My friend Richard came up with these terrific lyrics and they really suited a set of samples I have from Drums On Demand’s ‘My Co-Writer’ series of ready-made tracks.  I changed the tracks here and there to get the right arrangement I wanted and added a string quartet track from PG Music’s Band In A Box RealTracks.  For a change, this is a straight forward power ballad with no conscious autobiographical content whatsoever!

Technical notes:

I composed the vocal melodies and recorded the vocals using my usual RØDE NT2 mic, sweetening things with Toontrack’s EZmix2 plugin.  I played the Peter Green-type guitar passages on my Epiphone Les Paul Custom Classic Pro, using the S-Gear guitar processor plugin.  The project was engineered in Sonar Platinum. Mastering was done in Sonar using iZotope’s Ozone 6.