Mick Seeley
Red Hot
CD Liner Notes
The cast:
Paul Doelling – most lead guitar
Jimmy Callahan – most drums
Mick Seeley – mostly everything else
The details:
Mick Seeley: Lead & background vocals, keyboards, guitars, lead guitar (tracks 5, 6, 10, 12), bass (track 8), Harmonica, all keyboard programming and sampling.
TM Stevens: Bass on Track 2
John Rogers: Bass on Tracks 5, 12
Gary Tallent: Bass on Track 10
John Bauso: Bass on Track 1
Anthony Panduri: Bass on all other tracks
Bobby Bandiera: Lead guitar on Track 3
Danny Colangelo: Percusssion on Track 1, 6
Britt Savage: Background vocals on Track 3
Andy LeCompte & Billy Drew: backing vocals - tracks 5, 11, 12
Engineered and Produced by Mick Seeley
Additional engineers: Greg "Gibs" Laugelli and Jeff Peters
All tracks except "LeeAnn" recorded at Livewire Recording, Long Branch, NJ from 1990-1994
All songs written by Mick Seeley except track 13 (Weil & Mann)
Copyright 2008 by McSeeley Music Ltd.
Song Production notes:
1) Red Hot
Originally written in 1981 or so. Thanks to John "Twin Peaks" Bauso, who bravely played bass on this track, while I made numerous trips to the bathroom to barf (flu, not hangover!).
2) If Looks Could Kill
Features T.M. Stevens on a remarkably restrained (for him) bass guitar.
3) Heat of the Moment
I wrote this song after reading that most people are murdered by someone close to them. "Crimes of Passion" was a hackneyed title, so "Heat of the Moment" it became. This is ONLY a song – FICTION – got it?! Background vocals are by Britt Savage, thanks Brittany. The guitar solo is by Bobby Bandiera.
4) Beg For Love
Thanks to the dancer (her name escapes me) from "Twin Peaks" who helped (kind of) on background vocals.
5) Anne
This song goes way back to 1980, when it was played but never recorded by "The Rest". Attention fellow recording artists: If you can pick out YOUR band in the solo "party section", feel free to sue me for royalties! Recorded in 1991, the bass guitar was played by John Rogers. Andy Lecompte, Billy Drew, and Mick on background vocals.This is a true story.
6) What's Your Fantasy?
I wish this was a true story. 1st guitar solo is Paul, the 2nd is Mick.
7) Illusion
Imagine the look on the jaded NYC recording engineer's face when I told him to put a click track on the master tape, and then turn the tape upside-down. I then overdubbed piano arpeggio's on it, and flipped it back over to finish it off with other assorted synth sounds. Original tracks recorded at Blank Tape Recording in NYC, 1982, final overdubs, mix, and crossfade into "Right Time" done at Livewire in 1993.
8) Right Time
My only "published" song, it has almost as many recorded versions as "Yesterday", including by an unknown band in Brazil. This is my favorite version, but I wish I could mix it yet again. Originally written way back in 1979. This version recorded, edited and mixed at Livewire Recording 1992-1993.
9) Night After Night
Recorded completely on computer, which was a LOT harder back in 1989 then it is today. Like a complete nightmare.
10) LeeAnn
At one time, I was so poor that I couldn't afford to buy Christmas presents for my daughters. So, I wrote them each a song instead, and (fortunately for me) they loved it! Apologies to my daughter Andrea, whose song didn't make it to this album, but this tune is the catchier song.
11) You Got Burned
Written in 1983, this was kind of my follow-up to BonJovi's "Runaway", which I arranged and wrote the keyboard intro for. Incredibly, Jon BonJovi never got around to recording this tune. Recorded in 1991, this features Gary Talent on bass, with Andy Lecompte, Billy Drew, and Mick on sampled background vocals.
12) Hideway
This was one of the first tracks recorded for the album, way back in 1991 at Livewire Recording, in the heart of the Long Branch ghetto. The bass guitar was played by John Rogers. Andy Lecompte, Billy Drew, and Mick are again on background vocals. All guitars & keys by Mick. Features the return of the Mini-Moog synthesizer!
13) Hungry
A tip of the studio cap to Paul Revere and the Raiders, the most under-rated band of the 1960's. Background vocals by Anthony Panduri, Paul Doelling, and the Long Branch, NJ Atlantic Fire Company firefighters. Turn it up!
Thanks to all that helped in the production of my first CD.
No thanks to the few who helped cause the delays in releasing it.
Enjoy!
All songs and arrangements are Copyright 2008 by Mick Seeley
