Slugging it out when you’re no longer in the limelight. Or is that the moonlight. Yesterday must have a been a crazy coincidence. I wasn’t the only one that didn’t have a normally positive day. Must be that full moon that is coming around. Bye bye moon, as of right now it’s already leaving and taking it’s bizarre coincidences with it. After having all the plans for yesterday fall through and deciding to stick to being around the house, I finally got a call to get my lappy back. It needed a new keyboard after I accidentally dropped a box on it and broke a key. Kinda tough to get around the English language when your ‘N’ isn’t working well. I count 7 ‘N’s in that last sentence alone. The new keyboard is much stiffer. But I’m diggin it.
After I got the lappy back things seemed to come back around. I got my creative hat on and proceeded to put the finishing touches on the music to a new song I started sketching out the day before yesterday. It’s certainly different from my normal music. Actually quite a few of the new songs I’m writing are a bit of a departure but they’re still making me smile and have that ‘jody’ element to them. A few are even epic in nature.
Today’s Single of the Day is probably one of the heaviest riffs ever put to disc. Live enjoyed a good dose of success early on in their career with songs like Lightning Crashes and I Alone. Unless you’re a huge Live fan, they’ve pretty much disappeared from the limelight. Interestingly enough they still do a lot of touring and have put out a pretty large number of CD’s. Epic is how I would describe the music I’m familiar with by them. Ed has a penchant for creating lyrics and vocal melodies that tear into you.
That’s often a quality of being Epic, the material rips into you. Not only does Ed’s melody do that, but that guitar – oh that guitar does it rip. The video shows how much volume and rip the riff has. I could wish to write a riff that cool. But it would only be that, a wish. It’s a crushing groove that gives me the urge to get up in the middle of the night to build a bonfire. Once it’s blazing 10 to 12 feet high I’d dance around it like an Indian doing some sort of deep spiritual ritual. I haven’t a clue if that was Ed’s intent. Though I’ve read that it has to do with the Hindu goddess of destruction or something.
Either way, it’s one of those songs that when it comes on the iPod I have to always play it twice in a row cause I don’t get enough of it. How about you? Don’t own it yet? Get on it and buy it now.
(** Disclaimer: If Live’s label decides to squeeze the life from me, I’ll have to hide the audio from the world web. The post will remain to show that there’s always an epic turn that can happen. **)