Two New MG Live Music Videos

After a year of apologizing to people for not having recent examples of my music online, I can finally take a break.  Here are two videos from my 13 March 2008 show at The Laughing Goat Café in Boulder, Colorado.  One is of a pretty little song about ego death, and the other is of an instrumental ode to the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.  Hopefully, if I am doing my job, watching these videos will expand your mind a little bit.

Regarding the former, I had this to say (during a concert at the Hive Gallery in Los Angeles):

"It has a lot to do with Joseph Campbell and mythology, and how we look up at the sky and we see patterns, and we give them an identity.  We see a cluster of stars and we call it 'Orion,' or 'Scorpio,' and we invest our meaning - and in some sense, our world - in these patterns.  And if we were to shift just a tiny bit, those patterns would change, and they would cease to have the meaning that we had ascribed them.  And I saw a picture online the other day that showed, side by side, an image of a neuron - a single neuron - and an image of a map of the entire universe.  And it looked exactly the same."

"And so, to the degree that we are the inside of a cluster of neurons, discharging electrical impulses like so many stars in a constellation, our sense of self is contingent on us holding one particular angle on it, and if we move just a little bit, then we change that self, and we change the meaning.  So that's what this is about."

Now that you've been primed, I hope you enjoy "All That's Left Is Stars," my sweet little melodious deconstruction of our astrological psyches:


The latter song, "Spokes," is - in the tradition of my other instrumental pieces - a double entendre.  I explain its dual meaning in the first part of this video (if you want to skip ahead to the shredding, it starts at 1:11):


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