The Lost Years
Yes, that's right.. it took seven years to write this song. Not seven continuous years, but seven years on and off. Here's how it happened. One day, sometime in the late 1980's, Jason and I (Steve) were jamming in his basement. He started playing this funky little beat and said "Hey, put something to this.." so I started playing a twangy space-guitar flatpicked rhythm. There just happened to be a boom box recording us at the time. We liked the idea, but never did anything further with it. Sometime around 1990-91 I was fiddling around with my little Casio keyboard, and I wrote a little Em-D-C-D-Em finger exercise. Being a guitarist, I was trying to get my fingers accustomed to a keyboard. Anyway, I liked the little ditty I wrote, and so I filed it away into my memory for later use. In 1993, after Jason, Tom, and I had formed Lost Frontier, Jason mentioned the old space-twang idea we had cooked up years earlier (he had come across the old recording by accident). We decided to develop the idea further.. as we did this, I remembered the little keyboard ditty I used to play. I picked the keyboard excercise out on my guitar, and voila! We had an intro to the twangy song! All we had to do was come up with a chorus and bridge, and it all fell together in no time. When I wrote the lyrics, I was thinking of someone longing for the lost years of their youth. After the song was written and titled, I realized that the title was only too appropriate.. look at all "The Lost Years" between the start and completion of this song!
| Tom | Steve | Jason | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Vocals | X | - | - |
| Backing Vocals | X | - | - |
| Guitars (electric) | - | X | - |
| Guitars (acoustic) | - | X | - |
| Bass Guitar | - | X | - |
| Drums | - | - | X |
Upbeat rock'n'roll song featuring BIG vocal harmony and classic sci-fi movie twang guitar.
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The Lost Years Copyright © 1995 Bloomquist, Campbell & Heintz / (P) 1995 Lost Frontier.
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