Here’s a work in progress that (as far as I can tell, at least) never ended up as a finished song in whole or in part.<\/p>\n
After the Darkness Tour ended on New Years Day 1979, Bruce retreated to his home in Holmdel and started working on material for his next album, armed with just his acoustic guitar and an ordinary cassette recorder.<\/p>\n
I have no idea how many cassettes Bruce filled with demos, drafts, or even just riffs and phrases, but judging from the number of circulating bootlegs from those “sessions,” I’m guessing it was a lot.<\/p>\n
We’ve listened to several of these acoustic demos over the past four years, and often we can find within them a lyrical or musical seed that would bear fruit later in a different song.<\/p>\n
Today’s entry is different. “Love Is a Gun” is little more than a musical exercise, with virtually non-existent lyrics. Bruce often writes his music before his lyrics, and this appears to be one of those times. “Love Is a Gun” is a complete musical piece, but good luck trying to make out any intelligible lyrics until you get to the end…. and even then, he’s mostly bluffing.<\/p>\n