Well, there are lots of ways to get from the bottom to 
the top. It's kind of like digging a hole (FIGURE 1).

Octave displacement is a weird sound--like if you want 
to go in three directions, and so you're stuck in the 
middle (FIGURE 2).

It's fun to go on rides--in your mind or in your 
imagination. You can swirl around in a rollercoaster 
(FIGURES 3A-B).

It's good to write songs in the slaughterhouse. It's sad 
to see animals hurt, but some really harsh shards can 
come out of that whole thing (FIGURE 4).

If you see this Six Million Dollar Man episode "Day Of 
The Robot", the machine-man Masketron gets his 
face ripped off, and there's this really crazy sound of a 
computer goin' nuts. And it's kind of a sound that was 
circling around the coop, and we had to get it out. And 
the Paul Gilbert came by and played some Shawn 
Lane tape. And it was so incredible. The sound of that 
helped my sound. Now I'll show some two-finger 
nubbing (FIGURE 5A), three-finger nubbing (FIGURE 
5B) and four-finger nubbing (FIGURE 5C). Thanks, 
Paul Gilbert, for that tape.

Some of this stuff is inspired by Bootsy Collins. Bootsy, 
he's so nice. He helped a lot. The first couple of slabs 
coming up (FIGURES 6A-C) has a Bootsy-like vibe.