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nyykiOkay, until someone tells me to stop waxing poetic about the stuff I'm doing in the studio, I'm going to keep on doing it.
Back in 1981 I started writing lyrics in a serious way, which means that I actually started saving the things I came up with, and writing them in a cohesive place. It was a spiral notebook. The first song in that spiral was Where are We Now, a nice little anti-nuke ditty, followed by Ice and Fire, Back Off, and Stranger. All three of these tunes were based on the same basic tune structure, so I needed to make some changes. Ice and Fire kept the song structure and chord progression, while Stranger turned into a more up-tempo rocker, and Back Off is still in that same spiral, never transcribed, and I plan to do something about it this year.
I toyed around with Stranger, a song about a guy being followed and getting rather scared about it until he discovers that the person following him is a woman who is following him because she's interested in him, for some time. I added a chorus, then a break strain, and planned it for Gypsy Heir Mark I. We never got around to learning it.
Enter Hourglass Girl, a tune about a woman who is sexy, enticing, and sees someone she's interested in while at the club. She's high energy and intoxicating while her target is a normal guy. This was the genesis of the song cycle Spider Web, and Stranger became the second song in that cycle. (Obligations, a song much later in the cycle, also came out of it based on a chord structure our guitarist taught me back in 1987) So, it has lingered for some time.
The plan for Spider Web was to actually break up the chapters across different albums, much like how the band Saga did with their continuing story.
But there is a problem -- Hourglass girl is a straight ahead rocker, and so is Stranger. So, I decided to take a different approach, and I dropped a techno groove and sound under the melody of Stranger. This took a bit of work, but it actually came out rather nicely.
Stranger has a form of AABAABSoloCAABB. It's fast, and uses synth bass, drums, rock guitar, a bell like obbligato line, and an orchestral sound mixing brass and strings.
So now one of my very oldest songs is now sequenced and ready to be learned. This one will come together rather easily, but that's not surprising, as much of Spider Web is fairly straightforward. I still have two songs to write for it, and I'll wait for the muse to strike on those tunes.
There are two more Evidince tunes to go, Spy vs. Spy and The Ballad of Jason and Martine. Then it's on to the five Gypsy Heir tunes.
Back in 1981 I started writing lyrics in a serious way, which means that I actually started saving the things I came up with, and writing them in a cohesive place. It was a spiral notebook. The first song in that spiral was Where are We Now, a nice little anti-nuke ditty, followed by Ice and Fire, Back Off, and Stranger. All three of these tunes were based on the same basic tune structure, so I needed to make some changes. Ice and Fire kept the song structure and chord progression, while Stranger turned into a more up-tempo rocker, and Back Off is still in that same spiral, never transcribed, and I plan to do something about it this year.
I toyed around with Stranger, a song about a guy being followed and getting rather scared about it until he discovers that the person following him is a woman who is following him because she's interested in him, for some time. I added a chorus, then a break strain, and planned it for Gypsy Heir Mark I. We never got around to learning it.
Enter Hourglass Girl, a tune about a woman who is sexy, enticing, and sees someone she's interested in while at the club. She's high energy and intoxicating while her target is a normal guy. This was the genesis of the song cycle Spider Web, and Stranger became the second song in that cycle. (Obligations, a song much later in the cycle, also came out of it based on a chord structure our guitarist taught me back in 1987) So, it has lingered for some time.
The plan for Spider Web was to actually break up the chapters across different albums, much like how the band Saga did with their continuing story.
But there is a problem -- Hourglass girl is a straight ahead rocker, and so is Stranger. So, I decided to take a different approach, and I dropped a techno groove and sound under the melody of Stranger. This took a bit of work, but it actually came out rather nicely.
Stranger has a form of AABAABSoloCAABB. It's fast, and uses synth bass, drums, rock guitar, a bell like obbligato line, and an orchestral sound mixing brass and strings.
So now one of my very oldest songs is now sequenced and ready to be learned. This one will come together rather easily, but that's not surprising, as much of Spider Web is fairly straightforward. I still have two songs to write for it, and I'll wait for the muse to strike on those tunes.
There are two more Evidince tunes to go, Spy vs. Spy and The Ballad of Jason and Martine. Then it's on to the five Gypsy Heir tunes.
