 farfor44
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Date: December 31, 2008 @ 11:10 PM
"Dont be afraid" by ff44
Open your heart,and let loves angels hear your anguished cry.
Please dry your eyes it aint no use in crying
things happen in our lives that are so hard to bare
deep in your heart you must begin to trust in love again..
Lift up your head,no need to feel downhearted
I know when love is lost it makes you feel so small
dont be afraid,afraid to show your feelings..
The world wont end because your lover has said goodby
deep in your heart you must begin to trust in love again
dont be afraid,afraid to show your feelings
I know when love is lost it makes you feel so small.
Dont you give up,you have to keep on trying
better to have loved and lost,than to never know love at all..
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Rodrica
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 5:02 AM
Awesome vibe, very atmospheric, has a kind of "voodoo" feel to it  Great lyrics and fantastic guitar work - love the production/arrangement  ...but then again, I always knew it would be top notch    
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Ghostie
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 9:49 AM
Sweet song.. love those dreamy vocals
cool  So this is what you have been doing... instead of finishing the bathroom! 
Excellent babe!
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 NosmoKing
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 10:23 AM
Great feel to this one! It seems you got the gutiar tone because it's wonderful and well done! Nice production on this, really enjoy the harmony. Great lyrics.
Nice job on this one! Was looking forward to it when you said you would post Jan 1!
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 joycedavis
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 11:12 AM
every part of this is so cool. your vox, the atmosphere, the e guitar, the lyrics - i thoroughly enjoyed this positive message! 
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 MonnieB
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 11:25 AM
Ooooooh, wow.... Man that is some FIERCE harmony going on.... Smooth and soothing vocals in front of a sensual chillout groove... I digs it muchly! This is beautiful and a perfect way to ring in the New year!!!!!
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BOWILLIE
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Date: January 1, 2009 @ 12:55 PM
man this is a awsome track gene!
well done brother
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miraclemaker
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Date: January 2, 2009 @ 11:03 AM
Very cool tune, love the melody and the
reggae type beat, great lyrics and vox
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MultiMike
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Date: January 2, 2009 @ 12:46 PM
I just love that great funky guitar sound and playing style  you bring out the great 70s music style, awesome vocals too, and with a good lyrical meaning, great sounding percussion too, very well mixed as always.
Nice one Gene, a great start to 2009, and there will be more to come I hope 
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knosound911
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Date: January 2, 2009 @ 8:39 PM
nice man. the guitar is awesome in this one. I like the lyrics too, i think we can all relate to this song at some point in our lives. very deep meaning and overall an excellent song!!!
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elektronz
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Date: January 2, 2009 @ 9:32 PM
cool tune mate and the combination of the different beat styles is wicked ..what we got..house ,drum and bass ,,and downtempo  ...the guitars are ace and the vocals and layerin of them are great ...top track 
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TheJuke
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Date: January 3, 2009 @ 8:33 AM
Without doubt this the finest song I've heard from you so far. Everything about it is superb. Excellent melody & lyrics which the instrumentation and vocals perfectly convey. Fab guitar over latinesque beats (a slight nod towards early Steely Dan methinks) and nicely balanced production.
I'm on my third listen because there should be an extended 7 minute version - or as long as you like, I could listen to stuff of this quality all day.
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 jolee1
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Date: January 4, 2009 @ 3:03 PM
Wow I love this! Fantastic my friend this is what I call excellent in every area.  jolee
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 Jim9guitars
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Date: January 4, 2009 @ 6:42 PM
Cool vibe, and I love the wah-wah guitar, very 60's retro,
Jim
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 ShadowMom
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Date: January 4, 2009 @ 7:33 PM
"Better to have loved and lost..." sometimes it doesn't seem like it, but it's true, and the lyrics are excellent, a positive message, and one that needs to be repeated often-- what better way than in song? Mellow, Gene, and gently done-- as it should be. And what a way to start the new year!
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 mundale
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Date: January 5, 2009 @ 9:58 PM
Way cool late 60s early 70s kind of sound, laid back. expert use of the wah wah pedal. I didn't notice that the lyrics don't have much rhyme but then "Stairway to Heaven" doesn't either. Rhyme only serves to make it easier to memorize. Alfred Lord Tennyson quipped, "it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." Lord only knows where he stole it from. Love and death are the territory of poets. 
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KC123
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Date: January 7, 2009 @ 10:10 AM
This is a very groovy track with some pretty deep lyrics. I love what that funky electric guitar does in this song. I wish that the vocals were fronted a little bit more. Without the seeing the lyrics, it's difficult to hear what the song is about. Thanks for sharing, Gene!
