Track 1 : A few clips of old and new songs. 1. "I'd Rather Be Alone" -- writers - Don Goodman, Linda Davis and me. Linda singing , of course 2. "Fallin' For You" -- writers Ladd Smith and I - Ladd singing 3. "Over Drawn Over Christmas" -- writers - Don Goodman, Amy Jack and me, vocals, guitar and creative help , Jeff Allen. 4. "In Over Our Hearts" -- Dann Rogers, Don Goodman and I. Vocals - Butch Baker. 5. "Babys Off The Hook" -- writers - Cynthia Lemmonds and me, vocals - Shelly Rand, I played all the instruments on the tracks ( I am cheap !! ) and did the production on my boat/home - Troubadour i.e. "Troubadour Studios, Drakes Creek Marina, Hendersonville, Tennisshoe !!!
Track 2 : I had the thrill of jamming off and on with the one of my heros, Jimi Hendrix. The first track is part of two of those jams made up on the spot. After recently moving, I finally found the tapes I was given a long time ago. I will always treasure the jams on them ! I was scared to death at first but had a great time. Jimi was a true gentleman to everyone. Buddy Miles who I was playing with in The Buddy Miles Express is playing drums on the first jam and Mitch Mitchell on drums on the fast jazz jam. I played B-3 organ with left hand bass. Hope you enjoy ! A note: MySpace will not allow me to play my hit records on this site for legal reasons. Only the artist that sang the hit song can list and play the music. Sorry.
Tracks 3 : Jamming by myself and a couple of instrumentals I played and wrote. Most played on the Yamaha TYROS 2 that has custom sounds, programming and arrangements. Guitar is an old DX5 going through a older Rockman that has been customized. Fun !!!
Influences
Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vladimir Horowitz, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Oscar Peterson, Bill Monroe, Robert Johnson, Groove Holmes, Jerry Lee Lewis, Floyd Cramer, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, George Jones, Etta James, Rod Stewart, The Beatles, The Stones, Terry Reilly ( electronic ) , James Brown and Jimi Hendrix. The rest of my influences are very good variations of the aforementioned !!! However, The Influence of my life is the Creator. I just supply the fingers !
HISTORY: Classically trained on piano since 5. Brought up on a farm outside Syracuse , New York. Played in country and rock bands since 1957. Played on hit record "Heart And Soul" 1959 at age 16. Toured with Dick Clark tours (Del Shannon, Bobby Vinton) San Francisco and Philadelphia Conservatories of Music and Syracuse University majoring in piano and composition. Studied with Oscar Peterson, the great jazz pianist. Recorded/played in 60 and early 70's - Original member of Buddy Miles Express (Electric Flag) - ( introduced to Buddy Miles by the great white blues guitar player, Michael Bloomfield who introduced "hippies" in the 60's to Robert Johnson, B.B King, Albert King, Muddy Waters etc.), Played/recorded with Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck etc. Member of rock group, Cactus with Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert - 70's. Duane also went on to play with and write for Alice Cooper.
Duane has been a Grammy award winning songwriter with hits through the years. Some of the great artists he has hits with are below in his favorite friends picture gallery. His biggest hit was "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy with Rod Stewart" and "Young Turks" which he also played on plus he had two other hits with Rod which were "Infatuation" and "Crazy Bout Her". Rod and Jeff Beck also put together the hit track/video of "People Get Ready". Duane also had hits with Heart, Pat Benetar, Kim Carnes, TLC, Michael Bolton , Eddie Money etc. He has written with Pam Tillis and recently had a song which is the title track for David frizzell's latest album. He played keys on the last Runaway's album, the first all girl rock band from the 70s. He discovered a band called City Kidd and they became the huge group, Tesla. He still does writing and playing. He is currently writing for Ken Chesney though he professes "he is semi-retired". He still loves to gig and tour and has been known to go out with his one man band plus a singer called "Digital Hitch". His duo can be heard on his video section. His other love is working with new talent and preparing them for success. Duane lives on his combination - boat/home/recording studio in the Nashville area.
EXTRA STUFF : Duane has visited England, China and Russia as Ambassador of the Arts in three separate trips representing the United States. He has been a fireman-engineer/ medical 1st responder and was engine captain of the Number One Volunteer Fire and Rescue Fire Department of Sumner County, TN , also was Flotilla Commander of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, founding member of Homeland Security and is now an active member of the Tennessee State Guard ( the Army auxilary of the Tennessee National Guard - ) - Headquarters Company - Nashville, TN. They are all retired military from Sgts to Generals from all the branches of the US military. Duane has been studying the Bible in Greek and Hebrew , a passion of his - looking for the real Truth. He is sponsored by Yamaha ( Yamaha TYROS ) and has a small home custom digital recording studio. MacPro - Logic 8 and Toshiba Laptop - Nuendo.
Hey Hitch, On this special day I'd like to share this video of the song that you and I wrote "Rose"...The world loves Rose and I love you for sharing your gift of music with me. Your friend and FAN. Dianna.
Hey Hitch,Might be coming thru Nashville in Dec.Love to hook up.I met Billy Peeks when I played in St.Louis,really nice fellow.Hope all is well!! Cheers!!!
Hey Duane, We are already friends on here! What a surprise to see you at the Commodore! Thank you for listening to my songs and for your sweet comments! I will give you a call in the next few days to schedule a time to get together to write. Looking forward to writing a smash! Best wishes, Karen
Hey Duane! Well that's got to be just about the best note I've ever gotten. I think i might have to quote ya on some of that for my press kit!!! Thanks so much for the kind words. I know you've been around and so it means alot coming from someone such as yourself. Perhaps you can dig out your ol' "phone book" and make a few calls / shake some trees. We have not been "officially" discovered yet ya know. I think a Rolling Stones / Stacie Collins tour would be FANTASTICO! Hey, if your gonna dream, dream BIG! Maybe even Aerosmith or Rod Stewart? hhmmm...... Thanks again Duane and thanks for taking the time drop me a line. Have a great weekend and we'll look for ya next time :)
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Hey there my friend. I hope you are well and enjoying life? I'm so stoked about the new/old songs you posted. Some of my favorite songs and I didn't know they were yours until now. I have a big smile on my face.
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