Sometimes in The PBGB Shed a song morphs all over the place as it ripens. Probably a result of us often starting with nothing more than a riff or a beat.....whatever. Anything that gets our creative juices flowing.
In the case of Love Turns Away, our starting point was a particular bass and drum 'sound' Pete was keen to chase. We got that pretty well worked out and thought we could build a song on it.
Neil got a set of chords and a rhythm guitar pattern together and we were off.
Mick, as he often does, had a set of lyrics in his kit bag that he thought might fit. We tried it out, liked how it sounded, and decided to put two and two together.
It was early in song development and late in the day, so we decided to record a demo for ourselves, to take home and ponder what we each might do to spice it up.
As is often the case, once Neil gets a set of tracks together he starts fiddling. By the time we got back together Neil had pretty well transformed our basic demo into an almost fully developed song. He played it to us and we all thought it sounded great. Not what we were originally after, but then again we didn't really know what we were after, but we liked what we heard and decided to run with what Neil had come up with.
Manny and Mick, having only played the song once, dropped in a new lead solo and vocal track respectively.
Back at home, Neil went back into action, adding some keyboards and some percussion parts and replacing bass and guitar tracks. It kept betting better.
Pete and Neil sat down and did some fiddling with the drum track, and Love Turns Away was pretty much done.
Sounds like THIS
Really a long way from what we started with, but that's cool..........we're more than happy with how it ended up. Hope you like it too!
Lyrically, it's a reminder that loving relationships can turn bad if you take your eye off the ball. "Hurt the one you love.......Love Turns Away.......and then you pay"
Credits:
Vocals/lyrics - Mick Nadin
Harmonica solo - Mick Nadin
Guitar solo - Manny Aigner
Rhythm guitar - Neil Porter
Bass/bass synths - Neil Porter/Louise Nadin
Keyboards - Neil Porter
Drums - Peter Reid
Production - Neil Porter
