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major blinky mislays his antique vintage meerschaum

from eye shine by bushytunes

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Pay attention, military man alert!

A set of chords gave me the riff/tune and that in turn gave me the very catchy title. The chords were quite hard to play, so can I please have a small round of applause. Thank you.

This one has a jolly beat, so I added some jolly loops. I especially like the big wet drum loop that sits half way back in the mix. We have some acoustic guitars - processed without mercy - an adventurous bass, some military backing vocals – from the officers and the ranks - and a plethora of odd sounds and bits dropping in and out. All we needed was the ‘lead vocal’.

I cunningly added samples taken from the tapes I made when I was surveillancing Major Blinky as part of a secret government thingy that I can’t tell you about. During this period he rather absent-mindedly mislaid his pipe - I felt this was a particularly poignant and beautiful moment to immortalise in song. And that’s that.

I know surprisingly little about Major Blinky’s past – perhaps you know more than I do, and are willing to share a tale or two about his exploits and/or skulduggery?
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from eye shine, track released November 5, 2013

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