The Story Behind Behind Enemy Lines - The One Take Recording

The actual story behind my song “Behind Enemy Lines” is legitimately insane.

I wrote it on my acoustic guitar and the song itself was very simple.

Then I took that into the studio with a bass player and drummer - who were incredible - and just started playing.

It was a one take recording of a song that I had never played electrically before EVER and that the studio musicians had never heard before EVER.

We all just started playing and that was it.

When we were done the drummer said something like “Damn that was some Dave Matthews shit”.

I responded that I didn’t know what it was but sort of in disbelief at what he had just captured.

That’s the “magic” and mystery of this type music I create.

Realistically even the best producers in the world would never create a song like that and the reasons are many.

It doesn’t fit any sort of mold, follow a traditional model and it certainly doesn’t have a singa long quality to to it.

But it doesn’t have to and that’s why it works.

This clip is of the bridge. An epic powerchord buildup.

So much more to say about the entire process behind this song. Maybe I’ll share that in another post.

I just wanted to share this brief clip.

-Mike Dyson

The Creative Process during Covid

This is what the creative process looks like during Covid. Anyways this clip is sort of me working out the vocal element prior to actually recording the final rendition.

Basically it was written and partially produced in the USA and I finished vocals at a small studio in Mexico City.

That’s the cool thing about alot of my songs is there always seems to be some wild story attached to them.

This is one of those tracks. "Parachute" is the track.

Just a little snapshot. I’ll share more about this song later.

Behind Enemy Lines Solo from the Jungle

"Behind Enemy Lines" that time I was jamming out in Tulum.

This clip was recorded in the summer of 2017 when I was living out of my camper in Tulum, Mexico.

In my opinion as of late Tulum has sort of already reached it's peak hype and is currently on the decline as of around 2019 but at that time it was a hopping place to be.

I even have a screenshot of me sitting on my scooter in front of my camper that was snapped by the google maps car as it drove by and for the longest time I was on google earth.

It's hilarous but a vital peice of history.

If you know me you know I have endless stories of Mexico and alot of it inspired my music.

This exact song was not inspired by any of those journeys but for whatever reason I set my DSLR camera to record this short clip and it turned great.

Definitely one of my favorite songs. It has a core solo but just like David Gilmour says about Comfortably Numb when he plays that solo it's sort of just a road map. If he's in the move he deviates and that's exactly what you see here with me as it pertains to this track.

- Mike Dyson