I want to see a dark #Mario game where he struggles with PTSD and crippling paranoia as a result of continually defending his girlfriend from a murderous, serial-kidnapper, 10-foot-tall, dragon-turtle.
“Song of a Thousand Guitar Solos” was inspired by #AvengedSevenfold’s one-minute long guitar soloing segment in “#BatCountry”, which is arguably the best part of the song. My only issue with “Bat Country” is that the guitar soloing segment isn’t long enough, so I decided to make a 2+ minute song of only guitar solos to scratch the itch to hear more.
For “Dank Sinatra (Song 30),” a synthesizer was tweaked until it sounded like a guitar. The results were so pleasing that the same synth has been used in numerous songs since then, the most recent being “Wayne Henley (Song 123).” Since I can’t actually play a competent solo on an electric guitar, writing the solo was a slow process of programming each note one by one in Logic Pro.
In GoBoy 2, the distorted guitar synth that was developed for “Dank Sinatra” was used again in “Song of a Thousand Guitar Solos,” “We Came For Blood” and “Captain Red’s Voyage.”
The segments with #duelingguitars consist of 2 synthesizer tracks harmonizing with one another, one panned slightly left, and the other panned slightly right.
I think dueling guitars can be classified as “sexy,” the same way an exotic sports car can be sexy.
Regarding the change from pop music to mostly instrumental music in GoBoy 2: “Throwback (Song 23)” (and it’s music video) enraged my relatives, whom I grew up in a neighborhood with, and who had tremendous influence over my life at the time (explained in post 23). A frenzy of angry emails, metaphorical pitchforks, torches, hulk rage. Being a young, neurotic kid, the backlash from them was too much for me to handle at the time, and to exit their spotlight, I halted further production of pop songs and ultimately pulled the music video and songs 1-23 (GoBoy 1) from the internet (excerpts from post 23).
To the creative kids who find themselves surrounded by people who want to halt or control their creative endeavors, best of luck. I want to say “find a way out,” but that might result in further deterioration of your creative output. If you were born into an environment where you’re free to explore your creativity without constraints, you’ll never know how lucky you are (excerpts from post 23).
After the “Throwback” debacle, focus would be shifted towards creating instrumental songs that would fly under the radar (GoBoy 2, songs 24-35). Fly under the radar they did. Following GoBoy 2, I quit music for seven years. Songs 1-23 wouldn't be reuploaded until 2020. Why does this matter? It doesn't (excerpts from post 23).