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hey thanks for listening papanate, yea, joe walsh, why not! i love joe. he's been in my head ever since james gang did walk away and funk 49. for me, this 'riff' was written all the way back in 1999, i think, and i've been holding it for a long time. can't say exactly what my train of thought...

it's funny, that Seagull Artist Mosaic, i used for some of the tracks on this one, smelled so bad of cigarettes when i first bought it (pawn shop, $125 with a semi-soft case) that it has taken about 5 years for the smell to go away. LOL i bought it as a 'banger' guitar, to take to the...

heh! thanks so much, talismanRich! i really appreciate it.

*High Time - one of my favorites on the album, the lyric for this one poured out in about a half hour. boom, done. it's meant to be fun and uplifting. reminds me of a roadtrip i once took, i imagine a lot of folk can relate to this one. Taylor 414 and Seagull Mosaic on this one, miced by ADK...

thanks so much jimmy!

Hi talisman! Thank you Yea, a lot of stuff, but I tried to arrange it so it all makes sense, and doesn't pile up. There are certain guitar rhythm sections that I ran cleaner gain on to clarify the passage, then others where I went for the full saturation That helped those certain elements...

thanks track rat!!

HIGH GAIN HEAVEN on this one. i taught myself how to control as much guitar gain as i could, and it really isnt that much gain, but it is saturated.

*Headin for the Weeds - my anti war rant. the whole 'war' section in the middle, was a blast to come up with. i just wanted cacaphony, and even tho i tried to impart some angst, it still comes off fairly groovy and proper, exactly opposite of what i was going for! hehe, so i just went with it...

Sunday bumpin

used my Catalpa tele build with the fralins, for all the rhythms on this one... used my USACG strat build with lawrence pickups for all the solo work.

from the new bats brew album

Yea. "Shoegazer", for me, this is as close it gets for me! Heh, Maybe I'll try an honest "gazer" approach some time. And see what happens. I thought "what is the style of this track", and I really couldn't think of anything better! Lol, Yea, not shoegaze... What would be a better choice of...

Speak to Me: this is a remake of a demo i did back in 1999 with a buddy of mine, i met on the roland VS Planet website, last seen in florida. i took him my original demo, and said 'do whatever, 'carte blanc', the entire backing track, sans guitars and vocals, he created on top of my demo...

thanks papanate! you know, the yes thing, i hear it fairly often, yet, i'd say that YES, as a band, had zero influence. i like the early albums, especially Close to the Edge, and Fragile. i guess the pitch of my voice is just similar enough to Jon Anderson's, then the music is just slightly...

a lot of folks want me to put this to a full band treatment, but that's not how it was written, not envisioned that way, so doing it any other way, is just not being straight up about the intention. would it work with full band..? of course. does it work as it is...? of course! it was...

*Twilight Rain - this is purely autobiographical. i did a demo of this several years ago, and it was a full band arrangement. i did this version as part of a 'song-fact finding mission', and ended up liking it better. features real thunder and rain, recorded from the downstairs entrance door...

REVERSE REVERB. and a beautiful sense of melody.

thank you talisman Rich! yea, the original demo didn't do that... the breakdown.. it made it breathe a bit to add that in... helps break up the song a bit, since it's almost too long.

this is the rocker with the swagger. pretty straightforward, it's a hopeful song about walking close to that edge, and pulling back. hope it can resonate with someone besides myself!