I was actually born in Michigan, but was carried away at a young age. I like to think there’s still a bit of Michigander in me, but only genetically at this point.
Ha, but that’s where I was born. Damn!
Clearly those Yoopers are the Spartans among us. They may be our last defense against … well, I’ll save politics for another day. 
No worries, it’s perfectly fine, great conversation! Maybe some new (theme) song ideas too. I forgot to mention you are my hero. Maybe you already were. That seems like The Great White North to me. Never made it up that far.
By the way my wife and I graduated from. Michigan State, so we are indeed Spartans.
A noble lineage. Serendipity, the Spartan theme bears more exploration.
Stan_Halen,
Thank you for the review! Now your song: intro chord is discordant to me ears. After that I really like the main electric guitar and electric bass riffs. Vocals sound like they are in the style of a humorous novelty song to me. Flame Gems? It makes me think of Fire Agate, if my memory serves me from the early to mid 70’s from a rocks & minerals class I had more than once. My brain still works! Googling the topic verified my memory. No, I didn’t fail, I liked making cabochons; polishing geodes; and similar things.
Thanks for the review!
Yes, I see what you mean. I do think it sounds cool though! 
I think I hit some string harmonics, but don’t recall which ones. It was just an intro count-in thing, wasn’t planned, but I left it in.
I think you’re the only one that’s asked about the story/theme behind it. Maybe I was going for a kind of Frank Zappa or Dr Demento type thing with the lyrics/vocals, but I did get a comment that the chorus vocals sounded like Prince, which I took as a huge compliment.
The story is actually based on an episode of Star Trek TOS (the Original Series); “The Trouble With Tribbles”. Only hard-core Trekkies might remember this, but the main ‘guest’ character on that episode was a space merchant called Cyrano Jones. He sold all kinds of space novelties, including Tribbles (cute fuzz-balls that bred like rabbits). One of those was Spican Flame Gems - presumably, nice little rocks from the Spican star system (Spica is an actual star, the brightest in our constellation of Virgo). For whatever reason, I decided to riff on that idea. I even snatched a sample of Cyrano Jones’ infectious laugh and inserted it at 0:44 (shhh, don’t tell anybody 
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I guess the silliness of the idea, and playing around with it, got me leaning toward the TV series theme song idea. That, and I couldn’t think of any more lyrics 
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How did I miss this one before! Super fun song! 