1982
What’s it Gonna Take to Make it With You
This song was written in and recorded by me and Max Camfield in 1979. Kind of a slow reggae feel in three, jazz and punk mashed together. The melody is dissonant. I think I slide down to an augmented 6th in the melody from flat seven. To my ears, just a chromatic Read more…
1981
loser in my life
So the lyric came from a B rated movie. I don’t remember the name of the film. But at the end the guy says “I understand the basic weaknesses that make you do the things you do”. The verse practically wrote itself. Another dark lyric. I remember in New York Read more…
1982
in the corner in the darkness
So after hearing the tape from the other side bleed through, I decided to make it into a song. I took Alone Last Night and reversed it. So everything in this song is backwards. I even tried to get the backwards vibrato in the chorus. This is a very dark song Read more…
1982
tell me that you love me
I wrote this as a disco-ska tune called “sitting by the window” in Boston in 1982. A few yeas later Bob Schott took this song into Editel studio and we made it an 80’s dance tune. Norman Simon wrote the lyrics. Paul Rose played guitar. Bob Schott did keyboards and Read more…