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This song is called Sorry Joe! and the reason for this title is because when I first wrote it I shelved it for a while and about 6 months later Joe Satriani came out with a new CD and the main riff was very similar to mine so I altered it slightly.

After listening to the rest of his CD I noticed something else that sounded similar so I thought well “Sorry Joe!” but I’m not changing it again and that’s how the title came about.

Anyway it’s an instrumental with lots of guitar work and seems to be a favourite with a lot of people so I hope you like it.

For the musicians and technical geek’s

This song was recorded on a Fostex D80 8 track hard disk recorder and the drums and keyboards were recorded on a Roland MC50 midi sequencer synchronized to the HD recorder via midi clock.

The Drums were programmed in step for step to get it as human sounding as I could and the sounds were taken from a Boss DR5 drum machine.

The guitars were recorded with the same setup as last months song using my W.S. Custom Guitar and Marshall Jmp1 pre amp straight into the mixing desk for solo’s.

The distorted rhythm guitars were played on my Gibson Les Paul Standard.

The guitar solo’s were all in my usual sort of style, the main solo melody was played using a wah wah pedal for the sound and shaped with the whammy bar on certain notes and on the last part I threw a guitar harmony in the background to give it a bit of difference.

The middle section was played by tapping on the fingerboard with both hands over the top three strings, the right hand tapping arpeggios over the chords and the left hand tapping a scale melody lower down.

The weird stuff in the middle break was just pure guitar abuse.

Sorry Joe!

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With this songI wanted to create a sort of rock rap style funny song about the Hollywood stars etc and how everything is surrounded by bullpoo and falsehood and this is what I came up with.

If you are American then please don’t take it to heart because it’s all meant in good fun lol.

My wife Kim sang the backing vocals and I did everything else.

For the musicians and technical geek’s

This song was recorded on a Fostex D80 8 track hard disk recorder and the drums and keyboards were recorded on a Roland MC50 midi sequencer synchronized to the HD recorder via midi clock.

The Drums were programmed in step for step to get it as human sounding as I could and the sounds were taken from a Boss DR5 drum machine.

The guitars were recorded with the same setup as most of my songs using my W.S. Custom Guitar and Marshall Jmp1 pre amp straight into the mixing desk.

The guitar solo was done with three guitar parts all playing in harmony with each other and the sound was created with a bottleneck slide on all three guitars.

In order to get the really high notes I had to take the bottleneck slide past the fingerboard and play above the pickups feeling for the notes.

This was something I have always wanted to try because I’ve personally never heard anyone else play a harmony solo on the bottleneck.

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