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rpm 2012 #3
no lie this was a ton of fun to make
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This is a song about questions, especially after experiencing the loss of someone special.....here are the lyrics:
Down past the bridge
By Saint Peter‘s church
She hums a prayer
Her eyes blue and bare
She’s longing for comfort…
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Special thanks to Dave Desoucey for the bass track.
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were all going to be dead one day ...... what do we care?................
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It's technically "Tobias The Battery-Powered Hermit", but the field wasn't long enough. =)
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
It started out as a tribute to the old sci-fi movie, "The Quiet Earth", and became something else.
Freesound samples used:
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From RPM 2012 album, "The Kitchen Sink"
First track - title comes from an unintended vocal sample.
2/26/12 MPT: I already uploaded a fresh copy. I wanted it to sound like a vocal ensemble in a dumpster, but I might have initially gone overkill…
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Revisiting this track too. For some unknown reason, the church across the street from my former abode occasionally rang their bell at 7:30 in the morning. Not every Sunday. Come to think, Sunday wasn't the exclusive day either. At any rate…
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Here's another little something that I somehow got sidetracked on posting.... Thanks for the jams Norm! One of these days I'll bounce something fresh your way....
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Re-recording of an old song I'd originally written for an even older band, Buckle. I think Buckle's been done now for almost eighteen years, so it may be safe to dust this off now and expose it to light again.
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from the dusty dance halls of the past a reverie
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You can watch the video related to this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp1_NaAoiLU&list=UU6ZCGmT1WphdMDQbIZT0peg&index=1&feature=plcp
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will i ram/jesmiaus/cryptic meadow 's "mosquito summer killing" bye bye remix
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I'm not really sure how this came about, I borrowed some lyrics from Angie Fights Crime and added a reggae sound and a remix to "The Surreal Age of the Naked Lemon" which I'm doing for the Rmp challenge and this sort of popped out ...
The…
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The wind roars. The night is pitch-black. The rails wet. Ideal.
I thought it would be harder. Perhaps it is only as hard as one deems it to be.
It approaches. I am terrified, but it needs to be done.
I let out everything that is human, as a…
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~for all the elves out of nowhere~
She dances, gracefully moving along a branch of the tree elf. She is dancing on the moon's path, alone...
Galadriel was proud, strong, and selfwilled... From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of…
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my tribute to a very underrated, underappreciated band. 40 yrs ago thier self titled lp came out, and i cover one from the lp as a tribute on thier 40th anniversary. im not a lead guitarist, and a new singer, so please bear with me on that.
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Some days seem longer than others,no body phones,no body calls round,what do you do? write a song i guess!
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originally written and performed by Chris Cornell.
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“This Change”: (Richard Hardrick)
Everything change
oceans of life, fight against death (hum)
I'm only a shade (afraid)
I' m trying to find my own way to survive
I'm better hide away, far away.
I can't resist this change
sky or sea…
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This is my attempt at afro-pop... The video was produced by a friend of mine, Skot McCall, via online collaboration...
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This song is inspired by the struggles currently going on in Syria....here are the lyrics:
Out in the streets, an awakening has begun
You brandish posters, they point a gun
Scrawled on the pavement with blood and tears
Says we the people…
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#4 for the RPM Challenge.
Have you heard this melody before? This is one of those where I wonder if I've unconsciously "borrowed" something from someone. Translation: the Fly Boat, like the tourist boats that ply the river Seine and their bright…
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Interpretation of that we see comes from us, so, therefore, is not objective. Seems, there is no objectivity here, none at all. But then why do we try again and again to learn, to understand, to feel?
The question is still the same: who are…
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“While I Wait”: (Richard Hardrick)
I hear my steps from echoes
down in the street of time
van años en lo incierto
outside the shadow line
Silence in an empty sky
while I wait
God has not revealed yet
the truth of signs outside…
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It's a small song about a blurred childhood memory of a night in the woods when a wild boar made us run home in panic.
The monster came through the ground
Across the glade we ran
There was a sense we felt again - never felt again.
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As it's coming up to Valentine's Day, I thought I'll upload this little ditty.
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Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…
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An old instrumental of mine, written when my daughter was a baby. I plan to re-record it with some better gear soon.
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This is "Bright Eyes" written by Mike Batt and originally performed by Art Garfunkel. A song made famous by the film, 'watership down'.
