Tortured Art

Unreliable Recollections from Jimmy McKenna (subject to amendment should better facts come to light)

The interplay of Gavin and Jason on bass and drums on the Artistic License album made me keen to continue as soon as possible. So I made a little list of contenders and also inveigled Bryn Collinson to join us to provide some Sax Appeal.

Calling All the Boys – we are all different yet the same and we all need a cuddle

Baby I’m Losing You – an almost instant song, rehearsed and recorded in a matter of minutes and it came out quite well.

It Leaves Me Cold – another rant on the usual theme

When the Rent Man Comes – a DisGuise song from 1978, thematically being a rewrite of the Kink’s ‘Dead End Street’ which also gets a name check.

Running Amok – well my mind does

Thou Shalt Not – that God and the Devil sorting things out apparently, and yes there is a Dorothy reference at the end.

Film of the Book – this is version 3 of this song (version 1 on the DisGuise 1977 And All That album, version 2 on the Historic Daze album), in which we go for full overblown epic status.

Take a Walk – my version of another Peter Scott song

Room With a View – second cousin to ‘The King Must Die’, with allusions to Sinbad

Baby You’re a Rich Man – a top tune from Lennon McCartney

The Great I Am – The God Delusion, I’m all ego I am

Boy in Our Street – Gav’s the big band version of the 1976 DisGuise song I wrote with Peter Scott

Always the Fool – a song from the heart, Mark Hand plays delicate piano

This Machine Can Kill – (version3) after the two version on the Super Songs Simply Sung album, here is the big band version. Mark Hand performed keyboards

Film of the Book – version 4, which was initially begun before deciding to go over the top. I revisited this recording and added the heart ending audio from the wonderful 1938 David O’ Selznick film of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.