Thanks to all for your kind comments on my quarter century old baby .
I shall now proceed to bore you with all the history that I can remember.
I started playing Farfisa organ and singing in 1966,(give or take). I was 16 years old. My greatest hero (next to the 7 Mercury astronauts) was Alen Price of "The Animals". My first band was an honest to goodness garage band called "The Lost Minds".
Played in many bands, graduated h.s. in 69, became blue collar man, fell in love with Cin. got married, had three sons ,played in bands ,built house for family (cause I couldn't afford to buy one). ....bla...bla..ect.
up until the new wave years, (late 80's) my creative musical Renascence.
I fell in with John Patch, a strange bass player who was influenced by groups like the Stranglers, the Dead Kennedys and most of all Graham Maby, (Joe Jackson's bass-man.)
The Patch and I put together "The Needles", loudest cover band the Poconos had ever known. I have many interesting Needles storeys, but they will have to wait. Needles had a good run.
Around 1980, Patch and I decided to become songwriters and we found an incredible guitarist who called himself Slider. (we called him Benny)
Ben played a S.G. Custom through a 100W Marshall . (that, believe it or not, is what he's playing on "Come on To Me") Ben and I became one instrument on that song. Listen close and you can hear him. I Was still using my old Farfisa Combo Compact direct into the sound system.
K.K. Brown played drums .
A WFMU radio DJ named us "Tentative Relationship" We had four solid sets of originals. We laid down a couple of bucks to record some live tracks in studio at RedRock Recording in Saylorsburg P.A. (they are still in business) We were so seasoned that we ran through the tunes we planned to do all in one take. (no overdubs) no dickin' around. The engineer told us we had tape and time left for another song. That turned out to be "Come on To Me"
Sometime later, Lehigh Valleys big A.O,R. radio station WZZO sponsored a song contest , Ten original regional bands would be showcased on a vinyl compilation album called "Vally Rock". Out of 800 entry's, we got on.
That old record has been lying around until a few weeks ago , when I dug my turntable out of the attic, hooked it into Cin's computer, tweaked Audacity, and..... "She wears a thin shroud of mystery....... "
For the record, that song was already over a year old when we recorded it in 82. T.R. was a song writing machine, and one hell of a live band. I love those guys. We drank to much. Annoyed the neighbors, fought with each other, stressed my family, yet, somehow, we survived.
This is how the tune was conceived.
Patch and Ben were noodlein', I started playing 96 tears, I dropped the key a few steps and chopped the beat ska like , out of nowhere, Patch started playing his demon bass line. Ben just started playin' what I was doing. I started improvising a vocal melody. We always had a little cassette player recording so we caught it on tape. I penned the lyrics later, and we put it together next practice.
wow!, a bit long winded, but thanks fore listening' (Y'All made me feel better
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Howlin'
. The bassist is freakin' sick! Reminds me of Joe Jackson's bass player. And a great tone on the bass. J's keys are great! Classic authentic solo. The vox are good too. Here it here.
