"When my band of some 16 years (Sonia Dada) took a break awhile back, I found myself alone in the studio with an active imagination, some basses, and a keyboard. With no band, no singers, and no pre-dispositions, I would pretty much wander wherever the musical muse took me.
So when I was haunted by this suggestively spanish-sounding trumpet melody, I played it, in the upper registers of the bass. And when I heard a banjo type rhythmic chordal picking in my head, I played it...on the bass. And it worked well.
So when I thought a great piano performance would work in verse two......I went and got a great piano player to play it....
...what do you think, I'm nuts? " ...... erik scott 'eski'