A question I often ask myself is: Why don't I re-record these songs on the new equipment instead of using the new equipment to clean up and enhance the old recordings made in 1993, just six years after I stopped playing guitar for a living? And the answer is: Because in 1993 I still had a voice and could actually remember and play the songs I wrote back in the 60s and 70s. Recently I tried to figure out what chords I was playing in this song and couldn't. And I even have some software (called Band in a Box) that claims to be able to figure out the chords of a song. It does a lousy job -- at least on this song. Most of my old songs I still remember the chords to, but this one was a tad more difficult. It's those jazzy chords.
But once this project is done I hope to re-record some of the songs from scratch using drum samples instead of synthesized drums and featuring my acoustic guitar, which I didn't have back in 1993. I also have a better keyboard. If only my voice hadn't turned into a horrible croak after 25 years of rarely using my outside voice.
Written: Monterey Street,
Farmington NM, spring 1967
Knees was living at
home fending off the draft (unsuccessfully) and the other guitar player in The
Disciples, Mo Moses, was living there too. Mo liked to play smooth, jazzy chords
and this was Knees’ stab at using them. The title is a pastiche of the Flying
Burrito Brothers’ Hot Burrito #1, which was also a slow song with smooth
chords.
Baby I’ve left your world behind,
I never wanted to be
blind
But you made me feel
Like I was lost in the
maze of your mind.
And baby the hold you had on me
Was too real for our
love to be
The kind of love
That I could grasp and
still be free.
And I hope that you will find
The way to peace of
mind
In that world you made
so unconsciously
But I doubt you’ll ever
see
What love can mean when
free
The world now turns for
me.
Hexflower
