I didn't know there was a genre called math rock!
Steve Bartek and I have been toying with odd times since we first started playing and writing together.
I guess Take Five is math rock.
Steve was a math major but mostly a musical wizard and he could make sense of anything I would come up with.
I had written this song once that seemed normal to me then he counted it out and realized it was in 13/8. I had no idea.
He used to goof around with surf instrumentals. We did Pipeline in 7/4.
He also wrote a song in 1968 called Crazy People where the chorus was in 7/4 but the rest of it was in 4/4. I came up with an outdo to it that (as it turned out) was in 5/4.
In about 1974 I wrote a song called Tom Thumb where the guitar solo was in 9/4. I had no idea, I just liked the way it sounded.
Back around 1980 I came up with a version of Day Tripper in 11/8. Robby Krueger made me show it to him while we were on tour together in Alaska.
SAC still plays that one.
One old SAC song from the second album, Curse of the Witches has a 5/4 section and a 3/4 section while most of the song was in 4/4.
One recent instrumental that SAC does called Persian Skies is in 11/8 and part of it is 6/8 over 4/4.
Anyway, we've been messing with time signatures from the beginning. Sometimes overtly and sometimes unwittingly, but it's one of my favorite things to do.
Get on YouTube and search "Math Rock".I'd be interested in knowing your opinions on the genre and whether you'd ever consider writing and recording in this manner.............
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