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This is a laid back little number written by Elmore James and given the FDR treatment!
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One of the first songs I ever wrote... When we bought our first house, we had a nice big back yard on a 1/3 acre lot... With the train tracks just on the other side of the back fence.
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This is the first song I ever recorded in my life.
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My little version of Only Girl In The World. Hope you like it :)
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My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!)
This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.
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Live at The Eagle's Club Taylorville IL
Lyrics:
Sea of dust is where I spend my time
On a ship that sailed by powers of the mind
Neath the light of the crimson sun
Up and down the coast of the Forked Tongue
Stories and tales they echo…
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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Russian folk song, arranged for a trio. Zelko Krakan - violin, Kira Van Dausen - cello, and me - guitar.
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A cool little diddy about you know who. Music by Mike Giles. Lyrics by Tommy Lewis.
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Just thinking about Happiness. Thinking about how she said she was leaving because she wanted to be happy.
HAPPY Key - C walking down...
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade
A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made…
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I wrote this after Brook drowned.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB
Well, you say that you're lonely. I see that you are.
Why do you think I'm standing here at the bar
Where have you been? Life ain't no play pen
Call it a bar. Call it a pub. Welcome…
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SHE DIDN'T KNOW
Her flame wasn't orange. It was white.
The kind you can't see at the noon day bright.
Not the fickle flicker of a candle light
But a point miles off on a moonless night
She didn't know she was beautiful
Nobody told her…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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I never sing this song the same two times in a row.
The lyric below is pretty close to how I sing it now.
Listening again, this is an awful version of this song...
I have my recording machine working again...I must redo this.
I PLAY C…
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DIAMONDS AND WATER
You wear diamonds on your fingers
You wear diamonds on your ears
and you wear diamonds on your necklace
You wear diamonds to the party
You wear diamonds to the banquet
You wear diamonds to the opera
But I’ll take a…
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Woods acoustic 6 str recorded by a Zoom H2 x 2 with a touch of lexicon reverberation.
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A bit of a Jazzy noodle under influence of a nice drop of Red.................
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Ever read the book of JOB. I read it the first week I was in prison. It made all the difference.
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Light, to which thou goest; to which you fly like a moth. Once it was real.
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A song made thanks to the Net. Music by Greg Connor & Steve Krell, Lyrics by me and Harmonica by my best mate Dave. Love it.
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins, aka Gasserpe, April 2011. BMI Okeechobee, FL USA
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Copyright © 2014 John 'Buck' Erpestad
Instrumental. It was hot outside and I needed a title.
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Another Church song out of the way-back machine
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A chant about traveling through life, by not missing the train.
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peter gunn theme played by a sax section + bass in 9 et
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From the album MORE SONGS ABOUT ELVES & FLOWERS [2010]
Yes, its very short. Although from another point of view its exactly as long as it needs to be.
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This is an instrumental, really 2 songs. The 1st part is funky with Tom Pecard on sax. The 2nd part is a carnival, polka thing inspired by Wisconsin. Hope you dig it.
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From the album JOE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
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Now listen
She knows where to go
She makes me glad
Takes my hand
Oh, on my way
Now she's mad
No, She's not mad
She states fact
as I lack
Oh, on my way
She lifts me up
Now I'm on my own
I'm home
She sits aside
I go inside
Long gone
This listless…
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Apologies to Peter and the rest of Genesis - from back when they were good - 1974
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
The Movie-Palace is now undone,
The all-night watchmen have had their…
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I tried to write a country/bluegrass song over the simple G/C/D progression, but my aversion to country music shows through here since it ended up sounding more tropical than anything else.
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just me messing around with a clip of a song i made awhile ago.
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There was this biker bar called The 2500 Club. Just west of Sylvania on Belknap. On a sign outside it says, "The best little biker bar in Texas." Guthrie and Rick and I played there long enough to get to feeling pretty much like family.
EVERYBODY…
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whilst still waiting for the dilruba,which arrives today from india,working on the raga bhairagi.....
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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yaman,the first raga we learn,played on the sitar whilst waiting for my new dilruba to arrive from india.....
