ah oui alors , quelle beauté à chanter ça doit être génial. l'écoute est passionnante , je me la passe en boucle.  c'est intemporel et splendid et abouti .

Tony Scott 1 Year On

this is a song I wrote back in 2008 that I'm updating for 2022 - words - music - instruments - all by Dawayne Bailey
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Better Days

We have all
Seen darker days than this
At the bottom
Of an upside dawn

We have all
Been betrayed by a kiss
When it's hard to tell
Which side your friends are on

Don't look back
At where you've been
Where the troubles never end

(Let them fly away) (backing vocals)
Let them fly away
And we'll find better days
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They say the truth
Shall set you free
And money buys you
Peace of mind

Gold cannot conceal
A soul in poverty
People live on a nickel
With spirits that shine

Don't look back
At where you've been
With so much 
Life to live

The world will spin 
Without us, my friend
And you've got so much 
Love to give

So give that love away
And we'll find better days
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(bridge)

If you think
You're defeated
You are

Every man a planet
Every woman a star

Let that fear go
Rise above
All that bad flow
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When the tears fall
To the ground
When the telephone
Forgets to ring

When silence makes
A great big sound
When you feel
Like you've lost
...
Everything
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(guitar solo)

(Gospel choir - (start quiet to slow build/crescendo)
(unison/octave backing vocals)

Don't look back
Gotta keep on movin'
Baby don't look back

(repeat)

(lead vocal improv)
We'll find better days

Untitled - 10-09-08

Better Days

SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION

IT'S IN THE SLOE GIN AND THE ICE CUBES
IT'S IN THE X THAT'S ALWAYS SEX
IN THE ANACONDA SHADOW
IN THE PEARLS AROUND HER NECK
DON'T KNOW WHY MY HEART IS RACING
MAYBE I'M UNDER A SPELL

SUBLIMININAL SEDUCTION

THE BROKEN SMOKE RING IS A WOMAN
(CRIMINAL)
A NAKED BEAUTY IN SILHOUETTE
(SUBLIMINAL)
JUST A BELLY DANCING DEMON
(CRIMINAL)
IN A MENTHOL CIGARETTE
AND SUDDENLY I THINK I LOVE YOU
I FEEL SO FRIGHTENED AND ALIVE

FROM YOUR SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION
YOUR SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION

TURN THE PAGE TO A SMOOTH BLACK VELVET
I'LL SWALLOW ANYTHING THAT YOU SELL
OH YEAH

TO ALL THOSE FADED ATTIC MAGAZINES
THAT TAUGHT YOU EVERYTHING YOU KNOW
ABOUT SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION....

WORDS AND MUSIC - JUDE COLE - JUDE COLE MUSIC BMI 2023
ADMINISTERED BY WIXEN MUSIC

Subliminal Seduction

NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES, AMAZON AND OTHER POPULAR DIGITAL RETAILERS!

TRACK LINER NOTES:

When I think of Chicago II, I am still blown away. Songs like "Movin' In","Poem for the People","In the Country" & "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" just plain kick ass. 

In 1975, I managed to get my hands on some of the old scores from the first 3 albums -with all the parts broken out. I marveled at the song structure and spent countless hours trying to learn every part for every instrument. That led to an epiphany for me...it was the WAY the parts related to each other that made it uniquely Chicago. One of those songs, 25 or 6 to 4, was the first piece I ever figured out. 

Since I can only do one Chicago cover for various reasons now, this HAD to be the one! I don't believe in doing "sound alikes", going for an emulation of the original. I approached 25 like this...If Magellan was going to play this, how would I do it live? That's it. Its considerably different - and may take a few listens to get oriented. 

Anyway, I am equally blown away that years later, the composer, Robert Lamm would become an amazing mentor and supporter of Magellan... talk about being really glad I bought Chicago II on vinyl with my paper route money... Nice investment!
 
Personnel on this track are:
 
Trent Gardner -Vocals, keys, production, arrangement
Wayne Gardner - Rhythm guitar (2nd backing gtr during solo)
Roger Patterson - drums
Apogee Akilina -Bass
 
About the classic Terry Kath guitar lines:
 
Having tried various sampling and other time stretching techniques, it was clear the original guitar lead would not easily work. 

First, Chicago recorded those classics without a click/tempo track. The ebb and flow of time was a big part of the magic. However, when trying to make this production work, it was simply impossible to "line up" the Kath guitar leads against the time grid in my digital audio workstation (Studio One). 

While not the ACTUAL recording of Terry Kath's classic solo/lead parts, here is how I got this version done...
 
I started off by filtering the original track of everything but the guitar frequencies.This left TONS of artifacts and other bleed over which was inescapable and unusable. I set up a gate so that only the loudest of the sounds would break thru (still out of time to the grid). I started feeding that impulse into guitar modeling software to create a digital version. It was really raw, but allowed me to get things into the digital realm. 

