My New Wave Demo
I watched the MTV Video Music Awards the other night just to remind myself of how old and out of touch I am. I asked Angel “What’s with all the 80′s garbage? Are the 80′s back?” She gave me the “No doy” look.
Of all the possible eras that we could rehash why on earth would we choose the 80s? I mean, I love Winger’s first album as much as the next guy but can we please use a little discernment here people?
Thinking about the 80′s reminded me of a demo I did a few years ago that I don’t think any of you have heard. This was written (and never finished) for the project Brian McClelland and I were working on back when I was in The Formula Kid.
Before Brian and I started writing together he sent me some really great demos of some music he’d been writing on his own. One of them was pretty new-wave sounding so I decided I’d try my hand at that style.
This is another one of my “nah, nah, nah” demos until it gets to the chorus where I wrote some incredibly trite lyrics to fit the incredibly trite vibe of the tune. It’s highly stylized stuff so don’t laugh too hard please.
Drew,waaaay back in the 70′s when i first started playing out, the retro music of the time was 50″s with bands like Sha Na Na etc..i would always think ..Why?..50′s music is soo dead..but over the years i have found that there is that trend to go back a couple decades and remember fondly an era that is really better in memory than it it ever was in reality..almost every bride and groom i meet with will bring up Bon Jovi, Journey, Tom Petty,John Mellencamp etc..in are area the “new wave” retro trend hasn’t happened yet. maybe it never will who knows..i personally would rather re-learn some of the “fun” new wave of the late 70′s early 80′s but i guess in my biz majority rules..and it sounds like people in general have the same taste’s all over… oh well..why can’t they all be asking for Jellyfish, lol..”power pop rules…oh by the way,Jim Boggia’s new Lp is out…it’s of course great…he also released it on Vinyl with mono mixes