Jeff Brown Solo instrumental
John Garrett and Jeff Brown have been composing music together since they attended high school. They have a huge backlog of material and have written songs in many different styles.
Story behind the song
Jeff was playing around with some newley aquired software sythesizers in his computer (mimi moog for the bassline, Korg polysix layered with a melotron, for the chords roland tr909 for the drums) remember these are software versions of these synths, the actual synths if you could get your hands on them would be a good 15g's easily, I paid zip. They pretty much sound like the real thing and take up only the space of a computer. Anyway, all the parts are triggerd from my 62' Fender strat re-issue with a roland Gk2a Synth pickup midi'd too my computer and sequenced using Magix music maker ( About a $69 program that pretty much will let you do everything pro-tools will for loads less money) And the guitar solo was my Strat run direct to the computer (no amp) and the processed through a great program called free-amp which houses a software amp simulator and software versions of pretty much every guitar effect pedal you could imagine, cost zip. Lastly echo on the guitar I chose not to use free amps Echo, but a simulation of the wonderfull Echo-plex tape echo to kinda give the echo that Lo-fi Quality, again a free download (don't you love the internet). The title came from the fact that I kinda felt i had a Todd Rundgreny feel to the background synth parts so the "topia" part of the title and I also felt I was kind doin a mix of a Robert Fripp and Eric Claptonish solo on guitar so, "Frippclap". Put it together "Frippclaptopia". Disclaimer: This was all done on computer, no Tape Recorders we injured during this recording.
