Category: Something different....a ballad called Gone Is Innocence.

<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">DrC - Songwriting, all those fabulous keys, drums programing, and arrangement.<br />Gary Carciello - Terrific electric guitar harmonics and solo.<br />Rob Grant - Excellent Bass guitar and not "A" typical for a ballad.<br />Farrell Jackson - Song lyric and melody, acoustic guitar, and all vocals.<br /><br />This is something different from us. It may be&nbsp;a mellow ballad&nbsp;but still very much rock and it harbors some fine musical performances. <br /><br />When DrC first presented this song idea and chord structure to me, it was beautiful and I fell in love with the sound,&nbsp;so&nbsp;I jumped at the opportunity to be involved! <br />I always find&nbsp;collaborations with GCDC&amp;J interesting&nbsp;by the way they build and how the final version&nbsp;always surprises.&nbsp;DrC is the man!&nbsp;He makes it transition from&nbsp;the idea stage into a full blown song.&nbsp;<br /><br />The lyric is about how.....as life progresses and becomes more complicated,&nbsp;the innocence of things like&nbsp;first loves, new&nbsp;experiences, and the little pleasures of life&nbsp;tend to be lost, diminished,&nbsp;or over shadowed by all the bad in the world today. And, it becomes more and more difficult to identify the small&nbsp;things that keep us sane as human beings with the media constantly exploiting the ugly. Thus the feeling of.......Gone Is Innocence.<br /><br />As always, it's a pleasure working with these fine,&nbsp; creative musicians, who are at the top of their game and&nbsp; I'm honored to be included in their collabs!<br /><br />BTW, if anyone is wondering what that beautiful and haunting flute sound in&nbsp;the beginning is.....it's a Japanese flute type instrument called a Shakuhachi. I only know because DrC informed me. When he first suggested it, I thought&nbsp;he was talking about&nbsp;a sushi dish, lol!&nbsp;<br /><br />I hope you enjoy the song!&nbsp;<br /><br />Farrell Jackson</span></p>