Song and a Chat

Episode #221: Electric Cow.  (Song starts at 4:52)

I would say the main take away from this particular episode is perhaps this: no matter how strange, how silly, how childlike a creative idea that pops into your head is, I would suggest it’s really important not to dismiss it.

In fact, I would say these are perhaps some of the most important sparks of ideas. The unedited & unbridled joy of creativity – the sort of domain that comes so naturally to us as children.

I think perhaps that voice, that state, is something we tend to lose as the years go by. We’re taught not to be silly, to focus on ‘what’s real’ (which brings to mind: anything that is manmade that we would consider ‘real’ in todays world didn’t exist, once upon a time – it started in someone’s mind. Imagination is the key).

A great way to unlock this ability that cam come so naturally to us (and I really do think most of us have the ability, we have to – to be human is to create.

So I choose to create beautiful things or funny things. Life might as well be beautiful and it sure as heck may as well be fun.

Having this sort of state of mind was instrumental to bringing Electric Cow in to being.

A decade ago. I was biking home from teaching 17 private piano lessons (big day, eh? You do what you have to to get by financially. I’m teaching 22 in 2 days each week, these days & that’s plenty. And it’s a privilege. One of the things I say often to my students before we start is: are you ready to have some fun? Ready to make some mistakes …because that’s where some of the most interesting most important moments in art, science, you name it, happen).

Anyway…on my bike, this whole verse electric cow, electric cow, what the hey do I need an electric cow for?came through loud and clear.

Now, I could have dismissed this as rubbish. But I didn’t.

I’m so pleased I didn’t dismiss it. In fact, the next 4 or 5 verses came though as I was biking. I went over them in my mind and whenI got home, my family saw the look on my face. I marched though the house to my studio, wrote out the whacky words and quickly found the chords f f g, FF g.

And that was that.

Speaking of teaching, today I taught an hour’s cartoon drawing with 20 children, sharing creative ideas about how to get into a free creative state. This appears to be something I’m really into.

On this episode I have included audio of the demo, and the recorded parts of the final arrangement. This is because sometimes the production, the recording can be part of the composition, and I think this is perhaps true to a degree with this song. It’s all good fun, I guess it has to be with a title like electric cow…

Electric Cow is the 4th song on the new album by myself and Paul Dredge: River walking – streaming now!

I hope you enjoy hearing how another song came together.

Episode #220: A Quiet Moment   (Song starts at 3:31)

This episode features the song ‘A Quiet Moment’, composed by Paul Dredge and myself.

It’s a song about reflecting back on the history of a friendship, so it’s a quite a personal document, in a way.

On that intimate sort of a note, you’ll get to listen to some audio of Paul and I composing and arranging the vocals for this song. So you get hear some of the actual process of a song coming together.

The style of ‘2 voices to the fore’ appeals to Paul and I. It’s something that comes to us easily. We were inspired by the Finn Brothers (NZ), Simon and Garfunkel, the Everly brothers.

I think ‘A Quiet Moment’ is a very nice album track. Its the 3rd song on our new album ‘River Walking’ (folkrock, streaming now)  – great to unwind with listening with headphones on – or in the car perhaps).

It’s a really good example of Paul and I almost in a live performance mode with the singing when the chorus hits, after a more conversational verses.

Listening to the audio of us composing together, you can hear us sort of kneading the song into shape, almost like 2 potters working on a piece of clay as it becomes art.

I’m glad we took the time to bring this song together. We’ve had it in the vault for a few years. Once we decided it needed to fleshed out and lengthened with a guitar solo it was ready. Sometimes you have to be patient. Songs seem to have a mind of their own sometimes as to when they are released out into the world.

The guitar solo was a good idea …it lead into a high lead line over the 2nd chorus that really added to the drama l – and made the recording, I think. Paul wasn’t expecting to do this …he got to the end of the solo and just ‘winged it into – and along with –  the vocals on the chorus.

This sort of thing is what we really enjoy when we record. The magic of being completely in the moment, in performance mode, responding intuitively with the right notes and lines to embellish what’s already been recorded, without taking over, or getting in the way.

I’m glad I took a quiet moment to write the lyrics in the first place.

OK, join us in the songwriting session…this is one of those songs where we were in the room together. Paul had a quick read of the lyrics and kicked in on the guitar with some chords, playing with muted strings. I like winging the vocals over the top so away we went.

