Name: Peace Of Mind by Biff Thuringer
Duration: 6 min 4 s
Description: I performed this song just once with a live band, in NYC in 1982, when it was apparently way ahead of its time. I should probably start playing it again, as, ironically, my mind has not in the intervening 38 years successfully achieved anything approaching "peace." Maybe I was just saving it for a pandemic ...

I love it Steve.  Thanks for sharing!  I will put anything yu send out to my 2,000 friends.  Love you!  Keep playing and writing.

If you like this tune and want to own it, please go to http://biffthuringer.bandcamp.com/track/peace-of-mind and download it for a buck. Thanks!

Great sound, loved the description! Really nice solo's, great vocal tone!

This has potential. Nice chord structures and melody lines. Especially  love he fourths withe sax etc. Recording quality needs to be rethought and drummer (or drum program?) keeps losing meter, slowing down/speeding up etc. Beautiful piece that could be stellar with a redo? Please forgive my criticisms but I like this piece and can see it could go long if really worked through.

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I performed this song just once with a live band, in NYC in 1982, when it was apparently way ahead of its time. I should probably start playing it again, as, ironically, my mind has not in the intervening 38 years successfully achieved anything approaching "peace." Maybe I was just saving it for a pandemic ...

Peace Of Mind

Steve Hopkins is a journalist, editor and magazine publisher who has led a double life. Biff Thuringer is his alter-ego, an alias that was created in the 1980s when he was a systems analyst for the state tax department, to help him avoid paying taxes while moonlighting as a singer/musician. During the 1990s Hopkins, temporarily shedding the Biff persona, quit government work and joined the NYC funk band Milo Z, which toured around the U.S. with the Neville Brothers, The Meters, and Al Green. The band got a record deal with Mercury/Polygram and did all right until their guy at the label, Ed Eckstyne, got canned. They were friends with the Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Joan Osborne, God Street Wine, and others who had come up out of the Nightingale scene on Second Avenue in the Lower East Side. It was a heady time, rubbing shoulders with movie stars, mobsters and music moguls. 
Success turned out, as most things do, to be a double-edged sword, especially the more popular the band got. As exciting as things were on the surface, it was a strange, lonely and not very rewarding time, when one wasn't onstage beating off the demons. Milo really, really wanted to be the next Michael Jackson and was working hard on his inner diva. Steve wasn't into living in a fantasy bubble, surrounded by sycophants. The road totally sucked and he was relieved when the band broke up. He's been avoiding the road ever since, but is starting to get over it. 
Elsewhere in his career as a sideman, Hopkins played with the late Nick Brignola, according to Downbeat the best baritone sax player ever.He was in a great disco funk band, Natural Essence, with the unbelievable jazz bassist Santi Wilson Debriano. He played with Tony Lindsay, Grammy-winning lead singer for Santana, with renowned Polish jazz violinist Michal Urbaniak, and with doo-wop legends The Jive Five, to crowds of over 200,000.
Hopkins also experienced a very short and very successful (if anonymous) career as a contract dance music producer. In 1995 he was paid $400 to work on a track for the producer working with a Europop group called No Mercy. With a sampled drum track and swatches of samples of the singers that had been recorded in France and linked to the keys of a synthesizer, he had to figure out the changes, construct the song and make up/record keyboard and bass parts. The song was called "Where Do You Go," and turned out to be a huge dance hit in the U.S. and U.K. Some of that feel has been creeping into his music lately, after listening to Nile Rodgers talk about it. 
Most of Steve/Biff's career has been playing solo in clubs, as a singing piano and/or guitar player turning down requests for Billy Joel songs from tables full of nuns and drunk sailors. He's not doing that any more.  Ever. Just so we're clear.  
Biff Thuringer is now in full effect. He's throwing all his shit out on the internet in one yearlong blast, doing things quick and dirty using his iPhone, garageband, the old Korg M1 from the Milo Z days and a Mexican Strat with a crappy digital effects box. Right now he plays all the parts, like Trent Reznor used to. He sings right into the phone. Fuck it. Biff resolutely refuses to choose a genre, but tends to work in jazz, funk, soul, r&b and rock. He'll start a band later, and have big parties in a barn like Levon Helm did, making the world come to him and hand him awards and money. The band is going to have to be really, really good, and everybody's going to have to sing, like in Sly and the Family Stone. That's the dream, anyway.

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