I can picture Andy Stochansky, Jason Mercer and myself in a little recording studio in Hamilton, Ontario, back in 1997. We were improvising around one of my new poems and it was snowing outside. Jason came up with a groovy bass line to go with my guitar riff and we just flowed with it. A little while later, I came up with a different kind of riff to go behind that same poem and so, after many years of playing it this new way, it’s the album version that seems like a fluke. The reissue of Little Plastic Castle made me wonder why I never again played that poem Fuel like we did on the album. I wondered aloud in soundcheck in Missoula, Montana on 3/24/23 and so, Terence Higgins, Todd Sickafoose and I tried to play “the album version” in the show that night. We didn’t get very close, but we sure had fun trying. Moral of the story: Man, have I been blessed to play with a lot of wonderful musicians in my life and across my career. So so blessed. Or maybe the moral is this: There's no wrong way to play a song when you're playing with people you love and enjoy.
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