| The Phantom Of The Paradise Section Of Your Blog Is Very Interesting | |
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steven_stuart 03:00 am UTC 07/15/13 |
| In reply to: | re: Tell us more about finding the demo tapes! :-) (n/c) - bellminer 11:05 pm UTC 07/14/13 |
| The Phantom Of The Paradise section is very interesting indeed (well, the entire blog is interesting - its amazing how you went through the process of obtaining the tapes). I wonder if Jim was working on an adaptation. Someone (I think Ryan) told me something about Jim and The Phantom Of The Paradise project before. Were all the demos you talk about in The Phantom Of The Paradise section on the same tape? You must have felt really good when you received the box containing the tapes. Hee hee. Just one section of your really cool blog: I don't know the history of this tape. There is a 1974 movie called Phantom of the Paradise. Maybe Jim Steinman was working on an adaptation. Maybe it was an entirely different project with the same name. Either way this tape contains some amazing demos from the 1980s. Remember the song "Who Needs The Young" I mentioned earlier? This song gets an update with an extended introduction. This tape also contains the introduction to a song Jim did with Rory Dodd called "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste." Unfortunately the full version of the song, which was once leaked to the fan community with very poor sound quality, does not appear here. In 1989, Jim Steinman formed a band with four female vocalists called Pandora's Box. They released one album, Original Sin. This demo tape contains unfinished mixes of two songs from that album, "Original Sin" and "Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)", without the guitars and background vocals. The crème de la crème of this tape, and perhaps all the tapes together, is the original demo recording of "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All" performed by vocalist Rory Dodd with Jim Steinman on piano. It contains an extra verse which did not appear on the hit single by Air Supply. I can make your money double Or I can make you lose your shirt I can make your old wounds start to heal Or I can make the new ones hurt I can make the music louder Or I can make the songs all fade I can make every girl just wanna get up and dance And make the boys in the band start to play Rory's vocal work and Jim's piano work are both astonishing on this track. I will close with this review from Karla DeVito: So passionately beautiful -- dear god in heaven... never heard this unplugged version before!!!!!!! Rory pulls it off like no other, and NOBODY plays Jim Steinman like JIM STEINMAN!!!!!!!! | |
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