...then I picked up my guitar and it came right out.

I love it when that happens.

(This is the first complete song I've written - lyrics and music - since the surgery. It's a relief.)

Dig.

It.

Thanx.
I gotta lot of half-songs floating around right now.
Hopefully I'll finish those soon, too.

Glad it's working for you, PopTodd.

This will probably sounds stupid...but was it in line with your other stuff, or a departure?

This one was more in-line with the whole Hop On Pop sound, but those half-finished songs I have are pretty much a departure - one is a minor key/modal-type thing and another is this sort of linear thing that zags when you expect it to zig. Then I have a song that Johnny Cash would have done well with, if he were still alive. And also a waltz that is really the only political-type thing I've ever written.

So, I guess, every song I ever write is really a departure in some way or other.

Before I wrote "Mile From Monday", I had never written anything like that before; ditto for "Bound To Fail", "Hey" (which is on Lo-Fi..., but will be re-recorded for the next HoP record in a very COOL way), etc., etc., etc....

If you listen to the songs, I don't think that I really do have a defined sound, per se. Although Matt's piano certainly colored a lot of the last record.

Sounds like GBV.

Wow, what kind of surgery was that? I gotta get me some of that kind of surgery...

Seriously: dude! :lighter: