Music
All In a Day
This song was recorded in 1982 in Los Angeles at Soundmasters Recording School. I was the "guinea pig" for a class learning to become recording engineers. In fact, recording at that school was a great opportunity for me. I recorded many songs there, for free. The song opens up with a whoosh. That exact sound was used by Greg Smith on All In a Day and later on Obsession. It was played on an unusual synth called Synergy. Greg used that same synth on Michael Jackson's Thriller album. When Astrid and Charles heard All In a Day, they thought I'd be a good fit for the the band they were forming, that would eventually become Animotion.
When writing the song, I was intentionally stringing visual images together, trying to get away from writing a linear story lyric. And I wanted the music to be kind of weird and different from the new wave rock I'd been writing. If the song does not play... please check back next week. I'm working it out. B PS. I love the drums on this track, by Jeff Stern
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I Engineer
This was the first single from Animotion's second album. It was written by Holly Knight and Bernie Taupin(Elton John's lyricist and a solo artist in his own right). I'll post the video of this later. I like singing this song, but like many listeners, was never clear what the writer's intended. I called Bernie Taupin to ask him about it, saying that we were about to shoot a video and I wanted to know his thoughts on it. His manager got back to me, "Bernie says take it any way you like". O K ... I met Bernie years later when my brother Tad was playing in his band, The Farmdogs. I asked him about it. He said... "oh, yeah.. I remember that it was such a horrible experience, writing with Holly, that I didn't want to think about it. O K ...
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Your Memory Is Mine
This is a song I wrote in 1993. My marriage had blown up in my face after moving to Vancouver, BC for a "quality of life change" from L.A. Turned out to be a bad move. So after a couple crappy years in Canada, I landed in Portland, Oregon. I went to work at Wieden + Kennedy ad agency - and met Ritsu Katsumata. You can visit her site here: www.ritsu.com/ She is an amazing violin player, who agreed to record some songs with me. I'll be posting other songs with Ritsu.
Every song of mine has some layers of meaning. In this one, the last verse is about how - while going through a breakup that was inevitable - I had to decide it was over, rather than continuing the agony of the drawn out demise. That's why I say, "never thought I'd leave you, or give you away... with so little to say". At a point, I had to give up on the idea that I could save that marraige. It was done. In fact, this song is about my relationship with two different women, at different points in time. It just happened to become one song. I had actually started it years prior to my trip to Canada. At any rate, when the moon is full, I'm not thinking about my ex-wife. Enough about that.
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