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This features me on 4 string, Sean Barrett on Guitar, Jerome Day on Drums
and Russ Miller on Sax. This was a tough song to record.....we decided to
take it at a very fast tempo, and we actually had trouble finding a sax
player who could double the melody with the guitar! Russ did a fine job
however, once we got him over. For those of you who have no idea who Sean is,
he is a fine guitarist located in Detroit. I believe he is mainly playing
classical guitar now.... The title refers to "Freud" obviously. Essentially I
thought it was a great title as to highlight the immediate
combination/mutation of a fast bebop melody with a rock-funk groove. Like we
"meant" to say it one way but it came out another. Jeff Kollman adds a great
solo at the end of the song on the fade out...
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Me on 6 string bass, Jeff Kollman on guitar, Jerome Day again on drums with
Dale Grisa on keys. The title is a tribute to one on my musical inspirations,
Chick Corea, who`s real name is Armando. Very mysterious sound, harmonic
minor, some great playing by all involved. This is my favorite track on the
record. I remember coming up with the unison lick in the middle of the song
while opening Christmas presents one year! I made my family wait for me till
I wrote it down!
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Me on the 6, Jeff K. on guitar, Dale Grisa on keys again, and a VERY funky
friend of mine from Detroit, Greg Tyler on Drums. This has the best feel of
them all......this track was recorded after the rest of the record was done.
This was also one of the first tunes that I wrote when I was making the
transition to 6 string bass. I had a few other tracks that were more
rock-like that I didn`t included on the record, as I wanted to stay a bit
jazzy, so I wrote this and re-arranged "What Comes Around" to balance. I was getting into the zydeco/quasi Neville Brothers thing at the time, and we recorded it on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), thus the name and the feel. Jeff
plays his butt off on this... as does Dale and Greg. Great piano solo.
Most of this was live. I tried to keep the spontaneity.
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Me, Sean Barrett on guitar again, Pat Brennen on keys and Jerome Day on drums......a true rock ballad. This is Sean`s baby... a very nice song, rock instrumental ballad.
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"Seize the Day, Part 1" and "Seize the Day, Part 2" are solo bass tracks, all on the 4 string... part one is 3 tracks of 4 string bass with handdrum, all recorded by me. This is as close to a writing demo as I have ever released, as this is typically the way I write...
groove, melody and a chordal track. All bass, just to establish the
idea... but this sounded nice, and a friend convinced me that I should mix
it and put it on the record. I`m glad he did... one of my favorite tracks.
Part 2 is a bass and drum solo that I used to perform live with my OLD band with Jeff Kollman, Edwin Dare. This features Jeff Kollman`s brother, Tommy Kollman on drums....and yes that is a quote from "Black Orpheus" in there!
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Me, Kollman, Day and Chris Virzi on keys. This is more of a "jam". I wrote
the main groove and hook while watching a show in PBS on geology, and they were talking about "Continental Drift" and that was the first working title, but as I though about it, another word from the same show was more
appropriate, "Pangaea", which is the name of the original continent from which all of the others have broken off over time.. kind of like a band, no?
Everybody doing their own thing?
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Me, Jeff K, Jerome and Chris Virzi... This was written in the style of one
of my favorite fusion groups, Uzeb, a great band from Canada. VERY slow
tempo, groove, simple. All about the mood, and a slow build to the end, where the bottom falls out again... Jeff did a great job with some spacy guitar sounds on this.
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Me, Jeff on Acoustic, Greg Tyler on drums, Dale Grisa on keys again... this
track originally was recorded in a very fast-up tempo feel. Too frantic for
me, so I re-did it to use Greg Tyler`s more funky relaxed feel, and it also
allowed Jeff to get out the acoustic for a track.
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This is a deceiving title... it is NOT about death! While I was recording
the CD, I was seriously dating a girl named Diana. We sadly split before the record came out, and I then started dating someone new... maybe too quickly. However, I had written the song for Diana! Maybe still had some feelings? So what to do... I couldn`t have said "to Diana" in the liner notes, as my new girlfriend would have not been happy! And I didn`t want to "change" the title. So, I was sneaky, and "Something to Di" (as in Diana) became "Something to Die For"... sneaky? Maybe. She was amused after I told her about it. its a nice little solo bass tune that uses a lot of 9, #9 and
b9 chords, very open sounding... I wrote it looking out over a great view
that I used to have on the skyline of downtown Detroit. I lived on the top
floor of this great old building on the 14th floor. Had a great view of the
sunset every day. This track is about optimism. Not what the title implies!
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Me, Kollman, Grisa, Day... a 6/8 blues feel. Very soulful, open melody. I
wrote it after making some tough decisions in my life.. about people and
places, that I had to stick with. There was "No Turning Back". Jeff plays his butt off on this... a great way to wrap the record up.
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