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Please Say You'll Stay (#1)

from Cold Sky​/​In Process by Cold Sky

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Recorded 10/8/88.

GS: I had always intended for Cold Sky to cover a lot of territory, including shorter, pop type material. (Think Cream or Hendrix; you have great radio friendly songs, and when you play live, you stretch out. There are no conceptual limits on your territory.) Yes, this is kind of hard-edged for a pop song, but then again if it came out today nobody'd think twice about that. The lyrics are definitely the work of a much younger man; but everybody can look back and shake their heads at things if they live long enough. (Bear in mind that as far as I'm concerned, if they're making somebody happy today, it doesn't matter what I currently think of them; and I hope said hypothetical person keeps on enjoying them.) This version features: some pretty decent straight playing from all of us; shaky-but-almost-there harmony vocals; a very questionable choice to sing high in the middle section; and one of my better pop guitar solos. I think Hyam and George are really good on this. But this song, and others of its type, really ran against the dynamic of the band, and eventually, this would show.

HS: I guess it’s mostly my fault that Cold Sky never sounded quite comfortable playing, as Greg says: “shorter, pop type material”. You can plainly hear that I’m just not locking-into any sort of groove with George on this song. Rather than keeping things simple, I’m playing a boogaloo-type beat that’s way too busy for the song (and way too busy to gel with George’s completely appropriate bass line). This is certainly one instance when my quest not to play what’s expected has been detrimental to the success of the music. Live and loin.

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from Cold Sky​/​In Process, released April 25, 2014
Written by Greg Segal. Arranged by Cold Sky.

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