Steve Howe set a pretty high bar back in the 80s. His "Mood For A Day" and "The Clap" are both acoustic guitar masterpieces. At my guitar playing peak, I had mastered "Mood For A Day" but never "The Clap", at least not all of it. In fact, decades later I scoured Youtube and could only find one guitar player with a video demonstrating true mastery of it. The whole magic is in his arrangements that create the sound of 2, and sometimes even 3, guitars being played!

This song is my tribute to Steve Howe and has been in the making for 40 years by one way of counting. Jay flatly rejected at least the first ten R2024A takes, it's that kind of song. With this R2025A version, I finally have something I'm happy with but at the same time, feel defeated about. It's a fact: this song is a multi-guitar arrangement. Nobody, not even Steve Howe himself, could possibly play it on one guitar.

Guitarists: please don't take this as a challenge! (You'll find out years from now I was right, trust me on that.)

You can listen to the original version here:
https://soundcloud.com/raidiotony/mood-for-a-clap-dolby-remaster-3

R2025A

Mood For A Clap (Live Mix)

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New music in the style of 80s and 90s rock/pop.

New tracks tagged #acoustic #prog rock