"I chose both of these to play solo first just to see how they would sound with no one to help prop me up. I also wanted to play straight into the amp with no effects to keep it bare, stripped-down... kind of like the terrain here. To me, 'Cold Open' is a desert song. Even if we don't hear any obvious Morricone-isms. That's how I hear it. 'Big Fish' is the opposi
