Thanks. The ascending Ab run is very important to that section, and it was one of the things I knew I had to include. And as mentioned elsewhere, this was all back when I was young and fearless, so it was just a matter of taking the time to figure it out. The big instrumental break around five minutes in took a while, too. So many key changes, so many chords. Tony is such a genius. When I hear his music, I'm not content to just listen to it. I want to play it!
No particular meaning to the light bulb. A few feet to the right of the piano (more or less where my phonecam was set up), is the access to our crawlspace. There's a single light fixture in there, and I had to replace the bulb a few years ago. As I crawled out of the crawlspace, I grabbed the side of the piano to pull myself up because I'm getting old and creaky. I set the bulb down there to dust myself off. As I said, that was a few years ago. Now that I think about it, maybe more like five. There's a photo sitting near it, next to the music stand; it's my daughter, taken when she was three years old, climbing a fence or something. She's 22 now. But I like that picture.
Some people's houses look like they could be movie or TV sets. Nice art on the walls, matched furniture, everything clean and tidy. Our house is the opposite of that. It looks "lived in". There are things that someone set down somewhere, meaning to get to it eventually, and it's still there. Hat or gloves by the front door, still there in the middle of summer. A book on a table. No actual garbage or leftover food; everyone has their line and that's mine. You don't leave wrappers or a half-eaten bowl of pasta sitting. Take care of that shit. But pretty much anything else, if you put it down somewhere, it's not someone else's job to put it away for you, so usually it just sits.