You know what songs I'm getting sick of?
"No Excuses" and "It's All Right".
Oh, they're great songs, don't get me wrong! But you'd think that's all Ted ever wrote!
The truth is: getting songs into rotation was probably only slightly easier than giving a crocodile a belly rub! When you've got a Hubie Poole walking in, picking up a guitar, and immediately playing "I Know Your Name" and we all fall in, without effort....it's completely understandable! Especially when you've got only a couple of hours to rehearse! Anything else is hard work! And there's a reason we call it playing music! Let's get this sounding good.....now, not later! You'll notice in our rehearsal tapes, we seldom play a song more than once or twice, we run-through them.
Regarding the Ted songs we did, "It's All Right" was a song Ted had written years earlier; in fact, it was the very first song he recorded on the 4-track he bought back in 1987! The whole song was E, and A. Even if you were trying to sabotage it, you couldn't help but play it right. Other than that - and liking it as we did - we were on no special mission to play "It's All Right" every show.
"No Excuses" got people clapping at it's first public airing,so that was in. I insisted we learn "Dog Days" and "Four Walls", that was my own personal crusade, once again, two older songs of Ted's, dating back to 1989 when we first started doing them in 1992.
But what of the rest of Ted's output?
I have a million Ted songs and demos, scattered over many tapes, and I still haven't found them all (like a great one called "To Be Alone"! Oh where oh where is my copy of "To Be Alone"?!)
There's a million ways to present these demos, I've settled on two small "scoops".
Here's the first one..... beautiful, beautiful songs, songs that LOOB didn't do - some we could have done great, others are just songs (or recordings) that I personally have affection for. I hope you love them as much as I always have. I won't talk them out, I'll let the songs speak for themselves....other than these three quick things:
1. These are demos, not finished products, and in many cases, not completed compositions, so keep that in mind.
2. Of all the music I've been a part of, "Sweetest Amour" is one of the recordings I am most proud..
3. The end of "Another Million".....beautiful, have to give kudos to the birthday boy and Frank as well....Just wish I had it in better quality!
Viva Ted! Thanks for the great songs, Maestro!
Ted demos, 1987-1993
Sweetest Amour (1989)
Another Million (1993)
Wasting Time (1988)
Instrumental (1987)
Money In Your Future (1990)
Trying To Talk To You (1987)
You're Lucky I Don't Have Much Time On My Hands (circa 1988-89)
Bum On The 4th Floor (1990)
Wish You Well (1987)
You Don't Make Me Laugh (circa 1988-89)
Four Walls (circa 1988-89)
A Gentle Separation (1987)
Why Would You Ever Want To? (circa 1988-89)
Time Moves (circa 1989-1990)
Mike - drums on "Sweetest Amour"
Frank - lead guitar & organ on "Another Million"
Ted - everything else
"Sweetest Amour", "Money In Your Future", "Bum On The 4th Floor", and "Time Moves"recorded at the Rocky Point Studio, 4-track
"Another Million" recorded on 8-track, Frank's Room
everything else: 4-track home demos.
download here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bink5i67yypahl0/Ted+demos%2C+1987-93.zip
or if you prefer Dropbox, this link will be up for a week or so only:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2bd5rru3jcz4zkt/Ted%20demos%2C%201987-93.zip?dl=0
