Nice to hear someone sounding relaxed and natural in 7.  Like it.

Groove is ideal against the vocal, well sung, interesting songwriting as always. 

" Stop, when red lights flash" That's such a beautiful refrain.....for me one of your finest hooks

beautifully developed bass line ......until that "break"....Proud of you Sir.....if it doesn't make me an ass to say it 

Fab - love the progression of this track!

Great piece of work Emrys - thanks for the contribution to The Odd Time Signature Group!

sometimes i love to write a song, and render the recording nothing more than a cloud. 
vocally it's like walking a sort of musical/emotional tightrope.
listeners either love or hate this sort of thing,which in itself is a little bit of a thrill..
cause the audience always matter...in a way they complete the work,
and yet the ultimate way of respecting an audience is not to give them what you think they'd want, but to dig deep, and simply offer up what's honestly inside.

here's a link to the video http://youtu.be/EiAJPMsJUKA

onwards...and into the music...
mary cigarettes. 



Madman In The Rain

A slighty abstract ditty.  This is a song of hope...

COTWS - Stop When Red Lights Flash

Hi folks,
This is a collab between me, Carolyn and Michael.<a href="http://soundcloud.com/carolb123" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carolyn Burnette</a>
In my own BIASED opinion, it's magical :) <a href="http://soundcloud.com/michael-klatte" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Klatte</a>

HOLD YOU
Music Composers: Rockshamrover and Michael Klatte
Lyrics/Vocal melody: Carolyn Burnette 08-16-2011 
And my heart jumps in my chest
When I see you are here again
To talk with me
You may not say
All the things that I want you to say
But I know
Your love is real
I feel it coming from you
Even your eyes can’t hide it
I sigh 
You make me want to move close to you
To stand, to sway , to sit, to lay
I want to stay
You make me want to move close to you
To dance – to play – to hold you in my love
Hold you in my love



Hold you-(Carolyn-Burnette-Michael-Klatte-Rockshamrover)

Original song - Music, lyrics written and produced  by Brian Clayton.
Vocals - Katie Morgan.

Road To Nowhere - Katie Morgan - Brian Clayton

"Radio Silence Is Stupid" - Rudy Sanwald. September 8th 2012

Tattered Paper

Ostrich feathers and fingernails, you've never known, you've never cared.
Though many a man has taken it on faith, you never know it.
Saddlebags and roll the dice. Artifacts and children's toys

Won't someone save me, won't someone come.
Won't someone chisel, carve away the whole
of a life unspent

Child's ideas and things you'll never spend
and lonely days spent alone again.
Rotten fresh fruit and lazy days erase.
Foreign eyes on faded pictures, low rent and untogether.
These things we'll never find, these things we'll never want

Won't someone taint me, take me for a fool.
Won't someone make me, make me have to choose
for a lie unspilt.

Make me Feel.

Tattered Paper

trying to rise above things that get in the way of life.

rave on dollies…
mary of the wilderness.

middle class white trash ways

Lyrics Vox Music Mix Master-Extinction of the New Dinosaurs

ft The mighty http://soundcloud.com/kroak-1 on lead guitars 

also excellent art work by Kroak check out his art here http://www.flickr.com/photos/klauskroak/sets/

something for nothing

Down in the town where the blind are all deaf 
ain't never gonna change so don't hold your breath 
everyone has an opinion on you 
tell you what their not prepared to do for you

close my eyes and hold my ears

something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity

i am the sum of all my fears

something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity

no one said this life was for free

the cost of living is take take take take

down in the town where the blind are all deaf

ain't never gonna change so don't hold your breath

and everyone has an opinion of you

tell ya what their not prepared to do for you

not prepared to do for you

something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity 
something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity 
something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity

something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity 
something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity 
something for nothing don't come for free 
be lucky to leave with your dignity 
oh yeah

close my eyes hold my ears i am the sum of all my fears


big thanks to Nigel 

Album 

Something for nothing-New Dinosaur Extinction ft Klaus Kroak.

