Marlboro Man On Acid

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MARLBORO MAN ON ACID

I woke early on a winter day which was a bit unusual for me. You see I’m not usually an early riser. I subscribe to what’s called the rise and relax method of starting my day and it suits me just fine. I headed to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee and once the brew was hot and complete I made a fairly large cup and headed up to the 3rd floor of my home were my home studio was located, hence the name Level 3 Mania. While I hadn’t invested a lot in recording equipment at the time I did have a Foster 4 track cassette recorder and used it profusely. I loved to layer tracks on top of each other bounce them around and create more. If it was good enough for Sir George Martin and The Beatles it would certainly be good enough for me.

I had a bass guitar sample on 1 of the tracks that I recorded a few days prior and I cued it up. I listened to that track several times over the past few days but I was getting nowhere. After listening for a while, the track was 10 minutes long, my cup ran dry and it was time to head down to the kitchen for a refill

I was just about ready to pour my second cup and the door bell rang. It was my friend Carlos and he had a guitar case with him. We had planned to get together later in the day but guess what? He was up early as well.

I poured a couple of cups and we sat down at the kitchen table and were chatting. I had left the bass track on and he asked what was I working on. After explaining to him what was going down and that I wasn’t making any progress with, he said "Let’s see about that" and we headed up.

We got things going. He was noodling on his guitar and I was on the keyboard. After a few minutes we decided to see if we could add a trippy flavor to it and we set out to do just that. After a few false starts we got in the flow and started jamming and there you have it.

That cold, winter day Marlboro Man On Acid was created and it was indeed trippy. It’s raw, the bass line is repetitive.But so what? There are several mistake, but we didn’t care It was a cold winter day and we captured a special moment. How often does that happen? It was real and it was indeed special, at least to us. No way were we going to add anything to it or take any thing out. It was what it was and it was Marlboro Man On Acid.

The finished tune sat around for a bit so I decided to make a graphic presentation of the feel and title of the song. What you see on this post is exactly that. I hope you will enjoy it for what it is. A moment in time captured by a couple of dudes ramped up on caffeine

Have fun with it. We did.

Peace

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