Def Leppard and Lionel Richie record same song ‘Long Long Way To Go’

Def Leppard has always been a favourite band of mine since I first heard Hysteria and Pyromania back in the day.

In 2002, they released their 8th studio album called ‘X’. There is a ballad on there called ‘Long Long Way To Go‘ which I always thought was a great sentimental pop song which deserved to be a hit.

I have since discovered Lionel Richie also did a version of the very same song!

I still prefer the Def Leppard version but I like hearing the slighly different interpretation from Mr Richie.

Check it out and see what you think!

Def Leppard – Long Long Way To Go

Lionel Richie – Long Long Way To Go

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Finally understanding songs from the past

Have you ever listened to a song you loved from yester-year just to have its meaning click now and you can fully relate to it?

For me, especially when I was younger, it was the melodies and hooks that drew me into a song and at times I’d just sing along without really understanding what the lyrics meant or what the emotion was behind the song.

I recently listened to a Mr. Big track that I hadn’t heard in years. As soon as it started, the words came flooding back to me and I started singing along.

The difference this time was that as I started to sing along, the meaning of the words really hit me as I could relate to them now where as I hadn’t before.

Mr. Big are best known for their hit acoustic song ‘To Be With You‘ but the song I’m referring to is ‘Just Take My Heart‘, both are from their album ‘Lean Into In‘ released in 1991.
Mr Big. – Just Take My Heart

Mr. Big – To Be With You

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John Mellencamp’s thoughts on the current music industry

John Mellencamp’s perspective on the current climate of the music industry is very interesting to say the least. He recently made a blog post over at the Huffington Post where he goes into great detail on how the music industry has progressively dug itself into the current state.

As an artist for 35 years, he’s seen the music industry go from nurturing artists to being completely being about the bottom dollar that can be made.

He states “If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.”

Read On My Mind: The State of the Music Business by John Mellencamp

Heated music industry debate between Gene Simmons and Bob Lefsetz

Here is a very interesting video of a recent music industry debate where rock star Gene Simmons of KISS fame takes on online music industry critic Bob Lefsetz.

Old school music promotion thinking versus new school? You decide.

Quick Musical Thought To Ponder

As musicians, we strive to make a career from music, to earn money from our art form and to live off what we love doing.

So what happens if a musician then performs strictly motivated by the money?

Hmmmmm.

James Hetfield interview on christian science

When I was in Wellington recently, I came across this building with the following across the front, ‘Christian Science Church’.

I thought about how that could possibly be since in my mind, Christianity and science contradict one another!

I’m glad I got shown the following video interview. In it, James Hetfield from Metallica explains how his family brought him up as a christian scientist.

‘The God That Failed’ from Metallica’s Black Album is all about his childhood experience with christian science and the difficulties that went with it.

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Following Famous People on Twitter

I have really fallen back in love with Twitter again after finding a whole lot of known artists on Twitter and following them.

Some of their tweets are inspiring, some are just plain silly but either way it’s a really cool way of feeling more closely connected with these people, which I guess is the main point of Twitter in the first place!

Some of the artists I’m following: