Archives for September 2025

Some of you might think the “Something Old” in the song title refers to me, or maybe even you! But, although that might be true, it actually has a different, very logical meaning. The “something old” refers to a riff that I have been fooling around with since my 20s. The “something new” part refers to all the other stuff I threw in to make this song longer than 36 seconds. I am always surprised when a riff or melody line finds its soulmate after such a long period of time! And, because this song … [Read more...]

This is a short, upbeat instrumental, to add to my post-lyric songs written in the last two years. The explanation for the title is simple – every chord I play in this tune is made by forming the E chord up and down the fret board. Although there are several different chords in this instrumental, they can all be played with the basic E chord notation. The strong strumming is reminiscent of the songs I wrote and performed with my previous bands, No Mercy (hard rockin’) and Poetic Justice, and … [Read more...]

I know exactly why I wrote this song! That’s very exciting, because most of my songs written in the last two years have been instrumentals, and there’s not much to say about why I named them what I did, other than “those were the words that popped into my head when I was working on this song.” (Although I totally believe in Divine Intervention.) But here’s the lowdown, folks: this is the song about that little (sometimes big) voice in our heads that tells us we can’t do this or that, or aren’t … [Read more...]