The Music
- Intro
- When I Met You
- I Cry Today
- She's Not Coming Back to You
- My Love For You Is Gone
- Help Me Understand
- Girl
- Goodbye My Friend
- So Close, So Far
- Without You
- That's My Girl
- Time's Have Gone Away
- Full Circle
- The Story The Present Looks On The Past
Blame it on February 9, 1964! Like many "baby boomers," watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show so many years ago was a turning point in our youthful lives. The Beatles and other bands of the British Invasion gave us an immediate love for R&B and pop music. We were inspired to take up guitars and drums and sing our hearts out.
My brother Don, our friend Nic Baker, and I formed a band based in Nic's basement. We covered countless songs from such bands as the Kinks, Rolling Stones, the Animals, and (most of all) the Beatles. We started writing our own material, composing more than a dozen songs over the next two years—and rediscovered in 2003.
Having more formally studied music in college and throughout my adult life, I now recognize some of the musical tools we used. We did not learn them from any kind of formal education but rather from some kind of musical intuition and our intent to make the next song better than the last.
These songs represent our best attempts at penning pop songs from 1964 to 1966. I would label them as our version of "American British Infusion."
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