Forgot a Couple…
When I was cataloguing our songs the other day, I forgot a couple. They’re both pretty fragmentary, and one is untitled, so it’s easy to forget them. But since I just threw together some guitar based demos for Reed, I figured I’d mention them here too. The first, and oldest, one is called “Tilting at Windmills”, and it has exactly four lines of lyrics written. It dates waaaay back in the band history, though I don’t think we ever played it together. It probably showed up on some 4 track demo tapes at some point. The original working title for this one was “General Electric”. Why? Because the first two chords are G and E minor. G. E. Get it?
The second song doesn’t have a title. It’s a mid tempo number, not quite a ballad, but somewhere close to that territory. It strikes me as sort of moody…maybe wistfully melancholy? It’s been around for a while, but enver went anywhere. Maybe we can rescue it from aimlessness now. If I had to come up with a working title for this off the top of my head, I’d call it “Summer”. Why? Because it’s based on chord shapes that I learned from Police songs. Andy Summers being the guitarist of the Police. Yeah.