This one's called "True Believers."
As before, David is playing all the guitars and singing all the vocals. Your humble scribe contributes bass and a very simple piano part intended to be all George Martin/Beatles VI-ish; the incomparable Glen "Bob" Allen is on drums.
As I'm fond of saying -- and speaking of gorgeous...
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Thanks for putting these up, I'd never heard them. David could sure write a great song.
ROTP(lumber)
Thanks Steve! Don't forget the other two (please)...
Great song. I like the bass sound. What kind of bass did you use on this?
If memory serves it was a Precision that a friend had altered by installing some then fashionable pick-ups that metal bassists used.
It was a real pig and I hated it, but at the time I couldn't afford anything better.
But thanks for the kind words.
And BTW -- the bridge on that tune just kills me; concise and achingly melodic.
Thanks for posting! I think this is a high-water mark, song-wise and this version/recording still gives me chills. I recall a Jerry Lee Lewis-type version on his actual solo record some years later that left me cold. I wonder what became of that album.
AP
EMI declined to release it at the last minute, despite an all-star bunch of backup musicians, including several from the Dave Edmunds/Rockpile axis.
I assume it was due to the usual musical chairs exit of whatever exec had signed David to the contract, although there may have been other factors which we needn't get into at this time.
I don't have a copy of the record any more, but I remember thinking at the time that a lot of it was disappointing compared to the demos I'd heard
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