It's a twofer October as I dip back into the Claude Pate repertoire for a song to make up for September's lack of a blog post, and so I can share with you this decidedly more country version of Chalk it up to fate I recorded last week with my new Telecaster. The Song Chalk it up to fate is one of my better new wave pop rock songs. In fact, it's a pretty good song period. Nice beat and you can dance to it! I think I wrote it circa late 1984. I'm not real sure about the date, but I know I wrote it while living out in the apartment on North Dakota that I shared with Mark Mackin. The song is basically me trying to nail a Beatlesque vibe, with a little Buddy Holly country, which is to say I was
OK, so I somehow missed the month of September. Just because I didn't blog, doesn't mean I wasn't busy musically...I wrote this cool little instrumental, and I did some more soundtrack work for my favorite non-profit organization. Both videos are posted on my You Tube channel. Here I'll talk about my Groovy song... What's up with this song and where did the title come from? This takes some explaining...I've got a music project brewing with some friends from work that has me checking out various famous guitar instrumental pieces. Like Green Onions, by Booker T and the MG's. Or Walk don't run, by the Ventures. Or the amazingly cool Cissy Strut, by the Meters. And I've also been grooving on my
