Enjoyable Story About Writing a Specific Track!

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Enjoyable story on writing a music!

As a songwriter, there’s typically an attention-grabbing story behind songs and the way they arrive about. This goes again virtually twenty years, however it’s nonetheless a enjoyable one! 😃

Again in 2002, Phil Lesh and Dickey
Betts did a mini tour collectively. Through the tour Dickey was speaking with Phil and mentioned
to him “In case your followers are Deadheads, my followers have to be Dickheads!”. 😁😆 From that time on, that is what Dickey’s followers known as themselves! 

 

At this stage I had
been actively writing songs since 1995 and I had been signed in
Nashville to McClure and Trowbridge Publishing two years earlier, in 2000. I noticed this “Dickheads” as a nom de jour handed to me on a silver platter! Naturally, right here was a possibility to take the ball and run with it! 

My thought was to write down a music that may
sound like, however under no circumstances copy, a Dickey Betts music. At this level, how I might theme it lyrically was unknown. However I did have an general path musically.

What I did know was that this may be a salute to Dickey Betts,
and be entitled “I am A Dickhead”!

I have been a significant Dickey Betts and Allman
Brothers fan since I used to be 14. Amazingly sufficient, later, in 2004 I used to be
privileged to truly play with him at a celebration. I point out this simply to ascertain that I
was all the time an enormous fan of his. I wrote this music two years earlier than I
performed with him, nonetheless. Once we spoke I do not recall if I
talked about it to him? I did put it on his web site discussion board, nonetheless, he is
not a lot an web man.

So, after I got here up with the thought, I began engaged on the music. This was coming alongside easier than I might think about.  I gave the theme some thought. I got here up with the concept that I might use names of his songs to information the
story line.  As a tribute to him, what higher method might it’s executed than utilizing the music titles to his songs??? I ended up with over 15 of his music titles! It was a enjoyable music to
write utilizing and becoming the music titles to a selected story line! 

Usually writing a music is like
placing a puzzle collectively and this was no exception. There was the
problem of it, the enjoyable in writing it, and there was the
satisfaction when it was executed. My good friend Jay Korngold, who additionally performed
lead guitar within the Rabble Rousers, later advised me that he thought it was one of the best
music I had written. Thanks, Jay! That was in 2002.

I used to be significantly proud of the
music, which I wrote first, naturally. Everybody mentioned it gave the impression of
a Dickey music, but it did not sound like something he’d ever executed
earlier than. That was precisely my goal, and it was so reassuring to be advised that by individuals and musicians that heard it! (I used that very same thought of writing a music about Willie Nelson that gave the impression of a Willie Nelson music, however wasn’t, in 2006 with “Again
In Texas, Again In Luck” additionally named “Willie Nelson”. It is a enjoyable
idea!)

We went into the studio with my band at
the time, Chris Rehm and the Rabble Rousers. The thing right here was basically a rehearsal, to get everybody acclimated with the music and give you a tough
demo. We simply hung a single mic from the ceiling to seize it the recorded rehearsal.

In the long run, this was the one recording we ever product of the music. 

Chris Rehm and the Rabble Rousers:

Bruce Turkel – Harmonica

Jackson Bunn – Keyboards

Jay Korngold – Lead Guitar

Doug Weiser – Drums

Bass – Peter Seiler

Chris Rehm – Lead and Slide Guitar and vocals

“I am a Dickhead”
©
2002 BMI by Christopher R. Rehm

Association
by Christopher R. Rehm

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