Goodbye Honey

Written in 1984 / 1988,  Recorded in 1988 / 2013

I first wrote and recorded my original musical works in 1983, when I was fifteen years old, and by the time I finished studying at a local high school on March 1985, the amount of such recordings piled up enough to fill three or four 46-minute-cassette tapes. The quality of these early recordings was so bad that later I destroyed all of them. Goodbye Honey was among one of them.

In its initial demo recording, which was done in the late 1984, I tried to insert a long keyboard solo in the middle, being inspired by I'm Not in Love by 10cc. Though this attempt didn't go quite well, the main part of the destroyed demo remained within my mind.

When I restarted writing and recording my original materials with far better equipment in 1988, the remaining memory of the destroyed demo of this tune came back to me and I decided to re-record the tune in a different fashion. A newly written piece was added to furnish the tune in its intro and outro, nevertheless, the entire running time of the tune reduced from over fourteen minutes to less than three minutes. To avoid being monotonous, I also added a famous bass line, quoting from Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival, in the chorus section. The guitar part was another addition for this re-work and its backing style was inspired by Every Breath You Take by The Police, especially the use of 9th notes in its guitar part played by Andy Summers.

For making this video, I re-recorded the entire tune just for fun. Despite I aimed at capture myself playing the guitar part while recording the audio, so that the resulted film should synchronise with the audio track, I forgot to press Record button of the video recorder before starting the audio recording. That's the reason why I'm merely minming in the motion picture featured in this video... silly me! Also, I left the guitar solo section and ending section from the 1988 re-worked version in this video, simply because these sections sound quite better than what I attempted for making the video in 2013.