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ABOUT THE CD:
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My cd
"...40.000 miles ago!”was recorded in november |
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ABOUT THE TITLE:
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Well, the title
should have been “16 years!" or something like that, which stood for the
time I lived in Italy and earned my living as a musician here. For several reasons
however it happened that between the recording of the actual record and the
final mixing/mastering time just flew away and 18 months had passed! ...in
the mean time I played a lot of pubs, private parties,weddings ecc. all over
Italy and drove about ...guess what?...40.000 miles in my car to get to those
gigs!....so here you are.... |
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ABOUT THE SONGS: |
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1 – BACK TO YOU ( listen )
A favorite of
mine, melodic, straightforward… I’ve played this
song a thousand times...can’t get enough of it! 2 – HUNGRY HEART
( listen ) Bruce Springsteen...The
Boss! I could’ve picked any song by this magnificent songwriter, but for now
this one will do! ”everybody’s got a hungry heart”.....how true! 3 – NOTHING ELSE
MATTERS ( listen ) What can I say?
A very involving song..... Sounds pretty
much as their version with the symphonic orchestra. I used my acoustic Maton ‘The Messiah’ throughout the
song and it makes the song sound ‘warmer’ I think.... 4 – FREE ( listen ) This song, sort
of country, I
wrote especially for this cd in about two hours. The band played the song
twice and then we recorded it...first take.
The lyrics explain themselves!.. In the last verse you’ll here some
names...’Mark’ stands for Mark Knopfler and ‘Regg’, ‘Frame’, Spud’, ‘Nuff’
are the nicknames of the original members of Status Quo:Francis
Rossi, Rick Parfitt, John Coghlan and Alan Lancaster... |
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5 – LEAVING Wonderful
melodic song by R.E.M. I recorded this
song just after it came out in Italy and was probably the first in Italy to
play it live during my gigs. Most people didn’t even know this song yet!
Anyway my cd came out, as you know, quite late so..that much for the
surprise...! 6 – DE VRIJGEZEL+NARCOTIC ( listen ) Just a small
verse from an old Dutch song to get to a song which is still a garanteed
party-song! Makes the roof come down everytime in whatever place in Italy... 7 – ANGELS ( listen ) The first hit-record by Robbie Williams
going solo... Beautiful song to start off an amazing
solo-career. One of my favourites... 8 – SULTANS OF
SWING ( listen ) Imagine four
very concentrated musicians who played ‘Sultans Of Swing’, all improvised
for about 12 minutes!!!...only I forgot to push ‘rec’...Well, I risked some
serious lynching there by the band!...What you hear
on the cd is ‘take 9 – FLYING HIGH
TONIGHT
( listen
) A song I wrote
for the cd by the Inferno Band in 2001... Let’s say it’s
my first real song ! Ever heard
‘Johhny and Mary’ by Robert Palmer? You can consider this song a sequal,
something like ’20 years later they meet again and..... 10 – FATHER AND
SON ( listen ) A classic!
Everybody who plays guitar knows this one next to ‘Wish you were here’ and
‘Knockin’ on heaven’s door’....and everyone who doesn’t play the guitar knows
how to sing it! 11 –
ROMEO&JULIET
( listen
) I recorded this
at 02.00 am! I think this is a song that suits me....I like this intimate and
stripped-down version...just me and my guitar. 12 – ONE FOR MY
BABY ( listen ) If the previous
song was at 02.00 am, this one was at 04.00 am! How come the song is not complete?
Well, it happened that at the end of the session day we decided to prepare
the microphone-settings for the old ‘saloon-piano’ so we could start straight
away the next day with recordings... The tape was rolling, Alessandro started
to play, I just started singing ... After hearing this short sound-check we
all agreed that there was something special here, so we decided to share it
with you! |
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