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Lyrics:
Rain
Falls down on me
Falls down everywhere but you
I
I need to find a way
To drag you back to this decay
// It's a good thing you don't ask forgiveness
// Because I can't forgive this
// It's a good thing you don't beg forgiveness…
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Another one created by bouncing tracks between 2 ordinary cassette recorders. Includes some of my earliest samples [made on cassette], not to mention chanting Buddhist monks and the voice of T.S. Eliot reading from 'Four Quartets'. Tried to fit…
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"The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express." (From Samuel Beckett, Three Dialogues, "Tal Coat")
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small notes, on a windy,, palms in the desert day
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One summer afternoon Me & Holdempok in his garage,
We already had a few beers and we had run thru our songs.... So we were free to simply create - to jam!
I took the resulting jam and ran it thru Audacity and added the storm sound effects…
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Hoorrrrray! My wish came true, we did a version of this instrumental with real instruments!
And the band was:
Guitars: Frank Zax
Drums: Mark Cole
Bass: Andy Gupta
Music & Production: Steffen Offermann
Enjoy!
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This song is about that moment that you, as an adult, stop trying to live up to everyone's expectations of you..whether it be a girl/boyfriend, family member, society, etc.
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An old one that needed a kick in the ass. Consider it kicked.
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Variations on the Enigma theme by Elgar 1899
The score is below.
http://soonlabel.com/b/Attachments/EnigmaTheme.pdf
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Just a little something I cooked up on my guitar and decided to hum along...
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This one was so much fun to do its over run a bit and wore poor old Reg out so much they have had to call an ambulance to the cellar to get him ..... His two friends worry about him on the way home.....................hope his ok?
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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from the album "In the Shadow Of the House Of the Demon" (2010) on Teagown Records.
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I woke up one day after a dream about mice crawling over me ... and ended up writing this song .......
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I finally was able to remix the song. Please listen to "Fide On The Broom Stick (Version 2012)" in my track list to compare…
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"Do Not Lean Against Doors" run through paulstretch.
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Jonathan takes a look at the gifts of tongues and prophecy in the local church
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Recorded Oct 2010.
It was meant to be a full band pop-rock song. But I started overdubbing on the original exploratory demo I'd done to work out the arrangement (with no click track). I kept coming back to it intending to start afresh... but…
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Pop-rock tale about a character in a novel that I fancied. Recorded in 2009 on a Boss MBR.
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**Sooner or Later - A A J Russe**
Theres a crazy girl
Looks about my age
Hiding out on the second page
Waiting for the story to unfold…
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Our big epic number. surely a closer. tried to write words but the organic way the song came about kept me from violating such a sacred thing with something less than stellar. or as organic anyway. every other attempt left me feeling...
fake…
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Kate Wolf and I had a lot of history with "Amazing Grace". First song we sang together five minutes after we met in her home and the first time she'd sang with anybody since high school. We sang it every time we played for people. We sang it once…
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life429
The POWER of Appreciation
Minister Brad Dassey
2-16-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
Free Sermon Downloads
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My version of the Peter Gunn Theme. I hope you like it.
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Well it had to happen sometime, he couldn't go on living the way he was, even with those full throttle hands there was no excuse, he was guilty....... guilty as charged........RPM2011
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Whoopee Hullabaloo is protesting jeans that bled.
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rpm 2011
Aweful dad, make you cry
Aweful dad, hope you die
Aweful dad, fear and pain
Aweful dad, embarrassing
Aweful dad, yell & scream
Aweful dad, embarrassing
Aweful dad, no sympathy
Aweful dad, where’s the love
Why when the world
Is…
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Brad Dassey - Whip It GOD (Devo Parody)
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Another remake of an oldie. Probably among my favorites lyrically.
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This one has been sitting around for awhile.
I wanted to get some mix time in before RPM gets rolling.
Trying out some new mixing techniques.
Enjoy!
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gearing up for rpm. check out Hearts Of Mars "Echoes Under THhe Surface"in march!
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Ok, this is another of my few blues (late 90 i guess..). I was playing it today and recorded several times. I don't think this one is the best one, but it has something that i really like. This record is the plane rythmic guitar. Later i was playing…
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One of my favorites. It was recorded a long long time ago while I was a freshman at Queens College, NY. If you like it, check out my page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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A little experiment done with (soft) Mellotrons, string machine, and typewriter. But the help desk is not taking calls...
