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John Tabacco And Gian DiMauro - Gearhead Freaks
Rudolph Don't Burn Out Your Red Nose

Album US 2016 on F of X Records label
Rock and Pop (AOR)

A Christmas single from the Gearhead Freaks to you and yours. Produced and Engineered by Gian DiMauro and John Tabacco Recorded and mixed at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY Gian DiMauro : Programming, Keyboard, Lead vocal John Tabacco : Programming, Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Back ups Marci Geller : Back Ups CD Cover : Farben Fosfeen Artwerks Words and Music © 1998 by John Tabacco and Gian DiMauro Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC) / Slip Code Technology Music (SESAC) Notes: The genesis of this song (like so many other pieces I've worked on) is somewhat convoluted. I remember sitting in the vocal booth at Sonic Underground Studios, with an acoustic guitar in hand, learning John Lennon's song "Hold On John". I was fiddling back and forth with a tritone progression (the devil's interval as some uncomplicated, God fearing people used to call it) from C to F# singing Lennon's melody over it. To my ears, it did not quite work, but the rhythm of the words were cool. Eventually, after a few hours of subconscious manipulation I carved out my own melody that had no connection with "Hold On John". I added some lyrics to it about lovers and lawyers (a marriage concept). The song remained a somewhat unfinished idea residing on one of a hundred cassettes. No chorus. This was in late 1996. In the middle of 1997 this cassette emerged again and I stumbled on this idea I had by that time, totally forgotten about. I worked on it some more. I solidified a stable form and a decent melody but the words still weren't jelling. I flipped through the file cabinets of my mind under songwriting collaborations. After careful consideration it was decided that Donna Bach-Heitner would be the perfect person to help me finish the lyrics. So I called her up and she happily came down to the studio. Within an hour we had a complete set of lyrics. I then proceeded to do a demo of the song, but that's as far as it went. It just sat there on the Macintosh Quadra computer. Occasionally, you could find me strumming an acoustic guitar repeating that tritone chord progression and simple melody and then move on to something else. The song needed to gestate. Anyway... Cut to a shot of Jesus exploding in midair! (Inside joke) -JT

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	John Tabacco And Gian DiMauro - Gearhead Freaks , album by
	Gian DiMauro producer, engineer, performer, keyboards, lead vocals, drum programming, scat
	John Tabacco key, voc, producer, engineer, performer, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals, percussion

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