I have always loved the songs from the 70s, 80s and 90's where my session heroes Mike Landau, Steve Lukather, Dann Huff and Jay Graydon were prominent in shaping the overall sound of the productions they were part of.

So this tune is a shameless flirt with all the sounds and styles of that era and I truly had a blast recording it.

Hands That Listen

I've been fascinated with synthesizers since the early 80's and love to program them to get my own specific sounds. Unfortunately, I've never had any success with guitar synths so since I got my Kemper profiling amp 12+ years ago I've been into profiling and playing weird sounds that sounds very little like electric guitars. I call this playing Un-Guitar. Along that, I've also tried all kinds of software plugins to craft more Un-Guitar sounds. One of my go-to software for this is Native Instruments Guitar Rig and with the latest version 7, I'm having a lot of fun!
Every sound you hear in this tunes except for the bass synth and the drums are made with guitars and in most ways mangled by Guitar Rig 7. The few sounds sounding most like traditional electric guitars were played through the Fender Tone Master Pro and then processed with GR7.  

Unknown Quantities

This style is definitely not in my comfort zone. It so out of it, I don't even know what to call it. Could it be Swedish Americana? 
I had this kind of lazy timing groove in my head and wanted to do something with it. When I do know what to do with a guitar oriented tune I bring out my Ruokangas Mojo King and just start playing. So the Mojo King does the basic work here with some other guitars getting used in the process.

Plenty Of Juice

I love weird guitar sounds and I trying to get on with different kinds of fuzz so this tune is a mix of both. This is not a smooth sounding track.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

My musical roots are quite firmly planted in the music coming from the Los Angeles studios in the 80s and 90s. 
Some call it smooth jazz and I really don't disagree.

Worthwhile

I wrote this tune when I felt I wanted to get back to the sounds of the 80s but with a definitive touch of the present.
FM synths for bass beefed up with some virtual analog, some funky guitars and a massive beat.

Moving The Meter

Just a simple ballad in a West Coast LA style made popular in the 80's and 90's. Musically, I grew up with this style so every once in a while I revisit.

Heartstone

Every once in a while I feel the urge to do some country picking. Sometimes I revisit and old tune or sometimes I write a new one. In this case I merged to older tunes into a new arrangement. 
The reason I wanted to do some country this time is that I created a preset on the Tone Master Pro that I really like and I used that for all guitar tracks on this tune.

Western Headware

A bit of soul with organ and guitar as main ingredients. I'm going for a Dumble ODS vibe with the guitar.

Western Headware

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