I've always wanted to get better at guitar solos. Back in the 90s when I was in Dog Legs & Feet, I played lead guitar in the band but I never really felt like I knew what to do for guitar solos. Although I grew up in the days of Van Halen-style pyrotechnics, I never could really play like that. I was pretty comfortable with rhythm guitar, but for solos I would just play up and down the scales I knew, and sometimes I would throw in random extra notes that sounded cool. What else was there?

Later on I learned that there's more to guitar solos than scales and showing off. You can have a solo that's just two notes, and if you play them with enough emotion, it will communicate a lot more to the listener than a million 64th notes played at Mach 5.

Anyway here's me playing a "one finger" guitar solo for two golden, self-indulgent minutes. Not trying to impress anyone, just trying to create a fun, trippy vibe. I wrote this piece for a one-week Song Writing and Recording Challenge in December 2023, where the prompt was "inspiration."  The guitar sound is a little bit inspired by The Edge (from U2), one of my early guitar heroes, who generally played it simple and used a classic dotted-8th-note delay like I have here.  I have been listening to a lot of Flaming Lips recently, and this also kind of reminds me of them.