Well, I've been fascinated by the length of some songs. I started collecting them a long time ago. I remember the first one I found was Jethro Tull's "Thick As a Brick" that ran for 45 minutes. At about that same time I composed and recorded a 20-minute song about making a ham sandwich. I still have it. I wrote a companion piece called Bread that was also 20 minutes. And then there are poems I wrote. Some I put to music I composed. One of which was Fred the Typewriter. I started composing a song that dragged the one page long poem to 20 minutes. But then I heard Frank Zappa's "Billy the Mountain" and it changed my whole way of writing music. What if I could make a song like Billy only make it so long it couldn't fit on one CD? For those of you who don't know, the most a CD can hold is 79:56. Neil Yong and Crazy Horse just last year made an album so epic it was split into two CDs, but only 87 minutes. What if all that was one really long song? So I've begun composing an epic song which I hope will break the 90-minute barrier. Composed of 6 16-minute parts I hope to have, "Fred the Typewriter" is in the same vein as Billy the Mountain, but twice as long. And a version on YouTube of Billy runs 48 minutes. So basically, it's like a movie, but it's also a song. It's a moviesong. Imagine a whole movie only in audio and no video. That's what I hope to have Fred the Typewriter be. So I started writing and stopped at part 1. Then I remembered it again and wrote part 2 and recorded myself singing and parts 1 and 2 combine into one part. Running a little over 16 minutes, I trimmed the beginning (which is a weird long noise repeated a few times) and now it's at 15:59. But why make it 6 15-minute parts? In case I ever decide to put this on vinyl. You see there's a company that puts audio onto vinyl. The length of sides are 12, 16, and 20 minutes, with 20 minutes being the most expensive. But I'll probably never do this, but I will have it done just in case, all neatly fit onto 3 vinyl discs which would cost about $400. Yeah, I won't do it! I may be crazy, but I know not to spend massive amounts of money on crap. I wonder if there's a company that makes CDs like vinyl records only instead of putting the songs onto vinyl records, they put them onto professionally printed CDs with fancy stuff printed on them like the professional CDs do. So I have part 1 done, and it takes up only 4 lines of the poem it's based on!

"born in 1902

fred had a lot to do

assembled with keys to punch the ink

fred did more than you think",

with a bunch of added commentary makes up part 1 which, like I said, was 15:59. If I make parts 1-5 15:59 that would be 79:55 and therefore fit on one disc, and then I'd make part 2 which would be about the same length and there I'd have my 96 minute song.