{"title":"The Four Seasons","description":"\u003cp\u003eLost Malaise\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e•\u003c\/strong\u003e Rock Music instrumentals\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• \u003c\/strong\u003esongs for the plays\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e• \u003c\/strong\u003efree \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eonline listening \u003cstrong\u003e•\u003c\/strong\u003e downloadable MP3s\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"four-seasons-summer","title":"Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunning length 17:18\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-iv-part-1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Henry IV Part 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 0:00 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eacoustic nylon string guitar, electric 12 string guitar, electric guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greg \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• electric slide guitar Steve • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • That lone figure, who left his walled town under cover of darkness and scales a bluff in \u003cem\u003eLed Zeppelin\u003c\/em\u003e's inner sleeve, knows someone with the answer. And the forests will echo with laughter. \u003cem\u003eFalstaffe\u003c\/em\u003e's. Let there be talk of kings, laughter, and new blood.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/troilus-and-cressida-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTroylus and Cressida\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 3:02 \u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eacoustic steel string and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitars Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Love spreads its wings and falls all the way down, lost in fiery waves.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/loves-labours-lost-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLove's Labour's Lost\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 5:45 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, acoustic \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003esteel string and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitars Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This is for pork-bellied, short-pushy dictators I have known. If you fit the bill, you're on it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/a-midsummer-nights-dream-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 7:56 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• bark Mr. J the Toy Poodle • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Southbound on \u003cem\u003eI-95\u003c\/em\u003e. 1985. A ramp on the right rises up and over; it takes us out to the bay. I have somebody I need to meet if the \u003cem\u003eClevelander\u003c\/em\u003e is still open. \u003cem\u003eSonny\u003c\/em\u003e, are we running late?\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/don-quixote-en-sierra-morena-double-falsehood-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDon Quixote en Sierra Morena\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 11:54 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, electric baritone guitar, electric guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSancho\u003c\/em\u003e accost wild, tattered \u003cem\u003eCardenio.\u003c\/em\u003e We are all hiding out up on this mountain. One is sadness, two is madness, and three is a case of the flu.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/the-tempest-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 14:54 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003emandolin, electric 12 string \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eguitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • \u003cem\u003eMark Sandman\u003c\/em\u003e wrote a song for someone he used to know. There was a mandolin on it, so I said to my self, I'm going to give my brother a mandolin song, and I'm going to set it in \u003cem\u003eOcean Ridge\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Steve Jones, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55649010057585,"sku":"LM-MP3-4.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_summer.jpg?v=1778115360"},{"product_id":"four-seasons-spring","title":"Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunning length 13:14\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/coriolanus-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e @ 0:00 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• electric slide guitar Anton • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• Electric jazz, says my friend \u003cem\u003eNando Pelusi\u003c\/em\u003e. Who ever said better? This song is for \u003cem\u003eJohn Paul Jones\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJohn Bonham\u003c\/em\u003e. Initially there was to be no guitar on it, but I found in the end the guitar overlay with \u003cem\u003eBob\u003c\/em\u003e's Paul helped. The extra fuzz on bass comes from \u003cem\u003eFrantone\u003c\/em\u003e's\u003cem\u003e Lo-Tone\u003c\/em\u003e, which I subsequently gifted to \u003cem\u003eRichard Turner\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eCoriolanus\u003c\/em\u003e kept his own beat; his mom taught him how. People appreciated it, but they didn't appreciate him for it, and as he elaborated on variations, his mom couldn't keep step, and eventually the only thing that mattered was \u003cem\u003eThe Train Kept A Rolling All Night Long\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/tymon-of-athens-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 2:26 \u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• \u003cem\u003eCharlie Chaplin\u003c\/em\u003e wakes up and takes a sprinkly stroll underneath a polka dot lollipop umbrella and meets the girl of his dreams. Life is fancy when fun is free and easy. Until it isn't.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/as-you-like-it-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 3:31\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• A good old fashioned rock jam, songs from the wood.