If all it took was planting a seed of music to make a good song, that would be cool. But you forget to mention your talent, like all great artists who don't need to brag, and the strong friendship that binds you all together, much to our delight. We love you guys all over the world. Your garden is vast, so keep planting seeds.

Hey Stephen man,your work in here is phenomenal. Exactly what I was looking for. Love your ability to find melody when you solo. Excellent mix, as always, too. Hey brother man, always truly a joy to get to create with you.

Freaking yes!! Love it, fellas!! Sounds like Zeppelin went Latin, while Plant was on vacation holiday, ha!! 😅.. most excellent @ first mix, Stephen! ( I mean you got it in one take of mixing.. maybe two.. but who’s counting, he and he and ha!! 😎) … sounds like we are all on stage together… in a fantastic sounding theatre style club! Yes!!! Always a true pleasure making tunes and recordings with you, brother! Fridays in the 2020’s…an EC fever dream.. we got the prescription, baby!!! 😎😎😎🤩🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼🙏🙏🙏

Epic man. Showing the way with the rhythm drive again here. Rhythm guitar for me is an under appreciated skill. Lead is great but songs are hard to find when you don't have that bed to play with and although you shine on all guitar fronts, I'm really learning nice things rhythmically from you with every release. You follow and compliment so well. Lovely lead fills in there too. As ever mixed like a true pro man. Excellent overall sound and I bet it didn't sound like that when you started mastering it. You're a genius brother 🫡🔆

Great, colorful stylistic mash up (and quite the guitar opera!).

This is such a fat groove! I dig it! Well done.

that lead against the banjo is pure candy.  love it.

Amazing guitars on this! Perfect mixing too, everything in the right place. Wonderful work Gents!

Cast of characters:

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four string bass, Collings mandolin, Rogue banjo, Roland electric piano, and composition

K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Taylor T5z acoustic guitar, production, mix, and mastering

This song began with Josh coming up with it on his electric piano and fretless bass, to which he added some banjo, then mandolin. Once he had a solid basis for the song, he shared it with the rest of Eclectic Collective for them to add their parts. 

  Ken was first up, adding his drums in an such a creative way that matched Josh's bassline perfectly. It was originally recorded to a looper disco beat, but that was blown out of the water by Ken's creative drumming. Tez jumped in next, adding his thrilling guitar to the second half of the song. Not to be outdone, Stephen batted clean up, adding his textural and melodic guitar to the first half. He also added some subtle, but brilliant acoustic guitar to the first half, too. 

  This is a great example of Eclectic Collective coming up with an original band sound out of one of Josh's seeds. We're always pushing boundaries and trying to find fun and exciting ways to build a song. Lots of teamwork in here, too, of course. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.


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