Celebrating my 1st year on SoundCloud with this amazing collaboration!

My music from 1997 meets with words from 2013

Jenny Dyer - https://soundcloud.com/jaydee25 - lyrics, consulting
Debbie Deijkers - https://soundcloud.com/thingsfromthepast - composition of vocals part and singing
Lee Lucas - https://soundcloud.com/lee-lucas - consulting
Igor - composing all the music, all the  instruments, idea to use the line "What doesn't kill you..." as a start line in lyrics, mix and  production

I invented the main riff and the chord progression in 1997. In 2008 I had started recording it as an instrumental. The main idea at that time was a duel between 2 guitars using 2 famous fuzz pedals: DoD FX32 Classic Fuzz (the best fuzz pedal ever) and Ibanez L.A. Metal (which also a fuzz and the worst fuzz ever according to HarmonyCentral.com reviews). As you can see L.A.Metal is not so bad :-)

I put it on a shelf until Jun 2013 when I rediscovered it and was excited with its sound myself. So I started asking people here on SC for opinions and help and that led to this great collaboration. I asked Jenny if this should be a song starting with a line "What doesn't kill you makes you stronge"( I read it in a fantasy book). 

Unexpectedly, Jenny came up with a lirics which she wrote in 1 night! And I believe this was the first time when she wrote lyrics when music already existed. I contacted Lee Lucas and he was very helpful, had been reviewing many intermediate versions and made many invaluable suggestions how to improve the music. Finally Debbie composed so brilliant vocal part over my music and with such a freedom have sung the lyrics.

Many thanks to Jenny, Debbie and Lee for making this possible.

== Actually, the third part of the recorded material remained edited out and unused: banjo, melody theme whistled like in Sergio Leone movies, surfing guitars: on some step the demo had a wild west feel and looked like "box full of surprises" - something new were constantly popping up. I plan to create another intro and someday release unused material as a short instrumental.==


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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

You've got to hold it together 
Ride out that stormy weather
If there doesn't seem to be an end
Just be patient my dear friend
No one gets out of the world alive
We're all gonna die
We have to make the best of what we've got
Good things will come out of this bad lot

What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

I've been on that sinking ship
I was loosing my grip
Just going through the motion
Battling waves in that big ocean.

Made myself get out of bed each day
Go about things in the normal way
Prayed for my life to turn around
I got back on solid ground

Oh, What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

You've just got to hold it together
Ride out this stormy weather
You've got to hold it together
Things will get better

What doesn't kill you 
Makes you stronger
You just have to wait 
A little longer
Believe me
I should know 
Been so far down 
You wouldn't want to know

Lyrics copyright Jenny Dyer June 2013
Music copyright Igor Maximov 1997 - 2014
Vocal melody copyright Debbie Deijkers 2013

What doesn't kill you (Fuzzy Logic). Collaboration with BigmamaDee and Jenny Dyer

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita........
Je meurs de soif aupres de la fontaine......

Songwriter. Kitchen guitarist with inclination for orchestration and arrangement. Poet in the past.

I occasionally post solo works of "the other manager", my friend, drummer and self-taught keyboard player Maxim K.

My spotlight :-)
https://soundcloud.com/project-managers-trio/when-i-come-home-to-you