The turning point for my RPM Challenge recordings this year - I'd planned out a bunch of songs to record with just vocals and an acoustic. After several of these sketches presented themselves to my brain, I threw the old plan out.

I might have put a few harmonies on this one...

Emotions get the best of me sometimes and this is what comes of it.... Gotta pour out my heart. i loved you i did but i had to let you go and i chose again and again to let it die i died again and again a love so strong a pain so…

How good it is when I feel whole, complete, not lacking anything at all. And i feel this way when I am with you... nothing needs to be said, i can just sit and be still.

This one could use re-mixing, but I'm going to leave it as is for now. This should be track 6 on "They Are Killers."

The last track from my RPM Challenge album, "The Loudest Silence". The story is loosely based on something I read, but there's a lot of poetic interpretation involved. It deals with people who spend a lot of time staring at the stars - like the…

Like Sade, only male, with a scratchy voice, and no breath control, and often off pitch... but other than that, Like Sade Just trying to complete the RPM 2010 Challenge.

I guess I knew this would happen. Talk about creating one's own reality Sheeeeesh. End of the month and my pen has been re-fueled and I added some vox to this one, plus some lead guitar, and a bit of synth strings. I also took a shot at some…

Dark little piece of something that ended up working out nicely as a prelude to moderately sinister 'No Words'

Written and Recorded: Feb 21, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGBE - Capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.

Well, song 10 finally. A bit on the heavy side, some odd FX, strange vox, an Ibanez, The ever present harmonica, and some help from Illegal Alien Autopsy. This was the first song I tracked for RPM. But, since my pen has run out of ink this month…

Have no idea where this one came from. I was strumming away and the words just came out. Seems to be about some kind of wrongdoing in the past. May have been possessed. Thanks again to Gary for helping out on lead.. In sleepy towns through…

Welcome to the dark side. . .

Moses Charles

Least favorite of this year's RPM output so far...

You coulda told me there was a stone in it

Elizabethan nonsense

whispering pines of ambigousness

Waitin' for the lies to start risin'

Whisky in the Jar, my way.

A prog-rock style tale of a deep-space rescue mission and amnesia, that sorta thing.

Written and Recorded: Feb 14, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks. I'm a little under whelmed with my lack of melodic development…

Just a guitar instrumental at this point. I don't know where it's going. I can hear some lyrics, but my pen is on hiatus for now.

An intrumental Track I put together when Thinking about my family. One Guitar represents my son, one my wife and one me...... Two Versions with Vox (Jim Higgins and Geir Alfsen) are also in existance.. not sure how to link to this site…

This songs reminds me that this is the moment i have. No longer looking for the dawn for the dawn is here. This is the moment this is the moment that i've been waiting for I've been waiting for the dawn and the dawn is coming soon

This is the title track of my RPM 2010 album. It describes how I juggle the bills each week and try to make ends meet. If you know the old joke, if the ends would not necessarily meet but just wave at each other once in a while, I'd be happy.

A pretty little ditty.

When I uploaded this last night I thought it was a failure, this morning I am not so sure. I've just listened to it again and, while it fails to live up to my expectations when I started, there's something about it that I like. The initial…

Hey Kids, Happy RPM. Surf's up! I played this one for my lady, she said she wants to move to California. I'm not sure if that's because I've been wired up in the Dog House for 9 days or if she wishes to try some surfing. Go figure.... Anyway…

From the RPM 2010 album.

This song described my co-workers at one company during a temporary assignment. I won't mention the company for fear of being sued, but you get the idea what they were like. ER

The first track recorded for RPM2010 for the album Integer

Filler track just in case. This too, will be shorter in the final mix. If it makes it at all. All Synth.

By no means the first song that popped out. It's just the first one I'm calling done beyond a remix. I think this will wind up leading in to a metal tune and will likely be shorter.

Second piece for RPM. This is my RPM preferred track!

From the RPM 2010 album.

Lyrics by Jeff Adams.

live @ Dunn Bros. in Keller, Tx. 1/29/10 Ross Reitzammer - flute

Part nine of the ten-part suite. The tracks segue continuously, so downloading them all and listening to them together is the intended experience. Thanks for checking it out!

Sitting around in my shop a couple of days ago with the Goodall and the Zoom H4N. First time I've really messed with using the internal mics on the H4N in multitrack mode

This one speaks for itself ... just a wish for a simple life ... in peace

Choral Experiment 2010

Threw this together on a lazy Sunday eve. Revisions later. 2010

The drums on this track were played on a garage sale set of kiddie drums I bought for my son,they sound surprisingly good considering I recorded them with one SM57 mic.This was one of my first attempts at playing real drums on a track,about 5…

Words by Michael Thomas Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas

Words by Michael Thomas Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas

Words by Michael Thomas Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas

Words by Michael Thomas Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas Vocals by Michael, Chris, and Dave

Words and music by David Murphy http://alonetone.com/mindwarp Vocals by Michael, Chris & Dave

Words by Michael Thomas Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas Vocals by Michael, Chris, and Dave

You say the feeling's gone And that you can't go on Well that doesn't quite ring true I thought I knew the real You And if I can't live with you I can't live with me Then there's nothin' left Oh can't you see It's more than a feeling More than…