Another installment in the Twilight Zone series.

Same digital ensemble as Shadow Play, different ideas being expressed here.

The bass being a main focus in this tune as well, I took some inspiration from James Jamerson's style of writing bass lines. He often used a chromatic approach to compliment the voicings of the chords he would be playing over and I used that pretty heavily here.

In addition to Jamerson, I have been listening to a great deal of the arrangements by Conrad O. Johnson, composer, arranger and teacher of the Kashmere Stage band (a popular high school jazz funk band from the mid-late seventies). Some of the bass lines implemented by Gerald Calhoun (a friend of mine!) was what I took inspiration from here as well. He has a really funky approach to melodic story-telling with the bass.

Percussively and harmonically pretty straight forward. Funk grooves overall where the open high hat placement plays a pretty crucial role. What sets it apart for the listener is the placement of the open high hat on the beat. Straight forward closed high hat would make for some very boring funk music. But, each instance in this song, though the placement may appear strange, has a place in the overall rhythmical structure.

Twilight Zone is great, you should watch it! Prophetic stories for it's time. Some episodes will really have you on the edge of your seat even though they are quite old. The episode this song was named after was no different, and I definitely recommend watching it.

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