Once I had that, I went thru the entire Kath performance note for note. After several hundred microscopic edits over a 2 month period, I managed to recreate the "impulse of Terry" and line it up with my timing grid.

That was the easy part. Getting the articulation and appropriate dynamic attack to the individual notes was the really challenging gig.
 
..Still, no other instruments were present at this point. The last steps were to take the new signal and feed that into guitar modeling software to get "re-amped" using a fender stratocaster model and a variety of other effects & amp models ..wah wah, distortion ,etc. The goal wasn't to replicate -only to find something that sounded good. And of course, finally, the process of obtaining appropriate licenses and clearances from the composer/publisher prior to distribution.

Robert Lamm wrote me a recent email after an early preview to say, "What an adventure! As far as I'm concerned, the wilder the better!" That's my favorite part about Lamm's outlook on music. 

He in so open minded that he can listen to ANY piece of music and continue to find new things about it. In my opinion, that's the mark of his true compositional genius.
TG

25 or 6 to 4 [Magellan cover -FULL TRACK]

by Dawayne Bailey / 
A. Brown: Vocals, Drums, Percussion, Bass, Keyboards, Arrangement / 
R. Grohs: Guitars, Guitar Solos, Mellotron Flutes, Strings

Aaron arranged and restyled this masterpiece by Dawayne Bailey.  This is yet another remix - Version #3

I'm Just Waiting (Dawayne Bailey Cover) - Version 3

Give Me Everything - an outtake -

...อีกเพลงที่อยากให้เก็บไว้ได้ฟังกัน^^ Warren ร้องได้เพราะมากกกกกก #ลองฟัง #DavidFoster #FlyAway #80s #Musics 

ชื่อของเดวิด ฟอสเตอร์ เป็นที่รู้จักและยอมรับในวงการดนตรีมาตั้งแต่ยุค’80s จนถึงปัจจุบัน ทั้งรางวัลต่างๆและยอดขายอัลบัม รวมถึงเสียงวิจารณ์เชิงบวกในผลงานต่างๆ ที่เขาทำ โดยเฉพาะในฐานะนักแต่งเพลงและโปรดิวเซอร์ ล้วนแต่ตอกย้ำความสำเร็จอันมากมายของเขา และ Fly Away ก็เป็นอัลบัมที่ยืนยันสถานะของเขาได้เป็นอย่างดี

[David Foster] Warren Wiebe - The Colour Of My Love (Live at Variety Club Telethon Vancouver 1992)

LIGHT YEARS AWAY

WHEN THE RAIN IS SUMMER
ON FIELDS LEFT FAR BEHIND
AND THE PAST IS SOMEWHERE
BURIED FROM YOUR MIND
IN THIS MOMENT THERE'S NOTHING BUT YOU

AND IT COULD BE THE END
OR THE START OF EVERYTHING
UNIVERSE IN YOUR EYES
A SEA INSIDE OF ME
MOVING CLOSER TO A CANVAS OF BLUE

WHERE WE FLY ABOVE THE YEARS
AND LAUGH AWAY THE FEARS
REACHING THROUGH THE NIGHT OF DAY
TO BE LIGHT YEARS AWAY

WE'LL PASS ANDROMEDA
PASS THE SUNFLOWER
WHERE LOVE IS FORTUNE
AND KINDNESS IS POWER
AND YOU'LL KNOW THAT FOREVER I'M YOURS

(LOVE BINARY SUPER HIGHWAY)
(PARALLACTICAL MOONLIGHT FLYWAY)
(LOVE ETERNAL SHOW US THE WAY)

SOMEWHERE IN THE STARS THEY KNOW IT
SOMEWHERE IN THE LIGHT THEY SEE
LIFE WAS ONLY MADE TO LOVE IT
AND TO LET WHATEVER BE...

Light Years Away

You're All I Really Wanna Do

Headlines riot in the wind
A mad world on a firing pin
Come whatever, we will never live in this moment again
So let 'em scream and let 'em shout
Can't run but we can tune 'em out
Cause we've got better, and love is forever
And you're all I really wanna do

Fear is the sound that they sell by the pound
Never short on supply and demand's record high

Shadows dancing on a wall
With a war to benefit us all
But we know better
And they'll fight forever
And you're all I really wanna do

So let's celebrate and stay out until late
We've got nothing but time left and no time to waste

Take my hand and hold it tight
For I promise you tonight
Come whatever we'll stick together
Cause you're all I really wanna do
Yeah you're all I really wanna do

Written, performed and produced by Jude Cole
Drums - John (JR) Robinson
Additional Editing - Mitch Miller
Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge @ MIXLA Los Angeles
Jeseth Music 2021 - Administered by Wixen Music
BMI

You're All I Wanna Do

You're All I Really Wanna Do

Written and Produced by Jude Cole/Jason Wade
Jeseth Music BMI/Jason Wade Music BMI
Administered by Wixen Music/Sony ATV

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