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Starting off sounding much different, this has undergone considerable transformation in Audacity to reach the form in which you hear it now. Drone from a window a/c unit and more jackhammering from the other side of our building.
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(samples "One Thing Leads to Another" by the Fixx)
[Verse]
Life’s a series of actions and reactions
One gets what she gives, or doesn’t if one didn’t
Do you see signs in the time?
Do you see the crimes? That’s a sign of the times
Life…
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Tim played and sang everything
Another cover for the May 30 Day Songs project (https://30daysongs.com).
This has always been one of my favorite songs and I saw that Ben Kweller's album
"Sha Sha" is turning 20 this year. I needed a b…
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Hello, everyone, I got some food in front of me
I’m gonna eat it, I’ma gonna tell you about it
So it’s a mix, potatoes and the beans and the grains altogether for your brain, for your body, it’s pure pleasure
Here we go
Smooth but a good chew…
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So there’s this phenomenon about controversial works of art
That there’s the establishment that wants to suppress and take down and attack controversial works of art
And this arises because there’s a viewership or a viewer-base, listeners, watchers…
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Who Is My Neighbour - A A J Russe
Written sometime in 1992
Recorded 12th March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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I wrote this 30 years ago when I was 29. There were a bunch of people killing other people. There were refugees.
By the…
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Just in time for St Patrick's Day . . . . And with any luck we might have a bonus "LIVE" Leprechaun track coming soon. The Minnesota Coffee table met and recorded a fun version last night.
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I was…
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Foolishness - A A J Russe
Written 3rd January 1988
Recorded 1st March 2022
The Shoebox Demos Vol 1
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While writing and recording songs for FAWM 2022 I discovered that I can create acoustic demos of nearly any song I've ever written…
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fresha beats productions
fresha beats cattle lick
2021 Dance if you can vol.2👄
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C.S. Lewis once wrote about the concept of "out of simple evil comes complex good." These are trying times, an understatement if there ever was one. As you read this, you have uncertainties and fears for what our current situation means for right…
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"Play what you know and then play above that."
-Miles Davis
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Since you've all been such good boys and girls this year, I decided I should give you all a present. Here is a song written by yours, truly, and sung by the incredible Inge Meijer. I can't say enough about what an great job she did on the song…
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Well last night just as i was of to bed , there was a knock on the door of the cellar and it was John & George they had come for a sess and i mean who was i to deny them…..they'd heard of the Beatle fest from Elvis…he could never keep quiet…
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Keyboard and Electric Bass Guitar by Otis Maly, Percussion by Matt Santana
One of three tracks that my friend Otis jammed on during February 2012. This is the first mixdown I've done since he laid down the keys back in mid-February of 2012…
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Recently, my wife and I discovered the TV show Portlandia, and it has become our Saturday morning ritual to watch the latest episode with our coffee. Anyways, I kind of got the theme song (http://www.ifc.com/fix/2011/02/portlandia-whats-that…
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After a long summer of doing stuff other than recording it was time to get back on the horse.
Sonically, this isn't much of a departure but I am trying a couple of new things technically.
One it that I spent more time on the drums (an achilles…
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Vocals, bass and acoustic guitar by Dave Tanner.
Drums, keys, lead guitar studio production by Aaron Crawford.
Recorded and mixed Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 at Resistance Recording. Engineered by Aaron Crawford
from the album "Sunny, sorta…
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From my RPM Challenge 2011 effort. Originally this wasn't an instrumental, but the time pressures of RPM changed that.
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This is what happens when I come back to a track that started being put together in a commercial radio station production studio back in about '92/'93 (post liquid-lunch "creative" time). The rhythm loops were layered then the crunch guitar (courtesy…
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This song started as the riff on my Strat while fooling around with some FX. I knew it needed to be a big dance number, and then realized there is a great story about the power of music and dance, which I hid in the lyrics. See if you can figure…
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This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…
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from the album "the Hardest Blow" featuring vocals and slide guitar from Gregg Todt
My father says, it's not enough
This mortal strife, gets too rough
And sinners dance, upon your grave
Waiting for, your bones to bleed
The hardest blow…
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This track was created as part of the October 2010 Alonetone 24 hr challenge. The challenge is to make 24 minutes of original music in one 24 hour period.
he's not blown away like a stray star
he's not stolen clean away by a fast car
but…
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Drive cleaning time!!
Found this arrangement left over from RPM. The drum track was already mixed from my old kit. I cut it and mashed it up trying to fix it when I mix it.
Then I added some vintage synth sounds, some guitars, and some reptilian…
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Many nebulae form from the gravitational collapse of gas in the interstellar medium. As the material collapses under its own weight, massive stars may form in the center, and their ultraviolet radiation ionises the surrounding gas, making it visible…
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And oh my Dog
My bones got out
Of my arms
And into your
Charms
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Mining the archives a bit. This is an alternate take of my "Jimi Jam" from a couple of years ago. Live to 2 tracks with the Jamman. Really only sounds OK when cranked up loud enough that your eardrums threaten to meet in the middle. LOL!!
