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This was a newer song, recorded on my TASCAM 32 Track machine. I used my TChelicon Live Vocalist effect box to generate vocal harmonies based on the chords I was playing on the guitar.
This was an older song that I wrote when our keyboard player from the band in Kaiserslautern, Ulli Scheck, moved to Canada to study.
I tried to make it a text with a double meaning, ostensibly about a loved one but in fact about the departure of a friend and band member!
A popular colleague, Joanna Dring, left the Bank to go home to Manchester, England.
Joanna always encouraged me with my songwriting and recording so giving her a CD with this song seemed like a fitting “Going-away” present
At a Manager’s Meeting with the Bank, I made a friend who turned out to be a member of senior management from San Antonio, Texas.
Not something I had been expecting, it came out of nowhere… out of the blue!
It seemed like the perfect theme to try out the new classical guitar I had just recently purchased.
A song about a relationship (a marriage) that was supposed to last forever.
It was one of the few times I managed to get my (then) wife Chris, and my daughter Jenny to sing with me on a recording!
Another recording done on the TASCAM 32 Track recording machine.
It was a retrospective recollection of the time leading up to the breakdown of a relationship
A song about trying to find a way to hang on to a great relationship that had no future.
It based itself around the saying, “It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings”!
I had been listening to a lot of the old raw rock songs from Bran Adams and I kinda wrote this one for him to record. Needless to say, I never met him or had the opportuniyty to give it to him. Would have been nice though!
My wife was away on a week-long seminar. I guess I was feeling a bit lonely and I wrote and recorded this song while she was away!
Having to wait around at a doctor appointment reminded me of how much I hate waiting around.
So I used that thought to write a text for some music I had been working on. I wanted to play two guitar riffs against each other and the only way to try it out was to record it. Of course I needed the drum track to sync to and after that I just kept finding and adding parts.
I really liked the results and all that was missing was the lyrics!
Two good friends, the ending of a long-time partnership. It seemed to me that “she” insisted on everything going as she wanted, regardless of the consequences… no compromise.
And did she end up happy with her choices?
I had the music to an upbeat kinda disco song that I had been working on and all that was missing was the vocal parts. So I came up with this text that seemed to me to fit the mood of the song.
This one was inspired by all the high-flying, go-getter career people that I observed at the Bank.
Beginning on the idea of “the higher you climb, the harder you fall” the lyrics just grew from there.
I wanted to try something a bit like “metal rock” and these lyrics seemed just right for that concept!