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Blame Nick Drake and Scott Hardman for this song. Nick for the tuning, as I'd just learned to play a couple of songs from Pink Moon and loved the peculiar tuning he used on "Place to Be." Scott for being a long time friend who moved to LA and I lost touch with him (due to my own faults). Later we finally reconnected and I read something he had published describing a very dark period of his life there. I've known other people who traveled out to LA and were never the same. The two times I've been there I can feel it, whatever it is, hanging in the air. This is the only track that actually features any electric guitar work from me. That used to bother me a bit, I felt as if I wasn't participating enough in my own CD, but somewhere along the line, between expediency and realism I lost that blow to my ego. The songs are mine, all the vocals are mine, the majority of the acoustic work is mine, and Rob is doing his job as a producer, which is to bring the songs out in the studio. I just never considered it, and didn't realize it was pretty much THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE. It does give you an even larger respect for the work that a good producer does, because you realize how much of themselves is going into a project that for the most part will only bear their name in small print. Paul - vocals, guitar, mandolin Rob Gal - guitar, bass Pete McDade - drums Geoff Melkonian - strings |
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