Whereas before my thinking and feeling always revolved around melody and lyrics, now it is more about rhythms and song structure. Always been a good tunesmith. Could pull melodies out of thin air without ceasing. That's a gift. That has nothing to do with how good you are. You're just born with it. but good songwriting structure, being able to create sick music, that's something you work at. Bands like zep or metallica or rush or queen come to mind. Foo fighters, forget about it, Dave is a monster at it. he took Foo fighters where nirvana could have gone if Kurt wasn't so fucked up. the song structure itself. What it sounds like. How the rhythm works underneath the melody and backing instrumentation. This is new to me. it was always about plugging in and playing along to the song on your instrument. Alright, good take man. Now its about ‘plug in, and stay there till you write the sickest most unique part we've ever heard.

Bloopy explaining the other day how more and more bands are doing that now because songwriting-wise everyone is still writing the same songs over and over again. [not every one. we’re generalizing here. think of beck or the beasties. They're on a different plane entirely as far as how they write. Its from another planet and of course they aren't the only ones. They're lots of cats out there creating songs from a totally different place than the standard.] but for the most part, with rock and pop anyway, its still chords on a guitar or a piano. Think of all the power pop bands or all the alterna-rock bands or all the emo bands. Same old same old. But what has changed is the way the bands are creating the rhythms underneath it all. think of rage. Or think of mercury rev or mum or Sigur ross; same old songs, but a totally unique approach to the sound of it. Jeff and wilco are starting to go there too now on their new albums. Unique approaches. But I'm even talking about going one or two steps beyond all of that. to break the boundaries of contemporary sonics in popular music so its totally fresh ---think Janet Jackson’s music --- and yet don't go so far out that you lose the actual song, such is the case with beck sometimes. Out of this world production, but where's the fucking song? But that's only sometimes. His last two albums, have really been more song oriented. His last one. what a monster. Some deep shit. But then he switched to standard production. Too bad.

As the stallion says, ‘gotta do it, gotta do it.’