Letters to God - Box Car Racer (Guitar cover) | By tfranzini

After a short absence, I'm back with a #teletuesday post! I was very busy last week and, not gonna lie, a little less organized than I usually am, so I didn't have time to do my post for that week.

This week is being completely different, though, and I'm feeling productive as I haven't in a long time! I hope I can carry on this productivity streak throughout the week!

But let's talk about the song!

Box Car Racer, for those who don't know them, was a side project by Blink 182 singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge. The group also included drummer Travis Barker, also from Blink 182 and guitarrist David Kennedy of Hazen Street.

Despite having two members of Blink 182, Box Car Racer was a very different project. It also had strong roots in punk rock but the lyrics and general vibe of the songs were much more mature and, why not, darker.

Their first and only album named simply Box Car Racer featured 13 songs and did quite well commercially despite the fact that there was virtually no promotion for it.

Even after the unexpected success o the album, the project was shelved by Tom in 2003.

However, he confirmed last year that Travis and himself were working on a new song for the project that has yet to be released.

Personally, I like most of the songs on the album but, for some reason, "Letters to God" speaks to me in a special way and that is why I chose this song.

It's a simple song but I really like the way it starts very soft and easy and then breaks down in a heavy punk song at the end. There is also a piano part which I wasn't able to keep in the backtrack because the AI used to generate it was a bit confused and put it together with the guitar track, which was removed but I still liked te final result!

As usual, I used my custom shop Tele type guitar, a Meteoro amp and a BOSS OD 20 emulating a Proco Rat for the heavy part. The clean sound was just the Tele plugged straight into the amp.

I hope you guys enjoy it and feel free to provide any feedback or suggestions for next songs on the comments!

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