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The making of Blame.

So we just released a song and the comments were never more flattering. 

Blame is a masterpiece - Larree 

Give these guys a Grammy - MojoLounge 

Your best work ever!!! Totally mind blowing! Overflowing with gravitas and authenticity. Musically and lyrically brilliant! Great vocals! - Richard Scotti 

that's incredible! I like the drum intro, and the lyrics are brilliant and cover so
much ground there's a lot to think about and Truth in there. The video is very
cool too. The guitar and instrumental outro was also a great way to lead the
listener out of the story, and ponder just what the hell is happening.
Brilliant!!! - Mark Hewer 

Awesome!! - Michael Putt 

wow I love that one!!! - Debbie Hoskin 

It gets more brilliant every time I watch and listen. Those lyrics
are genius! and lots of them with meat and substance...all killer, no filler!
The video is awesome too! This songwriting is right up there with Neil Young,
Bob Dylan and so many other greats. 🙏 - Mark 

Fantastic song. - Steve April 

This is genius, I enjoyed it so much I couldn't get the damn tune out of my head.- Verity 

I knew upon finishing the song that it might be one of my best ever. How did it come about? Well I was sitting on my recliner in the morning, looking at the internet. One of the sites I hit is what I call my home forum, a home recording site I've posted on since 1998. I frequent their political forum and one of my adversaries there is a flagrant finger pointer. He blames the advent of Trump on the Democrats. and 20 other things. He even blames me (and my ilk) for helping Trump win the last election.  My response usually is blame the stupid MAGAs who voted for him. As soon as I had formulated the words Blame it on the people it occured to me this might make a song. I started writing lyrics on my laptop. Soon a gospel bluesy tune was in my head. I finished the basic lyrics in maybe 20 minutes. A day or so later I was figuring out the chords and the coda, which to me is the best part of the song, came to me quickly, spent awhile putting that litany of scapegoat lyrics (Blame it on..) in order. I recorded the demo in the next couple days and gave my tracks to the band who already had 2 other songs on their plate. Maybe I am imagining this but I sensed for maybe the first time ever that my bandmates knew pretty quickly how cool the song was. When it was time to work on it their parts came pretty quickly, Dave our drummer might have taken a little longer than usual but the result was imo his greatest drum performance ever on a Neg Ten song. It's been weeks now and the song still runs thru my head regularly. 

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