Tell Me

Written in 1994 / Recorded in 1995 and 2014

Basically, the main riff of this tune was written – or rather conceived – while I was on a train journey heading for having a studio session with my band called Culotte, sometime in 1994. By the time I made its initial private demo version at home, I decided to extend the tune by featuring a long jam section in the middle, especially inspired by Creedence Clearwater Revival’s cover version of Suzie Q. Provisional lyrics were also written consisted of repetition of simple lines start with ‘Tell me baby’, in other words, which were almost meaningless stuff. This thing was all about to express my musical taste and to try out some recording experiments, such as reverse tape effects.

For making this video, I used Culotte’s studio version, which was recorded in 1995, as its backing track. Coincidently, it missed a part for another layer of guitar to provide the main riff and secondary solo, and I duly completed the missing part in front of web cam in 2014.