
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The guitarist started this one out as a love song, but it became something much different.
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Summertime in Boston, and this little tune is about how it goes by way too fast. Some hilarious chatter between the guys before and after they kick of a pseudo-psychedelic groove that I hope you will enjoy.
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Getting lost in the maze from time to time is just part of life
The maze of misfortune
I get one step forward and three steps back
Can’t see where I’m going
Lifes so dark and black
Looking ahead seems stupid and pretty…
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He looks into a maelstrom of fragmented thoughts and half-remembered faces. The dust claims it all in the end, leaving just incomplete remnants of indecipherable emotion.
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Freesound Sample Used (and it's buried deep, deep in there…
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This fab iconic song by Andrew Gold was asking for a full BBC Symphony Orchestral treatment, duly arranged by myself, so here is my take on it.
© Written and copyright owned by Andrew Gold and BMG Blue
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(interpolates lyrics by Nas and samples music by L.E.S. and Trackmasters)
[Man 1] Hello?
[Man 2] What’s up, man?
[M1] Nothing really, my girl just left, she’s geeking out, talking ‘bout big house and kids, Norman Rockwell shit again
[M2…
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for sound in abstract noise constructions - all abelton live
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interpolates lyrics written by Illogic and Lucid Optics and samples music produced by Lucid Optics
[Hook]
What are you running from?
Don’t wait for tomorrow
In this world, there’s only one of you
The sun doesn’t follow
What are you running…
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[Chorus]
It’s all for the best, yes, man
Whether good or bad, it is this, man
It all leads to like consequences
‘cause you asked to get just this thang
Uncle Sam is [*gap*], and it is fact
Not just [*gap*], a shrimp [*gap*] and a big [*gap…
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[Chorus]
No, no, I can’t believe it, no
No, no… no...
[Verse 1]
Finding a girl, it’s not a level playing field
I never got ‘em, how would that make you feel?
My chance came at the worst time
When I’m busiest, that’s when you come around…
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Lyrics, Vocals, and Acoustic by Mason P.
All other instruments by Lane Sullivan
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Well, IF YOU eveh spend time above the 45 th parallel
You know all about the northern view
So here is my imaginary solution to a northern cold ass winter
If you don't get it that's not unusual
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Everybody's looking for a savior
To tell them how to live before they die
As if they can't control their own behavior
Or trust what they can see with their own eyes
Mindlessly believing what you tell 'em
When everything you tell 'em is a…
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Dance remix of “Alive” by Gary Fox off his 2021 RPM album Stardust.
Check out the original version here:
https://alonetone.com/garyfox8/playlists/stardust/alive
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well after listening to the mixers on alone tone I decided to do some apple loops.
I had a great time with it , so here is a jazz tune on the positive side
ive had it with sad tunes
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vocal => ego compressor => tensor
guitars => MXR badass fuzz => Mood => El Capistan
Some reverb added post production.
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I like this one, even though there's not a lot to it musically. Mix wise, there's tons going on. Four rhythm guitar tracks, five vocal tracks, four lead guitar tracks, and (really) two drum tracks. Oh yeah, and one lonely bass guitar.
I…
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Steve developed this beautiful track with his ukulele and I added some lyrics to make a "positive message" song for the times we are in.... Hope it makes you smile too...
It Won’t Be Like This Forever
Sitting here on my front steps
Listening…
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A worship song for the times you feel hopelessly lost.
V i
Oh Lord I don't know what to do
When I find myself, far away from you
and every prayer always comes back to this
I don't know what to do please pull me through
and I 'm so tired…
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I love surf music complete with Fender guitars dripping in lots of spring reverb. This one came out of the clear blue and somehow developed the double-naught spy thing in the process.
Matt plays lead. He's got the surf thing down pat!
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vamp thing maybe for something but now for Sound-In 1-25-20
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I'm making tea. But instead of using an old fashioned kettle, I'm using a microwave oven to heat the water.
