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The first official Hellecaster tri-written song. We all had unfinished song ideas, patched them together, and created our own personal Frankenstein!
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I couldn`t have cut it any closer getting this one ready. Even once the recording sessions had begun, I was still refining parts, making changes, etc.
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My tribute to some of the great jazz that come out of New York City in the `30s and `40s. I can still hear the ghosts today in my playing.
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While spending time in Malaysia last year, I spent some time watching Asian MTV and got inspired by some of the great Indian pop music that I heard. The rhythm track was recorded in London when we had some time off during the sessions for Elton John`s "The Big Picture" album.
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This is an early work that hasn`t been presented as an instrumental since it`s first appearance in `70 or `71. A few years later, lyrics were added and vocal renditions were made available by at least two other bands by the end of the decade.
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Every now and then you just gotta have fun on your guitar. Chet Atkins meets the San Diego Zoo!
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I had the idea to do a piece that sounded like an Irish singer singing in the Scottish highlands and the sound rattled around in my head for quite a while. As we reached our deadline I realized I had better get this song out of my head and onto tape quickly, so I did--written and recorded in about six hours. The final result sounds nothing like my original idea, but I was quite pleased with the outcome anyway.
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Two big influences on me were cartoonist Robert Crumb and the Grateful Dead. Here I tried to capture the laid-back vibe of both.
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I love the challange of taking traditionally non-guitar friendly music and playing it on the guitar and that`s what it`s all about, isn`t it?
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Some fairly new as well as some very early influences were drawn upon to help in the assemblage of this one.
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