For some reason I love Peace of Mind from Boston’s first album. I always have, it has a similar chord progression that Sister Golden Hair has. I’ve always like the sound of leading with a minor 3rd and coming down to the root chord. It is a very pretty progression.
I went through a number of arrangements for this song. I was trying the song out in different keys and it was a bit frustrating syncing up both the opening chords and the lead key. I finally just got picked one and improved my way through it with a totally different feel than I planned on. It went in one take. Luckily I was still recording myself from a recently failed attempt. I had to tweak just one teensy little missed beat (like a tenth of a second off) but otherwise it is here as recorded.
I wasn’t sure about that background bluesy guitar. I need it to end the song with because I’m not happy with the ending without it. But it does kind of come out of nowhere here and there in the song. That kind of playing is kind of my thing though, so I left it in.
Originally I had a very distorted version of the main rhythm guitar. It hurt my ears to listen to after a while which is why I like this less distorted but still crunchy sound. There is a funny tick tick tick in the opening guitar lead. Not sure what that is, I left it in for ambiance (I misspelled lazy).
Note: After listening to the original version of the song on my laptop speaker I decided to remove some of the bluesy guitar. It sounded good on my fancy headphones but the music gets seriously compressed on earbuds and tiny computer speakers so I had to pull some things out. Original is below, new one is above.
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