I haven’t been updating this very well so I will do a quick rundown of my last two song releases. The September release of “Subtraction” was a good one. I had been wanting to release that song for some time but wanted it to sound right and I got it as close as I could with what I had available. It is one of my favorites and I hope you like it too. That song went through a lot of revisions before it got to where it is now.
For October I chose to release “I’m a Spy”, which I wrote in the mid 90’s and recorded around 2003 with my friend Wes Filhart on drums. I was playing my American Strat through a Marshall Valvestate 8080 combo and he was playing on my brothers cheap drum set I had set up at my place. Wes is an amazing drummer and has been an amazing friend since High School. I didn’t want to lose that session to time so I decided to put it out the way we recorded it with minimal modifications. I always enjoyed his playing on that track and hope the fun of that session comes out in the song. It was a song I wrote about a fictional Spy who was having second thoughts about his occupation. I envisioned that maybe he had been in it too long and just wanted to retire. It was all written in fun and in hopes to maybe write a movie about a similar character but never came into fruition. I remember playing a little different it faster that I normally would and loved the way it turned out. I hope you can enjoy it as well.
My November release will also be a song I wrote in the mid 90’s but it was all recorded in the last month. It is also one of my personal favorite songs of mine. I have played it live on multiple occasions, so this may be my most known song of mine, …if you know me…. I have some very old recordings of me playing this song from the 90’s. More to come on that next month when the song drops.
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