{"id":1163,"date":"2025-11-26T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?page_id=1163"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:52:27","slug":"here-i-am-chase-willett-wrote-this-one","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/here-i-am-chase-willett-wrote-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Here I Am (Chase Willett wrote this one)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I put this one on here as a tribute to my friend Chase Willett&#8230;he wrote the song, it&#8217;s him on acoustic guitar and lead vocals, me on electric guitars, and the oft-mentioned Jon Kretzer on drums. He&#8217;s not dead or anything, he just moved away (he went back to Ohio) and I miss him. We recorded almost all of this at his former house in Orange Park (he had a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigskystudios.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro studio<\/a>\u00a0there). The final mix I got from him was missing my bass tracks (they were on another ADAT that had been erased &#8211; oops!), so I added some using Vegas. It&#8217;s a really fun song to play&#8230;and Jon and I played the riffs from it sometimes at Slaphappy shows for fun. This is Chase&#8217;s song, basically. I&#8217;m just playing the parts as he told me to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the real reason I included it was the psychedelic freakazoid guitar solos that I played on it (composed on the fly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/hereiam.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put this one on here as a tribute to my friend Chase Willett&#8230;he wrote the song, it&#8217;s him on acoustic guitar and lead vocals, me on electric guitars, and the oft-mentioned Jon Kretzer on drums. He&#8217;s not dead or anything, he just moved away (he went back to Ohio) and I miss him. We recorded almost all of this at his former house in Orange Park (he had a\u00a0pro studio\u00a0there). The final mix I got from him was missing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/here-i-am-chase-willett-wrote-this-one\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}