The Free and the Brave

There's a better quality version of this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAXG-lBvmzo&eurl=http://www.mudvillegazett...

This is a very rough cut of a song I wrote during my second tour of duty in Iraq, as part of the "surge" operation in the summer of 2007. I had no guitar or recording equipment on hand over there and this had to remain "in my head" for months until I returned home. I believe I've managed to transfer that music of the mind into digital reality without losing any of the original...

But this is still a rough draft - a basic and incomplete cut. Each part was recorded in one take, (including the lead solo which was improvised on the spot) and the result is something that exists only because I wanted to turn an idea into a reality that I could build on. (On the other hand, my time is such that this may be all it ever is...)

FWIW: I first used the phrase "They're making noise, we're making history" a few years ago as a comment to a fellow milblogger who was taking a tremendous amount of crap in his comments section on one of his posts from Iraq. It was my way of saying "don't worry about these REMFs - it's a hell of a lot easier to write from the comfort of their living rooms than it is in a tent. One of your words is worth about a thousand of theirs."

More here: http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/009870.html

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Rockin' Video!  Thanks for sharing.