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The song is supposed to be one of those "Saturday Morning Hits", which goes back to when I was a kid watching Top of The Pops in '72-'74 with my older sister in the UK. You would see all these bands playing their hit on TV, with all these kids…
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DOG PARK
Everybody meet me down at the DOG PARK
If you need me I’ll be down at the DOG PARK
Sunday afternoon and I’m bound for the DOG PARK
Everybody gets along at the DOG PARK
White and black and brown at the DOG PARK
Nobody’s looking…
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A new project of thinking about writing for 4 guitars as in same feeling as a string quartet. This is one of two recent pieces. The initial idea was thought and recorded then the other parts were improvised one at a time from that. All performed…
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Crazy is a term of art, insane is a term of law.
-Hunter S Thompson
RPM 17, Enjoy!
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I didn't get shut out this year!
My demo plans for 2016 are proving to be way too elaborate so I wrote and recorded this in GarageBand on my iPad in one sitting. The music is overly simple and the lyrics are throw away, but it's done. Guitars…
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A small project using LogicX instruments. Love, Peace to all of you!
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A song about a friend of mine who by day is a postman and by night is one crazy dude..........
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RPM 2k15
vocal by Madeline Koestner
she tries to push me away
nothing that i can do
so hard just to maintain
and keep my mind focused
to not let my eyes betray
i’m watching her slide away
into the abyss, call it nothing
call it nothing…
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Blues. My way of playing “Rollin' in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” ‘cuz I’m a Soul man. See the Soul-patch? Dig. Be cool, cats, and stay dry!
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#RPM Challenge 2014#
First Song of the Challenge . . . Here We Go!
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Me, Regs, and Les covering Stephen Stills
Love the One Your With
Enjoy!
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New song. Wrote the guitar part first, lyrics came later. This is one of the first songs I've done more than one track on in quite a while, and also one that isn't dark (unusual for me). Anyway, enjoy!
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From heart to heart it comes
A stream of sounds
That so worries,
So beckon ...
For Trevor, the one and only
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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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I put up a wren house in the trees and garden where I was living and surprisingly a house wren moved in. Every day he sang his song in a repeating pattern ... a natural loop. I held a mic out the window one morning and taped his beautiful repetitive…
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Another rough scratch track - and more in the bad biker movie soundtrack series... our hero is down, sitting along side the road, his love interest has ridden off into the sunset on his bike. He gave her the keys when she didn't have a way to…
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A little work in progress here : written with a friend as a female/male duet.
Ill cut off my hair
And trim down my nails
Set out to sea
Then let down my sails
Mistake me for a man
You wouldn't be the first
You can't have my best
Without getting…
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This is like, hmm... like talking to a stranger on a train. First, it's nothing about, and then suddenly you discover that you're about to tell your life; or you listen to someone's story, seemingly intricate or simple (and therefore seemed familiar…
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I've posted this "Naked" version because Mrs Russe wanted me to... :-)
It wasn't "finished" in my mind - there was a certain amount of "orchestration" to come.
But I ended up liking the starkness of this version.
The original intention…
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Summer Sun
Sitting in the summer sun
The heat warms the soul
Sitting reminiscing
Got no particular place go
life is all around me
The motion of the birds and bees
Is like heaven to me
Heaven to me
I lay out in an open field
Making…
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(Featuring Jim Goodin fretless guitar, Chris Vaisvil fretless bass)
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leave us not forget, that we are men after all.
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This weekend I was thinking about artists that I used to enjoy listening to in highschool. Toad the Wet Sprocket came to mind, and I thought it would be fun to cover one of their songs. I've always liked "Pray Your Gods" - even though the chorus…
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“Second chance”: (Richard Hardrick)
I passed out.
The new journey will begin and I'm still here,
All for an angular brightness.
They try to wake me up.
I left the ground
floating and smiling with the bright light, al fin
in front of…
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You may be shocked to learn that I own a Rickenbacker 360 and I love R.E.M.
Intro/verses: G-C-Am7-Cmaj7
Chorus: Em-G-C-D
Bridge: Fmaj7-C/G-Em
What if you found you had
Your own time bomb
Never sure if and when
It could go off
Safe again
At…
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A collaboration, this started out as a jam, with Jen on thumb-piano.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth & Jen Howell during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of this sort of thing at www.facebook…
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Time for a noodle in the middle of the house move...packing....dumping......sorting...reminiscing..... still waiting to exchange contracts and mean't to be moving Friday....a little stressed
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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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Another cut from the 1988 cassette tape of a live performance by Scartaglen on the NPR show Mountain stage. This time some tunes from County Kerry.