Hope you enjoy some more music and chat.

The River Walking album is brand new, recorded in 2 countries Australia and NZ . It’s streaming on all the usual platforms – also available for steaming and downloading from www.petepascoe.bandcamp.com

Enjoy ‘A Quiet Moment’ with us.

Episode #219:  I’ve Loved Life  (Song starts at 6:52)

On this episode, I’ve featured a song which is track number 2 on the album ‘River Walking’, which I’ve written and recorded with Paul Dredge.

The gist of the meaning of I’ve Loved Life is: there’s lots of ups and downs – that’s the way it is. But we’ve got the choice to try to enjoy ourselves along the way. I think we might as well. The rough bits are going be there anyway. The world seems to reflect back what put out there.

You take the ups with the downs, the smiles with the frowns.

I’ve loved life and it’s loved me…

I relate a relate a couple of anecdotes, which I found in an old diary entry, which I’d written around the time I wrote I’ve Loved Life. The ups and downs of being an Artist …

I’ve been so lost.  And still I’ve found lots of hurt but much love all around

I been under the stars, worries run rife

There’s what I think is a misconception / misunderstanding that you have to be poor and starving to produce serious art and music. I don’t think you do. I do think you need to live honestly, be true to yourself, etc – but you don’t need to be broke ( I think perhaps that idea has contributed to the idea art and music doesn’t really have financial worth…..streaming, anyone? Anyhow…

I’ve had Money and I’ve gone broke

I’ve loved life, song #664, was fun to write. The Lyrics came quickly, (I enjoy analysing the lyrics) the music pretty much wrote itself – it’s a very ‘up’ happy country rock song.  I think you can hear this in the finished track, which I’m very pleased about. It sounds like a live band having fun.

There’s an art to getting to this point, when you’re starting with piano vocal and click track..

I’ve included a snippet of the demo I sent to Paul (in New Zealand) so you can hear how the arrangement came together: Paul did his thing, sent back drums, bass, guitar and harmonica.

I re-recorded the piano, sang it again and there it was, finished in no time.

The recording sounds like a live band having fun. Which is great. This was the plan.

I’ve performed this song a few times live since it wrote it, this gave me a chance to work on the phrasing of the lyrics, which is a good thing.

If you’d like to read more about this song after you’ve listened to this episode, visit www.petepascoe.Wordpress.com (my blog – search  I’ve Loved Life). I’m going to feature a few songs off the album here.

The album ‘River Walking’ can be found on all the usual platforms (It’s under my artist name Pete Pascoe on Spotify and Bandcamp, Apple music etc..) We are stoked with the album. Released under the folk rock genre, it encompasses country rock, rock – a fair bit of variety…

Enjoy!

I’ve loved life,. Rollin’!

Episode #218: All Through The Years     (Song starts at 4:05)

I’m really enjoying recording these episodes (obviously I wouldn’t be doing it if I wasn’t). It’s my online weekly gig.

The song ‘All Through The Years’ ( #541) was written in 2007. To be honest I haven’t thought about it too much through the years. Ha..so many songs, you get busy. Keep composing. So it’s been sitting in my purple book til now. Handwritten  in my handwriting – a code most people wouldn’t be able to decipher. Until now.

Anyway, I’ve given this song a bit of a run through occasionally perhaps. I never felt comfortable with the chorus for some reason. Thought it too simple in terms of the small amount of different chords used. Now I  can see that that might actually be a strength.

Tonight – and it is tonight, here in Melbourne, I set up a gentle tempo with a click track and just played and sang it through, winging parts here and there, imagining other instruments carrying sections.

The outcome is: I’m pleased I’ve rediscovered ‘All Through The Years’. And I’m glad I chose to record an episode about it.

The song started as a ‘words first’ effort. One of my children had a bad dream, so I got up to settle her, calm her down.

It’s a special time when you go back in the room as a parent, just to make sure they’ve gone to sleep again, taking care not to boot a child’s toy on the ground in the dark, you creep in watch for a moment in the moonlight, see their peaceful face as they softly breathe. You might whisper an ‘I love you / Goodnight’ and retrace your steps back out the door.

