The Fragment

This piece has been something a 'holy grail' in my catalog. What you hear is the last half of a composition by me & the guitar player I was working with at the time. He wrote the first half but that bit of the bit never worked all that well IMHO. This is my part of the piece and it's all about this odd bass riff I came up with some time previously. The recording was just a 'punch & crunch' on the old four track and when it was over he & I stared at each other in slack-jawed amazement: "Did we really just play that and we really got it on tape as well?". Try as I have over the decades I've never been able to do anything better with that little riff and just about everyone else I've played it for is totally clueless as to how to accompany it. While it can be counted in 4-4 it's really a free-time kind of thing and doesn't lend itself at all well to a drum part. Maybe hand percussion. Hmmm, someday. That's of course me on the old 4-string, probably through the Alamo I frequently used at the time. The guitarist is using a Digitech rack effect. The master is from sometime in 1990, I think, probably fall or winter.

The Fragment