This Means Nothing to You

Written and Recorded in 1989

I wrote this tune just for myself so that I could enjoy playing the lead guitar part genuinely. I put some of my habitual guitar licks into the melody line so that I would not need to practice for playing this tune much. Everything worked quite well at that time and I even managed to play it live with a newly formed band called The Intellectual Gnomes by the end of 1989, within a few months since I have written the tune.

Even while I was playing this with my band mates, my basic notion about this tune was the same as what its title says: This Means Nothing to You. I wrote this just for myself. Therefore, regardless of whether this means something to me or not, this should mean nothing to anyone else including my mates, friends or whosoever, let alone the prospective audience. Even though actually I took the phrase from Frank Zappa’s remark on stage addressed to the audience featured in an unofficial CD of The Mothers of Invention, I thought it was very true to call this tune in this way and I still think it is.

For making this video, I tried to synchronise the audio, which is my personal demo recording, with the footage of our sole live performance of this tune, captured in December 1989. The live performance itself also went quite well but, to my disappointment, the house engineer there failed to capture the audio at good quality.