The Surgery Song
By Samuel Franklin Reynolds, Jr. ©2012

While everybody’s having a day in the sun, I’m in here with probabilities.
I am tired and I’m worried.
All the king’s doctors and all the king’s nurses, 
They all want a piece of me.
I am wired and I’m hurried.

For you to see me now,
I'm hiding ‘neath the covers and throwing in the towel.
Please stay with me, love. 
I'll be grateful in the morning if the morning ever comes.

While everybody’s digging their toes in the sand,
I’m in anesthesiology.
I am flying and it's blurry.
Voices getting softer and lights are getting dimmer, 
I try but I can’t reach my feet.
I am heavy and I'm turning.

It’s you who lifts me up,
You know the cards I'm holding and when it’s time to call my bluff.
It's you who fills me up,
Please tell me that you’re pouring me another ounce of love.

Stepping in the sun and out from under the knife
Now I have a new lease on my life.

funny how i could write reams about this awfully short peace of daft self indulgence…[it's roughly one minute forty five seconds .]
i'd been thinking about jazz over the years…
i can't play it,but i do find with age i'm acquiring an actual taste for it…
so y'know..this song is me sniffing around,trying to learn a thing or two….

the song itself is some sort of scene between a freewheeler, and a smug home owning conformist,
there's also a little video here i did of me channeling that very freewheeler character at brian jones gravestone.
and if you want a little more of my babble about the song,you can find it on my wordpress blog
  http://marycigarettes.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/brian-jones/
fellow maestros and rock n rollers…i know it's all over the place,and lady gaga has nothing to worry about...
but music is still it's own reward...

mary of the wilderness.

International house of pancakes

written and performed by Extinction of the New Dinosaurs 

Burn it clean

Behind the eyes
from the mouths of babes
fall the lies
was like that when i got here
smell to taste the fear
gone wrong
everything's gone wrong
gone wrong again
its a feeling on which i can depend
keeps me sane 
even through the pain
so informal
but very normal
pick it up and start from scratch
i light the match 
and burn it clean
never is just another dream
but a waking reality
with all the words thrown back at me
its gone wrong
gone wrong again
its a feeling on which i can depend
its gone wrong
gone wrong again

thanks to Sally for coming back and adding backing vocals xxx

follow extinction

Burn it clean-New Dinosaur Extinction

i've been getting back into synthesisers for this one…
in my music room there's a lovely old prophet 5 that's been gathering dust,and i made a cocktail mix of that along with software synths.
my first love is guitar,but out of some weird guilt i'd been avoiding woozy sounding synths for a while in order to keep my music more guitary and real maaaaaan
..but i've now decided that that's a load of old bollocks…synthesisers or guitars..they're ALL rock and roll crayons …
still...i wanted to pull the guitar in,make it's presence felt,and then pull the fucker right out again within two bars….
i really liked the effect of that…i was thinking how depeche mode,even though they're a synthesiser group,they also use guitars in a very cool way... 

i suppose this is some sort of hangover song
i was heading home on the tube train after a wild day on the town recently, and felt a little bit blue.
i figured this is the price i pay for instant self gratification,
and i was thinking the times i feel best and most happy are when i'm being of better service to myself,or at least service to other people instead…
 
tube trains are a great place to take self council…especially if they're empty,and you catch that defused reflection of yourself in the window opposite.
i'm tired of feeling like crap when i don't need to..it's not just about exercise or diet or too much inebriation ….
it's just……. sometimes wanting this..wanting that…the tired old scene…want want want
there's more happiness at home cleaning the toilet…working on a new song…singing….giving the dog a good brush (which he loves)...helping or being generous to someone else…
that's were the good feeling resides...much love...the mary one.

Reflected back from a tube train window

As a solo artist I am CONFESSION OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL (COTWS).  In my band with Bill Ryan, we are THE ELEVENTH HOUR INITIATIVE (TEHI).

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