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mandolinlady
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Date: January 9, 2009 @ 6:47 AM
Really nice thought out lyrics Gene, but you have the art for this 
Your vocal on this is so nice & gentle with a kind of warm expression to explain the ups & downs of love
I love the musical arrangement & the guitar work is  outstanding
This will be another of my favorites from you Gene Original Too
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ViciousKitty
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Date: January 11, 2009 @ 10:52 PM
I'm liking that wah sound...You can certainly play as well as write music...Very well put together...I like the way work the electronica breaks in and the vocals are sweet!!!!
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 WM3
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Date: January 13, 2009 @ 10:07 AM
Wow! Awesome! a nice electronic reggae feel with a killer vibe, Vocals are very melodic and original, great harnony's great guitar playing, overall SUPERB! I love this gene, killer
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 Rockmebaby
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Date: January 14, 2009 @ 7:46 AM
Downloaded the other day
Back here for another groove
Awesome track
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 songbird
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Date: January 16, 2009 @ 1:52 PM
Love your sound, Gene Great lyrics! Can feel the passion in your playing.
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zedsalt
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Date: January 17, 2009 @ 9:26 AM
Love that buttery guitar tone! Is that a VST effect?
The vocal harmonies are...as per usual...damn nigh perfect, but there was a kind of unusual phenomenon in them, for these ears. The lyrics were a lot more immediate for me in the bits where their delivery diverged most. The closer harmonies, both in pitch and in so-tightly-timed-that-they-hardly-chorused timing, had a lovely portamento organish sound to them, but I realized that the words weren’t really registering for me until you’d hit a spot where the two (or more?) voices started doing very different things. I wouldn’t call it a “problem”, not even a small one, but I know how much you enjoy crafting these things, and I figure you’d probably enjoy exploring this on later tracks...not making ALL the harmonies more divergent (your choices in this arena are pretty tasty as they are, I think), but it might be fun to try spreading out the dynamics where the vocals are really close in pitch in timing, and mixing them...well, pretty much as you did here, when they get a little more naturally incidental distance between them. I don’t know; maybe it would flatten things right out and rob a little of the drama. But like I said, it might be a fun thing to try, if you haven’t already.
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perkie1973
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Date: January 17, 2009 @ 9:27 PM
This is great track...would love to cover this track...
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laughingdove
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Date: January 18, 2009 @ 11:41 PM
great work, I like the "positive" vibe you put through in your tunes.You always have a really good to listen to quality in your voice that alows many repeated listens.
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aorpete
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Date: January 24, 2009 @ 6:10 PM
WOW - catchy straight off the bat!
Nice production all around, I love the funkiness & that wah guitar is so cool!
I see I am a bit late on the comments here... lol... I guess that is clearly my loss though!
A pleasure as always my friend - KICK ASS!!!
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CubedDrummer
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Date: February 1, 2009 @ 11:57 AM
i feel like im listening to a jazzy primus
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GTOriginal
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Date: February 6, 2009 @ 12:39 PM
I think you are kinda underrated as a guitarist, because the whole package is greater than the parts. I like it all but them tones rule.
The songwriting is superb too, deserves to be read separately, so I'm glad you typed it in here - because the music is really enjoyable behind it. Very cool. 
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plungerboy
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Date: March 6, 2009 @ 12:01 PM
The guitars in this are really nice... beat is cool. Yeah im tapping my foot
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Dutchlike
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Date: March 15, 2009 @ 1:05 PM
This is a very, very catchy tune, i like the beat, the guitar work is excelent and the vocals make it perfect. Haven't heard anything like this in a while .
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evansorchid
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Date: March 31, 2009 @ 8:01 PM
Whoa....that a mean little guitar intro.
I really like the drums and bass guitar.....they set a great mood.
I need to get me a wah-wah pedal....
Cool segue around the 2:00 mark.
The vocal performance is great.....I really like the melody too.
Thanks for turning me on to this.
Great track.
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JennyK
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Date: April 15, 2009 @ 9:53 AM
I'm sorry I missed this one before. Got you on my watchlist now so that won't happen again. I have to agree with above people. This is really nice. Sweet sound, great lyrics and great arrangement. Excellent!
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Bluenevus
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Date: May 25, 2009 @ 9:03 PM
Cool track...
I really dig the beat and bass line going here.
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KV-
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Date: June 2, 2009 @ 6:48 AM
Superb mix of styles this, kind of breakbeat, downbeat with a mild drum`n`bass hint in there too, once again the vocals and guitaring are mint, the breaks in the beat are really good and the whole mix is spot on. Another cracking track well done
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 TameasDust
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Date: June 4, 2009 @ 4:55 AM
nice production .. good tones .. lovely voices in a random street drunk way .. somewhat good harmonies .. lovely playing .. a groovy easy feelin .. sorta like Vaseline on a hot day
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