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/antony-and-cleopatra-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 5:38 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• This is for the future, when I meet the people I was born to lose. \u003cem\u003eCleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e chose her death: \u003c\/span\u003eAs sweet as Balme, as soft as Ayre, as gentle. O \u003cem\u003eAnþony\u003c\/em\u003e! Nay I will take þee too. What should I stay—\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/taming-of-the-shrew-v1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 7:59 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitar, electric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• Comedy, comedy, coconut in hand. With thanks to \u003cem\u003eJohn Lennon\u003c\/em\u003e who showed us how on \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eContinuing Story of Bungalow Bill\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGlass Onion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/julius-caesar-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 10:21 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eacoustic steel string and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e12 string guitars Greg • drums Richard \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• \u003cem\u003eCleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e has been waiting with \u003cem\u003eCaesarion\u003c\/em\u003e in a villa across the \u003cem\u003eTiber\u003c\/em\u003e from the Capitol, but she has a premonition that she will never see her \u003cem\u003eCaesar\u003c\/em\u003e again. With a simple solo inspired by \u003cem\u003eMiles Davis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDavid Byrne\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Anton Bittar, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55649026867569,"sku":"LM-MP3-3.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_spring.jpg?v=1778130629"},{"product_id":"four-seasons-winter","title":"Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunning length 14:55\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/hamlet-prince-of-denmarke-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHamlet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/the-winters-tale-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 0:00 \u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, acoustic nylon string and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitars Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Toward the end of the \u003cem\u003eAmerican\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCivil War,\u003c\/em\u003e during the coldest winter of recent memory, it was around midnight when Southern troops, fast asleep, marched in file, while approaching \u003cem\u003eNashville\u003c\/em\u003e. The snow was so cold it felt like fire. Bare feet would never be the same. Townspeople's doors were shut, no admittance anywhere. The unclaimed Ghost haunts caverns, unbefriended, wedged in the earth with only other ghosts to count on, as he gliding each morning back to their company. Four miles more 'cross the cold forest floor.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/merry-wives-of-windsor-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/twelfth-night-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 2:29 \u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, mandolin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • The fireside is bright and the joviality is high when the maids and masters kick up their heels in the dead of winter. With a little commentary in the final moments: a \u003cem\u003ePieter Breughel\u003c\/em\u003e wedding photo with a cautionary tale. \u003cem\u003eJerry\u003c\/em\u003e was great at those, so this sounds like him. Both he and little Bobby knew how to tell a tale: \u003cem\u003eDire Wolf,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTennessee Jed,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSt. Stephen's,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCatfish John,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMe and My Uncle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRamble On Rose\u003c\/em\u003e. Remember his last one? Black muddy river.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/yorkshire-tragedy-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eA Yorkshire Tragedy, Not so New as Lamentable and True\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e @ 4:22 • electric bass guitar, mandolin, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eacoustic steel string \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eguitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • for a friend who couldn't hang in there. I played the solo in one take for my friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/cymbeline-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 7:09 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eelectric 12 string\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This song is spectacle and wonder, for \u003cem\u003eJupiter\u003c\/em\u003e who makes a grand appearance. It's \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ejangly like \u003cem\u003eThe Smith\u003c\/em\u003es.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-lear-v1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 8:17 \u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitar Greg • electric slide guitar Steve \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Inspired by the \u003cem\u003eWar of 1812\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eBaltimore\u003c\/em\u003e's harbor, a war \u003cem\u003eAmerica\u003c\/em\u003e lost. Oh say, can you see, by the Dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the Twilight's last gleaming. This big old baritone has the spit of \u003cem\u003eLear\u003c\/em\u003e. His heart has been wrung out clean.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/the-winters-tale-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 11:44 \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebaritone guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • We wake from a dream, and our bride of many years gone reappears, gilded by light, painted fresh, in bright array, with marble gauze as fine as \u003cem\u003eBernini\u003c\/em\u003e's. Up in \u003cem\u003eSt. John's Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eManhattan\u003c\/em\u003e there's a big old organ. I want to play it. If this song has a spirit, it's \u003cem\u003eWhispering Pines\u003c\/em\u003e, in the voice of the man I wanted to be when I was a boy: \u003cem\u003eRick Danko\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGarth Hudson \u003c\/em\u003ewith that mesmerizing mood on organ. That's a song of a woman who has vanished into a haze. I also was a big fan of \u003cem\u003ePeter Hurford\u003c\/em\u003e, the organist who performed \u003cem\u003eJ.S. Bach\u003c\/em\u003e's whole canon. It's a challenging thing to listen to. I couldn't match that, but I could do this.