In biz
In biz
since you gone
In biz
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Recover – I was listening and marveling at ELO’s hit “Cant get it outta my head”, I loved the basic C majorness of it, I never want to be guilty of copying way too much, however in seeking an idea, I have to keep myself in the spirit/key, so I came up with a melody and read about how to get over grief online and in like one hour I had it done, a bit robotic, still cool though, I would make the tune purposefully make it bit more spontaneous if possible next time, an okay tune in my book.
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Run down – basically an exercise in playing only on basses, an okay tune, maybe bit dumb, oh well.
3. "One day in the city" -
I came up with the acoustic guitar
and basically recited how I felt that
day, I love this tune, I love the Strat
in position 2
I don't care was written when I was trying to get though a nasty annulment the more I learned of her liar ways. the more I began to quit having any good feelings,
After Wendy my wife died, I thought of the time she told me she loved me so much she would die for me, she would take a bullet for me, I was shocked, I didn't know what to say, when I came up with this strong melody and chord structure, I said write something about myself that is compelling, I couldn't thin of anything more compelling that what she told me that one day.
This week at the Illinois river studios is:
Never recover - a tune that began from reading about grief and listening to ELO's Cant get it outta my head". Counselors always try to rationalize folks who see help from being so grief stricken, grief is a product of love and death or any bad incident can happen art any time and there is no rationale behind it.
This tune was the product of realizing how many people in my life turned out to be low down thieves, men and women and how sad it is that nobody can be trusted, the tune itself, is all bass, three tracks of the fender jazz and two tracks of vocals and one bass drum track, simple yet effective, it was a Saturday morning project and its was a complete surprise at the resulting reception from fans, thank you! Sometimes the simplest of tunes are the most effective or correction its always not sometimes, simple tunes communicate well.
BEEN LONG LONELY TIME IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, ITS GREAT FOR OPEN MICS AND PLAYING SOLO, ITS EASY, AND IT CAN GO FAR, SONG IS ABOUT A NO GOOD GIRLFRIEND WHO PLAYED ME REAL BAD, I WAS NAIVE AS I COULD BE I LEARNED A LOT, DONT TRUST ANYBODY!
IM GOING TO THe FLEA MARKET (at Jack Murphy stadium location home of the old chargers) TOMORROW AND SEE ABOUT SELLING A COUPLE OF GUITARS MAYBE NEXT WEEKEND. AND SEE IF WE CAN JAM OUR IMPROV BIZ AT THE FLEA MARKET WHERE KING BOUGHT A GREAT SOUNDING 20 DOLLAR FLUTE!
I was down a couple of years back at Xmas, I just bought a keyboard and I wanted to simulate a whole symphony playing a tune, I had just bought a 1978 Fender Vibrochamp amp and use the amp for the lovely Strat and five string Fender Jazz sound, the tune came one night and it was finished very quickly, I love the end climax where the "symphony" builds tension and holding around the A minor constant at the end , I thoroughly love this song, not in particular of what I did but love the message and the construction of the song, I always try to use non-standard word "rhymes" or word association, I love the "soldier on" phrase near the end.
The tune was just a bass warmup, and then I came up with the idea, how about make it a time travel thing? and lets make it like it was the show case tune on soul train, and make believe its 1973 rather than 2025, the track only has two bass tracks and some GarageBand drums!
Mighty low was part of a setlist that I came with Mighty low was created for a gig in Enid Oklahoma we got paid 200 dollars for a one hour set, it had to be all originals, I had like a week to get a group together, so I came up with like ten 12 bar blues tunes, tunes I knew we could knock out without rehearsal, we were all working back then we didn't have time for practice and so Mighty low was the one tune in the hastily created set that was memorable.
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