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Hi, this is my first publicly released track, please do comment, stating what you like, what you don't. enjoy!
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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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timothy and the tramp
as timothy walked past marks and spencer’s
the muttering tramp stood up and looked him
squarely in the eye and said:-
i have seen the great
bear
crouching on his haunches
in his cavernous mountain lair
and…
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Well i didn't think the lyrics fitted the tune first time round so here's the second attempt............more a song from the miss spent youth that the man today......
ONE OF THEM DAYS (Lyrics)
The sunrise screams my mind wide awake
My head so…
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The Brood have gone visiting and i have sometime so i've been busy as you may have noticed ....so heres a ad-libber with the £16 special....i always write miserable songs when i'm happy the happy ones come when i'm depressed....i'm normally quite…
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I have dreamt of starting a stoner rock band called "God Mode" for a while now, this is what it would sound like.
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This one sat around for quite a while collecting dust until I picked it up a couple days ago and started tinkering with it. I think I like it.
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A story about the search for leader. People, independent as they are, often look for someone to tell them what to do. In their quest they will often go for a person who was just passing by and was never planing on leading anyone ... Things get…
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Here's a song I recorded a couple of months ago when I had the flu ... as the voice reveals :)
Recorded early in the morning,in the bathroom, using the built-in mics on my boss br800.
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bedtime for bonzo - recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s
well i came home today
and i turned on the television
and i tried all 17 channels
and there was nothing on any of them
except trained monkeys
trained monkeys…
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Sometimes the best attention you get give someone is to leave him alone for while ...
Lyrics:
You've been away, you took your time
You lost your mind, now you are mine ...
Locked in a basement of a house you never been to
... I'll be kind…
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i've started to take some Blues lessons from the Reverend over on Cool-Lab and this is the first attempt over his backer in Am and i couldn't help myself i had to sing along as well....hope you like the first effort...BB watch out!!
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Sometimes, reaching out and touching the stuff that's hidden deep down inside is the most rewarding hiking you can do.
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A story of a girl, growing up to be a woman, a wife, a mother ... but forgetting about herself ...
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You know how it is when you look around, trying to figure out what everyone is doing and how they lead their live, looking for an answer to how you should run your own ... don't ... otherwise, you'll wind up with a life that is just a cut-and…
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yes my voice sucks and the lyrics are silly. But its all I have...
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Spun around like a seer's needle
A philosopher so lost in his riddle
Tries to speak but no longer able
Drifting in the deepest dream
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This one took me a while [years!] to complete - how did it come out?
Freesound samples used…
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This is a live cut from an NPR radio broadcast back in 1988 while my Irish Trad group Scartaglen was on one of its first east coast tours. Found recently on a cassette tape. Musically this was one of my favorite periods in the history of the band…
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this is from college an old free jam with Joel and Dean.
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Conga (John David) & Kaosollator (Dean Palermo) 1st take.
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This is the fourth song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Michael and I always have something going on, So I'm sure there will be more.
Lyrics and…
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acapella vocal loop
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron
Water turned to stone
Snow had fallen
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
- Christina Rossetti 1872
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The first sound reminds me of my father's first electric piano that I play with when I was 5 years old. It's a simple beautiful thing! I tried to create a snapshot of simplicity that blossoms into a full blown "Christmas Extravaganza".
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originally written and performed by Rural Alberta Advantage
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(Snakeskin Sally)
Open E tuning - EBEGBE
She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY
and she's working at the lumber yard
I know you're thinking, "With a job like that
the lady must be hard."
She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe.
She really…
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THE BUDS AND BLOSSOMS
I've been meaning to write you a letter
But I did not know what I would say
I've been thinking about you and your new love
And wishing that there was a way...
And the buds and the blossoms remind me of you today…
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I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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PEGGY'S GONE Capo @ 3 in C
C G
Peggy's gone, after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What…
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This song was written about being around someone who just didn't take any notice of what they were doing and took no notice of the warnings you had given them about their actions, so you had to go.
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Dare ya to not be singing this the rest of the day
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Something like a Johnny Cash song, at least that's where it started. Demo.
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Was this the first song I actually recorded? Degraded copy since the original has perished.
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The guy who lives next door to the guy who has lots and lots of friends...
