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You and Jim Peterik had an amazing chemistry.
Oh, I agree with you. Let me put this on the table right away. I agree with you and that has nothing to do with ego. It has to do with our chemistry and how I and Jim and how we felt writing together.
We had a great vibe and a work ethic. The way we work – we had this work ethic back then. We worked hard – half of the business is about that – every musician works hard to gain a yard, but Jim and I had this special connection. We had this great work ethic and when we sat down to write songs we were able to close the door to the outside world and when we came out of the room we had a song that people seemed to always like.
Did we know they’d like it? Hell no, but we worked really hard.
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Ok, so what’s your take on this? Where did it go wrong, were did the communication break down?
I don’t think it ever did…my opinion. I just think there comes a point in time in any band where you know, it can be viable.
If you throw in a couple of spits of gasoline, you are going to start a fire
We had at that point in time made a record without Marc and Steph…um…Jimmy, our singer was making a solo record, which we had no idea about.
There really is a lot I reflect on, but a lot of things that contributed to it at that time…
Yes…
…that had nothing to do with Peterik and Sullivan or Sullivan and Peterik. It just simply had to do with what happens to bands.
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I noticed with Jimi singing – he sounds sweet and soulful on a few tracks, but them quite raspy and raw in other places.
Um, with me, and especially when Jim’s on the other side of the glass, I think he can trust me with this…it is a lot about capturing the performance rather than perfection.
Rather than ‘can I understand every single syllable or word’, it is more about the performance and the vibe of it.
Some of the stuff….well, it sounds a little bit….like you just said. You go, ‘let’s try that again’, then you realize that how he sings this song. Then it is all about ‘well, let me just get a great performance’. It’s pretty easy to do that.
And maybe if he comes out and listens to it and maybe he wants to re-cut a couple of things then it’s done.
It’s really that quick. What you are speaking off – that rawness – it’s capturing him in the moment. I think it’s without him thinking about singing or sounding like he’s singing Can’t Hold Back or Search Is Over.
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