Kirk Lynch- Uilleann pipes and whistle. Becky Pringle- Fiddle. Mike Dugger- Fiddle and guitar…
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Inspired by the local Farmers Market in my community.
YouTube video is attached.
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Thanks to Johnny Reg is getting quite a Zep album together filling a teenage dream...Thank Johnny.....
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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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A simple song that somehow became a rather complicated recording.
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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Dave Berry - music (acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, bass, piano)
Tim Green - Vocals
Shadowself - backing vocals
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Alan Sondheim - violin, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - electric guitar, SMD.
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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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A track from my RPM 2011 album 'Glass Wall'.
It tells of the perils of dating for the modern werewolf.
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yar another pokemon remix. better then what i did with the title theme imho.
check it.
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Reg was in the library reading back issues of the national papers to keep warm because a cold spell had hit the country hard and he had no money for heating. At least he could sit in the library reading until 5pm when it closed. Some strange stories…
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In loving memory of Takeshi Shudo, creator and CEO of the Pokemon franchise. A great mind, a great idea, and a wonderful era of Japanese cartoon/ games, end with his passing. Let it be known that his virtuoso soul was laid to rest for the reason…
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Such a sweet girl,
the camera really loves your face
Tall heels and a bullets grace
The creatures gonna eat your name
Such a sad girl
Your mammas gone an let you down
left you wandering down the streets like a sacred cow but holes in your…
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rpm 2011
You complain that's what you're good at doing
Lay around without a care at all
Nobody understands your feelings
Maybe it's the video games and alcohol
Well I have got a solution for you
And maybe you might even like it too…
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
-Lyrics-
A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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Folk/Blues I suppose, inspired by the US slander of Julian Assange
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Ok, I have decided to put it here. It is a stretch containing several ideas, it falls apart here and there (especially at 3:10), but I think the atmosphere shines through.
Hope I can return to it in a couple of weeks (when my head is clear…
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a waddling guitar solo transforms into godknowswhat
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One from the vault...
Recorded for the compilation album Catacoustic Overtones.
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Recorded on my old Alvarez 5023 with a Fishman Rare Earth soundhole pickup.
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This is a new song created using one of Nebulonic ALchemy's guitar tracks in combination with several 'Boop loops' handmade by Hot Wheels Spaulding. I find it interesting that they line up so well, since The were originally two separate songs…
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a stripped naked version of the classic song from our 2010 new crop RPM album
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ok, volume is fixed, and the title too. Maybe soon I will mix it better or perhaps just move on to better things. Thanks to those who gave excellent advice on previous version.
and the #2 version has been deleted (actually this is #2).
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This song's about that guy in the band who really can't play and just doesn't get any better, but pays for studio time, buys the gear, springs for beer, and owns the van. You always have to think twice about kicking the guy out with all the money!
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Some non-guitar silliness. Every instrument is an iPod Touch app except for the drums which is friend Phil on electronic percussion.
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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A happy song about being left by your no-good spouse. There's a word for the attitude in this song but I can't think of it right now ...
this is now a tidied up version 18/3/09
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This tune has been knocking about in various forms for the last decade and I've never given it a name.
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The flute on this piece is done by a very gifted flute player by the name of Melinda Eckels. You will hear Melinda on any of the songs where I use flute. Her abilities have spoiled me so, that I can never use keyboard or my limited flute skills…
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A song about Jesus. you believe or you don't, it's that simple.
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Music for the credits of a film called "High Lonesome" by Andrew Hulse. I originally wrote this for guitar, viola, and double bass. In this new version, the lead melody is played by my wife on clarinet.
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Well she's left him it wasn't even a week he's not sure he didn't just dream it...
It was only you
i stumble from my bed
my life lived is lived like a dream
Nothing going wrong
Nothing too extreme…
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Bass, guitar, drums, electric mandolin with sitar emulation pedal.
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Vocals: Katinkera and Bukupanda
Produced by Kirke Godfrey
Mastered by Kirke Godfrey
Cover Art: Katinkera
Another Year: Katinkera & Bukupanda
Another Year Lambykins Mix: Same as above, produced by Kirke Godfrey
Summer Vibe: Bukupanda…
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