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This is an interesting story. The working title for this tune was “Snack Flight”,
named after a short flight Dale took to Seattle. He thought it was so funny, but
everyone else thought it was kinda lame. So, it was the last night of recording and
the band had gone out to dinner to discuss album details like song titles. As we
ate our Taco Bell meal, Jen pointed to the receipt and our dinner total: $9.34.
There you have it.
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This is one of my brother’s titles, based loosely on bike riding. Since he just
bought his new full suspension mountain bike, he had trouble thinking about anything
else. The song itself is very light and kind of pop. So the feeling of suspension
fit well.
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Powerdown is just one of those terms we use often in rehearsals. The band uses many
different triggering devices. We are all linked together via MIDI signals, so to
avoid any mis-triggering or non-operation, we maintain a sequence of powering up and
powering down. We sometimes like to pretend we’re in a shuttle cockpit, flipping
switches and reading gauges. And of course barking sequence orders like
“powerdown”. Dorks.
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This tune is for the most part in 9/8 time. Hence, returning to zero. And
actually, truth be told, Jen finally figured out what the little button “RTZ” on the
ADAT machine stood for and thought it was cool.
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We started doing this tune live, just for fun and it mixed things up a bit. When we
were discussing which songs to record and put on the album this one came up. Jen
was convinced it would be extremely cool, but only if we could get Victor Wooten to
play on it. And he did, and it is.
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Hmmm… As I recall it was discussed that this tune is complicated and busy,
reminiscent of a telephone “party line”.
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Cute story. Back in the day, Jen asked me to help her write a song for her dad for
Father’s Day because she had no money to buy him anything. Her gift was the song and
that he could title it anything he wanted. He came up with Sandusky Trail because
it reminded him of a place he had been in Oklahoma, of the same name. It was never
meant to end up on any album, but it turned out to be one of my favorites.
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Another brother title. Not sure where it came from, except for that it vaguely
describes my brother. And the tune is a little on the hyper-frantic side.
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This song is kind of my tribute to Jeff Beck. The title Touch just seemed to
describe the mood. I always imagine summer wheat fields in Tehachapi, CA when I hear this tune.
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Well, it’s the song right after Touch. Duh.
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Okay, we get our titles from really dumb places. With instrumental music you pretty
much have free reign. Anyway, at the local video store they have these plastic
boxes the movies are in. To remove the movie you must “squeeze and shake”. The
intro to this tune has a kind of off-kilter squeezing and shaking vibe. I guess.
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Jen was again in one of her very reflective moods. She was just tripping out on how
cool the here and now can be. So there you go. The working titles for this tune
were many: Snow Angel, Aurora Borealis, and the Color of Wind, which garnered far
too many snickers (and fart jokes) to be taken seriously.
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