Day 17: Brand New Angel

Brand New Angel by Gov’t Mule.

I think I got this song from a SXSW music playlist in 2005? The opening grungy guitar riff is one of my favorites. This track was released when I was preoccupied with the electric guitar. There is this thing that happens to guitar players when they hear another player’s sound that causes them to exclaim- “Whoa! How did they do that? What combination of amp, pedal and voodoo did they use to get that sound?” For me, this fascination obsession with guitars started on my 40th birthday; not in my garage with my buddies, jamming all night and pissing off my neighbors, but in my office with headphones and a digital effects modeler. I would spend hours trying to “dial in” the right combination of distortion, compression, reverb etc. on a goofy Zoom G2 pedal. Midlife adolescent crisis? Ask my wife…