MUSIC (DEMOS)

SMOOTH LIVIN’

So, if you can’t tell already…I’m a dreamer.
This song has nothing to do with that, it’s just that when I sat around and jammed or practiced, I would hear a note or a phrase and it would ignite a vision of the song or artist it reminded me of.
I wrote this on the acoustic:

I knew it would be a killer song on a Stratocaster or a Tele. Once I started doing the guide part on the guitar so I could begin the long task of programming the drums I heard the sound of two Scotts in my head. Scott Murawski, and Scott Allshouse.
Murawski plays guitar and writes songs for the Legendary Max Creek, and Allshouse was their drummer for a good bit of the 2000’s. I was lucky enough to know Allshouse and we played in a band together in 1992. (Front Left in the boat on page 1 of the Music Bibliography). I watched as he went to Berklee for sound engineering and then came home to grab the drum throne for Creek. Technical ability was off the charts. Able to fit it all in there and find the bridge. Murawski was a person I hounded for a good bit of time. I would stand in front of this man two to three nights a week for a few years. He had to hate seeing me at some point. I tried to be invisible, but how was that not annoying? I watched every move he made, his feet hitting pedals, bought the same amplifier he used, etc. etc. Annoying little merf. A decade or so later I actually met the man. Nice guy, but I tried to keep my distance so I wouldn’t merf out on him.
Back to the song…..so I heard Scott and Scott. I dove in and made sure the thing would sound as Scott and Scott as I could, (I even tried to emulate John Rider’s bass part), in hopes to someday get them to play or record it. Right down to the syncopated drum fills and ride cymbal at the outro and the slide guitar in the instrumental bridge that is in B flat minor and Scott would hate.
(No open strings, man. No open strings.)