"Peace, Love & Overdrive" genre: Guitar Rock
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	Great contemporary instrumental rock with master quality sound and late 60's/early 70's overtones (think: Sons of Champlin, Electric Flag, Buddy Miles)featuring an overdriven blackface Super Reverb and a vintage Strat. The song rocks but has an almost anthem like harmony progression and a well placed horn section. The lead guitar will get you moving but doesn't go all over the place at 90 miles an hour. Take 3 minutes and give it a listen!
	Credits: Craig Ash
	Story Behind the Song I had been recording tracks that mostly featured the Kurzweil ( which I absolutely love!!) but I was really in the mood to get back to some plain old rock & roll. I had been developing the signiture guitar lick for a couple of months. Every time I'd pick up the Strat I'd find myself using it as a warm up. So I wrote the piece around the lick, using it as a starting place and an ending as well. I didn't want to use a standard 24 bar classic rock progression which this lick would seem to lend itself to so I started working with the B3 and thinking: What would Al Kooper or Bill Champlin do with this thing? I fiddled around and finally came up with kind of an anthem sounding progression that seemed to stand up really well all by itself. I worked with the lead guitar quite a bit. I really wanted to rock through out but I wanted a melody line as well. So I compromised by using sustained melody notes in the first half and then cutting loose a little on the second half. I decided to refrain from going up and down the neck at a million miles an hour so as to keep some semblance of melody going (besides I'm not that fast anyway!). I added the horn section last. I felt it made the song a little different and really made the thing rock.

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