Trigger Finger
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Trigger Finger started as a Sunday morning acoustic workout on the baby taylor – maybe 30 minutes. I had messed around the Trigger Finger riff - in F# but felt the C#m with B sus2 was a little more aggressive than the F#. And it was easier to riff at speed. This really feels like 80s metal, or like hard prog punk - it’s fun, fast and a little off the rails. But this is one of those songs that is pretty easy to learn b/c everyone is pumped to play aggressive music. The lyrics are almost meaningless - basically complaining about trigger finger, but also recognizing I earned it with years of shredding and then straight into dropping with cheese vocals about playing shows and partying - with a reference to a 3AM cannoli eaten in London in January - when John and I were on a business trip which just made us laugh. The original was called the Train to Nowhere but Trigger finger seemed more apropos – I will call out it this was absolutely brutal to mix - just a lot noise to manage and silence – and funny enough I got a another trigger finger after the recording sessions, which sucks a little
I recorded the first version on October 7 2023 - I wrote the lyrics a year later. Here we are in July… So 30 minutes to write - sit for a year, probably 30 minutes to write the lyrics - a few months of getting it tight and tuning the breaks and ending. Finally recording it probably took 100 hours of trying to mix it. LOL
Now when listening to it I hear all these influences - Mr Scary - the riff, Boston the use of power sus4, Rush the fast major runs completely crossing up keys, Van Halen (the choral vocals and the chromatics ) and Priest - full metal breakdown - lifelong playlist influences. I didn’t think about that in the kitchen on a sunday morning putting the pieces together – but looking back I hear it.