Bethany and Blackbeard part 2

"Play 'Black Beard falls in Love'." Lindsay says to me whenever I have an acoustic guitar on my lap near her.
"No, it's not finished." Besides that, I don't like playing new songs to anyone. Secretly, I'm glad that people I'm close with push me to play my music.

I guess one of the things I try to accomplish in this blog is to recognize change especially in the medium of music. I have always been fascinated by a pattern of process when it comes to art and specifically music. Not necessarily music, but any art project, how does it work? How does it happen? Then why was it left to die at a thrift store or on the side of the road or timelessly live on? Why do some recognize a peice as their favorite when others will never have the oppurtunity to see it or hear it?
Say for example the process begins with an idea, then the idea materializes from the mind to a physical projection, then it becomes recorded by a brush stroke or to a tape, then finished, mastered, pressed, whatever. After that, who is to say? It may wither and die in one or a few minds, or it may serve as further inspiration to millions. The process of change is so amazing, and it is that focus that I am experimenting with in this blog, for my personal insight.
I talked about "Bethany" and "Black Beard Falls in Love" in my previous blog. I tried to show the way this song developed from a romantic thought about Black Beard's Flag, a work of art in it's own right, and how that made me feel. In the future of this blog, I'll shy away from my personal experience of change, fruition of art, and go beyond my own thoughts to try and understand more. But for now, I would like to include a couple of clips from the very earliest stages of this song when it had no lyrics or real structure, and how it evolved into a song I'm very proud to be a part of. I would like to dedicate all of my material and inspiration to that what can't be named, the sacred Tao, the force, or the universe, or whatever that I am fortunate enough to tap into with my limited talents and abilities. May the information that it provides me with reach others for their own sake of interpretaion.

Anyway here is a clip of when the song was a Rocktopus song called "Black Beard Falls in Love"
and
Here is a clip of what it became to be known as "Bethany"
Sorry about the ad bullshit, I'll get that figured out too.