gschmitt song: Old Love

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Old Love (lyrics) – gschmitt discusses this song from The Year in Pictures

“This is another tune that Quique totally helped develop for me. His percussionist ear immediately perked up during the chorus and he pushed me to record it even more samba/bossa nova than it was originally. I had a somewhat similar pattern to the samba in there already, but he went in and recorded that part as a genuine samba and it made all the difference.

The three guitar solo is probably my favorite guitar solo I’ve ever recorded. I got the idea from Trey Anastacio’s guitar solo on Phish’s “Weigh.” (Yeah . . . I went through a REAL phish-head phase in college.) This tune is a “feel-anomaly.” If you told me about a song with a laid-back ghost note drum groove in the verse with the [on top of the beat] samba/rock feeling drum beat in the chorus, I would have said it’ll never work, but I didn’t count on Ariel Cedeno. Freak.

Lyrically, it’s pretty literal. It was based on a poem I wrote years before and adapted only a few months before I got the chance to record this record. Pretty standard young relationship confusion stuff, when I look back.”

- gschmitt