Words can't describe how quickly and how much in awe I am of these guys. Following my earlier frustrations with IB and after some Big4 research I was YouTubing some Stevie Wonder as a follow up to this which I saw in the very early hours of Sunday morning. Always liked what I heard from Stevie but this interview really opened by eyes to him. Was recommended a few albums by a friend who worships him, so was YouTubing in preparation for some iTunage. Came across Golden Lady from Innervisions, which reminded me of another song, I couldn't remember which, but I thought the leading line of the chorus was Golden Rain. I don't particularly like the song but it irked me that I couldn't remember the name, so I Googled. Filtered out the inevitable golden shower links, and came across this.
Not what I was looking for but I was spellbound, not so much by the song as the sound. This I thought, had potential. Imagine my surprise when on further Googlage only returned a couple of tour dates, and Amazon links. What, no website? This only fueled my fervour. Thankfully they have a MySpace. Was pretty plain, pretty amateurish and still didn't yield much truck. However, it had a playlist - 4 songs. They've pretty much been on repeat all this time between gleaning more from YouTube. They are all incredible, first time I've had that from a band I've tuned into for ages.
This is my favourite so far:
I'm really blown away by reading this. I'm glad you enjoy our music. I am the singer and principle songwriter of "One More Song," and my friend Mike is the singer and principle songwriter of "Golden Rain." I arranged and performed the harmonies on that one.
We did our CD back in 1996, and tried very hard for quite a number of years. We were competing with the Seattle/Grunge sound of that time, and of course, the Rap/Metal/Britney Spears type Pop that was on the radio, and so we had a bit of a tough road. Add to that we still needed to pay the bills, and work day jobs most of the time; the inevitable infighting that goes with being a tight unit of different personalities, and we just didn't hold it together.
Mike and I started the two YouTube pages you found, and we are constantly uploading new stuff, and old stuff we are re-recording, re-mastering, or re-discovering from tapes. We wrote literally hundreds of songs, and I am starting to write again. I don't know if Mike is writing. We keep in touch online. He is in Minneapolis, and I am in Fort Wayne.
I hope you will keep checking back in at those YouTube pages. Sorry about the MySpace; I haven't put much time into that, but maybe I will in the future.