Wow, thanks for all your listens, quite taken aback by your comments, very much appreciated.
@Andyb - Alarmingly detailed...Yeah, I have a very, very clear image in my mind when I'm writing, it makes it so much easier, don't know why but it's always there. Glad you like the wide heavy gtrs...bass solo, I just dig messing about with ideas, and straying off the road of what you expect....
@rightly - Thanks for your kind words, glad you dig my production...Will you be releasing anything soon, I miss your songs man, I love your style.
@lillypilly - Thanks Lilly for your kind words, Hmm I was just mucking about with my vocal sound, I tried it on SuperFunk77, and thought maybe this works and I can get away with this, it was definately not supposed to sound like Bowie...he is one on my heroes (no pun intended), saw him a couple of times, his ability to entertain and write superhooks was incredible. Btw one of the hookiset drum fills ever was in heroes at live aid, just after he stops and Thomas Dolby fills in with the synth lulling one into a sense of calm, then Neil Conti bangs out that beautiful triplet based fill, always stuck in my mind as a masterpiece.
@adamfarr - BINGO Adam, you nailed it, your idea of the door slam is spot on, I'm going to use it, I really struggled with the ending, thanks very much for that, I'm forever in your debt. Glad you liked it, that's just what i was after, visual imagery with the chicken fat, it's just another way to try and keep the song in a lsiteners focus, along with the music hooks...
@RealKevM - Pulp...never thought of that, certainly was not intended...thanks Kev
@t.wretborn - Bowie again - hmmm must remember how I sang it...I remember having the imagery in my mind when I was tracking the Vocals...did help a lot.
@pompeyjazz - That's nice of you to say John - light and dark - I guess that's what I was after...and a servings of ooomph.
@MichaelA - Thanks very much - The backstory came to me on a Sunday morning, as so often happens these days, the detail came as I was writing the lyrics, I'm forutnate that everything seems to come to me in one go, chords, lyrics and melody line, when I sit with my Tele, my pencil and a head full of inspiration.
The guitar section after the bass solo was an attempt to capture Clapton's brilliant yet simple sound & style (nothing to complicated, but the sound, oh the sound), I was never a big fan of Him, I always seemed to like his lines, I especially liked the fill after the solo on Ed Sheeans 'Dive' he used the nom de plume Angelo Mysterioso - so I borrowed that in the credits....(also check out 'And so is love' by Kate bush where he was wheeled in to provide fills - so, so brilliant work, he provides enough to remember yet does not detract from kates singing)
btw I used to paint in oils, I could only paint if my head was full of inspiration, in very much the same way.
Bye for now.