I wrote black Black Widow about 10 years ago. In my head, it was a derivative of George Harrison’s famous Taxman Riff.  It reminds me of something you might hear in an Austin Power’s movie.  By chance, I had an old Korg Poly 61 synth left in the studio by Pat Leahy from the Smoking Rhino’s days.  It was exactly what I was looking for.   The real icing on the cake though was when Matteson Allstars lead singer and sax extraordinaire Barry Sperti stopped over.  Barry liked the idea and agreed to play sax and sing background vocals on it.  Barry is so talented and ended up playing on 3 tracks that day: Black Widow, Intoxicated and Meant 2B.  I’m not kidding; every track was a once through take. He’d play and say, “Well, that’s the thing”.  I would dropped my jaw and said, “that was frickin’ great dude!”  It’s one of the few tracks I’ve done that Warner Music wanted rights to for their movie archive.  Maybe someday It’ll be in a new Austin Powers movie! Dedicated to my lifetime friend and great drummer Mike Imig.  He agreed to play on some of these tracks.  Mike recently passed away.  Anyone that ever knew me growing up knows I was rarely seen without Mike.  I really miss him and will always remember him.  I really only used a laptop, Cubase and one MOTU 828 convertor with almost no editing or post production.  

Black Widow

Barefoot Recording Studio