David Marks Reunion

[the professor]

"There is a really nice collection of material on there," he said. "Brian still has it. He's written one song ("That's Why God Made the Radio") that's right up there with his best. I was really happy to be able to add my guitar onto that track."

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Notice that it is indeed David playing guitar, in that your summer dream style, on the song.  I had wondered this a while ago.

[JesusUK]

I was really hoping to hear more from David at the Tampa show.  He does quite a bit of backing vocals.  But his lead looks to be relegated to one (or no) songs a night.  I was lucky to get "Hawaii" in Tampa.  Either wear, he looks like he's having more fun than anyone else on the stage!

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[Aegir]

From memory, he says he had a lyric from Ray Kennedy, a group of people came around one night and someone in that group rewrote the lyric but he can't remember who. Brian says something like 'I could never get with that lyric'.

That's really interesting, the Ray Kennedy lyrics are pretty funny (unintentionally). They mention living in the ghetto and being coked out. and "Heartbreak city ain't so pretty when you're down in nitty gritty"

[b00ts]

From memory, he says he had a lyric from Ray Kennedy, a group of people came around one night and someone in that group rewrote the lyric but he can't remember who. Brian says something like 'I could never get with that lyric'.

Has anybody ever really said who wrote what in this song? I'm pretty sure some of the finer details have been lost to time, but man, what a mess. And I really do like the song, I feel bad because I just kinda spoke negatively of it the other day, but I really have to think that the final result probably suffered greatly from too many cooks being in the kitchen.

Yes, the lyrics are tortuous, like Riely's lyrics for "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows," although in spite of their overly verbose nature, those two songs' lyrics flow off the tongue much more melifluously than "Sail on Sailor's" lyric does.

"Sail on Sailor" suffers from a lyric that relies on a very simple, childlike rhyme scheme in the bridge... Grumble/Rumble/Tumble/Stumble/Blunder/Thunder/Wonder/Under... and because of the large amount of clumsy consonants in the verse lyrics, it can't be as easy to sing as it would be if, say, Tony Asher or Van Dyke Parks wrote all the words. "Gale swept seaways," for instance, is not easy to sing compared to something with more assonance.

I'd love to hear a fully-Brianized "Sail on Sailor." That would be something to behold.

[STE]

It's been reported that David sang "Surfin'Safari" last night.

[Aegir]

I don't remember that happening. he sang Hawaii, I think, and that's about it. but I wasn't paying attention to who was singing it, I was really distracted by everyone in the audience singing along and not saying "surf route"

[STE]

I don't remember that happening. he sang Hawaii, I think, and that's about it. but I wasn't paying attention to who was singing it, I was really distracted by everyone in the audience singing along and not saying "surf route"

Yes, scratch that.  It was mistakenly reported as such  in the Beacon thread.

[Craig Boyd]

I think Dave really enjoys singing "Forever" as he did on the BBs's 2008 UK Tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsZ5NSatN8A

Since Dennis himself is singing that song on this tour its not a possibility for him. Things like Do You Wanna Dance and Sail On Sailor have been suggested, but he's happy to let one of the other guys handle those... I think Dave might have another song or two in mind. We'll see as the tour develops. Right now he's really stepping up in the guitar department and focusing on giving that his all.

I was at this show! People were baffled as to why I was so excited to see this guy David Marks up on stage, it took a while to explain the story!