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This is the third song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Lyrics and vocals - Michael Thomas
Wildgeas Music - Paul Lennon
Enjoy!
Love is Free
as you let it…
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We were having a little tipple down the cellar last night and we came up with a Christmas song for the festive season...hope you enjoy..........
CHRISTMAS TIME AT THE DRUNK’S HOUSE (Lyrics)
it's Christmas time in the drunks house
and the…
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inside, i feel so strange
but who am i to complain
inside, i feel alive
something died in my heart again tonight
...tonight
why are you everywhere?
you've poisoned everything i know.
your poisoned hearts, I drank them all
as you ask me why…
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New AR track, really keen to get a great mix, so I'd be very grateful if you could let me know how it sounds on your speakers. I'm a bit unsure about the bottom end.
Any mastering tips?
Thank you!
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A bit of a Jazzy noodle under influence of a nice drop of Red.................
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I heard Jimi Jamin for the first time the other day after M.T.C commented on it with ".yep....this jim is jammin today" and it got me thinking about Jim when he's jamming and his inspirations i may be well of the mark but hey! were trying…
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
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For a link to the visual artist and details on this piano piece see http://soonlabel.com/xenharmonic/archives/61
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Cover of the early eighties Japan song, motivated by the Songcrafters.org Cityfest.
Deliberately meant to sound 'Eighties'. Decided to leave the last two minutes in as 12" extended remix.
New mix uploaded 16th November
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Electronics and looped guitar
For more and a beautiful picture from a friend:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1658
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I found a cassette tape the other day from 1991 which turned out to be live to 2 track demos that Scartaglen did in the studio in preparation for our 3rd and (as it turned out) final album. This tune didn't make the cut for the record but I always…
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from the album "Que Vive!"
before you throw it, the tragedy unfolding
make sure you look him right into his eyes
look him right into his eyes
pull the pin, one Mississippi, two Mississippi
hurl away and watch it arc into the sky
watch it arc…
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and sail around the world
like some permanent celebration.
The continuing adventures aboard the High Powered Love Craft
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Theme song for the "Occupy" movement.
From the album GIVE TOO MUCH, available for sale here: http://bit.ly/GiveTooMuch
More info here: http://bit.ly/WorldEntertainmentWar
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A melancholic blues ballad for piano and guitar. Dedicated to the memory of Sophie Lancaster (1986-2007).
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Okay...so Godzilla comes to YOUR town and wants to get funky. What does it sound like?
When I first came to Japan, there was a time when I spent three months homeless and living out of a coin-locker at Shibuya station. Eventually, I got out of…
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Reg was looking through you tube videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQxhaPhFDs&feature=related and was shocked at what he saw.........
THE PLAGUE OF METH (Lyrics)
She seems twisted in her agony
her pain is visible
its destroyed her
tormented…
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Dedicated to the pastime of watching birds.
YouTube video attached:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_x2C-uq4M&t=30s
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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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this song - purple mountains was iriginally a jam back in 75. chris vaisvil was the guitarist and i always remembered it cause i liked it. he had an echo-plex then and it was pretty psychedelic. no keys were originally in the song but it was a…
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starts as kind of a uriah heep instrumental then right into a haunting gothic love song.
13. ethereal stagecoach ride / dance macabre ©
the suns gone down
no humans to be found
the shadows will…
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Sometimes I just get fed up, and it starts showing.
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performed by Ashley Reynolds
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
and she opened her eyes
the frailness all gone
but she wasn’t surprised
it was fortold all along
and the healing complete
not a shell anymore
what a magical feat…
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Details and another piece
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1477
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This was our first run-thru jam on this country cover....
Magic Mike on vox and guitar
Myself - lead guitar
LG
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A setting of a sonnet by Walter Lowenfels to music.
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Not really Irish ... a Scottish ballad ...
An earthly nourris sits and sings
And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean
(and) no ken I, my bairns father
Far less the land that he dwells in."
And up come he to her bed fit
A grumly guest I'm sure…
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This reflects what I think the dust bowl poet may have said in the current housing market.
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Oh well, nothing like going to a middle school music function to break writers block, all those posters and flare about achievement...
Special thanks to my sons middle school band, The Preston Pumas playing at the end !
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