Our other guitarist (Chris Eldridge) came up with the initial riff and he and I built upon it from there. I play the higher chord inversions heard on the right as he plays the chunkier power chords on the left. Being a 50/50 team we usually split the solos and sometimes the random fill licks as well. The first random fill you hear is mine--a little nod to Eddie, yes, but bluesy.

The first solo heard is Chris' and then mine takes over half-way through. It's a typical jaunt around the "box" (Ab minor pentatonic), but unlike many of my past solos of similar generic structure I tried to keep it flowing throughout and throw a little chicken pickin' in to keep it fun. The "big noise" (feedback) at the end was a result of Chris having to redo his outro tracks due to Pro Tools *losing* those tracks during a bad backup (or faulty restore--not sure exactly). [The moral: No hard drive recording system is "Perfect".] He overdubbed it twice, and when we listened to both together with my feedback it just sounded so awesome and dissonant--we had to keep it!