“Gimme” is the third single from Mama Said and will be released on December 10, 2021. The Northern California based female-fronted rock band, Mama Said, has a distinctly retro sound inspired by classic rock of the late 70’s/early 80’s and the classic rock revival of the early 90’s. The track “Gimme” was co-written and produced by Jim McGorman in Los Angeles during the start of the Pandemic.

The band’s singer had the following to say about the song. “This song is about accepting all of a person in a relationship. When we see others as whole multi-faceted beings without conditions they're free to fully express who they're meant to be. That's where deep connection comes from. And I think that's something we all crave. "The delay effect on the guitar creates a lush, dreamy landscape over the groove, together conjuring a danceable mashup of retro pop and rock.

The debut album “Change in the Weather” will be coming out this Spring 2022 and the band will be playing shows to support their release.

Gimme

>Sativa January, guitar, lyrics, vocals
>Victoria Raybourn, vocals
>Kym Sturdivant, guitar
>Tricia Lewis, cello
>Peter Rubissow, producer, engineering, guitar, cello arrangement, drums/bass/glockenspiel programming.

Blood Essential

Lightning and Fire

By Pete Rubissow

Vocals: Victoria Raybourn 
Guitars, drums, programming, bass, and everything else: Pete Rubissow
Engineered & Produced by Pete Rubissow

Words & Music Copyright © 2023 Peter George Rubissow ASCAP
All Rights Reserved - LaRoRu Music ASCAP

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TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

I’ve been living in my head
Always worried
Clock is ticking
My body says hurry
We’ve been living on the edge
of maybe

If you want me baby
I can’t linger
Maybe think about a ring
on my finger
We’ve got everything we need
So why you keep resisting

Don’t wait till “someday”
Make it real today

Take it or leave it
I can’t wait anymore
If you want to be together
Baby close the door
And believe in

Believe our love
Is strong enough
To carry us through the years
Carry us through
Whatever you’re afraid of

Fuck the fear, I’m right here
It’s now or never
Time to clear out the doubt
Feel the pressure
We’ve checked every box
Now you’ve got to decide

We’re so good, really good
Really good together
And we both know
This could be, this could be forever
So I think you understand
I’m drawin’ a line in the sand now

Don’t wait till “someday”
Make it real today

Take it or leave it
I can’t wait anymore
If you want to be together
Baby close the door
And believe in

Believe our love
Is strong enough
To carry us through the years
Carry us through
Whatever you’re afraid of

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - (feat. Victoria Raybourn)

I'm a NorCal based Songwriter, Record Producer, Composer and Guitarist.

This is the place to hear all the songs & music I write & produce.

I write music in the Pop/Rock/Electronic realm and sometimes crossover into other genres for fun. I also score movies from time to time. 

Besides writing and releasing my own songs, I produce and develop rising Pop and Indie Rock artists. 

My musical influences are broad. In no particular order I would say: Chopin, Butch Vig, The Beatles, Underworld, Miles Davis, HAIR the musical, Elliot Smith, Garbage, Caetano Veloso, Earth Wind & Fire, LTJ Bukem, Santana, Radiohead, William Orbit, Brian Eno, Shania Twain, Prince, The Pretenders, Mutt Lange, Pink Floyd, Hans Zimmer, Digital Underground, Sting, Beethoven, Neil Young, Herbie Hancock, Caravan Palace, Norah Jones, Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, Keith Urban, Kayhan Kalhour, Allison Krauss, Foo Fighters, Pop, Rock & Electronic music in general and countless loud rock and dance shows.

Whatever the music is, I want it to be in my face. It doesn’t have to be loud. It has to be real. I want it to be full of emotional power and to bravely show it. I want to feel it.

I grew up in Berkeley, California and then in rural Devon England during the 70s. I played violin as a kid, but at age 13 I suddenly announced I was dropping violin to take up guitar instead. 

As a young guitarist I was amazed by the sheer power of Led Zeppelin, Boomtown Rats and BB King. I taught myself all their songs by ear from listening to cassette tapes over and over and over again late at night - driving my mom and sister absolutely mad.

The reverb-soaked 70s song "Small Hours" by singer-songwriter John Martyn had a huge impact on me - which you can still hear in my instrumental guitar work today.

My Dad was a physicist/pianist and through him I developed a keen appreciation of Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven’s piano works. I memorized the melodies of their famous etudes, preludes and sonatas as I fell asleep hearing my Dad play them downstairs at night.

My sister loved Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Commodores, Chicago, Marvin Gaye & Aretha Franklin. And through our home stereo system I discovered all kinds of amazing music in my sister's collection of LPs.

My mother enjoyed straight-ahead Jazz and Be Bop, as well as show tunes. I must have heard My Fair Lady 20,000 times. Jesus Christ Superstar also.
Musical Theater is where some of the best and most creative music is being made.. Mom took me to my first Jazz shows and to plays in London's West End.

After high school I attended Berklee College of Music and focused on Guitar, Arranging and Composition.

Later, while living in Los Angeles I began writing and performing my own intensely melodic pop and alternative songs at clubs all over town. I also scored several indie films and documentaries. In the 90s, KCRW FM was the first to add and play my music in eclectic rotation.

Then I took a big detour working a couple decades in the wine business which is also a love and family passion. After exiting the delightfully exhausting world of wine in 2019, I immediately got back to work wiritng new songs, producing tracks and working with local artists to devlop and produce their work.

As a producer I’m always listening to what’s new and how artists and producers are crafting their sound and authenticity.

As far as what's on pop radio right now, Billie Eilish & Finneas make beautiful stuff. Taylor Swift’s “Lavender Haze” is brilliant, Taylor Swift is a pop song machine. I really like Olivia Rodrigo. Also, The Weeknd knocks it out of the park EVERY TIME. Dua Lipa and her producers really bring it. Lizzo too.

I write drafts of most of my music in my head or on guitar first, and then work it all out by recording rough tracks & beats in Logic and then gradually addiing, subtracting layers to find sounds and feelings that work.

All musicians are much more diverse than their recordings tell you. As musicians our influences help inspire who we are, but in the end, our own authentic voice is unique and may not sound anything like the music and artists we love most.

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - (feat. Victoria Raybourn)

Pete Rubissow

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