What we’ve got here is failure to make a simple, straightforward rock song. Because you know, why build small when less is less and more is more and quoth the raven “Nevermore.”

I could have easily spent 5-12 days more making this tune. Progressive rock starts at 8 minutes. Unfortunately there’s this thing called time, which doesn’t have a pause button.

My solution was to include two more words in the songs title: SHAMELESS PART ONE.

How appropriate!

The name of the song of the week is SCRATCH THAT ITCH, and that’s about all I have to say about that.

Yep.

In my notes, in the miscellaneous section was a word, “necremoticon”.

What did I do?

I made NECREMOTICON.

Almost too funny.

Today I felt like recording some acoustic guitar.

“Maybe a two guitar piece, the second one playing with capo on 7th fret? Maybe some weird tuning, one I’ve never used before?”

And then the construction workers started drilling concrete on my backyard. The noise was unbearable, telling me: “No, you don’t record acoustic instruments today.”

Luckily I had recorded PASSABLE TIMES TOLERABLE TIMES a few weeks prior. So there you go, some acoustic guitar for ye.

Would you commission a person who’ve danced maybe three times in his life to produce you a dance music tune?

Yeah, I might be a fool, but certainly not a dancing one.

In my defence I have to say that I’ve made 300+ compositions in my life. That number being a very rough estimation.

So, I guess you could say that yes, despite my inability and reluctance to dance, you can commission me to produce dance music but not to choreograph a dance.

Let’s make it official: I do not make dance choreographies!

But I did produce SLAP.

If a piece is titled CARROTBRAID EVERSMILE, can you expect it to be anything else than oh so happy background pop?

Well I suppose it can be opposite humour and contain some horrible death metal.

And it is!

Not!

There’s only a handful of guitar players of who you can say that there’s before and after him/her. Or I guess you can say it about anyone, but that’d be just silly.

Anyway, there’s definately before and after Jimi Hendrix. And I’m sure that most of you out there agree. That “hendrisque” style of playing is just as relevant today as it was fifty years ago. And difficult.

Plus, hendrisque is a nice sounding word. Like pythonesque or dalisque.

Anyway 2, NEVER RUNNING W is konganesque interpretation of hendrisque guitar playing.

Unlike in many other cases, in jazz, mainstream isn’t a derogatory term. It’s perfectly legit to describe something as mainstream jazz.

So, here we go: IVES GOT CLASS is mainstream jazz!

Overall it’s a pretty basic tune, with coolness and hip and all.

And remember folks: “Jazz is not dead it just smells funny.”

It seems that we’re on the brink of new age, again. Yeah, I should bring my categories up to date…

Perhaps five o clock in the summer.

FARER is clouds passing by, soft burbling of a brook and a nice grove with pretty flowers.

Getting all sentimental here.

Ok, here’s another tune that almost got lost on my hard drive.

In a true garage blues fashion, there’s only guitar & drums in AUBURN NEVER KNOWS. And what they do is rock on, baby!

The occasionally appearing, seemingly appropriate noise is octaver, trying to figure out which way go to next. Love that sound!