this is a soundtrack ..the guitar work behind is
very impressive .listenin to real poeple talkin
about realy family memories indeed a real cool thing.
I can see how much work you spent on this project .
controled and directed so well.sure I m impressed by
your unique way in playin the banjo for a certain
minute you feel this must come as a change and it
did succeed .the last banjo pickin with the sounds
of the past you applied in he back was terrific ..
thnx alot for sharin it !!

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Holy psychedelic sweetness - Gotta listen w/ all of me when I get more time then maybe I'll be able to snuggle up to a string of words that look more like signs of intelligence.

Thanks Jim.

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I have a few friends around here that do RPM every year- I keep saying I'll do it one of these days. Although, I have to admit it would be cool to do it as a collab band with some folks here on MJ. Something to think and dream about, I guess.

Jim, I did listen to bits and pieces of this.. and found it very interesting and entertaining... just the sort of thing I always seem to find myself listening to on the radio (the result of scan search). I hope to find the time to listen to the entire track.

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There's a whole contingent of MacIdol artists that have done this 2 years in a row now, and there's much discussion over there about it. There was some idea to do it as a collaboration, but it is hard to organize that and the collaborative process didn't seem to work out. AS it was, I was traveling for 12 days of the month of February, so that's why I did one long song, because then I didn't have to worry about a bunch of ends and beginnings and it would make mastering much simpler. It wasn't as simple as I thought it would be, but I'm glad I did it anyway! Thanks for taking the time to download and listen, I realize it's a big time commitment, but perhaps you can just put it on in the background at some point, maybe at a dinner party or some such thing, hehehe

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Guess you'd need to have one person in charge of mixing etc... have four or five collaborators that each write one or two songs... it would be on organizational nightmare for me but not for the right person. It could work with some effort...

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....downloaded...and there will be more than one listen...lots happening here...

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I am ever so grateful; I realize that most people don't have that much time to spend on such a long musical composition and that it's sort of a major commitment. Even when I was working on it, I didn't often have the opportunity to listen to the whole thing in one sitting. I got inspired to do this anyway as one musical composition by the new Jack DeJohnette album "Peace Time" which is one 60 minute song. Not that my thing has that much to do with Jack DeJohnette other than being really long. And I think it starts out with gongs or chimes too.

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I'm looking forward to it !

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I've listened to the first 15 minutes and I'm hypnotized by your sister's voice. I think I could listen to her talk all day long. I don't know what it is. I'm impressed, in what I've heard so far, by the range of flavors of music you've composed for this, yet how you've managed to keep it all "under one roof," so to speak.

This is a really, really cool idea and what a great way to get a bigger project finished.

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I posted "More of a Mystery" http://www.macjams.com/song/38980 previously here, which is the other song on the album, and someone commented on the quality of the voices. I hadn't thought of that at all, because, of course, these are my siblings and it's just their voices to me, but thanks for noting that, because it's the kind of thing I can hardly be objective about. I tend to notice that there's an EXS24 synth tone that causes my woofers to flap uncontrollably (at least in the aiff version of this), so it's good to get this type of input. Much appreciated!

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