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~In the middle of everyday life [and all this fuss] you stop for a moment and see yourself as if from the outside~
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Act 2 Scene 3 - The Bedsit - Fool questions everything and falls into depression and drinks until he dies ... and it's OK
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Act 1 Scene 3 - A Night on the Town, a glimpse into Fool's social life which is ... going round to his mates and getting stoned, going to the pub and the disco in an attempt to get a girl, which he manages to do in the last song.
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Act 1 Scene 2 The Long Walk Home - where Fool is walking home from the disco, he debates the world around him as he's walking and dancing to music on his mp3 player then he takes shelter from the rain in a haunted house and meets a ghost, he…
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A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071
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The old Blues man came down the cellar tonight and wanted to sing some Elvis and this is what we cam up with hope you enjoy......
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It seems these Blues Lessons might be starting to pay off ....oh i wish i had more time........Lead guitar Reg with his £16 special...Vocal Possession Jim & Reg transferred through Trevor......organ Reg.......Drums a loop ....Music and words…
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I Shall Tear off my Terrible Cap
(poem by harold pinter, 1951)
I in my straight jacket swung in the sun,
In a hostile pause in a no man's time.
The spring his green anchor had flung.
Around me only the walking brains,
And the plack of…
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A song I'd written long before I was in any band. Music and lyrics by Mike Giles.
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Another of the "Recipe Songs". Maybe not as successful as the first, but much better than the others, which I have omitted.
Originally Recorded on a Fostex 4-track cassette and remastered.
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sort of alice in wonderland or maybe you might read something else from it. that's up to you.
They've switched off all the lights
they're out to lunch
they've all gone to the party
they're having tea and scones
the hatter calls for silence…
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This song was inspired by a long walk....
Lyrics:
Down by the river, down by the shore we go
The moon above cast a beautiful glow
We walked around talking through the night
I can’t help but think how it felt right
Hey Constance, don’t you feel…
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Yeah, guess I have an inner Gershwin who likes to listen to Beethoven. Go figure.
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lo-tek eclektro version of 'a character disorder' by the nu psimians
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be…
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live in the kitchen vox + piano only no fx version
and i don’t know what you mean
about the things i haven’t seen
it isn’t easy being green
when all you ever say is mean
you know i tried to keep it clean but
you were messing up my scene…
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well ... it's not really the year of the monkey ... except for me :)
Recorded on my new Boss Micro BR80, vocals done in the car ;)
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Did you lock door? have you lost the key?
Laughter in the strangers eyes on a windy street
And it's not surprising Winter's always cold
Years like silent footsteps follow
Autumn leaves and blue skies fade to gray
Have you see a rainbow from…
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The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
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Psychological consequences of war.....written and performed by Nick Plagakis.....Lyrics:
Sixty seven shots ringing
Across the desert, heads are spinning
Bang, Bang Bang; is all I hear
Bang, Bang, Bang;…
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Angelos and I improvise on classical guitars tuned a quartertone apart.
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A bit too big but they let me slide! Thanks Alonetone!
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Down the cellar this evening we were having a bit of fun with this old Elvis Classic ....he didn't seem to mind.....but Dr Nick had been in earlier.........with the one armed Banjo band backing...
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Lyrics and Chords:
Winter Solstice
Written by Greg Connor
When the G days are short, and the C evening’s so D long
And the C wind is D shaking the G trees
When the cold snow crunches C beneath your D feet
And your C cheeks are D…
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Jeff Prince and John Murphy add guitars and harmony.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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A Traditional Christmas song, written by John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore.
Performed by Rog Hildreth for the RPM Challenge 2011 Holiday LP 'Happy Mallidays'.
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This is a 19 note per octave solo electric guitar improvisation played in classical guitar format recorded in Sonar X1 with Guitar rig and Lexicon reverberation. Makes it hard to classify for what audience would want to listen to it I guess. The…
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Written in the depths of the Bush Administration.
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working with the two machines into a cd recorder .. for these three pieces :)
earlier work from last week is this video.
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first published in 1933, this eighty year old song is still just as sweet.
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This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else.
(c) 1990 Royal T Muaic
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CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie.
THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C
The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip
that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too.
Rocking Chair
Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den
And just enough umph for…
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where I cut out the seven layers to make the monkey songs Mon-Key is the album :) well this is what was left after the lifting off of seven layers.
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I DO - capo @ 3 in C
C Dm
You made the stars disappear
G C G
You said the words that I most feared
C stepping down to G...C
Why in the world…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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