eurelle - "When Fate Becomes You" 2020 - (STAND Original)

Описание: In 2002 I was living in New York with my musical brothers David Walsh, Alan Doyle, Carl Dowling & Stephen “Shuggy” Porter (the unofficial fifth member).
We were playing music and travelling the US together as STAND. Not the most inventive name for a band, but nonetheless we had the level of success whereby we could make ends meet playing our own music.

In April of that year, we rented a farm house in Livingston, Upstate New York to write and demo our new record. It was a small slice of heaven. After gigs we would drive through the night on Interstate 9 to exit 127 (if my memory serves me correctly), cut through the town, take a right onto a dirt road through the forrest, then emerge onto a clearway. In the middle of the field was this small but very charming white wooden house. We made it our home for 8 weeks.

The night skies were like something from the movies. I’d never seen so many stars before. It was like we were front and centre on the Millennium Falcon hurtling through space. It was truly spectacular.

One morning I woke to an idea in my head. I took an acoustic guitar out to the grass, sat down and a song fell out of me.

My father had passed away 9 months previous. The tremendous loss had a massive effect on me. I made a lot of mistakes during that year of grieving but had gotten to this point so I thought it best to pay tribute to my father, and also to my mother who was at home in Dublin by herself, getting through life without Dad, in her own graceful way.

I had 2 verses and a chorus written over some chords. I brought it back into the house to show the lads. It needed some tweaking, which is where David came in. He suggested some chord changes which made the song much more musical. Carl completed the lyrics with the beautiful third verse.
We sat down to play it together for the first time. Instantly Alan & David came up with the respective guitar & Rhodes piano hooks. The were so infectious. “How did they do that so quickly?”, I thought. “Legends!!”, said my inner voice.
The song came together in 20 minutes and we spent the rest of the afternoon playing it over and over. I couldn’t believe what we achieved. I have very fond memories of that house.

We recorded “When Fate Becomes You” three times for the album but we never captured it right. No one was at fault, we were just inexperienced music producers. It was always better when we played live. Now 18 years on I’ve tried to capture it the way it was that afternoon in Livingston, NY.

I hope I have done justice to the lads musical parts. Brian Ellis took over drums in 2009. He is featured here too. I sampled his playing and added it to the recording.
I hope you enjoy this version.

David, Alan, Carl, Shuggy, Dan & Brian, thank you all…. X