| "WHEN YOU SMILE" | |
| This recording of "When You Smile" is part of a new set of recordings done June, 2005. Recorded and Mixed at: ROUGH CUT STUDIO in Eastford Conn. Recording Enginneered by: Mark Easton. Remixed by: Michael Foster at Terry Martin's StormSurge Studio...Spring Hill, Florida...and at Golden Sun Studio...North Palm Beach, Florida. NOTE FROM MICHAEL: I would like to thank Mark Easton at Rough Cut...and Terry Martin, and Kephas at StormSurge...for their Production Assistance on this tune. Thanks, guys. Photograph by: Mark Brett/ Positive Negatives...Hampton, Conn. mark@markbrett.com/ (Mark is the former Avalanche Road Crew Chief...and one of my closest friends...and is a "Rock Photographer Extraordinaire". He has done "photo shoots" with everyone from ZZ TOP, KISS, TINA TURNER, CS&N, DON HENLEY and STEVIE NICKS, ROBERT PLANT, ...and just about everyone else who has played...or plays...at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut...where he is currently the staff "House" photographer). To see more of Mark's great photos...visit the Avalanche Website...by clicking on the Website link here at SongPlanet...on the Avalanche Artist page. "When You Smile" is a song I wrote in 1981...while I was in Negril, Jamaica. For a number of consecutive years...I would spend a month at a villa there...as an annual "retreat"..."recharging my batteries"...and nearly always...writing new music. Some of Avalanche's best music was written there. It is a very positive, and magical place...and at this particular time... I was in the euphoria that comes with infatuation...and "new love". For anyone who has ever experienced that...no further explanation is necessary. For anyone who hasn't...no explanation is adequate. (And my condolences). This is just a happy, upbeat, love song...plain and simple...but with an Avalanche flavor to it ...of course. It took over twenty four years for the song I wrote then...to be played by the band...and "realized" in recorded form. I always "heard it" the way it turned out in this recording...except for the section in the middle...with just guitars and vocals...which I have always envisioned as "extended"..for a live show...and in which the audience is asked to "join in"...by clapping in time...and singing along. It is a perfect spot for "audience participation"...so I am still hopeful that sometime soon...I will also be able to see that become a reality...in the meantime SongPlanet listeners...I hope you enjoy it (and feel free to sing along!)....I need all the help I can get! Mike (NAV) | |