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Steve Jones, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55649408811377,"sku":"LM-MP3-2.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_winter.jpg?v=1778162994"},{"product_id":"four-seasons-autumn","title":"Autumn","description":"\u003cp\u003eRunning length 16:07\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/merchant-of-venice-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/a\u003e @ 0:00 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, electric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • I grew up with \u003cem\u003eSly Stone\u003c\/em\u003e's \u003cem\u003eStand!\u003c\/em\u003e, and I was kinda sad years later when I heard his \u003cem\u003eFamily Affair\u003c\/em\u003e. Just a sad song about a family kinda hanging on. I've always felt a strong affinity for \u003cem\u003eShylock\u003c\/em\u003e, trying to hold his family and traditions together, with \u003cem\u003eJessica\u003c\/em\u003e. I guess I have a different reading of the play.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-iv-part-2-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Henry IV Part 2\u003c\/a\u003e @ 2:40 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, acoustic nylon and steel string and \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eelectric guitars Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • The celebration of society in the public square. Wasn't \u003cem\u003eCharles Ives\u003c\/em\u003e' \u003cem\u003e4th symphony\u003c\/em\u003e the one where you can hear bands converging on the center of town? Two drum sets are layered. The \u003cem\u003eHal\u003c\/em\u003e of yesteryear is paraded, or parades himself I guess, and claims a new title and new friends; a whole society finds out where it's at. And so musically there's a bit of \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Always Get What You Want\u003c\/em\u003e, I saw her today at the demonstration. With a little nod to my friends at \u003cem\u003eBlackberry Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e with the coda.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-v-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Henry V\u003c\/a\u003e @ 5:33 • electric bass guitar, digital synth, piano, electric 12 string guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Here's \u003cem\u003eHal\u003c\/em\u003e all grown up now, on the tide of war. The frontispiece of this song is a false one, like \u003cem\u003eHal's\u003c\/em\u003e youth. It's a false flooring. \u003cem\u003eShostakovich\u003c\/em\u003e used to do this, false intros belying some controversy. The real song kicks in after fifty seconds; its flags are unfurled. With a nod to a man whom I met on \u003cem\u003eBroadway\u003c\/em\u003e one early morning as the sun was infiltrating the atmosphere: \u003cem\u003eEd Harsch\u003c\/em\u003e. I love the man because of \u003cem\u003eDescending Again\u003c\/em\u003e, that's the prettiest piece. There's a faint echo here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lostmalaise.com\/products\/pericles-prince-of-tyre-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePericles, Prince of Tyre\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lostmalaise.com\/products\/pericles-prince-of-tyre-shakespeare\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e @ 8:21 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e• analog synth, acoustic steel string and electric baritone guitars Greg, drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • \u003cem\u003ePericles\u003c\/em\u003e wandered, and so does the weary train of \u003cem\u003eMonmouth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaine\u003c\/em\u003e, which winds its way through \u003cem\u003eKennebec County\u003c\/em\u003e. You can hear its horn for miles around as it shakes the ground. It's a tired train, and he doesn't go very fast. He has a lyric, and I know it, but it's a secret. He wants to go like \u003cem\u003eJimmie Rodgers\u003c\/em\u003e all the way to the deep blue sea but he is stuck on those rusty lanes. \u003cem\u003ePericles\u003c\/em\u003e went many miles to find what he lost, but find it he did. Some trains are little trains that could.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/alls-well-that-ends-well-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAll's Well That Ends Well\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e @ 10:45 • electric bass guitar, acoustic nylon string and electric guitars Greg • electric piano Bob • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • There's a mischievous little \u003cem\u003eParolles\u003c\/em\u003e in this number, sifting through shady action like a \u003cem\u003eMalcolm McDowell\u003c\/em\u003e. How did he say? Those Seven Deadly Virtues, those ghastly little traps. That's my \u003cem\u003eParolles\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-richard-iii-shakespeare\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Richard III\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/othello-v1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/othello-v1-shakespeare\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e @ 13:22 • electric bass guitar, acoustic nylon string and electric 12 string guitars Greg • piano Bob • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • One November I took my kids out alone in a canoe on \u003cem\u003eLake Annabesacook\u003c\/em\u003e. I had always used a dinghy, I had forgotten about canoes. The water was like glass; my kids were very very young, not waist high. I noticed as we pulled into \u003cem\u003eBig Island\u003c\/em\u003e that there was a tug. After our little troupe along its ridge, I realized coming back around that a one man canoe couldn't turn the top of the island where a current forks. I decided to go with the flow and wind up on the far shore, and we'd fetch it later. But the water rose on both sides as the current threatened to swamp us. The kids cried when we landed, it was so close, and I kept thinking of \u003cem\u003eClarence\u003c\/em\u003e, circling the bottom of the deep, as I looked in vain for a warden's plane in the sky.