Last weekend, through a warm and friendly haze of ale, as I reminisced with old friends about times past, we happened to talk about a favorite song of ours coming up (growing up? Back in the day? As young pups? 成長した時?，いいから続きなせ！), and how we used to play it until it was like poison to our ears. Basking in the confidence-building glow of all that grog, I made some promises, which I fully intended to keep, but my ambition got the best of me.

Had groggy Jon realized how much of a damn perfectionist sober Jon is, he would have known that three days to play a song wasn’t going to cut it (sorry, that particular promise was doomed from the start!), no no, not with all the clipping and cutting, the editing, finding the right tones, delicately recording, neurotically rerecording and laying more and more instrumental tracks required simply to get ever more accurate and as close to the original song of legend as possible, no no no. Three days was indeed three days too early! But I am pleased to say that the result of all of this is quite pleasant, in my opinion.

Claudio’s face after he hears what I did to his precious guitar riffs!

The song is In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3. The band is Coheed and Cambria. The guitars, bass, and whatever else you may purport to hear in this iteration is all me; the result of a bit of practice and a manic 20 some odd hour recording session. It’s always an honor to do my best in the service of a Coheed song and irreplaceable memories. Take a listen! Get your sing on! Grab your instrument of choice and wail away with me! But especially, definitely, listen, please!

(Just to cover my butt, I DO NOT own the copyrighted work and materials of the legendary gods that are Coheed and Cambria, and certainly hope that they shall refrain from hurting me or my wallet in retaliation for paying tribute!)

-Namakemono