Hey alls-- I've no new news for you on the production front, except for these here couple of recent covers that've been sitting around in the can, waiting on getting posted. They're from the same basement test-drive sessions as the Stones covers from the other week, and similarly off-the-cuff but packed with lovin'.
Keeping it brief, first off is one of my perennial favorite Warren Zevon tunes, "Mohammed's Radio", off his self-titled debut from '76. Second is "Oh Candy", the first Cheap Trick single, off of their self-titled debut from '77. Total pop heaven, far as I'm concerned. No idea what "Mohammed's Radio" is about. I used to think "Oh Candy" was about an ingenue lost to drugs and heartbreak. Then I realized that they were singing "he" and not "she", and it turns out (via the Wiki and Cheap Trick bio) that it's about the suicide of a friend of theirs with initials M(&)M. Still learning about life, we are....
I'd hoped to a/b the Cheap Trick song with a cover of the weird, boxy, non-anthemic, guitarmonied, piano-laden, finger-snapping version of "I Want You to Want Me" off their second album "In Color" (a.k.a. one of the versions they probably hate). Also maybe a/b the Zevon song with a version of "Tule's Blues".... or maybe I'll save that one for some Jackson Browne-ian action... dunno.... A million possibilities and only 168 hours in a week....
jk
Mohammed's Radio: https://app.box.com/s/rpyzsrpsunk61sz2i7d44m595vceo67a
Oh Candy: https://app.box.com/s/0km4hw3lpc6u3ocj6z0jdjzzrba8h3ns
