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Despite its nutty uber-Gap Band funk feel, is actually quite an infectious dance tune. The wah solo was a mistake gone good because the pedal was incorrectly placed in the effects path, hence the weirdness.
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My nod to Jimi Hendrix`s "If 6 was 9" - you can hear his vocal line in the guitar melody. It`s also in Ab due to my penchant to practice horn tunes by Parker and Clifford Brown. But I redeem myself with an enjoyable shift to C#- for the Octavia-type solo.
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This was inspired by the Police, but as it often happens, I bob and weave in to funk and `80s British bass grooves (check out the guitar solo) - need I say more? Bottom line it`s a very singable melody.
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The tragedy of the Ukrainian children and my fondness for sad melodies wrote this for me. Sure I sound a bit like Jeff ...but in good way, don`t you think?
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Picture Stevie Wonder canoeing (with a guide) on a South American Rain Forest river. Alright, so he wasn`t in a canoe. You gotta love Taylor`s fretless bass on this track.
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I lost a friend in the Iraq war in 2004. A few months later I was talking with a guy who survived his tour of duty. As he told his story of his deployment the bass line hit me. Choppers landing in brutal heat kicking up toxic debris - you get the picture. This is one of my favorite tunes ever.
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Great Yardbirds style riff that dips into a "Taking Care of Biz" groove.The melody is the closer on this track. The ride-out solo has some ad-lib Parker stuff but that`s cool - it;s all music stew anyway.
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I love corny melodies so I wrote this in C, wandered in to Lynyrd Skynyrd`s Ab backyard. Stumbled in to A- for the solo (stuck an old Fender Champ in a closet) and then gave it a sentimental ending.
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A nasty Prince meets Sly Stone groove that Joel just kills! Susan Tedeschi`s bass player was hangin` out with a reggae singer in the studio while we cut this and started doing some killer rhymes over the groove. As for the G-D spelling, it`s a Jewish thing.
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Again with the Hendrix stuff, oy vey whats with me. I wrote this for my friend`s band, it turns out his son Ezra liked it more than the band did. A modified Tele, a Tube Screamer - let`s see a Fulltone wah pedal (pathed correctly this time) thru a Cesar Diaz Vibroverb. Bingo a good jam!
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I work in Medical Imaging and have studied Neuro-Anatomy, spent a lot of time looking at T-1 and T-2 MRIs, (No I`m not a doctor, I just play one in a Funk/Rock band). Back to point I went to a medical lecture given by an ER doctor and his description of the ER in SF General on a Saturday nite was downright fascinating. So I wrote a song about it and goes a little like...
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