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I’m working on a song I wrote in the 1980s that I’m playing with a very 80s style to amuse and hopefully entertain my wife and daughter (she also loves 80s music; although she is most of all a fan of the alternative rock that I played a lot of when she was little — Radiohead, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, The Posies and more recent alt rockers like Nothing But Thieves). What I like best about it is that because it’s original, my voice sounds much better than when I’m doing a cover and everyone will compare my voice to the original singer and notice any notes I didn’t get right! With my originals, as long as it’s in key, no one knows if I hit the right note or not!

It’s a pretty catchy pop (from that era) type song. More along the lines of the Psychedelic Furs, Echo and the Bunnyman, The The… So it’s more of a style that my wife enjoyed as opposed to the alt-rock which was my original band’s style. So yeah, a lot of what I work is really just targeted at my family and a few friends who seem to get a kick out of it. I just want them to hear stuff I wrote back when. I suppose it’s pure nostalgia for me. If they like a song I wrote — which has happened! — I feel that it’s a win. These are my musical goals. They’re significantly more modest goals than when I was a real musician performing in front of audiences, but I still have the same very strong desire to play music that I’ve had since I was a toddler playing on the toy drum set my grandmother got me! FTR, when I was in my 20s and my niece/godchild told me that she wanted a drum kit to play drums just like me — I was kind to her mom and bought her an electronic drum kit!

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