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[18] Cool vs Cool
About [18] Cool vs Cool
Copyright 2015
Newly Re-recorded April 2022
Written and Performed by Monty Dicksion
As I’ve stated above and in the Cool vs Cool video, this song/video is copyright 2015. That’s because it was in 2015 that I made a video recording of this song and then published it online. But the origination of Cool vs Cool dates back easily 35 years earlier than that.
I made up the rhythm guitar part and the lead guitar part around 1979 or 1980. At that time, the song did not have lyrics or a title. I made it up as a way to play around with Major 7th chords – E7, B7, A7, G7, D7, C7. They’re just basic, open chords.
It’s very easy to play. And, in the house where I was living in Oceanside, California, I figured it was a good one to show to a couple of my friends who had come over to jam. One of them specialized in playing leads, and he was really very good at it. I had already made up my lead part for the song, but, after all, the day was just a friendly jam session among friends. I showed him the chords and I suggested he come up with a lead for this song. He said, “It can’t be done.”
The lead I gave it is a little unconventional, played entirely at the very bottom of the lowest 3 strings.
Fast-forward now to 1992. Along with my wife, Lynn, we made a recording of this song with my 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder, when we were living at Canyon Lake, Texas. This is when I came up with the title and the lyrics. The inspiration for both came from a day that we had on the River Walk down in San Antonio, Texas. The lyrics describe an experience that really happened.
Well, the recording wasn’t very good and I never did anything with it. Soon afterward, we decided to get real jobs and we completely stopped playing music.
By and by, in November 2012, Lynn died of breast cancer. In the aftermath of that, I had a tough time getting my bearings back and putting my life back together again. And so I tried one thing and another thing and another, and eventually, by 2015, I got back to pulling out my guitar again (which also hearkens back to song #17, Roll Away). The recording equipment I had by that time was exceedingly limited and rudimentary. I didn’t even have my 4-channel reel-to-reel anymore. I only had a low-quality laptop which served as recording deck and camera. It was with the 2015 recording that I added the duet guitars during the bridge of the instrumental section.
Actually, at the time, I was pleased with how it turned out. But then again, at that time, my only objective was to save my songs simply for the sake of posterity before I died. But with the launch of my As Live As I Can Make It project in the latter part of 2020, I purchased quite a bit of much better recording equipment. So the song that you hear in this video is exactly as I’ve been playing it since 1980 & 1992, but just a lot better, if I do say so myself. The new gear allows me to bring out the jammin’ spirit of this song that I always knew it had, but was just never before able to express until now.
I hope you like it.