<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY0dCmAyNM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY0dCmAyNM</a><br><br>Oh, you gotta love it. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>, Stuart Hamm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">You know..I've resisted writing GW inspired music..quite a challenge from what I get from him and how to translate musically..<br>Write a song from a concept with changes, a melody. a sound and a vibe...but never actually state the changes or melody...but put musical clues as to what the melody MIGHT be....hmmm..<br><br>Having said that I'm working on a Bass tour de force (hopefully) tentatively titled "Terminus Est"...presumptuous I know..that I'm trying to convince Steve Vai to play acoustic with me on as a duet....<br><br>it is what it is...sometimes I think too much....<br><br>Listening to Ry Cooder in El Paso...working nicely for me.<br></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>all four of those sound great. counting "too much" as an entity.</div><div><br></div><div>I can imagine a combination of windy mountain slow mo doom with Ascian explosion war percussion every 500th heartbeat, [Earth / Melvins / SUNNO)))], with strange bits of lo fi acoustic folk (somehow progged, perhaps by getting into medieval pythagorean tuning (SC3) ) that wanders in and out like it was a Sublime Frequencies release. mysterious, cinematic. bring in some sort of orchestral stuff for some action and drama, then use choral vocal work for the claw. big bottom brass for the citadel, and of course killer prog Baldanders battle. the get Astro-Nautical outer-space pirate psyche that gets you lost in the mirrored sails .</div><div><br></div><div>but then that sounds like a secret chiefs 3 album.</div><div>I've suggested he read it, of course.</div><div>(have you heard the recent Xaphan: SC3 plays John Zorn Masada book two (vol 9) ? yowza that's a great ride. (I didn't do any art so I'm not shilling for sales FWIW)</div><div><br></div><div>~witz</div><div><br></div></body></html>