Strange World

Well, where to begin...? Today I sat in on some recording with my buddy Benjamin Folke Thomas who was recording some backing tracks over at a fella called Tony Harris' who was one of the engineers on REM's Fables of the Reconstruction album in the 80's. I've always been a big fan of REM, the song Driver 8 from that album being possibly my favourite REM song of all time. A song I've always had trouble playing on the guitar all because of a weird D chord that guitarist Peter buck plays which I have never managed to get right somehow. Now get this..., Tony Harris lent Peter Buck his guitar for that track on the original recordings and today got it out of it's case and passed it my way. I told him I knew the song and when I started playing the intro I could feel that it must be the real deal because when I reached the chord I had always had trouble with it sounded perfect. After playing the song and being congratulated by Tony I got quite emotional that the universe had provided me with the gift of this bit of wood with strings on that had by a small miracle somehow come my way. Man, the world is strange...!