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Thank you Floyd! When do I get those parts written? It's always different for every song. In this case things came about pretty much in order of how the instruments were introduced...it began with that guitar riff and progressed to the bassline next. After thinking for awhile on it, it occurred to me that the bassline would sound awesome reinforced with saxophones, so I guess I didn't really write a horn part, I just had horns play the bass riff.

This song was actually going to be part of a pretty cool project with another songwriter, but we had to table it due to unforeseen circumstances. We were each going to write an instrumental song, completely record it, and then send it to the other writer to finish off with vocals and melody. We would have ended up with two songs started by one writer and completed by the other. It was something neither of us had tried before...a collaboration in which each writer has complete autonomy, both in writing our own original instrumental song as well as in finishing the other writer's instrumental song in any way we liked. I hope to try it again someday. But the point is, this song was completely finished as an instrumental before I even thought about lyrics and melody.

It sort of recharged my batteries, writing something that way. I've never done that, completely finishing the music tracks before moving on to melody, harmony and lyrics. That's actually the way David Bowie normally works, always just focusing on completing a full musical bed before even thinking about melody and lyrics. Really an interesting way to do things, and brings on a lot of surprises. I never would have dreamed up a song like this if I hadn't done it this way.

Thanks again for the listen!