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The Mist - origin story

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • May 21, 2024
  • 1 min read

This wasn't written for the show. This is actually a song about my feelings for Chloe. What happened was that I was waiting for my friend to show up with my weed, and I was pining for Chloe. Then, for some reason, I started jamming out Forever Tuesday Morning by the Mockers with an online chord chart. I made a recording of that (I think it's the version on my album), but my fingers were still noodling, and suddenly I was doing the vamp that opens The Mist. I doodled some lines, riffing on my real life, and then I went to Central Park to meet him. Waiting around, the tune for the release came into my head, and then I had a smoke and did my usual walk around the park. By the time that I got home, the song was mostly finished and those early demos are mostly the same thing as the version that was finally aired on Facebook. - Btw, I'm continuing to look at old movies. I'm going to watch all the BLERTA films that they made for TV in the mid-1970's. Hi Brooke - that's the Ngā Taonga archivist who's digging up the material.

 
 
 

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