Happy Thanksgiving! (November 2018 "SOMETHING NEW") - "Moonboat"

This little diddy is something that I started writing way back in the day, when I was probably about 14 or 15 years old. I wrote it immediately after learning a song from one of my favorite video games, The Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past (very little has changed). I called it "Moonboat" after seeing a crescent moon that looked like a boat in the sky. And then I pretty much forgot about it.

This past year, while working on songs for our next album, I stumbled upon those chords again. Something about it made me want to try and elaborate on it. So I busted out my old 1998 Yamaha PSR-195 Portable Keyboard (that I insist on continuing to use) and added some new melodies and ideas for instruments. I showed it to the rest of the band. They liked it, but then it just sort of fell to the way side.


Then a month or two ago, Joe Dorsey shared this recording with me. He had learned the song note for note and re-recorded it with much better quality keyboards. He was like, "Here you go, I did this. No big deal." (That's the kind of awesome dude Joe is.) We messed around with it for a while and tried to find a way to include it in our next album, but we just haven't found a way to make it work. 

However, at the last minute, we decided to use this song as our "intro music" for the most recent show that we played, a Halloween show at Mexicali in NJ last month. We played our set while wearing a strange mismatched group of costumes: Dan Monda was dressed as Marty McFly, Pat was Doc Brown, Joe was Indiana Jones, Jamie was dressed in full lederhosen, and I was Link from the original Legend of Zelda. And as usual, everything in my life comes full circle back around to Zelda.

I hope you enjoy this whimsical piece of music, and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you beautiful people! We're so grateful your support. We love ya's!