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My first Christmas original just off the presses with that cowboy, spaghetti western style.
Paul: Why don't you try Jingle Bells or something
Geas: Oh God,No, I hate the classics... that sucks......
Paul: Yea that does suck. Try emmmm, Oh Holy…
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From your parents you will learn everything and nothing without even realizing
lyrics:
Don't look in the mirror, your skin will never seem as soft
Don't wait in the middle when your mind is already made up
Just make it home, please…
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Here is my contribution to the latest songwriting challenge offered by Minnesota Association of Songwriters:
Write and record one song and complete one of these three concepts.
A stranger comes to your door, and/or….
You find a class…
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What’s up, everyone
Got a meal here right in front of ya
And I’m gonna eat this, and I wanna tell ya about it so you can share this experience with me
We got these potatoes mashed with love, fantastic stuff
And I got this grain mix, beautiful…
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(interpolates lyric from "Hate Me Now" by Nas)
it’s about progression, word to Isor
self-betterment
personal improvement
learn and apply
don’t hate robots, they know not what they do
go inward
stay away from the n-words
focus on yourself…
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"Always (Again Remix)" recorded in February 2023 for the RPM Challenge.
New recording of an old song with different arrangements. Originally started as a joke in response to Tim (of Letter Seventeen) asking AI to write a song (not) about airplanes…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 7
Written Saturday 12th February 2022
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This one was easy to write but hard work singing and recording.
I'm fairly certain this one is high on the list of "arrange me later" - I kept…
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RPM Challenge 2021
Category: Single (this is side 1)
Genre: Surf
The 2021 RPM Challenge was indeed a challenge and I only signed up to record a single! My month was fraught with problems, mostly having essential gear go south (mixing board…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
just for once
let the loss
fall away
from me now
try to see
the good in you
through the haze
of the world
I wanted to save you
From yourselves
But I forgot to first save me…
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...same for orbiting shuttle as in falling elevator; always accelerating towards earth to as if falling!!! Therefore, you fall at the same rate as shuttle, objects float relative to shuttle, can’t tell which way is up.
Igor
Bad Münder Diaries
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FDR sent me over this superb backer to see what i could do...well i went back in time... to the time of Motorbikes and leathers and living life with no tomorrow...oh what fun it was back then shame we have to grow up!.........well have to sell…
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Thanks to the online Spanish/English dictionary guy for providing the vocals
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A view on ghosts. Used my tenor recorder, guitars, and bass. Bizarre how once song writing starts, it seems to write itself. Hope you like.
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Who's that knocking at the door
It's the sand
In the wind
with the truth and more
Seagull in the sky
Soar like an Eagle
Pray in sights
Fly in to the sea
Dive down deep
You will find me
Only then you rise
Phoenix flys
To golden hights…
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This is the song that opened my ears to Rock music thanks to my sisters record collection…..i've been wanting to give this one a go since i first ever heard it at the age of about 10….so its only took about 40 years and thanks to Speed Demon i…
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This is an ode for a good friend of mine that had took his own life at the end of last year. I was in the midst of writing some other songs and it stopped me in my tracks. I just wrote basically how I felt about this tragic ending to a very special…
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Jip and JB in the Jipster studio, sitting down with guitars and a few beers, and many laughs. It was almost abandoned at one point, but we pressed on. Here's the result. I don't think the mouse has a name.
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A song to get up and dance to, much like you get and dance when someone whose loudly voiced opinions you don't share is sent packing. Narcissism and hero worship have no place in a civilized world. ;)
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Inspired by the "Metal for Life" Column in the Guitar World Feb 2012 issue, I stuck to the original etude probably only 80% or so and changed the arrangement, plus added an extra solo section in the middle.
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This is a “cross-over” pattern. Cross-over patterns are a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with different numbers of beats/measure are played at the same tempo: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms have measures…
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"Hey Motorman" was written for the 100 year celebration of the Ariel Lift Bridge.
The bridge was originally built in 1907 with a gondola that went from side to side carrying passengers and vehicles. It was later replaced with a lift system.
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This evolved out of an exercise in a workbook I just got on music composition. The original task was to write a melody in the Dorian mode about water...
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This is a song that I did with Bethan Mathis a while back. She has recently removed her account, but has give me permission to place this song on my pages. She did such a wonderful job of singing this that I think it deserves to be heard.
It…
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This song is simple in both arrangement and theme. It is about not taking life for granted and not ignoring the misfortunes of others.
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Sank a solid 17.5 hours into this one, so there won't be a complete album out of this 24 hour day.
Had the structure floating around for a year; this is my first stab at it. There are definitely huge revisions in store.
