Cady our dog, died this weekend. I know that most people could care less when someone else's pet dies, but I'll write about her anyway. Deb and I got her for Christmas in 1993. Ever since our son was born in '96 we've always joked that Cady was the baby, now she's just the dog. True, but a pretty great dog. In the fall of '02 Drop Trio named the song "Wet Dog" after her. The tune wasn't written about her, but it was named because of her. I am certain that while I was sitting on my bed writing the main parts of the tune, she was sitting right next to me...she always was. Soon after Ian, Nino and I completed the song and started playing it live I decided to write a new ending, the ending that we recorded on "Big Dipper" and still perform today. I wrote the ending of the tune, with the idea of her dying in my mind. That's why I chose to use sad chord progression of G to B minor and then D minor to B minor. The idea of her death then and now the reality of it, is truly sad. At least to me.

Wet Dog