The Linear Canvas

I was a big fan of progressive rock in the 70’s. It was mood music for hard rock fans. I think there were many levels of prog rock then, and King Crimson was on the extreme of the genre. I would guess mostly just musicians could be entertained by some of their material. I have always said that I almost killed a good party once after playing their Larks’ Tongue In Aspic album.

They had a few familiar songs and had members like Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer), John Wetton (Asia, UK, Uriah Heep), Bill Bruford (Yes, UK), Boz Burrell (Bad Company), Adrian Belew (Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads), and guitarist Robert Fripp, but were never a main stream success although they have sold many records.

Fripp once said he would give up his extremely technical guitar playing skills to play with the soul of Jimi Hendrix. I ‘d take either one.

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I have always liked this song. I was listening to it a little while ago and thought I’d post it.

I wrote and recorded Bridge To Cross around 1994 about my cat, China, after she died. The message of the song was really about me not being able to do the right thing or at least having that feeling that I could’ve done better at dealing with the death of a pet. Pretty silly, huh?

I liked that cat. She was fun to play with. She was a mental case and would pee in the corner of the foyer. But I loved her just the same.

This song makes me sad, but was good therapy at the time.

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I sang all vocals and play electric guitar on a Fender Stratocaster, a Yamaha acoustic guitar, and bass on my Rickenbacker 4001, and a tambourine. I originally recorded the song on an analog Yamaha MT-1000 4 track recorder.  and processed it with from the dbx encoded master tape in Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 5 (?) a few years ago. I doubt if I did much to the original mix. It sounds just about like it did in 1994.