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55649408844145,"sku":"LM-MP3-1.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_autumn.jpg?v=1778131075"},{"product_id":"fragment","title":"Fragment","description":"\u003cp\u003e preparatory versions for the Seasons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRunning length 19:56\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-richard-iii-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Richard III\u003c\/a\u003e @ 0:00 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, electric baritone guitar, electric 12 and 6 string guitars Greg • drums Richard • This is different from the other version in a couple key respects. First this one has a Henrix-inspired 12 string as the lead. The finished version would couple that with a nylon-stringed guitar, which would assume the lead role. Also this version leans on a baritone guitar with synth. I like the 12 string here, I prefer it. One November I took my kids out alone in a canoe on \u003cem\u003eLake Annabesacook\u003c\/em\u003e. I had always used a dinghy, I had forgotten about canoes. The water was like glass; my kids were very very young, not waist high. I noticed as we pulled into \u003cem\u003eBig Island\u003c\/em\u003e that there was a tug. After our little troupe along its ridge, I realized coming back around that a one man canoe couldn't turn the top of the island where a current forks. I decided to go with the flow and wind up on the far shore, and we'd fetch it later. But the water rose on both sides as the current threatened to swamp us. The kids cried when we landed, it was so close, and I kept thinking of \u003cem\u003eClarence\u003c\/em\u003e, circling the bottom of the deep, as I looked in vain for a warden's plane in the sky.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/merry-wives-of-windsor-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/a\u003e @ 2:41 • electric bass guitar, mandolin, electric guitar Greg • drums Richard • I didn't want to go to work, so instead I inverted Richard III's musical arrangement and married it to hard southern rock. Working titles: Godzilla, Becky and the Cave. I prefer this by far to what is on \u003cem\u003eOmission\u003c\/em\u003e. This is sort of like \u003cem\u003ePhil Lesh and Friends\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cem\u003eWarran Haynes\u003c\/em\u003e sitting in, in my mind. There's a bit of \u003cem\u003eShakedown Street\u003c\/em\u003e in the bridge. I kinda like the sweeps on the \u003cem\u003eFulltone\u003c\/em\u003e wah, but mostly I like that riff.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/hamlet-prince-of-denmarke-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHamlet\u003c\/a\u003e @ 5:45 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, acoustic nylon string guitar Greg • drums Richard • I think the organ here is much better than the finished version. I can hear harmonies that I really compled, musically and emotionally complex. I actually can't believe I made it, but the other version has an electric guitar which carries some of the spirit of the march. I guess I have to keep them both. On the one the nylon guitar has to carry more of the song's skeleton, but I think it succeeds in that. Toward the end of the \u003cem\u003eAmerican\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCivil War,\u003c\/em\u003e during the coldest winter of recent memory, it was around midnight when Southern troops, fast asleep, marched in file, while approaching \u003cem\u003eNashville\u003c\/em\u003e. The snow was so cold it felt like fire. Bare feet would never be the same. Townspeople's doors were shut, no admittance anywhere. The unclaimed Ghost haunts caverns, unbefriended, wedged in the earth with only other ghosts to count on, as he gliding each morning back to their company. Four miles more 'cross the cold forest floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/troilus-and-cressida-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTroylus and Cressida\u003c\/a\u003e @ 8:19 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, electric 12 and 6 string guitars Greg • drums Richard • working title: Under the 7 Line. I was thinking equal parts \u003cem\u003eKeith Richards\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTen Years Gone, Mick Fleetwood,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGary Numan\u003c\/em\u003e. I think I prefer this version, although the other is more polished. It would become \u003cem\u003eTroylus and Cressida\u003c\/em\u003e on the final version, where the tragedy is more palpable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-iv-part-2-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Henry IV Part 2\u003c\/a\u003e @ 11:42 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, acoustic nylon and steel string and electric guitars Greg • drums Richard • The celebration of society in the public square. Wasn't \u003cem\u003eCharles Ives\u003c\/em\u003e' \u003cem\u003e4th symphony\u003c\/em\u003e the one where you can hear bands converging on the center of town? Two drum sets are layered. The \u003cem\u003eHal\u003c\/em\u003e of yesteryear is paraded, or parades himself I guess, and claims a new title and new friends; a whole society finds out where it's at. And so musically there's a bit of \u003cem\u003eYou Can't Always Get What You Want\u003c\/em\u003e, I saw her today at the demonstration. With a little nod to my friends at \u003cem\u003eBlackberry Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e with the coda.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/the-tempest-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/a\u003e @ 14:55 • electric bass guitar, analog synth, mandolin, electric 12 string guitar Greg • drums Richard • \u003cem\u003eMark Sandman\u003c\/em\u003e wrote a song for someone he used to know. There was a mandolin on it, so I said to my self, I'm going to give my brother a mandolin song, and I'm going to set it in \u003cem\u003eOcean Ridge\u003c\/em\u003e. I like the 12-string take better here, much more delicate and naturally played, but on the finished version I prefer the synth as the battering waves to this.