A mash/add-on for the Sound-In event this week. Took Glenn Smith's bass piece ("Enter the Ice") from last week, added Shane Cadman's chimes then played some "frozen" guitar over that.

Seriously - seriously? Nah! this is a post modernistic approach to nothing. Drum machine, but all else played live. Including the voice. I'm on the telephone. I wasn't. Bit of a quiz included - what are these songs??? I'm on the telephone. I'm…

My first acrostic prompt, requiring the word "Hope" to be spelled out by the first letter of the lines. Found in the chorus: Hands don't fail me now Oh, just a little tighter Please hold on, hold on to Everything

Come join me on this sonic joyride...I'm Saved

The final version, at last!

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…

The hard times of the 99% is all over, and it's time the people who put us all in this mess be called out ,and have their stink be put in the street.

Reg has put into words want he wants do and why............... I WANT TO SING I don't want to be like you or you I just want to be like me so i’m going inside myself, to try and figure, the whole thing out the whole thing out So i can jump…

drip by drip.. I did the guitar and bass tracks first, then procured my 10 year olds cello for the main bass line :) I also tried my luck playing cello with a bow on this track- which was a new experience. The trumpet and violin bits are played…

For penny whistle and guitars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kithara

SIMPLE LOOPS COOL SOUND

*Rap/Hip-hop with glitchy electronic beats.* It's 20 years since this started up Let me tell you how it was: a 4-track Radio Shack tape deck Hissing overdubs I tried to get it down Record what I had to say I thought I had all the time…

too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know. This song is for them. Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.

Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…

Written for an upcoming Blues competition as one of several songs being considered for the contest. I sprung this on my friend Chris, without warning last night and pushed the record button. _________________________________________ She starts…

Play it loud where you can dance!  Boom Boom Girl (c) Nick Torres 9/25/25 She struts in with a kick A snap A spin Eyes like fire You know she always wins Boom-boom girl Got the whole world spinnin'   She’s got that boom-boom Shakin…

don't ask me out to a movie cause i'm not gonna go don't tell me you're having a party cause i already know it's an 80's theme i saw it in my stream but i didn't accept or decline i just said maybe and maybe means no maybe always means…

Inspired by a huge Cottonwood tree I found washed up along the Mississippi River near Red Wing MN. D When your roots can’t seem to hold you When you’re A footing falls away Your D left to feel unstable With the A change that’s underway It…

using Will Ackerman's DACFAC tuning

When there’s C snow on the G pumpkins Autumn leaves have all D gone And the C geese are all G flying Cause it’s time to move D on When there’s C snow on the G pumpkins We’ll sit by the Em fire We’ll C talk about our dreams, our D hope…

What can I say, brilliant Ray.

Here is another ZOOM Collaboration with: Steve Krell Colleen Dillon Roger Harris Greg Connor We posted the lyrics and featured the chords, just in case you wanted to write your own lyrics and post them with this idea. Empty Bottles…

RPM 17 6/10

for Gene's contest...great title and inspiration!! “How To Assemble Your Android” Yesterday a box of parts came to my front door I thought she came assembled, ready to be my whore Tore the box apart and to no one’s surprise I was missing…

"Play what you know and then play above that." -Miles Davis

LOCOMOTIVE BREATH In the shuffling madness Of the locomotive breath Runs the all time loser Headlong to his death Oh, he feels the piston scraping Steam breaking on his brow Old Charlie stole the handle And the train, it won't stop going…

Got a lot of bad news this week and this came out....... i want to see the sunshine come out through the pouring rain i want to see the clouds break i want to see this day start again oh i’m gonna get down on my knees get down on my knees…

An arrangement of chords, arpeggiated, and lightly drizzled with effects.

Facebook is a horrible thing. The real world keeps intruding into the perfectly peaceful virtual world. REAL MEN Real men, keep stealing', my pretend girlfriend Real men keep butting' in. They've done it again. Real men No one seems to…

The core of the music is heavily inspired by Joni Mitchell. Its been spinning around for years in my head so hearing this song finally recorded feels good.

Based on a Steve Vai acoustic thing I learned many years ago.

Sometimes, you just have to make a track so that you can play that big ass gong - you know the one im talking about. 4 guitar tracks and one for the gong. Various FX for guitar including a sustain FX which seems to go well with the gong droning…