Three songs from the demo that Ernie made in late 88 or early 89:
Red Hot Love In The City: This was a song he wrote completely out of the band.. Or at least I don't remember playing any of it.. If I did it was one of those jam sessions that it came from.. Saying that however I can't recall ever working on the song at all.. Pretty much the story behind the demo tape that he made goes like this; from the final gig of '88 and the first practices for what would ultimately be my final gig with the band, he recorded a few songs.. More than likely the entire of the song catalog knowing how he probably did things, it would be what I would do, and then pick the best cuts for a tape like that.. Trouble is when I listened to it the first time I didn't know what to think.. Was it good?? Yes and no.. If I would have played on it then sure enough I would say it was good.. I wasn't the drummer at all.. Not a single note was played by me on the tape and I was afraid that people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.. I would hope they could.. The drummer on all three of these songs was a computer drum machine..
Down On Your Luck: This one was Joe on the vocals and was worked on during the writing phase by the band with Rob playing the keyboard part live.. However Ernie "wrote" the keyboard part and then showed Rob what to play.. This was a fun song to play live, as most of the original songs were..
Breakdown re : This is where it got ... dicey for me.. Why did he redo the song Break Down for?? I didn't know why he redid this one and others.. When I went to set the songs to compact disc I couldn't fit every song onto a single disc and I didn't want to split it and have a second disc so I picked which songs went on the disc and which didn't.. This I put on because even though it isn't my playing, it is still a favorite song that we did.. But the question remained for me, was this the definitive version of the song?? Would I have to conform my playing to an extremely simple playing style?? Was I even going to be in the band anymore??
The negatives from the "pasture" photo session.. How I got these; well my older brother was working with the ambulance service back in the early nineties, and they were moving into a new building and they were exploring the desks that were there (or storage cabinets.. whatever) and these were found there... Bob looked at them and recognized the guys in them, and then asked if I might want them. I said sure.. I thought about asking the guys if they wanted to have them but then never did.. There are some fifty proofs, and with them the negatives.. I tied to figure a way to make the pictures be able to show from the negatives but.. Never could figure it out..
A small attempt to make the negatives into the picture ..
One of the proofs from that session.. Starship to the stars ... rock your ass...
A snake!!!! WHERE??
In all there were around fifty proofs from that session.. I wasn't sure if they ever saw them or if they did if they got a few of them.. I was able to obtain the proofs and the negatives..
Badge Henry
(P.S. The Wrath was another song that was on the disc that I didn't include here.. The reason is we were starting to work on it before the final gigs in '88.. The song just didn't come together before that gig, and might have been interesting to see how it would have turned out as a band effort.. It ended up being around seven minutes when he completed it on his demo tape from 88-89.. While it was an interesting song it is a marathon to listen to.. )
Red Hot Love In The City: This was a song he wrote completely out of the band.. Or at least I don't remember playing any of it.. If I did it was one of those jam sessions that it came from.. Saying that however I can't recall ever working on the song at all.. Pretty much the story behind the demo tape that he made goes like this; from the final gig of '88 and the first practices for what would ultimately be my final gig with the band, he recorded a few songs.. More than likely the entire of the song catalog knowing how he probably did things, it would be what I would do, and then pick the best cuts for a tape like that.. Trouble is when I listened to it the first time I didn't know what to think.. Was it good?? Yes and no.. If I would have played on it then sure enough I would say it was good.. I wasn't the drummer at all.. Not a single note was played by me on the tape and I was afraid that people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.. I would hope they could.. The drummer on all three of these songs was a computer drum machine..
Down On Your Luck: This one was Joe on the vocals and was worked on during the writing phase by the band with Rob playing the keyboard part live.. However Ernie "wrote" the keyboard part and then showed Rob what to play.. This was a fun song to play live, as most of the original songs were..
Breakdown re : This is where it got ... dicey for me.. Why did he redo the song Break Down for?? I didn't know why he redid this one and others.. When I went to set the songs to compact disc I couldn't fit every song onto a single disc and I didn't want to split it and have a second disc so I picked which songs went on the disc and which didn't.. This I put on because even though it isn't my playing, it is still a favorite song that we did.. But the question remained for me, was this the definitive version of the song?? Would I have to conform my playing to an extremely simple playing style?? Was I even going to be in the band anymore??
In all there were around fifty proofs from that session.. I wasn't sure if they ever saw them or if they did if they got a few of them.. I was able to obtain the proofs and the negatives..
Badge Henry
(P.S. The Wrath was another song that was on the disc that I didn't include here.. The reason is we were starting to work on it before the final gigs in '88.. The song just didn't come together before that gig, and might have been interesting to see how it would have turned out as a band effort.. It ended up being around seven minutes when he completed it on his demo tape from 88-89.. While it was an interesting song it is a marathon to listen to.. )
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