Ben writes about his latest release:
Here’s track #10 off the new album: Dark Grey Matter.
I lied last week when I said that Count To Twelve was the first rock song I wrote after grad school. This was the first one. I wrote it in the garret appartment that my wife and I rented in 2001 on Ibbeston St in Somerville. We had just moved out of oppressive Amherst, MA, gotten big-time (for then) day jobs in Boston, and had tons of hope. This is the only track on the album that features guitar recorded directly against my old amp w/mics. (Everything else was recorded direct to disk with software distortion, etc.)
Things turned south pretty fast that summer – my wife and I got laid off at the same time – after just 4 months on our jobs. My appendix ruptured, I spent a week in the hospital feeling near death, but soon landed on our feet in a beach cottage in Plymouth, MA. I got my first IT job soon after, and resumed composing that first album. THAT’S when I wrote that song I told you about last week…
Two more songs to go! Stay tuned….
Quick note: One of my nieces studies at Amherst – she’s doing especially well, but I’ll have to ask her about her impressions of life in town. New England’s striking, but pseudonym notwithstanding, I’ve traveled there only occasionally, and then mostly for holidays.