Mario, Tangmo, Babu, (and again, Ray) thanks so much.

You can tell I was going for a “wall of sound” effect, and possibly overdid it, but I’m going to… how did they put it on the Woodstock album cover? I’m going to leave the defects in as marks of authenticity, like those in “fine leather”.

I also wonder if the melody is a little TOO drunk-sounding, in front of the note-perfect backing, but if I’m going to work on something like that, I might as well just play it on a guitar!

About the unsung lyrics: here’s something a little spooky. I shared the tune with a friend, who said she heard (in her mind) the phrase “after all” repeatedly closing the chorus. Now in fact, my teenage lyrics had “care at all” at those exact same points. Ruling out some kind of psychic phenomenon, I have to assume there’s something about the melodic contour here that is evocative for her of, specifically, three word phrases starting with a pattern of A’s and R’s and ending with “all”. Did “flex pitch” somehow encode a blurred verbal message in the MIDI melody? Perhaps an experiment is in order!

Anyway, thanks again, all, I look forward participating here.

Mark