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October Tree
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Now that Tammy is singing material for the upcoming Canvas Cd, and on Canvas contribution to the Santana Tribute CD from Mellow Records (Santanas "Brightest Star", from the album Zebop!), Matt Sweitzer and I began to discuss a project to provide an expanded role for Tammy as lead vocalist. Tammys Setup.\nI asked Tammy what her album should be about, and she said I want to do an album about Fairies. I wrote the lyrics to The Fairys Wing, and narrated the story to her. She said I really like the story! Where did you get it? I was surprised, I made it up! I said. The story was based on real events, although told as an allegory. \nWe submitted a very rough 1 minute demo of an earlier although unrecognizable version of The Fairy Wing to Matt for his opinion and he said I want to play on it!\nMatt began as our drummer, but switched to Bass as John Swope came on board. Wait until you hear Johns stunning drumming on Epiphanies! I then asked Matt to add some guitar, because he takes an entirely different approach than myself, and I feel that it widens the sonic palette. Matts Gear.\nMy son Dan played some of his hammond organ riffs for me that became the basis for the song, Howl. The original working title was Organ Harvest , and that probably contributed to the final lyrical idea about a Werewolfs bite. Daniels Hammonds.\nTammy had never tried to write a song before, but her electric piano compositions became the songs The Fairys Wing, and Ogre, arguably two of the best songs on the album. A musician friend of mine, Bill Unger played the Bass Guitar on Ogre. \nAt this point, Chris Cobel offered to add keyboard sweetening tracks to these and other songs, and that is when the material really began to shine. The effect that Chris minimalist playing has added to these songs cannot be overstated. Chris Gear.\nMatt submitted a song with the working title of White Out that he wrote during a blizzard. When the guitar melodies were added, it became the instrumental, Cult of the White Witch. (Note how working titles sometimes spur ideas for the final song)\nThe soul of the album is a trilogy of songs that I wrote based on a couple of melodic themes, called Parallels, Mirrors, and Epiphanies The first, being the observation by the Minstrel who loved her, the second, Alisyns reflections, and third, her epiphany.\nMy role, as song writer, producer, guitarist , and keyboardist has kept me the busiest band member of all. In addition to writing the lyrics, I wrote the story in Novelette form and it is available as a Kindle book at Amazon. The story is now posted here on the web site as well. Follow the Link to Gregs Guitar List.\nThrough this process, October Tree had become a band. Although we swiped a few Canvas members, I am sure they wont mind, because we are all simultaneously at work on the new Canvas album!
Now that Tammy is singing material for the upcoming Canvas Cd, and on Canvas contribution to the Santana Tribute CD from Mellow Records (Santanas "Brightest Star", from the album Zebop!), Matt Sweitzer and I began to discuss a project to provide an expanded role for Tammy as lead vocalist. Tammys Setup.\nI asked Tammy what her album should be about, and she said I want to do an album about Fairies. I wrote the lyrics to The Fairys Wing, and narrated the story to her. She said I really like the story! Where did you get it? I was surprised, I made it up! I said. The story was based on real events, although told as an allegory. \nWe submitted a very rough 1 minute demo of an earlier although unrecognizable version of The Fairy Wing to Matt for his opinion and he said I want to play on it!\nMatt began as our drummer, but switched to Bass as John Swope came on board. Wait until you hear Johns stunning drumming on Epiphanies! I then asked Matt to add some guitar, because he takes an entirely different approach than myself, and I feel that it widens the sonic palette. Matts Gear.\nMy son Dan played some of his hammond organ riffs for me that became the basis for the song, Howl. The original working title was Organ Harvest , and that probably contributed to the final lyrical idea about a Werewolfs bite. Daniels Hammonds.\nTammy had never tried to write a song before, but her electric piano compositions became the songs The Fairys Wing, and Ogre, arguably two of the best songs on the album. A musician friend of mine, Bill Unger played the Bass Guitar on Ogre. \nAt this point, Chris Cobel offered to add keyboard sweetening tracks to these and other songs, and that is when the material really began to shine. The effect that Chris minimalist playing has added to these songs cannot be overstated. Chris Gear.\nMatt submitted a song with the working title of White Out that he wrote during a blizzard. When the guitar melodies were added, it became the instrumental, Cult of the White Witch. (Note how working titles sometimes spur ideas for the final song)\nThe soul of the album is a trilogy of songs that I wrote based on a couple of melodic themes, called Parallels, Mirrors, and Epiphanies The first, being the observation by the Minstrel who loved her, the second, Alisyns reflections, and third, her epiphany.\nMy role, as song writer, producer, guitarist , and keyboardist has kept me the busiest band member of all. In addition to writing the lyrics, I wrote the story in Novelette form and it is available as a Kindle book at Amazon. The story is now posted here on the web site as well. Follow the Link to Gregs Guitar List.\nThrough this process, October Tree had become a band. Although we swiped a few Canvas members, I am sure they wont mind, because we are all simultaneously at work on the new Canvas album!
