Painting Poles

Painting Poles

Missing Minutes

     In the early days of leaderhouse we were often described as prog-rock, a term I didn't really like but to a certain degree was quite accurate.  I have a few rules as a songwriter that I had to implement to preserve my own sanity. One of them and maybe the most important one is what I call "the half hour hustle"  which simply means if the song isn't more or less finished at least in a rough skeletal form in 30 minutes or less, you should throw it away.  Any song that I've written that people immediatley liked usually took me less than 10 minutes to finish.  This track took me days and days and I toiled and tweeked the f*#k out of it before recording it and ultimately burying it, and our prog rock description in the belly of the album at #5

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