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This was originally written for a weekly TV show on ESPN called "Sports On The Edge". I wrote the song with Mark Mikel and Jon Stain; at the time the three of us did quite a bit of music for televison.
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This is a song built off the E arpeggiated riff at the beginning and end of the song. I always thought that riff had a cool rhythm to it. The song kind of creeps along and has some dark passages in it. The verse and chorus sections are in C# minor. The bridge between has a Lydian-dominant sound. The overall sound of the song is kind of thought-provoking.
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This song shows more of the jazz-influenced side of my writing. This tune may have been inspired from listening to players like Mike Stern and John Scofield. The sax solo is played by Gene Parker, a fabulous player and teacher from Ohio. I learned a lot about jazz from him; the horn solo was his first take!
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This is a short acoustic intro weaving some bluesy pick and finger technique with jazzy lines. One of my close friends, Chris (Birdweed) Blattner lent me his beat-up old Epiphone acoustic to cut some tracks, so I threw down a little treat and named it after him.
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This is probably the most appropriate title on the record. The song weaves through many different mood changes. I used a customized Gibson V for this track; the solos show off a fat-neck pickup tone that I can only get from the V.
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This track shows off non-stop lead work. The song can probably only be enjoyed by guitarists, because it`s just non-stop leads. At the time, I was experimenting with whole-tone sounds and other insane scales whose names I don`t know.
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This is dedicated to my light man "Bonz". Every time he sees me with an acoustic in my hand, he makes me play that intro.
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This is based on the E harmonic minor scale. Maybe subconsciously I wrote this song for all of the Tex-Mex people of San Antonio. It has that kind of "Southwest" sound.
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This is a short piece inspired by the sound I was getting from a Fender Strat into a Roland JC 120 amp; a glassy, clean sound. The title comes from a saying that I always remember, "We don`t have control over the past or the future; only do we have control over the moment."
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This is a heavy, riff-oriented song with a drop-C tuning. The solo shows a strong Uli Roth influence. In my eyes, he is one of the great under-rated guitarists.
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This track is another song written originally for television. Co-written by Mark Mikel, I think we wrote this one faster than it takes to play it.
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This puts me in a mood I can`t quite describe. It`s dark and dissonant at times, and the song also has a drop-C tuning.
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