Tony – ‘Joe and I had got together on a Thursday morning to work on some material for a forthcoming Maggies Farm gig. So coffee, biscuits and acoustics in hand we got talking about the Musicians Together music video site. One of our fellow members was Roadbike Julia. An awesome name we thought, a great title for a song. Plan A quickly dropped, we started jamming on ideas for Roadbike. It would have to be uptempo rock and roll. I dug up a set of unused lyrics called Blonde, Red, Brunette. Originally written for another guitarist friend, they had totally failed to inspire him. But now the muse was ours. We took some lines from these, threw out new ones and quite quickly had the outline of the song. So as not to loose the energy and immediacy we did a live video there and then. Roadbike Julia the song was born. Over the weekend I recorded the backing track, vocal, bass, rhythm, basic lead, drums. A few days later Joe arrived ready to add lead guitar and backing vocals. It all came together very easily. Overall it’s a little rough and ready but we felt it had a great live energy and best not to reign it in too perfectly. What will surprise is that although Joe and I have played, recorded, arranged, gigged together for over thirty years this is the first time we had written a song together! Bit unbelieveable really, guess we were waiting for the right muse.
Joe – ‘Now, Roadbike Julia, what can I say about that. I couldn’t believe Tony actually put the accoustic version up on MT (it was more or less a recording of us as we were writing the song). The embarrassment though was enough to focus us on getting the electric version finished quick. Once again,Tony had everything laid down and I just had to add guitar. It’s a fun song / tribute to one of our favourite MT friends and I too was quite pleased with how it turned out.
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