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The idea was to create something with a bit of the flavor from Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor (and especially the orchestral transcription by Respighi). I didn't quite hit the mark, but it was a really fun project.
Remixed: 12/18/2010
keywords…
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This is one of my favorite Morphine songs. I can't compare to the original, but it's a song I've always loved, and I think it suits my style... if I have one. :) Raw, no mixing, no effects.
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This one is about that moment when you chuck your city life behind, go down to the dock and board the ship, leaving your old life behind for a life of adventure on the seven seas.
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It's us playing with words and instruments doing some magic! No skills, some drugs here.
My cousin is playing the guitar again and claps logarithmically into my ramblings. ")
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A track from KraftiM's first album BackvieW. Mix from classic and ambient inspired by Stravinsky's Agon ballet
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Here's another piece I wrote for my buddy Ron's Documentary about the Tuareg people of Niger... check out the website, and watch some clips from the movie about BAMBINO!!
http://www.bambinoafrica.com/Zer...Films/OmaraMoctar.html
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Just an improvisation and some field recordings. Nothing much. There a lot of mistakes. You can tell I *didn't* use autotune....
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Track 18 to the "Evolutionary By-Products" album
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A live recording done at The C.R.A.S. in Tempe, AZ.
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Added a little bit of backing bass to Simons niffty little blues number. Hope you enjoy.
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This is a smooth jazz piece built around Norm Harris' percussion using Garritan Jazz and Big Band sample set with the Aria player and a touch of tonehammer's Francesca sample set. Something Norm and I did last April.
Scored for upright bass…
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well, i really took to both pieces. I decided a mashup should be without permission, otherwise its just aremix. Hope I made something new, Incidentally structure is based on theory heard on alonetone.
Just add 4/4 and go!
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Just added a bit of chugging bass. Hopefully it will add a little to this brilliant track.
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Year: 2010
Album:
Cosmo
Contributors:
absynth 5 (1 track)
Korg MS2000 (several tracks)
garritan personal orchestra choir and percussion
free lecture
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This is a poem that my dad wrote to my mum when they got engaged. We only found it after she passed on in december.
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Morning light on the mountain stream,
catches the eye of the child within his dreams.
The day begins, present and aware,
of all the beauty, he plays without a care.
Castles on the riverbank, a choir of birds in song,
picking spring flowers in…
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This is one of two instrumental interpretations I have worked on of a tune Oh My Goodness wrote. If you have not checked out her talented vocals yet, check out http://alonetone.com/ttworkman/tracks/not-lying-draft .
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...Tim Conway and Don Knotts, in the Woody, as the Wookalar lurks silently in the back of the wagon, don't expect a thing until its inhuman roar splits the silent air. As the creature lurches into the front seat, the car careens out of control...
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Partial lyrics from a song I wrote for my band, Nail of The Sun thats (not on alonetone)along to some Phil Collins like music and of course the commentary on phil in general. HAH.
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An edit from the Other Texas Music show, for brevity. Joined the ebow improv intro with the closing "Hymn".
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Kind of a Sonic Youth version of the old folk tune. This was with my band Lincoln The Chain. Our vision was to create new and weird versions of tunes from the old timey days. Traveling music for post apocalyptic underground railroad...
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This too was actually recorded from my midi controller playing the notes and then constructing chords out of them. All done again except the drums ( im no drummer).
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In the corner stands a guitar that plays only sad songs
Give me when a friend lost his wife
And this fine leather jacket came in a package
The day after he took his own life
In a bar down in Austin, he was drinkin' and boastin'
This ring…
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a series of works,made for an experimental film project,where the one of my films will be projected at the local cinema,and the music will be performed on live...
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a conversation becomes ecclectisized..light guitar accompanies..with a bass distortion..pot effects the memory
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th inimevitbbl bartrr..schlonks your toozie..with an organ sound. and can drums
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The instrumentation includes a hunting trumpet and an electric toothbrush, hence the title.
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RPM 2009 entry. Has been described as sounding like Satan's Orchestra tuning up...
