One of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Thank you, Warren!

Back In 1981

Written, produced and performed by Ramsey
Mixed and mastered at Glaus Haus Studios
Copyright 2019 Ramsey Sound Ascap

Lyrics:

I belong to you, I give you the power
You're the only one that I let in, you tear my walls down
I can tell your energy is mine now
I feel it right now

Cause I bathed in his blood I think I'm high now
Choking on his skin I try to slow down
Loving you is heavy on my mind now
I want it right now 

Baby you can bite me if you like that
I wouldn't fight that, i wouldn't fight that
Drift away to nothing when I ride that
I let you fuck away my pain and make it come back
Look at me and tell me that you like that
Daddy when I fight back, tell me that you like that
Look at me and tell me that you like that
Daddy when I fight back, tell me that you like that

Playin games
Hard to move, you got me tied up
Love is pain
Hold your knife up
Knife up, hold your knife up
Baby you're divine, I leave my body
Suckin on your tongue gold teeth come find love
Daddy likes the drugs make gold teeth grind up
grind up (x2)

Cause I bathed in his blood I think I'm high now
Soaking in his sin I carve my soul out
Loving you is heavy on my mind now

(chorus)

Daddy 

Look at me (x4)

Daddy

A musical genius born of Frank Zappa, honed by Missing Persons, a talent matured to award-winning international acclaim with one of the biggest bands of the 80's & 90's,  Warren Cuccurullo has truly emerged as a musician’s musician and a rock star.

Born and raised in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, Warren started playing drums (age 9) and guitar at age 10 He formed bands and it quickly became the perfect way for him to try out his own ideas. He wrote his first song at age 14. and it was a favorite in his bands set.  By his late teens, Warren had become THE die-hard Frank Zappa fan, and for much of the decade, would travel far and wide to catch Zappa in concert. It wasn't long before he became friends with members of Zappa's backing band, and eventually, Zappa himself. He appeared in a backstage segment for Zappa's concert movie Baby Snakes, and soon enough got the phone call he'd been waiting for. Warren was invited to try out to for a coveted vacant guitar slot in the band. Cuccurullo got the gig, appearing on tour with Frank, and on such albums as Joe's Garage: Acts 1-3, Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar, Tinseltown Rebellion, and volumes one, four, and six of the You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series. 

After his tenure with Zappa, Warren moved on to form the new wave outfit Missing Persons.  The band enjoyed success early on with such hit singles as "Words" and "Destination Unknown," from their gold-certified debut album Spring Session M. The band toured internationally and released 2 more albums; Rhyme and Reason, and Color in Your Life. But with growing internal tensions in the band, Missing Persons eventually broke up. Coincidentally, Warren got word from an insider that one of the most photographed pop groups at the time was about to lose their founding guitarist, and he inquired about joining. Cuccurullo was soon invited on board (and quickly included as an official band member) and went on to record and write on the albums: Notorious, Big Thing, Liberty, the self-titled release “The Wedding Album” (for which Warren was awarded songwriting honors from ASCAP), Thank You, Medazzaland (which included Cuccurullo’s composition ‘Electric Barbarella’ – a pioneer in online music sales), and Pop Trash an album that the bands singer described as 'a Warren Cuccurullo solo album' in large part to an organizational and music direction skill that began when Warren was just 14 and perfected with his tenure and relationship with Frank Zappa.

The anthemic songs penned by Warren during that time have been covered repeatedly by hundreds of artists from rappers to opera legend Luciano Pavarotti and are a staple in film and television soundtracks.

Despite an intense schedule, Warren’s immense creativity and decades long devotion to sobriety & exercise afforded him the opportunity to work on several side projects and write, produce and record solo albums including Thanks to Frank, Machine Language, Roadrage,  The Blue featuring Shankar and The Master with Ustad Sultan Kahn.

When Warren was asked to leave the band to make way for a reunion with their original guitarist, Warren went on to release ‘The Blue‘ with Shenkar and record the solo albums ‘N-liten up’, Playing in Tongues, ‘Chicanery’ (w/Neil Carlill), release both  ‘The Master’ with Ustad Sultan Khan and a side art project called TV Mania with Nick Rhodes,  form and record ‘The Rose Vortex’ with jazz tenor sax legend Azar Lawrence,  Tommy Mars & Joe Travers, & now in 2019. he is developing his "one Man Jam band' and  releasing ‘Missing Person’ a collection of songs recorded with guest musicians and vocalists which features a cover of one of Warren’s favorite tracks, Gary Numan’s ‘Me I disconnect from you’ and a tribute to Prince with '1981'.

Back In 1981

Warren Cuccurullo

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