On this occasion, I didn’t go straight back to bed. I went into the lounge, picked up and pen and paper and wrote the words. Then I went to bed (jumping on the piano at 2am wouldn’t have made me overly popular with anyone in our household).

6 months later, I found the lyrics, found the same mood (important) and just played through a few chords. The music seems to match the lyrics and a melody  came to me as I floated my voice over the top and away I went.

It’s a magic feeling – still magic after all these years…Paul Dredge and I have just released another folkrock album, by the way. Streaming on the the usual services. River Walking.

I bring it up because it’s an example of songs taken to the next stage. Arranged and recorded. So much fun.

I’d like to do something with All Through The Years, now that I’ve finally recorded a demo ( didn’t take me long: 20 odd years after the song was composed. Oh well).

I also mention my blog www.petepascoe.wordpress.com you can read the lyrics there and check out more of my music and art each week, including some writing about the first song on the River Walking album, Waiting.

I hope you enjoy hearing a little bit about how this song came together, as I sit and demonstrate parts on the piano singing away in between the chat,

Ok here we go. All through the years, ‘Rollin!’’.

Episode #217: Sunset Swim (Song starts at 5:27)

Going back to March 1997, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I had just arrived from New Zealand to settle into the big city of Melbourne, Australia.

This was the first song I wrote since we’d left NZ.

As the title suggests, this song is inspired by a sunset we experienced in an incredibly beautiful place called Sprits Bay, in the far north of New Zealand.

I feel we were so lucky to have stayed there when we did. There  was an old camp (just a couple of cold showers and a toilet), a long long golden beach, no cars, no shops, miles away from any flight paths.

We lived by the tides, catching our dinner from the beach in the morning and then off the rocks in the after noon and evenings.

When you do this for 2 weeks, your brain is somewhere else. You are really lost in nature. imagine it: not going to the shop, not getting petrol, not putting the radio on. Just the sound of the waves day and night.

Anyway, one evening we had a swim in a spectacular sunset, I say ‘in’ the sunset because the ocean was as red as the sky and you couldn’t really tell where the sky finished and sky began. Bliss.

Contrast that, then, with the big city 2 months later: tangled tongues, everyone out to convince someone else they need to buy something, do something, experience this, that – the trams, the cars…yes, it was somewhat of a shock.

When the day came we finally had found somewhere to live, got jobs (which all happened on the same day , after a few weeks). We had $10 left to our names after we’d paid the bond. We had a a couple of pots and pans, some crockery, a mattress – all very romantic and somewhat intense.

So the first time I had a couple of hours to myself, with my keyboard set up, I pulled out the words I’d written and decided to to write a song,

And what I wrote was a rocking sort of an up pop song.

Because I’d come ‘across the ditch’, as they say, from NZ, to start all over again: find a new band and see where it would take us.

I was determined to create the band, asap. At 30, I felt like my was racing by, to a degree. Here we are in 2024, and I’m still a driven artist, songwriter, musician and painter.

This podcast is part of the big picture, the backstory to some songs. If you will. It’s been such good fun exploring the songwriting process by looking at how my songs were composed, what inspired them.

But more than that it’s been fantastic to hear back from listeners that my podcast and blog has inspired them to get creative (again) , getting into songwriting and recording, etc.

Each week it’s my ‘online gig’. Thanks for tuning in for this episode. It’s such good fun to produce these episodes. I fly by the seat of my pants, there is no script. It’s creative, energised, relaxed …I’m basically entertaining, I guess. That’s what I do.

Ok here we go. Join us in the great outdoors….and the in the studio. Great to be in nature and it’s great to be in the studio writing songs about it. Sunset swim….rolling!

Here’s where you can find the lyrics www.petepascoe.wordpress.com  (search for Sunset Swim).There’s links to lots of my music and art here. Enjoy.

Episode #216: Autumn Evenings (Song starts at 5:33)

It was a pleasure to rediscover song #261, Autumn Evenings for this episode. I wrote it in 1993.

Here we are now, in 2023 – I’ve written about 800 songs now.

At the market this week, people were asking me how on earth I managed to do this (not to mention the 1000s of cartoons & hundreds of seascapes).

I’ve found having a peaceful space it really helps me to create. I make sure I’m in the mood before I even pick up the brush, the pen, or let my hands near the keys of the piano.

Because emotion gives you the push, the momentum and focus – in fact, almost everything you need.

