Jabber

In uffish thought I stand
 Some monster for to come

 No blade have I
 Nor strength of art
 To slay or tame
 This beast mine own

 Galumphing forth
 To fume and snatch
 To claw and catch
 This beast mine own

 In brillig dim
 He for me
 And I for him
 This beast mine own

Production Notes:

From my Facebook feed for June 6, 2017: “This is a PSA: Be careful, Prog can happen to you. You’re grooving along in a sort of The Who meets The Cars kinda way and then one thing leads to another and you suddenly find yourself in “Stratosfear”-era Tangerine Dream territory.”

The lyric is by Susan Mace who laid it down as a sort of challenge. Cue heroic guitar leads vs buzzy monster synths in a battle that ends right where it started, resolving nothing.

Equipment:

Guitar:

Fender Stratocaster -> Digitech GNX4 -> Apple Logic amp sim; Fender Stratocaster -> Vox AC10

Bass:

Ibanez GSR205B -> GED 2112 SansAmp

Drums & Percussion:

Apple Logic Drumkit; Arturia Drumbrute

Synths:

Arturia Microbrute; Arturia Matrixbrute; Roland System 8; Roland Jupiter 8 Plug-Out; Roland System 1m, “Caliban” modular.