just screaming over it. It was all kind of like a concept before I did it and then after I heard it it really fulfilled me. I thought, ?This is gonna open the record because there?s nothing like it and it?s glorious.? That?s a perfect description for the song: glorious. A part of me?an old part of me?would say, ?You can?t open the record with this, man. This is way too esoteric. People want to hear like a rockin? guitar solo.? I said, ?Fuck that shit, man. I?m too old for that shit. Play what the fuck you want.? So that?s how I opened it and it?s a very idiosyncratic piece to my inner ear. I?m really glad you responded to that. ?Velorum? has a bit of a rock feel going on in that riff and there are acoustics on this one? All sorts of different stringed instruments. I do that a lot and have a tendency to overproduce. I always use the sitar and I?ve used it on every record. I have a 12-string guitar on there; a cavaquinho; ouds; a saz; and I?m not sure if I used a mandolin on that one. Another one that has a lot of little acoustic things coming in here and there is ?No More Amsterdam,? the track I did with Aimee Mann. ?Velorum? is a pretty adventurous track. ?Velorum? has a lot of compositional things in it where I would stack some chords a certain way. Where did that love for