Painfully Clueless

Robert James

Okay, am I the only person who thinks it’s delightfully goofy to play a 12-bar blues in 7/8 time? I think I might be. I keep doing it and I just giggle all the way through. This one isn’t that good of an example as I was mentally done with it about five minutes after writing it. Sorry about that. 50/90 means no dropping songs, but if this were an actual album writing project I would have dumped this one before the recording was even close to finished.

Still…. it’s a 12-bar blues in 7/8 time. How can you not love that??

All of the guitar parts are a Gibson ES-335 through both a Vox AC15 and a Fender Bassbreaker 15 (playing through two amps at once is the dictionary definition of bliss. Go on, look it up). The rhythm part used a Klon KTR and a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter (both with the gain set to zero). The lead was the same with the gain on the BLM set considerably higher, and there’s a Dunlop Crybaby wah in there at the end too.

Chorus
The time has come to take care of it all
the only way is to brace for the fall
x2
Its just the way its happening
you never knew you could feel quite this small

Verse 1
You’re such a loser
such an abuser
x2
so useless
so miserable
a strung out user

Verse 2
completely hopeless
endlessly useless
x2
no meaning
no benefit
painfully clueless