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/as-you-like-it-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/a\u003e  @ 17:14 • electric bass guitar, acoustic steel string and electric 12 string guitars Greg • drums Richard • At this point I was thinking what if \u003cem\u003ePaco DeLucio \u003c\/em\u003esat in with the \u003cem\u003eMick Taylor\u003c\/em\u003e? Later it became \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e, on the seasons, but here it was still fishing around. Neither version is perfect. This one suffers for its acoustic guitar performance, the other for the first guitar's tone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55651754574193,"sku":"LM-MP3-6.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_fragment.jpg?v=1778791611"},{"product_id":"heaven","title":"Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003epreparatory versions for the Seasons\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRunning length 20:37\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/tymon-of-athens-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTimon of Athens\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 0:00 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This improved quite a bit on the seasons. At this point it was still working out its purpose but, that said, it's not bad.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-lear-v1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 2:16 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric baritone guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This might actually be better than the seasons version. It's not as forceful and in that sense it doesn't seem as confident, but the phrases are better, especially at the end. The problem is the bridge, it starts to lean into an overblown \u003cem\u003eTerrapin Station\u003c\/em\u003e series of layers, sort of ineffectual. That said, the balance of the song is to my liking. I felt I did a particularly good thing when I was done with it. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInspired by the \u003cem\u003eWar of 1812\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eBaltimore\u003c\/em\u003e's harbor, a war \u003cem\u003eAmerica\u003c\/em\u003e lost. Oh say, can you see, by the Dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the Twilight's last gleaming. This big old baritone has the spit of \u003cem\u003eLear\u003c\/em\u003e. His heart has been wrung out clean.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/antony-and-cleopatra-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 5:49 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric baritone guitar, electric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • At this point I hadn't been thinking about \u003cem\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e. I was thinking of an old vinyl album of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMussorgky's works that I grew up with, which included \u003cem\u003eNight on Bald Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePictures at an Exhibition\u003c\/em\u003e. Its cover depicted ghosts rising from their graves, and a monster with outstretched wings on an active volcano. You can hear the sad ghosts, and there's a hint of \u003cem\u003eJim Morrison and the Doors\u003c\/em\u003e in here.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/don-quixote-en-sierra-morena-double-falsehood-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDon Quixote en Sierra Morena\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 8:21 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, electric baritone guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This is another song which is more delicately played here than on the finished version, and I prefer it for that, but on the other hand it found more voices there that worked, so the other is probably my favorite of the two. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSancho\u003c\/em\u003e accost wild, tattered \u003cem\u003eCardenio.\u003c\/em\u003e We are all hiding out up on this mountain. One is sadness, two is madness, and three is a case of the flu.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/titus-andronicus-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e@ 11:33 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric 12 string guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • I was thinking about \u003cem\u003eIreland\u003c\/em\u003e at the time, \u003cem\u003eThe Troubles\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePete Townshend\u003c\/em\u003e's \u003cem\u003eWhite City Fighting\u003c\/em\u003e. Compared to the other version, this one lacks the psychedelic bridge, but it has a psychedelic intro. The guitar playing is probably a little more natural here. It's similar to the \u003cem\u003eTempest\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e 12-strings in that when I re-recorded them for the seasons, I kinda lost the plot. This is a 12-sring also.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/the-winters-tale-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 15:29 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• analog synth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This one doesn't have the baritone solo, which really works on the finished version, but it does hold together pretty well as this sound of the image o light. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWe wake from a dream, and our bride of many years gone reappears, gilded by light, painted fresh, in bright array, with marble gauze as fine as \u003cem\u003eBernini\u003c\/em\u003e's. Up in \u003cem\u003eSt. John's Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003cem\u003eManhattan\u003c\/em\u003e there's a big old organ. I want to play it. If this song has a spirit, it's \u003cem\u003eWhispering Pines\u003c\/em\u003e, in the voice of the man I wanted to be when I was a boy: \u003cem\u003eRick Danko\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGarth Hudson \u003c\/em\u003ewith that mesmerizing mood on organ. That's a song of a woman who has vanished into a haze. I also was a big fan of \u003cem\u003ePeter Hurford\u003c\/em\u003e, the organist who performed \u003cem\u003eJ.S. Bach\u003c\/em\u003e's whole canon. It's a challenging thing to listen to. I couldn't match that, but I could do this.