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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
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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.
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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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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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Stumble across
A crack in the sidewalk
Jolted back to the dry city air
I thought I was ready
I hear myself crying
Just get home before anyone stares
Can't feel a thing except fingernails piercing skin
Cover the wounds
Try to fit in…
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Listen to the Ice breaking on the shore of Lake Pepin, a wide spot on the Mississippi River. The sound of the Ice serves as a backdrop to the last of 11 songs on my new Album, "Instinct". The track was created using a log drum, Irish Whistle…
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Billy wanted a project for the 2023 Christmas holidays and asked some of his extremely talented musician friends to play on this track.
Matt Smith: Guitars & backing vocals
Paul Matthews: Pianos & organ
Naomi Daulby: Lead & backing…
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(samples music and interpolates lyrics from "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's)
[Verse 1]
Don’t want to lose this
What's it like in San Jose there?
I'm a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight you look so pretty
Yes you do
Them chicks…
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A farewell to summer and those long summer evenings. Chords available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ca0DNhDnK0np3tixMA5L7BSMpm58H9Vb/view?usp=drivesdk
Long Summer Evening
Long summer evening
Work done for the day-ay
Heading…
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Co-Written with John Bennett. Look for more of John's music here: https://mnsongwriters.org/members/john-bennett/mediapress/
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ALL I WANT IS YOU ©2022 by John Bennett and Greg Connor
I’ll put it to you…
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2022 RPM Challenge song number 19.
Go to the head of the class, dude. I said that song #18 was the best song of the bunch but now here is song #19 taking the title and squashing 18 like the proverbial grape.
In other words, I really like…
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You gotta work long hours, Grind that stone
Work your fingers to the bone
Gotta make that money while you can
Before retirement and old age sets in
Do what you can for the company and
The boss 'll take care of you
Forget about vacation…
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Test recording of voice modified by a EHX Voice Box on vocoder setting; the modulating signal is the sound from a one-string instrument made from an old crutch. Post production involved adding two copies of the original mono track, panned slightly…
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.
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a mash of Newbold-Kavin-Cadman using effects and melodyne
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from the album 50
vocals and lyrics by Janette Salisbury
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So, what do you think... could it use more wah-wah?
This was written for the 2014 RPM Challenge. The chromatic thing at the beginning had been rattling around in my head for years and years but had never found a home.
The lyrics here…
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This is for my MT Bottles, it's a bit naff , ( British slang ) but I love it.
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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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Another song from my 2013 RPM Challenge album. I always like this one, but I'm not sure I did it justice this time. There is a lot of really sloppy guitar playing, even if the Klon KTR overdrive pedal sounds EPIC. Sorry, gear nerd.
This…
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Thank you Greg, Colleen, and Andrew for your comments. I need to add a little more from that day so long ago.
The Battle for Layfayette Square were improvisational warm ups and cool downs for practicing this progressive rock attempt that clocks…
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Passover is a time for redemption from exile and all kind of disasters in our lives. I really tried to make this a happier upbeat track.
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I'll admit it right up front . . . This is the result of an idle mind.
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Originally composed in 2012.
Lyrics written 2019.
Produced July-August 2019.
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Had a blast doing this one with Ally
feat new AT'er Alexandriaharris
enjoy! Reef
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RPM Challenge 2018
Song #10
Listen to the entire album for FREE on CDBaby.com
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/gregconnor139
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or A.K.A. the Caribou Lake song...
I wrote this one for my Dad, who while up at our family cabin in the north woods of MN said there's not enough music about the woods...
My first "one take wonder" - just me and my little Uke - roughing…
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When it's over, start again and keep on rolling.
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Sundown ya better take care
If I find you been creepin' 'round my back stairs
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written by Damian Lethbridge
"All this slavin' makes me sick I can't relax and have some fun"
RPM 2015
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Here's the second tune we recorded, again, live off the floor.
There will be a full length album coming later this summer...professionally recorded for your listening pleasure. :)...so stay with us.
head to www.anthonysweet.com for more info
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Inspiration ? Simples people, the Good Wife.
It's in Open something tuning, could be A !!!!
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So 50/90 is an unnatural forcing of a crap ton of songs in a relatively short period of time. We're half way though and I've learned one thing. I've learned how easy it is to repeat something you've already done. This one sounds a LOT like…
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At the crossroads, with the only loved. Where art thou, mein lieber Augustin? Will we see you again?
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Für Fenella Humphreys, a classical artist.
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ADAM’S PLAGUE
And those not killed by Adam’s Plague
Repented not the work at hand
Their search for truth was strangely vague
They spread their lies across the land
They clung to things of stone and wood
Which cannot see nor hear…
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This is an RPM collaboration with Bethan.
It's part of her 2014 challenge.
It was the most fun I had this RPM.
Thanks a bunch Bethan.
Enjoy!
© 2014 Mathis - Lennon
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Song about idolising people. Mr Supercool is anyone we think deserves our idolatry - could be a him, or a her, or even oneself. Mr Supercool cares nothing for anyone. He has no love.
Anyway - glad to be back messing with music again after…
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I just got back from a weeks worth of sailing in Duluth MN. Perfect week.
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When I was about 5 years old, my grandmother gave me a set of those old 78 rpm "records" titled "Songs Many Lands". For some reason this song was always my favorite... to the point I don't even remember anymore what other songs were in that collection…
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A repatriation song, for families home and abroad, forgiving of the past, welcoming that integrated society.
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THE TWO (or the witnesses)
You are the town and we are the clock.
We are the guardians of the gate in the rock.
The Two.
On your left and on your right
In the day and in the night,
We are watching you.
Wiser not to ask just…
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Try not to listen to my butcher guitar playing and instead listen to Reg's awesome vocals. Ozzy wishes he sounded this good...
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This is one that I started with a synth progression and over the week it grew....
Everything is in there but the kitchen sink I think. Used midi for GB synth sounds, choirs, bass, Kontakt strings and organ, piano,horns, sax lab for sax, godin…
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Have some fun, dance a little, dance some more.
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Straight cover, from a backing track, just because I had the urge and I don't think the neighbours would appreciate me thrashing the guitar so late!
The backing track pretty much sums up where my head was at when I recorded it :)
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Testing out some compressors and effects chains while losing my mind and having fun with my synth guitar and minimoog vsti. Happy new years!
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This is a Kevin Ayers song that I love. He calls it something else, but Blue seems to be a good name to me.
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Segunda parte del set de New Beat del DJ Fredy Gamboa
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Continuing FDR's adventures in space..........
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A blues noodle that got out of Hand just before the midnight curfew...........trying my hand at a bit of keyboard percussion and the voice through a guitar effect........well you have to try don't you?
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A bit of fun. Feel free to chop it up or add to it.
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I detest groups. It removes individualism from thoughts, and adds a false sense of comfort and ultimately dependence. They might be essential, for efficiency, for communication, but they should not be celebrated as much. Or maybe it’s just misanthropy…
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Sometimes society gets wrapped up in their own routine, failing to notice the sheer beauty that surrounds them on a daily basis, until a moment of chance changes everything.
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juno di cheap strat copy and recorded on the boss micro br sober.
well hallelujah
i don't believe it
it's so peculiar
it's so peculiar
well bless me jesus
i've not seen that before
our eyes decieve us
our eyes decieve us
when you…
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Reg has never really understood Love.......... not in last 20years since first hearing this song .........it's still all a Mystery to him................
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This is a story written by a friend in England (Andy Rashley) who I also write music with, it is about a guy who had a stalker chick when he was young..then she found him 30 years later on Facebook and started stalking him again...until his wife…
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