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NY Times blog part three is up

I know, I know. You haven't heard from me lately, and I'm sorry. The future's looming large, and distractions have been keeping me away from DTBMMLF.

Meanwhile, the Times songwriting blog is up so you can go read that for the moment.

I'll be back soon, I promise. Thank you for your patience.

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Anonymous said…
Yours is the *only* segment of that Times column that I can stand, because you actually go into the mechanics rather than dwelling on the "inspiration." I take a pretty dim view of artists spilling their secrets in public because there is little enough mystery left in this world as it is. (And have posted about this so follow the link if you're interested.)
August 13, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous said…
The link to which I referred above:

http://gonix.com/rol

Sorry about that!
August 13, 2008 at 5:00 PM
man with a bass 4 kids and a wife said…
I like the tune. I like the sparse version with the "upright bass". It's like Morphine meets Link Wray, Tom Waits and John Lurie or something. The bridge is a good part of the tune. It's kind of wanting to go to an 8th note kind of rock feel when it asking for sort of a more open kind of thing. ?? Anyway, it's a cool tune. Send me the session if you want and I'll put some upright bass on it. I have protools. It sucks but it's great.
August 15, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Pat R. said…
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August 21, 2008 at 10:39 PM
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