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Post by curiousgirl on Jun 6, 2018 16:21:54 GMT
I don't know this album and I was intrigued to know what PORR stood for, Power of Rock n' Roll. Now I've found and heard the song. Its a real curates egg of a track. Yep, I get 4th comment about cheesy chorus. But the lyric is trying to be something meaningful about rock uniting people across difference. There is the slow almost ITAN mood/tone for much of the track and then it takes off into some heavy boogie rock at the end. it was to do with the Irish conflict. Catholic / protestant divide brought together by the "power of rock n roll" if you would. The woahs idea came from John Farnhams "You're The Voice", that they "all" liked - apparently Thanks for the explanation of the story Quoincidence. That makes sense. As song though, I personally don't think it matters which conflict it is. I saw it as trying to make a serious point in a way that ITAN now was but not as well. Having said that, I can't get the darned song out of my head! I only heard it once this morning and I've been humming ever since. Especially those woahs.
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Post by Quoincidence on Jun 6, 2018 16:25:56 GMT
it was to do with the Irish conflict. Catholic / protestant divide brought together by the "power of rock n roll" if you would. The woahs idea came from John Farnhams "You're The Voice", that they "all" liked - apparently Thanks for the explanation of the story Quoincidence. That makes sense. As song though, I personally don't think it matters which conflict it is. I saw it as trying to make a serious point in a way that ITAN now was but not as well. Having said that, I can't get the darned song out of my head! I only heard it once this morning and I've been humming ever since. Especially those woahs. Here's the full story from Pip, "I'd been working on POR for some time. It was no secret that I loved the B tuning and I'd long wanted to do another extended rock tune with the guys, with the solos, tempo shifts etc. The whole Irish conflict was big news then and I had this idea for a lyric about a couple separated by the no go areas in Belfast and the Catholic/Protestant divide- then brought together by the power of rock 'n' roll. Corny as f--- by today's standards, but it seemed a great idea at the time. I borrowed the idea of the "wows" in the chorus from John Farnham's You're the Voice. We all loved that track. It was VERY difficult to get Frame motivated to come all the way from Purley to my house in Iver to work on the song. Rick was over regularly anyway, because we'd written and demo'd a lot of things there. It was most important to me that they were both involved in the writing. I was fully aware of the type of songs that were being put forward for that album (PR) and knew exactly what kind of outcry there would be from the fans. I'm proud to say that most of the song structure was mine. Rick contributed strongly to his middle vocal section ("But they were learning" etc) I had the other melodies, riffs and most of the lyrics in place and the guys helped me to tidy them up. Frame is great at finding lovely melodic twists and turnarounds. I remember that I wanted to book rehearsal time to really work the song in, but that wasn't possible before we left for Nassau. I'd put together a pretty good demo in any case. It was recorded as a single backing track and I sang the guide vocal in the studio. The guys played all their own parts and Frame's extended solos were spontaneous (he'd not yet lost the enthusiasm for playing long solos!) This is some of the best improvised soloing Frame ever did on any of the songs I recorded with them, and the piano solo is a belter too. We got a few people in to sing the chorus- crew and others. I think they turned in brilliant live performances of it later. It's always easy to say that they play certain songs better live (such as BB) but the simple truth is- Of course they do, they were still learning them when they were recorded!"
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