"The Ugly Duckling Drops Acid In Hell" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	Title says it all... only Stephen Hawking is involved.Steve Vai chose this "piece" as his contest winner for the Madison, WI stop on his latest tour.Went from idea to finished product in 4 days with almost no sleep or food.
	CD: You beg us for a CD... and we MAY put it on one!   Label: None Credits: Eric: everything. Everyone else: nothing.
	Story Behind the Song This was the offspring of two songs I had nearly in the can for personal use: 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'Sex On Acid in Hell'. The first was a classical quasi-ballet with a full orchestra, and the second was a gabber piece with all noises and synthetic instruments. When I heard about the Vai contest, I thought it would be appropriately adventurous to force-mate the two together. And what better glue to join them than quantum gravity? Although there are a lot of technical aspects to this piece, basically the point is that the searching rubato guitar melody is the voice of the ugly duckling as he hallucinates a psychedelic hell in his little pond. How Hawking and quantum gravity relate to that is not clear, even to me. But it feels very appropriate. Lyrics Many people working on quantum gravity would instinctively reject the idea that information about the quantum state of a system could be lost. However, they've had very little success in showing how information can get out of a black hole.

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