Channel: Jon Gomm

Category: Music

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Description: Pay What You Want single and album pre-order available exclusively here: jongomm.com/music Guitar Tab available here: jongomm.com/guitar-tabs This is the second of nine new videos from the Live In The Acoustic Asylum sessions. This song is an angry metaphor about Western anti-terror propaganda, with a president or prime minister represented as a Wild West snake oil salesman, striking fear into the hearts of the townspeople with tales of scary invaders, and using that as an excuse to send The Weather Machine to far-flung poverty stricken regions in the East. SPOILER ALERT: The Machine is supposed to bring rain to the desert to transform it into a Western paradise, but instead it rains down fire and destruction. Musically it's a metal-heavy Arabic-influenced onslaught. It might offend the sensibilities of some of my acoustic purist fans (sorry folks), but to me being a songwriter is sometimes about more than painting pretty pictures. CREDITS: I played the song on Wilma, my trusty Lowden guitar, fitted with Newtone Jon Gomm signature strings and Bill Keith banjo tuners, and tuned to CGCEGC. The sound is coming primarily from a Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup. My vocal mic is a Sontronics STC-80. I used various effects pedals, mostly Boss. Video filmed by Owen Plummer and Danielle Millea, directed and edited by Owen Plummer. Audio engineered and produced by Ed Heaton (The Coal Room, Leeds) and Jon Gomm. Mastered by Tom at Hippocratic Mastering. LYRICS: Well it’s high noon at the Last Chance Saloon Second home to racketeers Where magic man sells his masterplan He’s a global pioneer He says “Villains roam towards our homes And they’ll burn away the clouds, But my new invention, my weather engine Is already eastward bound” Terraform the desert into paradise With our weather machine We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice With our weather machine So the giant device spewing liquid ice Is flown to foreign lands Where the locals curse their forever thirst And the neverending sands But the rain falls hot with a kill-o-watt Of the magic man’s bloodlust And funny little rivers form Black ribbons in the dust Terraform the desert into paradise With our weather machine We’ll perform the necessary sacrifice With our weather machine Spinning words at the hungry herds He’s twisting a new truth It’s the magic man and his faithful gang Dreaming of eternal youth He says “Villains roam towards our homes And they’ll burn away the clouds But worry not cos I wrote the plot And I know how it turns out” ____________________________________________ Here's all the awesome gear I use to create music. If you wanna buy any of it, if you use the links below then I get a small commission: The new Ibanez JGM10 guitar - Pre-order UK / EU: bit.ly/JGM10UK Pre-order USA: anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14436046 Blackstar Sonnet 60 acoustic amplifier USA: anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450953 UK / EU: bit.ly/SonnetJG Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system USA: jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450955 UK / EU: bit.ly/REBLendJG Boss OC-5 octave pedal (for sub-bass) USA: anrdoezrs.net/click-100195279-14450957 UK / EU: bit.ly/OctaveJG Zoom MS70CDR Multistomp effects pedal (for special reverbs and delays) USA: jdoqocy.com/click-100195279-14450958 UK / EU: bit.ly/MS70CDRJG Newtone Jon Gomm signature guitar strings bit.ly/StringsJG Sontronics SOLO vocal mic bit.ly/SoloMicJG TC-Helicon Voicelive 3 guitar & vocal multi-effects pedal bit.ly/VoiceliveJG MOTU Ultralite AVB mixer/interface bit.ly/MotuJG