Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.
We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.
We would turn everything into songs in those days.
We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do.
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.
We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.