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If we want to commune with the world the way the Goddess does, we’ve got to be Pantheosexuals . . . We've got to be experts in the art of Polymorphous Perverse Omnidirectional Goddess Diddling. Anything less is a lie, an obscene limitation…
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this is a little bit different for us, must have been messin with an acoustic at the time!!.
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This song describes the part of my life journey that i find myself in these days. Seeking inward peace, knowing that I must continue to search....
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Written for/about Ben Montgomery. Answering machine messages wondering where he might be are from yours truly and Jason Biehler, his two closest friends who were always trying to track him down.
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I took you seriously
I took it carefully
I didn't want to breathe too loudly
I walked around silently
I didn't say a word
Fear was there beside me
I know it sounds absurd
But so what?
So what.
I lived without money
I've lived without…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 4
Written Wednesday 9th February 2022
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Here we go again...
I didn't think there was anything left in the tank, but here we are.
Ready for a lie-down now!
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**Ifs Buts And Maybes…
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A track I created years ago, but freshly mixed with additions and subtractions - hence, 'revived'.
The lyrics are on my bandcamp 'macmcintyreguitarist.bandcamp.com' - I'm not sneakily directing you to my bandcamp in the hope you might buy a…
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This song was written for a songwriting challenge issued by the MN Association of Songwriters where the title had to include the word 2021. I am uploading it this morning on a very proud day here in the USA - Inauguration day 2021!!!!! I am…
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whew, well it does upload eventully.
new look , very quirky
Blind Blake
It took two weeks to learn this syncopated
Picking style, Well worth the effort.
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A tribute to the beloved Black Sabbath. This is a collaboration with Ray La Veau who did all the hard work with the music tracks. Vocals by me.
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If you leave me behind I'll have a crow's nest of a life
Filled with things that sparkle and flash,
Rusty nails and old tin cans
Sure, they're pretty when they get wet
But it ain't the most comfortable bed
Unless you're here
I've been…
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Yet another version of this oneyet another version of this one still trying to work this song out I am currently working on another one
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Here we go.
This one started out one morning several weeks ago when the sun was still shining...
If it's as wet and dark as it is here, just close your eyes, I'm sure you can imagine it if you try hard enough...
Lollies, chips, and beer…
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I fancied another acapella. Shame I end in a different key than I started in, someone could have put music to it!
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Here's a cover from the Band from the late 60's Gene again is in charge of the music and the mix and a great job he does of both..... i'm doing the warbling hope you enjoy..........
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A little duet with me and my dad playing the ukulele
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Lyrics and music by Brian Vaughn.
Guest guitar solo by Karl Ridgeway (0:38 and 1:14).
Lyrics:
Oh little girl won't you tell me what you were looking for when you came to this place?
You've got friends, but not many of them like to be seen.
Oh…
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Garn/Landry (And I barely deserve any credit for this one at all)
A while back, Jim recorded a rough version of this song, and upon listening to it, I was thrown back to a day from my youth. While vacationing in Vermont, a small twister throwing…
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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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the journey
continues- frek interacts with strange inhabitants form alien worlds-the heart chakra opens at about the 13 minute mark
shades of starsailing for the Lincoln the Chain gang at about 8 minutes-
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An experiment I recorded yesterday with a rig I put together for more or less ambient sounds using two loopers and nearly every effects unit I own. I have no idea who Clark was but he owned the '58 Harmony Stratotone that I used on this cut. His…
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I'm trying to experiment with intentionally combining two different sounds. Since I seem to find this difficult I am starting with using a drone as one of the sounds taking my inspiration from the opening tracks of the Brian Eno & Jah Wobble…
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in a cool darkened lounge
floors above the cityscape
quiet laughter, clink of ice in glass
D min looks into the eyes of G min
a quiet romance begins
sometimes the best things in life are quite simple
(lots of rough sound on this,, not sure…
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A beautiful song by our fellow Canadian Bruce Cockburn.
Guitars by Dave Berry
Vocals and Moog synth by Sandy Gritt
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Songs sometimes are best left to the listener. This is one of them.
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his song is just an experiment or at least started that way. Based on an "Ultrabeat" groove ( the only loops ) I added parts and sang an "Off the cuff" vocal and mixed and tweaked. Mostly Midi parts played through my cheesy Midi controller but…
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Broken things on my window sill
Remind me every day
Of my constant lean towards failure
Always getting in my way
Perpetual disappointment
I never follow through
Can't count on me for nothing
I'll only disappoint you
There's a war in…
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Boy meets girl. Girl enthralls boy. Hilarity ensues.
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I wanted a loose nod to “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, so I started it in the rain and ended it with returning to someplace I used to live. But then because of Bud Cort I thought the singer should inexplicably die at the end of each verse. This…
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[Rushten]
Ah, there’s nothing like a nice big potluck after a hard month of work. I only wish I had some young tender boys here I could have fun with
[Sally]
Rushten, what do you mean?
[Rushten]
(*clears throat*)
[Jenerica]
Oh, Sally…
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