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Allelujiah-This was supposed to be a completely different song, but this one just wrote itself instead. It’s almost all first take, except for the bass, which took a while to get straight so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the song. It has this tone…
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Love’s Standing- A good change up for the flow of the album, this one is vaguely, very vaguely, country-esque. That’s mainly because of the heavily reverbed slide underneath the acoustic in the verses. I love pounding the strings on the acoustic…
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This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…
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Figure Out- There are about 4-5 takes of this song, all different. The song started off in the key of D, but I couldn’t hit the notes in the chorus. I then tried it in A, but it was lacking drive and energy. I tried it in G, but I couldn’t get…
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Matter Of Fate- This song started as a riff I was doing while tuning my guitar. It sounded cool, so I happened to record it on a small dictation recorder I have so I wouldn’t forget it. When I listened to the riff it just screamed Sticky Fingers…
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With Phil Close on multiple instruments/production. A song mainly about my disrepect for celebrity culture.
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Instrumental assists from Michael Kardos, overall arrangement by Phil Close, additional vocals from Lee Cusenbary. Envisioned as a cheesy Costa Rican Tourist Board jingle framing a love song.
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Everybody loves the Good old Days. Instrumental and production help from Phil Close
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Additional instruments and arrangements by Thom Polimeros.
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I co-wrote the lyric with Bill Liggett, and the music with Michael Kardoff. Don't do business with Ms. Calamari.
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This track replaced the one in this position which was on the orginal RPM album. Based on some tales from real-life Houston Bail-bondsman (and frequent collaborator) Jay Lindsey.
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This song was honored by peers at RPM in '07 by being voted into inclusion on an all-RPM compiliation originally intended for HEAR! music.
The lyric is about the inevitability of bad times. It's good to live optimistically, but let's face it…
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An instrumental "bonus" track for the official release of the album "Thou Shalt".
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Another instrumental "bonus". Sort of a tribute to Danny Elfman, whose soundtracks I'd been listening to quite a bit at the time.
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Instrumental. Not as angry as the title sounds. ;)
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At last, my secret is out. What I really want to be is a Jazz composer. ;)
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During my Animal Collective phase. One of the weirder ones...
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Don't believe the title. Ok, you probably should.
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Also known as "Sequence 6 & 7" in the "Watercolors" project which was my entry to the RPM Challenge 2010.
It is all about that overwhelmingly happy feeling that makes you weak in your knees and you just feel like sitting down and enjoy the…
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"Senses" is all about Spring where all our senses are sharpened and we look at all the beautyful things that rises before our eyes.
Watch the video from Second Life too...very well made by Soundr Productions;o)
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A problem we all have at some time, right guys?
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When we finally decide to settle down we can find a place like Kansas
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Written for all those who lost their lives in the horrific Victorian (Australia) bushfires in 2009.
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Lyrics Written by a young man with Aspergers!!!
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The Dance moves in all of us. It's our inner nature, our link to the universe, and greatly submerged and denied.
The Dance:
The dance commences,
pulse fills our senses,
To lead us to where we begin…
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Just a garage/fifties fun type of tune. Lots of guitar. I'm a Knucklehead, wouldn't you like to be one too?
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More of theat life stuff that happens to us all at some point!
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A song about a boat or is it about a woman...or both?
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A special song for a very special lady and her son
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Spoken word blues. The words are straight from the Bible.
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Written in a desperate attempt to finish the RPM 2010 challenge!
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Picture an older couple going out for a night of live music and dancing, country-style.
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This song is a brontosaurus of an instrumental, stepping on trees and crushing houses. It is a force of nature which has not walked this earth for many years...now its on the internet. in this song i play a guitar, laminated placemat, etc.
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Juniper reads a movie tag line while an early improv piece explodes into a swirling strutting admonishment.
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This song is actually what i consider a pretty song, well, instrumental. complete with tinkling noises, waveform hums of several pitches and rates
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this song is too funny. make up some words or just pretend its pizza the hut.
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weird beat poet sounding vocals
accoustic meanderings
some strange accompaniment.
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some light rhyming with a twist.
I played the organ loop with the cord plugged in the out jack and couldnt hear what i was playing. that was a formative moment for me artistically. When I realized I didn't want to control how each song sounded…
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tearing up the papers
oh no no thats not what i mean't
rythym guitar accompanies a scene out of an office space disaster where a sexual innuendo may have not been misinterpreted
close with cymbals and wind chimes as the intense situation allows…
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this song is a wild ride out of key. very accoustic rythmyc, and mysterious...
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Himitsu jam session. This little piece reminds me of driving through small towns in Mexico on Sunday morning, with the light just pinking the horizon, and the entire towns' populace heading to mass to the sound of the church bells.
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Himitsu jam piece. I am responsible for the synth slide trombone here.
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Primeira música dos DM (Thomas Gibson e Francisco Jesus)
Composição/Voz: Francisco Jesus
Composição/Produção: Thomas Gibson
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Himitsu jam. Title says it all. Visting hard rock guitarist sitting in this session.
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At the beginning of a Himitsu jam session we had an impromptu trio of guitar, theremin, and electronic drums doing a snippet of this classic theme.
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Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, the opening melodies to this song found their way into my head... A song of hiking, love, and life... Won't you come with me on the trail?
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My response to John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High."
The first time I dropped my lowest string
Was for Rocky Mountain High
Last night I caught a flight
To see the fire in the sky
Where John found twenty-seven
Now I'm turning thirty-five…
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A love song... It's amazing how easy it would've been to miss her... So lucky I didn't.
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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A simple as it is musically, this song pretty much sums it all up for me. What started as the simple appreciation of a hiking t-shirt evolved into this song about the duality of this domesticated artist who recognizes the importance of wandering…
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Cthulahoop recording. Monkey, the base element of the human alchemy.
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Cthulahoop recording commenced after a peculiarly strong dream. Uses samples of a friend's digerido run through an analog filter. Definitely dream state.
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Wisians are those strange foreign people with odd customs, and funny hats. They love to party. Have you seen one recently?
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This is probably to personal, to raw to put here, but I've been listening to some pretty courageous stuff here in alonetone. This is more of an occurence, a onetime performance, more of a memorial, than a recording. My dad had died recently, I…
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Sometimes, all you need to do is decide that you're gonna save yourself.
COMING UP OVER THE RISE
So low I couldn't see the skies
The shadows had me hypnotized
Climbing high, sun in my eyes
I was down, but now I'm coming up over the rise…
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Believe it or not, this track was written as a pretty tame little song... Then I put new strings on the guitar and it simply refused to be played slow. Enjoy it for the drive and energy. Listen to the lyrics. For whatever reason, I hope you…
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I made this a little after having sex. I was in a state of pure.... something or other. and with that,came the inspiration for a crazy new hit. Hurah for human reproduction! XD
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Simple little song. My view on how love really falls apart. Last verse is in my opinion an add-on. I wrote it after the rest, at the behest of someone who thought it was too "un-hopeful". It may have been a goood thing.
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Second of the songs with a movie clip from 1955.
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