the todd harrison rock archive tracing dunlop june 1998 prelude and breakdown one fell swoop pipers caress the wakening andrew for believing in me strange kind of freedom me: acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, keyboards, loops, noiz, percussion this is a concept album i composed as my independent study project for a writer's craft course in my last year of high school. it's about a kid who takes acid because he wants to write cool songs and be a guitar god like his classic rock heroes. one weekend, with his parents out of town and his girlfriend mad at him for obsessing over drugs, he drops a shitload of tabs, hits record on his tape deck and starts playing. he climbs up on top of his dresser to attempt an axe-slinger super-jump, but instead he falls to the floor and breaks his neck. when he regains consciousness, he realizes that he's badly hurt and is going to die. then he notices that his tape deck is infinitely stuck in some sort of playback loop. as he listens over and over to the sound of him playing guitar and then falling to his doom, he starts to hallucinate and, simultaneously, finds that those great songs he longed to write are finally gelling in his head. he dies happy. only about five copies of this album exist, but a few of the songs were pillaged for subsequent recordings. top :: home