K.'s Boogie

Written in 1987 / Recorded in 1988

I wrote this sophisticated 12-bar-blues for a trio band I led called Flowers, probably in between late May and early July 1987 - assumption can be made from the fact that when Flowers first played live in August 1987, this tune was already included in the set list. In those days, we simply called it The Original Blues in G or stuff like that. Though the band didn't last long but broke up by March next year, we played and rehearsed the tune for countless times and some of them were recorded in various ways.

As soon as I bought some necessary equipment that made the home recording available for the first time, this tune was duly picked up, along with some other pre-written materials, to be recorded as my solo work. It was simply a joy to play the lead guitar part for finishing the demo recording to far richer accompaniment featuring a layer of instruments such as second guitar and piano, than Flowers' low skilled bass and drums. When the recording was done, I thought this tune would be one of my trademark blues compositions for the rest of my life to be played for many more times in the future but, except for Flowers' a-few-day-reunion a few months later, ironically this was the last time for me to play this tune.