Prompted by a question in next week’s episode of Dat Fury Radio, I went back and reminded myself of the production timeline of my current massive project, “Jam My Wave / Don’t Jam My Wave / Jam Those Squares.” As I’ve been mentioning in passing for probably more than two years, “Jam My Wave” is my current full-production, rock songs, one man band project. I typically only have physical space to work on one live instrument project at a time (and within that, usually only one instrument at a time!).
Following the release of “Fight Songs” in November 2022, in late ’22 or very early ’23 I decided to commit to doing a big guitar album. (Before researching this I had thought there was a year where I wasn’t working on a guitar album, but it turned out there was no break at all, or a couple of months at most. Time continues to be weird!) I thought I had enough song demos collected to make it work, and I wanted to do something with huge, rich, bi-amped, detailed-sounding electric guitars (kind of as a contrast with or next step from the bass-focused and Motown-inspired sound of “Fight Songs”). The imaginary mood board included bands like Spoon, Smashing Pumpkins, and Tom Petty. I had one specific riff I kept playing over and over that I was absolutely sure I wanted to include, working title “Mid Phase,” that will be the first track of the whole project.
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