John played it through solo a couple of times and before long we were all tapping, strumming and generally blowing along.
Mick pulled a set of lyrics out of his bag, reckoning they could be massaged to fit the mood of John's song. Turned out they fitted just fine.
"The Mess I'm In" began to take shape.
John has all the necessaries to produce songs at home, so we agreed this would be a 'John Drews Production'. Of all the many PBGB songs produced over many years, very few have been produced by anybody other than Neil, so we were all very curious to hear what John came up with.
THIS (press to play) is what John came up with.
We're all pretty stoked about it. To us, it represents a new direction. A change. A different concept, a different style. And we are very happy to now have two producers for our songs.
The music reflects John's love of keyboard centric songs reminiscent of, say, Procol Harum and the like. Orchestral ? Film themes ?
As for the lyrics, Mick says....... "Fairly simple stuff - I was inspired by John’s comment about the amount of equipment he had been trying to organise and “the mess he was in”. That, I thought, would make a great title, and possibly a name for his new composition. I had some thoughts already written down about the nature of life and existence, but no chorus. John's comment helped me put a chorus together, and 'The Mess I’m In' was quickly knocked into shape, and is now part of PBGB Shed history.
Beautiful team work guys !!!
We hope you like it, and like us look forward to hearing more of John's compositions and production work.
John Drews - music, keyboards, and production
Mick Nadin - lyrics and vocal
Lousie Nadin - bass
Peter Reid - drums
