I'm light years from being a prolific writer. However, for the songs that I've written or co-written that I consider to be good efforts the hook has invariably come first. And most of them have come while mountain biking. For the two of us mountain biking on technical (tough) trails is almost Zen like, i.e., the more we focus on the trail the more free we become. It's at these moments that a hook will come to mind -- one that often has nothing to do with where we are riding.

A few years ago we were riding a trail that, in large, consisted of a course that the two of us had raced on many times over the years. I was thinking about how much more fun I was having than when I was suffering like a dog in a race and into my head popped "The Outskirts of Fun" which became one of our country writes.

Now were it just as simple to take that hook and create a finished song...I'm very slow. Janice could create a boat load of melodies in the time it takes me to write one lyric.

Bud

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