The other thing you need is to have some sort of art ‘down’. For me I can let my fingers just play on the keys of my piano and they seem to find endless combinations of notes that really appeal to me.

The opening chords of autumn evenings are emotive to me. They take me right back to the day I wrote the lyrics for this one. I was sitting in my old van, having taken a drive to see the view over Lake Taupo, NZ (quite incredible: a vast inland lake with the volcanic back drop of 3 huge mountains).

Beautiful. And the power of the beauty of your surroundings has a big say on what we create in our lives.

So I choose to lead a peaceful life. It’s a life of some solitude…more than I thought might have been the case.

You can’t pick the future, I never dreamt I’d become a seascape painter, for instance.

Back in 1993, I was a piano man, spending some time by myself. Sitting in the van, I let my thoughts drift back to the sunset of the evening before. And then, looking south, beyond the mountains, in my mind, to a person, well, ok,  a love interest, who was never to far from my thoughts. She popped into my mind and that gave me the idea to bring her into the song about the sunset of the previous evening

And with just a few lines, it all came together. The idea of somehow sharing watching the sunset, although we were in two different parts of the country…in a sense we’d be together.

Ha-  the desperate sensitive mind of the artist, eh. Oh well, you sort of let it out now and then… actually there’s not too much of it ( ‘it’ being overly romantic mush) in the song.. for that reason, I think it works well.

Singing and playing the song for this episode was fun (I’ve no idea when the last time I played it was – years ago). Flying by the seat of my pants, I made a couple of changes in the moment.

This is an example of what I get up to, when I’m in the mood: I get into ‘performance mode’ and sing and play one song after the other. And as I go along, I make little changes. Changes I wouldn’t have been  able to make if I wasn’t in the performance mode. Because those changes might not make artistic sense – and it’s all about the art.

Ok..I hope you enjoy this half hour chat as I sit at the piano  – and the song, of course, too. I’ll also take you to the arts market on this episode (some audio I recorded at my stall).

I’ve written another 9 songs this week. It’s so nice when they come tumbling out.

Plenty on my blog  including the lyrics of this song and this weeks painting, go here: www.petepascoe.Wordpress.com. and search for autumn evenings.

Enjoy.

Episode #215: Righto (Song starts at 4:10)

It struck me tonight as I recorded this episode, how grateful I am to be doing this. It is such a buzz, letting the song lead the way as I look at the creative process of how a song comes together.

Ok Righto, song #262 was written in 1993. The recording you’ll hear on this episode became the title track for the album Righto. You can find it here www.petepascoe.bandcamp.com

We wrote it in a beautiful place called the Bay of Islands – we being Paul Dredge and myself. We had a van, we were on the road, on holiday – and we were making some music, as usual. Paul had an old ovation guitar. It had a broken neck from memory. Someone had glued back together. He picked up for next to nothing so it became his ‘on the road’ knock about instrument.

I’d written the words first. There’s a very up sort of vibe about this song. Before I’d finished saying to Paul “I have in mind, a some sort of Dave Dobbyn ish ‘up’ song”, away he went, strumming away with serious energy on his guitar. Going with moment – when energy flows like this, you go with it – I opened my mouth an winged the melody.

And very quickly we had another new song.

Being Grateful became a bit of theme on this episode.

I’m extremely for grateful for the longevity of the song writing relationship and friendship I have with Paul dredge. We are putting the finishing touches to our next album right now, in 2024. Righto was written 30 odd years ago. That amazes me.

What amazes me about this demo is the very up, fresh energy. Much like the country I wrote the lyrics about : New Zealand. The lyrics are a series of observations about what made the country I was born and raised in a great place to be.

This song is not a piano vocal ballad. It wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Paul. But then it wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t sung it …or written the lyrics in the first place.

So we’ve carried on writing songs and recording them together after all these years. It’s something we both love. Arranging songs is such fun. And we mage it, even though we are in different countries.

Righto is an interesting one. You wouldn’t put much piano on it. So in the studio, I played sparsely, the odd sort of a piano lick, around Paul’s harmonica and a few chords in the choruses.

So it’s good to be aware of what to leave out. It’s the same with sing writing: often, less is more. This song doesn’t have a bridge. It didn’t need one. It would have just got in the way of the straight forward presentation.

