TALON'S TAKE:
Ok so I already profiled Misfire a few days back:
Misfire:D
SO I will take today to do a 2-fer SUPPLEMENTAL of sorts. I will explore TWO songs from Brian May's solo career! He has 2 full solo albums, two EPs, a live album, a soundtrack AND a album + live album with Kerry Ellis. Well I'm not touching anything with Kerry Ellis for this list, I'm not touching the live album or EPs. I will concentrate on two songs from my favorite of his solo album, 1992's Back To The Light.
Back To The LightWritten by: Brian May
Musicians:
Brian May - vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards
Cozy Powell - drums
Gary Tibbs - bass guitar
Miriam Stockley - backing vocals
Maggie Ryder - backing vocals
Suzie O'List - backing vocals
Gill O'Donovan - backing vocals
- Recorded in 1988, this became the focus of the album as Brian used it as a catharsis to deal with the pain he had been feeling from several areas in his life.
- Issued as a single in the UK which hit #19
- Played live throughout the 1992-1993 tours.
ALTERNATE VERSIONS
RADIO EDITNO YT VID
- NOT ESSENTIAL, an early fade out is all that is different
DEMONO YT VID
- NOT ESSENTIAL - A snippet of a rougher, earlier version.
LIVE VERSIONS:
LIVE AT BRIXTON ACADEMY-A great performance from the only officially released show - it includes
The Dark opening.
- Humorous in that Brian is REALLY not used to being a frontman and you can tell. He gets better as the tour goes on and he is much better in 1998 and subsequently on Queen tours but he is definitely finding his way. He really doesn't know what to do with his hands when they aren't playing the Red Special.
LIVE ON THE TONIGHT SHOW- Another decent performance. This includes an interview and their second song,
Tie Your Mother Down with Slash from Guns N Roses guesting.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Just a beautiful, powerful track. Very uplifting, and very emotional. I use it when I'm feeling down and it tends to point me in the right direction!
CHANCES:
Back To The Light.....0% -- He's already got Last Horizon and this ain't no Brian May or Adam Lambert + Brian May concert.
ResurrectionWritten by: Brian May/Cozy Powell/Jaime Page
Musicians:
Brian May - vocals, backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
Cozy Powell - drums
Don Airey - extra keyboards
- Played live on both of Brian's solo tours, incorporating drum solos and during 1992-1993 incorporating the heavy rock section of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with one such performance featuring on Live At Brixton Academy
- Initially an instrumental song called "Ride To Win" on Cozy Powell's album. Brian took the song, rearranged it and wrote lyrics to it.
- Issued as a single in the UK where it hit #23 and in Japan where it did not chart.
“And on 'Resurrection', which is the highest point and the loudest stuff on the album, I really went for it -
that was the extreme that I pushed myself to. It's amazing what you can do when you try. When I started off, I couldn't get close to those notes; I wanted to get that top D but I was four or five semitones away from that. But if you do it every day, which I did, you get there.” - Brian May - 1992 - Rock Power
“Brian heard some of the tracks I wrote, liked what he heard, and said ‘Could I use a couple for my album? We’ll re-arrange them, and I’ll write some lyrics.” - Cozy Powell – Rip - 1993
ALTERNATE VERSIONS
SINGLE VERSION- The official video and a more concise - mostly cutting out the atmospheric intro. There some other cuts but those are the big cuts.
PILL SAMPLER EDITNO YT VID
- Very close to the single with a few more cuts.
LIVE VERSION
LIVE AT BRIXTON ACADEMY- ESSENTIAL - Great version! Has an extended Cozy Powell drum solo and a short snippet of the heavy rock section of
Bohemian RhapsodyCHANCES:
Resurrection......0%--See Above.
the EYES and EYE-LASHES