Matthew C Good : Musician, Web Developer, Hobbyist.

In keeping with the ‘Cosmonaut Rock’ theme…
…which may or may not exist anywhere except for in my head…
…here’s a tune called “Star City.” It is weird. I’m not sure I like it. I think the lyrics are cool in a quirky sort of way. The music is kinda wierd, it sounds like songs I write when I try to write loud angry electric guitar songs. Which is pretty formulaic, in my opinion.
Read up on Star City on Wikipedia, and it will make more sense.
STAR CITY
(C) 2007 Matthew C Good
I wanna go to Star City
The skies are clean, but the streets are gritty
Rockets designed by committee
Yuri Gagarin, Star City
Ten pm, Tennessee, cool breeze, the earth
is trying hard to flirt with me, but I
been counting stars and naming other planets
and no jealous wind is gonna take me for granted.
I packed my things, I got everything I need
candy bars, a telescope, and books I’ll never read
I’ll have left my friends, and I’ll never see them
but at least that way, we’ll have a good reason.
I wanna go to Star City
The skies are clean, but the streets are gritty
Earthbound people, what a pity
I wanna leave Star City
Take a train, take a car, take a cab,
no matter what you take, yeah, the route’s still flat.
Baby where we’re going, horizons don’t exist
The only frame of reference is the one inside your chest.
Pass by the guards with the AK-47s
Grab a quick look, they’re the guardians of heaven.
Maybe one day, we’ll be in that museum
as the first two captive hearts that finally freed them.
I wanna go to Star City
The skies are clean, but the streets are gritty
Rockets designed by committee
Yuri Gagarin, Star City
I’ve been west, north, east and south
Through the atmosphere is the only way out
So you made a mess you wanna to leave behind
Wanna go somewhere without a critical eye
So you pack a bag and move through Siberia
To chase a dream you can’t know till you find it here, you’re
leaving now for some place desolate and
where the loneliness at least is reciprocated
We’re headed out to Star City
A pilgrimage for the lost and pitied
Hitch a ride with someone pretty
We’re gonna go to Star City
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I played my new-and-improved fixed-up Sorento on for the guitars on this one. Through the Tech 21.
The details on the Sorento fixes… Well I ripped off the old crappy tuners and replaced them, which was a pain because they are 6-in-line but they are NOT the standard 6-in-line ferrule diameter. So i rigged it up with paper rolled up in there and wood glue, but you can’t tell AT ALL. They also are farther apart than normal 6-in-lines, so i had to eyeball the straightness of them… the angle they come off the headstock. One is a little -not perfect- if you look at it long enough. But oh well. That freaking wood is soft too. Better not have to replace those ever again or things could get interesting. Okay so I replaced the volume and tone controls because they scratched a lot, and replaced the jack with a new one, so the sucker makes no noises it shouldn’t anymore. I added a string tee to the B and E strings so they no longer fly off the nut when you strum hard. I cleaned the contacts on the pickup selector switches pretty extensively (which was scary, cuz that thing is WIERD) and they work right now… so that’s good. Cleaned the whole thing up a lot and put some lemon oil on the fingerboard… It plays good and sounds muuuuch better now. freakin awesome.
The drums are a rough-mixed, slowed down, protoolsized, and looped sample from Seth playing on “Worlds Unknown,” which I think has a sort of similar feel to this one.
That’s pretty much all I got on this one. yeah.