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Salinas Valley 4 - digital painting - image for a song - “Reaction to the Sun”

I believe I wrote this song in the Spring of 2006 - we had weeks and weeks of overcast and winter rain - and the sun came out for a glorious few days - maybe even a week - and everyone seemed so much happier - whether inside or out -

I know I celebrated with an unplanned and impromptu sunburn - and heat rash - which I thought - a “reaction to the sun” and proceeded to write the song.

In truth, I think it is my own version of George Harrison’s / Beatles - “Here Comes the Sun” - because it is the same concept were it not for the new play on words and a completely different melody and chord structure - but this undoubtedlly is borrowed as well -

because we know there is nothing completely new under the sun.

Listen or View

• Reaction to the Sun - recorded Spring 2007 - from  Red Eye Recordings - music, lyrics, performance, recording - Dan Beck | 1danband - Alone & Contageous
• Here Comes the Sun - video of George Harrison performance of (just slightly more famous) song

My dog symbolically pushing me around.

It has been too blogging long since I have last contributed anything to the blogosphere - the unwritten rule I hold is to write at least once a week - once it was more - and may well be again.

Not too long ago - I wrote I would only write when I had something to say - something new.

So today I say - rules are often meant to be broken - meant to be changed - meant to be pushed against - meant to be rewritten and revitalized - until they need adjusting again.

Complacency is not a good thing - as my dog keeps reminding me.

Listen or View

• Red Eye 2 - introduction to part 2 of the Red Eye Recordings - original music, lyrics, and all performance - Dan Beck @ Outhouse Studios
• Unwritten Rules Fun - and the oxymoron of having them written down
• Other Music Projects - listen to tracks and clips of previous Outhouse Studios’ cd’s not found in Innovative Music channel of blog