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Mood Swing (RCA, Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY 1985)
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Our debut "major label" album. Executive produced by Bruce Harris, produced by an unknown, Gregg Winter and engineered by the legendary Michael Frondelli. Frondelli (who was staff a Electric Lady) was Gregg's first choice. Mike signed on to do our album, then his prior album (Billy Idol's album with "White Wedding") began to rocket up the charts. We were the last band to get him at his old price. Gregg had a tough "row to hoe" with us. We had been making records for years and weren't up to being "produced." Eventually Gregg did win us over and did a great job. The 4 songs below all benefited from his input. Gregg Winter is never mentioned when 88 Lines About 44 Women (not presented at this site) is discussed. But Gregg, together with Dave and me, programmed Gregg's Emu Drumulator (early digital drum machine) and MemoryMoog for this song. Juanita best shows off Gregg's touch. This record is well produced, well recorded and well mastered. Mastered at Sterling Sound, supervised by Gregg, Dave and me.
Every Time I Touch You (Streams)
Every Time I Touch You
(Download)
(This file is 3.5MB). This muscular
rocker is one of my favorites and our opening number on stage. This tune
was a case of me applying something Marc taught me. (Marc could write 3
songs off of what I played warming up.) So I'm listening to Denny
McDermott our drummer hired to play on this record warming up at our first get
together at a rehearsal studio. And bang-zoom. I hear a tune.
I took that drum beat (the very one in the intro) and wacked that base line onto
it without even thinking. Steve joined right in with the power chords
followed by Dave's haunting keys and Marc substantially free-styled these
lyrics. The song just spontaneously combusted before us. Denny
became one of us during the writing of this album and would have become one of
us permanently but he has always been a full time pro and we couldn't afford to
support him (since we couldn't support ourselves).
Home of the Brave (Streams)
Home of the Brave (Download)
(This file is 4.6 MB). One of Marc's finest lyrical offerings and one of
our finest collaborations. Our "God Bless America." This tune is a
Gregg Winter production all the way (including the "ambience" at the end).
Douglas plays his heart out.
Juanita Juanita (Streams)
Juanita Juanita (Download)
(This file is 3.0 MB). Dave's riff. He had to teach it to me by
picking up my bass to play it. But I made it my own. (No looping, I
played that, one take, all the way through, locked to Denny like we were one
player You won't hear a more muscular rhythm section anywhere else, I'm
proud to say. We wrote the music to a different tune than the one you are
hearing. When the tune was done, Marc decided that the original tune was
too wimpy for the music. So he wrote a new tune and lyrics (something
completely different...). Gregg added backing vocals. I wrote
Douglas' sax solo.
Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) (Streams)
Let It Out (Let It
All Hang Out) (Download)
(This file is 2.8 MB). Our cover song of a southeast regional hit by the
Hombres. The original was a Dylanesque acoustic talking blues. Ours,
is well more upbeat. In our live show we arranged it to degenerate into
James Brown's Sex Machine. RCA mistakenly decided to make it into
our MTV video instead of our real hit (88 Lines). The video
is quite good, but would be considered very low-budget by today's standards.
"Give praise my brethren for what you are about to receive -- old John
Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptation of the Rock and Roll chord E!"
 "Hammered Down Rock." Don't blame the publicity department. You'd have written it if you got the assignment. |
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