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Date conceived - 10th August 2024   The idea for this song was incredibly simple: make a song that has more guitar solo than singing. The whole idea came to me very quickly, to use an up-tempo twelve bar blues, and literally only repeat the twelve bars three times. The first and third would be all guitar solo, and the middle twelve would be the verse.   I knew the solos had to be incredible, so I decided to leave that until last, just in case I suddenly got better on guitar a

Date conceived - 25th June 2024    Masquerade was another song that I wrote thanks to an audio note I'd previously recorded. It's also a song that came about as I wanted to try a certain "trick"; writing a song based solely around one chord. In the audio note I recorded use quite a bit of muting so that I'm only playing the note three times; on the low E, an octave higher on the D string, and another octave higher on the high E string. Then I change to an E7 chord by adding i

Date Conceived - 16th June 2024 This song was born from different parts of two songs which eventually came together. The lyrics, the beginning of which were written in 2022, came from the song that ended up becoming Down 'n' Dirty, so they got shoved in my "ideas note" to be saved for a later date. I can't quite remember what the music came from. For some reason I had my electric guitar set up in the lounge (I barely ever do that) and the idea must have come to me because I s

Conceived - 28th May 2023 This was one of those night time miracles, when your head hits the pillow and an idea zips through your brain....

Date Conceived: 9th April 2023   Some of the songs on the album have a certain "thing" about them that stands out to me, usually something I was trying to do. For this song it was trying to have a repeating riff that ran the whole way through the song. It mostly worked, although it didn't in the middle 8/guitar solo. However, it would have clashed with the acoustic guitar lead part so that didn't matter anyway. The main issue with playing a repeating riff over a song that las

This song goes back a long time and until very recently, I thought it was the oldest "good" song I'd written (I wrote plenty of others,...

Date concieved: 27th April 2022 This was the first song finished for the album, back in 2022. I wasn't trying to finish a song by...

The website you will have seen before clicking on the blog to read this post. I don't even need a website, I certainly don't need a blog....