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Jupiter hell lockdown7/14/2023 We ended up cowriting three songs with Dave Cobb and the band-including the new track, Crazy Times.This is the story of how I finally managed to find a Roland Jupiter 8 synth that I could afford and my journey to restore it up to working and cosmetically beautiful condition!Ī friend suggested I document my journey so here I go with my first blog ! Hope you enjoy it and perhaps it might help someone else who has a jupiter 8 to overcome a problem with their synth. ![]() We went in the studio with seven songs and came out with 10. ![]() And he pushed and squeezed every one of us. Obviously, I dug down and just tried to write good strong songs, great lyrics, great melodies and not worry so much about the arrangements because he had that covered. So, I said, ‘If you expect that from me, at my age, as many records as I've made, you're going to have to push me,’ and he said no problem. Sammy explains: “Before I stepped into the studio with Dave, he’d told me he wanted the best of my career on this record, and he wasn't going to let me get out of that studio until I gave it to him. The song “Crazy Times” was written by the whole band along with Dave Cobb and recorded live. The new album will include 10 songs, nine of which Hagar wrote or co-wrote, along with a notable cover, “Pump It Up,” a 1978 song by Elvis Costello and the Attractions. We were able to express what we all felt."Ĭrazy Times is a follow-up to their debut, Space Between, a multi-category #1 Billboard charting album. It was like those two years of not being able to do very much fell away and we really all came together and let it out in the music and lyrics. There was joy in the hard work, catharsis and the camaraderie we’d craved. And it was just so different from any record I've ever made. “Going back in the studio, creating and being with the music is just what felt natural. We had to ask ourselves ‘what are we doing here and what do we want?’ The lyrics for ‘Crazy Times’ just came from that new freedom we were feeling, the freedom felt unbelievable, but a little uncertain, too. We went into the studio to record in the fall of 2021, when the world was starting to come out of the pandemic bubble we’d all been living in. Says Hagar: "Working with Dave Cobb for the first time was enlightening. ![]() Sammy and the band recorded the new album with producer Dave Cobb at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A, showing a whole new side of The Circle. I just loved 'Pump It Up', I thought it was the greatest punk song. “Elvis played 'Pump It Up' on that show and seeing him live in a studio and being around him all day had a big effect on me. “I played with Elvis Costello on a TV show in 1977 or ’78, somewhere in England and we were hanging around together all day”, Hagar adds. “I’ve been trying to do that song for a long, long time – ever since I started Chickenfoot in 2008." “Well, that’s a hard rock tune and it’s a rock of a tune too!”, he says with some relish. However, as he says in an exclusive interview with uDiscover Music, “Pump It Up” is a song he’s loved for many years. Taken at face value, Costello’s new wave classic might not seem like an obvious track for Hagar to reimagine.
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