by quarantoons | Jun 18, 2020 | Music
This deep cut from Aerosmith’s Rocks album came about when I asked Joey Sykes (The Babys) to do a song. After briefly flirting with doing a Pink Floyd tune, we reconsidered and decided on this one instead. And when I mentioned that we were doing this tune to...
by quarantoons | Jun 12, 2020 | Music
Anyone who has spoken to me about music in the past few years is well aware of my love for Scottish trio Biffy Clyro. For my money, there are few bands on Earth who rock harder and still maintain a great sense of melody and humanity in their lyrics. This song is from...
by quarantoons | Jun 12, 2020 | Music
This track features an old friend and former bandmate from my home town of Philadelphia, Bill Haney. When I approached him to do a song for the project, I told him that ‘left-field’ tunes were more than okay with me – and he immediately picked this...
by quarantoons | Jun 10, 2020 | Music
After working on two songs from the Sixties (‘My Back Pages’ and ‘Smile A Little Smile For Me’), Bob Sole and I were talking last weekend about what to do next. We decided to jump forward a couple of decades and do this Squeeze hit from...
by quarantoons | Jun 1, 2020 | Music
This Queen track features members of my band Way Back When – Bobby D’Andrea on lead vocals and Gary Hyatt on bass, with Mike McKeon from the band Stagecoach on drums. We added it to our song list just before everything got locked down, so when we started...
by quarantoons | May 30, 2020 | Music
This song has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks, since I was cleaning out my office and found a promo button for the single. This is the best-known song by a Canadian band called The Pursuit of Happiness, from their 1988 album Love Junk. It was the...
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