Those Moments

Dave Gude

A solo collection of 9 songs recorded over 8 days at the end of February 2024, based on songs written in 2020 and 2021.

All words and music, production, engineering, recording, arrangements, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, piano, and vocals by Dave.

SONG NOTES

  1. Cadmium Day: Before the sunrise. A good place to begin. The day is still dark on the beach. Then the sky and the sea explode with a riot of colored pencil colors.

  2. A New Year’s Coming: The happiest song in the world. And a love song (because, yes, I'm so glad for you).

  3. Get Your Groove Back: Why wait? Why wait for anything? I was cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown when I wrote this song. Oh alright, I was in the mountains. Let's run to the tip-top and rise on the updraft.

  4. Friday’s Child: Our paths crossed and re-crossed when we were children, before we met, before we were a couple. Also true: here in the present, what's our favorite thing? Adventure! Let's go roving.

  5. At the Tail End Of Two Dogs: Living in America right now is like living in Pepperland in the movie Yellow Submarine when it was under attack from Apple Bonkers and Blue Meanies (see the movie). Anyway, a friend of mine took some riveting photos of a protest at a Confederate Statue nearby and told me that in this county we are caught at the tail end of two dogs. The image I got was of one person trying to separate two fighting dogs by holding onto their tails, but unable to let go. Still, I am hopeful, because that's the way my brain works. The things we have in common are stronger than the things that divide us.

  6. Follow Me / Derek’s Fancy: For a second time in this collection, we are standing on a shoreline. I wrote the instrumental this song is based on when my son Derek was too young to know it was happening, but I added the word "Fancy" to it anyway, as if he already liked it. Anyway, I view all instrumentals as vocal songs in disguise, so that's what happened here. I've added words with the hope that perhaps my music will point the way into the future for those who follow.

  7. One Duo: You can't look two people in the eye. All relationships are between two people. Yet we are all part of a vast recursive, tessellating web of oneness. Far out.

  8. Mental Game: All effort is mental. And PS: Mental blocks aren't a thing -- if you want to make art, show up every day and make it.

  9. A Verb / Those Moments: A stage. A spotlight. A young man in a tie with thick glasses. The music begins. Buckminster Fuller sings his life story. This song uses many of his exact words, which I salvaged from my threadbare copy of "I Seem To Be A Verb." He invented a utopian future with what he called comprehensive anticipatory design science, where every person across the globe benefits equally and humanity becomes a success. What can I say? I'm an idealist too. Life is amazing.