Ok , hope you enjoy hearing about how Righto came together.

Very grateful to have you reading this, and having a listen . Enjoy.

You can find the lyrics here www.petepascoe.wordpress.com search for righto.

Pete

Episode #214:  Trust To Receive.   (Song starts at 7:12)

Hi there &  welcome to another episode. Here we are, looking at another song again, in a ‘songwriter speaks’ style  – inclusive, casual fun, entertaining.… this time it’s Trust To Receive, song #105. Composed in 1989!

Again this week, this song popped into my mind. I knew it was in the ‘green book’ (my 1st old book of handwritten songs)…as an experiment, I held the book upside down and back to front, flicked the pages once – and it opened, sure enough – on Trust To Receive. Amazing, to me. Go figure. I take it as a ‘nod that I’m heading in the right direction’ when this sort of coincidence happens.

Then I opened the cupboard, dug up the cassette (which I knew the song was on, in this case). And it was all but teed up – just the end of a nice song by my co-songwriting buddy, Paul Dredge, to listen to (I’m loving producing this podcast. I’m rediscovering more music each week).   The cassette was a recording of an album Paul and I wrote and recorded way back in the the early 1990s.

And here I am, in 2024, finishing our 6th ‘proper’ album which will be steaming shortly.

Determination would be the key.

The demo you’ll hear was recorded on a 4 track machine. It’s fair to say I was really just finding my way as a song writer, with 105 songs under my belt.

There’s something about Trust To Receive that I really like. It’s different. Sort of a reggae influenced song – unusual for a pianist to write this sort of song, but immediately you can hear I was hearing in my head more than just the piano and voice, as I wrote this one.

The whole band arrangement came along as I wrote the music to the lyrics for the first verse.

From there, it really is about following the feeling, the story, if you like.

Each musical phrase is related to the preceding and the one that follows.

Just like each line of the lyrics.

I can’t tell you where this snap shot of series of images came from: ‘silent stare, a motionless vigil.’… a dream? Set against a cold city, a feminine character emerges. Obviously having been through some trials, the narrator sees beauty, sees fragility but also senses underlying strength ..potential. Trust is required for love to be received and that’s the message of the song. I would say for the both the character in the song – and the narrator (and of course the listener).

It was fun to listen back to this old demo. What would I go back and do differently? …well, pretty much everything. But it remains a document of it’s day. It captured a feeling, a groove, with the gear I had. And if I hadn’t recorded that, the song would’ve disappeared.

I’m glad I recorded it and I’m glad I thought to feature it this week.

I hope you enjoy hearing a bit about how Trust To Receive came together,

On this episode I’ll also take you for a walk down to the beach, as I take photos to use for references for a seascape painting which is going to an exhibition this week. I’m busy…..

2 new albums so close to being finished now. I really enjoyed doing some mixing last week (lots to listen to online streaming on the usual platform.

blog: www.petepascoe.wordpress.com

Ok, on with the show…hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording this episode.

‘Trust To Receive, rollin’!…’

Episode #213: Revolving Door  (Song starts at 5:42)

I’d completely forgotten about song #453, from 1999, Revolving Door. Well, it isn’t 1999 now! The years have certainly whizzed by.

The great thing about being a songwriter (or doing any creative activity) is, it gets you ‘in the moment’ – the moment where your sense of self is put a side somehow. You are so focussed on your art, you’ve let go completely. In that moment you’re inspired.

A song becomes a document of a series of moments like this, it’s a magic, slightly altered state to be in, if you will.

That sort of energy seems to come down through the years, listening back to a recording like the demo you’ll hear on this episode, which I recorded in 2000.

It’s only piano vocal, but you’ll feel the energy I was feeling at the time, I was hearing guitars, bass, drums, orchestra, the whole works.

That’s what often happens when I play the piano. An arrangement begins to take shape, right from the beginning of the writing process, for me.

So what’s ‘Revolving Door’ about ? My girlfriend at the time (now my lovely wife),  was a Gemini. The twins is the astrological star sign childlike and playful one minute, measured older, wiser view the next. A certain style of jewellery and clothing one day, the next a total different style. It’s fun, it’s ‘up’ and keeps things interesting.

So this was my initial idea fro writing a song.

And then the lyrics move on to asking a question of the listener …how many people speak through you? Explores the idea that we all change and grow and evolve constantly.

