by Christopher Fulkerson
I have written a few songs in popular styles. Besides these, there are notes for a half dozen or more, even something like a Rock opera. I will list pieces of this type here once there are complete in a sense that means something in the popular music world, that is, once they have lyrics and a clear format. I have been writing my own lyrics. The arrangements include the usual popular music minimum: guitar and bass parts and a melodic line for at least the first verse. I am enjoying writing these pieces, though I'm not sure what more will be done with them. I have begun playing electric guitar again and am encouraged that I can play all kinds of things that I couldn't play as a kid (Hendrix and Page are no big deal; Clapton chez Cream sometimes a little more demanding; I have even begun to be able to hack through some Eddie Van Halen).
The revival of my interest in popular music started when, at about the same time in 2009, I began taking notes for a book about Rock music, and I received the gift of a Fender Stratocaster copy, the first electric guitar I'd owned in almost 35 years. I have since bought an Epiphone (that's pronounced "Epiphany") SG Prophecy, complete with the High E; who knows what will come of this?
WELCOME TO THE FARM; A taunting from Lucifer as Provacateur
MARIA; Praise of the magic of a former love
Last updated 12/7/09