"Revelations" was written in 1988. I found this riff and played it
for about 20 minutes so I wouldn't forget it. Then I took a nap
and promptly forgot it! It came back to me several days later while
I was playing cards ...
Many people have predicted 'interesting' times at the end of this
century, and the beginning of the new millennium. One interesting
forcast is the book of Revelations in the Bible. This song coincides
with that Biblical prophecy of the "end times" ...
"Don't Be Afraid To Love" was written in 1987 while I was attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I was living alone on Mass. Ave. and I wrote this when I got home from work one night.
The fear, especially the fear of love, and tenderness, is one of the prevailing diseases of 20th century western culture. Men aren't "supposed" to feel. Don't be afraid to feel, and be, who you are ...
"If I Could Change It All Today" was, I guess, written in about 1988. I had it in my head, complete, as I was driving home, and recorded it on a Fostex x-15 four track cassette machine. The drums were added by Steve Johnson at Studio Dual, in Cape Elizabeth, later.
This song is real deep, emotionally, for me, and it still takes me back to how I was feeling at the time that I wrote it.
As I said at a performance at the Lincoln Theatre in 1993, "This is a song about love ... and lust."
"Sirens" comes from The Odyssey, by Homer. The Sirens are on a rock, in the middle of the sea, singing to the sailors who pass by- an irresistible song to all who heard it. The smitten sailors sailed to the rock, crashed on the rock, and were devoured by the sirens.
"Carnivore" was written in 1994 and goes with "Sirens" because as I said sirens were carnivorous... but part of the inspiration for this comes from laying in bed late at night listening to the kids revving their hot cars in the parking lot outside. It reminded me one night, of how the dinosaurs probably sounded in prehistoric times. And, of course, some of the dinosaurs were carnivores ...
"Take A Chill Pill" was written in 1988. One Sunday morning, as the family was heading out, my oldest daughter was being difficult. Her mother turned around and said "Oh, Mary Helen, take a chill pill." I was laughing, as I wrote this song about Mary Helen ......
"To Sail Beyond The Sunset" was written and recorded during the sessions for the CD of the same name. I had a chord progression, but no melody, and composed the melody in my car as I drove to Studio Dual. One of my influences is Joseph Campbell, the author of Hero With 1000 Faces and Myths To Live By. His idea, that the heroic quest has three stages, fascinates me. The first stage, according to Campbell, is the call to the quest and the departure. And so, we're off ... do you want to go with me? We'll sail beyond the sunset ...
Patrick recorded "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" using PRS guitars with Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups using Fender and Mesa Boogie amplifiers .
"To Sail Beyond The Sunset" was recorded at Studio Dual with John Etnier, engineer. J. P. Fisher played bass, Steve Johnson played drums and percussion.
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