Tributes 1, by Robert Svilpa

Tributes 1

by Robert Svilpa

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kadees Eines der besten Tributalben aller Zeiten!
(June 1, 2020) . . . Favorite track: Behind Blue Eyes (Townshend).

Kathy G WOW! Loved every track! Well done! One of the best tribute albums ever! Favorite track: Watcher of the Skies (Banks, Rutherford).

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1.	Watcher of the Skies (Banks, Rutherford) 08:29	lyrics	buy track
Watcher of the Skies, watcher of all...
2.	Phasors on Stun (Hawkins, Nash the Slash) 03:50	lyrics	buy track
Hold fast Hold on Nothing is a dream, yet in Changing faster It never seems to be here long Move on Turn 'round Just can't seem to find it, try and Reach out Hold out I cannot touch the wind I touch you Reach out Hold out Nothing here is real, try and Searching farther It almost seems to live until it Moves on Turns 'round Just can't seem to lose it, try and Hold fast Hold on I cannot ride the wind I ride you Hold fast Hold on Nothing is a dream until you Wake up Cry out Now it isn't real, now you Hold fast Nothing is a dream Hold on Just can't lose it now Move on Turning round and round Wake up You cannot ride the wind Hold fast Nothing is a dream Hold on Just can't lose it now Move on Turning round and round Wake up You cannot ride the wind
3.	Killer Queen (Mercury) 03:02	lyrics	buy track
She keeps Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet...
4.	Eleanor Rigby (Lennon/McCartney) 02:53	lyrics	buy track
Ah look at all the lonely people....
5.	Cinnamon Girl (Young) 03:11	lyrics	buy track
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl I could be happy the rest of my life With a cinnamon girl. A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl. Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl. A dreamer of pictures I run in the night You see us together, chasing the moonlight, My cinnamon girl. Pa sent me money now I'm gonna make it somehow I need another chance You see your baby loves to dance Yeah...yeah...yeah.
6.	Aqualung (I. Anderson) 06:53	lyrics	buy track
Sitting on a park bench...
7.	Fooling Yourself (Shaw) 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Why must you be such an angry young man?
8.	Xanadu (Lee, Lifeson, Peart) 11:19	lyrics	buy track
To seek the sacred River Alph...
9.	The Halcyon Days (Martin, Chatwood, Burrows) 05:46	lyrics	buy track
alone, left here in dust amidst my fears and doubts...
10.	Ramble On (Page, Plant) 04:32	lyrics	buy track
Leaves are falling all around, time I was on my way...
11.	Behind Blue Eyes (Townshend) 03:40	lyrics	buy track
No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes No one knows what it's like To be hated To be fated To telling only lies But my dreams They aren't as empty As my conscience seems to be I have hours, only lonely My love is vengeance That's never free No one knows what it's like To feel these feelings Like I do And I blame you No one bites back as hard On their anger None of my pain and woe Can show through But my dreams They aren't as empty As my conscience seems to be I have hours, only lonely My love is vengeance That's never free When my fist clenches, crack it open Before I use it and lose my cool When I smile, tell me some bad news Before I laugh and act like a fool If I swallow anything evil Put your finger down my throat If I shiver, please give me a blanket Keep me warm, let me wear your coat No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes
12.	Badge (Clapton, Harrison, [Starkey]) 04:21	lyrics	buy track
Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car. Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far. And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table. I told you not to wander 'round in the dark. I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park. Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's married to Mabel. Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down. Don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round? And you better pick yourself up from the ground Before they bring the curtain down, Yes, before they bring the curtain down. Talkin' 'bout a girl that looks quite like you. She didn't have the time to wait in the queue. She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle. (source - Google Play)
13.	Fortress Around Your Heart (Sting) 05:18	lyrics	buy track
Under the ruins of a walled city Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light No flags of truce, no cries of pity The siege guns had been pounding through the night It took a day to build the city We walked through it's streets in the afternoon As I returned across the fields I'd known I recognised the walls that I once made I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I'd laid And if I've built this fortress around your heart Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Then let me build a bridge For I cannot fill the chasm And let me set the battlements on fire

about

Here's the next release from us here - shakin' and groovin' some classic tribute songs for your entertainment. Take the song below and add the following tracks - it should be a pretty darn good set of music if I do say so myself (and I do).

- Eleanor Rigby (Lennon, McCartney)
- Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young)
- Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
- Fooling Yourself (Styx)
- Xanadu (Rush)
- The Halcyon Days (The Tea Party)
- Ramble On (Led Zeppelin)
- Killer Queen (Queen)
- Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
- Badge (Cream)
- Fortress Around Your Heart (Sting)
- Watcher of the Skies (Genesis)
- Phasors on Stun (FM)

These are tribute versions of the songs above - as in we the band are playing these and there is some reinterpretation happening. All the original writers are credited in the actual song list, and they are also getting their share of the purchase price of the song and album.

All the songs were recorded between 2005 and 2016 at Hyperboreal Studios, Washington State.

As for what the remaining money is going towards - we are writing our next album of brand new music with a plan to release in the Spring of 2017. All the proceeds not allocated to mechanicals and performance royalties go into the cookie jar to fund studio recording and CD replication for the new album. Cheers!!

credits

released July 10, 2016

Guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals - Robert Svilpa
keyboards - Paul Harrington
bass guitars - Brian Timpe, Robert Svilpa
drums - John Hernandez
drum programming - Robert Svilpa

engineering - Robert Svilpa, Jay Coover
mixing engineer, producer - Robert Svilpa

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Robert Svilpa Danville, California

Robert Svilpa is an independent Progressive Rock multi-instrumental artist, vocalist & musician with four full releases available on Spotify, Amazon Music, YT Music, iTunes, Pandora & many other networks.

Robert Svilpa - guitars, keyboards, bass & vocals

with:
Andy Edwards, Jimmy Keegan, John Jowitt, Thomas Lang, Brian Timpe,
Ryo Okumoto,
Sean Fairchild,
Albert Nerenberg,
Thomas Svilpa,
& more ... more