A little bit about this song. I'm
not a guitar player. Nor am I a songwriter. I dabbled a bit at Purdue 30 years ago when I
roomed with Mark Mueller
but I wasn't very good at it and didn't have much of an ear to me a
musician. I did however come up with the opening riff for this
song while I was there and every few years or so over the past quarter century
whenever I picked up a guitar, I'd fiddle around with this chord
progression because I always thought it was kind of sweet but could
never make anything of it.
This spring, in a moment of inspiration
while Veena and I were going through a bit of a rough stretch, it only took me 45
minutes to write this song (the second verse took a bit longer).
Four days later I was in the recording studio laying down some tracks.
What a blast that was. Nothing like walking into a studio with a
toy guitar and some scribbles on a piece of paper and stepping up to the
mic like you own the place. Anyway, after
practicing for a few months, I went back to the studio and recorded
this. The studio tech suggested a dual layered voice so I sang a
duet with myself and he dubbed the overlay. In making a video, I just took the easy way out
and lip-synced the best I could to the audio track I recorded. Who
knows, maybe someday after enough practice, I'll re-record it.
And here's a new Dischoops Teaser Video.
Still not the quintessential video that I intend on creating to fully
show off the sport but what the heck, it's better than the one that I've
had up on the
Dischoops web site for the past
couple of years. Dischoops is a VERY fun sport. Enjoy!!
