When The XCerts were getting a bit of a groove going, we had some nice little tunes.

The XCerts were Zero Summers (Kev, my late brother), Dave Pepper (Rhythm/Lead guitar) and myself, Gray Summers (Bass guitar).

For a while now, I have been thinking that it may be nice to reimagine a few more of my old songs. Maybe four or five.

‘She Said’, here the song below, was a quick recording stint this morning as a bit of fun really. It was nice to totally reinvent this one and put a gentle beat and calmer groove to it. I haven’t put my Bass guitar tune onto it. So I just played acoustic guitar over a GarageBand percussion beat from their library. And then added little one note layered keyboard melodies. As said, no Bass guitar, because my original Bass lines wouldn’t suit or fit this style. It may be nice to do this one in full at some point. There are more verses and a middle 8 on the original one.

I kinda like the discordant instrumental randomness of this song. It marries to the situation. Feeling unsure regarding the situation.

UPDATE EDIT.

I added this below from how I described the song on another platform.

She Said.

A totally different, discordant and reimagined version of an old XCerts song from 1979 ….. or thereabouts. I wanted a confusion of sound. Melodies trying to make sense of each other. Like human relationships. Sat for a couple of hours today and did this as an old guy’s nod to his youth. That is a mess of interactive thoughts. So changed the vibe totally to suit the comparison of both the youthful and the more ancient current me.

All instruments and vocals played and sung by Gray Summers. The percussive beat is from the GarageBand library.

‘She said’ by Summers and Pepper.

The XCerts were Zero Summers, Gray Summers and Dave Pepper.

It was nice to find my old 1970s blue songbook of the songs written back then. When you get old, you know where you put things, until five minutes after putting those things ‘There’. Then they become elusive butterflies of love.

Anyways. The, now found again, blue songbook states:

Words: Gray Summers. Music: Summers/Pepper/Summers.

So Kev actually contributed too. Well, to be honest, he contributed with his own songs and unique drumming in reality.

I do have a cassette of Kev’s songs after the XCerts split. I have been thinking over the last fair few years that I should really truly listen to them thoroughly. I have been scared of both the fact that it is fragile cassette format. But more importantly, listening to his voice again. If I bite the bullet? Then I can see what songs there are that can be reimagined. Maybe I can tap into his ideas and produce a new vision.

Cheers Xx

As an observation. It seems better to tap the ‘Watch on YouTube’ option on the screen below. Better quality.

Thank you.