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Another Tool cover. I’ve always found “jimmy” to be one of their most emotionally powerful songs, though it’s not usually the first song that comes to mind when you think of Tool.

The idea to do this one came back when I started working on “Forty Six & 2″ though I didn’t start to work on it seriously until a few months ago.

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Something that happens to me often when I’m writing for solo guitar, is that I start imagining other instruments in my mind, sometimes coming up with a totally different arrangement. I’m used to imagining a whole band when I’m composing, so it’s hard to prevent that from happening.

The result is that for every solo piece I come up with, there’s a usually at least one alternate arrangement floating in my head.

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Photo by Swarali

It’s no secret that I haven’t been playing too many shows lately. Part of the reason is that I’ve been rethinking my approach to how I do concerts.

I’ve always preferred it when a concert is more than a setlist of songs, but an experience. Let’s call it the Pink Floyd/Tool approach to concerts, though it’s a little more challenging to do that with a small budget and solo guitar.

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I released this as a single last year, but I actually wrote it almost 10 years ago. It was part of a set of songs I was working on at the time that never really saw the light of day. I was just experimenting a lot and trying new things. Some of it worked, some of it not so much.

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