“Surrender” kicked in. I thought we were in for one of those gorgeous quiet piano ballads. I would have been happy with that. But of course, Toby kicks things up a notch for his grand finale, adding a stirring symphony and even a dash of opera. It’s dramatic, daring, and utterly...
and gave him free rein to rummage through her records. After playing those records over and over, he began to spend hours in his room exploring songwriting, figuring out his own way of putting lyrics, chords, and melodies together like
Everyone sang and the mood had shifted from a religious one to a patriotic one. I was beginning to notice there were different layers to Saint Patrick’s Day. Some had nothing to do with the saint, as far as I could see. It was an occasion to open the valve and let it all out. ...
Demand falls on all deaf ears, while knowing eyes watch me pay the price, grinning as I dig deeper and deeper, sowing promise for the handless reapers These fingernails taste the grit, lose grip in this bottomless pit, where life slowly fades into the walls of everyone else’s falls, and...
" I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning." - Warren Haynes / Government Mule ...
I remember you were playing with those chords for a long time. At the time we were writing the demos for the album and I think I was staying at either at your house or Martin’s house [Martin Jackson – drummer and part of the original trio] or sleeping on someone’s floor, so I...