TENFOLD TRUE: Volume II

For months on end, my brother, Dan, kept playing this crazy guitar riff that I could barely make sense of. "What the fuck am I supposed to sing over that?" I wondered. The thing was catchy, but damn near impossible for me to create a coherent melody over. Dan and I brought the riff to our producer, Dean, who made a song out of the fantastic noise by carving out wide open spaces for my voice to fill. Add to that assaulting drums (courtesy of Ken Schalk) & a heap of booming bass and I was sold: The thing suddenly made sense to me...and it reminded me of that night sitting in the parking lot of the Forum Diner. I knew my orphaned lyrics had finally found their home in this song.

The day before tracking vocals on "Tenfold True", Dean called me to let me know that Lukas Rossi, formerly of Rockstar Supernova and currently heading up Stars Down, would be stopping by the studio to sit in on my session. "Holy Fuck. What?"

Truthfully, I became suddenly self-conscious and stupid nervous.

It turned out that getting nervous was for nothing. Lukas was a cool cat, and we spent a couple hours killing Coors Lights and talking about all things sacred, namely women and music, before I headed into the tracking room. I cranked out the vocals pretty quickly, and Lukas remained quiet for most of it. Although, after my leads were done, Lukas started suggesting some harmonies (which he is exceedingly talented at writing). Next thing I knew, Lukas was asking if he could have a go at singing 'em: I certainly didn't need to give it a second thought.

Here's the truth: we could have sounded awful together. We could have gone through the motions and created a perfunctory vocal suckfest. What was happening that day was this incredible musical synergy, this brilliant exchange of energies, that created a beautiful rock n' roll masterpiece, and as it turns out: Lukas and I sound amazing together!

It took so many people's contributions to bring "Tenfold True" to life. And as I had mentioned in the previous post: that is what I love about music! I am eager for everyone to hear "Tenfold True" on BREAKER's upcoming debut release. Full lyrics in the next post...In the meantime, check out BREAKER on MySpace to get yer fix.