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In New Zealand we have a major problem with gambeling addiction. It destroys lives and blows families apart and nothing's being done to stop it. We have a small casino in every bar and while the companies that run the machines give some of their…
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My interpretation of "Shoot the Nuge" of Tim's 2010 RPM submission.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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A reggae version of my country/pop tune. From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do
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A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. Lyrics are here:
http://bit.ly/OurPrayer
The song is the musical rendition of a piece from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring…
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I recently bought the Imperfect Samples [Braunschweig Upright](http://www.imperfectsamples.com/website/samples/braunschweig/braunschweiguprightpiano.php) (Pro) sampled piano for Kontakt after falling in love with the sound of the demos.
I have…
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Paper Girls is one of those tracks which I wrote based on my experiences that I hope others can relate to in their own way. Soft, breathy vocals courtesy of Anezka Piska.
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Track 5 from A Half An Hour In the Dark. Nirvana cover.
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Short(?) intro to the album; counterpoint to the extended outro "Mantra 2"
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shouts to Matt Gaston for the inspiration for the "tryna get my paper billl ups no Chauncey" line
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Track 5 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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An instrumental piece featuring classical guitar and bass.
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A little backwards drum bit, topped with the same drup bit run through various effects.
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Who hasn’t fallen victim to thinking that a piece of “kit” is going to make all the difference in the world? Don’t fall for it people.
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Production notes: Oh yeah, I totally left in a bunch of plosives (PUH-PUH-Plosive) all over the place…
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Most of these songs are brainstorming ideas for my new album .... I like this one..
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This track is inspired by the movie "Seven Pounds".
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Dr202, Mic
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An Alt.Country style song about a girl named Katherine Lynn
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not sure how i feel about some of the ideas i'm singing about in this song, but hey, i don't have time to rewrite anything.
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A Freestyled song... Really hot!
BeeOne
"B.E.E.O.N.E."
Written, Composed, Recorded & Engineered by BeeOne for HoodBizne$$ Music
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just finished this one, represents a slightly new direction i am taking i think.
i am particuarly proud of the polyrhythmic sound i achieved. i was worried it mite become too cluttered (at the beginning) but i think i achieved clarity.
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Written and Recorded: Feb 05, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo V), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
2010 RPM Challenge
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A Tune I came up with tonight for Open Mic Nights.
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live @ Dunn Bros. in Keller, Tx. 1/29/10
Took me awhile to get my legs here, as evidenced by the sloppy playing. The bulk of this is the tune "Blue Hour".
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This is a song that I made for a scene in a short film I made with some friends. And if you couldn't tell the film is a bit Spaghetti Western based.
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this is a song that i wrote about my beautiful wife .she has been a constant source of inspiration to me and every word is true . this is a rough draft and i plan to record a full version with my band very soon until then ....enjoy!
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awake
was it her i followed, around the other day?
in the diner, on the sidewalk, i really can't say
this somewhere neverwhere i swear i saw her, i swear
quit dreaming, wide awake
10 minutes reconstructing her ghost inside of me
5 minutes swimming…
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I was working on a track from scratch on the DAW when my teenage son wanted to help. We worked on the build together and stopped there. I feel it's not done, but others like...so I just moved on.
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Fooling around with a friend's mandolin.
tech: Epiphone mando, direct in, 2 tracks, Logic spaces small hall setting.
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Burning Eyes is the precuel for Four Walls it tells the story of crimes of this man and how he doesn't recognize himself once he looks his own reflect in a puddle of water... enjoy!
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Experimenting with my piano/keyboard skillz and a first attempt at record clapping. Needs a good go over with some quality drums and some better arranging. Everything sounds very "synthy" on account of I don't have any quality VSTi at the moment.
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Logic 9 - using samples from "8.5" and "8.8" by Supersilent, as well as some drum sounds from "No One Gives A Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense" by Don Caballero
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This is a simple Christian "Soul Searching" song. It's one of my favorites.
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This simple little ballad was originally recorded in the late sixties by Rick's Continentals. With today's engineering, it sounds just a bit more up to date. Please enjoy this new version and then check out the old one at www.RicksContinentals.com
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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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