Dev's Boogie - Afterthoughts

Dude,

What a post that was……alien spacecrafts crashing into each other………

I am listening to Dev’s Boogie while doing this reply. I can feel some frustration in my playing, which I believe was born out of the thought that why did I waited so long to write and record my own music? Thinking about the wasted time (and years) really helped  push me to almost perfection.

As usual, I cannot recreate that anymore. Will need a driving force.

Macedonian, Sumatran, Iraqian…… That’s hilarious…I want to see you pull them off... Yeah, the shopkeeper is really something. I remember him ordering a RG for me without me confirming it. I think he was quite bitter about it.

Anyway, he did invite us to a singles launch with his band of void decks. For me, that’s all flash and no substance.

My dear shopkeeper, if you have gone to a point where you can afford to rent a venue to launch your single – with press and media people and all other nitwits and numbskulls who were dumb enough to attend – and at the end, I still don’t hear anything about you (I don’t listen to ERA FM) or see you in papers or TV, then you are wasting time.

Sometimes, it’s not about the plan and objective. It’s all about seeing where you will end up at. If you can’t see that, don’t waste your time living in your fantasies. Get out and get real. Mastubatory noodling will get you no where.

Dude, I almost forgotten the 2nd version recording session. Your original was really wicked, although I know you really hated it. But if I remembered correctly, here’s an account of what happened.

You had a good run doing the second version with the LP but somehow you reach a point you started having some issues with some phrases. I was there looking at you and you should have seen your face dude… You were angry but focused. That showed how committed a musician you were then, and even more so today.

I then decided to leave you alone. I remember turning the lights down, signaled to you from the control room to relax. Then, I walked out. I remember hearing you nailing all the notes and phrases…which was quite a delight. After a while, everything went quiet and next thing I know, you were in the control room together with hot-shot producer, reviewing what you had just recorded.

First time hearing that floored me. And these were your exact words: “This is my response to your superhero theme”….

That was the quote of the century.

It was a different solo altogether but it still has the SB stamp on it and as usual, wicked, evil but yet highly melodic and technical. You were right: It gels well with the theme from my first solo.

To top you, I may have to look for that lesson on Hungarian pentatonic…no kidding dude, there is such thing!!! Maybe shopkeeper can show me how, and throw in that diminished void-deckian harmonic minor flat fifth……Till then, I think he functions better as shopkeeper..