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Julian wrote this very pretty acoustic tune called "Crazy With You". He was curious what would happen if we collaborated together. He has a great voice and his song writing has this really beautiful quality to it. He had already contacted Scott Fugate about doing percussion, which saved me the trouble because I love working with Scott.
The photo is some slowly dissolving timber on a temporary WW2 dock at the beginning of the white cliffs of dover.
Quote from Julian:
"i sent this song to steve....did i? in fact i don't know how it happened. i didn't even know the guy...and then somehow we ended up in a collaboration....and i hadn't even smoked anything."
In fact, this is a snapshot of our conversation which got things going:
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You sent me this: thanks for popping over for a listen. i'm digging your arrangements.....and you have an interesting bio. and is that your pug? i love pugs.
please don't work scott fugate too hard as i want him all to myself.
i'm seeing a little black pug later. really cute dog....the owner's a car-crash...but the pug's cool. i would love to collab with you. i have little ability in the rich production of things and you seem to have an ear/eye for that. if i sent you the bare bones of songs; rhythm guitar, vocal melody, lyrics, breaks etc...could you fill in the gaps and create a richer, fuller produced song?
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Julian sent me a GarageBand project which I imported into Logic. He played the electric piano, acoustic steel string parts and did all the vocals.
I added some sampled percussion (congas, tamborine, simple traps), fretless bass, classical guitar, piano, marimba.
I then sent it off to Scott for his percussive magic. He layered his parts on top of my sampled percussion which gives a really cool duel drummer effect. Scott's first attempt was absolutely perfect.
As a side note. Julian is really fun to work with. He has a very odd sense of humor. I hope to do more with him soon.
-- Steve
The photo is some slowly dissolving timber on a temporary WW2 dock at the beginning of the white cliffs of dover.
Quote from Julian:
"i sent this song to steve....did i? in fact i don't know how it happened. i didn't even know the guy...and then somehow we ended up in a collaboration....and i hadn't even smoked anything."
In fact, this is a snapshot of our conversation which got things going:
======
You sent me this: thanks for popping over for a listen. i'm digging your arrangements.....and you have an interesting bio. and is that your pug? i love pugs.
please don't work scott fugate too hard as i want him all to myself.
i'm seeing a little black pug later. really cute dog....the owner's a car-crash...but the pug's cool. i would love to collab with you. i have little ability in the rich production of things and you seem to have an ear/eye for that. if i sent you the bare bones of songs; rhythm guitar, vocal melody, lyrics, breaks etc...could you fill in the gaps and create a richer, fuller produced song?
======
Julian sent me a GarageBand project which I imported into Logic. He played the electric piano, acoustic steel string parts and did all the vocals.
I added some sampled percussion (congas, tamborine, simple traps), fretless bass, classical guitar, piano, marimba.
I then sent it off to Scott for his percussive magic. He layered his parts on top of my sampled percussion which gives a really cool duel drummer effect. Scott's first attempt was absolutely perfect.
As a side note. Julian is really fun to work with. He has a very odd sense of humor. I hope to do more with him soon.
-- Steve
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Lyrics
crying in a parked car
city lights up and I don’t know where you are
we’ve been fighting now for much too long
it’s time we realised here’s something wrong
‘sorry’ is a strange place
full of uncertainty that lines your face
and makes it seem that we no longer care
so many things to say but we just don’t dare
and we got no reason to go on like this
but can we just give this thing a miss
to hell with us being through I’m so crazy with you
what am I gonna do I’m so crazy with you
and every night we’re searching for
a way through this insanity
another fight and reason goes astray
up into the air
grey dawn on a high tide
we didn’t make it but at least we tried
to say goodbye to rowing ways
and wasted time in those unhappy days
and I see you’re thinking just what I’m thinking
and I cant let you go like that
I guess it’s sad but it’s true I’m so crazy with you
don’t know what I can do , I’m so crazy with you
it’s too bad that we’re through, I’m still crazy with you
what am I gonna do I’m so crazy with you
I’m so crazy with you , I’m so crazy with you
so goddamn crazy with you
I’m so crazy with you
city lights up and I don’t know where you are
we’ve been fighting now for much too long
it’s time we realised here’s something wrong
‘sorry’ is a strange place
full of uncertainty that lines your face
and makes it seem that we no longer care
so many things to say but we just don’t dare
and we got no reason to go on like this
but can we just give this thing a miss
to hell with us being through I’m so crazy with you
what am I gonna do I’m so crazy with you
and every night we’re searching for
a way through this insanity
another fight and reason goes astray
up into the air
grey dawn on a high tide
we didn’t make it but at least we tried
to say goodbye to rowing ways
and wasted time in those unhappy days
and I see you’re thinking just what I’m thinking
and I cant let you go like that
I guess it’s sad but it’s true I’m so crazy with you
don’t know what I can do , I’m so crazy with you
it’s too bad that we’re through, I’m still crazy with you
what am I gonna do I’m so crazy with you
I’m so crazy with you , I’m so crazy with you
so goddamn crazy with you
I’m so crazy with you
shavingronaldscar
I love the 70s easy listening feel, and the production quality on this is through the roof, as I've come to expect from Scott. The performances, also, are first class, and the tune itself is catchy as hell. In fact, whenever I comment on a tune from one of you guys, it's always just ego stroking. But we all need a bit of that too, right? ;)