the matthew show revisited: week ten
Some songs take a while to find their final form. I'd always loved this unfinished composition by my old Average Deep compatriots Jeffry Simms and Michael Montgomery, and looked forward to when they would finish it. Years went by, and I confess I got a bit impatient, so I wrote a second verse, in keeping with the reflective theme of the ongoing Band That Never Was podcast, and put it on an episode.
There are a lot of unique aspects to the tune that may not be apparent at first glance. One is the guitar tone I blundered into on the solos, which was a one-time happenstance twiddling with the gear I had at that time. Never could quite make it sound like that again. Another is that it marks the first time Ed Rogers makes an appearance on a matthew show tune, a presence that would certainly repeat as we entered the twenty teens. As always, I love Nancy Giammarco's backing vocals, and the subtlety of Jeffry's drums add a homey feel to the track that gives me the warm fuzzies. I hope it does for you, too.