Flight

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VC: lead vocals, Mosrite acoustic, Turner Renaissance guitar, Fender Precision bass, Yamaha CS1 Synth, drum programming; Anglea Hessler: violin; Suzie Kirrane: harmony featuring Jimi Furia: Fender Telecaster lead guitar & "sitar"

Spring of 1999 was a most interesting time for me. I managed to write six sets of lyrics in very short time and two of these songs are on the CD (Flight & Tattooed). Another song “I Love Everything (He Hates About You)” was slated for the CD but got axed midway through recording. So… go back to the story for “Heart Condition” from side two and then back to here where the story continues eighteen months later. The woman in question had a boyfriend all along and I backed off, stuffing my emotions deep down where they would surface from time to time as I often listened to her complain about him. Of course, they eventually broke up and I was faced with the dilemma of keeping my feelings in check or “making my move” as they say.
It was now spring and I had so much time on my hands because I had a student teacher for the first time who was doing most of the teaching. I had hours free at work and during those free hours I wrote these words. I had been simply amazed as this now single woman began to explore her new-found freedom. In turn, it really reminded me of an eerily similar situation I had endured some ten years earlier. In both cases I encouraged the once caged birds to spread their wings and fly, hoping that they would eventually find their way back to me. You can guess the result.
I was simply possessed when I first wrote the music and as is often the case when I do compose, it just flowed through me and into the guitar. It was a really different kind of song with its Middle-Eastern influences coming directly from the song’s inspiration. From day one this song begged for violin and Angela’s double tracked solos are a dream come true. Several guitar players had played this song over the years and it wasn’t until my brother Jimi gave it a try that it was finally right. The “sitar” track was simply genius on his part and after his first attempt at a solo, I wrote that he needed to “shred” more. And shred he does!!!