Frank Zappa made a bunch of instrumental albums by chopping out solos from various live performances and stringing them together in his studio. It’s really kind of an amazing technique. (If you listen obsessively, like some of us here, you can sometimes even figure out which song he chopped the solo from).

This here is my attempt at the same technique. Unlike Zappa’s work, the song itself wasn’t so hot - but I really liked where the solo was going. It’s an early take for the solo (this is all pretty unfinished, remember), where I sort of noodle around and try to find something I like. Without exactly meaning to, I took a pretty folksy song and kind of launched it into outer space. I guess I was trying to branch out my style and play longer, more sustained notes. I think it takes a kind of courage to play slowly, and that sounds to me like what I was trying to do here.

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