The energy of the lyrics inspired me to cut loose on the piano. The result is a song that’s written to be performed by a full band. It’d would require a few different guitar parts to create the arrangement I hear in my head.

The bridge monetarily becomes reflective but soon explode with a ’thunderstorm of anger’ and then back into the song, which becomes ‘a summer holiday’.

It’s a happy thing to find an old demo like this. This one sounds like a real celebration of love, of life – and it is.

It’s fun to think back to what I was up at the time I wrote it….I was a pianoman, here in Melbourne. We’d recently moved over from New Zealand. There were sacrifices to make. It was hard. It still is, at times. But it’s also a joy.

As a song writer, you’ve got to keep moving on.

On my podcast I encourage listeners to do something creative regularly – or carry on on this path if they’re already underway.

I’m keeping on moving on all these years later, painting and writing songs, blogging podcasting, gigging, doing markets (where I sell my art), working on sheet music and video courses behind the scenes – and 5 new albums.

So plenty happening, I’ve put a lot of my art and music online you can find it via my blog ( lots of links here on 200 odd posts, which you can browse through, it’ll take you to al sorts of platforms to listen to musicians and view my art) www.petepascoe.wordpress.com

Enjoy.

Episode #212: New World Dawning  (Song starts at 6:22)

I really enjoyed writing song #207, New World Dawning, back in 1992.

The lines ‘I never thought I’d cry tears You can buy at the chemist’ Were never going to shake the foundations of anyone’s world, but that was my opening gambit (I was talking about the saline solution I used with my contact lenses). Undeterred, I carried on.

The words came and they lead on to an expansive sort of a world view. A world that felt like it was yet to exist: a world of golden opportunities, communication and love – that’s one description of this world. Perhaps that was an artists vision. I was inspired at the time and I still am today.

You are what you listen to, what you eat, etc. I see at the top of my page in the songbook, there’s a wee sentence scrawled…’it’s amazing what a Crowded House video can do’, so thank you Neil Finn, and the guys, you really inspired me.

The demo was recorded in 1996. I remember the afternoon. It was a spur of the moment decision to record one of my piano vocal sessions. What I did  – and still do – is this: I flick open my songbooks (all handwritten, the 800) ..and I find myself in a very free performance mode.

I play random songs one after the other, and I keep my ears open for new hooks, harmonies, and lines, as I sing and play. I make mental notes and sometimes quickly note a key line.or new melody to sing for a line.

I think as songwriter, you need to be open to editing and rewriting again and again. A song isn’t cast in stone – even when it’s recorded you can always record a new version.

So New World comes from an honest place, I think. After walking home from the piano bar, in the early hours of the morning, back in 1992, I opened the door at home. I was living in a converted garage. A single room abode, I gratefully climbed into my waterbed, enjoying the warmth.And I picked up my pen (my habit, my ritual) and began writing.

And I’m pleased I did. What made me write all these songs ? ( and there’s also stacks of unused pages of lyrics and poems somewhere around here) Passion. I loved it. And I still do. That’s why I still write.

In my studio tonight when I went to record a podcast episode, New World Dawning came to mind. I put my hand in a box of cassettes of random recordings and put the cassette I pulled out on the tape deck. And there it was, all cued up ready to roll.

That amazes me. Because it’s not the first time it’s happened for these episodes.

I take note of these things. I find coincidences like this all very mystical and reassuring. I do operate on another planet a lot. It’s who I am – I’m an out and out artist. Perhaps this is the new world dawning…the time of the arts…

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this demo – and and the chat about how the song came to be. I enjoyed recording the episode, as always.

If you want to hear more , you can stream lots of my music on the usual platforms (eg Spotify)

I have a music website: www.petepascoe.bandcamp.com (You can my hear my music; with Paul Dredge; and with the Patient Hum band). Folk rock, rock , solo piano and singer songwriter. I love the variety.

On that note you’ll see on my blog I’m also a cartoonist and seascape painter. I’m working on tuition videos to present everything I’ve learned and am still learning. See www.petepascoe.wordpress.com

If you’d like to get onboard on my email list, I’d love that (via www.petepascoe.com)

I’m into sharing creative uplifting art and music. And I encourage others to get creative.

Here we go. A new world dawning…rolling!