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/cymbeline-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 18:34 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Unlike the finished version on the Seasons, this one is explicitly for \u003cem\u003eStevie Nicks\u003c\/em\u003e and a stretch up in \u003cem\u003eMaine\u003c\/em\u003e out by a farm I knew belonging to \u003cem\u003eIvan Smith\u003c\/em\u003e. I picture it in the very dark of nights when the wind is slashing down with leaves and branches swirling. I greatly prefer this to the finished version on the seasons.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62832451125617,"sku":"LM-MP3-7.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_heaven.jpg?v=1778615443"},{"product_id":"omission","title":"Omission","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOmission\u003c\/em\u003e gathers sparse arrangements and overlooked material from the Seasons. These might be good to jam to and to zone out to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eRunning Length 16:22\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eSummer i — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-iv-part-1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Henry IV Part 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-henry-iv-part-1-shakespeare\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (mini mix, missing electric guitars) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e@ 0:00 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, acoustic nylon string guitar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreg •  drums Richard • \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis allows us to highlight interplay between the bass and drums and for a song that models itself after mid-period \u003cem\u003eLed Zeppelin\u003c\/em\u003e, or any period \u003cem\u003eLed Zeppelin\u003c\/em\u003e for that matter, it's a really nice isolation.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eAutumn ii — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/merchant-of-venice-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/merchant-of-venice-shakespeare\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003emini mix, missing electric guitar) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e@ 3:03 • electric bass guitar, analog synth Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Without the electric guitar, the qualities of the analog synth come through viscerally. The electric guitar carries a lot of dramatic weight though, so I don't necessarily prefer this, but I like it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eSummer v — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/don-quixote-en-sierra-morena-double-falsehood-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDon Quixote en Sierra Morena\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003emini mix, missing electric bass guitar) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e@ 5:43 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric baritone guitar, electric guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This leans on the baritone for all its bass content. What's nice is that some of the complexity the bass brought to the song, which was quite considerable, leaves behind something that is still wrought and yet maybe it breathes a little bit better. I'm not going to say I prefer it, but it's a nice twist.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eWinter v \u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/king-lear-v1-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003emini mix, missing electric baritone guitar) \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e@ 8:41 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This one is similar to the first song in that it isolates bass with drums, and again that has value when I want something that's a bit more jazzy.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthfolio.com\/products\/titus-andronicus-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 12:04 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, analog synth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric 12 string guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • This song is for \u003cem\u003eThe Troubles\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIreland\u003c\/em\u003e: bricks in the streets, messages in the dark, guard towers, neighbors overcome by neighbors, and vengeance its only end.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/products\/comedy-of-errors-shakespeare\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Comedy of Errors\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e @ 13:43 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e• electric bass guitar, mandolin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eelectric guitar Greg • drums Richard\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e • Ah, the acoustic guitar solo was severed. I finished half of it, but my wife was out in the car, with the kids, fully loaded, because she was driving us to \u003cem\u003eFlorida\u003c\/em\u003e from \u003cem\u003eBay Ridge\u003c\/em\u003e, and I was holding us all up. Had to shut it down. When we came back, I was sick. I couldn't quite finish a two week old solo midstride. The clothes are right, the plaid is wrong. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTwo men, alike and yet irreconcilable, and The Song Will Never Be The Same. When I bring this up, people don't notice. Ah, but I can hear it.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. Produced and composed by Gregory Anthony Bittar.\u003cbr\u003e© 2025-2026 Lost Malaise Inc. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost Malaise (TM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63255686021489,"sku":"LM-MP3-8.0","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_music_cover_omission.jpg?v=1777811522"},{"product_id":"summer-exotic-single","title":"Exotic Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eComposed by the bandshell and strawberry fields, Central Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePerformed by Richard Hollis, Anthony Bittar. Engineered by Bob Colwell, Gregory Anthony Bittar. 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